Pro Stock Cars

Some say that these races begun to take flight when William France Sr., a mechanic that also raced stock cars, began to create a formal sanctioning institution, regulatory rules, schedule, and a coordinated championship. He began to talk with other prominent races, and they left with the creation of NASCAR on February 21, 1948 (NASCAR). But, the beginnings of this amusing hobby, and now sport, has origins all the way back to the moonshining folk of the backwoods.

American muscle cars paved the way for modern super cars. Muscle cars were high performance cars with big engines that were made to go fast. America fell in love with them and they quickly became the most popular cars of their time. These cars would go on to shape the future of all performance cars even to this day. Not only did early muscle cars make drag racing popular, but they also they shaped the future of high performance cars.

Sprint Cup Series cars are unique in automobile racing. The engines are powerful enough to reach speeds of over 200 mph (320 km/h), but heavy weight - coupled with a (relatively) simple aerodynamic package - makes for poor handling. Their bodies and chassis are strictly regulated to ensure parity or equality, and electronics are generally Spartan in nature.

In its beginnings, the word “Stock” in “Stockcar” was literal. It meant that the racecar was the car that you drove on the street. Lee Petty and his son Richard drove to the first Winston Cup race (1949)

The intricacies that are involved in turning a regular car into a “Street Racer” are many; and racers pour their souls into these magnificent machines. After seeing “the Fast and the Furious” many people have or wanted to become involved in street racing. They do not realize that this is a sport that takes knowledge, hard work, and nerve. Many of these racers have spent their lives under a car, learning the trade and improving upon it. As I have learned, this is not just a hobby; it is a way of life.

Among the top five professional classes of drag racing are Top Fuel Dragster, Top Fuel Funny Car, Pro Modified, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Bike for motorcycles. There are also popular classifications that fall outside professional races. Some of these are Top Alcohol Dragster,Top Alcohol Funny Car, Super Comp Quick Rod, Super Gas Super Rod, Super Street Hot Rod,Super Stock and Stock car racing. Smaller cars can also compete in the Sport Compact drag racing class.

The nascar body frame has become so much stronger. The frame has gone through so many changes. It has went from the stock frame of a car right off the assembly line to a full custom frame. Stronger frames can also protect the driver in any type of wreck. If the car happens to take a head on crash the frame will bend but the parts around the driver will not. Without the frame the driver would be killed in a wreck.

Dirt racing is a sport that is growing heavily in popularity. The two main dirt racing series are the World of Outlaws late model series and the Lucas Oil late model series. They both work together in the way that if one has a high paying race that week the other will not race so he other series drivers can racers can have a chance at winning the money. There is 400+ tracks in America and 600+ worldwide their is 30 registered tracks in Wisconsin.With hundreds of drivers with a large majority of them being extremely experienced drivers at it.

NASCAR has forty-three drivers that race in the events. In Formula One, there are only twenty drivers. The number of races in a NASCAR season is thirty-six, in contrast to Formula One which has only 17 races in a season. Another major difference between the two is the design of the cars. NASCAR vehicles are front-engine stock cars. These cars are heavy, and the weight can help keep the car on the pavement. The design of NASCAR vehicles are also traditional and relatively simple. These stock cars are not very technologically advanced. Formula One vehicles are mid-engine cars, and are very lightweight. Formula One cars only weigh around one-thousand pounds. These Formula One cars are built using advanced technology that makes them aerodynamic to provide more speed while going around the track. The racing tracks differ as well. NASCAR tracks are oval shaped speedways, and Formula One tracks are circuits and are constructed in various designs. Considering NASCAR tracks are oval, the drivers are only turning left. In Formula One, the drivers have to be more cautious to be able to turn left and right around corners, moving at such high

The auto industry was starting to experiment with a new concept called a “sports car.” By the end of the 50s, Americans fell in love with the sports car. After all, the 50s gave birth to the Corvette.

Our most recent Formula One cars are designed with a single seat open wheel racer. They are built mainly from carbon filter composites. In our last season cars were powered by 1.6 litre turbocharged v-6 hybrid engines. Many of these were Ferrari, Renault and Mercedes Benz. Most racing teams are cautious giving out information about their engine, car and performance. There are technical guidelines that the Formula 1 engine will put around 600 horsepower with hybrid drivetrain, this is in addition to the 160

The different types include flat racing, jump racing, harness racing and endurance racing.

The sports car went from an idea on paper to cars rolling off the assembly line in less than a year. Airflow was a big shortcoming in these sports cars. The engine overheated easily due to an undersized radiator with poor airflow across its core.

This documentary shows that how drag racing is evolved and how modifications are done in cars to make them better and better. Drag racing seems like it’s been with us forever. In truth it’s a postwar phenomenon, with roots stretching back to dry lakebed racing in Southern California in the 1930s. Popularity grew steadily but drag racing remained largely an underground pastime. Races frequently took place on disused military runways with the first organized event dating back to 1949 at the Goleta Air Base in California. As the decade turned drag racing began to get organized. As the sport grew the first drag racing superstars emerged. The Drag master Dart was famously owned by Dode Martin and Jim Nelson, and was so

Cars were idolized in the 1930’s, everyone wanted them. When the cars first became popular they weren’t worried about the utility of the car. The style and design was more about elegance and luxury. Everyone wanted their cars to nice, the 1930’s were considered the Classic Era of cars (Cooke). There were so many companies that began making cars back then, many of them are still making cars to this day. Though some companies never made it out of the 1930’s the cars are still around. The cars back then changed the look and style of cars to this day.