Slingshot: Drag Racing After The Vietnam War

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.

The dragster car is a race car that is for drag racing, racing that is two or more cars racing for a short distance. We are starting a unit on drag racing to learn about acceleration and other things such as mph and speed. This will help if we wish to be an engineer or mechanic for cars. Basically anything that transportation-wise. The actually term of drag racing is because unlike other racing sports, drag-racing is racing over a short distance with more than, at least one car. Students race these model cars because, one, for enjoyment or for training to become an auto-mechanic or engineer like stated earlier. The dragster is also run off things like CO2. Also, they give a chance for the students to be able to design their own car, thus making for

Racing is a difficult sport as it is dangerous. To succeed a racer must have grit, determination, and endurance. These qualities shine from Denny. Denny is able to adapt to his environment and conditions. Thus, not only is he a phenomenal driver but a winner in life as well. The book The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein discuses humanity’s ethics, morals, and antics. From reading this book the reader may take a new way of life. Certainly, the reader with evaluate his or her own life choices and analyze the human condition.

NASCAR wasn’t always one of America’s favorite things to watch or a multimillion-dollar sport. It was actually inspired by criminal activity during the twentieth century. How racecars became part of American life goes back to the early days of prohibition and how gangsters avoided the law. During this time temperance organizations wanted to restrict or abolish the consumption of alcoholic beverages. By the early 20th century, women’s groups throughout the country viewed the sale and consumption of liquor was disrupting family life, and destroying marriages. The “Anti-Saloon League”, established in 1893, led a wave of protests in 1906 against “saloon” culture. The league had support from

They're fast, too -- on a 65.5-foot (20-meter) track, the cars can cross the finish line in just over a second, traveling at nearly 70 miles per hour (112.7 kilometers per hour)! But even with something to create motion, aerodynamics and weight still make a huge difference.” In order to test and race your dragster car you would need a finish line and of course the car, the car is connected to a machine that blasts out your dragster car and the way to make it to the finish line faster than your opponent is by having a car with less mass.

Stock car racing has evolved a great amount since 1920’s when racing first started. The cause of racing was because of the Prohibition. The 18th amendment banned the production and possession of alcohol. So people had to make their own liquor, called moonshine. In order to make money from liquor, part of the job was to deliver it to their customers, but with the law enforcements trying to obey the new law, Moonshiners had to make their runs at night. They also had to use vehicles that would blend in, and would not create too much attention, but those vehicles couldn’t out run the cops, so they decided to make some slight modifications to them. After moonshiners made these slight modifications, they were able to run 120 mph on a dirt road

I Drag race 2 cars, one is a 1932 5 window coupe. The car I race the most is my 1968 Chevelle Nitromethane pro mod Drag car. I have made it to the Drag nationals and took 2nd place for my class. It is probably one of the most dangerous sports for someone ever do.

One of the initial problems was that racing teams had to choose between remaining in the CART league or jumping ship to the IRL. The competition between the two leagues resulted in legal battles of the use of the term “Indy car.” CART had licensed the term. The legal battles ended with a judgement that neither league could use the term until December 31, 2002. The legal bickering between the two leagues did nothing to attract fans to their races. Instead it proved to be a distraction for fans who began to lose interest in both leagues. It was during this time that stock car racing began its rise in popularity. Open-wheel racing suffered another setback when major sponsors like Honda, Toyota, and FedEx pulled their participation. With two separate open-wheel racing leagues the market became segmented and both leagues struggled to gain major sponsors (Ferrell & Hartline,

Probably the most infuriating argument for an auto enthusiast is when someone ignorantly implies that the drivers are in no way athletes. A driver however must undergo an extensive amount of training, for visceral preparedness. While in the cockpit, the drivers depending on their flavor of driving can withstand extensive amounts of exhaust fumes and tire smoke, to having the need for a cool jacket, a shirt with tubing to pump ice water through it, to keep core temperatures down. In Formula 1, a driver must undergo up to 3.5 times gravity forces of sustained cornering force, meaning if a driver weighs 100 kilograms then they will feel 350 kilograms of lateral force, also called cornering force.

After awhile of drifting in the streets the street racers went to the mountains to race and found out they could drift a lot more in the mountains. Some of the street racers stopped racing and just went to the mountain and started drifting they would go fast up to corner and start drifting and not racing.

The automotive industry is a very important part of American history. We use automobiles every day and we have used them for over a hundred years. They are used for all types of reasons such as in the military, construction, and transportation.

Terrorizing the time clocks, and burning up the tracks, the Dodge Demon was released as a production car instead of an exotic to be sold by everyday manufactures. With being the fastest production car on, and off the track, setting time of zero to sixty in two point one seconds, and an outstanding speed of 9.65 seconds in a quarter mile, the Demon became the fastest production car in the world. As an audience, it is important to be drawn in by the editor’s or publisher’s words, whether the article is credible is another important fact, which seemingly is to be understood by the reader him or herself.

NASCAR, IndyCar and Formula 1 have multiple factors that are similar or different, such as how the cars are set up, how the sports have evolved, and how the races are. There are various types of cars that people drive that are different to each other in unique ways. Furthermore, the ways that Motorsports increased their safety and evolved as a sport is similar to how everyday cars evolve. Safety concerns or crashes happen, causing inventors to create things that will save lives. Additionally, as time goes on, new features will be added to cars, like how the automotive sports evolved. The rules and regulations for these sports are like the laws set in place so that others are kept safe. Also, these sports give a picture of what futuristic cars

So for years now, the car industry has been evolving. While it is getting bigger and bigger, it is also branching off to many other sub-industries. Among those industries, one of the most popular is the racing one. It has been evolving since it has started. And to say that it is very popular in this generation would be a huge understatement. Even while it is an industry of its own (Racing industry), it still has many different branches. For instance, when we talk about racing, we can have an endless discussion about how many different kinds there are. On the legal side of racing, we have organized activities such as NASCAR racing events, but if we want to talk about illegal racing ways, we can talk about street racing or drag racing on local streets. This however, will be discussed in the main part of this paper. So before getting into the meat of this paper – which is the driving question (“Why is racing important in the car industry?”) – We need to answer why talking about his is important to know about. So, why is this topic crucial to know about? Well for starters, racing has become one of the most popular activates that most teenage boys and professionals partake in. other than that, racing brings one of the biggest revenues economically to the table. Now this means better improvements in the car industry as a whole. While we are talking about improvements to the car industry, we can certainly talk about how sport and