Sentences with phrase «of stock car racing»

I have always been a big fan of stock car racing but I have years of active drag racing experience.
NASCAR racing like other forms of stock car racing is big business in the United States.
This list will be the same for actual professional NASCAR driver and other forms of stock car racing.
Forza Motorsport 6's «NASCAR Expansion» brings the thrills of stock car racing to the world stage.
Many folks are excited for the return of the stock car racing series, but one question still lingers... is it any good?
Pure Stock, the newest division of stock car racing is for the absolute beginner.
Gordon has suffered in the eyes of stock car racing's die - hard fans because of his combination of wholesomeness and instant success.

Not exact matches

For example, you can run a race; you can run a car; you can get a run in a stocking; the «runs» can refer to bowel distress; and so on... it is a mistake to limit the reading of «water» to one meaning, liquid H2O.
Patience and caution are equally important when trying to recover from a spin during a race, but both of those were ignored in this huge Stock Car Brasil shunt.
This track taxes the stock cars — last year nine drivers, or 20.9 % of the field, suffered mechanical failures in this race — and produces more fender - banging than any other track in the Chase.
Some Danica fans with short memories of Townley's struggles have claimed that our bet is unfair, given that Townley has 36 races of stock - car experience and Danica has only six.
A producer on public radio did research and told me someone once bought the governor of South Carolina a ride in a stock car race, but he crashed early on.
Every seat in the house was sold for the 500, with an estimated total attendance of 115,000, which would be a record for a stock car race.
However, Davis has always loved the tightly clustered chaos of short - track racing, equating it to stock car racing.
After a year of forced idleness Driver Richard Petty came rolling back in a blue brute of a Plymouth to win Daytona's stock car 500, delighting his racing father — but not Dearborn
In short, says Brooks, they wanted to make sure they didn't get another Days of Thunder, the much - reviled (at least in racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise film, which featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barn.
Going into the Los Angeles Times 500, the final race of the Grand National stock car season, Earnhardt led Yarborough by a mere 29 points out of some 4,000.
It wasonly a race in the NASCAR equivalent of Double A ball, but it was one of themost anticipated stock car runs in recent memory — and no one was more anxiousthan 62 - year - old Pablo Montoya, who stood just a few feet away from hisson.
Jimmie Johnson ran a nearly flawless race on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, deftly avoiding accidents during three hours of bumper - car - style racing at NASCAR's shortest track -LRB-.526 mile) and generally reminding everyone in the Cup garage that he's the best stock car driver of his generation.
The first races were held in the mid-1930s, and for decades thousands of people came to Soldier Field almost every weekend from May through August to see midget stock - car races, demolition derbies and stunt racing.
3M is holding a short press conference and lunch at its main UK facility in Bracknell to announce the launch of its WrapandWin campaign with NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing).
About Me - I am a mom of 3 boys two grown one 14 I don't smoke, love fishing, camping, monster trucks, stock car races.
After the first bumpy races of the night including multi car pile - ups and a roll over crash, the Pure Stock drivers are called into a mandatory emergency meeting with officials.
Episode 6 of «Pure Stock» a reality series that follows the racing seasons of Pure Stock car racers in the heart of the Midwest at the Grundy County Motor Speedway in Morris, IL.
The cycle of early mornings in the fields, dinners in the burger bar and evenings at the stock - car racing is enlivened by the arrival of seasonal migrant workers.
«The Last Race» (U.S. Documentary) ★ ★ ★ 1/2 • Photographer Michael Dweck captures a vanishing piece of Americana, a fading Long Island stock - car track in a sea of big - box stores.
Players can choose from stock cars to pure racing vehicles to never - released concept cars and, for the first time in the series» history, Porsche vehicles will be part of the action.
When the movie opens, McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) is once again on top of the stock - car racing world, trading victories with contemporaries such as Cal Weathers and Bobby Swift.
Races involving stock cars, modified versions of ordinary passenger cars, attracted drivers and fans alike.
Merging his life - long love of cars and racing and a classroom of fourth graders, teacher Tom Stock created a winning learning combination.
I don't know how the V - 6 would handle towing my race car, but the idea of keeping the inside of the van stocked with spare parts and still having room to work inside and be shielded from the sun when I'm at the track is pretty appealing.
DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY Land speed record runs were made on the sand of Daytona Beach when the automobile was still in its infancy, and stock car races were held there well into the»50s.
The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb is one of the most diverse car racing events in the country, if not the world, bringing everything from radically - modified, unlimited - class cars, to nearly - stock vehicles with nothing more than just the mandated safety equipment.
Loathe as I am to break any stock components on a street car while doing laps at GingerMan, I'd really hate to throw one of those expensive racing rods.
Alongside the COPO Camaro, Chevy will be showing a development car that aims to replicate what a DIYer might do to a stock Camaro to take it NHRA drag racing with a goal of achieving elapsed times in the 10s.
This is the first year of Dodge's return to stock - car racing.
Spec Miata is one of the most affordable and most popular forms of amateur racing, and the cars remain quite close to stock.
The Sports Car Club of America created a «showroom stock» class for amateur club racing in 1972.
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The Bowtie Brand has more than 40 victories to its credit at Daytona in the top levels of sports car and stock car racing.
In North America, stock car racing is the most popular form of auto racing.
Drag Race Video of a stock 2011 Corvette ZR1 against a modified 2012 Nissan GT - R Black Edition at the Street Car Drags event at Palm Beach International Raceway.
The second annual gathering will be the scene of more than 22 historic stock cars, 40 small bore Trans - Am cars, thundering Can - Am cars, and IMSA prototypes among the 178 - plus race cars revving to life on the race track.
The cars were in near - stock trim, with larger gas tanks, quick - fill gas caps, magnesium wheels, oil coolers, driving lights, racing seats and heavy - duty suspension components among their limited modifications — an expression of Duntov's philosophy of using racing to develop high - performance components for future production vehicles.
After clinching the Isle of Man TT lap record in a Subaru WRX STI with a stock powertrain at the 2015 Isle of Man TT races, driver Mark Higgins, Subaru and rally - car shop ProDrive cooked up a plan to re-run the course with a heavily modified car.
Not much new information was released: the car still is based on a one - off carbon fiber chassis, race suspension and a repositioned version of the stock Leaf powertrain.
Interiors — The car's race - oriented cabin may confound many initially, but when you spend more time with the car then you realize that besides some extra buttons on the dashboard and a missing gear shifter, rest of the layout is virtually similar to a stock road going car.
The entry list for the 1966 running of the Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race at Riverside International Raceway read like a who's who of iconic stock - car stars, as well as talented wheelmen from other racing disciplines: Richard Petty, A.J. Foyt, Cale Yarborough, Mario Andretti, David Pearson, Tiny Lund, Bobby Allison, Dick Guldstrand and many, many more.
Combining a wider track width and wider - than - stock rubber, a regular Golf body would leave the rolling stock in the wind — so Volkswagen did what any sensible race - car builder would do and sculpted massive fender flares to keep it out of the open - wheel class.
This May, a highly modified version of the 30th Anniversary car once again will pace the Indianapolis 500 stock - car race.
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