Archive for the 'Nascar Cars' Category
Simmering Safety Issues in NASCAR
Friday, April 11th, 2008Safety has always been an important issue in NASCAR, but only recently has it become a real focus of not only drivers, but also of NASCAR as an entity itself and an issue for the fans as well. When NASCAR started out, regular cars didn’t have seat belts, so of course their race cars […]
NASCAR State of Shocks – Why They Must Be Adjusted for Each Racing Track
Thursday, April 10th, 2008It’s easy enough to understand that different cars and trucks have different requirements when it comes to having an efficient and effective shocks system, but it comes as a surprise to many when they find out that NASCAR drivers change their shocks according to many more factors than simply the kind of car or truck […]
NASCAR Stock Cars: Past, Present and Future
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Although it’s certainly true that the most hard-core of NASCAR fans must know what stock cars actually are, there is a huge gray area in which the term stock car all too often is synonymous with racing car. At its inception, stock cars were not at all racing cars, stock cars were stock cars […]
NASCAR’s Switch to Unleaded Gas
Friday, March 7th, 2008Fuel prices in America have seen an incredible rise in the last decade; that is not news to anyone, however, sports such as NASCAR that use a large amount of fuel in order to run their sports the way that they are meant to be run are transitioning away from gas that includes lead. Initially, […]
Fun Facts about NASCAR Craftsman Truck Racing
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Let’s face it: Americans like to keep things the same on the inside while having a lot of new faces and surface changes to try out and experience. If you look at any American fast food restaurant or any chain restaurant for that matter, it’s obvious that consumers like things to stay familiar, but they […]
NASCAR Rules for Racecars in the NEXTEL Cup
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008The new Ford Focus is an excellent example of the amount of difference there can be, and usually is, between the standard version of the car built for the streets and the NASCAR version of the car that is designed specifically for NASCAR racing. The two versions of the Ford Focus don’t really look […]
Defining Chevrolet’s Presence in NASCAR
Friday, February 29th, 2008While some consumers are totally behind the slogan of Chevrolet being an American Revolution, not everyone would agree that Chevy is America’s number one car. If you ask a handful of Americans what the top of the American car makers is, some will give you the traditional answer of Ford. However, Chevy has slowly gained […]
Fueling Facts for NASCAR and the Switch to Unleaded Gas
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Fuel prices in America have seen an incredible rise in the last decade; that is not news to anyone, however, sports such as NASCAR that use a large amount of fuel in order to run their sports the way that they are meant to be run are transitioning away from gas that includes lead. Initially, […]
Debating the Restrictor Plate in NASCAR
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Since 1964, NASCAR has lost many drivers and crashes. Stars like Fireball Roberts, Joe Weatherly, and Jimmy Pardue were killed that year. More recently NASCAR lost Bobby Allison and Dale Earnhardt Sr. Bobby Allison’s wreck had the potential of injuring hundreds of fans because the car became airborne. Several drivers retired because the racing speeds […]
A Glimpse into How the Ford Fusion is Doing on the NASCAR Tracks
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Although the street version of the Ford Fusion is selling at record-high rates, the Fusion is not faring so unanimously well on the track. Despite mixed reviews of Ford’s newest racing car, Ford fans are more than raving about the Fusion.
The Fusion was first released this year, the first Ford model to simultaneously be released […]
