Tag: drivers

• Car Racing Lingo

  Lingo is a part of auto racing pleasure. You must be able to understand the jargon of car racing, and use it fluently and correctly as well. Here are brief meanings of 10 top terms which are ...

• The Strangest Indy 500 Tradition

  A racing event with a history as long as the Indy 500 is sure to have spawned more than a few traditions, but the "Milk Drinking" post-race ritual is surely the strangest. It was way back in ...

• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

  Though high speed car chases and hot heads filled with adrenaline have often graced the silver screen, it’s not every day that a movie comes out about NASCAR racing - Days of Thunder with Tom ...

• Famous NASCAR Faces

  Wood Brothers is one of the best known families in all of NASCAR racing and inspires awe in everyone who follows NASCAR. Glen Wood is head of the Wood family, and yes he was a top NASCAR driver ...

• NASCAR Sponsorship Secrets

  You may not know the exact amount a company pays to have their brand blazoned on your favorite NASCAR car hoods and bodies, but you must be aware that it is worth millions of dollars! NASCAR has ...

• NASCAR’s Better Safety Standards

  Safety is a cornerstone of NASCAR racing. Though auto racing has not been free of its share of tragedies, the authorities spare no effort in setting standards and by providing amenities, which ...

• The NASCAR Phenomenon

  Have NASCAR heroes become bigger than auto racing itself? Adulation for driving skills is one thing, but excessive interest in the personal lives of top drivers, team members and owners, may ...

• NASCAR Technology Principles

  NASCAR racing need not be pure recreation if you appreciate engineering and informatics. There is great technological prowess behind success in NASCAR racing. It is not a simple matter of ...

• Why NASCAR Tops

  NASCAR sure has its pulse on fans of the sport! Few peer bodies can match the exuberance and organization of NASCAR. The excitement and exhaust of the NASCAR circuit tends to cloud some top ...

• The Soap Box Derby – Auto Racing

  You might be forgiven for wondering what the Soap Box Derby has to do with auto racing - the "racers" have no engines after all! Yet a race is a race, and since its inception way back in 1933 ...

• Auto Racing – Racing Flags

  Most people are familiar with the checkered flag used to declare the end of an auto race. Others who know a bit about racing know that a yellow flag means "caution". What most people don't know, ...

• Auto Racing: 24 Hours of Le Mans

  For many car enthusiasts the true test of endurance is the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Run every year since 1923, except 1936 for economic reasons and 1940-48 during the Second World War, this race has ...