What with the "oil crisis" we are in, people keep singling out NASCAR as a "waste" of fuel that could be used for more "productive" purposes.
Well... WHY ONLY NASCAR?
What about:
They're uneducated. Thats why..
The fuels used in Nascar are reformulated totally differently than consumer fuels, and the use of such fuel has never had an impact on the use, price or availability of normal consumer fuels.
The 2010 Millers at Milwaukee Vintage Indy Car Event was held at the famous Milwaukee Mile with 53 cars in attendance. Brought to you by Sports ...
"Indy car" is a descriptive name used in auto racing in the United States for a type of open wheel car that has participated in the ...
The multicar accident at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway IndyCar race on Sunday, Oct. 16, was one of the worst racing tragedies in the history of National Indy Racing League competition.
This was especially so for Henderson resident Sam Schmidt, the co-owner of the No. 77 Indy car that last year's Indianapolis 500 winner, Dan Wheldon, drove. Wheldon was the sole fatality in Sunday's crash.
It was widely reported that Schmidt had high hopes and great expectations for this particular race, as he was returning to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he won his first and only Indy Racing League title as a driver 12 years earlier.
After that, Schmidt drove Indy cars that were part of the racing team he owned. However, after two track accidents—one minor and one more serious—ended his career as a driver, he became a well-known and highly respected developer and owner of Indy racing teams. His teams have won 46 competitions and five championship titles.
Schmidt's first accident occurred only a few weeks after his big 1999 win in Las Vegas at an IRL race in Texas, where he injured his foot and ankle.
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Texas Monthly These Indy-style race cars are purebred racing machines and the Super Vee series has been ... Vintage racing is the fastest growing area in motor racing. ... |
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Classic Stock Cars After the race, AJ admitted as much and then said, "I've won at Indy and ... s Cutlasses has been restored and returned to the track in vintage race trim. ... |
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Ed Rachanski, owner of the Nevada Vintage Race Car Museum in Henderson, points to the open cockpit and exposed wheel design of the 235 mph Indy Racing cars that competed at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, Oct. 16. The multicar accident at the |
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Understandably, Senna's death did not register with most American fans, for whom racing means Indy cars and Nascar, both competing mostly on oval tracks. But in Europe, it's all about road racing—a fiercely competitive realm that includes not only |
I hope IndyCar makes changes to the tracks to prevent further disasters and learns from Formula 1 on how to make the sport safer, for drivers and spectators. A lifetime auto racing fan, Freddy Sherman collects vintage muscle cars and attends races and
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Another feature of the Classic is a static exhibit of classic racing vehicles. A mobile museum of vintage cars lines the paddock attached to pit row. The most notable is the 1965 Ford four-cam IndyCar driven by Mario Andretti. |
The track will remain active every week from April through October despite the loss of the IndyCar race. Its schedule typically opens with an open house the day before Easter and features weekly on-track events such as its Vintage Celebration,
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With so many people at Goodwood I had to try hard to find out of the way places to sketch. Quite pleased with how this one came out.
These are becoming a bit of a tradition now. The cars are, Mercedes 710 SSK, Bugatti T35, Delage 2LCV, Bugatti T45, Fiat S74, Fiat Mephistopheles, Marmon Wasp, Miller Special, Miller Preston Tucker Special, Kurtis Kraft Novi Governor Special, Duesenberg Cummins Diesel and Peugeot L45
Photographed at the Marin Sonoma Concours d' Elegance - 2011
Photographed at the Marin Sonoma Concours d' Elegance - 2011
Photographed at the Marin Sonoma Concours d' Elegance - 2011