Stock car racing Stock car racing The Auto Racing Club of America (ARCA) is an auto racing sanctioning body in the United States. Similar to NASCAR, ARCA races stock cars, although the equipment is often more elderly and smaller than the stock cars used in NASCAR. ARCA's competitors contain a mix of both professional racers as well as hobby racers alike, in addition to younger competitors trying to make name for themselves, sometimes driving as part of a driver development program in the NASCAR series. The current President of ARCA is Ron Drager. ...more on Wikipedia about "ARCA"
AUSCAR (Australian Stock Car Auto Racing) was the Australian counterpart of NASCAR, starting in 1986 and continuing until 2001. The cars were designed to race on the paved oval tracks at Calder Park Thunderdome and Adelaide International Raceway, but were also raced on road courses. The cars were not pure space frame chassis, but were built on Australian Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon road car chassis. As a result, AUSCARs are right-hand-drive, and race clockwise at ovals, compared to the left-hand-drive anticlockwise NASCARs. ...more on Wikipedia about "AUSCAR"
CASCAR (Canadian Association for Stock Car Racing) was established in 1981, CASCAR is the governing body for amateur and professional stock car racing in Canada. Today it boasts the highest level of stock car racing in the nation, and sanctions Canada’s premier (and only national) stock car racing series, the CASCAR Super Series. ...more on Wikipedia about "CASCAR"
Dirt track racing is a type of auto racing performed on oval tracks. It began in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 30s. Two different types of racecars predominated— open wheel racers in the Northeast and West and stock cars in the South. The open wheel racers were built purposefully for racing and the stock cars were ordinary automobiles modified to varying degrees for racing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dirt track racing"
The International Motor Contest Association was organized in 1915 by J. Alex Sloan. It is currently the oldest active auto racing sanctioning body in the United States. Sloan, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was instrumental in establishing the IMCA and ran more races than all other promoters in the United States combined, all under IMCA sanction. After Sloan's death in 1937 his son, John Sloan, continued to manage the IMCA. Under John Sloan’s leadership, IMCA continued to grow and held its first Late Model race on November 9, 1947, in Lubbock, Texas. In the late 1970s, Keith Knaack introduced the IMCA Modified division. ...more on Wikipedia about "International Motor Contest Association"
International Race of Champions (IROC) is an auto racing competition, promoted as an equivalent of an All-Star Game or The Masters. Drivers race identical stock cars set up by a single team of mechanics in a effort to make the race purely a test of driver ability. It is run with a small field of invited drivers (6-12). It was created in 1973 by Riverside International Raceway President Les Richter and Roger Penske with Mark Donohue being the first driver to win the championship, in 1974. The cars used that year were Porsche Carrera RSRs. Donohue's win in the fourth and last race of that season was his last win as he died in a Formula One practice the next season. The series was not run in 1981, 1982 or 1983. ...more on Wikipedia about "International Race of Champions"
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the NEXTEL Cup Series, the Busch Series and the Craftsman Truck Series. It also oversees seven regional series and one local grassroots series. NASCAR sanctions over 1,500 races at over 100 tracks in 38 states, Canada, and Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "NASCAR" Who is www.shortopedia.com? shortopedia
Oval racing is a type of motorsport, primarily American, that involves running multiple cars wheel-to-wheel in a race around a track roughly oval in shape. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oval racing"
In North American motor racing, particularly with regard to NASCAR, a short track is a racetrack of less than one mile (1.6km) in length. Short track racing, often associated with fairgrounds and similar venues, is where stock car racing first got off of the back roads and into organized and regulated competition. Many traditional fans and purists still see short track racing as the "real" NASCAR, because the lower speeds make "paint swapping", where the bodies of the cars actually rub against one another, practical without a very high likelihood of serious accidents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Short track motor racing"
Special paint schemes are one-time or limited time variations on a race car's typical appearance. Their use has been largely confined to stock car racing, partially due to the much larger surface area of a stock car as opposed to other types of race cars. NASCAR's increased media coverage has also contributed to their popularity with both fans and sponsors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Special paint scheme"
This article is about the sport of stock car racing. A stock car is also a type of railroad freight car. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stock car racing"
Turismo Carretera ( English: Road racing, lit., Road Touring) is probably the most popular car racing series in Argentina. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turismo Carretera"
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