The 15th running of the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard is Sunday and the Corvette Z06 was selected for the 4th consecutive year. This year's Allstate 400 Pace Car Corvette features a design that can only be described as an ear of corn: the yellow hood and the green stalks grace the sides against a Lemans Blue base.
Launched in limited numbers in America in 1982, in 2000 the Camry became the highest selling car in America. Sales of the Camry in America may have peaked in 2006, 448,445 units. The Camry’s future includes a foray into the increasingly popular NASCAR Nextel Cup and America’s most popular car is now also available as a hybrid.
With little fanfare, a specially-outfitted Corvette was unveiled as the 2007 Daytona 500 Pace Car. The Corvette features the Daytona 500 logo on the side and is highlighted by red, white and blue side accents. A red Chevrolet bowtie is presented on the hood. The unveiling was earlier this month as part of NASCAR's Jackson Hewitt Preseason Thunder Fan Fest.
"Rubbin's Racin'" as they say, but is NASCAR truly a sport? I am not going to sit here and argue that it isn't but I think that the phenomenon that is NASCAR is quite simply amazing. Today, the sport kicks off the season with its biggest race, the Daytona 500.
\342\200\234What\342\200\231s exciting about NASCAR?\342\200\235 Michael Schumacher asked. \342\200\234I can\342\200\231t see it, running around in ovals. I just don\342\200\231t see the challenge in it for me. Personally I wouldn\342\200\231t do it.\342\200\235
This Wonder Bread Race Car was featured in the Columbia Pictures film, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and driven by the Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) himself. 2004 Chevy Monte Carlo Body, race car Chassis, APR Motor sports Chevy 355, 385 Horsepower.
Dale Jr. is looking to upgrade his car collection, so he is auctioning his 2005 Corvette. This is a great opportunity to own a corvette collectible from the Earnhardt family. The vehicle has been garage kept and is in mint condition. It also has an early c6 vin number.
The 500RC features a supercharged Ford's 5.4-liter V8 engine with maximum power output of 445 hp and 500 fl-lbs (678 Nm) of torque. That is about 145 hp and 135 ft-lbs (183 Nm) more, than is capable to produce the original version of the engine.
Though NASCAR rules have recently become stricter with regard to revenge-based tactics and such, history is laden with examples of head-to-head battles in individual races and the title chase. And some would argue that the NASCAR rivalry hasn’t gone away in the 21st century, it’s just taken on different forms.
Juan Pablo Montoya's Formula 1 career appears to be over sooner than anyone expected after McLaren announced on Tuesday morning that the Colombian will step down from his race seat with immediate effect.
When asked recently if driving the showroom version of the Ford Fusion was anything like driving his Fusion racecar, Mark Martin, a 19-year veteran of the Nascar circuit and owner of a Ford dealership in Batesville, Ark., chuckled and said, "Not really."
On Fox & Friends, NASCAR cup winner Jimmie Johnson drove up to the set in a Z06 Corvette. During the interview the NYPD showed up with lights flashing because they didn’t like how he parked. At the end of the interview, he gets back in the car with one of the hosts and burns a little rubber. The cops flip their sirens and follow after.
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Juan Pablo Montoya is to leave Formula One at the end of this season for a drive in the American NASCAR series with Chip Ganassi Racing. Ganassi announced that Montoya has signed a multi-year deal with his team.
\342\200\234Juan Pablo is fully contracted to the end of the year and if we so choose he will test and race again, that is our option and no one else\342\200\231s,\342\200\235 said McLaren boss Ron Dennis .
Toyota Motor Corp. wants to join the list of country-western staples after signing up star honky-tonk duo Brooks & Dunn to pitch its new Tundra pickup. The Japanese automaker, bidding to reach hard-core pickup buyers, has become the top sponsor of bass-fishing events, aims to be a major player in NASCAR racing, and this week signed up to sponsor ESPN Monday Night Football.
The Daytona 500 is a wreck before it even gets started. A cheating scandal that had already brought down four teams now has ensnared another -- that of two-time winner Michael Waltrip -- tarnishing NASCAR's signature race and Toyota's highly anticipated debut.
Kurt Busch said it best. "The moral of the story is we need to play more video games as veterans," he quipped. That's because for the second straight year a young driver whose first taste of Pocono Raceway came via a video game won the Pocono 500 on Sunday.
Six one-hundredths of a second. Could that be right? Was that really the difference in Sam Hornish's back-from-the-brink Indy 500 victory? If Hornish had blinked on a broiling Sunday afternoon, maybe the second-closest finish in Indy 500 history never happens.
General Motors is gearing up to lobby NASCAR to consider switching to ethanol fuel, according to the Associated Press. Late last year, GM and U.S. democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa privately asked the racing organization to make the switch.
NASCAR fans are known for their loyalty to the sport, their favorite drivers and each other. When the race comes to town, the streets are lined with vendors selling a wide variety of merchandise sporting the image of drivers and their cars. Something else has been seen at races in recent years, Christian groups reaching out and spreading the Word.
Regardless what you think of the racing, the television production is a challenging proposition. An interesting look at what it takes to capture all the action and produce the show -- live.
Kurt Busch looked a lot like the driver he replaced in the No. 2 Penske South Racing Dodge on Friday when he took his first road course pole. Busch moved from Roush Racing to the Penske team over the winter, taking over the seat left vacant by retired Rusty Wallace, one of the best road racers in NASCAR.
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