#stock-car racing

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Bobby Allison: A NASCAR Legend Remembered

Bobby Allison: A Legendary NASCAR Icon Bobby Allison, the esteemed NASCAR Hall of Fame driver renowned for his remarkable 84 victories in top-level events, passed away on Saturday at his residence in Mooresville, North Carolina. He was 86 years old. The news of his passing was confirmed through a heartfelt statement released by his family, highlighting the profound impact he had on the…

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Lt. adrenaline junkie

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Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme SX 1971

A true automotive legend that gracefully mastered the realms of muscle cars, stock car racing, sport coupe elegance, and everyday cruising. Its iconic status as a symbol of power, dominance, elegance, and timeless appeal remains etched in the hearts of car enthusiasts worldwide.

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The last truly great race of the original Trans-Am era. Riverside 1970, there were factory teams from Ford, Chevrolet, American Motors, Pontiac, Dodge and Plymouth, each with two cars

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wild wild WILD to me that at the current moment only FOUR women on the current grid qualify to be in F1 Academy next year

Everyone else either fits the age limit, two year limit, or will get automatic promotion to FRECA

Like?? That’s insane! Next year eleven new female drivers will try their hand in an F4-level series. Hopefully at least one of them will be straight from their karting program!

I have a lot of qualms about F1 Academy and how it’s run but you cannot deny the impact of bringing eleven new young female drivers into this sport would bring!

And even the fourteen women leaving F1A are not leaving motorsport! Even if they don’t get the spot in the next level they are STILL going to continue doing professional motorsport whether that be stock or rally or other open wheel or wec for what is hopefully the rest of their lives!

I have a lot of problems with F1A and it is NOT a perfect series. But you cannot deny that it has succeeded in bringing more women and made it easier for women and girls to get into motorsport

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From March, 2024

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is it weird and evil that i feel a sense of joy watching other people experience the patented VCARB God Awful Strategy (or as I like to call it, the Daniel Ricciardo Experience™️) that we’ve been complaining about for literal months… i said may everyone get what they deserve… much love and light <3

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Jungle Pam Hardy - New England Dragway (1973)

[th3-0bjectivist]

My visit to the NASCAR Hall of Fame (Charlotte, NC - JUN 29 2024)

Every year for a few years now, I try to do an Independence Day post where I walk around a few cemeteries and snap some cool photos. But this is an election year, and I'm concerned that I'm going to have to soft-block some political zealot high on their own farts that will leave intellectual gems in the comments like 'Drumpf IZ Hitler!' or 'down with left-cucks in 24!'. So instead, I'm going to share some pictures that I took at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, and you can leave all the unrelated jabbering political frivolity that you'd like in the comments section.

For the record, I'm not into NASCAR at all. I haven't watched a full single race in my lifetime, and I tend to associate it with rednecks driving in circles. Which, to my chagrin, I was dead wrong in my interpretation on. Well, except for the redneck part. There's a hell of a lot more to these beautiful cars than I thought. My visit to this specialized museum was a delicate mix of history, art and science lessons!

The first thing I learned is that although these cars look fully assembled from the outside, they have nearly all the standard parts taken out (the radio, the average driver wheel, the headlights, etc.) and the bodies are composed of a flat sheet of durable metal. These days the car panels, which are composite materials like plastic coated with fibreglass, are then painted over to make a colorful, and often very corporate piece of art that is ready to drive at breakneck speeds. This all makes the modified car as light and agile as possible on the speedway.

In the U.S. south, where I reside these days, stock car racing's roots took hold from prohibition. Stock car racing wasn't just about competition; it was about taking your very fast car and running moonshine and illegally imported booze to different regions around Appalachia. Getting away from highway patrol meant stripping your car of excessive weight and parts, allowing for maximum maneuverability around hairpin turns and extreme acceleration up and down steep hills… all while a 1000-pound barrel of booze was strapped down in the back seat.

This is a picture I snapped inside the Hall of Honor, and that man is Richard 'the King' Petty. As a non-NASCAR fan, his face is the face I most associate with NASCAR, as his signature moustache, glasses and hat stand out to me as a truly memorable and iconic driver. But it’s not just the driver that participates. In NASCAR, your team is composed of a chief, who spots opportunities from television monitors and signals the driver through radio to execute specific moves to win the race, all while managing the rest of the team.

The pit crew consists of mechanics, a jackman (runs around the car with a heavy jack to raise the automobile during a maintenance pit stop), a cut-off valve attendant for refuelling, and a driver attendant who helps the driver get in and out of the car. It doesn't just take an individual driver, but a full team to assist the driver in winning the race. Drivers have suffered concussions, bone fractures, severe burns, whiplash, traumatic bodily injuries and death. Talk about bleeding for your craft!

And now for some art! Pictured above is a full-scale clay model of a Next Gen Ford Mustang. These days, clay models of racing cars are developed from digital designs and used to capture approvals from companies to lay down a final design for a race-worthy automobile. Once you pack a V-8 engine into one of these babies and recreate it out of a steel tube frame, you've got a vehicle that can reach speeds above 200 miles per hour.

Here's my pops, Dave, who I took to this museum as a birthday present. He's a NASCAR freak, and this little excursion to the Hall of Fame actually made him cry for a beat as he recalled decades worth of memories of racers, historic moments, and images of historic back-to-back victories for drivers and their teams.

Every car has the potential to be a race car. It just takes some weight-loss surgery or a good initial design, some driver safety features, and a colorful skin to make the whole thing faster, more agile, and more appealing to the eye. I have to say I never expected to absorb so much from the NASCAR HoF. I was grateful for my visit and wanted to share a portion of what I learned to Tumblr as a fun little sidebar.

I hope you enjoyed this post. And rest assured, you will never see another NASCAR post on my page ever again… y'know, unless it’s a meme or something!

Happy 4th,

th3-0bjectivist (Luke)

[ADDENDUM (07/05/2024): Tumblr ryanthedemiboy pointed out to me in the comments that the third paragraph in this post probably needed some modifications regarding the actual description of the panels, which I originally and ignorantly described as an ‘outer metal hull’. While this might have been the case with older NASCAR vehicles, in modern times the panels are at best ‘metal-skinned’, if that, and manufactured from carbon fibre. Also, older NASCAR vehicles were painted and repainted, but ever since the early 2000’s these vehicles are simply wrapped in a vinyl skin. Thank you for your insight ryanthedemiboy, I will ‘stay in my lane’ so to speak in the future and give these topics, that are alien to me, the research they deserve before I post!]

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An American commercial for 'Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing' on the PlayStation. Support us on Patreon

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The yassification of NASCAR!

YassCAR!

Idk.

*car wreck explodes violently*

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In the early years of Pro Stock racing the weight factors were very important. Smaller engines ran in lighter cars. Bill Jenkins decided that a 331 cubic inch small block Chevy was optimal.

He installed a small journal 327 crankshaft with bearing spacers into a 350 4-bolt main block. He decided that 5.85 inch long connecting rods were the best length (5.70 is stock). Then he bored the block .030 oversize.

When he installed it into his Vega he won so many races that he was considered the highest paid athlete that year.

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COMING SOON(ISH): CRUEL SUMMER

Eddie Munson x Reader | Enemies to Lovers | High School AU

“I’d give you a ride, Dots, but as you can see,” Eddie gestured to the empty seat next to him, “I can’t.” “Fuck you,” you hissed, whirling around and stomping off before reaching a hand up to swipe angrily at the tears pooling in the corners of your eyes.

Something new for me. No promises on when it will be out because if the Inuyasha fandom knows anything about me, it's that I'm a slow writer (uh...life, job(s), other responsibilities). But I've promised myself I won't post the first chapter until I have at least one more written so it's not too long in between updates.

Will go on AO3 first and cross-post to Tumblr about a week after, so people who will want to read first best to follow me there.

And no, it's not the Taylor Swift song.

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80s Nascar: Darrell Waltrip #17 Tide Monte Carlo