Entering the 2011 season, the Red Bull Racing Team consists of Kasey Kahne #4 and Brian Vickers #83 in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
In the Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Kyle Busch drives for Joe Gibbs Racing, which is owned by former NFL head coach Joe Gibbs.Kyle Busch Motorsports is the team he owns personally, which fields cars in both the Nascar Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series.
The Nascar Cup Series fields 43 drivers at every race they go to on the schedule.
Ricky Carmichael's first ARCA race was on October 3, 2008. He currently drives in the Nascar Camping World Truck Series.
Jimmie Johnson drives a Chevrolet Impala in the Sprint Cup Series. That is the model used by Nascar in all their cup cars.
No mustangs are not used in nascar the cars in nascar are the "official stock car of nascar"
The #20 that Tony Stewart drove while racing for Joe Gibbs, remained with Joe Gibbs Racing. It is now Joey Logano's number. Being that Stewart had to choose a new number after he left, he chose #14. This was done in honor of his childhood idol, A.J. Foyt.
He drove sprint cars before NASCAR. I think he did so well with sprint cars, someone noticed him and offered a job to race stock in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (then it was called the Busch Series) and moved up to Sprint Cup.
All race cars in the top 3 nascar touring series have 4 speed transmissions.
All three major NASCAR Series use rear-wheel drive setups.
No. There are currently no cigarette manufacturers sponsoring Nascar race cars. Following the 2003 season, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company dropped their series sponsorship with Nascar.
No. Nascar cars do not have headlights.
The vehicles used in the NASCAR Sprint Car series are known at Cars of Tomorrow. They are modified versions of the commercial cars made available to the public and companies include Ford, Chevy, and Dodge.