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Dale Earnheart Sr.

The "car bodies"? professional class are made of carbon fiber. Slower classes can be fiberglass, aluminum or steel.

The "racing surface"? is usually a concrete "launch pad", staging area up to 60/100ft down the track, the rest is usually asphalt to save money. Some tracks are completely concrete, but this is rare.

Travis was born October 8, 1983.

What kind of hot rod?

Herb Thomas won the Nascar Grand National Series championship in 1953.

They definitely could but there probably not supposed to.

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It is a component of the suspension that provides lateral location of the axle. It prevents lateral movement, therefore keeping the axles from undesirable movement forward-to-back or side-to-side.

In the 1950's and 60's, cars were often modified by their owners to achieve a one off "custom" look. These cars were called "HOTRODS" Their were suspension, driveline, body and engine modifications to make each vehicle unique. One popular modification was called "dropping" or lowering the suspension. This involved changing or modifying the springs, and made the car very low to the ground. The engines were also tweaked to produce a lot more horsepower than stock. As these vehicles cruised the streets, owners would often see each other. Sometimes there was a local hang out where these people and their cars would gather. As people talked and things progressed, it was only natural that owners would want to settle which car was best or quickest. Street racing was born. Cars would accelerate away from a green light at maximum throttle. The car that crossed the next light first was the winner. When these lowered cars took off, the massive power would make the back of the car squat causing the bumper to drag on the ground for the first few feet. As this type of racing continued, the term "drag" racing was born because of all those bumpers dragging on the pavement.

For the 2012 F1 season, 5 circuits are Anti Clockwise. Singapore Street Circuit, Korean International Circuit, Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, Circuit of the Americas and Autódromo José Carlos Pace in Brazil

Every car that enters a race will be paid for that race. Even if it does not finish the race. The amount a car (and driver) gets paid depends on the position the car ends the race in.

"No, there just friends." Someone said that they are dating as a previous answer, but that is wrong. In fact, Jolene is dating someone named Ryan - it says it on her Myspace page and has several pictures of them together. She is good friends with Travis but that is all they are.

Roary the racing car races at The Silver-Hatch Race Track

A 'beating heart' is not a metaphor, but is rather personification.

No, they do not.

FI is coming to NASCAR because the 2013 cars are getting more like the street versions. See the link below.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. won the Nascar Winston Cup Series championship in 1986.

yes a guy did win the iditarod even though he was a red lantern winner.

The red and white striped ones? I've heard them referred to as "bumpers" and "edges."

The are also referred to as "rumble strips" as they have uneven paving to alert the drivers that they are on or near the edge of the track, just like the ones you might find on the road or highway. However, most driver's now days simple use them as part of the track instead of the warning system they were designed for!

On April 22, 2011, the Truck Series race in Nashville started at 8:00PM EST.

Two things racecar tires have to worry about with that your family car tire does not.

1. Heat dissipation and rubber melting rate, racecars want the rubber to melt a little, but not too much.

2. Stiffness, they want very soft rubber, but they don't want it to deform under acceleration, turning and braking so a way to prevent it is increasing the width.


Race car tires are much wider – up to 12 inches wide in the front and 16 inches wide in the rear, whereas the typical passenger car tire is seven to nine inches wide.

The reason they are wide is to increase stiffness so that during acceleration, turns and braking, the amount of rubber touching the road does not decrease too much.

Racecar tires use rubber that is much softer than rubber on cars. It is more like a soft rubber eraser than anything else, and very unlike the hard rubber found in passenger car tires. Since they use very soft rubber it tends to melt during the race, which makes the rubber even stickier than before.

Contrary to intuition, the large width of a racecar tire does not increase the frictional force available to it by itself. If you take your own car and put in tires that are 3 feet wide made of the same kind of rubber, you will not get better grip onto the road.

The reason for this is because as you increase the surface area of the tire, the weight pushing down on a rubber particle decreases. At the macroscopic level, as you increase the surface area touching the ground, the rubber/glue particles break contact with the road and hover over the road instead of touching because there is less force pushing on every rubber particle.

So ultimately the amount of rubber molecules making contact with the road particles are not increased when you use a larger or wider tire on a vehicle with the same weight.

Most race cars have slicks that is a tyre with no tread for maximum grip in the dry. then there is a medium tyre which has a little tread for damp conditions, and there is a tyre called wets which have a lot of tread for raining conditions

The operating temps are allot lower causing less heat build up in high stress areas

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Race Car Drivers Who Top as The Highest Paid Athletes

Back in the 2005 and 2006 Formula One seasons, Fernando Alonso thoroughly trounced Michael Schumacher for the title. Since then, however, Alonso hasn't beaten many of Schumacher's records, but the two-time champion can now rest easy - in a big, solid gold chair - knowing that he's finally making more than Schumi.

Although finances in F1, as we've reported before, are secrets as closely guarded as technical breakthroughs, reports now indicate that Alonso's deal to return to Renault has made him the most highly-paid driver in or out of F1. If the reports are to be believed, Alonso will make $46 million this season. That's only from his contract with Renault and does not include assuredly lucrative sponsorship deals, and only stands if Alonso stays for a second year. The amount is a symbolic $1 million more than what arch-rival Kimi Raikkonen reportedly makes at Ferrari and more than double what his former team-mate Lewis Hamilton pulled in last year driving for McLaren. In fact, Hamilton reportedly resigned with McLaren for $138 million over the next five years, which breaks down to $27.6 million per year or $1.53 million per race in 2008. Alonso will be earning $2.55 million per race this year, and if renewed for next year will beat even the lucrative $86 million two-year offer Schumacher got to stay at Ferrari through 2008.

NASCAR's track attendance and revenue may be stalling, but top drivers' paychecks continued to climb last year, thanks to large, multiyear sponsorship deals and heavy spending on apparel and gear by loyal fans. Overall, earnings for the top 10 drivers were $180 million, up 4.7% from our previous list.

Winning is not always the most important factor to making money. Top drivers generate between 8% and 31% of their earnings from the track. The rest comes from salary, licensing and sponsorships. Alex Mascioli had a five year deal reported at $18.5 million.

This explains why Dale Earnhardt Jr. was the highest earner at $35 million (or $830 for each left turn) despite winning only one race, the LifeLock 400. Earnhardt's endorsements and licensing royalties made him $23 million, as merchandise emblazoned with his new, No. 88 race car was NASCAR's top seller. His salary and race winnings accounted for another $12 million.

Earnhardt received a 30% bump in earnings last year, his first as a member of Hendrick Motorsports. This while the sport has seen declines in race attendance, TV ratings and new spending from corporate sponsors (see "NASCAR's Trouble At The Track").

Jeff Gordon, NASCAR's all-time leading money winner, was the second highest-earning driver, at $30 million, including $16 million from licensing and endorsement income from the likes of PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ), DuPont (nyse: DD - news - people ) and Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ). Both Earnhardt and Gordon have made fortunes while turning away millions in endorsement