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Jamie McMurray is a race car driver in the Sprint Cup Series. He is married to wife Christy and has two children. His son Carter was born in 2010. His daughter Hazel was born in 2013.

Jeff Gordon races for Hendrick Motorsports. He has been with Rick Hendrick since his first Nascar Cup Series race in 1992.

Bobby Allison won 7 Nascar Winston Cup races at Richmond International Raceway.

Jeff Gordon and Richard Petty both drove cars sponsored by Meineke.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is often referred to as "Junebug" in the racing community.

He and his brother Maurice worked in the fields cutting tobacco and when his father Lee began racing he and Maurice would work on the cars.

At the beginning of a race or a restart after a caution, Nascar drivers will weave their cars side to side to clean off as much debris as possible from their tires. Also, this process will heat up the tires for a better grip.

A large amount of the drivers live in a gated community in North Carolina.

Rusty Wallace was most famous for running the #27 and the #2. He won his sole NASCAR Winston Cup Title in 1989 in the #27 Kodiak Chewing Tobacco Pontiac.

Currently, Dale Earnhardt Jr. drives the #88 car full-time in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.

Dating back to 1980, there have been several drivers that drove the #88. They include Darrell Waltrip, Ricky Rudd, Bobby Allison, Geoff Bodine, Rusty Wallace, Buddy Baker, Greg Sacks, Jimmy Spencer, Larry Pearson, Jeff Fuller, Mike Wallace, P.J. Jones, Gary Bradberry, Ernie Irvan and Dale Jarrett.

HOT! On a cool day temperatures inside the car can reach upwards of 140 degrees (because of the heat of the engine and exhaust pipes), and they have no air conditioning! (Don't want to lose that horsepower just for air conditioning!) Imagine what it's like on a hot summer day. Uggh! Normally there is a tube that connects to their helmet that allows outside air to be pumped into their helmet. (Outside air, gee, thanks... not really very comforting on 90 degree days!) If the race is going to be run on a hot, sunny day, many drivers will actually get IV's of fluids before the race to avoid dehydration during the race because they will sweat so much. NASCAR racing is no "Sunday drive" In addition to being hot and sweaty all day (to the point of heat exhaustion), would you have the mental focus and physical capacity to drive for 500 miles straight through? Without getting out of the car for a break? And only stopping for short periodic 10 second timeframes? And do that at about 180mph for 4 hours straight? Takes alot of endurance, both mentally and physically. Whew, thanks, but I think I'll remain a fan! Fan of cup champion of 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, and 2007! Keeping an eye on the "drive for five"....go 24!

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Ron Hornaday Jr. leads all drivers with 47Nascar Truck Series wins.

The fastest pit-stop performed during an official F1 event currently stands at 2.31 seconds set by Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes in the 2012 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim for Jenson Button during his second stop of the race.

No. He did, however, enroll at the University of Arizona after high school in hopes of earning a degree in Pharmacy. His racing career took off, however, and he traded in his hopes for a pharmaceutical career to a career in NASCAR.

00 David Reutimann- 6'0'' 1 Martin Truex Jr- 5'11'' 2 Kurt Busch- 5'11'' 5 Mark Martin- 5'6'' 6 David Ragan 6'0'' 07 Casey Mears- 5'8'' 7 Robby Gordon- 5'10'' 9 Kasey Kahne- 5'8'' 11 Denny Hamlin- 6'0'' 12 David Stremme- 5'9'' 14 Tony Stewart- 5'9'' 16 Greg Biffle- 5'10'' 17 Matt Kenseth- 5'9'' 18 Kyle Busch- 5'9'' 19 Elliot Sadler- 6'2'' 20 Joey Logano- 6'1'' 24 Jeff Gordon-5'7'' 26 Jamie McMurray- 5'8'' 29 Kevin Harvick- 5'10'' 31 Jeff Burton- 5'7'' 33 Clint Bowyer- 6'0'' 34 John Andretti- 5'5'' 39 Ryan Newman- 5'11'' 42 Juan Pablo Montoya- 5'6'' 43 Reed Sorenson- 5'10'' 44 A.J. Allmendinger- 5'6'' 47 Marcos Ambrose- 5'11'' 48 Jimmie Johnson- 5'11'' 55 Michael Waltrip- 6'5'' 71 David Gilliland- 5'9'' 77 Sam Hornish Jr.-5'11'' 82 Scott Speed 5'10'' 83 Brian Vickers-5'11'' 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.- 6'0'' 96 Bobby Labonte- 5'9'' 98 Paul Menard- 5'10'' 99 Carl Edwards- 6'1''

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Once a race car's engine is started, it's crucial that the car begin to move very soon. Modern engines are designed to operate when moving through air, which provides necessary cooling. When the cars are stationary, however, mechanical stress and heat builds up quickly, so there is little lag time between starting the engines and moving into the single formation lap that precedes the race start.

It's also a rule in the NASCAR handbook, so that nobody could gain an unfair advantage.

Wow! Everyone is an expert! These days the motors are cooled as they always have been! AIR! Those types of motors do not run well at all, at lower temps, and speeds. The warm up process on a race motor is torture. Those motors are designed to run at 230 degrees, at 10,000 rpms, for 500 miles. When metal heats up, it gets bigger. So, to clearance that motor, at temp, at rpm, for distance, it has to be pretty ill fitting when cold, at low rpm. They knock, rattle, and just do not function well under those conditions. Also, to get the air/fuel mixture proper for the expanded version of the motor, you have to make them run extremely rich when cold. So, consequently, the spark plugs foul, carbon builds up rapidly on the pistons, which can cause contact between the chaser valve, (exhaust), and the piston, negating any racing potential. Finally, those cars are so high geared in the rear end, to achieve those high speeds, that you have to fry the clutch to get the car to act at all civilized around pedestrians, that it is just easier to push. I have never heard that Nascar rule, however, I can believe it. You would end up hurting people, and damaging the car. Drag race cars are the opposite. They have real low gears to accelerate quickly, but do not have to sustain speed. They run out of rpm's in a quarter mile, by design, therefore they are really easy to get rolling. Example: get into a stick shift vehicle. Put it into 1st gear, let out the clutch. Nice and smooth. That would be the drag car. Now put it into 4th gear, and let out the clutch. Motor bogs, you have to slip the clutch, it's a real pain, right? That's a stock car. Also, for an engine to make horsepower at 10,000 rpm's, you have to give up elsewhere. A small block Chevy will give you a power band of about 4-5000 rpm. To make power at 10 grand. you can't start making power till about 5,000 rpm. So at idle speed, the motor doesn't even want to run.

Richard Petty was 21 years old when he started racing in the Nascar Grand National Series.

In Nascar, an owner is allowed to have a maximum of four cars (teams).

No. Michael and Darrell Waltrip both have the same parents.

Actually, they are.

tallglassofmilk confirmed so on her website.

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