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2. Hoosier Racing Tire - Wikipedia

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   Hoosier Racing Tire was founded in 1957 in Lakeville, Indiana by stock car racer Robert Newton, and Joyce Newton. Newton wished to design a faster tire compound to gain an advantage against fellow racers. This was done by retreading street tires in order to obtain a compound that would adequately gain enough traction.

3. Tire war - Wikipedia

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   Three days after the end of the 1993 season, Hoosier announced their return to the Winston Cup Series in 1994 with radial tires. [ 10 ] [ 9 ] The company's return was marred by the deaths of Bonnett and Dash Series champion Rodney Orr (who had purchased a Cup car instead of a second-tier car because of the impending change in the Dash Series ...

4. Pro Street - Wikipedia

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   Pro Street, also known as a back half or tubbed car, is a style of street-legal custom car popular in the 1980s, usually built to imitate a pro stock class race car. Pro Street cars are close in appearance to cars used in drag racing while remaining street-legal and with a full interior.

5. Radial tire - Wikipedia

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   A cross-section of a tire. Number 12 indicates the radial ply. Numbers 14 and 16 are bias plies. A radial tire (more properly, a radial-ply tire) is a particular design of vehicular tire. In this design, the cord plies are arranged at 90 degrees to the direction of travel, or radially (from the center of the tire).

6. Pro stock - Wikipedia

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   Pro stock is a class of drag racing featuring "factory hot rods". The class is often described as "all motor", due to the cars not using any form of forced induction such as turbocharging or supercharging , or other enhancements, like nitrous oxide , along with regulations governing the modifications allowed to the engines and the types of ...

7. Spec Racer Ford - Wikipedia

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   2010 SCCA National Championship Runoffs (U.S.) winner. Spec Racer Ford is a class of racing car used in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and other series road racing events. The Spec Racer Ford, manufactured and marketed by SCCA Enterprises (a subsidiary of SCCA, Inc.), is a high performance, closed wheel, open cockpit, purpose-built race car intended for paved road courses, such as ...