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A combination race is a race run between multiple series that operate under compatible rules packages. During NASCAR's combination races (currently the ARCA Menards Series East and West , and formerly the Winston Cup Series / Winston West Series and Busch Series / Busch North Series ), there is one race, but points are scored for both series.
Smith's books were well received by drivers and mechanics alike because of their affable, direct, and clear writing style. After writing a series of books about different aspects of racing car preparation, tuning and engineering practice, each with ... to Win in the title, he wrote the Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners, and Plumbing Handbook [ 4 ] about ...
The American Racing Drivers Club was organized in 1939, making it one of the oldest sanctioning bodies in the United States, predating NASCAR by nearly a decade. The purpose of the organization was to represent the drivers and car owners in dealing with track owners and promoters.
Aerosp. Electron. Syst., vol. AES-20, pp. 306-309, July 1984. (Describes systems engineering as "the design of the whole as distinguished from the design of the part s." Systems engineers design the architecture of the system, define the criteria for its evolution, and perform trade-off studies for optimization of the subsystem characteristics.
Racing the Beam is the first in a series of books on early video-game platforms and has been cited by modern Atari 2600 enthusiasts as an inspiration for attempting to write new games for the platform.
Light beam timing system (the two lenses extended to the right of the stand) Fully automatic time (abbreviated FAT) is a form of race timing in which the clock is automatically activated by the starting device, and the finish time is either automatically recorded, or timed by analysis of a photo finish.
One design refers to a racing class that consists of just one model or design of a sailboat. In one-design racing, the first boat to finish wins the race. This is contrasted with handicap racing, [11] where time is added or subtracted from the finishing times based on design factors and mathematical formulas to determine the winner. [9]
Logo for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. The 2013 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race program cover, with artwork by Sam Bass. "Saddle Up, Race Fans!" The 2013 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on May 18, 2013, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.