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Cup Series cars (often called "Cup cars") adhere to a front engine rear-wheel-drive design. A roll cage serves as a space frame chassis and is covered by a 24-gauge sheet metal body. They have a closed cockpit, fenders, a rear spoiler, and an aerodynamic splitter. Fielding a car for one season usually costs $10–20 million. [37]
Leroy Heming is a 1955 Chrysler C300 who raced in the Piston Cup. Leroy entered the Piston Cup as a rookie and was one of the fastest new cars at the time. His surname is a reference to the Hemi line of engines found in Chrysler vehicles. During McQueen and Cruz's time in Thomasville, Smokey told the story to them of how Leroy once tried to ...
The Car of Tomorrow [1] (abbreviated as CoT) was the common name used for the chassis of the NASCAR Cup Series (2007 – 2012) [2] and Xfinity Series (since 2011 full-time) race cars. The car was part of a five-year project to create a safer vehicle following several deaths in competition, particularly the crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 that ...
The Next Gen car, originally known as the Gen-7 car, is the common name for the racecar that is currently in use in the NASCAR Cup Series. Its use began with the 2022 season. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A further evolution of the Generation 6 car, the Next Gen features "improved" aero and downforce packages while introducing new technologies on the track.
This list (except for the firsts section) is limited to automobiles built after World War II, and lists superlatives for earlier vehicles separately. The list is also limited to production road cars that: Are constructed principally for retail sale to consumers for personal use transporting people on public roads.
On 6 December 2017, FIA's World Motorsport Council announced the creation of the long waited FIA World Touring Car Cup. The new series has been officially confirmed after a deal was reached to bring the World Touring Car Championship, the TCR International Series and the European Touring Car Cup together. [61] [62]
The Hornet, introduced for the 1951 model year, was based on Hudson's "step-down" design [5] that was first seen in the 1948 model year on the Commodore.Unlike a unibody, the design did not fully merge the body and chassis frame into a single structure, but the floor pan footwells recessed down, in between the car's chassis rails, which were, in turn, routed around them – instead of a ...
On June 6, 2006, a Cars video game based on the first Cars film was published by THQ titled Cars: The Video Game. It features 30 races and playable characters from the film. [ 31 ] In 2011, a racing game titled Cars 2: The Video Game was released, featuring a number of playable characters from the film including Lightning McQueen. [ 32 ]