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The street race ended with the death of a 25-year-old woman and caused the first ever car crash in Greece. [36] Street racing has been a sub-culture of Greece since the 1970s. Street racing became more organized in the 1980s, and gained public recognition during the 1990s and 2000s through printed media such as the Max Power magazine.
When given to roadgoing production cars, this list only includes cars that had nicknames given to them during their racing career " Aero Warriors " = 1969 Ford Torino Talladega , NASCAR stocker [ 1 ]
Shirley Muldowney (born June 19, 1940), also known professionally as "Cha Cha" and the "First Lady of Drag Racing", is an American auto racer.She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a Top Fuel dragster.
Stock car Another look at racing legend Dale Earnhardt. Ta Ra Rum Pum: 2007 Drama Stock car Indian film. Death Race: 2008 Sci-fi Jason Statham in a revised version of 1975 film. [4] Redline: 2007 Action Street racing A group of multimillionaires wager millions of dollars over their high-powered luxury cars. [7] Death Racers: 2008 Sci-fi
The website's critics consensus reads: "Redline has plenty of bad acting, laughable dialogue, and luxury cars." [12] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 24 out of 100, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [13] Jalopnik ranked the film number one on their list of The 12 Worst Car Movies of All Time. [14]
The name of the show, and the tagline "Lose the race – lose your ride", refer to common slang of pink slips representing a vehicle's title document recording ownership, and the derivative street-racing phrase, "racing for pinks," meaning a race in which the winner earns the loser's car. (In California, until recently, the vehicle title was on ...
The Australia-based Supercars Championship, which uses cars roughly similar in appearance to NASCAR stock cars but runs exclusively on road courses and street circuits, expanded to the U.S. in 2013 with an event at the Circuit of the Americas, but that proved to be its only U.S. race to date.
Drivers race on the apron at Chicagoland Speedway (the area between the white and yellow lines). aero cover See wheel shroud. air jacks Pneumatic cylinders strategically mounted to the frame near the wheels of a racing car, which project downwards to lift the car off the ground during a pit stop to allow for quick tire changes or provide mechanics access to the underside of the car for repairs.