Or you can work in NASCAR, where the race teams hoard the stuff after a race weekend (technically they pay for it with the entry free, but most see it as free once you get it). Thus leads into too much race fuel and not enough containers in the shop, leading to half the crew guys filling up their personal vehicles for…

As someone working in NASCAR, it’s just a reason for NASCAR to make the teams spend more money

Now I feel terrible about the one I have sitting in the weeds behind the shop I work at....

Older NASCAR drivers raced with worse injuries. Richard Petty lying to NASCAR about his broken neck and Ricky Rudd using duct-tape to hold his eyes open are 2 that stick in my mind.

Cup has run EFI the last few years. Trucks & Xfinity run tapered spacers everywhere.

That was the one-off they run on Memorial Day & Veteran’s Day weekends. This is the primary.

Not as factory support. The Xfinity Challengers are still eligible for competition as a current model, and they fit the current rule package. Carl Long & Mike Harmon run them currently. The gen-6 Charger never made it past the show car stage after Dodge pulled out, and you’ll still see a couple RAM trucks show up in…

UNOH owns two of these for their alt-fuels program. Fun, quirky little cars.

GM was already using this concept on their Camaro/Firebird twins. Not a new concept from them.

The teams have "Champion Tire & Wheel" transport their wheels to the track. They inspect every wheel when it gets back to their shop. I imagine the teams tires guys are replacing the schrader valves with ones that bleed the air once they build up, and simply replacing them before they go back to Champion. And a tire…

Yessir. We've gotten some crazy race names in recent years. Take a look at our schedule for this year.

Nice shot at the Mopar car I work on right after they leave Derrike's hauler :)

The name in the article was the name for the race the previous week at Phoenix ;)

IDK, the 97 car shown just past the 4 minute mark when they leave Cope's hauler is owned by a Nigerian entrepreneur

I used to work in this Series, and this track has a history of cars "launching." Kimmel actually launched off of turn 3 2 years ago during qualifying. There's a much more pronounced hill on that side, so cars tend to get more air that direction. Luckily that wreck was a lot less violent.

Living in by Mooresville, NC (the center of everything NASCAR), you'd be surprised how many NASCAR drivers drive , you know, normal people cars.....

There's a "High Performance Technology" instructor at UNOH that built one with a 3.4 out of an early '90's Grand Prix.... and mounted it (and the tranxaxle) in the rear. It's pretty nuts.

I had a teacher at UNOH build one. Took the engine, transaxle, suspension out of a early '90's Grand Prix with a V6 and put it in the REAR of his Festiva. Thing is stupid crazy. Best of all he did it as a "class project."

What's interesting about the Trans Sport is that it still looks like nothing else today, well other than its GM platform-mates. It still has a futuristic feel to it, a kind of inviting optimism. You look at them and say 'Maybe this one isn't as bad as all the others. Maybe this one was screwed together right the first…

Not a true fart can. A real fart can is a coffee can with steel wool stuffed inside. I've seen it twice, on a ricer Civic and a ricer Golf.