where stock car racing came from?
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It started in the south. Moonshine runners would soup up their cars for escape from police. They developed skills in both driving and in mechanics. Before long, they began racing against each other to prove who was best. Sanctioned racing grew from this early illegal activity.
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Whoa, Im confused reading your question. What does this have to do with horse racing?
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Racing in F1 does not make you any less american. I think that many americans think of F1 as a european dominated sport since most of the races are there and it is won mostly by european drivers from european teams.\n\nAlso, as far as I knew Dan Gurney was about as american as you can get. Born and grew up in the US but raced abroad. I knew that he had some wins in nascar but I have never heard that he was forced out or anything like what you describe. I thought that he was always most interested in F1 and endurance/sportscar racing and saw nascar as a side project and simply left nascar to pursue racing that he was more interested in.
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http://racing.fantasysports.yahoo.com/auto
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Kurt Busch - after being "removed" from the Jack Rousch team with 2 races to go in the '05 season for "reckless driving" in Phoenix, Arizona... not on the track - but out on the streets near the track (and no....not in the race car).  Not a very popular race car driver BUT he did win the 2004 championship point race.  Most acuse him of being a little - whinny.
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Go to www.fantasysports.yahoo.com, click on NASCAR Racing, and click on "Sign Up for Fantasy Auto Racing"
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I like Skip Barber in Lime Rock, CT. They have a great program with a progress track to actual racing series.  They've been around a long time and I know many racers who started in that program.
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From what I recall, it started in the United States with youngsters doing Illegal Street racing at Traffic lights.... and it evolved into Drag racing after attempts to legalize it.\n\nYou'll find more about it on Wikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_racing
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In my neck of the woods (NW corner of the state) there are a couple of smaller tracks that are pretty good. One is located one mile south on Hwy 247 from the intersection of Hwy 72 in Colbert county near Cherokee. The other is located at Moulton in Lawrence county. If I remember correctly, they usually run one or two weekends a month from the early spring until late fall. There is another one in Columbus MS that is really good also. Races consist mostly of local area guys but occasionally there will be an event that brings in the open wheel cars and other big name racers with high dollar cars.
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Originally each race dependent on the size of the track had varying number of drivers.\n\nIn 1975 Winston suggested a standard field of 28 to 39 cars, asuggestion took from the primary sponser. Nascar later add 3 provisional starting positions to allow 'stars' who couldn't qualify on time a chance to be in the race (to sell tickets). The 43rd starting position was added at the last minute, when Richard Petty failed to qualify on time, or be owner points during qualifying for a race in the 1980's. This then was legitimized with the creation of the final provisional position, the 'Champions Provisional'.
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I would only find statistics for modern racers...maybe these links will help!
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this might help. There is a list of different kind of auto racing.
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Quoting the source:\n"It seems that "on the bubble" almost certainly comes from the qualifying runs preceding the annual Indianapolis 500 auto race, in which cars compete for the limited number of starting places in the race.  Since there are several qualifying runs, the slowest, barely-qualifying car in any given run is said to be "on the bubble" because just one other car making better time in a subsequent run would burst that driver's bubble and dash his or her dream of competing in the big race.  The final day of qualifying runs is known, in fact, as "Bubble Day."\n\nJust exactly when "on the bubble" made its first appearance at the Indy 500 is uncertain, although one ADS-L correspondent remembers it being in use back in the 1950s, but over the last twenty years or so it has migrated into the vocabularies of football and basketball commentators, and now into the realm business-speak as well."
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where they make other cars, however they r custom biuld...i duno where that takes place...
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Auto racing, motorcycle racing and bicycle racing.
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Try this link for starters. Keep in mind that during this era, India was a colony of Britain.\nhttp://www.indiarace.com/Archives/RacingEvolution/history.htm
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If you're seious, look into the Nevada Open Road Racing events. I think there is even a web site somewhere. I think once or twice a year there is an area in Nevada that they close down the highway and let people race on it. I know one driver has a 1980's Camaro with only around 300 hp that will run 200 mph. I was surprised he could do it with such low hp, but his car is full blown race car, not street legal at all. I think other states are also starting to do this.  www.openroadracing.com