F1 vs NASCAR – The Main Differences
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Journey through NASCAR’s storied past. Unearth tales of the track, legendary races, and driving dynasties.
NASCAR teams depend on many things for their success. When it comes to their finances, no factor is more important than sponsorship. It forms the bedrock of a NASCAR team’s operation, and is hopefully then augmented with race winnings and merchandise sales. In previous articles we have talked about what it costs to become a
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In a pretty good example of Life imitating art, A relatively rookie driver is starting to make waves away from the usual comfort of a television studio and on the racetracks of the 2023 ARCA series. That rookie driver is already famous, though not (yet) for his performances on the track but for his performances
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Hendrick Motorsports is currently the most successful team in NASCAR. Founded in 1984 by Rick Hendrick and the legendary Harry Hyde, the team has won numerous races and championships, including the following: It has fielded some of the sport’s most talented drivers including Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson, Dale Earnhardt Junior, Mark
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Team Penske was founded by Roger Penske in 1966 and entered NASCAR in 1972 at the Riverside international Raceway. it was part time until 1976 when it went full time finishing 4th with Bobby Allison. Although they ran two further races in 1980 they didn’t race fully again until 1991 with Rusty Wallace. Although they
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The 23XI Racing team is a NASCAR team founded in 2020 and first featuring in the Daytona 500 in 2021. It is co-owned by NBA legend Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin and this is where the team name stems from, 23XI is pronounced twenty three-eleven, in reference to Jordan’s iconic number
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NASCAR has had many teams over the years and in the last few years there have been an influx of either new, or rebranded teams. Although many of these teams hit the ground running in the 2021 to 2023 seasons and we take a look the the NASCAR teams that are still in the cup
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Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is a very successful team in NASCAR history. Founded by former NFL coach Joe Gibbs in 1992, the team has won 200 NASCAR Cup races and currently five championships as well as 193 (as of February 2023) in the Xfinity series as well. Although originally a General Motors team for the
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Rick Ware Racing is a NASCAR team that tried to debut at the then Winston cup race at Sears Raceway in 1998. In 2011 There was a alliance made with Front Row Motorsports and although the driver at the time was not approved to race, Chris Cook then drove to a 27th place finish. the
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RFK Racing is a NASCAR team that has been making a name for itself for over 50 years in one shape or another. It was orginally founded as Jack Roush Performance Engineering in 1976, and built engines for other racing teams Then in 1984 there was a return to the SCCa and IMSA road racing
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RCR was founded in 1969 by Richard Childress, who had previously raced in NASCAR as a driver. Childress began his racing career in 1969, driving his own car in the NASCAR Cup Series. The team may have struggled in its early years, but it began to find success in the mid 1980s with legendary driver
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In the update to the NASCAR rules for the coming 2023 season NASCAR have made a move to address the much lauded but equally controversial “Haul the Wall” move that Ross Chastain pulled off on October 30th in the penultimate race at Martinsville in the 2022 season. Rather than add or rewrite the rules, they
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If you were watching any part of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, then you will have witnessed the moment in the penultimate race when Ross Chastain made history by shifting himself from 10th to 5th in an incredible video-game-like maneuver in the final lap. This bold, some say insane move is known as “haul
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Have you taken a look at the leaderboard of the NASCAR Cup Series recently? Or the Xfinity or Camping World Truck Series? There are a lot of points on the board right now, but where exactly do they all come from? How are they allocated? It’s not so obvious when just looking at the current
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There are many, many things to be impressed by during any single NASCAR race, but one that people consistently point to is the efficiency and effectiveness of the pit crews when the cars come to a stop, brief as it is. In particular, there are countless people, even long-standing fans who’ve seen hundreds of races
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