Archive for the ‘Motor sports’ Category
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Sports car racing
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
In sports car racing, production versions of sports cars and purpose-built prototype cars compete with each other on closed circuits. The races are usually conducted over long distances, at least 1000 km, and cars are driven by teams of two or three drivers (and sometimes more in the US), switching every now and then. Due [...]
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Drag racing
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Camaro at launch, with Altered Vision in the right lane. Wheelstand, or “wheelie”, means torque has been wasted lifting the front end, rather than moving the vehicle. In drag racing, the objective is to complete a certain distance, traditionally 1/4 mile, (400 m), in the shortest possible time. The vehicles range from the everyday car [...]
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Stock car racing
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Stock car racing is the American variant of touring car racing. Usually conducted on ovals, the cars look like production cars but are in fact purpose-built racing machines which are all very similar in specifications. Early stock cars were much closer to production vehicles; the car to be raced was often driven from track to [...]
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Touring car racing
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Touring car racing is a style of road racing that is run with production derived race cars. It often features exciting, full-contact racing due to the small speed differentials and large grids. The V8 Supercars originally from Australia, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters originally from Germany, and the World Touring Car Championship held with 2 non-European races [...]
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Rallying
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Rallying, or rally racing, involves highly modified production cars on (closed) public roads or off-road areas run on a point-to-point format where participants and their co-drivers “rally” to a set of points, leaving in regular intervals from start points. A rally is typically conducted over a number of stages of any terrain, which entrants are [...]
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Single-seater racing
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
A modern Formula One car: Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari at the 2005 United States Grand Prix. Single-seater (open-wheel) racing is perhaps the most well-known form of motorsport, with cars designed specifically for high-speed racing. The wheels are not covered, and the cars often have aerofoil wings front and rear to produce downforce and enhance adhesion to [...]
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Motor sports
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Fernand Gabriel driving a Mors in Paris-Madrid 1903 Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, autosport or motorsport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. Motor racing or motorsport may also mean motorcycle racing, and it can further include motorboat racing and air racing. It is one of the world’s most popular spectator sports and perhaps [...]
