Stock Car Racing

Stock car racing is one of the most popular forms of automobile racing, particularly in the United States and other English-speaking countries. Stock car racing was originally distinguished from race-car races because production-based cars were used rather than custom-built race cars. While this is not strictly the case today, the cars in NASCAR races in the United States still look a lot like regular sedans.

As with any other kind of motorsport, there are many different types and classes of stock car racing, including Street Stock, Super Stock, and Late Model stock car racing. Of these, Street Stock racing can be considered to be the closest to the idea of “authentic” stock car racing, featuring street cars that can be bought by the public.

The history of stock car racing is particularly interesting among the different forms of motorsports because it evolved in the United States during the Prohibition era in the 1920s, when producers and distributors of illegal moonshine by necessity had to outrun the cops. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, commonly known as NASCAR, was founded in 1949 in the U.S. and is the most important and best-known governing body for stock car racing in the United States. Stock car auto racing is also very popular in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Argentina, and Brazil.

Stock car races generally take place on oval tracks with all-left turns and varying track lengths (between short tracks of less than a mile up to the super-speedways of more than two miles).

If you’d like to find out more about the ins and outs of stock car racing, your best bet is taking a look at NASCAR, as well as the Stock Car Racing Gazette.