Production car racing, Showroom Stock racing, Street Stock, Pure Stock, Touring and U-car racing are all categories of
auto racing where unmodified (or very lightly modified) production cars race each other, outright and also in classes.
Cars usually have a protective
roll cage and run race tires (either
slicks or
radials). Some freedoms are allowed, like
gearbox coolers, giving the cars increased performance and components longevity. Production car racing, known in the US as "showroom stock", is an economical and rules restricted version of touring car racing.
Many production racing categories are based on particular makes of cars. There are many
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and
Audi racing series around the world. These are also called "one make series". Some series use a handicapped start, where the smaller cars are released up to 45 seconds ahead of the larger cars, and are slowly caught, the idea being that all the cars are together at the finish of the race. Many series follow the
group N regulation with a few exceptions. There are several different series that have run all over the world, most notably, Japan's Super Taikyu and
IMSA's Firehawk Series which ran between the 1980s to 1990s all over the United States.
Major races include the
Bathurst 6 Hour
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, Bahrain 24 Hour, Dubai 24 Hour and Malaysian 12 Hour and sanctioned by organisations such as the
FIA and
SCCA. Normally using an entry level formula, it has grown into a stand-alone series, with national, state and club events and championships. The first NASCAR "strictly stock" race was held at
Charlotte Speedway, on June 19, 1949. Where a racing class requires that the cars raced be production vehicles only slightly adapted for racing, manufacturers typically produce a limited run of such vehicles for public sale so that they can legitimately race them in the class. These cars are commonly called "homologation specials".
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Homologation Specials.
In British oval racing
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, the term "production car racing" has been used as an alternative for hot rod
Hot rods are typically American cars that might be old, classic, or modern and that have been rebuilt or modified with large engines optimised for speed and acceleration. One definition is: "a car that's been stripped down, souped up and made ...
s, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, and a production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan Spence may refer to:
Places
* Spence, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra, Australia
* Division of Spence, a federal electoral division in Australia
* Spence, South Australia, a locality
* Spence, Ontario, Canada, a ghost town
Peop ...
in 1974 and Ralph Sanders
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The most common forms ...
in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias. The West Country production cars were later reclassified as hot rods to come in line with the country's other promoters although this causes some confusion with the history of the West country racing as there was another class called hot rods that ran on those tracks.
See also
* Banger racing
* Group N
* Production car
*Super 2000
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*Track day
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References
External links
* Australian Production Touring Car Championship PTCC (AASA)
* Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Rac
* SCCA Production Car Racing
* UCAR CLASH SERIE
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