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Any site related to the sport of Auto Racing. This includes events, drivers, teams and racing facilities.

Autocross

Autocross is a technically demanding and incredibly fun driving sport, it involves one car on the course against the clock and is also known as Solo racing. The course can be somewhat like a road circuit but much shorter and marked with pylons instead of hard barriers. Competitors generally get three to four runs of about one minute in length during a day of competition. Here are the links and the pages to connect you with autocross.

Chats and Forums

Includes links to sites offering a forum for discussion regarding auto racing.

Sites may include, but not limited to: discussion forums, listservs, mailing lists, chat rooms, message boards (such as Yahoo! Groups), and related sites focused on providing fans the opportunity to ask questions, get answers or just to talk to other auto racing fans.

Children's Racing

These is a specialty type of car racing usually for children under the age of 16. Scaled down cars and motors are used.

Clubs

This category is for all Auto Racing type Clubs that are race car oriented.

Demolition Derby

These are cars that are raced at regular race tracks. They are usually from the wrecking yards and are outfitted with safety features to withstand crashing. The normal event consists of the cars crashing into each other until only one car remains moving and it is then declared the winner.

Directories

Includes links to sites that, well, provide links to other auto racing sites.

Directories include sites that offer a bevy of links with little to no additional information. Also, welcome here are Web rings.

Drag Racing

Relating to organized legal drag racing teams, driver and tracks.

Drivers

This category is for drivers that compete across multiple car classes or for drivers that compete is a division that is not represented by a subcategory. Please look for an appropriate subcategory (Stock Cars, Sprint Cars, etc) for your listing before submitting here.

Endurance

Includes links to sites related to auto racing organizers, drivers and teams, and races involved in 4, 6, 12 or even 24 hours of racing.

Examples include:

• Le Man Series racing (including the 24 Hours of Le Mans (auto racing), truck racing. Please forward endurance motorcycle racing to Sports: Motorsports: Motorcycle Racing.
• Sportscar racing is about cars which can travel faster than F1 cars and run for 4, 6, 12 or even 24 hours
• FIA Grand Touring (FIA GT) racing and championships
• IMSA Racing - International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) - sanctioning body for the American Le Mans Series, Star Mazda Series, Trans-Am Series, and Panoz Racing Series.

Formula One

English language general F1 sites will be listed in this category. Sites in other languages should be submitted to their appropriate category in World.

If your site is specifically about a driver, circuit, team or F1 history, please find the appropriate subcategory and submit your site there.

Formula Racing

Formula Racing includes any sites relevant to motor racing which are described in the title with the word Formula i.e. Formula Renault, Formula 3, Formula 3000. The category includes drivers who drive in these Formulas. Formula 1 is an exception because of its unique standing and commercial properties.

Midget Racing

This is an open wheel car that looks like a smaller version of the Sprint Car. They are larger than a Mini-Sprint, Micro-Sprint, Quarter Midget or a TQ race car. They are often powered by VW engines.

Modified Racing

Websites for modified auto racing enthusiasts, from dirt track to asphalt track racing, including drivers, sanctioning bodies, businesses, and other information.

Mud Racing

Mud Racing is the sport of racing a truck, rail or blower car down a mud or clay track that is usually 150-200 feet.

News and Media

Includes sites focused on news and media coverage of auto racing circuits, tracks, and events.

Off-Road

Trucks and Buggies that race under often severe conditions in deserts and off road terrain.

Organizations

Includes sites related to auto racing associations.

Sites may include, but are not limited to:

Governing bodies

Charitable organizations

Driver organizations

Owner associations

Auto Racing type associations, organizations and governing bodies

Rallying

ENGLISH SITES ONLY. Submitting a site that is not in English will delay and/or prevent your site from being listed. If your site is not in English please submit it to the appropriate World/ category.

Road Racing

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Schools and Instruction

This category is for racing schools and education for the would be racer, fan or current racers wanting to gain more education on driving race cars.

Speed Records

Records of performance in speed competitions.

Sprint Cars

A Sprint Car is a rolling, noisy, powerful, fragile, ill tempered beast that is a handful to drive. Reaching an excess of 100 mph on the straights, this 700 hp missile burns methanol for fuel.

A uniquely American form of Motorsport's that started in the early 20th century at fairground's horse tracks it is now moved to Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

There are no fenders on a sprint car. It is an open wheel, winged or nonwinged race car. "Wings" are airfoils, which create downforce to keep the car down on the track. There is a huge one on top of the car and a smaller on over the front axle. The first wings showed up on sprint cars in the 1960's.

Modern sprint cars are simple and brutally powerful, there is no dead weight on the cars. If a part does not contribute to the car's performance it is left off. The chassis is a minimal tube frame with a short wheelbase. Suspension consists of a live axle in the rear and a dead axle in the front with torsion bars for springs. The motor is connected to the quick change rear axle by a coupler called an "in-out-box", you either are in gear to race or out of gear to coast. There is no starter motor and sprint cars must be pushed by a pickup truck at a fast speed to fire off the motor. Two huge floppy rear tires of different sizes create the "stagger" to hold the car to the track and make turning the left hand corners easier for the driver.

With a power to weight ratio and a short "tippy" frame, a sprint car spends most of its time working for traction, broadsliding around corners, wheel standing on the straights, while the driver wrestles frantically with the steering wheel to keep the car pointed straight.

Racing tracks the sprint cars run on can be dirt, clay or asphalt. No matter what type of track you watch them race on you will find sprint car racing the most exciting form of Auto Racing you can find. The action is unbeatable.

Stock Cars

These are Stock Cars that do not run under the Official sanctioning body of NASCAR. They race on dirt or asphalt tracks in many different divisions. There are fenders covering the wheels of these cars. If they are "open wheeled' they are called Modified Race Cars and belong in at different category.

Technical Information

Information on building, maintaining, fixing, motor building, tech secrets, etc., for race cars.

Tracks

This category contains sites about tracks used in general auto racing events.

Truck Racing

Non-NASCAR affiliated racing trucks. They compete on asphalt or dirt oval tracks and not with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series or Nasacr Weekly Racing Series.

Vintage Racing

Sites dedicated to vintage automobile racing in its many forms. From vintage dirt track racers to vintage Indy cars.

Women in Racing

Please submit sites that are relative to women in racing in general. Specific driver sites should be listed in the appropriate category they race in.

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