Side Spoilers on Stock Cars...

[kdryan]

Can someone tell me what those little spoilers on the left side of the rear window are for? Do they help with cornering or something?

 

[xNEVER-ONEx]

Spoilers are for downforce, so yes, they will help with cornering.

 

[Mafz]

Can someone tell me what those little spoilers on the left side of the rear window are for? Do they help with cornering or something?

Dunno the answer to your question, but what do you mean by stock cars?

 

[kdryan]

Dunno the answer to your question, but what do you mean by stock cars?

Cars that run in NASCAR races. Should have been capitalized, I guess. Stock Cars...

 

[Layzie]

if you're talking about nascar, probably to guide air to the spoiler

 

[Mafz]

Cars that run in NASCAR races. Should have been capitalized, I guess. Stock Cars...

Ah I see, I didn't know NASCAR is also know as Stock Car. I thought you might have meant stock as in default, but didn't know which car you were talking about.

 

[xNEVER-ONEx]

Ah I see, I didn't know NASCAR is also know as Stock Car. I thought you might have meant stock as in default, but didn't know which car you were talking about.

The types of cars run in NASCAR are known as stock car. There are many stock car series in the world, NASCAR is just the biggest and most well known.

 

[Welsh-Fury]

Oh, the bit that lines down the window from the roof to the trunk. In real life, that helps spinning cars get strait again, like how a vertical tail wing on a plane works, just to a very small degree.

*Sorry if my grammar isn't right, been drinking a bit today* :S

 

[IceMan PJN]

The types of cars run in NASCAR are known as stock car. There are many stock car series in the world, NASCAR is just the biggest and most well known.

It's also perhaps the most poorly named class of motorsport, since NASCAR Cup cars aren't stock by any stretch of the imagination. As they put it in Days of Thunder, "There's nothing stock about a stock car." (I think I got the line right.) It's like how the US slaps the "football" label onto a sport wherein feet very rarely ever touch the ball, but rather hands/arms do almost all of the ball contact.

 

[xNEVER-ONEx]

It's also perhaps the most poorly named class of motorsport, since NASCAR Cup cars aren't stock by any stretch of the imagination. As they put it in Days of Thunder, "There's nothing stock about a stock car." (I think I got the line right.) It's like how the US slaps the "football" label onto a sport wherein feet very rarely ever touch the ball, but rather hands/arms do almost all of the ball contact.

I know, I'm not a fan of NASCAR and was always confused why they called their cars stock. At least GT cars use for the most part chassis that at least resemble production cars.

 

[kdryan]

It's also perhaps the most poorly named class of motorsport, since NASCAR Cup cars aren't stock by any stretch of the imagination. As they put it in Days of Thunder, "There's nothing stock about a stock car." (I think I got the line right.) It's like how the US slaps the "football" label onto a sport wherein feet very rarely ever touch the ball, but rather hands/arms do almost all of the ball contact.

Not to derail my own thread, and I agree with both of your points, but why do you Brits call Soccer what you do? Where on Earth did that name come from?

 

[gregc]

Lol, we don't, we call it football - don't know where soccer came from...

edit - wiki says...

The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association"

 

[Welsh-Fury]

I answered the question and now this is a Nascar/Soccer/Football hate thread? Good job guys. 👍

 

[midget5111995]

Dunno the answer to your question, but what do you mean by stock cars?

NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

 

[kdryan]

I answered the question and now this is a Nascar/Soccer/Football hate thread? Good job guys. 👍

Nobody is hating here. Just nice polite conversation for a change....

 

[nascar49]

The spoiler on the rear window and trunk lid , known as the shark fin, what those do is to keep the car from becoming airborn when the car gets sideways.

 

[dougdoberman]

I know, I'm not a fan of NASCAR and was always confused why they called their cars stock. At least GT cars use for the most part chassis that at least resemble production cars.

Because when the series started and for quite a few years afterwards, the cars WERE basically just stock cars.

No, the name is no longer apt, but after decades of brand recognition, they're not going to change it.

Think of it as "stockcar," a weird name for a certain type of racing machine, not "stock" car, a descriptor of the vehicle.