Stockcar (America)
Stock car , also stock car or stock car , refers to a type of motor sport that originated in America and New Zealand in the 1930s during Prohibition in the United States and was originally carried out with production vehicles. The English term “stock” means warehouse, so that “stockcar” means something like “car from the warehouse” and describes series vehicles. Today, changes to the cars for racing are allowed, in particular by optimizing the weight, more powerful engines, spoilers, etc.
This racing sport is particularly widespread in the United States , Canada , Brazil and New Zealand. The races are mainly held on oval courses , which are 400 m to 4.3 km long. The largest and most important organization of the races is NASCAR , but today the races are held with pure sports car prototypes , so-called silhouette vehicles, which only look similar to the production vehicles, but are traditionally still called stock cars.