Nascar Trivia

pjmolo said:
Name the owner that won a Cup championship while racing one particular make of car, but whose sponsor was the name of a competing make of car.

Bonus points for providing the make of the car and the sponsor of the car.
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StandOnIt said:
I hope you are not talking about this car that Tim Flock drove
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That's the one that Buck Baker drove in 1956 (notice the name on the roof).

Carl Kiekhaefer was the owner that won two Cup championships (1955 & 1956) while racing Chrysler 300's that were sponsored by Mercury Outboard Motors.

Tim Flock was the driver in 1955 and Baker was the driver in 1956.

Among the cars they competed against was the Mercury Monterey driven by Billy Myers.

Here's a link to the results of the 1956 Southern 500 where Myers finished 16th in a Mercury and Baker finished 26th in a Chrysler sponsored by Mercury Outboards.

http://fantasyracingcheatsheet.com/nascar/races/results/1956/darlington-raceway/southern-500/477

Cup championship 1956 Chrysler 300 sponsored by "Mercury"
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1956 Mercury Monterey
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StandOnIt is now up
 
Dude, that is an outboard motor. :( back in 56, Kiekhaefer/Mercury was the trademark name of an outboard motor, not a car named Mercury.

"Carl Kiekhaefer resigned as President of Kiekhaefer Mercury in 1969, and the name was changed to Mercury Marine"
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Obviously it was a trick question but nowhere does it say that one make of car was sponsored by another make of car. That's just what you were lead to believe and apparently you're still stuck on it.

The question says the sponsor has the NAME of another make of car.

And it does: Mercury


so, have ya gotta question for us ?
 
not stuck on anything, I freakin answered the question right twice BTW even the outboard motor.

Next question, don't mind if I do
 
JGR was penalized after Nascar dyno'd a number of different engine manufacturers. JGR in an attempt to trick Nascar monkeyed with the throttle, so it wouldn't open fully so they could hide the extra HP. What exactly did they use to do it?
 
pjmolo said:
nope, nope, nope

part of my approach to these questions is to come up with stuff that you can't just google the answer to

something like "Who competed in a race with a monkey in his car ?" is way too easy to find the answer to

btw, I'm not aware that any of those guys you named were car owners

in any event, no one that's been mentioned so far was the owner or driver of the car that I've got in mind

first hint:

the car owner actually won two Cup championships, both years with the same make of car and a sponsor with the name of a competing make of car
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I know that one... Jocko Flocko...Tim Flock? lol
 
StandOnIt said:
not stuck on anything, I freakin answered the question right twice BTW even the outboard motor.

Next question, don't mind if I do
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sorry, guess I misunderstood your previous post to mean that you didn't care for my answer

new day, new question

game on !
 
StandOnIt said:
JGR was penalized after Nascar dyno'd a number of different engine manufacturers. JGR in an attempt to trick Nascar monkeyed with the throttle, so it wouldn't open fully so they could hide the extra HP. What exactly did they use to do it?
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just pullin' one out of my butt but was it possibly a paper-clip ?
 
I don't know the answer I'm going to look but was this like last year or the year before right before they switched to TRD? Just wondering.. I think I remember this.
 
StandOnIt said:
JGR was penalized after Nascar dyno'd a number of different engine manufacturers. JGR in an attempt to trick Nascar monkeyed with the throttle, so it wouldn't open fully so they could hide the extra HP. What exactly did they use to do it?
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what all manly men use: duct tape
 
I screwed up. This happened in the Nationwide series. I forfeit my turn.
Here is the answer:


BROOKLYN, Mich. - The Nos. 18 and 20 Nationwide Series teams of Joe Gibbs Racing - which have dominated competition in the series most of the season - could face serious sanctions after NASCAR officials said late Saturday the teams had attempted to alter the outcome of a chassis dyno test.

After Saturday's Nationwide race at Michigan International Speedway, NASCAR tested several cars on the chassis dynamometer, which measures rear-wheel horsepower, as officials have done several times this season.

During the test, NASCAR officials discovered magnets on the accelerator pedals of the two Gibbs Toyotas. Several sources said the magnets could, in theory, keep the pedals from being fully depressed, which would limit the engines' output and distort the data available to officials.

"This was an attempt to interfere with NASCAR's post-race inspection process, and we are taking it very seriously," said Jim Hunter, vice president of corporate communications for the sanctioning body.

Hunter would not go into detail about what NASCAR officials found, but said both teams faced penalties, which would be announced early next week. No action would be taken at the track this weekend, he said.

Reached Saturday night, JGR team spokesperson Mike Arning said team officials felt that they were adhering to the rules laid out by NASCAR with the cars entered in Saturday's race.

Last month, NASCAR announced rule changes for the Toyota engines used in the Nationwide Series. The new guidelines were intended to cut about 15 horsepower. Saturday's race at Michigan was the first since that change in which horsepower was expected to play a larger role in performance and the race outcome. The previous three events were on a short track and two road courses.
 
StandOnIt said:
JGR was penalized after Nascar dyno'd a number of different engine manufacturers. JGR in an attempt to trick Nascar monkeyed with the throttle, so it wouldn't open fully so they could hide the extra HP. What exactly did they use to do it?
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StandOnIt said:
I screwed up. This happened in the Nationwide series. I forfeit my turn.
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my next guess was going to be a rubber band and then bubble gum

I don't know what the official rules are but I can't imagine anyone complaining if you came up with another question . . .
 
Ok, this I know is Winston Cup. In 1982 at the world 600, what Cup Champion driver on the track P.A. system challenged the booing fans to meet him at the big "K" parking lot. big K meaning K Mart.
 
StandOnIt said:
Ok, this I know is Winston Cup. In 1982 at the world 600, what Cup Champion driver on the track P.A. system challenged the booing fans to meet him at the big "K" parking lot. big K meaning K Mart.
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Dale Earnhardt
 
DW is correct DP.
It’s one thing to call out a fellow after a race and have at it, but Darrell Waltrip once challenged 133,000 people to a fight. At that point in his career, DW was the driver the fans loved to hate, and they booed him every bit as loudly in driver introductions as they do Jeff Gordon today. Also like Jeff, a majority of the fans cheered Waltrip’s misfortunes. During the running of the 1982 World 600, Waltrip was trying to rally back from a one lap deficit and get back into the fight. He pushed his Buick a tad too hard, and the engine blew, oiling down the rear tires and putting Darrell into the wall. The crowd cheered lustily. After the incident, the track announcers interviewed DW, who asked anyone who had cheered his misfortune to “meet me in the K-Mart parking lot, and we’ll duke it out.” He went onto say that the cheering showed the “mentality of a typical race fan.” Humpy Wheeler wisely arranged to have security escort DW to his car, lest the fans tear him to shreds. There are no records kept of how many fans showed up in the K-Mart lot waiting for DW, but he thought better of going himself.
 
Mark Martin and Roush Racing were fined $40,000 and stripped of 46 Winston Cup points after a post-win inspection in 1990. Martin went on to lose the Championship to Dale Earnhardt that same year by 35 points. Why did Martin fail his inspection?
 
Driver Jody Ridley overcame a deficit of how many laps to win his first and only career win at Dover in 1981?
 
What track was attacked by a 30 foot "Killer Orange" during qualifying before it was captured by track personnel and rendered harmless ?

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