AHC/WI: Stock Car Racing Continues with Generally Available Vehicles

Or, just bring it to it's bootlegger roots kicking and screaming.
-Homologation at 1,000 vehicles a year
-Severe budget cap for cars and parts. $300,000 in 2014 USD for the cars over a length of a season, $50,000/race for the parts. (Safety measures not included in cap).
 

Anderman

Donor
What about the Ford Thunderbird irrc it was a FR unibody design. AT least Ford had what could be used as a class-A car.
 

NothingNow

Banned
Considering that staff has a hard time regulating the cars they have now, forgive me for having little faith in that ability.
If F1 and the FIA can do it, I don't see how the hell NASCAR would have a problem if they got serious and professional about it.


Stabilizing aerodynamic devices were not known to any real degree until the late 1980s, and that's too late for this.
Mostly because people weren't investigating them then. Mandating shit like Gurney Flaps, and roof flaps (which are an extremely simple design,) starting in the mid 70s, along with restrictor plates would do it.

Need a big PoD to get rid of Bill France who encouraged those shenanigans

Yeah, a lot of NASCAR's problems come from the France family.
 
Were NASCARs fitted with fully integrated roll cages in the 60s and early 70s? If not a simple rule change could open up the competition to cars otherwise thought to be not rigid enough.

They were just regular production autos with interiors stripped out, welded in cages.

roll bars were in the '50s, but optional at first, cages in the '60s, and mandatory. Window nets were optional till 1970

Added reinforcing bars for the doors and such was sometimes in the '60s.
 

Australia only really has one big speedway, though, and the speeds at the Calder Thunderdome are considerably less than one gets with the same cars at Daytona or Talladega, thus the stress on the tires is far less. Furthermore, those cars used high-performance street radials, which at the speeds used at the tracks used by AUSCAR could be done safely.
 

Delta Force

Banned
What about drag racing? It seems to have been more open to some of the innovations going in with road cars at the time (the Ford cammer was rejected from NASCAR but found a niche in drag racing). It would also play better with the strengths and weaknesses of American car performance at the time, which featured high torque engines on cars that didn't have good maneuverability or handling. The safety concerns about aerodynamics and high speed would be reduced, since the fastest quarter mile achieved by a production car is 9.7 seconds at 149.1 miles per hour by a 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari.
 
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