The Automobile Make Chooser

The jobs of the Automobile Make Chooser are:

1. decide upon the make of car your team will use for the bodies, leaving evidence of why you chose that particular make of car

2. write a small historical report on the history of that make in Nascar racing

 

Click here to see how you will be assessed

There are steps to approach your job:

1. research the winning records of the Pontiac, Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge - keep printed records

2. calculate which has the best winning percentage - keep printed records

3. take into consideration how many other teams are already using that body

4. pick a make and let your graphic designer know

5. write a history of that make’s participation in Nascar racing. including races, wins, famous teams and drivers, etc.

 

RESOURCES

STOCK CAR RECORDS SITES:

http://www.nascar.com This is the home page

http://www.nascar.com/kyn/index.html This has a lot of extra information

http://www.nascar.com/races/wc/2003/data/standings_official.html

This has the point standings back into the 1990’s.

It doesn’t say the make of car, though. That is either

somewhere else or I’d have to help.

 

1. Click Here for a page that shows an example of each make of car in the Winston Cup division.

2. Click here to access a blank line art picture of a Winston Cup car.

3. http://jayski.thatsracin.com/jayski-cars.htm

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