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Beneath Mickey Thompson's 1971 Mustang Funny Car body is a racing chassis that shares no commonality with the production vehicle.

A silhouette racing car is a race car which, although bearing a superficial resemblance to a production model, differs mechanically in fundamental ways. The purpose of silhouette cars is to provide a manufacturer with a tangible link to their consumer product offerings so as to derive maximum marketing benefit from their investment in the sport. They also provide spectators with familiar, identifiable car models.

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Silhouette racing car

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A silhouette racing car is a race car which, although bearing a superficial resemblance to a production model, differs mechanically in fundamental ways...

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Sports car racing

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Sports car racing is a form of motorsport road racing which utilises sports cars that have two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be purpose-built prototypes...

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Aussie Racing Cars

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Aussie Racing Cars (ARC) is an Australian motor racing category. ARC is a motorcycle powered silhouette racing car class created by former touring car racing...

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Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

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due to high costs. The series raced prototype silhouette racing cars based on a mass-production road car in the same period. During the ITC era, a large...

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Nissan Skyline RS Silhouette Formula

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The Nissan Skyline RS Silhouette Formula is a Group 5 race car, designed, developed and built by Nissan, for sports car racing, in 1982. "Nissan | Heritage...

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Auto racing

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Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North...

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National Sports Sedan Series

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national motor racing title for drivers of cars complying with Australian Sports Sedan regulations. This class, essentially a silhouette racing car class, permits...

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Sports car

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sports car is a car designed with an emphasis on dynamic performance, such as handling, acceleration, top speed, the thrill of driving, and racing capability...

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Ford Mustang

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Mustang racing in NASCAR Sprint Cup by 2014 (the model's 50th anniversary). The NASCAR vehicles are not based on production models but are a silhouette racing...

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Stock car racing

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Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing run on oval tracks and road courses measuring approximately 0.25 to 2.66 miles (0.4 to 4.3 km). It originally...

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NASCAR

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for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. It is considered...

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Global Touring Car Championship

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classes, namely GTC (which runs silhouette racing cars) and GTC Supacup. Following the folding of the National Production Car Championship in late 2015, South...

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2018 Aussie Racing Car Series

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Australian motor racing series open to Aussie Racing Cars, which are silhouette racing cars which use Yamaha FJ1300 engines and Kumho Tyres. It was sanctioned...

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Circuit de la Sarthe

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suspension as cars must slow from over 322 km/h (200 mph) to around 100 km/h (62 mph) for the sharp corner at the village of Mulsanne. The road racing track,...

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2022 Aussie Racing Car Series

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Car Super Series was an Australian motor racing series for Aussie Racing Cars, which are silhouette racing cars which use Yamaha FJ1300 engines and Kumho...

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Lotus Evora

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and as such, was a silhouette racing car sharing almost no parts with its production counterpart. As with all other Mother Chassis cars, it was built on...

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Merkur XR4Ti

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Roush-prepped XR4Ti, although of a tubeframe construction like that of a silhouette racing car, to take the Trans-Am Series title. Along with Paul Miller, the...

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MG cars

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race cars, until the Abingdon factory closed and MGB production ceased in the autumn of 1980. Prior to the use of the Toyota Tundra silhouette in the...

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Pony car

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Challenger and Ford Mustang silhouette racing cars were introduced. Modern pony cars have also competed in the Rolex Sports Car Series, SCCA World Challenge...

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Class 1 Touring Cars

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Class 1 Touring Cars refers to two generations of prototype silhouette-style touring car regulations employed by the FIA. The first generation was a production-based...

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SSR Wheels

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Super Silhouette Skyline went on to win 2 races in 1982 and 5 races in 1983. SSR also supplies wheels to many teams in the Super GT sports car racing series...

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Audi A4

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TT-R) with a V8 engined silhouette racing car resembling the A4 saloon, known as the Audi A4 DTM.[failed verification] A4 DTM cars are identified by Audi...

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Opel Vectra

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Neal and Andrew Jordan. The Vectra has been used as a silhouette racing car: in the Stock Car Brasil in 2000 to 2003 (it was the champion for four seasons)...

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2017 Aussie Racing Car Series

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Aussie Racing Cars Previous 2016 Next 2018 The 2017 Aussie Racing Car Series is an Australian motor racing series. The category is made up of Silhouette racing...

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