• the Fred and Esther Dundee House in Oregon was built for race car driver Fred Dundee?
• the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992?
• a pioneer automobile manufacturer, August Duesenberg, went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first mass produced vehicle, although his race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500-mile race?

Facts on topics related to Race car

Dragster

• Bill Jenkins' dragsters were known as "Grumpy's Toys"?

Dirt track racing

• American late model dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist races at selected high money events instead of in national touring series?

Racing

• American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg?
• Commander Edwin Taylor Pollock became the first American governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands by beating the commander of the USS Olympia in a race to Saint Thomas?
• the first time that racing promoter Bob Barkhimer went to a midget car race, he wondered what racing had to do with "circus midgets" (little people)?

Auto racing

• motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500?
• motorsport illustrator Michael Turner designed the original Formula One McLaren team logo?
• racecar driver Stan Fox barely survived a crash in the 1995 Indy 500, but later died in a head-on collision on New Zealand's North Island?
• Dauer Sportwagen converted Porsche 962C racing cars into street-legal road cars, then converted them back into race cars in order to exploit a rulebook loophole and win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans?
• Luigi Fagioli had one of auto racing's most famous rivalries with Louis Chiron in the 1930s?
• Nicole Manske of Speed Channel and auto racer Danica Patrick were on the same cheerleading squad at their high school in Rockton, Illinois?
• Rajo Jack, one of the first African-American racecar drivers, pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism?
• British auto racing team CR Scuderia won races in all three series it participated in during 2008 as well as two championships?
• from 1996 to 2001, racers driving the Riley & Scott Mk III (pictured) sports prototype won a total of eight Drivers Championships in four different sports car racing series?
• the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald race, won by Charles Duryea's Motorized Wagon (pictured), was the first auto race in the United States?