NASCAR: The Ultimate Left Turns Quiz

NASCAR is the ultimate American sport - and when you look at the name you can't forget it. In its early days, NASCAR had several different names, but it currently stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.

While NASCAR has come a long way from those early days of racing, modern NASCAR vehicles go only about 200 miles per hour -which is still incredibly fast! Many of these vehicles have horsepower output in the 800-900 range.

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has gone by many names, but it's the only series where modified production pickup trucks race, rather than sedans. Truck racing has been part of NASCAR for decades.

In addition to the Camping World Truck Series, NASCAR also also runs the Monster Energy Series and the Xfinity Series, in ascending order. There are also many local and regional series as well.

There are lots of different flags in NASCAR, but the most famous is the checkered flag, which indicates when the race is completed. Yellow and red flags are for safety, green is to start and white means just one lap remains in the race.

While all of these racers has an incredible impact on NASCAR history, Richard Petty is the one with the most career wins of any racer among them, with 200. At seven, he is tied with Johnson and Earnhardt Sr. for the most NASCAR Cup Series championships.

Early stock car racing was already being held on the beaches, and since NASCAR founder Bill France already lived in Daytona, it only made sense to host it there - it's also the reason for the Daytona 500 today.

Bill France Sr. passed in 1972 and left NASCAR leadership to his son, Bill France Jr. Incorporation and paved tracks had come much earlier in NASCAR history, but a fully televised event was something new.

NASCAR vehicles can be up to 30-40 degrees hotter than the temperature outside, meaning anywhere up to about 130 degrees. Learning how to withstand the heat is almost as important as knowing how to race.

Ford, Toyota and Chevrolet are the main automakers competing at the top-level NASCAR series. Chevrolet currently holds the title of most manufacturer wins at Daytona with more than 20.

Because the sport is so large, the locations need to have room for all of the spectators. That means the largest, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, has capacity for more than 250,000 spectators. The others have room for more than 180,000, 160,000 and 140,000 respectively.

Actually, the opposite is true. Because of how long the racing track is, it isn't actually possible to watch the entire track from any seat in the house - which is why there are sitting and standing areas for increased visibility.

It's all about the weight. Because NASCAR vehicles have to weigh at least 3,400 pounds and travel at speeds of 200 miles per hour, they need a lot of stability. Each racecar tire is 50 pounds, accounting for 200 pounds of vehicle weight - and making those pit crew members seem all the more impressive.

NASCAR race cars are equipped with a 5.8L V8 engine which needs a special kind of fuel called 98 octane. They have a 22-gallon tank which can add up to 94 extra pounds of weight to the car when full.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. is considered one of the greatest racecar drivers of all time. In addition to 34 wins at the Daytona International Speedway, he's also tied for the most NASCAR premier titles.

There four types of NASCAR tracks, Short, Intermediate, Superspeedway and Road. The Intermediate track is longer than one mile but shorter than two miles. The Road track has both left and right turns.

In 2018, McGriff made history by participating in the K&N West Races at Tucson Speedway at the age of 90, which officially made him the oldest racer in history. He's run over 85 races in his career.

Amazingly enough, you don't. It's a little hard to believe that these racers can go 200+ miles per hour on the track, but potentially aren't allowed to drive on public roads, but it's the truth. (Of course, it's most likely they all DO have licenses.)

They may be some of the most powerful engines ever produced, but the kind of strain that NASCAR driving puts on an engine means it just doesn't last beyond a single race. Then they are serviced and rebuilt.

NASCAR vehicles are very, very powerful, and powerful engines pumping out upward of 1,000 horsepower for hours on end need sustenance. That's why the oil has to be changed regularly and why they use so much.

While race cars don't need a reverse gear for during the race, they do need them for travel and promotional purposes. The headlights, taillights and front grille are all decals that look real.

74 racers participated in the 1950 race at Darlington International Speedway, the first NASCAR race to take place on asphalt. The winner was disputed and took more than two days to declare.

In 1987, Bill Elliot made NASCAR history by reaching the top speed of more than 212 miles per hour on a qualifying lap at Talladega. Rusty Wallace hit 228 in 2004, but the record is not considered official.

NASCAR cars are made as single pieces in a process that takes 10 days to complete. Making the body a single piece means that the vehicle is lighter and stronger and can go as fast as possible.

When driving the open track during a race, NASCAR vehicles can go as quickly as possible. However, to protect crew members, there is a strictly enforced speed limit in the pit, generally between 30-55 mph.

It's no surprise that NASCAR races burn a lot of fuel. Each vehicle is responsible for about 90-100 gallons of gas per race, and given that each race hosts about 40 vehicles, that comes out to 3,600-4,000 gallons.

Janet Guthrie made huge progress for female car enthusiasts when she took to the Daytona 500 track in 1977 as the first female driver to compete, breaking down boundaries for many others to follow.

NASCAR is like any other sport in that it has the regular season and the playoffs. The regular season consists of 26 races and the playoffs 10 races for a total of 36 races in the season.

NASCAR has eight different color flags, designed to show racers when to go and when the race is over and also designed to indicate when there is danger on the track. Purple is not one of those colors.

NASCAR's racing format has changed a lot over the years, but it didn't change on that day in 1992. Everything else happened instead, including historic racers leaving, entering and winning.

Janet Guthrie would openly make a change for women decades later, but Louise Smith entered races in the 1940s using her husband's Ford Coupe. She raced from 1945 to 1956 and won 38 races.

NASCAR fans will know that early bootlegging led to the customization of stock vehicles to be faster and to have hidden spaces, meaning they had to be lighter. Once prohibition was over, racing was the next choice.

2-3Gs of force is quite enough - they don't need any more! NASCAR drivers have been known to pass out or experience back or neck pain, so it's important for drivers to train for the force.

In 1950, the first NASCAR race was raced on an asphalt track at the Darlington Racetrack in Darlington, South Carolina. In addition to being called "The Track Too Tough to Tame" it was also called "The Lady in Black."