Trading paint is becoming a common past time on the NASCAR circuit. It is driving so close to your opponent at close to 200mph that you actually scrap each other and trade paint with one another. The question raised here is why anyone would want to get that close to another driver and even bump another driver at such a high rate of speed. The answer is quite simple and that is that racing at the...

Drafting like many other techniques in racing was learned by accident and by a racer named Junior Johnson. He noticed that anytime he would get behind another car his car would actually go faster. He suspected this was due to the lead car breaking the air resistance and the slipstream would go over the top of the first car as well as his car. The technique he figured out helped him to win the 19...

There are a number of things that drivers can do to overtake the driver in front of them and one such move is the bump and run. The bump and run is nothing more that bumping into the car in front of you and while they take the time to get their thoughts straightened out and slow down a bit, you can drive right past them. The act of doing this is still quite controversial on the NASCAR circuit wh...