NASCAR terms starting with D

9 terms

1. Deck lid Slang term for the trunk lid of a race car.
2. Dirty Air The messed up air created by the lead car. It is generally harder to handle or steer a race car when it's in dirty air.
3. Donuts Slang term for black, circular dent-line marks on the side panels of stock cars, usually caused by rubbing against other cars at high speed.
4. Downforce The air pressure on the race car that causes it to hold the track of pushes it down on the track giving the car better traction.
5. Draft A signed, written order by which one party (the drawer) instructs another party (the drawee) to pay a specified sum to a third party (the payee), at sight…
6. Drafting When two or more race cars run closely behind each other, sometimes nearly touching.
7. Drag Device on fishing reels that allows line to pay out under pressure, even though the reel is engaged; set correctly, it ensures against line breakage.
8. Driveshaft A steel tube that connects the transmission of a race car to the rear end housing.
9. Dyno Shortened term for "dynamometer," a machine used to measure an engine's horsepower.