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The Piston Cup Racing Series is a racing series championship that has been making championships from decades through various generations of racers and champions.


Races

The Piston Cup racers are big events sponsored by lots of trademarks and covered by RSN (Racing Sports Network), among other media. The races take place at huge racing stadiums wich most have the traditional oval form.

Old Pisto Cup logo

Old Piston Cup logo.


A Piston Cup championship consists of various races where the racers are dotted with an specific number of points according to their positions on each race during the championship. The races can vary from 7 to 400 laps depending the race. Each competitor has a team of pitties, a crew chief and a hauler, wich are aponsored. The car with most racing points wins the championship and the famous Piston Cup.

Cup

The Piston Cup trophy.

Piston Cup Speedways

Piston Cup list of racers

Seasons historys

1951/ 1952/ 1953 Seasons

The 1951, 1952 and 1953 Piston Cup seasons were won by the #51 racer The Fabulous Hudson Hornet.

1951: 13 victories .1952: 27 victories .1953: 22 victories.

1954 Season

In the 1954 Piston Cup Season, The #51 racer Doc Hudson got seriously damaged on the final lap of a race because of a crash produced by #23 racer Sammy "The Studebaker". 1954 Doc Victories: 16. {C}

1954 newspaper

1954 newspaper.







2005 Season

The 2006 Piston Cup racing season was patrocinated by Dinoco to see who would be the next Dinoco racer. It took place in various speedways, in summer. The 3 leaders of the season where The King, Chick Hicks and the rookie Lightning McQueen, and the three got to the final race with the same amount of points: 5013. The final race of the Dinoco 400 at the Motor Speedway of the South was an incredible race. After avrious battles, Chick Hickscaused an incredible wreck. All the cars was hitting a another car. Fortunately, Claude Scruggs and Chuck Armstrong's crashes had no cosegquences. In fact, the Leak Less driver jumped on Todd Marcus' head, whileChuck was doing a big flip. This incredible race termed with a three tie of the three leaders, and the judges decided to take a rematch at Los Angeles International Speedway the next week between the three leaders, and the winner would win the Piston Cup. The Sunday 27 of May, the final race of 200 laps was taken with almost 200.000 fans at the speedway and the country was shokdown for what many experts have called the race of the century. The 86# racer Chick Hicks won the race, but all the views were on the 95# racer Lightning McQueen that showed an incredible display of sportmanship by driving Strip Weathers to the final lap as he got seriously damaged by Hicks, completing like that his last race. At the end, The Dinoco sponsor was offered to McQueen.


2005 piston cup

2005 Piston Cup.

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Dinoco 400 publicity.









2006 Season (Cars: The Video Game)

The 2006 Piston Cup Season got place in 5 different speedways: Palm Mile Speedway, Motor Speedway of the South, Sun Valley International Raceway, Smasherville Speedway and Los Angeles International Speedway. The racecar Lightning McQueen with his new team got in the first three positions in the all the four races, making him the season champion and Chick Hicks in second place. But Chick didn't accepted McQueen's glory so he claimed a rematch. So the season got extended with three extra races at Radiator Springs: The Radiator Springs Grand Prix, the Tailfin Pass Grand Prix and the Ornament Valley Grand Prix. And a final race at Los Angeles International Speedway wich would now be the final race of the season. The last race was won again in good law by Lightning McQueen and he became the 2006 Piston Cup champion winning his first Piston Cup, wich he dedicated to Doc.


Champion

McQueen Champion.

2006 Piston Cup

2006 Piston Cup champion Lightning McQueen.






Other seasons

After the 2006 Piston Cup season won by McQueen, other 3 more seasons where again won by Lightning McQueen, making him a four-time Piston Cup champion. The last season he won was naimed the Hudson Hornet Piston Cup in memory of the deceased Piston Cup champion Doc Hudson.


Hudson Hornet Piton Cup

Hudson Hornet Piston Cup.







The World Of Cars Online

In The World Of Cars Online you could became a champion by yourself by playing and racing as you get points to became a Piston Cup champion. You could race in the following circiuts:

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