NASCAR Racers

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NASCAR Racers
Format Animated series, Sports
Created by Steve Cuden
Voices of Kathleen Barr
Ian James Corlett
Roger R. Cross
Paul Dobson
Andrew Francis
Ron Halder
Scott McNeil
Kirby Morrow
Richard Newman
Rino Romano
Dale Wilson
Country of origin  United States
No. of episodes 26
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Fox Kids
Original run November 20, 1999 – March 24, 2001

NASCAR Racers is an animated television series about two rival NASCAR racing teams, Team Fastex and Team Rexcor, competing against each other in the futuristic NASCAR Unlimited Division.

26 half-hour episodes were produced by Saban, and shown on the FOX network between 1999-2001.

Several NASCAR Racers books, one Game Boy, one PlayStation, and one PC video game were adapted from the show. NASCAR Racers books were authored by Gene Hult under the name J. E. Bright, and published by HarperEntertainment. The show was produced before FOX showed NASCAR races, and the show's airing history only overlapped with the network's coverage of the real series for one month.

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[edit] NASCAR races

While real life NASCAR tracks are overrun by ovals, this TV series is anything but. The racers compete on a wide variety of courses, including road course, off-road, mountain, and Motorsphere. The Motorsphere track starts with a typical race track leading into a sphere, then tracks are wrapped around the inner surface of the sphere, which look like the AcceleDrome track from AcceleRacers.

[edit] NASCAR technology

The NASCAR Unlimited Division features cutting edge, over the top technologies (from the show's point of view). To protect drivers from crashes, each race car has an inner Rescue Racer that ejects from the outer body if an accident happens. XPT racers, introduced in season 2, are the new race cars for Team Fastex. XPT racers use atomic fuel run by forced-combustion systems. Nitro Racers contain high-flux fusion units that can get maximum power out of atomic fuel.

The change in body design from the XPT racers to the Nitro Racers was similar to the Nextel Cup transition to the "car of tomorrow". XPT racers were sleeker than the Nitro Racers and the Nitro racers were boxier than the XPTs; Similarly, the "car of tomorrow" was built to be boxier than the previous design.

The characters often race on simulators to hone their skills before actual races; this is also done by real NASCAR drivers.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Team Fastex Drivers

  • Car #101 - Megan "Spitfire" Fassler
  • Car #204 - Mark "Charger" McCutchen
  • Car #404 - Carlos "Stunts" Rey
  • Car #808 - Steve "Flyer" Sharp
  • Car #859 - Duck "Rubber Ducky" Dunaka (One Race)

[edit] Team Rexcor Drivers

  • Car #606 - Lyle "The Collector" Owens
  • Car #303 - Hondo "Specter" Hines
  • Car #707 - Diesel "Junker" Spitz
  • Car #505 - "Zorina"
  • Car #500 - Kent "Demolisher" Steele (A robotic driver, later banned by NASCAR)

[edit] Other drivers

  • Car #119 - "Redline" O'Rourke
  • Car #420 - Phil "Octane" Knox
  • Car #232 - "Chrome"
  • Car #860 - "Grim Repo"
  • Car #817 - "Tanker"
  • Car #419 - Eve "Wild Card" Kildere
  • Car #327
  • Car #562
  • Car #856
  • Car #219
  • Car #672
  • Car #194
  • Car #117
  • Car #322
  • Car #372

[edit] Other characters

  • Jack Fassler - Owner of Team Fastex and adoptive father of Megan Fassler.
  • Libby Fassler - Wife of Jack Fassler and adoptive mother of Megan Fassler.
  • Garner Rexton - Owner of Team Rexcor.
  • Spex - Team Rexcor Crew Chief and Garner Rexton's right-hand man.
  • Miles McCutchen - Younger brother of Mark McCutchen who aspires to race like his older sibling.
  • Lugnut - Team Fastex mechanic, hired by the team at the start of the second season.
  • Farrell Longstreet - A former racing colleague of Mark McCutchen's father who comes out of retirement to race in the unlimited division.
  • Pat Anther
  • Mike Hauger

[edit] Notes

  • Duck Dunaka was the crew chief for Team Fastex, but did race in one episode for Fastex under the name of "Rubber Ducky" in order to keep Fastex in contention for the team championship after Megan Fassler left the team upon learning that Jack and Libby Fassler were not her real parents.
  • While Eve Kildere was in jail for helping Rexcor try to kill team Fastex during a stunt, Garner Rexton fired Lyle Owens. Owens borrowed the car Eve had for her stunt show and he raced it as "Wild Card" in the final race of the first season and ultimately helped arch-rival Charger defeat Kent "Demolisher" Steele. Later, when Owens returned as "The Collector" and Eve was released, she took the car back and joined Megan Fassler's short-lived all-female race team, the Spitfire Racers, as "Wild Card".
  • In the qualifying run for the first race Lyle Owens entered for Rexcor after returning to the team, he drove a car numbered 909 (his regular number upside down) with just the Team Rexcor logo on the hood. After the run, he revealed his identity and drove his car from the previous season in the actual race and all subsequent races.
  • Late in the second season Garner Rexton hired Tanker to Team Rexcor and subsequently fired Zorina. Zorina then joined former rival Megan Fassler in the Spitfire Racers, along with Eve "Wild Card" Kildere and "Chrome", who also joined. Megan Fassler announced the Spitfire Racers would be disbanded at the end of the season as she would be rejoining Team Fastex.

[edit] Episode list

[edit] Season 1

  • The Real Thing
  • The Stakes
  • Heroes
  • Duck Out of the Way
  • Co-Pilot
  • The Mission
  • Always
  • Boy vs. Machine
  • Pulp Faction
  • Daredevil
  • Flag Bearer
  • Every Man for Itself
  • All or Nothing

[edit] Season 2

  • Second Chance
  • Toxic
  • Payday
  • Red Flag
  • Chain Reaction
  • Rumble
  • Crash Course
  • El Dorado
  • The Wild Blue
  • Runaway
  • Duck Unlimited
  • Hostage
  • Last Chance

[edit] Airing history

  • Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • BHRT Bosnian (2007-present)
  • SWE
    • TV3 Sweden (unknown, ca -99 and upwards)
    • Fox Kids (2001-2004)
    • Jetix (2004-ca 2006)


[edit] External links

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