#nascar stuff

[needygirlrabies21]

Guys, gals and gays how do we feel about this

[bisexualmcqueen]

I'm sorry if you already posted this, but this is about the details of the first cars movie, what was the car Pixar used for Lightning McQueen's sounds, bc I cannot for the life of me remember

ONE OF MY FAVORITEST TOPICS!!!!!!!!!!

so lightning, being a 2006 model/cars being in production in the early aughts, is based off of a gen4 NASCAR build. specifically a chevy monte-carlo of the early aughts, as seen in some of his early designwork:

[jogen klubein, 2000]

[bob pauley, 2002] [the art of cars]

some stats:

(from some sketchy assed 2000 website i wont link it but i do have it written down)

i used to swear up and down that there was a special feature that showed a few of the guys from skywalker sound recording one of the g4s (maybe a blue and white dodge??) at skywalker ranch in california (or at the airstrip with the other cars). it may have been an old interview or its on a blu-ray special feature somewhere, but i havent been able to find it. i either dreamt it up or its been lost?? no idea.

but what i have been able to find is some of the stock audio used in Cars. Supposedly this is work done by Ben Burtt at skywalker sound [lucasfilm] in the late 70's??: [link]

For NASCAR purposes, as far as i could tell their engines didnt change drastically from the 70s-2000's, so its not wholly inaccurate to use older clips.

a thing in my notes:

[mixonline. photo dead from link rot]

and now some examples of real-life mcqueens (an excuse to show you cool old stock cars) :

and a few various other references:

(note the flywheel sound we also hear in Cars!)

^video ive only skimmed so far but seems very informative.

and a few canon refs while im here:

[image mine, circa 2020. official 1:18 scale BANDAI replica with certificate of authenticity, approved by jay ward]

[time travel mater] (his carbon fiber cowl induction cover is very funny to me)

SO. to answer the question: its a mix of custom sound design and stock audio. its based in reality heavily, but i believe its also tuned for fiction/per character personality. i forget which interview said that it might be the mixonline one mentioned above or this old autoweek one. he's got something along the lines of partly SB2.2 and an R07. this does not mean pixar recorded specifically these motors, but prooobably something close.

and cars 3 pisses me off because they very clearly did not use any audio off of the g4s, which had a more specific screaming sound to them at high RPMs. COTR actually portrays his exhaust note more accurately than cars 3. Cars 2 is decent also, but the first film is chefs kiss.

i have more various unorganized lmq references but this ask is long enough now and probably doesnt make much sense because i am literally so amped about this topic. please note that this research is partly accurate and partly speculative/opinion. rejoice, mcqueens be upon ye.

[featherdusterbelphie]

references:

little manga clap moni

the roof meme

face mask moni

"hokkaido samurai spearman who hangs out with the hokkaido monkeys" ref

the star and arabian pics are from my own screenies <3

windows folder moni

[cara-mel5]

i need other motorsports explained to me in f1 terms

[yellowsportscar]

Joey Logano after Martinsville

via : @ frontstretch youtube date : march 30th, 2025

[bibyvariable]

sketches of chris and julia (the first one is from valentine's day 💀 the second one is more recent)

[frederikvesti]

x

[landinrris]

What does that guy even do? [*points at Ed Jones following Lando to half the races this year*]

[importantandunavoidable]

my usual hairdresser was out today so i got my hair cut by the very brusque, efficient one who makes me feel like a sheep getting sheared

[qweenofurheart]

dude your f1 ocs are awesome, idk how to put it but they feel very organic and well put together. also your art is so cool

thank you so much... 'organic' is how i'd like to approach making any character ^^

[whipplefilter]

⚠️ NBC HATE ZONE ⚠️

Watching the Olympics I learned that watching the USA compete in anything is almost insufferable, because for a lot of things you get the NBC coverage instead of the international feed, and oh. my god.

gymnastics had the worst man in the world making borderline icky comments and being extremely weird about Simone Biles, while Laurie Hernandez fought for her life to tame him

volleyball had the three worst people you've ever known chatting and chatting and chatting about NONSENSE and not the game??? for so much of the time??? I'm so glad I was watching for Japan and not for USA because I don't think I could've survived it. (Then USA played Japan, which is how I had to suffer this.)

But the worst possible NBC offense was me trying to watch USA vs. Brazil men's volleyball (rooting for Brazil), because it was:

the three worst people you've ever known chatting about off-topic nonsense

WITH THE COURT!!!! MUTED!!!!!

So there was no sound of the crowd, no sound of the players shouting, no sound of the sneakers on waxed floors, no sounds of the volleyball impacting hands, bodies, ground--

None of anything that means anything.

I do not care what drivel patter you think you need to say, NBC!!! I am here!! FOR THE VOLLEYBALL!!

I literally could not handle mute volleyball ft. "three schmucks rambling" and it was outsies for meeeeee. I even checked to see if it was one of the ones I could watch in Spanish, but NOOOPE.

So next time I complain about whatever nonsense the NASCAR broadcast has decided it's doing, remind me that at least they didn't mute the cars to do it.

[needygirlrabies21]

Mecore

[notvil]

feelings in the porn guys waowwww

[blorbocedes]

why do you think nico retired from f1?

got mpregnant

[pixel--moon]

me: *learns a new creative hobby*

also me: "how can I integrate nascar into this?"

[patosduck]

Ohhhhh so he does smile