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Don’t let their size fool you—these are
lightning fast, precisely-responding, sophisticated racing
machines. Conceived a little over a decade away by a group in
North Carolina connected with NASCAR and
 Bruton Smith’s
Speedway Motorsports company, they are designed from the
ground up like a Nascar Cup car, with coil-over shocks, weight
jackers and tube-frame steel construction covered with
fiberglass bodies resembling the original “legendary”
NASCAR stock cars of the 30’s and 40’s. They are powered
by four-cylinder, 1250cc, 125 HP Yamaha air-cooled engines
with 5-speed sequential transmissions. Mechanically identical
and rigorously inspected to keep the competition level, these
race cars have become so popular nationally that over 3,000 of
them are busy racing coast to coast on asphalt, dirt, ovals,
road courses and even Pike’s Peak (where New Mexico’s
Robert Gayton, the 2003 national road-course champion, is also
reigning Legends “king of the mountain.”). Although many
rising stars such as Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kurt Busch have
used the car control and chassis setup skills developed in
Legends cars as a steppingstone to the big time, most of the
racers view the cars as a great way to go racing without
getting involved in the notorious spending wars in many
divisions. Legends are divided into three subdivisions:
Semipro for beginning and less-experienced drivers, Masters
for those over 40 years old, and Pro for the most experienced
racers.
For more specs, go to
www.600racing.com or www.nmlegends.com
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