Race Car Coloring Pages

• Open-wheel race cars: one seat, wheels outside the body, and wings at the front and back that press the car onto the track.
• Stock cars: they look like ordinary sedans on the outside but hide a steel roll cage and a racing engine.
• Rally cars: built for gravel, mud and snow. A co-driver in the passenger seat reads out every corner before it arrives.
• Dragsters: long, narrow cars that race two at a time in a straight line, then pop a parachute to slow down.
• Sports cars: low, wide road cars with two doors and a big engine, the kind you'd see on a bedroom poster.
• Go-karts: tiny open racers with no suspension, where many professional drivers got their start.
• Pit stops and podiums: crews changing tires in seconds, checkered flags and the trophy at the end.

Race officials talk to drivers with flags, and the colors make a nice key for your page. A green flag starts the race or restarts it. Yellow means danger ahead: slow down and don't pass. Red stops the race completely. The black-and-white checkered flag waves when the winner crosses the finish line. The details change a little from one kind of racing to another, but those four mean the same thing almost everywhere.

Race cars are also shaped by air. The wings on an open-wheel car work like upside-down airplane wings. They push the car down, which gives the tires more grip in corners. Slick tires, the ones with no tread at all, are used on dry tracks because more rubber touches the road.

When you color, think about speed. A few short horizontal lines behind the car, a background blurred into two or three grays and a puff of dust at the rear wheels make a car look like it's moving.