TMNT themed Nascar race coming

[Raph's Girl]

Mark yer calendars folks for Sept 18th for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway! Seriously! There's gonna be a bunch of events that weekend and several of the cars will have the turtles on em. Danica Patrick will be driving the April O'Neil themed one. I don't like the paint scheme at all on it tho. Ugh. It's the Nick TMNT logo but it's OT April....with motorcycle goggles on...and it's obviously from the opening sequence where she's driving the turtle van.

Spoiler:

More image from the press event:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/ne...hoto/524564262

Info on what to expect Sept 18th if you go to the race:
http://www.mrn.com/Race-Series/NASCA...September.aspx

[ToTheNines]

I work with a handful of NASCAR fans. Might actually watch this one with them.

[ABrown]

I love Danica Patrick. She could drive my car any day. Danica Patrick > Cybercubed's Melissa Benoist

[oldmanwinters]

This is pretty cool! I'm a huge NASCAR fan and even own a 1:24 scale diecast of the TMNT-themed car that Jeff Gordon drove at Charlotte a few years back!
http://s779.photobucket.com/user/mcd...74870.jpg.html

Sadly, with Danica involved I don't think April has much hope of a strong finish.

[TigerClaw]

I wonder if the other drivers will have TMNT cars, it would be cool seeing cars themed after the rest of the Turtles, Bebop and Rocksteady, Casey Jones, Krang and Shredder.

[The Deadman]

I don't watch a whole lot of NASCAR but this one I'll check out.

[thundermaster612]

the goggles look weird on April

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by thundermaster612

the goggles look weird on April

Haha, yeah, I thought they were mutant bug eyes or something before I realized they were goggles... which is weird because all NASCAR Cup drivers have to use full face helmets and no longer use the traditional goggles characteristic of the open face helmet era.

Kudos to Nick for actually featuring April when it probably would have been much more typical to just paste the Turtles on the hood. The Danica-O'Neil pairing gives it a little more distinction.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

I wonder if the other drivers will have TMNT cars, it would be cool seeing cars themed after the rest of the Turtles, Bebop and Rocksteady, Casey Jones, Krang and Shredder.

Yeah. There's gonna be a car for all the characters. Danica's was the first to be revealed. We'll be seeing the others shortly. The turtles are also on Danica's car tho. They're by the wheel wells near the bumper on each side and look like frogs with those stupid goggles on.

[oldmanwinters]

Here's a another video of Danica with the Turtles and the car on NASCAR official website:
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-med...nt-scheme.html

[Machias Banshee]

This... I'm torn on. I'm not a Danica fan, but I'm excited to see if any other cars might be given themes as well, like....

Splinter = Pace car?
Shredder = Jimmie Johnson? Kyle Busch? (my fave)
Leonardo = Dale Jr. (Seriously, who doesn't see this coming?)
Raphael = Kurt Busch? (I've heard that guy when he's on a tear... )


...and Morgan Sheppard as Ice Cream Kitty. (Keeps him young. )

[MikeandRaph87]

Last year the partnership states featured a SpongeBob Squarepants theme. This September, on the 18th drivers will have TMNT paint schemes and related events. It will take place at Chicagoland Raceway. Danica Patrick previewed her car for the event with a 1987 April with goggles on the hood of the car.
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-med...nt-scheme.html

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

Last year the partnership states featured a SpongeBob Squarepants theme. This September, on the 18th drivers will have TMNT paint schemes and related events. It will take place at Chicagoland Raceway. Danica Patrick previewed her car for the event with a 1987 April with goggles on the hood of the car.
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-med...nt-scheme.html

There's already a thread for this.
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=55072

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Reminds of the late 1980's and early 1990's year when TMNT popularity peaked (even if I don't know if TMNT had a racecar then).

[MikeandRaph87]

https://youtu.be/RdTbxmxSxEo
The closest I know of is a monster truck.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

https://youtu.be/RdTbxmxSxEo
The closest I know of is a monster truck.

Wasn't that some TMNT toy vehicle when the 2003 cartoon aired?

[IndigoErth]

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-med...s-apparel.html

This link talking about Spongebob NASCAR gear also mentions:

But that's not all. This summer, Nickelodeon will unveil a line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed NASCAR gear as the season heats up for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, the kick off of the 2016 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup

Fans can grab the new merchandise at the Fanatics Trackside Superstore and the NASCAR.com Superstore.

I kinda like what they did for a couple of the Spongebob shirts ( http://store.nascar.com/SpongeBob_Sq...eBobGear-05216 ), will be curious to see what they come up with for TMNT, I might need that.

[ToTheNines]

[oldmanwinters]

Here's the paint scheme previews for all the expected cars for the Chicagoland race week:
http://galleries.nascar.com/gallery/...chicagoland#/0
You gotta scroll through the car list by the arrows.

In total, it sounds like 8 cars will feature a TMNT-related design at some point during the weekend's events: Truck race, "minor league" cars, and Cup series, although most of the drivers other than Danica don't have much name recognition.

Also... judging by that Gallery, Danica Patrick's design may have changed from Fred Wolf April O'Neil to the Nick version. Kinda weird if that's the way it works out.

NBC story with more pictures:
http://nascar.nbcsports.com/2016/09/...es-at-chicago/

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Here's the paint scheme previews for all the expected cars for the Chicagoland race week:
http://galleries.nascar.com/gallery/...chicagoland#/0

In total, it sounds like 8 cars will feature a TMNT-related design at some point during the weekend's events: Truck race, "minor league" cars, and Cup series, although most of the drivers other than Danica don't have much name recognition.

Also... judging by that Gallery, Danica Patrick's design may have changed from Fred Wolf April O'Neil to the Nick version. Kinda weird if that's the way it works out.

NBC story with more pictures:
http://nascar.nbcsports.com/2016/09/...es-at-chicago/

Cool!