Dinoco 400 Contestants
The initial race in Cars consists of 43 cars, just like a real NASCAR starting field, three of which proceed to the tie-breaker race in California. With the exception of Earnhardt, Jr.'s #8, the remaining forty vehicles (and the corresponding teams' pit crews) appear only during the first race (the Dinoco 400 at the "Motor Speedway of the South") and most make only silent cameo appearances. Many of these cars are towed as wreckage after a Big One deliberately ignited by #86 Chick Hicks during the first race.
As automobiles without speaking rôles have no voice actors, these briefly visible characters are absent from the film's credits. Names and back stories were assigned to these vehicles (typically one crew chief and one of the forklift mechanics per race car) in the "Car Finder" game and the die-cast "Cars" toy line but these are not named characters in the original film.
| Car | Sponsor | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | Tow Cap | Rusty Cornfuel | |
| #28 | Nitroade | Aiken Axler | |
| #33 | Mood Springs | Chuck Armstrong | A blue car sent airborne during collision, then seen begging "don't take me out, I can still race!" as he is taken away by a wrecker. |
| #34 | Trunk Fresh | Dirkson D'Agostino | |
| #35 | Shifty Drug | Kevin Racingtire | Hits #84 Re-Volting car during multi-car collision. |
| #36 | Tank Coat | Eugene Carbureski | |
| #39 | View Zeen Corrective Windshields | Ryan Shields | A near-sighted vehicle, without his View Zeen windscreen the race is merely a blur. |
| #51 | Easy Idle | Ruby "Easy" Oaks. | |
| #52 | Leak Less Adult Dripping Pans | Claude Scruggs | Yellow car flipped onto #123 during multi-vehicle collision; McQueen jumps over him. Earl Filter is crew chief with Stacy as forklift. |
| #54 | Faux Wheel Drive | Johnny Blamer | Involved in more collisions than any other car in Piston Cup history, he hasn't finished a race in ten years, |
| #56 | Fiber Fuel | Brush Curber | |
| #58 | Octane Gain | Billy Oilchanger | Car is hit side-on by another vehicle in collision. One of his pit crew, a generic yellow forklift, is given the name "Dudley Spare" in the die-cast toy collection but has no name and no speaking part in the original film. |
| #61 | Vitoline | James Cleanair | Vitoline, a fuel additive vitamin company, provides fuel for older active cars. |
| #63 | Transberry Juice | Lee Revkins | First car hit by Chick Hicks #86. |
| #64 | RPM nighttime backfire suppressant | Winford Bradford Rutherford | Third car hit by Chick Hicks, causing multi-vehicle pileup. McQueen is the second car hit deliberately by Hicks, but recovers control after a brief stop. RPM's crew chief is "Chief RPM" and forklift is Petrol Pulaski. |
| #68 | N2O Cola | Manny Flywheel | Sponsor's N2O Nitro Cola contains nitrous to give you that extra pep in your engine. Manny himself cannot drink the product and still race legally. |
| #70 | Gasprin | Floyd Mulvihill | |
| #73 | Rev-N-Go | Misti Motorkrass | |
| #74 | Sidewall Shine | Slider Petrolski | A yellow Capitol Motors/Verve XT which appears only in the first race |
| #76 | Vinyl Toupée vinyl top in a can | Crusty Rotor | |
| #79 | Retread | Haul Ingass | |
| #80 | Gask-its | Sage VanDerSpin | |
| #82 | Shiny Wax | Darren Leadfoot | Senior Trax as crew chief and Nebekenzer Schmidt as forklift. |
| #84 | Apple | Mac iCar | A reference to Steve Jobs; car number is year of introduction of the Apple Macintosh desktop computer line. Initially seen behind Dale Earnhardt Jr; The King overtakes him after the race restarts. He finishes near the back of the pack. |
| #84 | Re-Volting | Davey Apex | Duplicate car number (as #84 is also the iCar); this car is hit during multi-vehicle collision. |
| #90 | Bumper Save | Ponchy Wipeout | |
| #92 | Sputter Stop | Murray Clutchburn | |
| #93 | Spare O Mint | Ernie Gearson | Crew chief is Ernest B. Raykes and forklift is Piccolo Perry. |
| #101 | Tach-O-Mint | Greg Candyman | Tach-O-Mint branding is gingerbread brown with candy cane text. |
| #117 | Lil' Torquey Pistons | Ralph Carlow | |
| #121 | Clutch Aid | Kevin Shiftright | |
| #123 | No Stall | Todd Marcus | Red car, hits #52 'Leak Less' car during multi-car collision; #52 lands on #123's roof and McQueen must jump over the wreckage. Roman Dunes (Chief No Stall) is crew chief with Shirley Spinout as forklift. |
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