Kevin Racingtire

Kevin Racingtire is a professional stock race car. As number 35 on the Shifty Drug driving team, he took part in several Piston Cup seasons.
==History==
In Cars, Kevin is seen with the rest of the 2005 Piston Cup racers at the Motor Speedway of the South. When Chick Hicks causes the huge crash, he is one of the first to be hit, colliding with Brush Curber and Davey Apex, and suffers some minor damage, though he is still able to continue racing, and finishes in 22nd place.
Between the events of Cars and Cars 3, Kevin leaves racing, and his sponsor doesn't return to the Piston Cup.
==Physical description==
He is a Capitol Motors Verve XT that is painted a pinkish-red color, with yellow on his doors, hood and spoiler. He has white rims, as well as the Shifty Drug logo on his hood and the number 35 painted in white on his doors and roof. The Capitol Motors Verve XT was mostly based on the Ford Taurus NASCAR.
==Official profiles==
===Car Finder Game===
===Meet the Cars===
*With little natural athletic ability, knowledge of racing's rich history or understanding of its complex rules, it's a wonder Kevin Racingtire has been able to last in the Piston Cup circuit for as long as he has. He says his success is because of his family, particularly his father-in-law, who is the owner of the large pharmaceutical company that just so happens to sponsor the team for which he races.
===Pixarpedia===
*Kevin Racingtire is a Capitol Motors vehicle. His sponsor is Shifty Drug Pharmaceutical Co., which is actually owned by his father-in-law!
===Cars: Character Encyclopedia===
*Kevin Racingtire is not the most talented race car on the track. In fact, he only got the job because his father-in-law owns the company that sponsors him. It all sounds very shifty!
==Gallery==
Kevin 2014.PNG|Diecast artwork
Kevin 2019.png|Flipped diecast artwork
Johnny, Darren and Kevin.jpg|Kevin's first appearance onscreen
Darren and Kevin.jpg|Cars
File:Murray & Kevin.jpg|Cars
File:Kevin, Murray & Kevin.jpg|Cars
File:Kevin Racingtire and Kevin Shiftright.png|Cars
Aiken xxx.png|Cars
File:MistiMotorkrassCars.png|Cars
SliderPetrolskiCars11.jpg|Cars
File:Kevin Racingtire and Shiftright.png|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-450.jpg|Cars
File:WinfordBradfordRutherfordCars12.jpg|Cars
WinfordGettingRammed.jpg|Cars
File:Winford in the crash.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-465.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-469.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-479.jpg|Cars
Ernie Gearson 2005 Dinoco 400 crash (1).webp|Cars
Winford, Dave and Kevin in the crash.jpg|Cars
KevinRacingtireCrash.jpg|Kevin Racingtire losing control in Dinoco 400
DaveyApexCars.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-377.jpg|Cars
File:Billy, Dale Jr, Ralph.png|Kevin Was behind Rusty Cornfuel
File:238E64B6-86D6-43C5-9FE5-BB3875AB54C9.jpeg|Cars
File:Ernie-gearson-personnage-cars-01.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-669.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-672.jpg|Cars
File:Ernie-gearson-personnage-cars-02.jpg|Cars
File:4k-cars-animationscreencaps.com-1154.png|Cars
File:MAIC.png|Cars
Rusty-cornfuel-personnage-cars-02.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-784.jpg|Cars
File:87FAD128-A70C-4CE1-B347-5B61C3AAA3AF.jpeg|Cars
File:Ralph in dinoco 400.png|Cars
KevinRacingtire ShiftyDrugHauler.jpg|Cars (2005) workprint
KevinRacingtire.jpg|Car Finder Game profile
Shifty Drug Diecast.jpg|Diecast (inaccurate color)
Shifty Drug (Kevin Racingtire).jpg|Diecast (accurate color)
File:Kevin Racingtire Thailand Diecast.jpg|Thailand die-cast variant
Shifty drug race o rama pit row launcher.jpg|2009 release (launcher)
Shifty drug rubber tires race o rama kmart.jpg|2009 release (rubber tires)
Octane gain final lap pack.jpg|2010 release with Billy Oilchanger, Lightning McQueen and Claude Scruggs
Shifty drug cars 2015 single - piston cup.jpg|2015 release (inaccurate color)
Shifty drug variant cars 2015 single - piston cup.jpg|2015 release (accurate color)
Shifty drug blue desert single - dinoco 400.jpg|2019 release
Kevin racingtire 2024 release.jpg|2024 release
File:KRT.png|Concept art (?)
==Names in other languages==
*Russian: 
**Кевин Рэйсингтайр (transcription: Kevin Reysingtayr)
**Кевин Гоночная Шина (transcription: Kevin Gonochnaya Shina)
*Ukrainian: 
**Кевін Рейсінгтайр (transcription: Kevin Reysingtayr)
**Кевін Гоночна Шина (transcription: Kevin Gonochna Shyna)
**Кевін Шиногонщик (transcription: Kevin Shynohonshchyk)
== Trivia==
*Kevin's die-cast was initially colored dark red and yellow, but was changed to the proper color of pink and yellow in 2015.
*Kevin unlike the other Capitol Motors Verve XTs, which have wider builds, Kevin has a thinner body, similar to that of a Crown Celesta. 
**It is possible that Kevin is just a newer model of the Verve XT.
**Ironically however, Davey Apex is a Crown Celesta but looks like a Capitol Motors Verve XT.
*In the 15th December 2005 workprint of Cars, when Dale Earnhardt Jr. was speaking on CRSN, he was replaced with Kevin. This was likely done as a stand in during production in case the filmmakers could not get Junior on the project and secure licensing for him and his company to be in the film.Cars Rev'd Up DVD This also means that in the same workprint, Kevin would of had Junior's role in his other scenes.
*An image of him (possibly concept art) hints that his rims were originally going to be yellow instead of white.
==References==
Category:Cars characters
Category:Playable characters
Category:Cars Daredevil Garage characters
Category:Capitol Motors
Category:Team members
Category:Racers
Category:Piston Cup racers
Category:Shifty Drug
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Category:Kevin Racingtire's family
Category:Characters with Lightyear tires
Category:Male characters