Dinoco

Dinoco Oil, commonly known as Dinoco and formerly as Dinoco Gasoline, is an international gasoline and oil company of fossil fuel owned by Tex Dinoco, and one of America's most popular and consumed products. The company has covered lots of events including 2005's Dinoco 400 for the Piston Cup. The company is also Strip "The King" Weathers', Cal Weathers', and Cruz Ramirez's sponsor in the Piston Cup Racing Series. The company is also very popular in Japan. It used to compete with Rust-eze before they bought them out. It also competes with HtB during races with HtB racers in it.
==History==
===Cars===
Every Piston Cup race car covets the Dinoco sponsorship. In Cars, The King is on the verge of retiring, causing Lightning McQueen and Chick Hicks to both battle for the Dinoco sponsorship. In the final race for the Piston Cup, Chick Hicks deliberately sent The King crashing off the track, after being fed up with coming second to him in every race. Lightning gave up his bid for the sponsorship to help The King cross the finish line with dignity, making Chick the ultimate winner. Although he won, Chick was labeled a cheater by the enraged crowds who saw his stunt. And apparently, Tex refused to sponsor him. Tex offered to sponsor Lightning instead for his sportsmanship, but he quietly turned it down, deciding to stay with Rust-eze. He does however ask Tex for a helicopter ride for his friend Mater.
Bonus: There was a racer from the Cars 2005 Teaser Trailer that did sponsor Dinoco in the very early version of the trailer before the racer got scrapped.
===Cars 2===
As the Dinoco oil company is an important brand in the first Cars film, it is also present in Cars 2. It is the drink Lightning and Mater have in the plane taking them to Tokyo. An advertisement can be seen in Tokyo. It is also seen as the fuel of the 12th pit for the last race of the World Grand Prix in London.
===Planes: Fire & Rescue===
A Dinoco reference makes an appearance in Planes: Fire & Rescue. Like Cars 2, it appears as a drink brand.
===Cars 3===
When The King retired in Cars, Dinoco started sponsoring his nephew, Cal Weathers, and The King as his crew chief, but later Cal retired too, because the Next Generation racers overtaking the Piston Cup, leaving the Dinoco team without a racer for the season. After the Florida 500, Rust-eze's former trainer and racer, Cruz Ramirez, became Dinoco's racer and Lightning McQueen became her crew chief.
==Gallery==
IMG 20171201 192044.jpg|Racer 22
The king.png|The King
CalWeathers.png|Cal Weathers
CruzDinocoArtwork.png|Cruz Ramirez
COTR Cruz.png|Cruz Ramirez in Cars on the Road
Dinoco-McQueen.jpg|McQueen wearing a Dinoco paintjob in his dream
Dinoco chick hicks.jpg|Chick Hicks' Dinoco paintjob
Checo Pérez.jpg|Checo Pérez, the Formula Racer
12345678900.png|Roger Wheeler
Crew chief strip.png|The King as Cal Weathers' crew chief
Crew chief mcqueen.png|Lightning McQueen as Cruz Ramirez' crew chief
File:TROC_Rally_10.JPG|McQueen as the Dinoco Rally Racer
Luke pettlework.png|Luke Pettlework, one of The King's pitties
dinoco_wide_pitty.png|Dinoco Wide Pitty
Thin Dinoco Pitty (slightly turned to the right).png|Dinoco Thin Pitty
Dinoco Pitties.jpg|Two of Cal Weathers' pitties
GuidoCars3.png|Guido, currently Cruz Ramirez's pitty
Gray dinoco hauler.png|Gray (The King's hauler)
Haulena.jpg|Haulena Fecho (Cal's hauler)
Cruzmack.jpg|Mack as Cruz's Hauler
Cruz hauler.png|Cruz Ramirez's Hauler
Tex Dinoco.png|Tex Dinoco, the owner of Dinoco
Rotor Turbosky.png|Rotor Turbosky, Dinoco's helicopter
Cat dinocodaydream car.png|One of the Dinoco Girls
DexDinoco.png|Dex, the owner of Dinoco Records
Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-12497.jpg|The Dinoco Tent with the members of the team
Dinoco Tent.jpg|The Dinoco Tent in Cars
DinocoTent2.JPG|The Dinoco Tent in The World of Cars Online.
Dinoco cars 2.JPG|Mater driving past Max Schnell's row, which uses Dinoco oil.
File:Dinoco Energy Drink.png|thumb|113px|A dinoco billboard in Tokyo
Olddinoco.png|1950's logo
68CB9CC9-BF93-46F2-9E63-C7894EBB9D66.png|1990's logo
Dinoco-CarsLogo-1-.jpg|2000's logo
Dinoco dino-.jpg|2017 logo used for the Dinoco 400 in Cars 3.
Toy story 4 dinoco.png|2019 logo (found in Toy Story 4)
Dinoco product.png|Dinoco Light product
Cotter pin dinoco.png|Dinoco Oil neon sign in the Cotter Pin.
Neon sign 4 Dinoco Light.png|Dinoco Light neon sign in the Cotter Pin.
Dinoco Extreme Octane.png|Dinoco Extreme Octane Product Next To M.A. Brake Drumm
IMG 4477.PNG|1950s Advertisement
Dinoco clock.png|Dinoco clock
Fire&rescueeasteregg1.png|A Dinoco can with the Dinoco logo printed on it in Planes: Fire & Rescue
==Names in other languages==
*Greek: Ντινοκο (transcription: Ntinoko)
*Russian: Диноко (transcription: Dinoko)
*Ukrainian: Дайношось (transcription: Dainoshosʹ)
==Trivia==
*It also appears in Toy Story, and on a lighter in WALL•E.
**In Toy Story, the logo is an Apatosaurus. In Cars, the logo is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. On Dinoco gas pumps featured at Flo's V8 Cafe in Cars Land at Disney California Adventure, the logo is a Stegosaurus.
*There is a building seen with the Dinoco logo on it when Mater comes out of the water in Tokyo Mater. This is most likely one of its headquarters. Dinoco also appears on advertisements in the episode.
*A new "subsidiary" of Dinoco (though this may also be merely naming rights where Dinoco paid to use their name but doesn’t own it) appeared in Heavy Metal Mater called Dinoco Records owned by Dex.
*The design of the Dinoco sponsored vehicles resembles that of the NASCAR vehicles sponsored by STP motor oil and The King's actor Richard Petty (a former NASCAR driver and a business entrepreneur) drove for STP in his NASCAR career as his primary sponsor. 
*In the Cars film series, most of the animals are also vehicles, but for some reason, all of the Dinoco logo dinosaurs in their world aren't car-ified.
*Dinoco may have been based on the Sinclair Oil Corporation, which also uses an Apatosaurus as its logo.
*Theres a small possibilty that Cal's pitties are the same pitties from The King's team although much like the returning Cars racers in Cars 3 having drastic body changes, they have slightly different body shapes but the same shape. 
*Its wordmark is also a reference to Conoco, which distributed oil, kerosene, benzene, and other products in the western United States (where Radiator Springs is located and what Route 66 goes through), specifically its logo from 1929-70, after its acquisition by Marland Oil Co.
**It is also a reference to Sunoco, a chain of gas stations found throughout the US, which is the exclusive fuel provider for NASCAR series (what the Piston Cup is based on).
*If Chick Hicks did win the Dinoco 400 alongside winning the Piston Cup, it is highly likely that Tex would still refuse to sponsor him due to having played dirty in the race and would still be booed for it. It is also likely that if The King did win, he would’ve passed on the Dinoco sponsorship to McQueen or someone else, who was Cal Weathers but not Chick Hicks due to having hated him ever since.
**Even if Tex gave Chick Hicks the Dinoco sponsorship despite what he did, it is likely that Lynda Weathers would have sued Dinoco for allowing Chick to race for them, due to the fact that he caused her husband to go into a tailspin along with previously causing a huge wreck in the Dinoco 400. This is highly to be unlikely as Tex finally realized how Chick wrecked his way to victory by pushing Strip Weathers off road, which resulted Lightning McQueen sacrificing his chances of winning by helping Weathers end his career on a high note by finishing his final race, resulting Tex being impressed for McQueen's sportsmanship and refusing to sponsor Chick to become the new face of Dinoco and giving it to McQueen instead for his sportsmanship, which he would turn down and stay with Rust-Eze instead.
*In Cars 3, according to Tex Dinoco, The team had came from a long history of great racers, meaning that they were other racers sponsered by Dinoco before The King came on the scene.
*In the Rally Racers event of the Transcontinental Race of Champions, Lightning McQueen was sponsored by Dinoco in The Official Magazine.
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