Free racing SVG files

Blank on purpose

Real racing cars are covered in numbers and sponsors’ names, and those belong to the teams. So every car here is plain: the stock car and the dirt modified have an empty roundel on the door, and the sprint car’s top wing has a plain side board. On the stock car at 100 mm long the roundel is about 11 mm across, so cut the car at 200 mm or more and lay your own number over it in a second colour. That makes the set useful for a child’s birthday, a local track or a pit crew shirt.

The chequered cloth is the fiddly part to weed. Its white squares are holes, and the black squares hold together only at their corners, where they are joined by a web about 2 mm wide on the flag and wider on the finish banner. Weed each white square on its own, and cut flags no smaller than the files’ own 100 mm in vinyl. In card, glue the flag to a backing.

Which car is which

The stock car is the closed coupe of oval racing. The sprint car is the short open car with a huge wing on top and a giant back tyre, and the modified is the dirt track car with slab sides and bare front wheels. The dragster is the long rail built for a straight quarter mile, and the kart is where most drivers start. The car seen from above is an open-wheel single seater.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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