Ponchy Wipeout

Ponchy Wipeout
Color	Blue, white, red, black, yellow
Occupation	Piston Cup racer (former) Stunt-double (former)
Character information Gender Male

Ponchy Wipeout is a former professional race car who raced for the Bumper Save team in the Piston Cup Racing Series with number 90.

History

Before Cars

Wipeout behind Chick Hicks during the Piston Cup race in 2005.

Ponchy Wipeout used to work as a stunt-double. While he was working on set for film HighJinx has been noticed recruited to be a professional race car. After that he started racing in Piston Cup Racing Series for Bumper Save team with number 90.

Cars

In Cars, Ponchy raced in the 2005 season including the final race at the Motor Speedway of the South. with his crew chief, Ben Doordan giving him orders during it. During the race, Chick Hicks caused an accident in an attempt to further his lead on Lightning McQueen, which Ponchy was involved in, and was seen hitting Ruby Oaks. Although Ponchy received some minor damage, he was able to continue racing. During the last leg of the Dinoco 400, Chick Hicks shouted at him "Come on, come on, come on!" annoying Ponchy.

Cars 3

In Cars 3, Ponchy was still racing in the Piston Cup until after the 2016 Piston Cup Series. Ponchy either retired or got fired by Bumper Save and replaced him with Paul Conrev, who made his debut at the Florida 500.

Physical description

Ponchy is a Brawny Motor Co. Spark GT, based on a Dodge Intrepid. He uses Lightyear racing tires. He has a blue and white livery with a red and white racing number 90.

Profiles

Cars

• Ponchy was working as a stunt-double on a movie about a pair of wise-cracking California Highway Patrol officers called "HighJinx", when he was spotted and recruited to be a professional race car. Ponchy's gone from the big screen to the little screen, but at least it involves a lot less intentional crashing.
  • Source: Car Finder

Appearances

• Cars
• Cars 3

Trivia

• Despite die-cast releases of the Cars 3 Bumper Save racer coming with the name "Ponchy Wipeout", this racer is notably different from Ponchy Wipeout himself, such as being shorter, having a higher roof and different headlight stickers. It's possible that he went through a small body change during the events between Cars and Cars 3.
• His 2017 Cars 3 Die-cast release had 2 variations, the black and yellow rims, which yellow is accurate.
• His Cars 3 2017 Chinese Die-cast has black eyelids which is inaccurate. This was fixed when Ponchy was rereleased from Thailand in 2020.

Gallery

• Cars artwork

  Cars artwork

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  Cars 3 artwork

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  Concept for Cars 3.

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  Ponchy, Kevin Shiftright and Crusty Rotor in the crash

• File:PonchyWipeoutCars.jpg
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  Ponchy, Chick Hicks, and Billy Oilchanger

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  Cars 3

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  Blurred image of Ponchy racing.

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• File:POnchy1.jpg
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  Car Finder profile

• File:Ponchy Wipeout in Cars 3.jpeg

Names in other languages

• Hungarian: Lavina Ponchy

See also

• List of Characters
• List of racers by driver number
• List of racing cars