2018 AmeriCar Championship Road Racing Series season

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2018 Hanmore AmeriCar Championship Road Racing Series
AmeriCar2018.png
# of Rounds 16
Ovals 0
Road Courses 16
Driver's Champion AUS.png Max Gibson
Owner's Champion AUS.png Down Under Thunder
Season Opener AmeriCar Classic
Season Finale NSCC National Runoff
Championship Overview

The 2018 NSCC Hanmore AmeriCar Championship Road Racing Series season is the upcoming season of the AmeriCar Championship Road Racing Series, main professional road racing tour in America, sanctioned by the National Sports Car Club.

For this season the schedule expands to 16 races, with 12 road courses and four temporary circuits, 2018 also marks the first trip to Mexico in series history, alongside other 5 additions to the calendar.

The season scraps the previous multi-class format and the knockout championship system, used until 2017, with all cars being adapted to the NSCC GT-1 specifications. However, the bodies used will be the same as previous years.

The cars will be powered by overhead valve (two per cylinder), pushrod, naturally aspirated, carburated 358 cubic inch (5.86 L) V8 engines, producing 850 horsepower. The minimum base weight (including driver and driver gear) for all cars is 2,780 pounds. Fuel cell capacity is 33 U.S. gallons.

Calendar[edit | edit source]

17 total races will be contested through 15 weeks. 12 of the 15 events will take place in the United States, while Canada has two back-to-back races and Mexico features the opening event each. Ten of the Fifteen events will be based in permanent facilities, with three street courses and one airport racetrack being used.

Most events will be supporting larger championships, including the American SportsCar Championship, V8 ChampCar, FARC, and TM Master Cup Series. Three races will be co-headlined with the regional Tyson-Madigan series in Mexico and Canada, while some AmeriCar races will be supported by other National Sports Car Club support championships, namely the rebranded Formula Overdrive.

Round Date Circuit Laps Winning Driver Winning Team (Car) Starting Field
(Entries)
Supporting
1 February 18 MEX.png Autodromo de la Ciudad de México 32 VEN.png Mariano Zavala Hanmore-Ross Racing (Saar) 40 (37) Co-Headliner with TM Mexico
2 March 4 USA.png Circuit of The Americas 20 USA.png Libby Bell SPI Network (Lenard) 40 (37) GT-World Challenge
3 March 11 USA.png Provo Motorsports Park 42 USA.png Tony Bell Hanmore-Ross Racing (Saar) 40 (38) Headliner
4 April 8 USA.png Streets of Long Beach 40 AUS.png Max Gibson Down Under Thunder (Xenos) 40 (37) V8 Champ Car
American SportsCar Championship
5 April 22 CND.png Edmonton City Centre Airport 36 USA.png Tony Bell Hanmore-Ross Racing (Saar) 40 (38) Co-Headliner with TM Canada
6 May 6 CND.png Mosport International Raceway 36 AUS.png Max Gibson Down Under Thunder (Xenos) 40 (37) Co-Headliner with TM Canada
7A May 20 USA.png Nelson Ledges Road Course 25 USA.png Karson Garrison Garrison Family Ventures (Saar) 48 (34) Federated Auto Racing Championships
7B AUS.png Max Gibson Down Under Thunder (Xenos)
8A June 2 USA.png Streets of Belle Isle 30 USA.png Paul Barnes, Jr. PBR Motorsports (Isanni) 52 (36) V8 Champ Car
American SportsCar Championship
GT-World Challenge
8B June 3 USA.png Andrew van Zandt Thundersport GP (Xenos)
9 June 24 USA.png Road America 20 USA.png Brandon Ashcroft Ashcroft Family Racing (Lenard) 40 (39) V8 Champ Car
10 July 6 USA.png Daytona International Speedway 20 ITA.png Celinia Vandom Scuderia Vandom (Xenos) 40 (39) American SportsCar Championship
11 July 28 USA.png Burlington Raceway 60 USA.png Libby Bell SPI Network (Lenard) 40 (36) Headliner
12 August 18 USA.png Watkins Glen International 18 AUS.png Max Gibson Down Under Thunder (Xenos) 40 (TBA) Headliner
13 August 26 USA.png Lime Rock Park 50 USA.png Vivian Arnold Vince Arnold Racing (Saar) 36 (TBA) American SportsCar Championship
14 September 9 USA.png Virginia International Raceway 25 USA.png Brandon Ashcroft Ashcroft Family Racing (Lenard) 40 (TBD) American SportsCar Championship
GT-World Challenge
15 October 7 USA.png Streets of New York City 40 USA.png Tony Bell Hanmore-Ross Racing (Saar) 42 (TBA) V8 Champ Car
TM Master Cup Series

Teams and Drivers[edit | edit source]

Complete Schedule[edit | edit source]

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Sponsor Car Owner
JPN.png Isanni USA.png PBR Motorsports 2 USA.png Paul Barnes, Jr. Valvoline USA.png Paul Barnes, Jr.
6 CND.png Gary Miles
GBR.png Astor-Fitzpatrick Inc. 44 GBR.png Daxter Hamlett Citra Squeeze GBR.png Barry Astor
USA.png Long Beach Autosport 460 USA.png Natasha Pierce Yang Microsystems/Todd Bank USA.png Tom Pierce
USA.png MacPherson Motors 615 IND.png Indira Patel Sun Pharmaceuticals USA.png Connor MacPherson
USA.png Lenard USA.png No Quarter Racing 8 USA.png Lucas Sweeney Samson Spark Plugs TBA.png TBA
888 USA.png Riley Knight Joe's Snow Blowers
USA.png Team C9-Ashcroft 9 USA.png Brandon Ashcroft C9 Antifreeze USA.png Jack Ashcroft
51 BRA.png Isabella Macena Cicero
USA.png Raynes-Salmon Autosport 61 GER.png Hans Goldwulf Summit Racing Equipment USA.png Alan Raynes Jr.
USA.png Morris Salmon
MEX.png Tecate Classic Racing 444 MEX.png Isabella Gonzalez Tecate MEX.png José de León
USA.png Hi-Yo Silver Motorsports 612 USA.png Reid Bullet The Loan Ranger USA.png Kemo Sabe
USA.png SPI Network 614 USA.png Bigsby Foote Yeti Antifreeze USA.png Sergio Power
616 USA.png Sara Topps Leapin' Lizard
624 USA.png Libby Bell LiberTea
USA.png Liberty Autosport 671 USA.png Scott O'Leary Reason Magazine USA.png Derek Heinrich
USA.png Saar USA.png Hanmore Ross Racing 1 USA.png Tony Bell Hanmore ???
3 VEN.png Mariano Zavala Hanmore
USA.png Team Mayweather 02 USA.png Adam Sailer ALvelo Airlines USA.png James Mayweather
USA.png The Outlaw Gang 12 USA.png Jesse Wales The Outlaw Octane Booster USA.png Clint Munny
24 USA.png J.J. Eastwood The Outlaw Octane Booster
USA.png Jackson Racing 30 USA.png Allen Castle USA.png Ken Jackson
USA.png Garrison Family Ventures 33 USA.png Karson Garrison Oiluminatti USA.png Arnold Garrison
USA.png Vince Arnold Racing 119 USA.png Vivian Arnold USA.png Vince Arnold
USA.png Maxwell Engineering 619 USA.png Rylan Lott Maxwell Engineering/Albertson's USA.png Leighton Maxwell
CND.png Xenos USA.png Long Family Autosport 19 DEN.png Dima Van Hall Motiv USA.png Ryan Long
91 AUS.png Sasha Sanvoy Motiv
AUT.png Kronenberg Super Sport 73 AUT.png Lukas Kronenburg imMobile AUT.png Jakob Kronenburg
USA.png Thudersport GP 77 AUS.png Andrew van Zandt Pirtek USA.png Liam Wells
AUS.png Down Under Thunder 79 AUS.png Max Gibson Main Force Patrol AUS.png Mel Rockatansky
434 AUS.png Sidney Newcastle Aussie
486 AUS.png Hogan Dundee Crocodile Tear Gas

Partial Schedule[edit | edit source]

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Sponsor Car Owner Races
JPN.png Isanni USA.png PBR Motorsports 4 USA.png David Casey RB USA.png Paul Barnes, Jr. 1-3, 7-11, 15-16
USA.png Barney Compton Racing 22 USA.png Dan Robinson Momo Italy USA.png Barney Compton 2, 4, 8, 9, 14, 15
USA.png Maestas Motorsports 70 USA.png Leroy Maestas Circuit City USA.png Leroy Maestas 11-15
USA.png Lenard USA.png SPI Network 16 USA.png Kurt Plissken Snake Coils USA.png Sergio Power 15
USA.png Steve Barco Motorsports 49 USA.png Steve Barco USA.png Steve Barco 1-4
CND.png Bufford Racing Team 63 CND.png Colette Legault CND.png John Bufford 5-6
64 CND.png John Bufford
USA.png Team C9-Ashcroft 99 USA.png Julia Ashcroft C9 Antifreeze USA.png Jack Ashcroft 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15
USA.png Saar USA.png Linsey Motorsports 5 USA.png Ed Linsey Imago USA.png Ed Linsey 3-4, 8, 10, 13-14
USA.png Team Mayweather 20 USA.png Mike Roe Riffrafz USA.png James Mayweather 1-4, 7-12
CND.png Xenos CND.png DFM Racing 56 CND.png Dan Francis, Jr. Builders Square CND.png Dan Francis, Sr. 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14
65 USA.png Terry Coburn
ITA.png Scuderia Vandom 481 ITA.png Celinia Vandom Jupiter Batteries ITA.png Pierluigi Vandom 1-2, 5-6, 9-10, 13-15

Points System[edit | edit source]

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th≥
Points 30 27 25 23 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Bonus Points
Pole Position 1
Most Laps Led 1