2011 Vaughn Stock Car Championship season

The 2011 Vaughn Stock Car Championship season is the inaugural season of the Vaughn Stock Car Championship. The series was known as the RROL from 1998 through 2010.

2011 also marks the first year of a promotion/relegation system not before seen in major stock car racing. For the first time, poor-performing drivers in the VSCC will either be bumped down to the Vaughn American Racing Tour or the Vaughn European Racing Challenge (both series are starting operations in 2011). Similarly, drivers who excel in either the VART or the VERC will be promoted to the top series.

The series was cancelled before the Round of Clairmont, along with it's lower tier series.

Preseason storylines
2010 RROL champion Ricky Flush would not be around to defend his title, as he decided to compete in ARLA full-time. (That series implemented a rule prohibiting drivers from competing full-time in both the Elite Series and this series.)

The team Flush drove for, White Mountain Motorsports, is still competing in the series, and will field Brian Travors, Elmer Fox, and Ryan Nawrocki in an effort to keep the series title.

Soze Keyser, who was slated to drive the No. 16 Suspect Auto Parts JD Predator for Racing As Usual, left the team to return to the reconstituted Formula Overdrive, taking the sponsorship with him. Gordon Sting was named as his replacement, with backing from Brown Hornet Music.

Longtime Sportscar team RTR Automotive Engineering entered the series with two full time cars in the VERC driven by Cameron Taylor and than a rotaiton in the other car.

Jacob Miller lost his ride at Watts Motorsports and was replaced by rookie Bryan Harris.

Tim Broadhead switched from James Proctor Racing to its sister team Greg Johnson Racing. His sponsor, Lowe's, made the switch with him.

Greg Johnson Sr. and Rick Jarrett retired. Jarrett was replaced by Jacob Jarrett, II.

Ocean Development and Rick Milligan Racing suspended operations.

Calton-Morel Development Program hired a entirely new driver lineup of Kevin Rexwall, Kirk Siguard, and Steve Yoon.

MRD Motorsports returned to RRoL/VSCC competition after a two season absence. Andrew Talbot was tabbed to drive the #77 Cinnabon Nemoto.

Many new teams joined the series including Camyron Jackson Racing, Serbian Racing Team, Howell Brothers Racing, Australian Motorsports, and Lester Racing, among others.

Midseason Changes
MRD Motorsports shut down their VSCC operations following the 2011 VSCC Round of Spa Francorchamps, citing a lack of incentive to continue pouring money into the team for no results.

RJ Bandsma Motorsports was purchased by Rick Jarrett Racing. Neither RJ Bandsma nor Randy Timberwolf [the team's previous drivers] were involved with the team thereafter.

Woody Watts was injured in a TM Master Cup Series accident at the 2011 Round of Daytona. David Thompson drove the #6 car while Watts recovered.

Fortner Motorsports shut down after the race at Brands Hatch, but they announced their intention to eventually return later in the year.

Schedule
After the Round of Karjala, it was announced that the season would be shortened to a nine-race schedule due to what were termed "major management issues" within the VSCC ownership. This forced the cancellation of all races past Clairmont, which were to be held at Watkins Glen, Michigan, the Meadowlands, Dover, Martinsville, Talladega, Carbondale, Quincy, Decatur, and Kansas.

The schedule listed below reflects the truncated 2011 calendar.

Teams

 * For an image gallery of each car, please see 2011 VSCC Car Gallery.

Team chart
(Part-time entries are listed in italics.)

Table is compiled with how teams started the season.

More to come
This page is a WIP.