2017 AST Voltson Super Trucks season

The 2017 AST Volston Super Trucks season is the fourth season of the AST Voltson Super Trucks; a lower-budget, semi-professional auto racing series that utilizes pickup trucks with V6 engines primarily on short tracks around the Great Lakes Basin region of North America.

Pre-Season Overview
The technical regulations remain essentially unchanged from the year prior. Saar, Lycoia, and Isanni all return to the series with their respective models of pickup truck.

The points system that the series has used since its inception in 2014 will be replaced by a new one that was introduced to the three touring divisions of FARC for 2017. The new points system rewards both qualifying well and leading laps much greater than the previous one.

A new qualifying format will be implemented for races in which the number of entries exceeds the maximum starting field cap. Instead of giving the front row to the fastest two qualifiers and then running heat races to determine the remainder of the starting order, time trial qualifying now determines both the starting order and the drivers who fail to qualify. These changes will apply only to races at circuits other than Michigan International Speedway, Nelson Ledges Road Course, and Berlin Raceway.

Schedule
All ten venues which hosted a race in 2016 return to the calendar. For the first time, the schedule is identical in two consecutive seasons.

The unique races at both Michigan International Speedway and Nelson Ledges Road Course return, once again to be held during the same weekends as the first three seasons.

The Saar Nebraska 100 is expected to draw even more trucks than the year prior, which saw a record 33-trucks start the event. Qualifying races may be utilized for the first time, ensuring that there will be a maximum starting field of 40 trucks.

Team Chart

 * Numbers marked in blue indicate a part-time entry.

Points System
The series will implement the same new points system that is being used by the FARC touring divisions, replacing the one that had been used since 2014.

The most points that a driver can score in a single race is 135; 100 points for winning plus 20 for earning the Pole Award plus 5 for leading at least one lap plus 10 for leading the most laps of any driver. The most points that one can gain or lose to another driver in a typical 20-truck field is 99, and in a full 40-truck field that number is 134 points. To date, only once has a race featured a full field of 40 trucks.