2015 Dash Cup season

The 2015 Dash Cup season is the 16th season of the European-based auto racing series Dash Cup.

In mid-2014, Dash Cup CEO Ryan Truro announced that the organization would sanction three series for the 2015 season:


 * Dash Cup Pirelli Super Touring Series
 * Dash Cup Oval Stock Series
 * Dash Cup Aspira Juniors Series

This will be the first time that Dash Cup has sanctioned more than one series in a single season.

Dash Cup Pirelli Super Touring Series
The newly-renamed Dash Cup Pirelli Super Touring Series is the main series that Dash Cup will sanction, and is the result of Dash Cup's restructuring of its original series. For the first time in its history, the series will carry title sponsorship, coming from Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli.

One of the biggest changes for the new season is that the former stock car league will switch over to touring car chassis. Despite this change, many drivers and teams from the 2014 Dash Cup season are expected to come over to this series, and several new teams and drivers will be joining, as well.

The series will be contested exclusively on road courses with one exception; the sixth round of the season at Mallory Park, which is a 1-mile, counterclockwise oval. However, it should be noted that the circuit is asymmetrical and unbanked, with runoff area and other characteristics that highly resemble that of road course. Round 6 will also be the series' only companion event with the Dash Cup Oval Stock Series.

The rules from 2014 that stated that all full-time teams were to field two full-time cars and one part-time car were dropped. Some teams have retained their two-full-time-and-one-part-time lineup, but several teams have expanded to three full-time entries, while others have scaled back to one.

Team Chart

 * The blue boxes indicate a part-time effort.
 * An asterisk indicates a rookie.

Dash Cup Oval Stock Series
The Dash Cup Oval Stock Series is the second series that Dash Cup will sanction, and is technically a brand new series in 2015.

Utilizing the 2014 spec cars, the series (as told by the name) will be contested exclusively on ovals, and unlike the Super Touring Series, it will not leave Europe. However, there are two companion events between the two series: Toddring (where the STS will use the road course layout and the OSS will use the oval) and Mallory Park (where both series will use the oval layout).

The series will use a duel-race format, with two races taking place in each of the ten race weekends. Being a second-tier series, there will be no special events.

Several Super Touring Series teams have retained their 2014 cars, and will be fielding them in the Oval Stock Series.