2018 AmeriCar Championship Road Racing Series season

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
12 of the 16 events will take place in the United States, while three will be happening and Canada, and Mexico will hold its first AmeriCar race. Only four of the 16 races will be held on temporary street/airport courses, the rest will be on permanent facilities.

Most races will be around 100 miles long, except for the AmeriCar Finals, which will slightly over 150 miles long instead.

Partial Schedule
=2018 Overdrive Championship Series powered by ClarTech=

The 2018 NSCC Overdrive Championship Series powered by ClarTech season is the fifth season of Formula Overdrive, the first since 2014 and the first under the National Sports Car Club sanctioning.

This season features 8 weekends, with a unique format for road courses, having Sprint and Feature races, while ovals have a single round. All race distances are timed, with Sprint races being 15 minutes long + 1 lap, and Feature races being 25 minutes long + 1 lap. Oval races are 20 minutes long.

The bodies used by the series will be supplied by Cromwell Raceworks, with all engines being made by ClarTech Engineering, effectively turning the series into a spec formula series, seeking to lower racing costs.

The cars will be powered by 3.L (214 cubic inches) DOHC V8 engines. The weight (including driver and driver gear) for all cars is 1,500 pounds. Fuel cell capacity is 25 U.S. gallons.

Calendar
All events will take place in the United States, two of the 14 races will be held on ovals, the rest will be on permanent road course facilities.