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=2019 North American Auto Club season=

The 2019 North American Auto Club season will be the 31st season of the North American Auto Club, the third after the split and merge between NAAC and PART.

Three touring series will be contested under the NAAC banner in 2019: Launch Energy Championship Series, Master Spark Atlantic Series and Argyle Canadian Sportsman Championship. Two series will run under the American Short Track Racing Association (ASTRA) banner: ASTRA North Series and ASTRA Dirt Tour

NAAC Launch Energy Championship Series
NAAC's lone national tour suffers few changes for 2019, as the duel system, implemented in 2015 and 2016 returns as a way to productively deal with the influx of teams and drivers. The X-Auto bodystyle continues to be used, however due to poor performance and lack of teams interested in its engine program, Inglesby leaves the series, dropping the manufacturer number to 5, as Saar, Lenard, Lycoia, Calton-Morel and Nemoto stay.

After a lackluster Nation's Cup, the series abolishes that championship. The Rookie of The Year Award changes its format due to the lesser amount of rookies being entered in 2019, instead of an independent points system, the series will use each driver's average finish tally to decide who the best rookie will be. The Manufacturers Cup retains the same format used so far with the same happening to the Teams Championship, however with bonus points being abolished. All series points systems get updated due to the Championship Series format change, now handing points from 1st to 32nd.

Sanctioning Body president Paul Martin proposed the formation of the Prestige Crown. Four races that would be marquee events for the series, featuring a single, double-points race and an extended field of 40 cars, instead of the usual 32-36. Those major events will be the season opener at Homestead-Miami, the Indianapolis 500 weekend race at IRP, the 200 mile race at Watkins Glen and the championship finale at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The calendar itself is mostly unchanged with the returns of Road America and the Ohio Motor Speedway, and debut of Middle Georgia Speedway and Moncton Speedway.

Schedule

 * Blue denotes a Road Course

Team Chart
For this season, 60 cars will be allowed full-time entries for the season, with 4 part-timers contesting each event, meaning each duel will have 32 guaranteed entries in it. Inglesby abandoning the sanctioning body means 5 manufacturers will be supporting teams in the series. Gareth-Johnson Motorsports will be the only team fielding year-old Inglesby cars.


 * (R) denotes Rookies
 * Blue denotes part-timers

NAAC Master Spark Atlantic Series
The Super Late Model suffers a name change to reflect a change in the operation, as it now becomes a eastern-based series, with all events being held along the Atlantic. Aside from that, the Super Late Model bodies continue the same and the series is expected to retain somewhat of a status quo aside from the calendar.

Inglesby pulls out of the entirety of NAAC, while Calton-Morel and Nemoto pull out of the lower tiers of competition, Helsing replaces Lycoia, leaving the series with 3 manufacturers supporting it.

Team Chart
Helsing, Saar and Lenard will be the only manufacturers supporting the tour while year-old Lycoia, Nemoto, Inglesby and Calton-Morel cars can still be used.


 * (R) denote Rookies
 * Blue denotes part-timers

NAAC Canadian Sportsman Series
The Canadian Late Model Championship introduces the use of steel bodied automobiles, with an unfitting name, the series now becomes the Sportsman Championship. The schedule is expected to stay somewhat similar as 2018, but with the addition of the Alberta Superspeedway as the opening round of the season.

Inglesby leaving the series does not affect it, as Juneau and Xenos models will be allowed to compete alongside Saar and Lenard cars, bumping the manufacturer numbers to 4.

Team Chart
Saar, Lenard, Xenos and Juneau will be the manufacturers allowed to compete.


 * (R) denotes Rookies
 * Blue denotes part-timers

ASTRA North Series
ASTRA is NAAC's regional sanctioning body, managing local racing on much of the northeast, one of its marquee series is the Street Stock Tour, featuring 20 of the biggest names in the northeastern street stock short track scene and 8 races putting these names head to head in a battle for supremacy.

ASTRA Dirt Tour
The Dirt Tour is ASTRA's second largest series, focused on street stock dirt track racing, a frontier mostly unexplored by the major tours in NAAC's ladder. Featuring local names, this series is a proving ground for future stars of America's dirt track tours.