2019 FARC season

The 2019 Federated Automobile Racing Championships is the upcoming season for the stock car sanctioning body FARC.

Pre-Season Changes
The FARC Lowe Dollar Series will continue to tweak its race format and points system in 2019.

Best-of-8 Rule
The "Best of 10" rule introduced in 2018, which only counted a driver's 10 best results and dropped the rest, will be changed to only count the best 8 results. This will be done to further reduce the costs of remaining competitive in the series. With series officials eyeing a schedule that could feature as many as 20 races, more than double of what a championship run requires, some teams have opted to field 2 drivers for the championship in a single car.

Points System
The FARC Lowe Dollar Series points system will feature 50 points-paying positions for each race weekend; up to 40 positions for the feature, and a minimum of 10 for the new B-Main races.

The payouts at the front of the field will once again be closer to each other, reversing the format change in 2018 that awarded 100 points to the winner, 80 for second, 70 for third, 60 for fourth, and 50 for fifth.

B-Mains
The Trophy Dash races, which featured the teams that failed to qualify for the features, will be replaced with B-Mains. These shorter races will only be run if the entry list exceeds 16 more cars than the amount that will start the feature.

The winner of the B-Main will transfer to the feature as well as, if the feature starts at least 36 cars, the runner-up. All other finishers will be awarded points if they are within the top 50 overall positions for the weekend.

Double-Points Races
Series officials have confirmed that the season opener in San Antonio and the season finale, the second annual Smash Beer Oktoberfest Nationals, will pay double points. These races will also feature multi-round qualifying and double B-Mains, provided that there are enough entries to support them.