2020 AmeriCar Championship Road Racing Series season

The 2020 AmeriCar Championship Road Racing Series season is the upcoming season of AmeriCar competition, the main professional road racing tour in America, sanctioned by the National Road Racing Club of America.

For the 2020 season, the rearrangement of the National Road Racing Club of America, which begun in 2018, comes to a conclusion, leaving AmeriCar with 3 distinct classes. Each class will feature its own championship, and races throughout the 17 total weekends of the national championship trail.

Silly Season Overview
All three classes acquire title sponsorships, meaning that in addition to their official names, their championships gain distinct names:

AC-1: The leading class acquires the ProLaps sponsorship, becoming the AmeriCar ProLaps Championship Road Racing Series, other than that, only few cosmetical changes have been done to the car models in the series.

AC-2: The AmeriCar Powermetal Muscle Car Challenge is positioned in a position of larger prestige after the fantastic 2019 season, with virtually no changes being done to the cars used in the series, with Saar, Inglesby and Lenard continuing as sole suppliers of bodystyles, though new entrants have been rumoured for 2021.

AC-3: After the 2019 season, the AC-3 will be the only production-based class in AmeriCar, with AC-4 being deactivated. The series will continue with the same regulations entering 2020, under the name AmeriCar SIP Production Car Cup, with distinct differences in bodywork.

With the realignment in NRRC, AmeriCar introduces the Regional Cups, championships within the major class championships, which will be awarded to the best performing drivers in the specific regions it occurs. Depending on the class, the regional cup may have up to 5 races, or as few as 2, it will all be according to the season schedule, which once again, will vary from class to class.

The series calendar gets drastically changed, asthe top 2 classes will only feature 12 races, while AC3 will get only 8 events. Each class will have stand-alone events as well, but those will come in lesser quantity, as the complete schedule is of 17 weekends across America, Mexico and Canada. Inside of the United States, races will be mostly based on the Eastern region of the country.

Race lengths get extended to 100 miles with few exceptions for shorter venues, as to maintain the total length of a three-race weekend at 300-miles.

Series Calendar
Events denoted in Light Yellow are Northern Cup Events Gray are Southern Cup Events

ProLaps Championship Road Racing Series
The AC-1 Class is the major of the two Silhouette based classes of AmeriCar racing. It is composed by Grand Touring cars with spec chassis produced by Precision Performance, resembling the following production models:


 * Saar Eagle GT
 * Lenard R37
 * Kanako Serpent GT
 * Xenos Mace

From the 2019 specifications only slight changes occur, as sequential transmissions are now allowed to be used within AC-1, while the 358 cubic inch, V8 engine specificications are maintained.

AC-1 as the premier class, will be the only one to have a Manufacturer's Championship, However, only the teams with manufacturer connections will count towards the championship, with every other team will contest a Privateer Cup.

Team Chart

 * Drivers denoted in Light Yelow are rookies
 * Teams denoted in blue are Manufacturer's Championship eligible

Powermetal Muscle Car Challenge
AC-2 continues to be the class with the largest fields, as the composite body specs from 2019 are carried over with slight cosmetic changes. The bodies, produced by Cromwell Raceworks are similar to FARC bodies, with a slightly different front end and a rear wing instead of a spoiler.

Only three models are used within this class, being those the:


 * Saar Revere
 * Inglesby Bolero
 * Lenard R37

The engines used within AC-2 continue to be similar to AC-1, albeit with restricted horsepower.

Team Chart

 * Drivers denoted in Light Yelow are rookies
 * Teams denoted in blue are Manufacturer's Championship eligible

SIP Production Car Cup
AC-3 undergoes slight changes, stemming from the deactivation from AC-4.

The now single production based class of AmeriCar continues to have the same rules as 2019, however, it features less restrictions in terms of models, as long as they fit within the series Touring Car specifications.

Engine power is also the smallest amongst the three AmeriCar classes, as the specifications allow up to 300 hp.

Within AmeriCar, the Production Car Cup is the most cost-effective series, due to its production car nature. However, it is aimed as a development class for rookies and a easier series for hobbyists.