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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. Three series will run under the American Short Track Racing Association (ASTRA) banner: ASTRA Super Late Model Championship, ASTRA Street Stock Championship and the ASTRA Winter Enduro Cup

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 Inglesby leaves the series and lack of teams interested in its engine program forces Calton-Morel to give up on its program, which became financially unviable, dropping the manufacturer number to 4, as Saar, Lenard, Lycoia, 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, in which 32 cars start every regular duel, in the case of more than 64 cars being entered every weekend, a pre-qualifying time trial session will take place between the non full-time cars, in which the top 4 cars qualify for the duels.

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. 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 and Calton-Morel abandoning the sanctioning body means 4 manufacturers will be supporting teams in the series.


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

NAAC Master Spark Atlantic Series
The Master Spark Series drops the Super Late Model bodies, and 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. It'll be the main counterpart of the Canadian Sportsman Tour, with both series running on the same dates, in different countries, aside from the Unified Sportsman Tour, uniting the top drivers from each series for a four race championship chase.

The schedule gets further revamped, with only three of the twelve races taking place in the Southern United States, in a move NAAC president Paul Martin called "consolidating our now fledging presence in the North, which was our original territory", intending the series to be somewhat of a 'return to the roots' tour of the NAAC.

With Inglesby and Calton-Morel pulling out of NAAC, this leaves Saar, Lenard, Lycoia and Nemoto providing the bodies for the series.

Team Chart
Saar, Lenard, Lycoia and Nemoto will be the only manufacturers supporting the tour.

Up to 30 full-time cars will contest the season. While a maximum of 22 cars will start each race.


 * (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.

26 cars will be contesting the entire season, but only 22 cars will be starting each race.


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

ASTRA Super Late Model Championship
ASTRA is NAAC's regional sanctioning body, managing local racing on much of the northeast, with the Super Late Model Championship being its largest tour. With 10 races, it's one of the longest running late model tours in Northern United States. Many names that now grace the Championship Series passed first through ASTRA's Late Model Tours.

ASTRA Street Stock Championship
The ASTRA Street Stock Championship being its largest and the highest paying street stock series in North America, with a purse of $25,000 for every weekend. It's format is also unique, with halfway breaks occuring in all races but the finale. In a calendar mixing dirt and pavement circuits and with 16 names seeking to work their way up NAAC's ladder, the series holds on much excitement for the future.

ASTRA Winter Enduro Cup
The Winter Enduro Cup is ASTRA's most amateurish series, sanctioned by the New York State branch of the association, racing on the winter downtime, before the NAAC season begins, it's regarded as a mostly blue collar series, featuring hobby drivers looking for some short track fun, and sometimes a few stars appear as well. Normally the series organizes a snow covered event, The Winter Blast 100 at Oswego Speedway.

Being an enduro series, the bulk of the field is comprised of junkyard salvaged cars, which are only repaired for the races themselves. Depending on the attrition rate, some events will not run to its full distance, instead awarding the win to its sole survivor. The races are only stopped in case of emergency or complete blockage of the track, even with rain or snowy conditions, races will continue regardless.

The winner is the only driver to win any money, with the purse being $1000 in all events but the finale, that has the payout of $2500.

Driver Chart
There is no distinction on manufacturers, given y'know, they're all junkyard anyway.