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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.

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 500km 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.

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.

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.

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.