2012 CRL Modified Division season

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2012 CRL Developmental Division season
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# of Rounds 20
Ovals 14
Road Courses 6
Driver's Champion
Owner's Champion
Season Opener 2012 Pizza Hut 150
Season Finale 2012 CRL Grand Finale in Manhattan
Championship Overview

The 2012 CRL Modified Division season is the Continental Racing League Modified Division's 24th season of competition. Tina Lee is the reigning Drivers' Champion, and her team, Speedy Enterprises, is the reigning Owners' Champion.

For the first time ever, the series will venture overseas with the brand-new, five-race CRL Global Cup Presented by FedEx. See the article for the 2012 edition of this competition for more information.

Schedule[edit | edit source]

The schedule will consist of 20 races, with the opening round being staged on Presidents' Day Weekend, and the final round being held the weekend before Halloween.

The field for the Converse All-Star 200 will consist of drivers who have won a race in the first 10 rounds of the season, drivers who have won a Red Robin Pole Award, but not a race, and the five highest-ranking drivers in points who have won neither a race nor a pole. This is the first of a five-year deal between the CRL and Bowman-Gray Stadium to stage the All-Star race.

The series's race at Phoenix will be held on the newly reconfigured track, in which the dogleg in the back has been banked to encourage more passing.

Seven of the 20 races on the calendar will be held at night. The round at Darlington will be held under the lights for the very first time.

Round Race Title Circuit Polesitter Team (car) Winner Team (car)
1 Pizza Hut 150 Irwindale Speedway Amy Ciston Joe Olenick Engineering (Juneau) Amy Ciston Joe Olenick Engineering (Juneau)
2 Portland.com Grand Prix Portland International Raceway Dave Bloomers, Jr. Bloomers Family Racing (Lenard) Jason Teller, Sr. Teller Motors (Lenard)
3/GC1 Sony HD 50 Twin Ring Motegi Rush McCloud Gravity Racing, Inc. (Bolden) Lindsay Morrison Random Classic Motorsports (Lenard)
4 Dairy Queen Shootout @ The Glen Watkins Glen International Cherokee Williams Land Down Under Racing (Lenard) Kenneth Collier MT Motorsports (Bolden)
5 Life Takes VISA Loudon Shootout New Hampshire Motor Speedway Rush McCloud Gravity Racing, Inc. (Bolden) Daisy Falls Falls Motorsports (Bolden)
6/GC2 Caterpillar Showdown Down Under Symmons Plains Raceway Alan Musico Evans Motorsports (Lenard) Sven Petersen Holex Racing (Saar)
7 2012 British Columbia Grand Prix Streets of Texada Island Sean Suzuka SuzukaCorp. (Juneau) Sean Suzuka SuzukaCorp. (Juneau)
8 West Virginia Coal Association 75 West Virginia Speedway Patti O'Fernature Unit 11 Motorsports (Lenard) Alan Musico Evans Motorsports (Lenard)
9/GC3 Corsa 150 Autodromo Antonio Passero Kenneth Collier MT Motorsports (Bolden) Summer Whitten Big Mac Racing (Saar)
10 Hockey Canada 2-for-1 Mosport Special* Mosport International Raceway (Oval) Kurt Shelton (Race #1)
Summer Whitten (Race #2)
Sheldo Motorsports (Saar)
Big Mac Racing (Saar)
Kurt Shelton (Race #1)
CJ Long (Race #2)
Sheldo Motorsports (Saar)
Speedy Enterprises (Saar)
EX Converse All-Star 200 Bowman-Gray Stadium Summer Whitten Big Mac Racing (Saar) Abraham Soloman-Swartz Holex Racing (Saar)
11 Stanley Tools Battle of Quincy Grand Detour of Southern Illinois Sean Suzuka SuzukaCorp. (Juneau) Liam DeSouza Team Whiper (Bolden
12/GC4 London Modified Trophy Brands Hatch Daisy Falls Falls Motorsports (Bolden) Daisy Falls Falls Motorsports (Bolden)
13 Molson Mod Montreal Circuit Ile Notre Dame
14 Carfax Carbondale Clash Carbondale Raceway
15/GC5 Petrobras 75 Autodromo Daniel Estevem
16 Fry's Food and Drug Desert Classic Phoenix International Raceway
17 Commonwealth 100 Martinsville Speedway
18 Darlington Darlington Raceway
19 Publix Tar Heel Shootout Rockingham Speedway
20 CRL Grand Finale in Manhattan Manhattan Raceway Stadium
  • The blue boxes represent a road/street course race.

(*)-Event will be split into two races, with cars in odd-numbered positions in Owners' Points racing in Race 1, and cars in even-numbered positions in Race 2.

Points[edit | edit source]

For the 2012 season, the CRL announced a drastic change to the Modified Division's points system. The Top 33 drivers will score points in a race, instead of the Top 12. There are also now four bonus point opportunities instead of two:

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th
Points 150 120 110 100 90 85 80 75 70 65 61 57 53 49 45 42 39
18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 33rd
36 33 30 27 24 21 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1
  • 5 bonus points goes to the race's polesitter
  • 5 bonus points goes to any driver who leads at least five laps in a race.
  • 10 bonus points goes to the driver(s) who leads the most laps in a race.
  • 25 bonus points goes to a driver who gets their first win of the season, after which the driver cannot get this bonus again in the season.
  • 1 bonus point will be awarded to the driver who wins the Converse All-Star 200.