2017 BAAR Super Pro Series season

2017 BAAR Super Pro Series season
# of Rounds	12
Ovals	10
Road Courses	2
Driver's Champion
Owner's Champion
Season Opener	Five Star Juice 100
Season Finale	BAAR Final Battle @ Battle Creek
Championship Overview

The 2017 Buckeye Association for Auto Racing Super Pro Series season is the 21st season of the premier late model series in the Ohio Valley region of the United States.

Pre-season Notes

Previous Season	2016
Next Season	2018

Several well known teams and drivers will return in 2017, as well as new teams and drivers. Early entries indicated that 2017 could feature the largest full-time field in BAAR Super Pro Series history. The Super Pro schedule remains at 12 races. The BAAR Super Pro Triple Crown returns in 2017, with Columbus and Slinger retaining their spots. Louisville has been replaced by Mosport, and will host the 5th running of The Memorial.

AAA will be the title sponsor of the Rookie of the Year award for the second straight year.

Fast Twenty Qualifying

With the large number of full-time entries expected to show up, BAAR implemented what is known as Fast Twenty Qualifying. Each driver will receive five qualifying laps to try to get a fast time. The top 20 drivers will automatically advance to the feature, while the remaining drivers will participate in a Last Chance Qualifying (LCQ) race. The top four finishers in the LCQ will advance to the feature race.

Short track LCQs will be 35 laps. Road Course LCQs will be 10 laps. The Memorial LCQ will be 25 laps. The Ohio 300 LCQs will be 50 laps.

BAAR scrapped the format for the BAAR Final Battle @ Mansfield, and allowed all 38 cars to participate in the race as a sign of things to come for 2018.

Schedule Notes

The schedule is comprised almost entirely of short tracks. The only road course races on the schedule will be at Mosport and at Belle Isle. The Belle Isle event will be a companion event with V8 Champ Car for the fourth straight year, while three events will be companion events with the FARC Lowe Dollar Series: Mosport, Grand Detour and IRP.

2017 BAAR Super Pro Series Schedule

Round	Date	Race Title	Circuit	Laps	Polesitter	Race Winner	Winning Team	Make	Engine
1	4/8/2017	Five Star Juice 100	Langley Field Speedway	100	Henrietta Fitzwater (R)	Ralph West	Wild West Racing	Inglesby	Wild West V8
2	4/22/2017	Surplus Parts 100	South Boston Speedway	100	Jason Bates	Zach Gott	Gravity Racing, Inc.	Helsing	JLC Cyclone V8
3	5/6/2017	Eldora Dirt Warz	Eldora Speedway	75	Ralph West	Zach Gott (2)	Gravity Racing, Inc.	Helsing	JLC Cyclone V8
4	5/27/2017	The Memorial 2017*	Mosport International Raceway	45	Isaac Lightener
5a	6/3/2017	Launch Energy Detroit Grand Prix**	Belle Isle	15
5b
6	6/11/2017	Flat Rock 100	Flat Rock Speedway	100
7	6/18/2017	Border Warz @ Illiana	Illiana Motor Speedway	75
8	7/1/2017	21st Pennzoil Ohio 300	Columbus Motor Speedway	300
9	7/15/2017	Torgue 100*	File:Illinois.png Grand Detour of Western Illinois	100
10	7/22/2017	OverCharge Delirium XT 100	File:Illinois.png Rockford Speedway	100
11	8/4/2017	Nuka-Cola Cherry 75*	Indianapolis Raceway Park	75
12	9/3/2017	Inaugural BAAR Final Battle @ Battle Creek	Battle Creek Speedway	100

• The blue boxes represent a road/street course race.
• The yellow boxes represent a Triple Crown oval race.
• The green boxes represent a Triple Crown road course race.
• One star indicates a companion event with the FARC Lowe Dollar Series.
• Two stars indicates a companion event with the V8 Champ Car Series.

BAAR Super Pro Series Team Chart

Team	Car #	Driver	Primary Sponsor	Manufacturer	Engine	Races	User
Red Bull Autosport	1	Angelina Hawk	Red Bull	Helsing	Helsing Red Bull V8	All	PackerMan71 Memoriesallbutdone
	11	Frank Deiny, Jr.	Red Bull Sugar Free				PackerMan71
	66	Brad Brinkley	Red Bull Total Zero
AeroSport Racing	2	Bradley Carlisle	Gillette Vodacom Lucky 777 Cola	Lenard	AeroSport V8	All	Ben Atkins
	3	Sarah Carlisle	Bavaria Cherry Popper Ice Cream
Gravity Racing, Inc.	7	Isaac Lightener	Sub-Zero Energy	Helsing	JLC Cyclone V8	All	PackerMan71
	71	Zach Gott	Torgue Surge
	71A	Zidane Quackenbush (R)	Buckeye Latinum Foundaries
Duke Racing	02	Jennifer Duke	Round Table Pizza	Lenard	Lenard Engine Development V8	All	Memoriesallbutdone
Peterson Racing	02A	Justin Fontaine	PPG	Justice	Peterson V8	All	PackerMan71
Nemesis Incorporated	10	Kaitlin Flores (R)		Generico	Nemesis Power V8	All	V8fan12
	42	Trey Zavala	CarQuest
XG12 Racing	12	Andrew Lansing (R)	Castrol GTX	Justice	Xtreme G12 V8	All	PackerMan71
Power Steering, Inc.	16	Star Banner	Patriot Cola	Lycoia	Engine Joe's V8	All	Snakeplissken
	24	Valorie Forge	Alternative Fax Machines
Fitzwater Australia Racing	20	Henrietta Fitzwater (R)	Y2J Antivirus	Lenard	Fitzwater V8	All	zfitzwater599
	55	Zachary Fitzwater (R)
Capricorn Motorsports	22	Cora Masterson (R)	Biker Bob's	Generico	Constellation V8	All	PackerMan71
Ace Racing Motorsports	32	Gordon Davis (R)	MHL	Inglesby	ARM V8	6	SpeedDemon37
'Merican Motorsports	33	Mark Georgenheimer (R)	Precision Collision	Generico	Old Glory V8	All	PackerMan71
Michael Brown Racing	34	Aaron Michaelson (R)	CRT Construction Zoopy Juice	SAAR	MBR V8	All	Rykia
	99	Lucas Brown (R)	SouthBlvd.
Mackard Racing	37	Timothy Mackard (R)	Taco Bell	Lycoia	Mackard V8	All	BlazingEmpireHD
	70	Billy Mackard (R)	KFC
Dominion Racing	38	Kip Wyndotte (R)		SAAR	Dominion V8	All	Mother of Invention
	100	Pete Szembecki (R)
Dusablon Motorsports	40	Brigitte Dusablon		SAAR	Engine Plus V8	All	Memoriesallbutdone
Future Shock Racing	44	Jeff Shock (R)	Bullhorn	Lenard	FSR V8	All	PackerMan71
Shield Motorsports	52	Buddy Swanson	Mopar	Justice	Sword & Shield Engines V8	All	PackerMan71 Ben Atkins
Marlone Motor Company	61	Davie Carter (R)	Poinsettia Bar & Restaurant	Marlone	Marlone Faraday V8	All	Rovenami
Wild West Racing	69	Jason Bates	Master Bates Automotive	Inglesby	Wild West V8	All	Ceej
	87	Ralph West	Stiff's Shocks & Springs
Maple Leaf Auto Racing	72	Marty Jefferson (R)		SAAR	Canadia V8	All	PackerMan71
	73	Tristan Boudreau (R)	Pyramid Climbers				PackerMan71 SpeedDemon37
Wolverine Motorsports	77	Lenny Coltrane		Generico	Big House Motors V8	5, 6	PackerMan71
Team Spencer	78	Bonnie Karol Spencer (R)	Denny's	Helsing	B & K V8	All	BlazingEmpireHD
	90	Bigsby Spencer (R)	Pay 'N' Spray
Chuck Darling Motorsports	88	Chuck Darling	Howe	Axel	Tiger Engines V8	All	PackerMan71
Genesis Racing	94	Bill Jones	eCola	Helsing	Genesis V8	All	Dexter249
	97	Daniel Evans	Frontier Airlines

BAAR Super Pro Series Rumored Teams

Team	Car #	Driver	Primary Sponsor	Manufacturer	Engine	Races	User
Rossini Sport	7	Samantha Welch	Beta Tools	FIAM	FIAM V8	All	Milan655

• Blue numbers represent a part-time driver.
• Bold user names indicate car owner.

BAAR Super Pro Series Points System

Race Points

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25<
Points	50	45	42	40	38	36	34	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	5

• Feature Race points will be doubled in Championship events, except bonus points.

Race Bonus Points

• 1 bonus point is awarded to the race's polesitter.
• 1 bonus point is awarded to all drivers who lead at least one lap during a race.
• 3 bonus points are awarded to the driver(s) who leads the most laps in a race.
• During the Ohio 300, 3 bonus points are awarded to the leader at the end of each of the first three segments.

Demerit Penalty System

Car #	Driver	DM Pts.
24	Valorie Forge	9

• For every incident that results in a grid penalty, a driver will be assessed at least 10 demerit points, although more points could be assessed depending on the infraction. Warnings will result in 5 demerit points.
• For every clean race a driver has, they will have 1 demerit point taken off their total.
• At the end of the season, all drivers that have demerit points will have 10 points dropped from their total.

Demerit Penalties

Demerit Points	Penalty
20 DM pts.	15 point penalty
40 DM pts.	30 point penalty
60 DM pts.	45 point penalty + Exclusion from current race
80 DM pts.	60 point penalty + 1 race suspension
100 DM pts.	60 point penalty + 2 race suspension
120 DM pts. + Every 20 DM pts. after	60 point penalty + 3 race suspension