2017 BAAR Super Pro Series season

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2017 BAAR Super Pro Series season
BAAR Super Pro logo.png
# 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[edit | edit source]

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 Louisville has been replaced by Mosport, and will host the 5th running of The Memorial.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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Round Date Race Title Circuit Laps Polesitter Race Winner Winning Team Make Engine
1 4/8/2017 Five Star Juice 100 VA.png Langley Field Speedway 100 AUS.png Henrietta Fitzwater (R) USA.png Ralph West Wild West Racing Inglesby Wild West V8
2 4/22/2017 Surplus Parts 100 VA.png South Boston Speedway 100 USA.png Jason Bates USA.png Zach Gott Gravity Racing, Inc. Helsing JLC Cyclone V8
3 5/6/2017 Eldora Dirt Warz OH.png Eldora Speedway 75 USA.png Ralph West USA.png Zach Gott (2) Gravity Racing, Inc. Helsing JLC Cyclone V8
4 5/27/2017 The Memorial 2017* CND.png Mosport International Raceway 45 USA.png Isaac Lightener
5a 6/3/2017 Launch Energy Detroit Grand Prix** MI.png Belle Isle 15
5b
6 6/11/2017 Flat Rock 100 MI.png Flat Rock Speedway 100
7 6/18/2017 Border Warz @ Illiana IN.png Illiana Motor Speedway 75
8 7/1/2017 21st Pennzoil Ohio 300 OH.png 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* IN.png Indianapolis Raceway Park 75
12 9/3/2017 Inaugural BAAR Final Battle @ Battle Creek MI.png 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[edit | edit source]

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

BAAR Super Pro Series Rumored Teams[edit | edit source]

Team Car # Driver Primary Sponsor Manufacturer Engine Races User
ITA.png Rossini Sport 7 USA.png 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[edit | edit source]

Race Points[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

  • 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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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