2018 BAAR Super Pro Series season

2018 BAAR Super Pro Series season
# of Rounds	12
Ovals	11
Road Courses	1
Driver's Champion
Owner's Champion
Season Opener	Five Star Juice 100
Season Finale	2nd BAAR Final Battle @ Eldora presented by Flex Tape
Championship Overview

The 2018 Buckeye Association for Auto Racing Super Pro Series season is the 22nd season of the premier late model series in the Ohio Valley region of the United States.

Pre-season Notes

A large majority of the well known teams and drivers will return in 2018. The Super Pro schedule remains at 12 races. The BAAR Super Pro Triple Crown returns in 2018, with Columbus and Mosport retaining their spots. The BAAR Final Battle will be moved to Eldora Speedway for the 2nd running, and will be extended to 200 laps this year.

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

Qualifying

In the off-season, BAAR officials decided to scrap the Fast Twenty Qualifying format. Instead, if a track has enough pit stalls to hold all the cars entered, then all cars will participate in the race. If not, then time trial qualifying will be held, with each driver getting five laps to qualify. For those who do not qualify, wherever their final time places them will be considered their 'finishing position' for the race, and will be awarded points accordingly under the new points system.

Triple Crown Stage Format

Replacing the segment format in 2018, the Triple Crown events will feature three stages of racing. The first two stages will be short and of equal length, with the third stage making up the remainder of the race (Mosport 10/10/25, Ohio 300 75/75/150, Eldora 50/50/100). At the end of each stage, the top ten will receive bonus points based on where they finish.

Grace Laps Rule

The Grace Laps rule returns in 2018, with each driver receiving three grace laps at the start of the race, with two bonus laps awarded if they win one of the first two stages. If a driver falls laps down at the end of a stage, they can redeem their grace laps in order to return to the lead lap for the start of the next stage. However, if a driver is laps down and does not have enough grace laps to cover the difference, they will be eliminated from the race.

Green-White-Checkered

The Green-White-Checkered rule returns for the Triple Crown events, and the Grace Laps Rule will be applied at the end of the third stage should the race go to a GWC. There will be unlimited attempts for the GWC once again in 2018.

Schedule Notes

The schedule is comprised almost entirely of short tracks. The only road course race on the schedule will be at Mosport for the sixth running of the Memorial. The series will return to a 1 mile oval for the first time since 2014 when they visit the I-69 Speedway in Port Huron, Michigan.

2018 BAAR Super Pro Series Schedule

Round	Date	Race Title	Circuit	Laps	Cap	Polesitter	Race Winner	Winning Team	Make	Engine
1	4/7/2018	Five Star Juice 100	Langley Field Speedway	100	26
2	4/28/2018	Surplus Parts 100	South Boston Speedway	100	42
3	5/12/2018	Cobalt Tornado Systems 100	Battle Creek Speedway	100	38
4	5/26/2018	The Memorial 2018	Mosport International Raceway	45	42
5	6/9/2018	Sixty-Nine @ I-69	I-69 Speedway	69	42
6	6/23/2018	GameOn 75*	70/77 Speedway	75	36
7	6/30/2018	TBA	Midvale Speedway	75	27
8	7/7/2018	22nd Pennzoil Ohio 300	Columbus Motor Speedway	300	24
9	7/21/2018	Torgue 100	Illiana Motor Speedway	100	33
10	8/4/2017	Nuka-Cola Cherry 100	File:Illinois.png Grand Detour of Western Illinois	100	42
11	8/18/2018	OverCharge Delirium XT 125	File:Illinois.png Rockford Speedway	125	30
12	9/1/2017	2nd BAAR Final Battle @ Eldora presented by Flex Tape	Eldora Speedway	200	30

• 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.
• The green cap box indicates the track can hold the entire full-time roster.
• The red cap box indicates the track cannot hold the entire full-time roster, necessitating time trial qualifying. (Currently 31 full-time cars)

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	Alex Zaxxon (R)	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.	71	Zach Gott	Torgue Surge	Helsing	JLC Cyclone V8 Mark II	All	PackerMan71
	71A	Zidane Quackenbush	Buckeye Latinum Foundaries
Duke Racing	02	Jennifer Duke	Round Table Pizza	Lenard	Lenard Engine Development V8	All	Memoriesallbutdone
Nemesis Incorporated	10	Kaitlin Flores		Generico	Nemesis Power V8	All	V8fan12
	42	Trey Zavala	CarQuest
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	Y2J Antivirus	Lenard	Fitzwater V8	All	zfitzwater599
	55	Zachary Fitzwater	Stareye Light
Ace Racing Motorsports	32	Gordon Davis (R)	MHL	Inglesby	ARM V8	?	SpeedDemon37
Michael Brown Racing	34	Aaron Michaelson	CRT Construction Zoopy Juice	SAAR	MBR V8	All	Rykia
	99	Lucas Brown	SouthBlvd.
Mackard Racing	37	Timothy Mackard	Taco Bell	Lycoia	Mackard V8	All	BlazingEmpireHD
	70	Billy Mackard	KFC
Dominion Racing	38	Kip Wyndotte		SAAR	Dominion V8	All	Mother of Invention
	100	Pete Szembecki
Dusablon Motorsports	40	Brigitte Dusablon		SAAR	Engine Plus V8	All	Memoriesallbutdone
Shield Motorsports	52	Buddy Swanson	Mopar	Justice	Sword & Shield Engines V8	All	PackerMan71 Ben Atkins
Marlone Motor Company	61	Davie Carter	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		SAAR	Canadia V8	All	SpeedDemon37
	73	Tristan Boudreau	Pyramid Climbers
Team Spencer	78	Bonnie Karol Spencer	Denny's	Helsing	B & K V8	All	BlazingEmpireHD
	90	Bigsby Spencer	Pay 'N' Spray
Genesis Racing	94	Daniel Bouchard (R) Alex DeFranco (R)	eCola	Helsing	Genesis V8	1-6 7-12	Dexter249
	97	Daniel Evans	Frontier Airlines			All

• 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	26	27	28	29	30	31	32<
Points	100	90	80	75	70	65	60	57	54	51	48	45	42	39	36	33	30	28	26	24	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5

• Feature Race points will be doubled in Triple Crown 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.

Triple Crown Stage Points

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Points	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1

Demerit Penalty System

Car #	Driver	DM Pts.
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• 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