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Whelen All-American Series 
Category Stock car racing Country or region 
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CanadaInaugural season 1982 Last Drivers' champion Philip Morris Official website Whelen All-American Series The Whelen All-American Series (formerly the Dodge Weekly Series and Winston Racing Series) is a points championship for NASCAR sanctioned local racetracks around the United States and Canada.
In the 30 years of NASCAR sanctioning weekly racing for a national championship, the tracks have been split, initially by geographical proximity of the tracks for purposes of developing regional champions, then randomly among four divisions and currently by states that have tracks participating. In 2005 the Weekly Series became the first NASCAR-sanctioned series to have a permanent presence outside of the United States, as tracks in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Delaware, Ontario, and Edmonton, Alberta, elected to be represented in the series.
Because participants rarely compete directly against each other, and may drive a wide variety of cars against varying opposition, the driver's point system is understandably complex. Points are awarded first for finishing position according to NASCAR rules, with bonus points added for races against fields of 15 cars or greater (double points for fields of 25 or more). Only the top 16 results of a season count for a driver. Although this does help to level the playing field somewhat, it can be supposed that a driver who competes in more races against a larger field of cars will score more points for consistent finishes, and thus will end up with more points at the end of the year. Starting in 2007, each state or province crowns a divisional champion, and of those champions, the driver with the best competition performance index is crowned as the national Whelen All-American Series champion. In 2008 the previous points system was scrapped in favor of a simpler system. Each driver is given two points for each car they finish ahead of up to 20 cars with a five point bonus for winning, making the maximum number of possible points per race 45. This system benefits drivers who perform well in races with large car counts as races with fewer than 20 cars will earn the winner fewer than the maximum possible points. Only a driver's best 18 races count in the championship standings.[1]
What cars are used to score points in the weekly series is up to the discretion of the individual participating tracks, within Weekly Series guidelines. As of 2005, Sportsman, Super Late Models, Pro Late Models, Late Model Stock Cars, Modifieds, SK Modifieds, Dirt Modifieds, Dirt Late Models, Pro Stocks, and Super Stocks are considered eligible categories. Participating tracks are all short tracks, ranging from 1/4 mile to 5/8 mile; most are paved, but a significant number of dirt tracks also participate.
As announced at the Weekly Series banquet in Las Vegas on November 11, 2006, Dodge dropped their sponsorship of the weekly series. Whelen Engineering picked up the sponsorship, renaming it the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series.
For the 2010, NASCAR lowered the age minimum for its weekly racing series from 16 to 14.
Contents
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Tracks for 2011
- Adams County Speedway – Corning, Iowa (1/2 Mile Dirt)
- Albany-Saratoga Speedway – Malta, New York (4/10 Mile Asphalt)
- All American Speedway – Roseville, California (1/3 Mile Asphalt)
- Barrie Speedway – Barrie, Ontario, Canada (1/3 Mile Asphalt)
- Beech Ridge Motor Speedway – Scarborough, Maine (1/3 Mile Asphalt)
- Bowman-Gray Stadium – Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1/4 Mile Asphalt)
- The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway – Las Vegas, Nevada (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Caraway Speedway – Sophia, North Carolina (.455 Mile Asphalt; Racing Friday and Saturday Nights)
- Cedar Lake Speedway – Somerset, Wisconsin (3/8 Mile Dirt)
- Chemung Speedrome – Chemung, New York (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Colorado National Speedway – Erie, Colorado (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Columbus Motor Speedway – Columbus, Ohio (1/3 Mile Asphalt)
- Concord Speedway – Concord, North Carolina (1/4 and 1/2 Mile Asphalt)
- Delaware Speedway – Delaware, Ontario, Canada (1/2 Mile Asphalt)
- Devil's Bowl Speedway – West Haven, Vermont (1/2 Mile Asphalt)
- Edmonton International Raceway – Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada (1/4 Mile Asphalt)
- Elko Speedway – Elko, Minnesota (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Evergreen Speedway – Monroe, Washington (.646 and 3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Grandview Speedway – Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania (1/3 Mile Dirt)
- Greenville-Pickens Speedway – Greenville, South Carolina (1/2 Mile Asphalt)
- Hickory Motor Speedway – Hickory, North Carolina (.363 Mile Asphalt)
- Holland International Speedway – Holland, New York (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Houston Motorsports Park – Houston, Texas (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- I-80 Speedway – Greenwood, Nebraska (4/10 Mile Dirt)
- Junction Motor Speedway – McCool Junction, Nebraska (3/8 Mile Dirt)
- Kalamazoo Speedway – Kalamazoo, Michigan (3/8 Mile)
- Kil-Kare Speedway – Xenia, Ohio (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Kingsport Speedway – Kingsport, Tennessee (3/8 Mile Concrete)
- La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway – West Salem, Wisconsin (5/8 & 1/4 Mile Asphalt)
- Lake County Speedway – Painesville, Ohio (2/10 Mile Asphalt)
- Lake Erie Speedway – North East, Pennsylvania (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Langley Speedway – Hampton, Virginia (.395 Mile Asphalt)
- Lee USA Speedway – Lee, New Hampshire (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Limaland Motorsports Park – Lima, Ohio (1/4 Mile Clay)
- Magic Valley Speedway – Twin Falls, Idaho (1/3 Mile Asphalt)
- Monadnock Speedway – Winchester, New Hampshire (1/4 Mile Asphalt)
- Motor Mile Speedway – Radford, Virginia (.416 Mile Asphalt)
- Motordrome Speedway – Smithton, Pennsylvania (1/2 Mile Asphalt)
- Myrtle Beach Speedway – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (1/2 Mile Asphalt)
- New Stockton “99” Speedway – Stockton, California (1/4 Mile Asphalt)
- Old Dominion Speedway – Manassas, Virginia (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Outlaw Motor Speedway – Muskogee, Oklahoma (3/8 Mile Clay)
- Raceway Park – Shakopee, Minnesota (1/4 Mile Asphalt)
- Reno-Fernley Raceway – Fernley, Nevada (3/8 Mile Clay)
- Riverhead Raceway – Riverhead, New York (1/4 Mile Asphalt)
- Riverside International Speedway – Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada (1/3 Mile Asphalt)
- Rockford Speedway – Rockford, Illinois (1/4 Mile Asphalt)
- Salina Highbanks Speedway – Salina, Oklahoma (3/8 Mile Clay)
- South Boston Speedway – South Boston, Virginia (4/10 Mile Asphalt)
- Southside Speedway – Midlothian, Virginia (1/3 Mile Asphalt)
- Spencer Speedway – Williamson, New York (1/2 Mile Asphalt)
- Stafford Motor Speedway – Stafford Springs, Connecticut (1/2 Mile Asphalt)
- Thompson International Speedway – Thompson, Connecticut (5/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Thunderhill Speedway – Austin, Texas (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
- Toyota Speedway at Irwindale – Irwindale, California (1/2 Mile & 1/3 Mile Asphalt)
- Waterford Speedbowl – Waterford, Connecticut (3/8 Mile Asphalt)
National Champions
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series National Champions Year Driver Home Track Hometown Starts Wins Points 2011 Philip Morris South Boston Speedway Ruckersville, VA 28 20 789 2010 Keith Rocco Waterford Speedbowl Wallingford, CT 53 21 810 2009 Philip Morris Motor Mile Speedway Ruckersville, VA 28 9 841 2008 Philip Morris Motor Mile Speedway Ruckersville, VA 2007 Steve Carlson La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway West Salem, WI 24 8 862 2006 Philip Morris Motor Mile Speedway Ruckersville, VA 2005 Peyton Sellers South Boston Speedway Danville, VA 2004 Greg Pursley Canyon Country, CA 2003 Mark McFarland Old Dominion Speedway Winchester, VA 2002 Peter Daniels Claremont (Twin State) Speedway Lebanon, NH 18 14 2001 Ted Christopher Thompson International Speedway Plainville, CT 2000 Gary Webb Blue Grass, IA 1999 Jeff Leka Macon Speedway Buffalo, IL 1998 Ed Kosiski Omaha, NE 1997 Dexter Canipe Greenville-Pickens Speedway Claremont, NC 1996 Larry Phillips Springfield, MO 20[2] 14 1995 Larry Phillips Springfield, MO 40 32 1994 David Rogers Orlando, FL 1993 Barry Beggarly Pelham, NC 1992 Larry Phillips Springfield, MO 40 38 1991 Larry Phillips Springfield, MO 40 32 1990 Max Prestwood Hickory Motor Speedway Lenoir, NC 1989 Larry Phillips Bolivar Speedway Springfield, MO 27 23 1988 Robert Powell Moncks Corner, SC 1987 Roger Dolan Lisbon, IA 1986 Joe Kosiski Omaha, NE 1985 Doug McCoun Watsonville Speedway Prunedale, CA 53 27 1984 David Into Hardeeville, SC 1983 Mike Alexander Franklin, TN 56[2] 31 1982 Tom Hearst Muscatine, IA See also
References
- ^ http://www.racingwest.com/news/articles/19331-nascar-whelen-all-american-series-matches.html
- ^ a b Schaefer, Paul. Where Stars Are Born: Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing. Coastal 181, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA, 2006. ISBN 0-9789261-0-2. pp. 49–79.
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