TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 25 – Blame it on the economy. Due to popular demand, the 2008 season-opener has been shifted to May 10-11 at Virginia International Raceway.
The 2008 Stock Car Road Racing Championship season will now kick off at Virginia International Raceway in May and end at Daytona International Speedway in November.

The LMSC Road Racing Stock Cars To Run Three SCCA Dates And Three Appearances With The Historic Stock Cars
Over the course of the year, the SCRRC will run two races at VIR, two at Road Atlanta and one each at Mid-Ohio and Daytona.
Three races will be run at SCCA events and three with the Historic Stock Cars of HSR. Two of the races run with the Historic Stock Cars will actually be at events sanctioned by Sportscar Vintage Racing (SVRA), which is owned by HSR.
The season starts at VIR May 10-11 at the SCCA SAARC-MARRS Challenge. The 2007 race went to Bob Davis, driving Ron Fariss’ Chevrolet Monte Carlo. This annual event at the fast and challenging Virginia track draws over 400 cars, and fields for each race are huge. Expect the big bore race, in which the LMSC cars of the Stock Car Road Racing Championship will compete, to start at least 25 stock cars.

In July the series moves to Road Atlanta, again with the SCCA. The first of two visits in 2008 to the Atlanta venue, this race win also went to Bob Davis in 2007.
After taking August off, the series moves to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course September 6-7 with the Ohio Valley Region SCCA. John Goodson inherited the 2007 rain-shortened event, and will look to repeat.
Three weeks later, the series returns to VIR with the Historic Stock Cars, sanctioned by SVRA. This is a new date at VIR. The last previous fall VIR date went to J.P. Morgan’s Monte Carlo, but the LMSC cars ran at VIR with the historic stock cars in the Spring of 2007, with Aaron Dudley taking the win after a close race with Kenny Liesfeld. Both return this year looking for the victory.
October sees the series back at Road Atlanta, again with the Historic Stock Cars and SVRA. The last time the series ran Road Atlanta with the historic stocks was in 2006, where Clay Young took a close win, chased to the flag by John Goodson. Kenny Liesfeld also won at Road Atlanta in 2006, at the American Road race of Champions. Both Goodson and Liesfeld will look to fight it out again for the win in 2008.
The season concludes again this year at Daytona International Speedway with the Historic Stock Cars and HSR. Aaron Dudley took the 2007 Daytona sprint in dominating style, and will be back in Jack Finch’s Dodge to defend his race title in 2008.