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 On
July 18th, 2002, a snarling pack of stock cars flashed past the start/finish
line at Lowe’s Motor Speedway and turned ... left ... into the
infield road course. Stock car road racing had arrived at Lowe’s
Motor Speedway,
and a long-awaited series was born: professional stock car road
racing.
Since the series’
birth in 2002, race fans up and down the East Coast – from
Mid-Ohio to Daytona – have seen the worlds of stock car racing
and road racing come together. And they love it.
The emergence
of professional stock car road racing has brought the creation of
a new road racing class: LMSC, short for Late Model Stock Car. LMSC-class
road racers are the same basic late model stock cars campaigned
at oval tracks around the country, with very few alterations to
make them more suitable for road racing. These cars, and the teams
racing them, have taken to road courses like a duck to water. Lap
times have surprised seasoned road racers everywhere the cars race,
and straightaway speeds can top 175 mph. Simply put, these cars
are fast.
As the series
begins its seventh season in 2008, the Stock Car Road Racing
Championship will visit four tracks in a six-race schedule, beginning
at Virginia International Raceway in May and concluding at Daytona International Speedway in November.
The LMSC Road Racing Stock Cars To Run Four SCCA Dates And Three Appearances With The Historic Stock Cars
The 2008 Stock Car Road Racing Championship season will again kick off at Virginia International Raceway in May and end at Daytona International Speedway in November.
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.
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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.
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