Continuing the trend of moving its National Championships to a new track each year, the National Auto Sport Association is excited to announce that the 2019 NASA Championships Presented by Toyo Tires will continue as a singular event set to take place at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. Just two short weeks ago, NASA hosted its largest Championship event in the company’s 28-year history with nearly 500 competitors taking part in the historic event at Circuit of The Americas. The 14th annual NASA Championships will take place at the track where it all began, where NASA held [...]

The official results from Time Trial competition at the 2018 NASA Championships Presented by Toyo Tires are in. Time Trial drivers from across the country competed at the Circuit of The Americas Sept. 14-16 for the top honor of being the fastest of the fast. Here’s a breakdown of the 2018 NASA Time Trial champions. TT1 No.  256 Timothy Bidwill was competing in Super Touring 1 and TT1 at Circuit of The Americas, and he won the ST1 qualifying race in the rain on Saturday. Bidwill also posted the fastest lap time in TT1 in his Porsche GT3 Cup car [...]

In a little over a month, Formula 1 will be racing at Circuit of The Americas, but this weekend, it was all about the NASA Championships Presented by Toyo Tires. The record number of attendees, more than 450 competitors, came from NASA regions all across the country to race at a track many drivers and even race fans have placed high on their bucket lists. “There’s no better place than COTA to bring back the combined event as a single NASA National Championships,” said NASA Texas Regional Director Will Faules “COTA Vice President Eric Paradis has been totally instrumental in [...]

More than 25 champions will be crowned Sunday at the National Auto Sport Association National Championships Presented by Toyo Tires in NASA’s largest field ever competing at the Circuit of The Americas. On a day where racers were dealing varying weather conditions, the field is set for Sunday in what promises to be one of the most competitive National Championships in NASA history. The winners of the qualifying races are: NASA Prototype Calling it the most challenging conditions he’s ever raced in, Jeremy Croiset has dominated the NASA Prototype class qualifying this weekend whether the track was wet or dry. [...]

Nine Teen Mazda Challenge racers staged their own race within the Toyo Tires Classic to see who the standouts are among NASA’s youngest up-and-coming drivers. When the dust settled, Peter Ensor had finished first in Teen Mazda Challenge and sixth overall, a finish that netted him $2,500 in prize money. “I was trying to stay clean at the start, but that didn’t work. That was out the window in Turn 1” Ensor said. “I was on the outside and somebody came into me in in Turn 1. I lost a few spots, and then it was just a battle for [...]

After all the hype, all the preparation for and anticipation of the Toyo Tires Classic at the NASA Championships presented by Toyo Tires, the Spec Miata race result boiled down to a few simple elements: speed, skill and, most of all, determination. Of course, the fate of the podium finishers lies in the hands of tech inspectors, who won’t be finished full inspections on the cars till Sunday. Until then, the results are provisional. Winner Chris Haldeman qualified poorly Saturday morning and found himself starting from 24th in a field of 60 cars. That came after he posted the fastest [...]

NASA Prototypes slashing through Esses at COTA. Running a new qualifying format for the National Auto Sport Association Championships presented by Toyo Tires, racers were dodging rain drops Friday at Circuit of The Americas to secure pole position for Saturday’s qualifying races. Nearly 450 racers were checking forecasts as rain threatened, but didn’t materialize during the early qualifying sessions. By midafternoon, the rains came and most racers couldn’t match their lap times from earlier in the day. Under the new format, the best time from any of the qualifying sessions on Friday determined grid position for Saturday’s qualifying race. A [...]

Returning to a singular championships event for 2018, the National Auto Sport Association Championships presented by Toyo Tires also will debut a new qualifying format at Circuit of The Americas this weekend. Originally the Championships format started with practice, qualifying and a qualifying race on Friday followed by practice and a qualifying race on Saturday. The combined results of those two races determined your starting position for the Championships race on Sunday. If a racer did poorly in the first qualifying race on Friday, or registered just a few horsepower too high on the dyno, it greatly diminished his or [...]

As the 2018 National Auto Sport Association Championships presented by Toyo Tires inches closer, the pace becomes more frantic and focused in the garages and shops around the country as NASA racers make their final preparations for the event. We caught with a few contenders to see how their plans are coming along. Dick Hunter, German Touring Series 3 Georgetown, Texas, GTS3 driver Dick Hunter has two wins at MSR Houston this year, one at MSR Cresson and won all three races at Circuit of The Americas in May of this year. That doesn’t guarantee he’ll take it all at [...]

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