NASCAR Around the World Part 2

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It has been a good week since I made my last post in this series. I had intended to follow up sooner than this, but as you know life tends to get in the way.

It has been a crazy week in sports with college football, NFL football, fantasy football, the World Series starting, and for the rest of you, the continuation of the Rugby World Cup. Too many things to write about and not enough time to do it in.

If you need to take a minute to review the first post go ahead and do so now... Okay, all set?

There are a total of six or seven racing divisions that comprise the main national series for NASCAR. Here are the ones I didn't cover in the last post.

ARCA Racing Series


Taking place mostly in the Mid-Western United States, this series was take over by NASCAR in April of 2018. Prior to that it had been privately owned for around sixty years. This series is just another minor feeder league to the bigger ones I mentioned before.

Comprised of mostly semi professional drivers the ARCA circuit visits a wide array of track types from road courses and dirt tracks to superspeedways.

It was originally founded in Toledo, OH.

Pinty's Series


Operating out of Canada, the Pinty's series is derived from another series that was founded in 1981 and then bought out by NASCAR in 2006. The racers visit tracks in six different Canadian Provinces and have thirteen races that are televised on TSN.

Unlike many of the feeder divisions in the US, many of the drivers that compete in the Pinty's series are content with racing inside of Canada. Additionally, the cars in this series have an older body style but still utilize similar engines to the ones in the States.


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Peak Mexico Series


This series was created in 2006 and replaced the existing DesafioCorona series. The main purpose for the creation of this series was to see if traditional fans of open wheel car racing could be converted to stock car racing.

Over the years the series has seen several starts and stops due to the ever present love of formula racing. Getting fans to transition from one to the other has been a difficult process.

Whelen Euro Series


NASCAR took another big step in 2012 by sanctioning the existing Racecar Euro Series and welcoming it into the NASCAR family. It is billed as "the most prestegious stock car racing series in Europe". Though I have a feeling the dominance of formula racing means there really aren't that many stock car divisions over there.

Races in the series have been held in various countries from Italy, England, and France to Spain, Belgium, Germany, and The Czech Republic. More recently the majority of races have been held in The Netherlands and Tours, France.

Though the cars are inspired by NASCAR stock cars, they have been specifically built for European tracks.

Stay tuned for the final post in this series at a future date!



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That answers my query about where else it happens. I do not often go to motorsport events. I have only really been to a few motorbike ones. I would be interested to see a Formula E race. I think there is one in London next year.

Have another !BEER

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Given the popularity of formula racing around the world I think it would be cool to see one as well. A lot of people feel like it is just cars going around in circles, but I know there is much more to it than that!

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