Hankook Tire America Corp. and Hankook Motorsports have provided a lucrative 2007 contingency award program that NASA Performance Touring, Super Touring, and Super Unlimited racers are eligible to partake in at both regional events and at the NASA Championships.  Awards for regional events are in the form of Hankook Dollar certificates, which are redeemable towards the purchase of Hankook Ventus race tires from any official Hankook Motorsports dealer.  Awards for the NASA Championships are cash prizes.  Payouts are as follows:

Regional Races and Qualifying Races at the NASA Championships  

4 starters
1^st          $H 150
2^nd         $H 100
3^rd          $H 85

 
5 or more starters
1^st          $H 200
2^nd       $H 150
3^rd       $H 100

TOYO SUPPORTS ALL CLASSES AT THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

The National Auto Sport Association (NASA) is pleased to announce the expansion of Toyo Tires support for non specified tire racing classes and Time Trials at the Championship event. Toyo Tires will offer contingency programs in the form of “Toyo Dollars” to eligible racers who compete on the Toyo RA-1 or R888 competition tire.

The 2007 NASA Endurance Racing Regulations have been revised to include PT (Performance Touring) and ST (Super Touring) class mapping. The revised rules can be downloaded here http://www.nasaproracing.com/rules/enduro.pdf

This is a summary of the new classing:

ST1.....ES
ST2.....ES
PTA.....ES
PTB.....E0
PTC.....E1
PTD.....E1
PTE.....E2
PTF.....E2

In addition there has been a revision to the WC Touring car classing which has been changed to ES.

While this is the official classing for the 2007 season, this mapping is "Subject to adjustment" as written in the rules. The classing is purposefully conservative, as there is an expectation that there could be significant development in the PT cars as more cars are built specifically for the PT rules.

PT cars that are also legal to run in another class listed in the Section 4.2 Class Mapping table may still run in the enduro class mapped to their "other" class, even if it is a lower enduro class than the one mapped to the PT class. For example, even though PTA cars are mapped to ES, if a PTA car is legal under the USTCC rules, it may still run in E0.

If there are any questions about the mapping of PT cars, feel free to e-mail the National PT Director at greg@nasa-tt.com

The Performance Touring Car Classification Form for 2007 is now available on-line.  http://www.nasaproracing.com/rules/Performance-Touring-classification-form.pdf
The on-line Classer will not be going live until a later date (in February--the final date has not yet been determined). 

NASA is pleased to introduce the new Performance Touring (PT) race group which will replace the existing Pro Sedan classes. PT will class nearly every closed wheel race car imaginable using a points scheme based on NASA’s Time Trial program. Cars are assigned a base class and then receive upgrade points for the modifications done to the vehicle. The car then moves up to faster classes based on how many modification points are accrued. The unique PT classing system will allow close competition between cars purpose built for PT and cars prepared to other series’ rules as well. PT also includes a Super Unlimited class which requires only that the car complies with NASA safety rules, but otherwise has no limits placed on modifications. PT will be a featured class at NASA’s National Championship event at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in September.

“It’s awesome to see the Time Trial classification rules applied to a new racing series,” said Greg Greenbaum, NASA National Time Trial and Performance Touring Director. “This solves the problem of finding a home for the many different cars that want to come join us and it provides our Time Trial drivers with an easily accessible pathway into racing using their time trial car with added safety equipment and a classing system they are already familiar with.”

Rules and Car Classification forms for this exciting new class can be found at online and an online car classifier will be added soon to assist drivers in classifying their vehicles.