The American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) is a budget minded series with the cars running 360ci, steel block engines with spec Brodix heads. The series begins at California's Thunderbowl Raceway and then travels through Arizona, Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, Iowa and New Mexico.
Major events include the Spring Nationals at Devil's Bowl Speedway on March 25-26, the Eagle Nationals on June 10-11, the ASCS Knoxville Nationals on August 4-6 and I-30 Speedway's Annual Short Track Nationals on October 27-29, an event that pays $15,000 to win.
The first champion of the series was Garry Lee Maier, since then Terry Gray has won the series 4 times (1995-1998), Gary Wright 4 times (2004-2007), and Tim Crawley 3 times (1994, 1999, 2002).
As well as the American Sprint Car Nationl Series the ASCS sanction Sprint Car Racing events across the country. Broken up into regions, the series sanctions around 224 nights of racing at approximately 100 different speedways throughout the US. The ASCS regions are: Canyon, Gulf South, Lone Star, Midwest, Northwest, Sprints on Dirt, Sooner, Southern California, Southwest and Warrior.
1. Shane Stewart 2. Johnny Herrera 3. Brady Bacon 4. Jeff Swindell 5. Gary Wright 6. Tim Crawley 7. Jason Johnson 8. Tony Bruce Jnr. 9. Seth Bergman 10. Aaron Reutzel