New Team Concept, iRacing leads to Revivial of ASRS!

The American Sim Racing Series is back, and the racing is better than ever! Even bigger, a change in the management has led to changes that everyone long awaited. A new "team" management style, where ASRS President Jim Foose, Vice President Eric Bannenberg and Assistant Race Director Marc Meyers work together to solve issues and look for trends to make decisions for the future had brought about much change in the way things are run at the top.

"There is a a transparency factor here, something we wanted for many years" Foose said. "A driver can ask any one of the officials why a decision was made and we can all answer it with great confidence, because we are all greatly involved in the day to day operations of ASRS".

Bannenberg, who has been an ASRS Official since 2005 was heavily involved in the beginning talks with iRacing.com about bringing ASRS over to iRacing.com. He brokered the deals we have for our charter members. Bannenberg also paid for the first week of the season out of his own pocket, sharing some of the responsibility with Foose, who has paid many of the bills for several years, even after membership fees and sponsorship funds had been depleted.

"It's been a long time since I felt we had a team that could handle he situations we have been through in the past four months, but today I can say this is by far the best officiating team ASRS has ever had" said Foose. "It's a long way to the top, and such a short tumble to rock bottom, we have been there this year, but the recent energy and excitement at ASRS shows we are on our way upward now!"

Registration is always open at the American Sim Racing Series and is Simple and fun! Check out www.americansimracing.com to join in the action and excitement of Fast, Fun and Friendly racing at ASRS!

The American Sim Racing Series has seen continued growth since its birth in 2002. Now in its tenth year of racing, ASRS provides side by side racing action that keeps you on the edge of your seat all race long. For more information on the ASRS visit www.americansimracing.com.

ASRS Offering Summer Sizzler Pricing

(CLEVELAND, OH) American Sim Racing Series (ASRS) Officials announced a change to their price structure now through July 31st to stimulate the racing in the ASRS TheCrewShirt.com Cup Series.

For drivers who intend to compete in the ASRS TheCrewShirt.com Cup Series, ASRS Officials will offer free memberships. The only requirement is that drivers taking advantage of the Summer Sizzler Price Cup race in five of nine events scheduled in the C and D seasons following activation of their membership. When applying for membership to receive Summer Sizzler Pricing, drivers must enter “Sizzler” in the Coupon Code field. The free membership is good for all series run by ASRS, but drivers must compete in TheCrewShirt.com Cup Series events to obtain the membership. This offer is only available to drivers not currently racing in the ASRS. ASRS Officials reserve the right to cancel, modify or extend this program at anytime without prior notice.

The ASRS TheCrewShirt.com Cup Series races 36 races on Monday nights, featuring four seasons of nine races. Open setups are utilized at all tracks except road courses and super speedways (Daytona and Talladega).

The American Sim Racing Series has seen continued growth since its birth in 2002. Since 2005, some of the biggest names in short track sim racing have raced in the American Sim Racing Series, making it America’s #1 Online Short Track League. For more information on the ASRS visit www.americansimracing.com.

Car Count Up, Cautions Down at ASRS!

The new trend at ASRS is one that is a great news for anyone who loves racing and hates riding around under caution. Cautions are down at ASRS in 2010!



With more drivers attending events than in the past several years, the ASRS scored a victory in two categories. Car counts have been on the rise, while the cautions are less than half of what they were at this time one year ago in the All American Series (the entry level of the ASRS ladder).



The addition of the ASRS TheCrewShirt.com Cup Series and the resurgance of the ASRS Camping World Truck Series coupled with a bit of a revival of the All American Series have added up to a great combination for ASRS, which prides itself on it's short track roots and speedway excitement.

"I attribute alot of our growth this season to our strong social networking presence this year, we have added Facebook and Twitter pages in the last year to allow us to better connect with our members and others in the community" ASRS President Jim Foose said of the growth. "The cautions dropping is just a product of having a strong group of drivers on the track each week, these guys really get to know one another by racing each week together, even the part time drivers here are working to show the other drivers that they are here to race competitively and without many mistakes".

All the growth has resulted in closer racing, which normally would lead to more incidents, however the strong pool of drivers at ASRS have proven that they are of the highest quality around.

Veterans score Shootout Wins!

Jim Foose (Camping World Truck Series) and Steve Buhala (TheCrewShirt.com Cup Series) picked up Shootout wins at Daytona, the product of eventful races with exciting finishes. Both drivers, veterans of various ASRS series, started the year off how they wanted to. For Foose, it was his third Shootout win in the trucks, while Buhala won the inaugural ASRS Shootout for TheCrewShirt.com Cup Series.

Changes in-store for ASRS

(CLEVELAND, OH) Change is inevitable in today’s environment. Over the past year, many changes have come to the American Sim Racing Series, including the addition of the Cup Series, complete overhaul of the Truck Series and the recent changes to ASRS tracks. With over 40 drivers entered already, the ASRS 2010 Tour looks to be one of the strongest ever. The following is an overview of some recent changes that have been made:

Steve Buhala has been promoted to Vice President, replacing Eric Bannenberg. Bannenberg will remain a race day official. John Caddell has been appointed to Cup Series Director. The allowance of an additional team to each owner, has been dropped, team owners are permitted 2,3 or 4 cars regardless of full time or part time status, depending on the owner’s status.

The ASRS Cup Series will utilize the Bullring “SprintCup” mod at least through the North Wilkesboro race in April. The earliest a change to the new spoiler could be made will be Richmond in May. Both the “out of bounds” and “no bump-drafting in the turns” rules will remain in place for 2010, virtually untouched.

The ASRS Camping World Truck Series has seen many changes since leaving Homestead-Miami Speedway in November. Perhaps the biggest change is the addition of Double File Restarts “Shootout Style”. The body styles changed, the tracks changed and the addition of several new race teams. Auto Club Speedway and The Milwaukee Mile all fell off the schedule, replaced by Pocono Raceway and Darlington Raceway. The series will return to Darlington Raceway after a five year absence, the trucks last raced at Darlington in 2005.

The ASRS Outlaw Paintshop All American Series has seen minor changes since last November as well. The series sponsor, Outlaw Paintshop, announced plans to leave as title sponsor but a decision was reached in early January that continues a five year relationship as title sponsor of the Outlaw Paintshop All American Series. Taking a page from the former Late Model Sportsman Series, the All American Series will have the mandatory pit stop rule, in which at least two tires must be changed after lap 25. A 32 race schedule was released in November, but has seen many changes since the initial posting. Hickory Motor Speedway replaced the now closed Memphis Motorsports Park, Flat Rock Speedway in Michigan replaced Georgia’s Peach State Speedway and lastly Bowman-Gray Stadium took over the March 2nd date from Sandusky Speedway. The series will use the Late Model Project Version 2 mod for the entire spring season, before hopefully switching to the new version 3 mod for the fall, if version 3 is released in time for the Fall Championship Opener at Iowa Speedway.

The American Sim Racing Series has seen continued growth since its birth in 2002. Since 2005, some of the biggest names in short track sim racing have raced in the American Sim Racing Series, making it America’s #1 Online Short Track League. For more information on the ASRS visit www.americansimracing.com.