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A new racing series has been launched by USERA. It is called the American Touring Car Championship and it is being modeled after the European Touring Car Championsip. The 2009 schedule is going to be released shortly.

http://www.usatcc.com/

They better get a tv deal.

amazing Schedule

Hopefully it'll do better than the Supertouring version in the 90s. I doubt it's going to be very high profile though.

The most TBAs since A1GP launched its 2008/09 calendar.

Here are the rules and regulations.

http://www.usenduro.com/rules/2009ATCC.pdf
http://www.usenduro.com/rules/2009SportRegs.pdf

3 cars have already been confirmed:
#61 King Rat Motorsports-BMW 325-Rich Hromin
#62 King Rat Motorsports-Lexus IS300-Payton Wilson
#63 King Rat Motorsports-Lexus IS300-Alex Ratcliffe

Does somebody have footage from the NATCC? Never really saw something about it.

One member (PorscheFanNo1?) posted something from it on old tbk, haven't seen anything else. Every race was televised on ESPN2 in 1996, and a couple were live on ABC Wide World of Sports, dunno what happened with coverage in 1997.

Someone has posted many of the videos on Youtube, though most of them are the classic "Hey lets record my TV with my camera"...

The full season from 96 (and 97?) is available in the trading 'scene'.

2 rounds of this series have now been confirmed. On May 8-9 ATCC will have thier opening round at Road Atlanta. On September 7th ATCC will run their 9th and 10th races at Bluegrass Motorsports Park in Kentucky along with Trans-Am.

races on a monday?

Their schedule says 5th-7th.

This series is starting to get some funding.

Sync Speed has joined as Official Communications Provider.
http://www.usenduro.com/news051.shtml

Moton Suspension has announced an ATCC Contingency program.
http://www.usenduro.com/news050.shtml

Here is an apporoved list of cars for the ATCC:
* Acura Integra Type-R 1997-2001
* Acura RSX Type S (2.0) 2002-2006
* Acura RSX Type S (2.4) 2002-2006
* Acura TSX (2.4) 2005
* Audi A4 B7 (1.8)
* Audi A4 B5 (1.8)
* Audi A4 B5 (2.8)
* Audi TT Quatro Coupe 2002-2005
* BMW 328i/is (2.8) 1996-1999
* BMW 328i/ci (2.8) 1999-2000
* BMW 325i/ci (2.4) 2001-2002
* BMW 330i (3.0) 2000-2004
* BMW 325 (3.0) 2005-2008
* BMW Z3 (3.0) 2001-2002
* BMW Z4 (2.4) 2003-2005
* BMW Z4 (3.0) 2003-2004
* Chevrolet Cobalt SS (2.0) 2005-2008
* Chrysler Crossfire Coupe 2005-2007
* Dodge SRT-4 2003-2005
* Ford Focus 2000-2007
* Honda Accord (3.0) 2005
* Honda Civic SI (2.0) 1996-2000
* Honda Civic SI (2.0) 2006-2007
* Honda Civic SI 2/4 DR 2008
* Honda S2000 2000-2007
* Honda S2000 CR 2008
* Hyundai Tiburon (2.7) 1996-2006
* Lexus IS300 (2.8) 2002-2005
* Lexus IS300 (3.0) 2002-2005
* Lotus Elise/Exige 2005-2007
* Mazda 3 2009
* Mazda 6 (3.0) 2003-2007
* Mazda Mazdspeed Miata 2005-2007
* Mazda MX-5 2006-2008
* Mazda Protege 2000-2003
* Mazda RX-8 2004
* Mercedes C230 2001-
* Mini Cooper S 2003-2006
* Nissan Sentra 2000-2002
* Nissan Sentra Spec V (2.4) 2003-2004
* Pontiac Solstice GXP (2007-2008)
* Porsche Boxter 2700
* Saturn Ion 2004-2007
* Scion TC
* Subaru Impreza WRX (2.5) 2007
* Subaru Legacy Wag/Sed (2.5) 2004-2008
* Subaru WRX STi 2001-
* Subaru WRX TR 2006-2007
* Toyota Celica GTS (1.8) 2000-2002
* Volvo S40
* VW Jetta (Mk 4) 1999-2006
* VW Jetta(Mk 5) D 2006-2007
* VW GTI (2.0) 2006-2008
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Scoring:
1st 45 11th 30 21st 20 31st 10
2nd 42 12th 29 22nd 19 32nd 9
3rd 40 13th 28 23rd 18 33rd 8
4th 38 14th 27 24th 17 34th 7
5th 36 15th 26 25th 16 35th 6
6th 35 16th 25 26th 15 36th 5
7th 34 17th 24 27th 14 37th 4
8th 33 18th 23 28th 13 38th 3
9th 32 19th 22 29th 12 39th 2
10th 31 20th 21 30th 11 40th 1

Bonus Points:
Lead a lap-2
Lead most laps-5
Pole-5
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Schedule:

Round 1: Carolina Motorsports Park-July 26th
Round 2: Lime Rock-August 15th
Round 3: Bluegrass Motorsports Park-September 6th
Round 4: Summit Point Raceway-September 27th
Round 5: VIR-October 18th
Round 6: TBA
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6 rounds? Weak.

For a series just starting out, I think that pretty good.

OT - I thought that CAMS (Confederation of Australian Motorsports) would have had a copyright to the name ATCC (Australian Touring Car Championship).

I know it's now V8 Supercar, but the winner of the championship is still the ATCC Winner.

Oh, one more thing. Their goal is to have every race streamed live on the internet.

I don't think you can copyright a set of initials, which is what the ATCC is.... as well as the Australian Touring Car Championship, there was an Asian Touring Car Championship a few years ago also...

Similiarly in Australia there are two ATCC's awarded, the CAMS one which has run since 1960 and is awarded to the V8Supercar winner, and also the AASA Australian Touring Car Championship, run at the AMRC for touring car challenge cars.

On North American Super Touring, here is clip from Toronto 1997, complete with a lap onboard from Neil Crompton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVKvExSCIC4

ATCC is not new, they where around last year and the year before IIRC. Had some dealer backed Subaru's running in it.