The 2002 ASCAR season was the second season of United Kingdom-based NASCAR style stock car racing, originally known as ASCAR.
Teams and drivers
Team Car Driver Rounds Shear-Speed Pontiac 3 Anthony Swan Paul Sheard 18 58 Tom Guinchard 68 Roland Rehfeld Paul Sheard Colin White 88 Lee O'Keefe Chris Robinson Colin Blower Motorsport Chevrolet 5 Rob Speak Hodgson Motorsport ChevroletPontiac Stevie Hodgson All 55 Kevin McGarrity RML Chevrolet 7 Kelvin Burt All 8 Nicolas Minassian All Fast Tec Motorsport Ford 11 Paul Evans Lee Fitzpatrick Shaun Richardson Ben Collins Paula Cook 12 Mark Proctor TorqueSpeed Chevrolet 24 John Mickel Team West-Tec Chevrolet 28 Anthony Swan Ford 96 Mark Claussner Roland Rehfeld Deuce Racing Chevrolet 48 Peter Storm Ian McKellar Jr. Kevin McGarrity Randy Tolsma Brandon Whitt 84 Toby Scheckter Derek Hayes Xcel Motorsport Ford 67 Darren Manning Colin McRae Matt Neal 76 Jason Plato All Team HTML Pontiac 69 Darren Turner All Steward Racing Ford 75 John Steward Team Catchpole Racing Chevrolet 77 Phil Weaver CWS Racing Chevrolet 78 Colin White
Race calendar
The season consisted of eight meetings with either two or three races taking place at each. The grid for the opening race of each meeting was set by a qualifying session with the second race grid being set by the finishing order of the first. Two meetings were held at the EuroSpeedway in Germany with the remaining six at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in the United Kingdom.
Round Circuit/Location Date Pole position Fastest lap Led most laps Winning driver Winning team 1 R1 Rockingham Motor Speedway 5 May Darren Manning Stevie Hodgson Colin White Colin White CWS Racing R2 Nicolas Minassian Nicolas Minassian Nicolas Minassian RML 2 R3 EuroSpeedway 25 May Kelvin Burt Colin White Stevie Hodgson Colin White CWS Racing R4 26 May Cancelled due to rain R5 3 R6 Rockingham Motor Speedway 8 June Colin White Darren Turner Nicolas Minassian Darren Turner Team HTML R7 9 June Cancelled due to rain R8 4 R9 EuroSpeedway 20 July Darren Turner Darren Turner Darren Turner Darren Turner Team HTML R10 21 July Darren Turner Darren Turner Darren Turner Team HTML R11 Nicolas Minassian Darren Manning Darren Manning Xcel Motorsport 5 R12 Rockingham Motor Speedway 4 August Darren Turner Darren Turner Nicolas Minassian Darren Turner Team HTML R13 Darren Turner Darren Turner Darren Turner Team HTML 6 R14 Rockingham Motor Speedway 24 August Darren Turner Kelvin Burt Kelvin Burt Kelvin Burt RML R15 25 August Kelvin Burt Kelvin Burt Kelvin Burt RML R16 Kelvin Burt Kelvin Burt Kelvin Burt RML 7 R17 Rockingham Motor Speedway 13 September Darren Turner Darren Turner Darren Turner Kevin McGarrity Hodgson Motorsport R18 14 September Kelvin Burt Kelvin Burt Kelvin Burt Kevin McGarrity Hodgson Motorsport 8 R19 Rockingham Motor Speedway 6 October Nicolas Minassian Nicolas Minassian Kelvin Burt Roland Rehfeld Team West-Tec R20 Darren Turner Nicolas Minassian Darren Turner Team HTML
Final points standings
Pos Driver Pts R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15 R16 R17 R18 R19 R20 1 Nicolas Minassian 3 1* 2* C C 7* C C 15 7 7 2* 17 7 3 2 3 12 2 3* 2535 2 Kelvin Burt 7 4 5 C C 3 C C 5 6 12 3 3 1* 1* 1* 11 17* 14* 5 2498 3 Jason Plato 6 8 3 C C 5 C C 3 3* 3 7 4 4 9 13 4 8 4* 4 2493 4 Colin White 1* 2 1* C C 11 C C 4* 5 4 6 7 3 4 3 13 10* 13 10 2463 5 Roland Rehfeld 13 14 12 C C 15 C C 6 12 6 9 6 5 6 4 2* 13* 1* 2 2296 6 Mark Proctor 11 7 9 C C 8 C C 7 8 5 14 9 12 10 14 6 5 7 7 2196 7 Darren Turner 1* C C 1* 1* 13 1* 1* 2 2 12 14* 16 3 1* 2116 8 Stevie Hodgson 4* 3 4* C C 13* C C 14 DNS 10 11 13 13 15 15 12 11 5 13 2101 9 Rob Speak 10 5 12 C C 10 13 11 8 DNS 6 8 10 7 7 15 12 1971 10 Anthony Swan 5 13 15 C C 4 C C 12 DNS DNS 10 12 9 7 6 9 4 6 6 1950 11 Darren Manning 17* DNS 10 C C 6 C C 2* 4* 1* 5 2* 14 5 5 1693 12 John Mickel 2 11 7 C C 2 C C 13 2 2* 4 5 8 14 DNS 1675 13 John Steward 12 12 6 C C 9 9 14 11 13 9 16 DNS 10 9 1528 14 Phil Weaver 8 16 13 C C 16 C C 8 11 8 16 18 17 14 17 14 1414 15 Derek Hayes 12 11 10 12 8 5 2 16 11 1197 16 Lee O'Keefe 15 9 11 C C 17 C C 11 10 9 15 14 1088 17 Kevin McGarrity 17 10 DNS 11 7 1* 1* 18 DNS 961 18 Toby Scheckter 14 10 8 C C 10 C C 514 19 Peter Storm 18 DNS 14 C C 14 C C 326 20 Paul Evans 9 6 285 21 Ben Collins 15 3 280 22 Matt Neal 8 8 280 23 Randy Tolsma 8 9 275 24 Ian McKellar Jr. 13 8 258 25 Chris Robinson 10 15 240 26 Shaun Richardson 15 DNS 11 236 27 Brandon Whitt 11 15 236 28 Tom Guinchard 16 15 216 29 Lee Fitzpatrick 18 15 208 30 Colin McRae DNS 6 150 31 Mark Claussner 9 C C 135 32 Paula Cook 9 DC 135 33 Paul Sheard 16 C C 19 16 16 DNS DNS 12 DC 122
References
External links ASCAR 2002 archive