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The SRL Flashco Southwest Tour is a Late Model racing league operating since 1985, originally with NASCAR sanction as the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour and later AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series. The cars are feature a perimeter frame chassis where rails of equal lengths must kick out, compared to the more modern offset chassis where one side is straight and one side kicks out. They weigh 2,900 pounds and have a fiberglass body.
When NASCAR eliminated the Elite Division at the end of the 2006 season, former IRL driver Davey Hamilton's SRL sanctioning body took over the series and adopted the former NASCAR Southwest Tour cars to allow these cars, popular in the Southwest, to have a series to race, initially under the SRL Wild West Shootout name.
With management of the series now under the control of the Collins family of Mesa Marin (both old and new) tracks, the series decided to return to the more familiar Southwest Tour name in 2008.
Current SRL rules require a Five Star racing body complying with any NASCAR Southwest Tour-approved body from 2000-2006, or SRL since 2007, and complying with the Approved Body Configuration program used nationally in short track racing.
The SRL has a green-white-checkered finish rule.
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The SRL Flashco Southwest Tour is a Late Model racing league operating since 1985, originally with NASCAR sanction as the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour and later AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series. The cars are feature a perimeter frame chassis where rails of equal lengths must kick out, compared to the more modern offset chassis where one side is straight and one side kicks out. They weigh 2,900 pounds and have a fiberglass body.
When NASCAR eliminated the Elite Division at the end of the 2006 season, former IRL driver Davey Hamilton's SRL sanctioning body took over the series and adopted the former NASCAR Southwest Tour cars to allow these cars, popular in the Southwest, to have a series to race, initially under the SRL Wild West Shootout name.
With management of the series now under the control of the Collins family of Mesa Marin (both old and new) tracks, the series decided to return to the more familiar Southwest Tour name in 2008.
Current SRL rules require a Five Star racing body complying with any NASCAR Southwest Tour-approved body from 2000-2006, or SRL since 2007, and complying with the Approved Body Configuration program used nationally in short track racing.
The SRL has a green-white-checkered finish rule. Dave Byrd won the first championship under the SRL sanction.
Rip Michels was the final champion under NASCAR sanction in 2006.
2008 SRL Southwest Tour Schedule
- March 28-29 - All-American Speedway, Roseville, CA
- April 26 - Toyota Speedway at Irwindale (CA)
- May 24 - Altamont Motorsports Park (CA)
- July 5 - Altamont Motorsports Park (CA)
- August 16 - Colorado National Speedway, Dacono, CO
- August 30 - Altamont Motorsports Park (CA)
- November 1 - The Bullring, Las Vegas, NV
NOTE: The SRL hopes to have a race at the "new" Mesa Marin pending completion of the track.
Champions
SRL Wild West Shootout
- 2008 Jim Pettit II
- 2007 Dave Byrd
NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series
- 2006 Rip Michaels
- 2005 Jim Pettit II
- 2004 Jim Pettit II
- 2003 Auggie Vidovich
NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour
- 2002 Eddy McKean
- 2001 Craig Raudman
- 2000 Matt Crafton
- 1999 Kurt Busch
- 1998 Steve Portenga
- 1997 Brian Germone
- 1996 Chris Raudman
- 1995 Lance Hooper
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