All Star Circuit of Champions

All Star Circuit of Champions
Sport Sprint car racing
Jurisdiction  United States
Abbreviation ASCoC
Founded 1970
Regional affiliation United States
Headquarters Brownsburg, Indiana
President Tony Stewart
Official website
www.allstarsprint.com
United States

The All Star Circuit of Champions (abbreviated ASCoC) is an American motorsports sanctioning body of winged sprint car racing founded in 1970. The series sanctions 410ci sprint car races in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, and Florida. On average the series runs 50 races per year, starting February and ending in October each year.[1] The ASCoC was purchased by Tony Stewart in the winter of 2015.

History

The ASCoC was founded by Bud Miller in 1970 after a failed venture by himself, Chris Economaki, and Wellman Lehman, to build a new race track near Youngstown, OH. Through the meetings about building the track the idea was conceived to create a touring sprint car series in the area. The idea of the All Star Circuit of Champions was then born in 1970 and began operating that year. The series would cease operations after just 3 years in 1973, when the 1973 oil crisis began Miller knew the series couldn't continue to run with the price of oil rising.[2]

The series would reform in 1979 under the guidance of a new owner, Bert Emick. Emick, had been successfully running the MOSS sanctioning body in the Ohio area but lost the naming rights in a legal battle. Thus the All Star name was brought back in 1980 with Emick as President. Emick would run the series until 2002 when Guy Webb took over.[3]

Guy Webb took over as owner in 2002, running the series for 12 years. In January 2015, Webb sold the series to Tony Stewart.[4]

Stewart took sole ownership of the ASCoC in 2015 in order to bring about peace in the Ohio sprint car scene. Early in 2015 a second competing series former, the Renegade Sprints, after disagreements with Webb. This caused Stewart to step in bringing both sides back in under the All Star banner.[5]

In January 2016 it was announced that the series gained Arctic Cat as the series title sponsor, utilizing the banner "The Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions" and the social media tagline "#ArcticCatAllStars".[6]

Past Champions

Year Driver Wins
1980 Bobby Allen 6
1981 Lee Osborne 4
1982 Lee Osborne 6
1983 Lee Osborne 5
1984 Fred Linder 1
1985 Jack Hewitt 12
1986 Fred Linder 0
1987 Joe Gaerte 4
1988 Joe Gaerte 6
1989 Robbie Stanley 3
1990 Terry Shepherd 0
1991 Frankie Kerr 5
1992 Kevin Huntley 14
1993 Kevin Huntley/Frankie Kerr 6/5
1994 Frankie Kerr 12
1995 Dale Blaney 12
1996 Dale Blaney 17
1997 Frankie Kerr 4
1998 Kenny Jacobs 11
1999 Kenny Jacobs 7
2000 Kenny Jacobs 6
2001 Kenny Jacobs 5
2002 Chad Kemenah 2
2003 Chad Kemenah 5
2004 Chad Kemenah 6
2005 Chad Kemenah 8
2006 Greg Wilson 1
2007 Greg Wilson 1
2008 Dale Blaney 9
2009 Tim Shaffer 8
2010 Tim Shaffer 16
2011 Tim Shaffer 10
2012 Tim Shaffer 6
2013 Dale Blaney 6
2014 Dale Blaney 16
2015 Dale Blaney 12
2016 Chad Kemenah 1
2017 Chad Kemenah 3

Notable drivers

  • Dale Blaney, 134 wins, 6 championships
  • Kenny Jacobs, 98 wins, 4 championships
  • Joey Saldana, 74 wins
  • Tim Shaffer, 58 wins, 4 championships
  • Jack Hewitt, 56 wins, 1 championship
  • Frankie Kerr, 53 wins, 4 championships
  • Dave Blaney, 48 wins
  • Bobby Allen, 46 wins, 1 championship
  • Kevin Huntley, 44 wins
  • Kelly Kinser, 42 wins
  • Jeff Shepard, 40 wins
  • Steve Kinser, 37 wins
  • Doug Wolfgang, 37 wins
  • Danny Lasoski, 37 wins
  • Chad Kemenah, 33 wins, 6 championships
  • Lee Osborne, 17 wins, 3 championships

Series owners

  • C.H. "Bud" Miller (1970–1973)
  • Bert Emick (1980–2002)
  • Guy Webb (2002–2015)
  • Tony Stewart (2015–current)

References

  1. ↑ "Schedule".
  2. ↑ "All Stars - Then and Now".
  3. ↑ "Bert Emick". National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "All Star Circuit of Champions".
  5. ↑ Steven Cole Smith (2015-02-08). "Not everybody in the sprint car world is happy with Tony Stewart".
  6. ↑ "Arctic Cat Becomes Title Sponsor of All Star Circuit of Champions". Business Wire. 2016-01-11. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
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