NASCAR World Series

NASCAR World Series
Category	Stock Car
Country/Region	Worldwide
Founder(s)	NASCAR
Inaugural Season	2015
Records
Driver's Champion	Template:AUS Marcos Ambrose
Team's Champion	Template:USA #81 Chip Ganassi Racing
Current season

The NASCAR World Series is a worldwide stock car racing championship designed by NASCAR to be an outward-looking alternative to the Cup Series. It offered upward progression for drivers in the PEAK Mexico Series, Pinty's Series in Canada, and the Whelen Euro Series, as well as seeking to establish stock car racing as a worldwide alternative to Formula One. Top drivers from the Cup Series and World Series are then invited to an postseason race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the winner of which is crowned NASCAR Champion of the World.

Rules and Regulations

Event Format

See also: List of NASCAR World Series events

Most races in the NASCAR World Series are run as "300"s, which can refer to either miles, kilometres or laps depending on the track involved. The exceptions to this are the Triple Crown events (which are run as "500"s) and the Dirt Classic, which is run in four heats of eight cars, which then feed into an 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D' main to decide the overall finishing positions.

All events are restricted to 32 starters. Owing to the travel costs involved with the series, NASCAR also made the unusual choice to restrict entries - after all full-time teams had been confirmed, they decided between applications from part-time teams as opposed to holding additional qualifying sessions to decide who would make the show.

Track Type		Race Length	Triple Crown Event
Superspeedway	Oval track of two miles or longer	300 miles	European 500 (500 miles)
Intermediate	Oval track between one and two miles		Asian 500 (500 miles)
Short Track	Oval track of under one mile	300 laps	Template:USA Tennessee 500 (500 laps)
Road Course	Non-oval paved circuit	300 kilometres	None
Dirt Track	Unpaved circuit	Race divided into heats	None

Championship Format

The World Series followed in the footsteps of the Cup Series by introducing a multi-stage playoff system to crown its Champion Driver. After a 19-round Regular Season, the top fifteen drivers (including all eligible race winners) advance to the playoffs. The remaining drivers then have one final chance at the winner-take-all Wildcard Race, the winner of which advances to the playoffs.

The lowest-scoring four drivers after every three races will be eliminated from Championship contention until at the 30th and final race of the season, the final four drivers will juke it out for the Championship. Any driver who has completed fewer than 10 Regular Season races is deemed ineligible for the playoffs.

One other point of difference between the World Series and the Cup Series is in the points system: unlike NASCAR's other series, points are only awarded to the top 20 cars at any given event.

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Rest
Points	25	22	20	18	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0

List of NASCAR World Series Champions

Champions Drivers

Season	Drivers Champion	Team	Wins	Regular Season Leader
2015	Template:AUS Marcos Ambrose	Template:USA #9 Richard Petty Motorsports	1 win	Alon Day
2016

Champion Teams

Season	Teams Champion	Driver(s)	Manufacturer	Wins
2015	Template:USA #81 Chip Ganassi Racing	Alex Tagliani	Template:USA Chevrolet	6 wins
2016

Champion of the World

Season	Venue	Race Winner	Team	Series (Result)
2015	Template:USA Charlotte Motor Speedway	Template:USA Regan Smith	Template:USA #78 Stewart-Haas Racing	World Series (4th)
2016

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