The 2002 ASCAR season was the second season of United Kingdom-based NASCAR style stock car racing, originally known as ASCAR.

Teams and drivers

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2002 Champion Nicolas Minassian.
Team Car No. Driver Rounds
Shear-Speed Pontiac 3   Paul Sheard 1
18 1
58   Tom Guinchard 1
88   Lee O'Keefe 5
  Chris Robinson 1
Colin Blower Motorsport Chevrolet 5   Rob Speak All
Hodgson Motorsport Chevrolet
Pontiac
6   Stevie Hodgson All
55   Kevin McGarrity 3
RML Chevrolet 7   Kelvin Burt All
8   Nicolas Minassian All
Fast Tec Motorsport Ford 11   Paul Evans 1
  Lee Fitzpatrick 1
  Nick Kjaer All
  Ben Collins 1
  Paula Cook 1
12   Mark Proctor All
TorqueSpeed Chevrolet 24   John Mickel 6
Team West-Tec Chevrolet 28   Anthony Swan All
Ford 96   Mark Claussner 1
  Roland Rehfeld 4
Deuce Racing Chevrolet 48   Peter Storm 2
  Ian McKellar Jr. 1
  Kevin McGarrity 1
  Randy Tolsma 1
  Brandon Whitt 1
84   Toby Scheckter 3
  Derek Hayes 4
Xcel Motorsport Ford 67   Darren Manning 6
  Colin McRae 1
  Matt Neal 1
76   Jason Plato All
Team HTML Pontiac 68   Roland Rehfeld 4
  Paul Sheard 1
  Colin White 1
69   Darren Turner All
Steward Racing Ford 75   John Steward 6
Team Catchpole Racing Chevrolet 77   Phil Weaver 7
CWS Racing Chevrolet 78   Colin White All

Race calendar

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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

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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 16 C C 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 19 16 16 DNS DNS 12 DC 122

References

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