The SRL 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 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.

Contents 1 2009 SRL Southwest Tour Schedule 2 Champions 2.1 SRL Wild West Shootout 2.2 NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series 2.3 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour 2.4 External links

[edit] 2009 SRL Southwest Tour Schedule

• April 3/4 - All-American Speedway - Roseville, CA
• May 3 - Las Vegas Motor Speedway, The Bullring - Las Vegas, NV
• May 23 - Madera Speedway - Madera, CA
• July 4 - Madera Speedway - Madera, CA
• July 18 - Toyota Speedway at Irwindale - Irwindale, CA
• August 8 - Stockton 99 Speedway - Stockton, CA
• September 5 - Madera Speedway - Madera, CA
• October 3 - Stockton 99 Speedway - Stockton, CA
• October 10 - Toyota Speedway at Irwindale - Irwindale, CA
• October 31 - Las Vegas Motor Speedway, The Bullring - Las Vegas, NV

[edit] Champions

[edit] SRL Wild West Shootout

• 2009: M.K. Kanke
• 2008: Jim Pettit II
• 2007: Dave Byrd

[edit] NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series

• 2006: Rip Michaels
• 2005: Jim Pettit II
• 2004: Jim Pettit II
• 2003: Auggie Vidovich

[edit] 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

[edit] External links

• Stockcar Racing League Southwest Tour

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