2020A NASA RallyCross Challenge Season

The 2020A NASA RallyCross Challenge Season is the twentieth season of the championship. It will begin on April 29th, 2020 and will end on July 1st, 2020. Philip Kraus entered the season as the defending Drivers' Champion, while his team, Subaru MRT, returned as the Constructors' Champions from 2019B.

Pre-Season

 * NASA RallyCross officials announced the return to Generation 4 regulations, citing that the Gen-3 regulations limited participation to US based teams.
 * All circuits have been discontinued except for Daytona, with the series visiting the "Long" layout the track has supplied.
 * Officials announce the return of the Endurance Cup, taking part during Round 7-8 of the season at the Wild West and Wild Horse circuits.
 * Regulation disputes see Mitsubishi, Honda, and Citroën pull out of the championship after a single season return.
 * Volkswagen re-enters the championship after last running in the canceled 2019A season.
 * The format has been capped at 20 drivers, which will result in a pre-qualifying session for every race event. This was later amended to 24 drivers for Atlanta and beyond.

Calendar Changes

 * After returning to Generation 4 regulations, 2020A sees NASA RallyCross return to Atlanta, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Iowa, and Sonoma, most last being seen in 2019A
 * The Lånkebanen circuit announced last second availability to host a NASA RallyCross round, and will host Round 3 and 4 of the championship at it's "Long" and "Short" layout respectively

Team and Driver Changes

 * MRT and Red Bull ended their partnership following 2019B.
 * Josh Mertz announced in a press conference at Daytona that 2020A would be his final season as a full time driver.
 * Revolution Racing switches to Ford Fiestas after Mitsubishi pulled out of the series over regulation disputes.
 * Lambert Motorsports Technologies ends it's 1 season relationship with Honda, opting to go to the returning Volkswagen manufacturer.

2020A Drivers' Championship
Points are awarded to the top 16 finishers.


 * N1 - Jan Granqvist forfeited the Drivers & Constructors point he scored for finishing 16th at Daytona after deciding to switch to the Subaru manufacturer for Round 2 and beyond.
 * N2 - Following the conclusion of Round 2 of 2020A in Atlanta, NASA officials decided that the top 24 qualifiers would be eligible to race in each event, instead of only the top 20 qualifiers that had been eligible to race in Round 1 and 2.
 * N3 - Brandon Lambert and Dylan Smith forfeit Drivers & Constructors points scored in Rounds 1-3 after LMT switches to Ford and merges with Spark VR | LLM Black to form Spark VR | LMT.

2020A Constructors' Championship
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