 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(June 2017) |
The 2002 ASCAR season was the second season of United Kingdom-based NASCAR style stock car racing, originally known as ASCAR.
| | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(June 2017) |
The 2002 ASCAR season was the second season of United Kingdom-based NASCAR style stock car racing, originally known as ASCAR.
| 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 |
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.
| 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 | |||||||||||||
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