OOC: While, typically, a domestic sports thread is closed to everyone but the thread owner, I am making an exception for this. I am calling HASCAR a "super-domestic" league as while all the events will be in Hapilopper and while most of the drivers will be Hapiloppian, anyone that competes in NSSCRA either currently or in the past are more than welcome to enter a car or a driver in the series. This league is meant to complement NSSCRA, and races will be held around the same time, and scorinated using xkoranate, albeit slightly differently than the way Newmanistan does NSSCRA. If you are interested in participating, send me a message in the NSSCRA discussion thread or on the NS Sports discord.
Welcome to the 2022 season for Hapilopper's top stock car racing league, the Hapiloppian Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, or HASCAR. The HASCAR Challenge Cup is one of the most competitive forms of motorsport across Hapilopper, and one of the most popular. Each race is watched by millions across the Dominion, and by hundreds of thousands of fans at each and every track on the calendar. Most, if not all of the teams competing in the series are fully-sponsored teams with some of the best drivers in Hapiloppian motorsport.
This season promises to be the most exciting season in HASCAR history. A handful of manufacturers - Preston, Primetime and Stevens have already engaged in an arms race of faster, more aerodynamic models, an arms race started when Preston unveiled the Super Skychief at the start of last season in NSSCRA and HASCAR. This season, Stevens has unveiled its new, more aerodynamic Sentry Mk.II, while Primetime Motorcar Company of Hapilopper City has unveiled its prototypeish Quest X, which has seen some complaints regarding its availability.
In addition, there are persistent rumors of other nations interested in competing in select HASCAR races. Adding some fuel to those rumors are recent reports of the similarities between HASCAR's technical regulations and NSSCRA's.