The 2005 NumbersElite Southwest SeriesNumber of races: 14Number of drivers: 105Number that made every race: 11Average car count: 28Champion's earnings: $38,891Elite Southeast SeriesNumber of races: 12Number of drivers: 46Number that made every race: 10Average car count: 20Champion's earnings: $51,706Elite Northwest SeriesNumber of races: 9Number of drivers: 45Number that made every race: 15Average car count: 24Champion's earnings: $17,982Elite Midwest SeriesNumber of races: 9Number of drivers: 42Number that made every race: 12Average car count: 20Champion's earnings: $29,925
Dual PersonalitiesThe name's the same, but everything else is different. There are, in essence, two ASAs.When the original ASA folded in 2004, both Ron Varney and Dennis Huth bought pieces of it, and today they run separate businesses using ASA in the title.Varney bought back the Midwest-based racing program he had created a few years earlier and renamed it the ASA Late Model Series.Huth, who had worked for ASA when it folded, purchased the ASA track program, which sanctions local series and also provides insurance and other services to track owners. Huth hopes to expand his operation to include a series that will offer a home to the West Coast's NASCAR Elite Division drivers when those series are scrapped by NASCAR at the end of this season."The only thing that's similar," says Huth, "is that Ron and I both strongly believe in short-track racing and want to keep it alive." -J.F.B.