Past SimCar Series
With an overall aim to have a ladder system similar to CART and its successor, Champ Car, SimCar intially aimed to have Champ1, Champ2, Champ3, and an entry level series, which at the time of starting up was Formula Focus (then known as SRS.
Champ1, Champ3, FBMW, and Formula Focus continue today. At various points in the past, SimCar has run a "Champ2" series, and two sportscar series-NorAM and GLOBE.
Champ2
Champ2 is reborn in 2008-02 with the adjustment of SimCar's ladder to reflect changes in North American open-wheel racing. The cars will be the 2007 Formula Nippon cars based on their similar performance to Indy Lights cars.
Champ3
With the evolution in SimCar's ladder in mid 2008, the Champ3 series is no longer based on the Formula Atlantic series. Champ3 in fact began life at SimCar as Formula Atlantic. The series ran for two years with Formula 3 cars, and in 2007 switched to 2005 Toyota Atlantics mod for rFactor. With the changes to the SimCar ladder, Champ3 now uses the Formula BMW cars by iDT.
Champ3, in its previous iteration, saw some quick drivers win the series championship. The inaugural season, back then known as SimCar Formula Atlantic, was won by aspiring real racer Parker Kligerman. Kilgerman was succeeded as series Champion by Italian driver David Greco. In 2006, Jon Edwards, Jordan Lee, Francis Robert, and Scott Arrington were Champ3 Series Champions; and Rik Zeppelin won the title in the 2007-01 season, the last with the trusty rF3 chassis. Along the way, the Formula 3-inspired version of Champ3 was also known as the SimCar North American Formula Three Action (NAFTA) Championship, the SimCar Formula 3 Championship, and the SimCar Atlantic Championship.
NorAm
Early in 2006, SimCar driver Francis Robert enlisted a handful of beta-testers for a car mod he was developing. The car was known as the Proton and was part of what he envisioned as a three-car package to make the ProtoRacer mod. Soon after the Proton, the Demon was released and the two cars were combined with Ferrari 360 and Porsche 911 GT cars to give SimCar a sports car series similar to the Grand-Am Rolex series (insofar as it has two classes); SimCar's were known as the SimCar Prototypes (SCP) and SimCar GT (SCGT) classes.
NorAm ran in both 2006-03 and 2006-04 and was so popular in the first season that the creation of two-divisions was mandated by overloaded servers! That season NorAm raced with Pro and Sportsman divisions, and crowned four Champions: Scott Arrington won the SCP-Pro title, Ron O'Dell the SCP-Sportsman; while Chris Rainer took the SCGT-Pro honors, and Charles Speed the SCGT-Sportsman title.
Season 2006-04 saw NorAm reduced to just one division, with Scott Arrington and Chris Rainer repeating their Championships of 2006-03. The series closed after 2006-04 due to waning popularity and the absence of a solid GT class to hold the two-class series in place.
A new NorAm series has come to SimCar for the 2008-02 season.
SimCar Racing School
The SimCar Racing School series began in 2005 during the first ever SimCar season. It continued through to the end of the 2008-01 season. The series largely used the rFactor rTrainer as the base car, with two seasons of using a modified rF3 in 2006. The series was called Formula Focus through 2006 and 2007, and reverted to its roots for the 2008-01 season.
The series has generally been regarded as an entry-level driver development series from the beginning. Since the start of 2006, the series used a setup-locked car that permited fewer setup tweaks so to give the driver new to Sim Racing a chance to focus more on driving than on the tweaks that make a car setup more competitive.
Drivers still looking for rTrainer and entry-level open-wheel racing will find the R.A.C.E.R. Academy to be an ideal starting point.
GLOBE
The SimCar GTP Lights Online Beginners Experience (GLOBE) Series ran for three seasons and utilized the Redline GTP mod for NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. Kevin Jay won all three SimCar GLOBE Series Championships (2005-01, 2005-02, and 2006-01). The series ceased operations in April 2006, with drivers being directed to the GTP2 class of the Monday Night Racing League.