Originally Posted by
elee32
Oval has its own rule set called Tour. I'm pretty sure that snowbirds is the big national race.
TOUR just supports the "national" level of oval racing; local tracks are pretty much on their own. The TOUR Nationals were held at The Gate in Brunswick, OH, last April. Snowbird Nationals uses TOUR rules for a lot of their oval classes, but, there's a LOT more oval classes run that ARE NOT "TOUR rules". TOUR basically only sets the pan car classes (and now the Salvas MudBOSS).
As far as ROAR and oval racing go, ROAR hasn't "supported" *any* oval racing - dirt, carpet, paved - since about 2009. TOUR was established in about 2010-11 to pick up where ROAR dropped off, but, TOUR uses "ROAR-approved" in all of their "electronics" rules (ESCs, motors, batteries, etc.). There hasn't been any kind of a "ROAR Oval Nationals" since then. There are quite a few other "big" oval races that use TOUR rules - OvalMasters, for one - but are not considered the "nationals". That race (TOUR Nationals) has to be bid on, and moves around to different tracks.
BRL, the Brushless Racing League - the "other" big oval-rules-package organization - has their own rules, a lot of 'em completely different from TOUR, and they run mainly just in the midwest.