in Ron Fellows NOL Chat , he mentions that there “should be an announcement in the next 6-7 weeks of a France family-owned and promoted road race series” — UPDATE: The Frances will announce a nine-race series for World Sports Car-type racers during the annual Pepsi Southern 500 weekend at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, and it will be completely separate from NASCAR, the family owned Stock car racing organization. The series is looked upon as a response to the zooming popularity of Road Atlanta impresario Don Panoz’s American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and to the relative inadequacy of the Sports Car Club of America’ United States Road Racing Championship. See the rest of the TNN article: Frances To Start Road-Racing Series. — UPDATE 2: SpeedVision had a story up on this a little over a month ago: New NASCAR-backed road racing series? by Steve Smith
