Piston Cup Nitroade Weekly Racing Series

The Piston Cup Nitroade Weekly Racing Series is a racing division founded in 2000 by the Piston Cup to help develop young racers through the ranks like its fellow Junior Piston Cup Pro Series, CARCA Retread Series, and RPM Developmental Tour Series. The series folded after 2008 due to it not having enough racers to continue.
== History ==
=== 2000 (Beginnings) ===
In 2000, the Nitroade Weekly Racing Series was founded as another series to help teams develop racers to higher levels as there were many entries into the Piston Cup. The 2000 season saw a total of 35 racers entered and 5 races. Aiken Axler won the first championship of the series in 2000.
=== 2001-2005 (Popularity) ===
From 2001-2005 a record high 50 racers entered in the season with only 38 per-race. About 10 or 12 racers going home every race made qualifying interesting which spiked popularity of the series. The 2001 championship was won by Manny Flywheel. In 2002, Sage VanDerSpin was able to take the trophy home. 2003 saw a young and promising Sage VanDerSpin win the championship again after his 2001 and 2002 Junior Piston Cup Pro Series championships. The 2004 champion of this series was Floyd Mulvihill who lost the JPCPS championship to Lightning McQueen that same year but beat McQueen for this championship. In 2005, Timmy Foster won the championship.
=== 2006-2008 (Decline, Defunct) ===
In 2006, Roger Vargas won the championship but with the CARCA Retread Series, Junior Piston Cup Pro Series, and the newly re-branded Dash Series into another developmental program, the Weekly Series and it's 5 races in the summer stretch didn't end up so well. 2007 saw only 15 entries from the 50 less than a decade before. The 2007 champion was Terry Kargas, the last exciting talent to win it. In 2008, only 10 racers entered, mainly low budget teams which caused only 5 racers to have run the full season. The final championship went to Cosmo Carrison, who did not go on to the Piston Cup, but did win the 2014 and 2015 Dinoco Lights championship with a total of 14 wins.
series got defunct after 2008 due to low amounts of racers and not enough support to keep it going. 
== Champions ==
# 2000 - Aiken Axler
# 2001 - Manny Flywheel
# 2002 - Sage VanDerSpin (1)
# 2003 - Sage VanDerSpin (2)
# 2004 - Floyd Mulvihill
# 2005 - Timmy Foster
# 2006 - Roger Vargas
# 2007 - Terry Kargas
# 2008 - Cosmo Carrison