Leafy's National Championship Series

The Leafy's National Championship Series is an Open Wheel racing series and a pinnacle of Meridianian motorsports. It has been contested every year since 1980, with some major events taking place since as early as 1934.

Prewar Era:1930's-1945
Open wheeled racing in Meridiania began in the 1930's when German, Italian and British teams came to Meridiania for exibitions, first in Caldbay, later in other cities, eventually running along side major events such as the Caldbay 1000 (almost overshadowing the main event), Dethridge 500 and starting the Longgown Grand Prix tradition that still runs today. With Meridiania staying out of much of the fighting during the Second World War, many rural men with enough grit and determination to do so, built their own open wheeled machines with parts from junkyards and while the war was going on further west, back east, and further north were racing in the backwoods and in rural fields and similar settings.

Interwar/Postwar Era: 1945-1968
In 1949, with the prospects dim of bringing back the Western drivers, organizers of the Longgown Grand Prix asked some of the better known Woodsies to run the Grand Prix instead, and they could run their own rules. Though speeds were down over the western professional cars, the 1949 Longgown Grand Prix was deemed and overall success, and in 1950, 1951 and 1952, the Woodsies returned and also raced as replacements for the Dethridge 500 and Caldbay Open Wheeled shows, and in 1953, they returned again, but now as a backing show for the returning Grand Prix racers from out West but the Woodsies were disappointed with second fiddle and protested. The order of events for the Saturday was the Woodsies race, followed by the Western Race, immedietly following the Woodsies race, they did their cool down lap, and then proceeded to drive onto the front stretch and park their cars blocking the track, and stayed in them. This lead to a standoff between the top drivers and GP directors, who eventually ended up cancelling the Western Race and not bringing them back the next year. Caldbay and Dethridge had planned to bring Western racers for their events but cancelled this after seeing the protest at Longgown and followed suit in not bringing the Westerners back in 1954. 1955 also saw the creation of the Boracoredia 500, based on the american Indianapolis 500. The Woodsies continued their slower, more thrilling shows and as time went on, the cars sped up and at it's height, the 1963 Longgown Grand Prix had more than 150,000 people in attendance. By the mid 1960's however, the Woodsies homemade cars were becoming too dangerous for Longgown, Caldbay and Dethridge and after the 1966 Caldbay Disaster, the Woodsies cars were banned for safer, 2.0 Liter cars.

The Factory Era: 1969-1979
The woodsies Complied with the new regulations and, though car counts were down for Longgown and Caldbay in 1967, the Woodsies had cars ready for Dethridge and numbers were higher than in 1966 for any of the three, though great shows for the fans, no driver had ever won the triple crown but in 1968, driver Alex Gresham finally achieved the feat, dominating Dethridge to seal the title, but having to fight hard at Longgown and Caldbay. Gresham also became the first driver to receive factory support, with International coming on board in 1969, which saw Gresham win Longgown and Dethridge and repeat his Triple crown again in 1970, 1971 and 1973. In 1971, one of International's rivals, Jamieson, joined up against International to try to win the Triple crown. International had two years edge over Jamieson though and it showed, with them defeating Jamieson in every event for three years before Jamieson won an event North of South Juliet in March 1974 before winning Dethridge that fall with driver Sumner Laramée. As the years progressed, other towns tried to organize events, often to little fanfare, enormous losses and a dip in their local economy so after further debate, in 1986, plans were unveiled for a unified touring series featuring the Caldbay, Dethridge and Longgown events, along with 5 other events to make an 8 race championship.

Unified Era: 1980-2000
Between 1980 and 1984, Jamieson and International battled heavily against each other before Finlayson joined the pair in 1985. The following year, International was bought out by Carne and the team had it's name changed to Carne Grand Prix. The three manufacturers continued challenging each other while some smaller teams gained prominence, like David Bayer Motorsports, while Kilburn Sportscars joined the fray and used it's sports car technology

Death of Seth Erlikilyika:2000-present
In 2000, the LNCS was recieving criticism for it's lack of safety and in May's Boracoredia 500, the lack of safety became clear with three major wrecks over the weeks leading upto the race. On May 6th, driver Frendando Ramaciotti lost a tire entering the third turn and ended up with a broken arm, broken leg, and two broken ribs, and after two weeks in the hospital, he was released, however on May 15th, Bump Day, came the death of Seth Erlikilyika. Erlikilyika had nearly made the field the day before but ended up 28th of the 27 who made the field on that day. On the 15th, the track was much cooler which caused the track to be much slicker, and leading to oversteer. During Erlikilyika's run, he spun and backed into the wall, destroying the fuel cell, and causing the fuel to ignite. The methanol that had ignited burned clear and as a result, it took until the rescuers were on scene to tell that there was a fire and as a result, Erlikilyika was already badly burned, that along with the sparse rescuers around the track. When the workers extracted Erlikilyika from the car, he was unconcious and badly burned, however was alive, however, he was pronounced dead later that night at Boracoredia City Hospital.

As a result of Erlikilyika's accident, in 2003, the National Championship Series unveiled a new car design with improved safety features and mandated SAFER Barriers developed in America at all oval tracks. Since 2002, there have been no fatalities in any LNCS events.