Lookin for a North American server host! Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Try vsk servers in a goggle search, also, vmax racing team rent's server's (at least they used too), IIRC they are located in Texas.

You could visit CoRe's website and find out who they use, i dont remember right now.

Some of the Euro server's have as good or close too the same ping as North American based servers.

I recommend 500 servers. www.500servers.com

I also recomend 500servers. They are located in the UK but I get a better ping on their servers than I do with alot of US servers. They are also very steady with I feel very good support. You also get Teamspeak and a couple other nice options aswell now