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Eleven classes across five rounds and five tracks. Your best three events count, and taking TQ is worth a bonus point — so the perfect weekend scores 101.

Round 4 of 5 scored Next: Oct 16–18 · New Albany 11 classes · 106 racers

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35 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Aydin Horne298393−951141st999895101*·
2Chase Lemieux294386−921141st101*949299·
3Broc Champlin291386−950043rd95969897·
4Tom Rinderknecht291380−891141st9789101*93·
5Davey Batta290381−910043rd91959798·
6Brennan Schimmel287377−900044th90979694·
7Chase Raymond27527500036th87–9395·
8Levi Raymond27427400035th89–8996·
9Alex Vanderbeek269352−830048th93848392·
10Nate Sutherland26526500037th–919480·
11Casey Blasczyk256256000313th–868288·
12Brady Carrico252325−7300414th73878184·
13Maccoy Martin245245000316th–828578·
14Allen Horne240310−7000418th81767083·
15Benjamin Decker240240000318th–837681·
16Mark Decker227227000320th–816977·
17Daniel Kobbevik20020001121st–101*99–·
18Greg Carrico191191000334th656759–·
19Dakotah Phend19019000023rd9892––·
20Ryan Cavalieri18718700027th9493––·
21Juan Lopez180180000211th–9090–·
22Cole Tollard17817800029th92––86·
23Doug Lariviere177177000212th88––89·
24Brandon Foote176176000213th–8888–·
25Noah Hicklin176176000211th86––90·
26Nick Gibson167167000216th82––85·
27Alex Sturgeon166166000210th75––91·
28Brent Thielke164164000217th8480––·
29Aaron Mitchell158158000221st80–78–·
30Jamie Thompson157157000221st–7780–·
31Josh Cyrul145145000222nd–6679–·
32Daniel Bender139139000225th––6376·
33Daniel Chavez133133000228th–7360–·
34Dawson Camacho133133000232nd–6964–·
35Luke Siela132132000227th–7458–·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Chase Lemieux — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 39 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Chase Lemieux2321/5:02.046421/5:01.616122/5:12.900
2Aydin Horne3421/5:02.700122/5:13.1461021/5:11.670
3Dakotah Phend5122/5:14.367621/5:03.142921/5:09.409
4Tom Rinderknecht61221/5:11.020521/5:01.829321/5:00.142
5Ryan Cavalieri7521/5:03.404921/5:05.409421/5:02.446
6Alex Vanderbeek10621/5:06.2621121/5:07.833621/5:06.609
7Spencer Rivkin111021/5:10.223321/5:00.894379/2:10.614 (DNF)
8Brennan Schimmel112919/4:36.438 (DNF)821/5:03.779521/5:04.568
9Broc Champlin13921/5:07.923721/5:03.526821/5:08.553
10Cole Tollard13821/5:07.8131021/5:07.476721/5:06.683
11Davey Batta20721/5:07.7811521/5:13.7401521/5:14.806
12Levi Raymond241421/5:11.4281421/5:11.3741221/5:11.820
13Doug Lariviere261121/5:10.402404/2:31.444 (DNF)1720/5:03.853
14Brent Thielke271620/5:00.0341321/5:09.7642120/5:06.609
15Allen Horne271321/5:11.0352220/5:07.7791620/5:03.440
16Noah Hicklin27399/2:15.885 (DNF)1620/5:00.3451321/5:11.932
17Nick Gibson291720/5:02.0852520/5:09.1641421/5:14.593
18Chase Raymond302120/5:07.3062920/5:13.5571121/5:11.775
19Aaron Mitchell331820/5:02.6061720/5:01.2571920/5:04.434
20Dreighton Stoub342420/5:08.4251221/5:08.0743019/5:07.775
21Nick Achterkirch372320/5:08.3291920/5:06.2322020/5:05.380
22Mason Neubert391521/5:11.8712620/5:10.045387/1:47.587 (DNF)
23Brady Carrico392820/5:17.0711820/5:01.3652320/5:09.665
24Brayden Hauch392020/5:07.2892120/5:06.9843613/3:30.916 (DNF)
25Owen Vanderbeek402520/5:10.5672420/5:08.8731820/5:04.035
26Mitchel Gardner411920/5:04.0693020/5:14.3512420/5:11.076
27Alex Sturgeon422220/5:07.8252720/5:11.7192220/5:07.296
28Talon Henley442620/5:13.4632020/5:06.7412719/5:01.360
29Gavin Moeller513119/5:03.3212820/5:12.9422520/5:11.391
30Andrew Thomas512720/5:15.2373219/5:04.8032620/5:12.951
31Craig Schlegel543319/5:08.1162320/5:07.9523318/5:02.125
32Tyler Pattenaude593019/5:02.1893419/5:13.7183119/5:10.734
33Dan Jones603419/5:13.5493518/5:05.3232819/5:03.105
34Brad Shearer60408/2:22.423 (DNF)3319/5:10.1702919/5:04.128
35Emerson Sturgeon613219/5:06.3193119/5:00.6623513/3:30.750 (DNF)
36Cameron Liss663618/5:04.1583618/5:05.9973218/5:01.356
37Greg Carrico673519/5:15.1773718/5:13.2723418/5:08.267
38Alex Via733718/5:14.3993817/5:13.646404/1:13.691 (DNF)
39TJ Williams753816/5:10.8793917/5:14.513397/1:52.654 (DNF)

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Chase Lemieux1P122/5:12.14413.89114.14598.95%+101
2Aydin Horne2P222/5:11.19613.80714.10199.06%+99
3Dakotah Phend3P322/5:11.33213.57614.07398.48%+98
4Tom Rinderknecht4P421/5:01.44213.91114.25398.41%+97
5Spencer Rivkin5P721/5:02.53113.98314.25698.83%no licence
6Broc Champlin6P921/5:05.99114.00914.37398.07%+95
7Ryan Cavalieri7P521/5:03.93214.13414.34598.58%+94
8Alex Vanderbeek8P621/5:03.34213.96614.32196.63%+93
9Cole Tollard9P1021/5:06.74014.08814.41697.56%+92
10Davey Battabumped up10P1121/5:10.05014.02314.54994.76%+91
11Brennan Schimmel11P821/5:09.09413.59214.46795.45%+90
B-main
1Davey Battaup to the AP121/5:05.67213.95814.50097.61%–
2Levi Raymond12P221/5:09.12814.03514.64394.92%+89
3Doug Lariviere13P321/5:09.72114.01714.66595.20%+88
4Chase Raymond14P820/5:02.71214.24814.94995.71%+87
5Noah Hicklin15P620/5:05.83514.48915.17092.42%+86
6Mason Neubertbumped up16P1120/5:06.40414.33615.11394.80%no licence
7Brent Thielke17P420/5:07.27014.40915.09893.97%+84
8Dreighton Stoub18P1020/5:07.73014.46215.19994.31%no licence
9Nick Gibson19P720/5:08.32014.35315.26591.23%+82
10Allen Horne20P520/5:10.45814.31615.39186.62%+81
11Aaron Mitchell21P99/2:23.360 (DNF)15.11715.27598.31%+80
C-main
1Mason Neubertup to the BP221/5:11.54714.24514.76594.27%–
2Tyler Pattenaudebumped up22P1120/5:04.29014.30414.90697.22%no licence
3Mitchel Gardner23P620/5:09.13714.76815.23295.88%no licence
4Owen Vanderbeek24P520/5:12.03614.78515.24396.08%no licence
5Nick Achterkirch25P120/5:15.15614.41615.73989.16%no licence
6Alex Sturgeon26P719/5:01.09514.79615.65693.05%+75
7Talon Henley27P819/5:07.40614.65915.89389.81%no licence
8Brady Carrico28P313/3:17.081 (DNF)14.36915.02794.41%+73
9Andrew Thomas29P1012/3:09.406 (DNF)14.81115.40093.44%no licence
10Brayden Hauch30P41/21.056 (DNF)–––no licence
11Gavin Moeller31P90/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
D-main
1Tyler Pattenaudeup to the CP220/5:05.78014.62715.21696.50%–
2Brad Shearer32P420/5:07.91114.31515.29293.17%no licence
3Emerson Sturgeon33P520/5:11.30514.73215.35597.91%no licence
4Craig Schlegel34P120/5:15.15914.93515.72794.53%no licence
5Cameron Liss35P619/5:11.05515.32316.21394.50%no licence
6Greg Carrico36P718/5:07.14115.29116.89789.98%+65
7Alex Via37P817/5:08.30715.48317.98690.55%no licence
8Dan Jones38P316/4:31.481 (DNF)15.14816.70487.87%no licence
9TJ Williams39P910/3:06.165 (DNF)16.95918.32894.08%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Chase Lemieux 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 3/4/1 · TQ

    A qualifying score of 4 from 3/4/1 got him the TQ and the inside line, and then he simply removed the suspense: wins in the first two A-mains meant the third one was a formality. He duly went out and ran 11th in it, which is the sort of thing you can afford when the worst result gets dropped. Total of 2, maximum event score of 101, and the first flag planted in this championship.

  2. 2nd
    Aydin Horne 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 5 · Q 4/1/10

    Qualified second on a score of 5, took a heat win along the way in 4/1/10, and then ran the most relentless A-main set of anyone bar the TQ: 2/2/1. The last-leg win is the detail that stings, because it arrived one leg too late to matter. A total of 3 against Lemieux's 2 is about as close as you can get without a trophy.

  3. 3rd
    Dakotah Phend 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 1/6/9

    Opened qualifying with a heat win before 6th and 9th knocked the polish off it, which still added up to a 7 and the third seed. Three A-mains, three podium finishes, 3/3/2 for a total of 5 -- nobody in this field was more allergic to a bad leg. The Phenom leaves Brookfield with 98 points and no complaints beyond the two cars in front.

  4. 4th
    Tom Rinderknecht 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 8 · Q 12/5/3

    Started qualifying 12th and finished it 8th on the seed sheet, which tells you how quickly the XRAY came to him: 12/5/3 is a session-by-session repair job. The A-mains went 4/9/3, the 9 was binned, and 7 was good enough for fourth on the day. Solid opening deposit of 97 points.

  5. 5th
    Spencer Rivkin no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 10/3/37

    A 37th in the last qualifier looks alarming until you remember only the best two count, so 10/3 held the line and put him seventh on the grid. From there he improved in every single A-main -- 6th, 5th, 4th -- for a total of 9 and fifth overall, beating four drivers who out-qualified him. He races here without a series licence, so the points table will not show any of that.

  6. 6th
    Broc Champlin 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 15 · Q 9/7/8

    The reigning 2WD world champion scraped into the seeded ten and lined up ninth, which is not the sentence Schumacher had in mind. He then went 7/4/6 for a 10 and climbed to sixth, which is roughly a full row of recovery per A-main. Ninety-five points and a very clear note to self about Saturday.

  7. 7th
    Ryan Cavalieri 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 9 · Q 5/9/4

    Fifth seed on a score of 9 from 5/9/4, and fifth on the grid, so the platform was there. The A-mains went the wrong way instead -- 5/6/8, total 11 -- and he slipped two spots on the day. Four world titles buys a lot of patience, but it does not buy back a drifting main.

  8. 8th
    Alex Vanderbeek 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 6/11/6

    A 12 from 6/11/6 made him the sixth seed, and the A-mains gave him one very good leg and one very ordinary one: 8/11/5 for a 13. The closing 5th is the number worth keeping, since it dragged him level with the drivers he started beside. Ninety-three points and eighth place to open the year.

  9. 9th
    Cole Tollard 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 15 · Q 8/10/7

    Last of the seeded ten and starting tenth, he then quietly did the thing that actually pays: 11th, 7th, 7th, total 14. That is a climb of one on the day off the back row of the grid, all of it earned in traffic rather than clean air. Ninety-two points for the TLR man.

  10. 10th
    Davey Batta 91 ptsbumped up
    91 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 22 · Q 7/15/15

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeding into it, which is the hard way to spend a Sunday morning. Once there he ran 10/8/10 for a total of 18 and came out tenth, ahead of a seeded driver on countback. The 2025 Worlds runner-up will want more than 91, but he banked something from a weekend that never really opened up.

  11. 11th
    Brennan Schimmel 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 13 · Q 29/8/5

    A 29th in the opening qualifier was the whole problem: 8th and 5th afterwards rescued a 13 and the eighth seed, but the hole had already been dug. The A-mains read 9/10/9 for a total of 18, identical to Batta's, and the tiebreak went the other way. Last of the A-main runners on his first weekend of the series, with 90 points to show for it.

  12. Outside the A-main
  13. 12th
    Levi Raymond 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 26 · Q 14/14/12

    First man on the wrong side of the A-main cut, which is the most frustrating address in racing. Eighty-nine points is a perfectly respectable haul for a driver who never got a seeded start, and it puts him ahead of everyone else in the lower mains.

  14. 13th
    Doug Lariviere 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 28 · Q 11/40/17

    No seeded start and no A-main, but 88 points is real money in a series scored off best-three events. Twelfth-quickest man on the day when the mains were counted, and he did it from outside the seeded ten.

  15. 14th
    Chase Raymond 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 32 · Q 21/29/11

    Outside the seeded ten and into a lower main, where he came out 14th overall for 87 points. Steady rather than spectacular, but in a class this deep the difference between 14th and the A-main cut is a couple of tenths and a clean run.

  16. 15th
    Noah Hicklin 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 29 · Q 39/16/13

    No seeded start to lean on and a lower main to work out of, and he still leaves with 86 points on his first entry in the ledger. The drivers immediately ahead of him on this sheet are almost all names with factory rides.

  17. 17th
    Brent Thielke 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 29 · Q 16/13/21

    Missed the seeded ten and came home 17th, worth 84 points. In a five-round championship where only your best three count, showing up and finishing is most of the battle -- he has one in the bank.

  18. 19th
    Nick Gibson 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P17 · qual score 31 · Q 17/25/14

    The JConcepts man qualified outside the seeded ten and took 19th, which is 82 points toward a season total. Modified 2WD in this company is a very different proposition from the stock classes he has been cleaning up in, and he got through it clean.

  19. 20th
    Allen Horne 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 29 · Q 13/22/16

    A family name that also turns up rather higher on this results sheet, and 81 points collected from outside the seeded ten. Nothing flashy, everything finished.

  20. 21st
    Aaron Mitchell 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 35 · Q 18/17/19

    Rounded out the scoring drivers in 21st for 80 points, having missed the seeded ten. A stock-class regular taking a swing at a modified field stacked with world champions is going to spend a lot of the weekend looking at other people's rear wings, and he came out the other side with points.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

One round down and the table is simply the finishing order with the TQ bonus stapled on top: Chase Lemieux leads on 101, the only man in the class to have banked the maximum, with Aydin Horne on 99 and Dakotah Phend on 98. Nobody has anything to compare best-three against yet -- every driver has exactly one start, so the raw total and the championship figure are the same number, and the discard pile is empty. That makes the standings unusually honest for now, and unusually fragile: a single bad weekend can be replaced by anyone who runs all five rounds. Spencer Rivkin's fifth place is the ghost in the machine, a result that beat six licensed drivers and appears nowhere in the points. The top ten is separated by 11 points, which at 1 point per finishing position means the whole championship currently fits inside one A-main field.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Aydin Horne+99393−952984
2Chase Lemieux+101386−922944
3Broc Champlin+95386−952914
4Tom Rinderknecht+97380−892914
5Davey Batta+91381−912904
6Brennan Schimmel+90377−902874
7Chase Raymond+8727502753
8Levi Raymond+8927402743

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Daniel Kobbevik — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 39 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Daniel Kobbevik2721/5:12.86313.942 fast · 14.898 avg121/5:00.00813.986 fast · 14.286 avg321/5:01.19613.987 fast · 14.343 avg
2Broc Champlin2121/5:04.95413.759 fast · 14.522 avg321/5:00.52813.948 fast · 14.311 avg4010/2:33.403 (DNF)13.949 fast · 15.340 avg
3Aydin Horne6321/5:05.02814.134 fast · 14.525 avg521/5:02.52113.977 fast · 14.406 avg521/5:08.72313.930 fast · 14.701 avg
4Tater Sontag8621/5:11.76313.960 fast · 14.846 avg721/5:04.55713.909 fast · 14.503 avg421/5:05.50013.934 fast · 14.548 avg
5Brennan Schimmel9381/14.520 (DNF)14.520 fast · 14.520 avg1021/5:10.04114.107 fast · 14.764 avg121/5:01.00513.873 fast · 14.334 avg
6Chase Lemieux9421/5:07.12214.091 fast · 14.625 avg921/5:08.43814.047 fast · 14.688 avg721/5:10.39513.983 fast · 14.781 avg
7Davey Batta9521/5:11.42014.033 fast · 14.830 avg621/5:04.43614.041 fast · 14.497 avg1220/5:02.75213.994 fast · 15.138 avg
8Dakotah Phend121020/5:02.31514.118 fast · 15.116 avg421/5:01.66214.065 fast · 14.365 avg1120/5:01.14114.159 fast · 15.057 avg
9Ryan Cavalieri12920/5:02.02914.277 fast · 15.101 avg821/5:06.26114.163 fast · 14.584 avg621/5:09.05714.225 fast · 14.717 avg
10Nate Sutherland17821/5:13.51414.141 fast · 14.929 avg1121/5:11.09214.014 fast · 14.814 avg1520/5:06.40114.094 fast · 15.320 avg
11Tom Rinderknecht18390/0.000 (DNS)1221/5:11.91414.251 fast · 14.853 avg821/5:12.34314.213 fast · 14.873 avg
12Brandon Foote201220/5:05.19714.657 fast · 15.260 avg1520/5:04.74814.308 fast · 15.237 avg1020/5:01.01714.237 fast · 15.051 avg
13Juan Lopez221520/5:08.36314.489 fast · 15.418 avg2320/5:17.10814.437 fast · 15.855 avg920/5:00.12714.384 fast · 15.006 avg
14Benjamin Decker231120/5:04.69414.862 fast · 15.235 avg1720/5:06.69214.549 fast · 15.335 avg1420/5:06.35314.549 fast · 15.318 avg
15Brent Thielke281420/5:07.68714.865 fast · 15.384 avg1620/5:05.31314.616 fast · 15.266 avg3219/5:18.15114.655 fast · 16.745 avg
16Collin Miles291720/5:10.27214.945 fast · 15.514 avg1420/5:04.04714.732 fast · 15.202 avg2219/5:03.18114.779 fast · 15.957 avg
17Brady Carrico313317/5:03.68814.464 fast · 17.864 avg2020/5:09.04114.139 fast · 15.452 avg1320/5:04.99414.360 fast · 15.250 avg
18Casey Blasczyk311320/5:05.89214.564 fast · 15.295 avg2120/5:11.74614.398 fast · 15.587 avg2019/5:01.66513.225 fast · 15.877 avg
19Mark Decker331820/5:13.19714.908 fast · 15.660 avg2419/5:00.67814.925 fast · 15.825 avg1720/5:14.94014.712 fast · 15.747 avg
20Maccoy Martin343711/2:43.668 (DNF)14.488 fast · 14.879 avg1320/5:01.37714.346 fast · 15.069 avg2319/5:04.21414.338 fast · 16.011 avg
21Brandon Marsh351920/5:13.88614.685 fast · 15.694 avg1820/5:06.98014.779 fast · 15.349 avg2119/5:02.78614.444 fast · 15.936 avg
22Matt Brienzo352019/5:00.04014.822 fast · 15.792 avg1920/5:07.79414.747 fast · 15.390 avg1819/5:00.68714.957 fast · 15.826 avg
23Alex Vanderbeek362219/5:02.18014.598 fast · 15.904 avg2719/5:04.17614.874 fast · 16.009 avg1620/5:07.66614.542 fast · 15.383 avg
24Daigan Bledsoe381620/5:09.61714.929 fast · 15.481 avg3019/5:06.43914.885 fast · 16.128 avg2419/5:04.45814.932 fast · 16.024 avg
25Allen Horne382119/5:00.47514.845 fast · 15.814 avg2619/5:01.48715.087 fast · 15.868 avg1919/5:01.22014.901 fast · 15.854 avg
26Ilan Sanderson462619/5:13.91614.948 fast · 16.522 avg2220/5:15.38814.957 fast · 15.769 avg3518/5:04.38815.152 fast · 16.910 avg
27Luke Siela492319/5:04.90215.220 fast · 16.047 avg2819/5:05.39515.447 fast · 16.073 avg3119/5:14.26115.176 fast · 16.540 avg
28Daniel Chavez502419/5:08.70714.879 fast · 16.248 avg2919/5:05.96014.836 fast · 16.103 avg2819/5:11.28414.693 fast · 16.383 avg
29Jamie Thompson502819/5:15.39015.043 fast · 16.599 avg2519/5:01.43815.132 fast · 15.865 avg2719/5:08.90214.974 fast · 16.258 avg
30Nathan Betley543416/4:19.027 (DNF)15.276 fast · 16.189 avg3119/5:09.40415.252 fast · 16.284 avg2519/5:04.50815.053 fast · 16.027 avg
31Dawson Camacho542719/5:13.95115.132 fast · 16.524 avg3717/5:01.02115.741 fast · 17.707 avg2919/5:11.99315.581 fast · 16.421 avg
32Wally Mayne562519/5:13.77215.933 fast · 16.514 avg3618/5:12.61315.080 fast · 17.367 avg3318/5:01.85315.365 fast · 16.770 avg
33Jason Engel573613/3:55.185 (DNF)15.550 fast · 18.091 avg3318/5:04.36715.690 fast · 16.909 avg2619/5:05.45015.271 fast · 16.076 avg
34Greg Carrico592918/5:00.98115.627 fast · 16.721 avg3218/5:04.18415.828 fast · 16.899 avg3618/5:12.31815.325 fast · 17.351 avg
35Josh Cyrul593118/5:03.71615.510 fast · 16.873 avg3418/5:06.24615.640 fast · 17.014 avg3019/5:13.01715.522 fast · 16.475 avg
36Tony Crowell623018/5:01.05015.763 fast · 16.725 avg3518/5:11.16515.905 fast · 17.287 avg3418/5:04.20715.904 fast · 16.900 avg
37Dylan Hall683217/5:01.21315.833 fast · 17.718 avg3817/5:02.02315.796 fast · 17.766 avg3916/5:03.77915.677 fast · 18.986 avg
38Wesley Brattin703515/5:00.07116.782 fast · 20.005 avg3916/5:05.07516.890 fast · 19.067 avg3717/5:12.46316.409 fast · 18.380 avg
39Cody Hawks75390/0.000 (DNF)4016/5:12.89716.249 fast · 19.556 avg3817/5:13.75716.422 fast · 18.456 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Daniel Kobbevik1P122/5:11.94613.94814.25398.66%+101
2Tater Sontag2P422/5:13.92013.78214.29498.05%no licence
3Aydin Horne3P322/5:13.59113.85914.28797.79%+98
4Brennan Schimmel4P521/5:03.57114.07514.46098.01%+97
5Broc Champlin5P221/5:01.48813.72014.33395.57%+96
6Davey Batta6P721/5:03.80014.12214.44798.29%+95
7Chase Lemieux7P621/5:04.56513.73214.36095.77%+94
8Ryan Cavalieri8P921/5:12.70414.23514.86994.85%+93
9Dakotah Phend9P821/5:05.99314.05414.54595.56%+92
10Nate Sutherland10P1021/5:12.58213.90514.82593.33%+91
11Juan Lopezbumped up11P1121/5:13.02114.12014.77094.90%+90
B-main
1Tom Rinderknecht12P121/5:12.02314.18714.92795.99%+89
2Juan Lopezup to the AP321/5:12.06714.33914.89596.07%–
3Brandon Foote13P220/5:03.80314.19715.25892.03%+88
4Brady Carrico14P720/5:05.79014.33815.31992.53%+87
5Casey Blasczyk15P820/5:06.65214.49615.31393.09%+86
6Collin Miles16P620/5:15.24214.76215.77291.30%no licence
7Alex Vanderbeekbumped up17P1119/5:06.10614.93816.07688.07%+84
8Benjamin Decker18P419/5:08.76714.69716.30690.33%+83
9Maccoy Martin19P1018/4:31.668 (DNF)14.49015.03596.24%+82
10Mark Decker20P918/5:04.66214.57416.96083.96%+81
11Brent Thielke21P517/4:41.710 (DNF)13.19216.70084.99%+80
C-main
1Alex Vanderbeekup to the BP320/5:12.91814.77415.71189.38%–
2Ilan Sanderson22P620/5:15.16014.91215.54692.49%no licence
3Matt Brienzo23P219/5:01.08814.80115.90490.20%no licence
4Jamie Thompson24P919/5:02.39815.13015.89393.91%+77
5Allen Horne25P519/5:11.59313.36816.47381.31%+76
6Nathan Betley26P1018/5:00.30115.06516.51690.18%no licence
7Luke Siela27P718/5:00.48714.97716.77382.63%+74
8Daniel Chavez28P86/1:32.661 (DNF)15.05915.41298.69%+73
9Jason Engelbumped up29P113/52.561 (DNF)15.84717.737–no licence
10Brandon Marsh30P10/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
11Daigan Bledsoe31P40/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
D-main
1Jason Engelup to the CP320/5:15.13015.21315.76495.71%–
2Dawson Camacho32P118/5:02.24515.60916.92390.03%+69
3Tony Crowell33P618/5:02.87715.89316.85293.76%no licence
4Greg Carrico34P418/5:04.43815.38116.97188.84%+67
5Josh Cyrul35P518/5:05.31215.17516.98091.22%+66
6Cody Hawks36P918/5:16.70416.36517.56391.01%no licence
7Wesley Brattin37P84/1:15.090 (DNF)17.53517.81898.55%no licence
8Wally Mayne38P23/47.462 (DNF)16.10016.181–no licence
9Dylan Hall39P70/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified. A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so a run cut shorter than that shows none.

  1. 1st
    Daniel Kobbevik 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 7/1/3 · TQ

    A 7th in the opening qualifier looked like a wasted session until 1st and 3rd turned it into a score of 4 and the TQ on countback. He then won the first A-main, lost the second by one place, and won the third to close it out at a total of 2 -- the perfect weekend. The Norwegian champion turns up to his first round of the series and takes the maximum 101 points off a field of factory pros.

  2. 2nd
    Tater Sontag no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 6/7/4

    Fourth seed on a 10 from 6/7/4, then a 4/1/5 set in the mains including the middle-leg win, for a total of 5 and second overall. The 2023 world champion beat every licensed driver in the building bar one and will not see a single point for it. Sometimes the scoreboard and the result sheet tell completely different stories.

  3. 3rd
    Aydin Horne 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 3/5/5

    Beautifully consistent qualifying -- 3/5/5 for an 8 and the third seed -- and then the A-mains gave him 2/4/4 for a total of 6. He was in the fight in all three legs and never had a leg to throw away, which is a compliment and a limitation in the same breath. Ninety-eight points, and a second podium in two rounds.

  4. 4th
    Brennan Schimmel 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 38/10/1

    A 38th in the opening qualifier is the sort of number that ends weekends, and he answered it with 10th and then a heat win to salvage an 11 and the fifth seed. The A-mains ran 6/3/3 for a total of 6 -- identical to Aydin Horne's -- and the tiebreak sent him to fourth. That is a proper rescue job from a driver who was 11th at Brookfield.

  5. 5th
    Broc Champlin 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 1/3/40

    Won the first qualifier, backed it with a 3rd, and the 40th in the last one simply vanished under the best-two rule: a score of 4 and the second seed. The mains were choppier, 5/8/2 for a 7, with the closing leg the pick of them. Fifth on the day and 96 points, which is one better than his opening round.

  6. 6th
    Davey Batta 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 11 · Q 5/6/12

    Third in the first A-main was the high-water mark, and 6/11 afterwards dropped him to a total of 9 and sixth overall. He had qualified seventh on an 11 from 5/6/12, so the day was broadly a hold rather than a gain. Ninety-five points for the AE man, and a much tidier weekend than Round 1 gave him.

  7. 7th
    Chase Lemieux 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 4/9/7

    The Round 1 winner arrived as the sixth seed on an 11 from 4/9/7 and never found the same gear, running 7/5/7 for a total of 12. Seventh place is not a disaster and 94 points is not nothing, but it is 7 fewer than he took home from Brookfield. The TQ trophy stayed on someone else's bench this time.

  8. 8th
    Ryan Cavalieri 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 14 · Q 9/8/6

    No seeded start, ninth on the grid, and an A-main set of 9/10/6 for a total of 15. The closing 6th is the one to build on -- it was his best leg by three positions and came when the track had come to him. Ninety-three points and eighth on a weekend that never quite opened up.

  9. 9th
    Dakotah Phend 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 14 · Q 10/4/11

    Eighth seed on a 14 from 10/4/11, then 10/7/8 in the mains for a total of 15, matching Cavalieri and losing the tiebreak. After a 3/3/2 weekend at Brookfield this was a genuine step backwards, and he leaves Macomb with 92 points instead of the 98 he collected in February. The XRAY was clearly a handful all weekend.

  10. 10th
    Nate Sutherland 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 19 · Q 8/11/15

    Opened his series account on the last of the seeded ten, lined up tenth, and ran 8/11/9 for a total of 17. The 8th in the first leg says the pace is there; the two after it say the consistency is still catching up. Ninety-one points on debut is a fine place to start.

  11. 11th
    Juan Lopez 90 ptsbumped up
    90 pts · qualified P13 · bumped up from the B · qual score 24 · Q 15/23/9

    Bumped his way into the A-main, which is the hardest ticket on the sheet, and then held station with 11/9/10 for a 19. Nobody was passing him wholesale -- he finished within a place or two of where he started in every leg. Ninety points for a weekend that began with him not even seeded.

  12. Outside the A-main
  13. 12th
    Tom Rinderknecht 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 20 · Q 39/12/8

    Fourth at Brookfield, 12th here, and no seeded start to blame it on anyone else. Eighty-nine points still lands him top of the non-A-main runners, which is the consolation prize you accept and then immediately resent. A lower main is a long way from the front row he was fighting on in February.

  14. 13th
    Brandon Foote 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 22 · Q 12/15/10

    Missed the seeded ten and came out 13th for 88 points, first appearance of the year in the results. In a field where world champions were qualifying 38th and 40th in individual heats, simply putting three clean sessions together has value.

  15. 14th
    Brady Carrico 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P17 · qual score 33 · Q 33/20/13

    No seeded start and 87 points collected anyway, which is a solid opening deposit toward a best-of-three season total. It came in one of the deepest modified fields the series has assembled.

  16. 15th
    Casey Blasczyk 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 33 · Q 13/21/20

    The 40+ standard-bearer took 15th from outside the seeded ten, banking 86 points. Racing a modified buggy against factory pros half his age is a different sport from the class he usually wins, and he came out with a scoring result.

  17. 17th
    Alex Vanderbeek 84 ptsbumped up
    84 pts · qualified P23 · bumped up from the C · qual score 38 · Q 22/27/16

    Eighth in the A-main at Brookfield and 23rd in qualifying here, a trend line pointing firmly the wrong way -- so he went and won the C from the third slot to arrest it. The B repaid him with the eleventh and last grid position, and seventh at the flag was four cars better than that. Seventeenth overall and 84 points, and he is one of the few drivers to have scored at both rounds so far, which in this format is worth more than any single result.

  18. 18th
    Benjamin Decker 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 25 · Q 11/17/14

    A new name on the scoresheet, arriving without a seeded start and leaving with 83 points. Finishing inside the top twenty of a field this decorated is not a throwaway.

  19. 19th
    Maccoy Martin 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 36 · Q 37/13/23

    The XRAY stock regular took 19th from outside the seeded ten for 82 points. Stepping up from 17.5 and 13.5 into modified is a jump in horsepower most people describe using words that do not print well, and he got to the flag.

  20. 20th
    Mark Decker 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 35 · Q 18/24/17

    Eighty-one points from outside the seeded ten, and between them the two Deckers bracket the back of the scoring order. That has to make for an interesting drive home.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Aydin Horne leaves Macomb leading the championship on 197 without having won a round or taken a TQ, which is the sort of thing that happens when you finish second and third while everyone else takes turns at being brilliant and terrible. Chase Lemieux is two behind on 195 with the only win and TQ in the series, Broc Champlin is on 191, and Dakotah Phend 190. Every driver in the top ten has exactly two starts, so raw totals and championship figures remain identical -- nothing has been discarded, and nobody is yet carrying dead weight. The name to watch is Daniel Kobbevik, who took a perfect 101 on his first appearance and sits outside the top ten purely because he has one start where the leaders have two. Brennan Schimmel and Ryan Cavalieri are tied on 187, Davey Batta and Tom Rinderknecht tied on 186, and with best-of-three scoring still three rounds from mattering, this is a table built almost entirely on attendance.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Aydin Horne+98393−952984
2Chase Lemieux+94386−922944
3Broc Champlin+96386−952914
4Tom Rinderknecht+89380−892914
5Davey Batta+95381−912904
6Brennan Schimmel+97377−902874
7Chase Raymond–27502753
8Levi Raymond–27402743

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Tom Rinderknecht — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 43 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Tom Rinderknecht2121/5:13.009321/5:11.094321/5:09.523
2Daniel Kobbevik3820/5:00.844421/5:12.442121/5:09.064
3Broc Champlin3421/5:13.178121/5:10.377621/5:14.386
4Davey Batta5321/5:13.057721/5:14.207421/5:11.236
5Brennan Schimmel8521/5:15.031920/5:01.964521/5:12.567
6Nate Sutherland10620/5:00.004621/5:14.069720/5:01.621
7Aydin Horne124414/3:41.661 (DNF)521/5:12.951920/5:03.034
8Chase Lemieux13720/5:00.089821/5:14.6822219/4:58.676 (DNF)
9Juan Lopez161020/5:05.7421320/5:05.177820/5:01.793
10Jovy Levin17920/5:00.9931020/5:02.0411120/5:06.003
11Chase Raymond191520/5:10.3631120/5:03.2241020/5:04.741
12Levi Raymond211120/5:05.8661220/5:04.3341420/5:10.443
13Brad Borneill241420/5:10.2871820/5:12.6321220/5:09.210
14Casey Blasczyk26455/1:18.397 (DNF)1520/5:09.0501320/5:09.323
15Ryland Bauer271320/5:10.0631620/5:11.3441720/5:13.978
16Brady Carrico302019/5:04.7181420/5:06.8431820/5:14.142
17Brandon Foote311220/5:09.6822119/5:01.4922120/5:15.630
18Alex Vanderbeek311720/5:10.7111720/5:11.5381620/5:13.296
19Jamie Thompson342119/5:04.9424019/5:15.1241520/5:12.970
20Zeke Ballinger351819/5:02.2961920/5:13.4831920/5:14.438
21Aaron Mitchell401919/5:02.9333419/5:10.4122319/5:03.956
22Benjamin Decker402919/5:13.1572219/5:01.7842020/5:15.486
23Maccoy Martin441620/5:10.4283019/5:07.9044318/5:04.228
24Matthew Bauer462319/5:06.6734218/5:01.2302519/5:04.563
25David Joor473618/5:02.1632519/5:03.5932419/5:04.460
26Josh Cyrul482619/5:08.9662419/5:03.1714118/5:03.289
27Jacob Sweisberger514218/5:11.0012020/5:15.3293319/5:09.226
28Billy Hayden513019/5:13.3272719/5:05.3442619/5:04.707
29Lance Parker523219/5:14.0582619/5:05.0052819/5:05.690
30Evan Cook542519/5:08.1643119/5:08.6693519/5:10.186
31Allen Horne553418/5:00.1302319/5:01.8433919/5:16.060
32Brian Jaeger563119/5:13.5893919/5:14.6132719/5:05.204
33Stephen Shuey563518/5:00.7542819/5:05.6043019/5:07.589
34Daniel Chavez592719/5:10.6544517/5:13.3353419/5:09.687
35Mark Decker612219/5:04.9944119/5:16.7004218/5:04.214
36Zach Noia623818/5:03.5653319/5:09.8683119/5:08.224
37Tucker Mitchel623718/5:02.5013219/5:09.4953219/5:08.914
38John Eidsmoe632819/5:11.9193819/5:13.6783719/5:12.178
39Duane Fisher634118/5:08.5713619/5:13.3342919/5:07.336
40Daniel Bender683319/5:15.3753719/5:13.6573819/5:14.154
41Dawson Camacho734018/5:07.4383519/5:10.4934418/5:05.251
42Greg Carrico773918/5:05.9614318/5:04.0914018/5:01.129
43Luke Siela854318/5:12.1814418/5:05.8084518/5:09.935

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Tom Rinderknecht1P121/5:09.13314.42214.66898.82%+101
2Daniel Kobbevik2P221/5:11.92514.54714.77799.14%+99
3Broc Champlin3P321/5:11.12714.41414.72998.46%+98
4Davey Batta4P421/5:11.65114.46414.73998.98%+97
5Brennan Schimmel5P521/5:14.51714.43914.85097.96%+96
6Aydin Horne6P721/5:13.89214.57414.80598.48%+95
7Nate Sutherland7P620/5:00.17714.63814.87897.81%+94
8Chase Raymondbumped up8P1120/5:03.72214.60214.97298.51%+93
9Chase Lemieux9P820/5:05.83814.74515.14996.46%+92
10Jovy Levin10P1020/5:03.42314.61114.97098.59%no licence
11Juan Lopez11P920/5:09.50914.74915.31493.21%+90
B-main
1Chase Raymondup to the AP120/5:08.68315.02015.38395.56%–
2Levi Raymond12P220/5:14.29014.93415.65795.16%+89
3Brandon Foote13P720/5:19.34515.12915.83090.94%+88
4Zeke Ballinger14P1019/5:00.47615.33515.60798.22%no licence
5Ryland Bauer15P519/5:01.88515.06615.75293.08%no licence
6Maccoy Martinbumped up16P1119/5:02.25015.03815.68195.05%+85
7Brad Borneill17P319/5:02.80315.00615.86191.32%no licence
8Alex Vanderbeek18P819/5:04.60915.24815.88095.46%+83
9Casey Blasczyk19P419/5:04.87515.13315.94291.37%+82
10Brady Carrico20P619/5:05.14114.95415.94991.54%+81
11Jamie Thompson21P919/5:05.56215.30415.91193.52%+80
C-main
1Maccoy Martinup to the BP320/5:08.29714.96915.33398.26%–
2Josh Cyrul22P619/5:03.95215.35615.83497.62%+79
3Aaron Mitchell23P119/5:05.46815.51816.06492.86%+78
4Jacob Sweisberger24P719/5:06.19215.14015.98493.29%no licence
5Benjamin Decker25P219/5:06.58215.46116.10693.00%+76
6Evan Cook26P1019/5:12.13515.80616.13397.58%no licence
7Lance Parker27P919/5:12.38415.73816.27895.08%no licence
8Billy Hayden28P819/5:12.59815.38416.29694.31%no licence
9David Joor29P519/5:12.82215.43416.38790.95%no licence
10Matthew Bauer30P419/5:13.52915.50216.44393.12%no licence
11Allen Hornebumped up31P1118/5:02.83915.67316.48191.46%+70
D-main
1Allen Horneup to the CP119/5:01.66715.45315.81398.67%–
2Mark Decker32P519/5:08.02215.58016.07897.99%+69
3Stephen Shuey33P319/5:13.79515.50716.41892.93%no licence
4Tucker Mitchel34P719/5:14.92615.96316.42695.33%no licence
5Zach Noia35P619/5:15.27015.87016.46293.27%no licence
6John Eidsmoe36P818/5:01.13815.85816.55193.74%no licence
7Dawson Camachobumped up37P1118/5:02.66915.66216.59093.86%+64
8Daniel Bender38P1018/5:03.95115.84616.63191.21%+63
9Duane Fisher39P918/5:05.22115.65516.76091.87%no licence
10Brian Jaeger40P29/2:24.977 (DNF)15.75415.93298.88%no licence
11Daniel Chavez41P40/0.000 (DNS)–––+60
E-main
1Dawson Camachoup to the DP119/5:08.05615.85916.14498.83%–
2Greg Carrico42P219/5:12.83715.77816.36298.09%+59
3Luke Siela43P315/5:10.55016.12116.91394.77%+58

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Tom Rinderknecht 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 1/3/3 · TQ

    Won the opening qualifier and never let go of it -- 1/3/3 for a score of 4 and the TQ, his first of the year. He took the second A-main, had already banked a 2nd, and could then afford the 9th in the finale because the worst leg gets dropped. A total of 3, the maximum 101 points, and redemption for a driver who was stuck in a lower main last time out.

  2. 2nd
    Daniel Kobbevik 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 5 · Q 8/4/1

    Second seed on a 5 from 8/4/1, he won the first A-main and finished second in the next, which is a total of 3 -- exactly the same as the winner's. The tiebreak went to Rinderknecht, and the 11th in the last leg is the one that will keep him awake. Ninety-nine points, and he is now unbeaten by anyone at his own count over two very different weekends.

  3. 3rd
    Broc Champlin 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 5 · Q 4/1/6

    A heat win inside 4/1/6 gave him a 5 and the third seed, and then the world champion finally strung a weekend together: 5/3/1 for a total of 4 and a closing A-main victory. That is three rounds, three finishes of sixth, fifth and now third -- the arrow is pointing exactly where Schumacher want it. Ninety-eight points and his best result of the series.

  4. 4th
    Davey Batta 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 7 · Q 3/7/4

    Fourth seed on a 7 from 3/7/4, and the A-mains were the most reliable of anyone outside the podium: 3/4/2 for a total of 5. He was never worse than fourth in any leg, which nobody else in this field can say. Ninety-seven points, up another two places on his Macomb weekend.

  5. 5th
    Brennan Schimmel 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 5/9/5

    A score of 10 from 5/9/5 for the fifth seed, then 4/5/4 in the mains for a total of 8 -- no fireworks, no disasters, and no positions lost. Third round in a row where he has finished ahead of at least one driver who out-qualified him. Ninety-six points and a fifth-place finish that keeps him firmly attached to the front group.

  6. 6th
    Aydin Horne 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 14 · Q 44/5/9

    A 44th in the opening qualifier is genuinely spectacular as a piece of damage, and 5/9 afterwards still only rescued a 14 and the seventh seed. From there he ran 6/6/3 for a 9, took a place back off the grid, and finished sixth. Ninety-five points and, remarkably, a weekend that will barely dent the championship lead he brought into Muscatine.

  7. 7th
    Nate Sutherland 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 6/6/7

    Sixth seed on a 12 from 6/6/7, about as metronomic as qualifying gets, then 7/8/5 in the mains for a total of 12. Seventh overall, three points better than his Macomb debut and one place further up the road. The Schumacher is clearly getting closer to what he wants from it.

  8. 8th
    Chase Raymond 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 21 · Q 15/11/10

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeding in, then ran 9/7/7 for a total of 14 and came out eighth -- ahead of a driver who had TQ'd this series. That is a proper afternoon's work from a racer who was 14th overall at Brookfield. Ninety-three points, and the biggest single-round improvement on the sheet.

  9. 9th
    Chase Lemieux 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 15 · Q 7/8/22

    A 22nd in the last qualifier left him with a 15 and the eighth seed, and the mains were worse: 11/11/6 for a total of 17. The closing 6th at least proved the pace existed somewhere in the building. Ninety-two points is his lowest score of the year, and the Round 1 winner is now the one doing the chasing.

  10. 10th
    Jovy Levin no points
    no series licence · qualified P10 · qual score 19 · Q 9/10/11

    Started tenth without a seeded run and turned in 8/9/10 for a total of 17, level with Lemieux and beaten only on the tiebreak. Finishing within a place of a series winner on your first appearance is a decent business card. He races without a licence, so none of it goes on the points table.

  11. 11th
    Juan Lopez 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 18 · Q 10/13/8

    Ninth on the grid and 10/10/8 in the mains for an 18, which is a very tidy piece of consistency in a field that ate several better-known names alive. Ninety points, exactly what he took from Macomb, and a second A-main start in two attempts.

  12. Outside the A-main
  13. 12th
    Levi Raymond 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 23 · Q 11/12/14

    Top of the lower mains again, 12th overall and 89 points -- the same score and the same near-miss he took away from Brookfield. Two scoring rounds in the bank without ever getting a seeded start is a solid foundation.

  14. 13th
    Brandon Foote 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P17 · qual score 33 · Q 12/21/21

    Same result as Macomb, same 88 points, still without a seeded start. Repeatable is underrated: he has now put the identical number on the board at two very different tracks.

  15. 16th
    Maccoy Martin 85 ptsbumped up
    85 pts · qualified P23 · bumped up from the C · qual score 46 · Q 16/30/43

    A stock regular winning a modified C-main from the third slot is worth a moment: 20 laps in 5:08.297 at 98.26% consistency, the tidiest run in that race. The B then handed him the eleventh and last grid position and he climbed five of them to sixth. Eighty-five points and a three-point gain on his Macomb return, and the modified pace is closing one round at a time.

  16. 18th
    Alex Vanderbeek 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 33 · Q 17/17/16

    Another lower-main weekend and 83 points, continuing the slide from the A-main eighth he took in February. He has scored at all three rounds, and in a best-of-three championship that habit is worth defending.

  17. 19th
    Casey Blasczyk 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 28 · Q 45/15/13

    Four points down on his Macomb weekend at 82, and again no seeded start to build from. The 40+ specialist keeps showing up in a class full of world champions, which is either brave or contagious.

  18. 20th
    Brady Carrico 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 32 · Q 20/14/18

    Eighty-one points from outside the seeded ten, and that makes two rounds and two scores. His championship position is starting to look like a genuine top-ten proposition on volume alone.

  19. 21st
    Jamie Thompson 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 36 · Q 21/40/15

    Debut weekend, no seeded run, 80 points on the board. Modified 2WD at this level is a wall to run into first time out, and he got a scoring result out of it.

  20. 22nd
    Josh Cyrul 79 pts
    79 pts · qualified P26 · qual score 50 · Q 26/24/41

    Rounded out the scorers in 22nd for 79 points. Last of the points is still points, and in a series decided on best-three totals, everyone who finished today has something the drivers who stayed home do not.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Three rounds in and Aydin Horne still leads on 292 without a single round win or TQ to his name, five clear of the two drivers who do have one -- Chase Lemieux and Tom Rinderknecht are tied on 287. Broc Champlin has moved to second on 289 on the back of his strongest weekend of the year, and Brennan Schimmel and Davey Batta are locked together on 283. Everyone in the top six now has three starts, which means their raw totals and their best-three championship figures are still the same number: from the next round on, that changes, and a fourth start will start burying somebody's worst result. Daniel Kobbevik is the outlier that makes this interesting -- 200 points from two starts, a win and a TQ, sitting tenth on volume alone while carrying no discarded result at all. Alex Vanderbeek on 260 and Brady Carrico on 241 are the reminder that in a best-of-three series, turning up to every round is a strategy, and Allen Horne on 227 has made it work from outside the seeded ten every time.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Aydin Horne+95393−952984
2Chase Lemieux+92386−922944
3Broc Champlin+98386−952914
4Tom Rinderknecht+101380−892914
5Davey Batta+97381−912904
6Brennan Schimmel+96377−902874
7Chase Raymond+9327502753
8Levi Raymond+8927402743

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Aydin Horne — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 29 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Aydin Horne0114/5:21.93622.648 fast · 22.995 avg114/5:21.22622.295 fast · 22.945 avg114/5:19.61322.452 fast · 22.830 avg
2Chase Lemieux4613/5:03.74622.684 fast · 23.365 avg314/5:21.39822.560 fast · 22.957 avg314/5:20.71322.536 fast · 22.908 avg
3Davey Batta5313/5:01.18522.766 fast · 23.168 avg414/5:21.50122.518 fast · 22.964 avg813/5:03.71422.488 fast · 23.363 avg
4Broc Champlin71013/5:08.02322.826 fast · 23.694 avg513/5:02.88822.703 fast · 23.299 avg414/5:21.44722.622 fast · 22.961 avg
5Levi Raymond7413/5:02.32922.915 fast · 23.256 avg1613/5:15.98823.245 fast · 24.307 avg513/5:00.75822.729 fast · 23.135 avg
6Brennan Schimmel10513/5:02.48022.894 fast · 23.268 avg713/5:06.27123.119 fast · 23.559 avg1613/5:10.94322.623 fast · 23.919 avg
7Tom Rinderknecht11913/5:05.72623.201 fast · 23.517 avg613/5:05.80923.009 fast · 23.524 avg713/5:02.38022.588 fast · 23.260 avg
8Chase Raymond12813/5:05.27122.944 fast · 23.482 avg913/5:08.70023.151 fast · 23.746 avg613/5:02.04022.802 fast · 23.234 avg
9Alex Sturgeon16713/5:04.52323.075 fast · 23.425 avg1113/5:10.54523.303 fast · 23.888 avg1413/5:08.85322.977 fast · 23.758 avg
10Alex Vanderbeek201713/5:16.43023.430 fast · 24.341 avg1313/5:10.97323.144 fast · 23.921 avg913/5:06.40023.127 fast · 23.569 avg
11Noah Hicklin201213/5:09.73023.459 fast · 23.825 avg3011/4:24.195 (DNF)23.372 fast · 24.018 avg1013/5:06.65223.179 fast · 23.589 avg
12Mason Herrick211113/5:09.22023.511 fast · 23.786 avg2712/5:06.71023.200 fast · 25.559 avg1213/5:07.93123.372 fast · 23.687 avg
13Doug Lariviere221613/5:12.07223.277 fast · 24.006 avg813/5:08.60623.336 fast · 23.739 avg2013/5:16.75523.102 fast · 24.366 avg
14Cole Tollard231513/5:11.85623.239 fast · 23.989 avg1013/5:09.12423.254 fast · 23.779 avg1713/5:11.10123.263 fast · 23.931 avg
15Casey Blasczyk241413/5:11.84423.187 fast · 23.988 avg1213/5:10.87123.031 fast · 23.913 avg2213/5:18.82223.144 fast · 24.525 avg
16Nate Sutherland25309/3:42.731 (DNF)23.451 fast · 24.748 avg1413/5:13.17823.111 fast · 24.091 avg1313/5:07.95723.076 fast · 23.689 avg
17Brady Carrico302113/5:21.88323.337 fast · 24.760 avg2512/5:02.31322.993 fast · 25.193 avg1113/5:07.58323.188 fast · 23.660 avg
18Allen Horne301313/5:11.60123.554 fast · 23.969 avg2013/5:20.06823.820 fast · 24.621 avg1913/5:11.57023.466 fast · 23.967 avg
19Nick Gibson301813/5:16.91123.249 fast · 24.378 avg1713/5:16.47323.186 fast · 24.344 avg1513/5:09.03623.169 fast · 23.772 avg
20David Alberico311913/5:18.60823.666 fast · 24.508 avg1513/5:13.57523.700 fast · 24.121 avg1813/5:11.12223.298 fast · 23.932 avg
21Benjamin Decker402412/5:00.88023.724 fast · 25.073 avg1813/5:17.01623.467 fast · 24.386 avg2912/5:07.20223.941 fast · 25.600 avg
22Jake Stoeltzing402313/5:25.31324.000 fast · 25.024 avg1913/5:17.47123.477 fast · 24.421 avg2413/5:19.99523.638 fast · 24.615 avg
23Joe Duffy402013/5:18.91623.959 fast · 24.532 avg2213/5:20.94823.689 fast · 24.688 avg2313/5:19.57323.583 fast · 24.583 avg
24Maccoy Martin412213/5:21.89623.738 fast · 24.761 avg2812/5:19.58624.068 fast · 26.632 avg2113/5:18.37323.703 fast · 24.490 avg
25Daniel Bender442512/5:04.59623.731 fast · 25.383 avg2113/5:20.36323.736 fast · 24.643 avg2513/5:24.37723.307 fast · 24.952 avg
26Brent Riley472612/5:06.44324.207 fast · 25.537 avg2313/5:22.91824.217 fast · 24.840 avg2613/5:24.68823.704 fast · 24.976 avg
27Mark Decker502812/5:25.77623.809 fast · 27.148 avg2412/5:00.35024.312 fast · 25.029 avg2812/5:07.05023.608 fast · 25.588 avg
28Seth Curtis512911/5:04.92224.793 fast · 27.720 avg2612/5:05.57524.155 fast · 25.465 avg2712/5:03.46024.175 fast · 25.288 avg
29Brian Cox542712/5:25.44225.121 fast · 27.120 avg2912/5:22.77125.134 fast · 26.898 avg3012/5:26.32025.467 fast · 27.193 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Aydin Horne1P114/5:14.23122.56322.84398.62%+101
2Chase Lemieux2P214/5:13.66322.42722.76799.18%+99
3Davey Batta3P314/5:14.34522.44122.79198.32%+98
4Broc Champlin4P414/5:21.20222.96223.26298.42%+97
5Levi Raymond5P514/5:22.93622.68923.37696.61%+96
6Chase Raymond6P813/5:02.16223.03723.48098.57%+95
7Brennan Schimmel7P613/5:02.85722.85023.60497.12%+94
8Tom Rinderknecht8P713/5:00.43922.53823.36798.61%+93
9Alex Vanderbeek9P1013/5:06.57623.04723.79995.44%+92
10Alex Sturgeon10P913/5:04.62323.04523.65498.28%+91
11Noah Hicklinbumped up11P1113/5:09.02023.10823.96196.58%+90
B-main
1Noah Hicklinup to the AP113/5:03.28323.48223.79598.74%–
2Doug Lariviere12P313/5:05.93222.98923.89697.31%+89
3Casey Blasczyk13P513/5:07.57923.62823.94198.97%+88
4Mason Herrick14P213/5:08.59423.27423.85497.46%no licence
5Cole Tollard15P413/5:08.97223.39524.13493.71%+86
6Nick Gibson16P913/5:09.65723.08524.04096.44%+85
7Brady Carrico17P713/5:13.31523.39624.13697.50%+84
8Allen Horne18P813/5:17.91423.85824.73997.41%+83
9David Alberico19P1013/5:19.11323.89224.70396.80%no licence
10Benjamin Deckerbumped up20P1112/5:11.37623.56726.33586.84%+81
11Nate Sutherland21P612/5:13.94323.59226.37382.49%+80
C-main
1Benjamin Deckerup to the BP113/5:14.98223.85424.75396.43%–
2Joe Duffy22P313/5:20.52723.87125.09695.24%no licence
3Maccoy Martin23P412/5:03.27324.53425.78093.58%+78
4Mark Decker24P712/5:09.41024.10526.02392.68%+77
5Daniel Bender25P512/5:14.19524.33926.49991.88%+76
6Brent Riley26P612/5:15.07924.73226.75086.01%no licence
7Seth Curtis27P812/5:16.51225.35426.74593.27%no licence
8Jake Stoeltzing28P212/5:17.44623.76226.75083.39%no licence
9Brian Cox29P912/5:29.70525.69727.18892.84%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Aydin Horne 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Three qualifiers, three heat wins, a score of 2 and the first TQ of his season -- after opening Round 3 with a 44th, that is a comprehensive answer. He then won the first two A-mains to put the result beyond argument and treated the third leg as a parade lap, running 11th with the drop already secured. A total of 2 for the maximum 101 points, and the championship leader finally has the win the standings had been suggesting he deserved.

  2. 2nd
    Chase Lemieux 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 6 · Q 6/3/3

    Second seed on a 6 from 6/3/3, then 3/2/1 in the A-mains for a total of 3 -- a full set of improving legs finished off with a win. The trouble is that the man in front had already banked two wins by the time he got there. Ninety-nine points, his best haul since Brookfield, and a very pointed recovery from the 92 he took out of Muscatine.

  3. 3rd
    Davey Batta 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 3/4/8

    Qualified third on a 7 and then delivered 2/4/2 in the mains for a total of 4, never once finishing outside the top four. That is now four rounds of steadily improving finishes: 10th, 6th, 4th, and today's podium. Ninety-eight points for a driver who has quietly become the most reliable thing in this class.

  4. 4th
    Broc Champlin 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 10/5/4

    A 10th in the first qualifier held him to a 9 and the fourth seed, and the opening A-main was much the same story at 6th. Then he turned it around with 3/3 to finish on a total of 6 and take fourth. Ninety-seven points, and the world champion has now scored 95 or better at every round of this series.

  5. 5th
    Levi Raymond 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 9 · Q 4/16/5

    Best weekend of his season by a distance: fifth seed on a 9 from 4/16/5, an A-main start at last, and 4/10/5 for a total of 9. He beat two factory drivers who had out-qualified him and finished 96 points to the good. After two weekends spent as the fastest man not in the A-main, he made it count.

  6. 6th
    Chase Raymond 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 14 · Q 8/9/6

    Eighth seed on a 14 from 8/9/6, then the most metronomic set of the day -- 5/6/6 for a total of 11 and two places gained on the grid. Sixth overall and 95 points, backing up the eighth place he bumped his way to at Muscatine. Two rounds, two results better than anyone had him down for.

  7. 7th
    Brennan Schimmel 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 5/7/16

    A 16th in the last qualifier cost him the front three rows, leaving a 12 and the sixth seed. The mains gave him 7/5/10 for a total of 12 and a one-place slide to seventh. Ninety-four points is his lowest of the year, and the first time in three rounds he has gone backwards from his grid slot.

  8. 8th
    Tom Rinderknecht 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 9/6/7

    Seventh seed on a 13, and the first two A-mains were rough enough -- 10th and 11th -- that the weekend looked gone. Then he threw down a 4th in the finale, which under the drop rule was worth an enormous amount: total of 14 and eighth on the day. The Round 3 winner takes 93 points from a weekend that owed him nothing.

  9. 9th
    Alex Vanderbeek 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 22 · Q 17/13/9

    Started tenth without a seeded run and produced 9/7/7 for a total of 14, level with Rinderknecht on the tiebreak and beaten by it. That is his first A-main since Brookfield and a 92-point return after two lower-main weekends. The recovery he needed, and he found it at the right time.

  10. 10th
    Alex Sturgeon 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 18 · Q 7/11/14

    Ninth on the grid on debut, then 8/8/9 in the mains for a 16 -- three legs, three near-identical results, no drama whatsoever. Finishing tenth in an A-main containing four world championship winners is a serious first outing. Ninety-one points and a name to file away.

  11. 11th
    Noah Hicklin 90 ptsbumped up
    90 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 22 · Q 12/30/10

    Bumped up into the A-main, which nobody hands out for free, and then improved every leg: 11th, 9th, 8th for a total of 17. His only previous appearance was a 15th at Brookfield, so this is a leap rather than a step. Ninety points, and he beat drivers who had seeded into the field.

  12. Outside the A-main
  13. 12th
    Doug Lariviere 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 24 · Q 16/8/20

    Top of the lower mains for 89 points, all of it done from outside the seeded ten. His last appearance was a 13th at Brookfield back in February, so the layoff cost him nothing.

  14. 13th
    Casey Blasczyk 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 26 · Q 14/12/22

    Best modified result of his year at 88 points, a two-place gain on Muscatine. The 40+ man now has three scoring rounds in this class, which is three more than most of his usual rivals would attempt.

  15. 15th
    Cole Tollard 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 25 · Q 15/10/17

    Eighty-six points and no seeded start, which is a long way from the A-main ninth he took at Brookfield. The TLR driver still adds a second score to his season, in a format that only counts your best three.

  16. 16th
    Nick Gibson 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 32 · Q 18/17/15

    Eighty-five points, and three places better than the 19th he managed at Brookfield. Modified 2WD is a rougher neighbourhood than the stock classes he has been sweeping, and he is measurably more comfortable in it than he was in February.

  17. 17th
    Brady Carrico 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P17 · qual score 32 · Q 21/25/11

    His best return of the season by three points at 84, and a third scoring round in a row. Consistency of that kind is exactly what a best-of-three championship rewards.

  18. 18th
    Allen Horne 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 32 · Q 13/20/19

    Eighty-three points from outside the seeded ten, his second scoring weekend of the year. That lands two points up on the 81 he took away from Brookfield.

  19. 20th
    Benjamin Decker 81 ptsbumped up
    81 pts · qualified P21 · bumped up from the C · qual score 42 · Q 24/18/29

    The good half of his weekend was the C, which he won from the first grid slot -- 13 laps in 5:14.982 at 96.43% consistency, and only the winner went up. The B was less hospitable: the eleventh and last starting position, 12 laps and tenth at the flag, though it is where his quicker race lap came, a 23.567 against the 23.854 that won him the C. Eighty-one points and twentieth overall, a second appearance on the scoresheet after Macomb, and steady work in a class where the qualifying sheets routinely contain numbers in the forties.

  20. 21st
    Nate Sutherland 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 27 · Q 30/14/13

    A hard landing after seventh at Muscatine and tenth at Macomb, with 80 points to show for the weekend. He missed the seeded ten entirely and never got the ground back. It is exactly the sort of round a best-of-three format exists to forgive.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

The discard rule finally has teeth, and the table has stopped being a simple sum. Aydin Horne leads on 298 from a raw 393 across four starts, meaning he is already throwing away a 95-point weekend -- his Muscatine sixth -- and anything he scores at the final round has to beat that to be worth a single point. Chase Lemieux is on 294 (raw 386, discarding 92), Broc Champlin 291 (raw 386, discarding 95), Tom Rinderknecht 291 (raw 380, discarding 89) and Davey Batta 290 (raw 381, discarding 91), so the entire front five are running a handicap into Round 5 that gets steeper the better their season has been. Behind them sit the drivers with nothing to drop: Chase Raymond on 275 and Levi Raymond on 274 from three starts each, and Nate Sutherland on 265, all of whom add every point they score rather than the difference. That is the whole shape of this championship -- Horne needs a 96 or better just to move, while Chase Raymond could take 93 and gain the lot. Brennan Schimmel on 287 and Alex Vanderbeek on 269 are in the same trap as the leaders, and with four rounds scored the gap from first to sixth is 11 points, which is one bad A-main leg for anybody.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Aydin Horne+101393−952984
2Chase Lemieux+99386−922944
3Broc Champlin+97386−952914
4Tom Rinderknecht+93380−892914
5Davey Batta+98381−912904
6Brennan Schimmel+94377−902874
7Chase Raymond+9527502753
8Levi Raymond+9627402743

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

Mod 4wd Buggy

19 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Chase Lemieux302399−973241st101*100*97101*·
2Broc Champlin296388−920042nd99929899·
3Brennan Schimmel294374−800042nd80989997·
4Aydin Horne290383−930043rd97939598·
5Tom Rinderknecht284375−910045th91949694·
6Davey Batta281372−910046th92919495·
7Nate Sutherland27827800035th–899396·
8Chase Raymond267267000310th87–9189·
9Alex Vanderbeek266354−8800411th90888888·
10Levi Raymond26626600038th93–8390·
11Daniel Kobbevik20120101221st–100101*–·
12Dakotah Phend19219200025th9696––·
13Ryan Cavalieri18918900026th9495––·
14Cole Tollard18818800026th95––93·
15Juan Lopez180180000211th–9090–·
16Nick Gibson176176000210th85––91·
17Brandon Foote172172000215th–8686–·
18Doug Lariviere170170000215th84––86·
19Noah Hicklin168168000216th83––85·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Chase Lemieux — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 26 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Chase Lemieux0131
2Broc Champlin2413
3Dakotah Phend6365
4Spencer Rivkin7754
5Aydin Horne7546
6Davey Batta136911
7Cole Tollard141879
8Ryan Cavalieri141088
9Tom Rinderknecht1511107
10Levi Raymond19131110
11Brennan Schimmel2181815
12Alex Vanderbeek2191414
13Mason Neubert23161312
14Chase Raymond26271216
15Nick Gibson28171713
16Tyler Pattenaude28141623
17Doug Lariviere29122019
18Dreighton Stoub31211518
19Noah Hicklin33152220
20Mitchel Gardner37222317
21Brad Shearer37201921
22Nick Achterkirch41192424
23Owen Vanderbeek41242122
24Andrew Thomas46232525
25Gavin Moeller49252627
26Alex Via50262726

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Chase Lemieux1P122/5:01.96913.51013.66898.86%+101
2Broc Champlin2P223/5:12.78313.22513.55699.06%+99
3Spencer Rivkin3P422/4:49.470 (DNF)13.34813.68698.05%no licence
4Aydin Horne4P522/5:05.89213.50213.79498.69%+97
5Dakotah Phend5P322/5:06.83313.24413.87496.14%+96
6Cole Tollard6P722/5:08.66913.59713.89498.88%+95
7Ryan Cavalieri7P822/5:09.54513.61513.90398.83%+94
8Levi Raymond8P1022/5:12.80213.53414.03497.10%+93
9Davey Batta9P622/5:09.56413.45013.95197.86%+92
10Tom Rinderknecht10P922/5:11.50113.60113.98396.50%+91
11Alex Vanderbeekbumped up11P1122/5:12.50013.57513.98496.65%+90
B-main
1Alex Vanderbeekup to the AP222/5:08.56213.57113.94698.40%–
2Dreighton Stoub12P821/5:03.02713.83514.23896.77%no licence
3Tyler Pattenaude13P621/5:04.23213.71614.33997.43%no licence
4Chase Raymond14P421/5:04.71113.82914.38496.10%+87
5Mason Neubert15P321/5:09.25713.65414.49090.17%no licence
6Nick Gibson16P521/5:09.84613.79714.63094.28%+85
7Doug Lariviere17P721/5:10.62213.69914.65192.57%+84
8Noah Hicklin18P921/5:13.66213.78114.75293.33%+83
9Mitchel Gardner19P1020/5:01.61014.24714.87595.81%no licence
10Andrew Thomasbumped up20P1120/5:05.34414.10815.05891.68%no licence
11Brennan Schimmel21P19/2:10.839 (DNF)13.67514.46694.38%+80
C-main
1Andrew Thomasup to the BP421/5:10.50914.23014.68496.43%–
2Nick Achterkirch22P221/5:13.35814.15814.85495.68%no licence
3Owen Vanderbeek23P320/5:00.19013.93014.88295.36%no licence
4Brad Shearer24P120/5:01.34514.14115.04093.01%no licence
5Gavin Moeller25P520/5:11.15714.68815.34895.45%no licence
6Alex Via26P619/5:10.76914.78816.24191.44%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Chase Lemieux 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/3/1 · TQ

    A qualifying score of 2 from 1/3/1 delivered the TQ, and the first two A-mains delivered everything else: win, win, job done. The 11th in the finale was the leg he got to drop, which is a luxury available only to a man who has already banked two of them. Total of 2, the maximum 101 points, and the XRAY man opens the series exactly the way he opened the ROAR Dirt Nationals.

  2. 2nd
    Broc Champlin 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 4/1/3

    Second seed on a 4 from 4/1/3, with the heat win in the middle serving notice. His A-mains were the most volatile at the sharp end -- 2nd, then an 8th that went straight into the discard pile, then a win in the last leg -- for a total of 3. One position of A-main total short of the whole thing, and the reigning 2WD world champion has to make do with 99.

  3. 3rd
    Spencer Rivkin no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 7/5/4

    The grid put him fourth off a 9 from 7/5/4, and then he ran the tidiest set in the building bar the winner's: 4/2/2 for a total of 4. Two second places in the last two legs, and a beating handed to both drivers who had out-qualified him. He races here without a series licence, so the championship table will show none of it.

  4. 4th
    Aydin Horne 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 9 · Q 5/4/6

    Qualifying of 5/4/6 for a 9 and the fifth seed, then the most metronomic A-mains anyone managed -- 3/4/3, total 6, never once outside the top four. There was no bad leg to throw away, which reads as a compliment right up until you notice that everyone above him had one and got away with it. Ninety-seven points to open the account.

  5. 5th
    Dakotah Phend 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 3/6/5

    Third seed on an 8 from 3/6/5, and then the opening A-main came back 6th, which is not where the Phenom intended to start his year. He repaired it with a 3rd and a 4th for a total of 7, but the first leg had already spent the grid slots he earned in qualifying. Ninety-six points and a fairly obvious sense of unfinished business.

  6. 6th
    Cole Tollard 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 16 · Q 18/7/9

    An 18th in the opening qualifier is the sort of number that ends weekends, and 7th and 9th afterwards rescued it into a 16 and the seventh seed. From there he was eerily repeatable -- 5/5/6 for a 10 -- and climbed a place on the day. Ninety-five points for the TLR man, and a decent argument for never panicking after Q1.

  7. 7th
    Ryan Cavalieri 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 10/8/8

    Identical qualifying score to Tollard, a 16 from 10/8/8, with the countback dropping him to the eighth seed and the back of the top eight. The A-mains then went the right way all afternoon -- 9th, 6th, 5th, total 11 -- which is a proper piece of climbing. Four world titles and thirty-odd national ones say he knows precisely which two places got away.

  8. 8th
    Levi Raymond 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 21 · Q 13/11/10

    No seeded start, tenth on the grid, and an 8/7/10 set for a total of 15 that put him ahead of a driver who seeded sixth. Two of his three legs landed inside the top eight in a field carrying this much factory hardware, which is the number worth framing. Ninety-three points from the hardest available starting position.

  9. 9th
    Davey Batta 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 15 · Q 6/9/11

    Sixth seed on a 15 from 6/9/11, and then the A-mains simply drifted away from him: 7/10/9 for a 16 and three places lost against his grid slot. The 2025 Worlds runner-up will be staring at that middle leg for a while. Ninety-two points banked from a weekend that never came to him.

  10. 10th
    Tom Rinderknecht 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 17 · Q 11/10/7

    Ninth on the grid with no seeded run to lean on, and the first two A-mains gave him nothing at all -- 10th and 11th -- before a 7th in the finale hauled the total down to 17. That closing leg was worth three or four places on its own and it dragged him past a driver on the same total. Ninety-one points, and a strong suspicion that the car came good about an hour too late.

  11. 11th
    Alex Vanderbeek 90 ptsbumped up
    90 pts · qualified P12 · bumped up from the B · qual score 23 · Q 9/14/14

    He bumped his way into the A-main, which is the least restful route onto any grid, and then improved in every single leg: 11th, 9th, 8th, total 17. Level with Rinderknecht and separated only by the tiebreak, having started from a place nobody hands you. Ninety points and the last of the A-main scoring positions.

  12. Outside the A-main
  13. 14th
    Chase Raymond 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 28 · Q 27/12/16

    Outside the seeded ten and into a lower main, where 14th overall converted into 87 points. In a season decided on your best three events, an opening deposit like that is worth rather more than the position on the sheet suggests.

  14. 16th
    Nick Gibson 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 30 · Q 17/17/13

    The JConcepts man missed the seeded ten and came out 16th for 85 points. Modified 4WD against a grid stuffed with world champions is a very different sport from the stock classes he has been cleaning up in, and he got through it with a score on the board.

  15. 17th
    Doug Lariviere 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P17 · qual score 31 · Q 12/20/19

    No seeded run, no A-main, and 84 points collected regardless. Seventeenth in company this decorated is a perfectly respectable first entry in the ledger, and it is 84 more than anyone who stayed home.

  16. 18th
    Noah Hicklin 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 35 · Q 15/22/20

    Missed the seeded ten and finished 18th, which is 83 points toward a total that only counts your best three anyway. Everything finished, nothing binned, and a first line on the scoresheet.

  17. 21st
    Brennan Schimmel 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 23 · Q 8/18/15

    A rough opening weekend for the XRAY man -- no seeded start and 21st overall for 80 points. He arrives with a Worlds A-main final and a runner-up in 4WD Mod at the Carpet Nationals on the CV, which makes this the kind of result that gets politely filed as data.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

One round down and Chase Lemieux has taken the only perfect score this system offers -- TQ plus win for 101 points -- which means nobody else can ever match his Brookfield weekend. Broc Champlin's 99 and Aydin Horne's 97 complete the scoring podium, with Dakotah Phend, Cole Tollard and Ryan Cavalieri crammed into the three points behind them. Everybody has exactly one start, so best-three totals and raw totals are the same number and will stay that way until somebody runs a fourth event; the discard that makes this championship interesting is still months away. The most striking line on the sheet is the one that isn't on it -- Spencer Rivkin finished third on the road and scores nothing, racing without a series licence. Ten drivers have points, eleven finished the A-main, and first to tenth covers eleven points, which is to say almost nothing at all.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Chase Lemieux+101399−973024
2Broc Champlin+99388−922964
3Brennan Schimmel+80374−802944
4Aydin Horne+97383−932904
5Tom Rinderknecht+91375−912844
6Davey Batta+92372−912814
7Chase Raymond+8726702673
8Alex Vanderbeek+90354−882664

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Chase Lemieux — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 16 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Chase Lemieux2143
2Brennan Schimmel2331
3Daniel Kobbevik3415
4Aydin Horne85516
5Ryan Cavalieri9794
6Davey Batta116710
7Dakotah Phend139613
8Tom Rinderknecht1410136
9Tater Sontag1715811
10Juan Lopez1813128
11Brandon Foote1817119
12Alex Vanderbeek1914167
13Daniel Chavez21111512
14Broc Champlin2381717
15Nate Sutherland23161015
16Brandon Marsh24121414

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Daniel Kobbevik1P322/5:06.18313.57413.93997.66%+100
2Chase Lemieux2P122/5:06.78113.64913.98697.38%+100
3Brennan Schimmel3P222/5:06.86713.55513.94697.76%+98
4Tater Sontag4P922/5:12.10413.60214.12597.82%no licence
5Dakotah Phend5P722/5:12.58713.68714.17897.49%+96
6Ryan Cavalieri6P522/5:14.01413.85414.27896.63%+95
7Tom Rinderknecht7P821/5:00.14813.82514.24497.42%+94
8Aydin Horne8P421/5:00.43913.66414.29195.72%+93
9Broc Champlinbumped up9P1121/5:00.19013.73814.21995.05%+92
10Davey Batta10P621/5:00.91113.68714.30396.13%+91
11Juan Lopez11P1021/5:08.46913.94114.63095.22%+90
B-main
1Broc Champlinup to the AP422/5:16.13313.89114.37595.18%–
2Nate Sutherland12P521/5:00.93513.73815.02077.96%+89
3Alex Vanderbeek13P221/5:08.46414.01514.56995.29%+88
4Daniel Chavez14P320/5:04.98314.30515.10793.17%no licence
5Brandon Foote15P111/2:42.364 (DNF)14.25314.81396.04%+86
6Brandon Marsh16P60/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Daniel Kobbevik 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 5 · Q 4/1/5

    First appearance of the season and he took the lot: third seed on a 5 from 4/1/5, then 2nd, 1st and 1st in the A-mains for a total of 2. There was not a single leg where he finished outside the front row of the result sheet. The Norwegian walks off with 100 points on debut, and the only man who matched him on points did not beat him on the track.

  2. 2nd
    Chase Lemieux 100 pts TQ
    100 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 1/4/3 · TQ

    The TQ was his again, a 4 from 1/4/3 taken on countback, and he won the opening A-main to make it all look routine. Then a 4th and a 2nd left him on a total of 3, and the TQ bonus means he leaves Macomb tied on 100 points with the man who beat him. That is the least satisfying way anyone has ever collected a hundred points.

  3. 3rd
    Brennan Schimmel 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/3/1

    Qualifying of 3/3/1 gave him a 4, level with the TQ and beaten only on countback, so he lined up second having won the final heat. The first two A-mains were exactly what that promised -- 3rd and 2nd -- and the 11th in the finale landed neatly in the discard slot for a total of 5. From 21st at Brookfield to a podium at Macomb is an enormous eight weeks of work.

  4. 4th
    Tater Sontag no points
    no series licence · qualified P9 · qual score 19 · Q 15/8/11

    Ninth on the grid with no seeded run, which is where the 2023 world champion elected to begin his day, and 9/5/3 was his answer -- a total of 8 and fourth overall. He climbed five places off his grid slot and beat four drivers who seeded ahead of him. No series licence, so the points table stays blank while the result sheet does the talking.

  5. 5th
    Dakotah Phend 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 15 · Q 9/6/13

    A 15 from 9/6/13 left him seventh on the grid, and then the opening A-main came back 10th, which is about as bad as a start gets. A 3rd in the middle leg was the rescue -- the best single leg of anyone off the podium -- and a 7th afterwards left him on 10. Ninety-six points from a weekend that spent most of its time sideways.

  6. 6th
    Ryan Cavalieri 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 7/9/4

    Fifth seed on an 11 from 7/9/4, then a 4th in the opening A-main and downhill from there: 6th, 9th, total 10. Level with Phend and losing the tiebreak on the strength of that closing leg. Ninety-five points, and a slightly puzzling weekend from a man who improved in every single main last time out.

  7. 7th
    Tom Rinderknecht 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 10/13/6

    He scraped the last seeded spot with a 16 from 10/13/6, and then the A-mains climbed all afternoon -- 8th, 7th, 4th, total 11. That makes it two weekends running where his best work has arrived in the final leg, which is admirable timing and terrible scheduling. Ninety-four points and three places gained on his grid slot.

  8. 8th
    Aydin Horne 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 5/5/16

    The 16th in the last qualifier was completely harmless under the best-two rule -- 5 and 5 gave him a 10 and the fourth seed -- and then the middle A-main did the actual damage with an 11th. Around it sat a 6th and a 5th for a total of 11, level with Rinderknecht and beaten on the tiebreak. Ninety-three points and four grid positions handed back.

  9. 9th
    Broc Champlin 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P14 · bumped up from the B · qual score 25 · Q 8/17/17

    Second at Brookfield, and here he had to bump his way onto the grid, which is not the paperwork Schumacher had in mind. The mains were flat rather than catastrophic -- 5/8/8 for a 13 -- and only the opening leg resembled the driver from February. Ninety-two points and a weekend to be filed under 'move along'.

  10. 10th
    Davey Batta 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 13 · Q 6/7/10

    Qualifying of 6/7/10 for a 13 put him sixth on the grid, then 7/10/6 in the A-mains for a total of 13, identical to Champlin's and losing the tiebreak. Two rounds now, and both of them have ended with him behind his own grid slot. Ninety-one points, and the AE man is assembling consistency of exactly the wrong variety.

  11. 11th
    Juan Lopez 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 20 · Q 13/12/8

    Tenth on the grid with no seeded run behind him, and 11/9/10 in the A-mains for a 19. He held station all afternoon in a race where four of the drivers who beat him had a leg outside the top nine, which is its own quiet achievement. Ninety points on a first appearance in these results.

  12. Outside the A-main
  13. 12th
    Nate Sutherland 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 25 · Q 16/10/15

    First man on the wrong side of the A-main cut, which is the least popular address in racing, and 89 points for the inconvenience. He opens his series account without ever getting a seeded run at the place. The Schumacher deal is young and this is a reasonable page to start reading from.

  14. 13th
    Alex Vanderbeek 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 21 · Q 14/16/7

    Eleventh and inside the A-main at Brookfield, 13th and in a lower main here -- the trend line points the wrong way, but the points kept arriving. Eighty-eight of them, and he is one of the few names on this sheet to have scored at both rounds so far, which in a best-of-three format is worth more than any single afternoon.

  15. 15th
    Brandon Foote 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 20 · Q 17/11/9

    A new name in the results, no seeded start, 15th overall and 86 points into the account. Landing inside the top fifteen of a modified field with this many world titles parked in it is not a throwaway weekend.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Two rounds in and Chase Lemieux has both TQs and 201 points from a possible 202, which is as near to flawless as this format permits without winning every race. Behind him it is ludicrously tight: Dakotah Phend on 192, Broc Champlin 191, Aydin Horne 190 and Ryan Cavalieri 189 -- four drivers covered by three points, none of them with a win to their name. Everyone in the top nine has two starts, so best-three and raw totals remain identical, nothing is being discarded yet, and every point is still counting in full. The exception is Daniel Kobbevik, tenth on 100 from a single start after winning on debut, which makes him the only man in the top ten carrying an empty scoring slot into the summer. Alex Vanderbeek and Brennan Schimmel arrive at 178 apiece by wildly different roads -- one steady across two rounds, the other a 21st followed by a podium -- and eighth and ninth get settled by countback.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Chase Lemieux+100399−973024
2Broc Champlin+92388−922964
3Brennan Schimmel+98374−802944
4Aydin Horne+93383−932904
5Tom Rinderknecht+94375−912844
6Davey Batta+91372−912814
7Nate Sutherland+8927802783
8Chase Raymond–26702673

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Daniel Kobbevik — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 21 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Daniel Kobbevik0111
2Brennan Schimmel4338
3Chase Lemieux6583
4Broc Champlin6454
5Tom Rinderknecht8746
6Aydin Horne9665
7Davey Batta138127
8Chase Raymond1510710
9Ryland Bauer1791012
10Nate Sutherland1811209
11Juan Lopez2014913
12Alex Vanderbeek24181115
13Brandon Foote25131417
14Jovy Levin26172111
15Levi Raymond28121820
16Daigan Bledsoe29151716
17Matthew Bauer30191319
18Zeke Ballinger30161621
19Billy Hayden31201518
20Lance Parker38211922
21Zach Noia42222223

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Daniel Kobbevik1P122/5:13.52814.05214.21298.78%+101
2Brennan Schimmel2P222/5:15.25213.84914.26297.45%+99
3Broc Champlin3P422/5:14.72413.94414.21498.36%+98
4Chase Lemieux4P321/5:05.78813.99914.44496.38%+97
5Tom Rinderknecht5P521/5:04.95514.04814.41998.74%+96
6Aydin Horne6P621/5:13.16614.28014.82094.70%+95
7Davey Batta7P721/5:12.15414.45414.73298.03%+94
8Nate Sutherland8P1021/5:14.34614.21114.78794.29%+93
9Ryland Bauer9P920/5:06.12914.54015.10796.85%no licence
10Chase Raymond10P820/5:10.47614.64515.39091.67%+91
11Juan Lopezbumped up11P1120/5:07.87714.60515.07695.73%+90
B-main
1Juan Lopezup to the AP120/5:02.46314.78615.05499.14%–
2Jovy Levin12P420/5:03.54314.64415.04697.98%no licence
3Alex Vanderbeek13P220/5:07.24814.84115.26698.29%+88
4Zeke Ballinger14P720/5:10.34915.01115.34498.27%no licence
5Brandon Foote15P320/5:11.44315.04515.47196.29%+86
6Matthew Bauer16P620/5:13.55715.12515.53097.77%no licence
7Billy Hayden17P819/5:01.12615.19615.65597.54%no licence
8Levi Raymond18P519/5:05.28615.04515.95193.72%+83
9Lance Parker19P917/5:00.52215.71217.55381.52%no licence
10Zach Noia20P1016/5:09.24715.88019.07479.64%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Daniel Kobbevik 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    He won all three qualifiers -- 1/1/1 for a score of 2 -- which is the tidiest TQ anyone has taken all season. He then won the first two A-mains, which made the 11th in the finale somebody else's problem, and the total stayed at 2. Maximum 101 points, and two visits to this series have now produced two wins.

  2. 2nd
    Brennan Schimmel 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 6 · Q 3/3/8

    Second seed on a 6 from 3/3/8, and then he went out and finished second in all three A-mains -- the only driver in the field to put every leg on the podium. A total of 4, and no obvious route to more of it without waiting for someone else to fall over. Ninety-nine points, back-to-back podiums, and the XRAY looks properly dialed.

  3. 3rd
    Broc Champlin 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 8 · Q 4/5/4

    Qualifying of 4/5/4 gave him an 8 and the fourth seed, and the first two A-mains were quiet -- 6th and 5th -- before he won the finale outright. That last leg pulled the total down to 6 and lifted him past a driver who had out-qualified him. Ninety-eight points, his best round of the year, arriving just as Macomb was starting to look like a pattern.

  4. 4th
    Chase Lemieux 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 5/8/3

    Two very solid A-mains from the third seed -- 3rd and 3rd, off an 8 from 5/8/3 -- had him in the podium argument before a 9th in the finale left him on 6 and beaten by Champlin on countback. Ninety-seven points is his lowest score of the season and the first weekend all year without a TQ trophy to carry home. He still leaves Muscatine leading the championship, which takes some of the sting out of it.

  5. 5th
    Tom Rinderknecht 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 7/4/6

    Fifth seed on a 10 from 7/4/6 and fifth on the grid, then 4/4/3 in the mains for a total of 7 and not a wasted leg anywhere. Third weekend running where his closing A-main has been his strongest, which by now is less a habit than a signature. Ninety-six points and his best finish of the year.

  6. 6th
    Aydin Horne 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 6/6/5

    Perfect symmetry, right until it wasn't: sixth seed on an 11 from 6/6/5, sixth on the grid, sixth on the day. The 10th in the middle A-main was the only blemish and the discard swallowed it whole, leaving a 5th and a 5th for a total of 10. Ninety-five points and a third straight scoring round.

  7. 7th
    Davey Batta 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 15 · Q 8/12/7

    A 12th in the middle qualifier was survivable enough -- an 8 and a 7 gave him a 15 and the seventh seed -- and the A-mains ran 7/7/4 for an 11. That closing 4th is his best leg of the season and it came when the track was at its most used up. Ninety-four points, and the first weekend of the year where he has held his grid slot instead of leaking places off it.

  8. 8th
    Nate Sutherland 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 20 · Q 11/20/9

    No seeded start and tenth on the grid, then 10/6/6 in the A-mains for a total of 12 and two places gained. A lower main at Macomb has turned into an A-main top eight eight weeks later, which is the sort of progress that does not need dressing up. Ninety-three points and his best round yet.

  9. 9th
    Ryland Bauer no points
    no series licence · qualified P9 · qual score 19 · Q 9/10/12

    Ninth on the grid with no seeded run, and then arguably the steadiest set of legs on the sheet: 8/8/7 for a total of 15, never worse than eighth in any A-main. He held his grid slot in a race where three of the drivers ahead of him had a leg in double figures. No series licence, so the 15 goes into the record and precisely nowhere else.

  10. 10th
    Chase Raymond 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 10/7/10

    Eighth seed on a 17 from 10/7/10, which is the sort of score that buys you an A-main start and no more of the grid than that -- and he took the last seeded spot off a Schumacher pro to get it. The mains ran 11/9/8 for a 17, improving every time out without ever quite getting through. Ninety-one points, and the biggest qualifying result of his season so far.

  11. 11th
    Juan Lopez 90 ptsbumped up
    90 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 22 · Q 14/9/13

    Bumped into the A-main for the second round running, which is a harder ticket to buy than a seeded start. The legs read 9/11/10 for a 19 and he came home 11th -- the same position and the same 90 points he took away from Macomb. Repeatable is badly underrated.

  12. Outside the A-main
  13. 13th
    Alex Vanderbeek 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 26 · Q 18/11/15

    Outside the seeded ten again and 13th overall again, for the identical 88 points he collected at Macomb. Three rounds, three scoring finishes, and in a championship that counts your best three, that is the entire game being played correctly.

  14. 15th
    Brandon Foote 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 27 · Q 13/14/17

    Same finishing position as Macomb, same 86 points, still without a seeded run at it. Two rounds and two carbon-copy results suggests a driver who knows exactly what his car is going to do to him.

  15. 18th
    Levi Raymond 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 30 · Q 12/18/20

    Eighth in the A-main at Brookfield, 18th and in a lower main here, with no seeded start to soften the landing. Eighty-three points is still 83 points in a format that only counts your best three, and this is his second scoring round of the year.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Three rounds scored and Chase Lemieux still leads on 298 despite Muscatine being his weakest weekend of the year, which is exactly what banking 101 and 100 early buys you. Broc Champlin is nine back on 289, then Aydin Horne 285, Tom Rinderknecht 281, and Brennan Schimmel and Davey Batta locked together on 277. Everyone in the top seven now has three starts, so best-three and raw totals are still the same figure -- but from the next round on, a fourth result only helps if it beats the worst one you already own, and for Lemieux that bar sits at 97. That is the sub-plot worth watching, because Daniel Kobbevik is eighth on 201 from just two visits, two wins from two, with a scoring slot still open and nothing to discard. Dakotah Phend on 192 and Ryan Cavalieri on 189 are in the same boat with two starts each, carrying fewer points but more headroom into the back half of the season.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Chase Lemieux+97399−973024
2Broc Champlin+98388−922964
3Brennan Schimmel+99374−802944
4Aydin Horne+95383−932904
5Tom Rinderknecht+96375−912844
6Davey Batta+94372−912814
7Nate Sutherland+9327802783
8Chase Raymond+9126702673

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Chase Lemieux — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 19 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Chase Lemieux2314/5:12.670514/5:16.870114/5:09.777
2Aydin Horne2414/5:12.927114/5:14.954314/5:09.811
3Broc Champlin7514/5:12.944614/5:17.367414/5:10.888
4Brennan Schimmel7614/5:13.954414/5:15.913514/5:12.458
5Davey Batta8114/5:12.513914/5:19.0801014/5:16.396
6Nate Sutherland8814/5:19.368314/5:15.849714/5:16.166
7Tom Rinderknecht11714/5:16.5821014/5:20.375614/5:12.863
8Mason Herrick151014/5:22.585714/5:17.8271713/5:05.003
9Cole Tollard15914/5:20.1901413/5:02.190814/5:16.206
10Nick Gibson171114/5:23.115814/5:18.9361214/5:17.308
11Levi Raymond19208/2:59.889 (DNF)1214/5:22.615914/5:16.327
12Chase Raymond20–––
13Doug Lariviere25–––
14Noah Hicklin25–––
15Alex Vanderbeek26–––
16Joe Duffy29–––
17Jake Stoeltzing32–––
18Rob Katnich35–––
19Dylan Haas35–––

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Chase Lemieux1P114/5:04.01721.71122.11298.77%+101
2Broc Champlin2P314/5:10.30221.98622.50698.46%+99
3Aydin Horne3P214/5:10.13021.79322.50096.34%+98
4Brennan Schimmel4P414/5:13.03422.04822.64098.05%+97
5Nate Sutherland5P614/5:14.82422.29622.72698.52%+96
6Davey Batta6P514/5:12.81522.03622.62196.96%+95
7Tom Rinderknecht7P714/5:13.52922.21022.61398.60%+94
8Cole Tollard8P914/5:16.45722.24022.78798.78%+93
9Mason Herrick9P814/5:18.86722.55423.00498.18%no licence
10Nick Gibson10P1014/5:18.24322.25022.83898.40%+91
11Levi Raymondbumped up11P1114/5:19.69522.19622.93996.94%+90
B-main
1Levi Raymondup to the AP114/5:19.82422.62823.27998.11%–
2Chase Raymond12P214/5:20.75722.70623.31897.93%+89
3Alex Vanderbeek13P513/5:01.29122.93523.54396.79%+88
4Joe Duffy14P613/5:05.67823.44423.87097.81%no licence
5Doug Lariviere15P313/5:08.81522.67324.22993.91%+86
6Noah Hicklin16P413/5:08.88622.97524.20594.57%+85
7Jake Stoeltzing17P713/5:25.40423.31025.31693.03%no licence
8Rob Katnich18P812/5:12.33923.79226.52693.03%no licence
9Dylan Haas19P912/5:16.04924.49126.80393.04%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Chase Lemieux 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 3/5/1 · TQ

    A win in the final qualifier sealed a 4 from 3/5/1 and the TQ, and then he lost the opening A-main and won the other two for a total of 2. Third TQ of the season, second win, and the maximum 101 points for the second time this year. Omaha went about as well as a weekend is allowed to go.

  2. 2nd
    Broc Champlin 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 9 · Q 5/6/4

    Third seed on a 9 from 5/6/4, and he won the opening A-main off the second row before settling in behind the TQ with a 2nd and a 2nd. A total of 3 -- one solitary position across three legs between him and the lot. Ninety-nine points, his equal-best round of the season, and the world champion is running low on fresh ways to say 'so close'.

  3. 3rd
    Aydin Horne 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 4/1/3

    Qualifying of 4/1/3 for a 4, level with Lemieux and beaten to the TQ only on countback, which is the closest anyone came to that trophy all weekend. The mains went 3/3/4 for a 6 and third overall -- his first podium of the season at the fourth attempt. Ninety-eight points, his best score of the year, and four rounds from four inside the top eight.

  4. 4th
    Brennan Schimmel 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 6/4/5

    Fourth seed on a 9 from 6/4/5, and the opening A-main came back 4th, exactly to plan. The 10th in the middle leg is the entire story of his weekend, and a 3rd in the finale could only drag the total back to 7. Ninety-seven points, and that one leg is all that stands between him and a third consecutive podium.

  5. 5th
    Nate Sutherland 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 10 · Q 8/3/7

    A 3rd in the middle heat did the heavy lifting for a 10 and the sixth seed, and the mains then ran 6/5/5 for a total of 10. A lower main at Macomb, eighth at Muscatine, fifth at Omaha -- that line only points one way. Ninety-six points, his best round of the season by three.

  6. 6th
    Davey Batta 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 1/9/10

    He won the opening qualifier, the first heat win of his season, and then a 9th and a 10th meant it only converted into a 10 and the fifth seed. The mains were neat but static -- 5/6/6 for an 11 -- and he came out one place behind where he gridded. Ninety-five points is still his best round of the year, which tells you how tightly packed this end of the field has been.

  7. 7th
    Tom Rinderknecht 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 7/10/6

    Seventh seed on a 13 from 7/10/6, seventh on the grid, seventh on the day, which is at least easy to remember. He bookended a 4th with two 10ths for a total of 14 -- the 4th says the car was capable, the 10ths say it was only capable once. Ninety-four points and a genuinely irritating way to collect them.

  8. 8th
    Cole Tollard 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 17 · Q 9/14/8

    First appearance since Brookfield, no seeded start, ninth on the grid, and an 11/7/8 set for a total of 15. He gained a place on his grid slot and took the tiebreak over Mason Herrick on identical totals. Ninety-three points for the TLR man and a second scoring round of the season.

  9. 9th
    Mason Herrick no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 10/7/17

    Eighth seed on a 17 from 10/7/17, so the middle heat carried the entire qualifying effort on its own, and then the A-mains were far better than that seed implied: 8/8/7 for a 15. Level with Tollard and beaten only on the tiebreak, having held his grid slot against a factory driver all afternoon. He has no series licence, so the result stands purely on its own merits.

  10. 10th
    Nick Gibson 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 19 · Q 11/8/12

    A 7th in the opening A-main from tenth on the grid was the highlight, and it put him ahead of both a TLR factory driver and the eighth seed in that leg. A 9th and an 11th afterwards settled him on a total of 16, no seeded start to his name. Ninety-one points and his second scoring round of the series.

  11. 11th
    Levi Raymond 90 ptsbumped up
    90 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 21 · Q 20/12/9

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeding into it, then 9/11/9 for an 18 -- one bad leg bookended by two identical good ones. Eleventh in a field of this depth, having entered through the hardest door available. Ninety points and his third scoring round of the year.

  12. Outside the A-main
  13. 12th
    Chase Raymond 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P12

    First man out of the A-main, which is the most annoying result on offer, and 89 points for it. No seeded start this time after seeding eighth at Muscatine, and that swing is the whole difference between an A-main and a long afternoon watching one. Third scoring round of the season regardless.

  14. 13th
    Alex Vanderbeek 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P15

    Same finish, same 88 points, same absence of a seeded start -- three consecutive rounds producing an identical result, which is either remarkable consistency or a very stubborn setup. Whichever it is, it adds up to four scoring rounds from four starts. Nobody hands out trophies for turning up, but this format rewards it more than most.

  15. 15th
    Doug Lariviere 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P13

    Back on the scoresheet for the first time since Brookfield, again without a seeded run, and 15th is two places better than February gave him. Eighty-six points, and a second scoring round in the bank.

  16. 16th
    Noah Hicklin 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P14

    No seeded start and 16th overall, which is two places up on his Brookfield result and worth 85 points. Two rounds entered, two finishes, two scores -- in a championship counting your best three, that is real ground gained.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

The discard has arrived and it rearranges everything. Chase Lemieux leads on 302 from a raw 399 across four starts, meaning he is throwing away a 97 -- a score that would be a career weekend for most of this field and is merely his fourth-best. Broc Champlin sits six back on 296 from a raw 388, binning a 92, but the real story is Brennan Schimmel: third on 294 despite a raw total of 374 that ranks only fifth, because the result he discards is the 80 from Brookfield, while Aydin Horne (290, raw 383) has to bin a 93 and Tom Rinderknecht (284, raw 375) a 91. The raw totals say Horne and Rinderknecht are ahead of Schimmel; the best-three rule says the opposite, and the best-three rule is the one handing out the trophy. Below them Nate Sutherland on 278, Chase Raymond on 267 and Levi Raymond on 266 all have three starts and no discard at all, so a fifth-round score lands in full for them while the front six only gain the margin over their current worst -- Davey Batta on 281 has to beat a 91, Alex Vanderbeek on 266 has to beat an 88. One round left, and the six points between Lemieux and Champlin are a good deal thinner than the arithmetic underneath them.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Chase Lemieux+101399−973024
2Broc Champlin+99388−922964
3Brennan Schimmel+97374−802944
4Aydin Horne+98383−932904
5Tom Rinderknecht+94375−912844
6Davey Batta+95372−912814
7Nate Sutherland+9627802783
8Chase Raymond+8926702673

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

13.5 Expert 4wd Buggy

35 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Talon Henley292375−831141st939883101*·
2Brady Carrico290382−920141st981009292·
3Maccoy Martin29029001032nd–100*9991·
4Aaron Mitchell28428400032nd999095–·
5Benjamin Decker280364−840045th91849693·
6Andrew Thomas27727700035th90–9196·
7Luke Pravechek27527500033rd95–8298·
8Owen Vanderbeek25625600036th–956794·
9Connor Barrows245245000313th–887681·
10Evan Ciresi244244000315th–867880·
11Zack Mazurek240240000315th767886–·
12Evan Tapp239239000312th897575–·
13Nolan Hunt229229000316th708574–·
14Jordan Vandenplas213213000328th687273–·
15Tucker Mitchel210210000321st636780–·
16Domnic Paccione20220202221st101*–101*–·
17Daniel Chavez19519500023rd–9798–·
18Kadin Meeks19419400024th97––97·
19Dustin Fox18718700025th9691––·
20Daigan Bledsoe18618600027th–9294–·
21Ryder Himanek18618600028th–9393–·
22Jeff Statkiewicz17917900027th–9485–·
23Gregory Tennies17817800029th92––86·
24Keaton Grant17517500026th80––95·
25Larry Wright IV170170000213th82–88–·
26Connor Esbeck169169000211th79––90·
27Daniel Bender166166000214th––7987·
28Brody Thompson165165000217th–8184–·
29Schuyler Mandella165165000217th84–81–·
30Gavin Moeller156156000216th85–71–·
31Luke Siela149149000221st–8069–·
32Tyler Davis148148000218th–8365–·
33Dawson Camacho145145000222nd–7966–·
34TJ Williams138138000227th64––74·
35Mike Champ137137000230th6671––·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Domnic Paccione — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 38 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Domnic Paccione0122/5:14.22213.841 fast · 14.283 avg122/5:10.97213.813 fast · 14.135 avg122/5:11.71913.721 fast · 14.169 avg
2Aaron Mitchell5321/5:01.21213.881 fast · 14.343 avg621/5:06.40313.903 fast · 14.591 avg421/5:04.14513.735 fast · 14.483 avg
3Brady Carrico5521/5:09.73513.920 fast · 14.749 avg421/5:03.37813.992 fast · 14.447 avg321/5:02.86014.003 fast · 14.422 avg
4Dustin Fox7621/5:09.94613.987 fast · 14.759 avg321/5:03.35413.985 fast · 14.445 avg721/5:10.72413.833 fast · 14.796 avg
5Luke Pravechek7421/5:07.08414.165 fast · 14.623 avg521/5:05.89814.048 fast · 14.567 avg1720/5:07.61013.916 fast · 15.381 avg
6Kadin Meeks11821/5:12.00914.137 fast · 14.858 avg1320/5:01.76614.107 fast · 15.088 avg521/5:04.50114.073 fast · 14.500 avg
7Colton Kruse141021/5:14.49714.346 fast · 14.976 avg3519/5:12.36114.392 fast · 16.440 avg621/5:09.99214.174 fast · 14.762 avg
8Benjamin Decker15721/5:10.39414.350 fast · 14.781 avg1020/5:00.30914.445 fast · 15.015 avg1520/5:06.96413.982 fast · 15.348 avg
9Gregory Tennies15921/5:13.39214.371 fast · 14.923 avg821/5:12.82714.385 fast · 14.897 avg1620/5:07.60114.512 fast · 15.380 avg
10Craig Schlegel16368/1:54.825 (DNF)14.135 fast · 14.353 avg921/5:13.52914.036 fast · 14.930 avg921/5:11.44514.007 fast · 14.831 avg
11Rich Peters181320/5:06.52914.820 fast · 15.327 avg1220/5:01.74914.873 fast · 15.087 avg821/5:10.93214.417 fast · 14.806 avg
12Talon Henley191420/5:07.00514.240 fast · 15.350 avg721/5:08.98313.863 fast · 14.713 avg3815/3:39.516 (DNF)13.912 fast · 14.634 avg
13Schuyler Mandella19359/2:14.275 (DNF)14.341 fast · 14.919 avg1120/5:01.14714.411 fast · 15.057 avg1021/5:12.49314.257 fast · 14.881 avg
14Evan Tapp201121/5:14.63014.253 fast · 14.982 avg2320/5:11.99514.338 fast · 15.600 avg1121/5:12.70914.040 fast · 14.891 avg
15Andrew Thomas241220/5:00.43014.430 fast · 15.022 avg1620/5:04.49714.398 fast · 15.225 avg1420/5:03.06314.321 fast · 15.153 avg
16Tallen Deede25390/0.000 (DNS)1520/5:04.19914.792 fast · 15.210 avg1221/5:14.72614.494 fast · 14.987 avg
17Gavin Moeller252020/5:10.75914.569 fast · 15.538 avg1420/5:02.16114.681 fast · 15.108 avg1320/5:02.29514.364 fast · 15.115 avg
18Brody Treharne321520/5:08.05314.341 fast · 15.403 avg1920/5:07.97614.770 fast · 15.399 avg3519/5:08.74514.617 fast · 16.250 avg
19Tyler Aubart321620/5:09.11014.798 fast · 16.269 avg1820/5:07.81214.171 fast · 15.391 avg3419/5:06.57213.999 fast · 16.135 avg
20Josh Melia331820/5:09.75814.826 fast · 15.488 avg1720/5:06.77514.705 fast · 15.339 avg3319/5:04.96415.064 fast · 16.051 avg
21Connor Esbeck402120/5:11.37114.622 fast · 15.569 avg2120/5:09.71414.601 fast · 15.486 avg3019/5:04.14914.646 fast · 16.008 avg
22Zack Mazurek412519/5:00.73514.600 fast · 15.828 avg2919/5:00.12914.375 fast · 15.796 avg1820/5:07.75414.288 fast · 15.388 avg
23Kyle Kocourek412420/5:14.79714.232 fast · 15.740 avg393/55.946 (DNF)14.484 fast · 18.649 avg1920/5:07.87114.110 fast · 15.394 avg
24Brayden Hauch422320/5:12.35914.946 fast · 15.618 avg2720/5:14.98214.925 fast · 15.749 avg2120/5:10.95214.689 fast · 15.548 avg
25Keaton Grant431720/5:09.11114.451 fast · 15.456 avg2820/5:21.68414.121 fast · 16.931 avg3718/5:07.92314.481 fast · 17.107 avg
26Nolan Hunt431920/5:10.71614.864 fast · 15.536 avg3119/5:01.52914.927 fast · 15.870 avg2620/5:14.98514.653 fast · 15.749 avg
27Chris Garay453019/5:10.65115.031 fast · 16.350 avg2220/5:09.81815.047 fast · 15.491 avg2520/5:14.85114.855 fast · 15.743 avg
28Michael Meister472919/5:07.85615.180 fast · 16.203 avg3019/5:01.47015.189 fast · 15.867 avg2020/5:09.05715.223 fast · 15.453 avg
29Lawson Drinkwater473219/5:11.41415.333 fast · 16.390 avg2620/5:14.65315.064 fast · 15.733 avg2320/5:12.06714.862 fast · 15.603 avg
30Adrian Stillwell492220/5:12.11514.618 fast · 15.606 avg3812/3:12.970 (DNF)14.654 fast · 16.081 avg2919/5:02.05614.314 fast · 15.898 avg
31Jordan Vandenplas502819/5:05.05914.827 fast · 16.056 avg2420/5:13.60814.907 fast · 15.680 avg3914/4:00.373 (DNF)15.270 fast · 17.170 avg
32Michael Labar522719/5:03.82115.242 fast · 15.991 avg3419/5:04.46615.353 fast · 16.025 avg2719/5:00.76515.089 fast · 15.830 avg
33Aven Dortch53385/1:26.221 (DNF)15.690 fast · 17.244 avg3319/5:03.36215.266 fast · 15.966 avg2220/5:11.91614.998 fast · 15.596 avg
34Larry Wright IV54375/1:17.031 (DNF)14.451 fast · 15.406 avg2020/5:08.95614.135 fast · 15.448 avg3619/5:11.17214.453 fast · 16.377 avg
35Mike Champ543119/5:11.12715.163 fast · 16.375 avg2520/5:13.96615.161 fast · 15.698 avg3219/5:04.63714.973 fast · 16.034 avg
36Kyle Kosek552619/5:02.10914.888 fast · 15.900 avg3219/5:01.68315.188 fast · 15.878 avg3119/5:04.22615.049 fast · 16.012 avg
37Tucker Mitchel563415/4:06.650 (DNF)15.116 fast · 16.443 avg3619/5:13.97615.242 fast · 16.525 avg2420/5:14.48515.108 fast · 15.724 avg
38TJ Williams593318/5:13.07715.087 fast · 17.393 avg3718/5:03.76715.379 fast · 16.876 avg2819/5:01.67614.938 fast · 15.878 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Domnic Paccione1P122/5:08.95213.72413.99998.92%+101
2Aaron Mitchell2P222/5:12.93913.73014.18797.88%+99
3Brady Carrico3P321/5:01.14713.72314.26697.65%+98
4Kadin Meeks4P621/5:02.13013.98714.24198.42%+97
5Dustin Fox5P421/5:04.46413.89114.38396.81%+96
6Luke Pravechek6P521/5:03.56013.82514.34995.72%+95
7Colton Kruse7P720/5:01.02913.95614.90292.19%no licence
8Talon Henleybumped up8P920/5:01.69913.77914.90894.27%+93
9Gregory Tenniesbumped up9P1020/5:02.67214.21114.91096.54%+92
10Benjamin Decker10P820/5:08.03914.18115.20892.41%+91
B-main
1Talon Henleyup to the AP421/5:08.97913.96514.60596.86%–
2Gregory Tenniesup to the AP121/5:10.57514.40314.73196.71%–
3Andrew Thomas11P721/5:10.85414.30814.61998.37%+90
4Evan Tapp12P620/5:05.45114.18615.14292.38%+89
5Rich Peters13P320/5:06.17814.31715.26092.20%no licence
6Tallen Deede14P820/5:09.91114.49215.32693.32%no licence
7Tyler Aubartbumped up15P920/5:15.59214.28315.60392.22%no licence
8Gavin Moellerbumped up16P1019/5:00.54814.52115.57394.27%+85
9Schuyler Mandella17P519/5:04.77814.30915.96490.82%+84
10Craig Schlegel18P219/5:07.67714.07416.08482.27%no licence
C-main
1Tyler Aubartup to the BP320/5:02.93014.62315.03897.86%–
2Gavin Moellerup to the BP120/5:05.23814.50415.19694.96%–
3Larry Wright IVbumped up19P920/5:07.05114.48115.13696.99%+82
4Kyle Kocourek20P720/5:10.37914.35115.33792.23%no licence
5Keaton Grantbumped up21P1020/5:13.49614.15515.41691.73%+80
6Connor Esbeck22P519/5:00.18414.31215.51395.43%+79
7Brayden Hauch23P818/5:02.21914.26316.46789.50%no licence
8Josh Melia24P418/5:03.71814.85416.81186.35%no licence
9Zack Mazurek25P617/5:13.73814.45118.43444.45%+76
10Brody Treharne26P26/1:32.657 (DNF)14.83015.15998.14%no licence
D-main
1Larry Wright IVup to the CP920/5:09.87514.64215.25696.52%–
2Keaton Grantup to the CP120/5:13.62514.65015.53592.63%–
3Aven Dortchbumped up27P1019/5:00.02315.01915.53198.24%no licence
4Michael Meister28P419/5:00.54914.90515.71594.80%no licence
5Michael Labar29P819/5:04.65015.04715.75196.75%no licence
6Adrian Stillwell30P619/5:06.74614.50515.80691.04%no licence
7Nolan Hunt31P219/5:07.87614.57916.11388.58%+70
8Chris Garay32P319/5:12.37114.97016.07490.69%no licence
9Jordan Vandenplas33P719/5:13.07315.01116.32889.53%+68
10Lawson Drinkwater34P57/1:57.989 (DNF)15.39816.08293.90%no licence
E-main
1Larry Wright IVup to the CP220/5:07.84014.60115.28795.98%–
2Aven Dortchup to the DP120/5:14.25114.98515.65096.12%–
3Mike Champ35P320/5:15.13215.00115.58495.59%+66
4Kyle Kosek36P419/5:04.69414.66615.89792.80%no licence
5TJ Williams37P619/5:09.24314.85416.06894.49%+64
6Tucker Mitchel38P518/5:08.50914.95016.94388.57%+63

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Domnic Paccione 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Won all three qualifiers for a score of 2, took the pole, and then won two of the three A-mains for an A-main total of 2 as well. The single blemish on the whole card was a fourth in the middle leg, and by then he had already banked the other two. TQ plus the win is 101 points, the most this series will hand anybody, and he collected it on the opening weekend of the season.

  2. 2nd
    Aaron Mitchell 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 7 · Q 3/6/4

    A sixth in the first A-main looked like the end of the story, and then he won A2 and backed it up with a fourth for a total of 5. Four drivers finished this weekend on a total of 5 and the countback put him on top of all of them. Qualifying second on a 7 from 3/6/4 gave him the front-row start, and 99 points says he used it.

  3. 3rd
    Brady Carrico 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 5/4/3

    Heats of 5/4/3 were the definition of steady, and the finals looked exactly the same: 2/3/5 for a total of 5. That number was posted by four different drivers on the day, which turned the podium into a countback exercise, and he came out the best of the ones not called Aaron Mitchell. Ninety-eight points and a second place in the opening A-main to point at.

  4. 4th
    Kadin Meeks 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 13 · Q 8/13/5

    Starting sixth and finishing fourth is the best net gain of anybody in this A-main, and he did it with 5/2/3 for a total of 5. That is the same total as the two drivers on the podium ahead of him, so the difference was where he lined up rather than how he ran. A qualifying score of 13 from 8/13/5 was the weakest seed in the top five and it did not slow him down at all. Ninety-seven points.

  5. 5th
    Dustin Fox 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 6/3/7

    The fourth member of the total-5 club and the one who got least out of it, running 3/9/2 with the ninth in the middle leg vanishing into the drop. On pure A-main pace he was right there with the podium; on the tiebreak he was fifth. The fourth seed on a 9 from 6/3/7 was honest work, and 96 points is a solid way to open an account.

  6. 6th
    Luke Pravechek 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 9 · Q 4/5/17

    Qualifying went 4/5/17 and, because only the best two count, the 17 went straight in the bin and he still lined up fifth. The finals were less generous: 4/8/6 for a total of 10, which is five clear of the logjam ahead and comfortably clear of everyone behind. Ninety-five points, no drama, no damage.

  7. 7th
    Colton Kruse no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 16 · Q 10/35/6

    A 35 in the second qualifier would end most people's weekends, but best-two-of-three meant 10 and 6 were all that counted and the seventh seed was his. He then held that exact position through the finals with 7/5/7 for a total of 12. No series licence means the 94 points that go with seventh place simply evaporate, which will be a small comfort to the three A-main drivers who spent the day looking at his car.

  8. 8th
    Talon Henley 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P12 · bumped up from the B · qual score 21 · Q 14/7/38

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeded into it, which usually buys you a long afternoon at the back of the field. Instead he ran 8/6/8 for a total of 14 and eighth overall, ahead of a driver who qualified inside the top eight. He has been a JConcepts team driver since 2023 and it showed in how few mistakes were on the card. Ninety-three points from the hard route in.

  9. 9th
    Gregory Tennies 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 9/8/16

    Another bump-up who declined to be scenery, working 10/7/9 into a total of 16 and ninth place. The seventh in the middle leg was the pick of it and it dragged the whole weekend up a level. Ninety-two points when you had to earn your grid slot on the day is a genuinely good start.

  10. 10th
    Benjamin Decker 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 7/10/15

    The eighth seed on a 17 from 7/10/15, and the finals never really warmed to him: 9/10/10 for a total of 19, the biggest number in the A-main. It was still an A-main, which is more than twenty-odd drivers behind him managed. Ninety-one points banked on a weekend that was never going to be his.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Andrew Thomas 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 26 · Q 12/16/14

    First man out of the A-main is the worst seat in the building, and missing the seeded eight is what put him there. Eleventh on the road is worth 90 points, exactly one behind the last driver in the main show. Close enough to be annoyed about, far enough to have to do something about it.

  13. 12th
    Evan Tapp 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 22 · Q 11/23/11

    Qualifying outside the seeded eight sent him to a lower final and he turned that into twelfth overall and 89 points. On a weekend where the front of the field was untangled by countback, a clean full score is a perfectly respectable souvenir. Round one of five is a bad time to be judged on anything.

  14. 16th
    Gavin Moeller 85 ptsbumped up
    85 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 27 · Q 20/14/13

    Front of the C grid, second at the flag, and a ticket into the B — 20 laps in 5:05.238 to get it done. The promotion came with the tenth and last grid slot in the next race, and he still brought it home eighth. Sixteenth overall and 85 points, all of it earned by climbing rather than by being handed a seed.

  15. 17th
    Schuyler Mandella 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 21 · Q 35/11/10

    Missing the seeded eight cost him any shot at the A-main and seventeenth was the return, worth 84 points. He came home a single position behind Gavin Moeller, which in a five-round series is the kind of margin people remember in the autumn.

  16. 19th
    Larry Wright IV 82 ptsbumped up
    82 pts · qualified P34 · bumped up from the E · qual score 56 · Q 37/20/36

    Thirty-fourth in qualifying normally means one race and a long drive home, so he simply raced three. He won the E from the second slot, won the D from ninth on the grid, and then took third in the C from ninth again, putting 20 laps on the board in every one of them. His quickest lap of the lot, a 14.481, came in the last and hardest of the three, which is not how tired arms usually work. Nineteenth overall and 82 points, and in a championship scored on best three that is currency rather than a write-off.

  17. 21st
    Keaton Grant 80 ptsbumped up
    80 pts · qualified P25 · bumped up from the D · qual score 45 · Q 17/28/37

    Twenty-fifth in qualifying bought him the front of the D grid and he made it pay, coming second and taking the promotion into the C. Dropped to the tenth and last slot there, he worked back up to fifth and found a quicker lap doing it — 14.155 against the 14.650 he managed in the D. Twenty-first overall and 80 points, and round one of five is far too early to judge anybody on the qualifying that started it.

  18. 22nd
    Connor Esbeck 79 pts
    79 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 42 · Q 21/21/30

    One position behind Keaton Grant and one point behind him too, on 79. The gap between him and the A-main was enormous; the gap between him and the man immediately ahead was a single spot, which is a much more useful way to look at it.

  19. 25th
    Zack Mazurek 76 pts
    76 pts · qualified P22 · qual score 43 · Q 25/29/18

    Missing the seeded eight left him deep in the lower mains and twenty-fifth was the outcome, worth 76 points. That is a number to improve on rather than defend, and with four rounds still to run there is plenty of room to do it.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

One round in and the championship table is just the Brookfield result wearing a different hat: every driver has exactly one start, so the best-three figure and the raw total are the same number for everybody on it. Domnic Paccione leads on 101, the maximum available, because TQ plus the win is the only route to a score that starts with three digits. Behind him Aaron Mitchell (99), Brady Carrico (98), Kadin Meeks (97) and Dustin Fox (96) are separated purely by countback, all four having posted an identical A-main total of 5 — the tightest four-way argument you will see all year. Colton Kruse finished seventh on the road without a series licence, and because positions are not reshuffled, the 94 points attached to that spot simply evaporate rather than trickling down the order. With four rounds still to run and the season scored on best three, nobody here is defending anything yet — but 101 out of a possible 101 is a very pleasant thing to carry to Macomb.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Talon Henley+93375−832924
2Brady Carrico+98382−922904
3Aaron Mitchell+9928402843
4Benjamin Decker+91364−842804
5Andrew Thomas+9027702773
6Luke Pravechek+9527502753
7Zack Mazurek+7624002403
8Evan Tapp+8923902393

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Maccoy Martin — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 35 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Maccoy Martin0420/5:00.33014.737 fast · 15.017 avg121/5:09.88814.561 fast · 14.757 avg121/5:10.48814.586 fast · 14.785 avg
2Daniel Chavez2121/5:13.28714.520 fast · 14.918 avg321/5:11.64814.390 fast · 14.840 avg1520/5:10.59414.361 fast · 15.530 avg
3Brady Carrico5620/5:04.72614.583 fast · 15.236 avg420/5:01.66914.524 fast · 15.083 avg321/5:10.60614.355 fast · 14.791 avg
4Talon Henley7320/5:00.01514.602 fast · 15.001 avg3410/2:34.151 (DNF)14.814 fast · 15.415 avg620/5:00.94414.437 fast · 15.047 avg
5Collin Miles81320/5:10.58115.129 fast · 15.529 avg620/5:03.94614.812 fast · 15.197 avg421/5:12.65814.525 fast · 14.888 avg
6Owen Vanderbeek10520/5:02.91814.849 fast · 15.146 avg1420/5:11.66014.881 fast · 15.583 avg720/5:02.24014.715 fast · 15.112 avg
7Daigan Bledsoe121820/5:15.01314.597 fast · 15.751 avg920/5:04.61314.729 fast · 15.231 avg521/5:14.34914.513 fast · 14.969 avg
8Jeff Statkiewicz141120/5:06.33314.800 fast · 15.317 avg720/5:04.24114.538 fast · 15.212 avg920/5:03.50514.709 fast · 15.175 avg
9Dustin Fox14920/5:05.04914.276 fast · 15.252 avg820/5:04.53814.315 fast · 15.227 avg820/5:02.86214.418 fast · 15.143 avg
10Aaron Mitchell15720/5:04.97414.770 fast · 15.249 avg359/2:21.514 (DNF)15.042 fast · 15.724 avg1020/5:03.76214.743 fast · 15.188 avg
11Caleb Kuretich192020/5:18.97314.943 fast · 15.949 avg1020/5:05.67814.839 fast · 15.284 avg1120/5:05.79414.860 fast · 15.290 avg
12Ryder Himanek191020/5:06.00514.631 fast · 15.300 avg1120/5:09.96414.665 fast · 15.498 avg349/2:23.893 (DNF)14.867 fast · 15.988 avg
13Benjamin Decker212619/5:09.09614.563 fast · 16.268 avg520/5:01.71414.639 fast · 15.086 avg1819/4:58.024 (DNF)14.621 fast · 15.685 avg
14Evan Ciresi22820/5:04.97614.783 fast · 15.249 avg2219/5:04.22414.822 fast · 16.012 avg1620/5:13.15914.888 fast · 15.658 avg
15Tyler Davis231220/5:08.37314.957 fast · 15.419 avg1620/5:14.25514.975 fast · 15.713 avg1320/5:09.85515.059 fast · 15.493 avg
16Nolan Hunt251520/5:13.15015.048 fast · 15.658 avg1220/5:10.44314.830 fast · 15.522 avg2119/5:02.10114.843 fast · 15.900 avg
17Ryan Hovis271420/5:12.58915.186 fast · 15.630 avg1520/5:11.98015.121 fast · 15.599 avg1720/5:13.22615.180 fast · 15.661 avg
18Connor Barrows281620/5:13.71814.985 fast · 15.686 avg3217/5:18.10715.175 fast · 18.712 avg1420/5:09.94914.788 fast · 16.313 avg
19Carter Irish321720/5:14.79014.874 fast · 15.740 avg1720/5:14.43814.938 fast · 15.722 avg1919/5:00.44814.808 fast · 15.813 avg
20Brody Thompson342419/5:05.31515.011 fast · 16.069 avg366/1:36.176 (DNF)15.149 fast · 16.029 avg1220/5:07.73314.897 fast · 15.387 avg
21Evan Tapp342319/5:03.50414.848 fast · 15.974 avg1320/5:10.87914.826 fast · 15.544 avg3114/3:37.652 (DNF)14.894 fast · 15.547 avg
22Luke Siela381920/5:15.23015.017 fast · 15.762 avg2119/5:03.06914.995 fast · 15.951 avg3213/3:21.662 (DNF)15.109 fast · 15.512 avg
23Zack Mazurek382119/5:00.11914.970 fast · 15.796 avg1919/5:01.87715.042 fast · 15.888 avg2219/5:03.36815.174 fast · 15.967 avg
24Dawson Camacho393118/5:03.37215.626 fast · 16.854 avg1819/5:01.74115.110 fast · 15.881 avg2319/5:04.09715.109 fast · 16.005 avg
25Nathanial Betley432519/5:08.26715.165 fast · 16.225 avg2019/5:02.52915.317 fast · 15.923 avg354/1:03.849 (DNF)15.855 fast · 15.962 avg
26Ilan Sanderson442219/5:00.60915.080 fast · 15.822 avg2518/5:00.24614.837 fast · 16.680 avg2419/5:04.55514.812 fast · 16.029 avg
27Tucker Mitchel483018/5:02.27115.097 fast · 16.793 avg3018/5:14.89115.429 fast · 17.494 avg2019/5:00.95815.142 fast · 15.840 avg
28Wyatt Gaskins482719/5:09.61315.607 fast · 16.295 avg2319/5:09.16515.663 fast · 16.272 avg2818/5:01.44315.554 fast · 16.747 avg
29Mike Champ492819/5:13.95515.733 fast · 16.524 avg2419/5:13.23515.645 fast · 16.486 avg2719/5:15.48715.592 fast · 16.605 avg
30Blake Salmon503418/5:14.47615.754 fast · 17.471 avg2718/5:02.99015.373 fast · 16.833 avg2519/5:11.81915.603 fast · 16.412 avg
31Alex Via543218/5:04.07615.375 fast · 16.893 avg2618/5:00.98015.515 fast · 16.721 avg3015/4:34.394 (DNF)15.476 fast · 18.293 avg
32Daniel Marino553318/5:12.78515.566 fast · 17.377 avg2818/5:05.55215.673 fast · 16.975 avg2918/5:09.90915.870 fast · 17.217 avg
33Dalton Campbell573617/5:11.04116.151 fast · 18.297 avg3314/4:10.197 (DNF)15.981 fast · 17.871 avg2619/5:12.82115.775 fast · 16.464 avg
34Jordan Vandenplas582918/5:00.26114.993 fast · 16.681 avg3118/5:19.07715.287 fast · 17.727 avg360/0.000 (DNS)
35Connor Glover603517/5:05.26016.094 fast · 17.956 avg2918/5:09.79415.857 fast · 17.211 avg3312/3:32.978 (DNF)15.851 fast · 17.748 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Brady Carrico1P321/5:07.37814.45214.67799.13%+100
2Maccoy Martin2P121/5:10.71314.36314.87797.63%+100
3Talon Henley3P421/5:12.26114.38314.92396.38%+98
4Daniel Chavez4P221/5:12.17114.33514.93794.66%+97
5Collin Miles5P520/5:01.42714.59615.08895.30%no licence
6Owen Vanderbeek6P621/5:13.87714.67514.96897.99%+95
7Jeff Statkiewicz7P821/5:14.52914.64714.95598.23%+94
8Ryder Himanekbumped up8P1020/5:00.16414.56714.95897.69%+93
9Daigan Bledsoe9P720/5:02.90214.55014.83997.74%+92
10Dustin Foxbumped up10P920/5:01.97314.41415.07392.80%+91
B-main
1Dustin Foxup to the AP120/5:02.34214.51215.19694.95%–
2Ryder Himanekup to the AP420/5:03.07914.80915.19198.10%–
3Aaron Mitchell11P220/5:04.37514.70415.12497.17%+90
4Caleb Kuretich12P320/5:08.87214.71415.42894.42%no licence
5Connor Barrowsbumped up13P920/5:12.14614.74015.51895.23%+88
6Ilan Sandersonbumped up14P1020/5:13.59414.82315.62393.60%no licence
7Evan Ciresi15P619/5:01.04414.70615.82990.95%+86
8Nolan Hunt16P819/5:03.96914.80215.98090.83%+85
9Benjamin Decker17P519/5:04.91214.63715.93089.93%+84
10Tyler Davis18P719/5:07.63815.04416.13792.06%+83
C-main
1Connor Barrowsup to the BP220/5:04.60414.91615.28098.89%–
2Ilan Sandersonup to the BP920/5:09.27715.13615.40397.72%–
3Carter Irish19P320/5:12.50915.01015.66491.03%no licence
4Brody Thompson20P419/5:00.09114.89115.82790.67%+81
5Luke Siela21P619/5:03.08315.05416.91677.50%+80
6Dawson Camacho22P819/5:09.56214.89516.14386.19%+79
7Zack Mazurek23P719/5:14.32715.18516.46985.80%+78
8Alex Viabumped up24P1018/5:01.07915.35216.69290.25%no licence
9Ryan Hovis25P19/2:55.138 (DNF)15.12320.14369.91%no licence
10Evan Tapp26P58/2:08.825 (DNF)15.27116.01794.92%+75
D-main
1Ilan Sandersonup to the BP220/5:08.51315.01215.49997.81%–
2Alex Viaup to the CP719/5:00.53915.22315.77996.90%–
3Nathanial Betley27P119/5:01.36615.23515.97693.95%no licence
4Daniel Marino28P819/5:07.42115.61716.13696.54%no licence
5Jordan Vandenplas29P1019/5:14.28215.15516.37589.45%+72
6Mike Champ30P518/5:01.92415.53416.65792.10%+71
7Wyatt Gaskins31P418/5:02.70715.27216.66287.32%no licence
8Connor Glover32P1118/5:03.47615.57216.77392.46%no licence
9Blake Salmon33P617/5:05.88315.69117.87887.77%no licence
10Tucker Mitchel34P315/4:07.370 (DNF)15.30716.24294.46%+67
11Dalton Campbell35P911/3:08.291 (DNF)15.67116.75492.80%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Brady Carrico 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 6/4/3

    Won the first two A-mains outright, which made the tenth in A3 pure theatre — the drop rule removed it and left him on a total of 2. The third seed on a 7 from 6/4/3 meant a row back from pole, and it made precisely no difference once the finals started. A hundred points and the championship lead on 198. The only thing spoiling it is that the runner-up leaves Macomb with exactly the same score.

  2. 2nd
    Maccoy Martin 100 pts TQ
    100 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 4/1/1 · TQ

    TQ on a 2 from 4/1/1, pole position, and finals of 2/6/1 for a total of 3 — beaten by one point of A-main total and by nothing else at all. The TQ bonus lifts his 99 to 100, which is the identical haul the race winner took, so the XRAY man surrenders the trophy and keeps the arithmetic. That is either the cruellest or the kindest result of the weekend depending on which sheet you are reading. Winning the last A-main from a sixth in the middle leg was the drive of the afternoon.

  3. 3rd
    Talon Henley 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 3/34/6

    A 34 in the second qualifier is the sort of number that ruins a weekend, except best-two-of-three exists and 3 and 6 still bought him the fourth seed. From there he ran 4/9/2 for a total of 6 and took the last step of the podium on countback. Two rounds, two top-eight finishes, and second in the championship on 191, nine behind the leader. Not bad for a man whose qualifying looked like a typo.

  4. 4th
    Daniel Chavez 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 1/3/15

    Won the opening qualifier and had the second seed locked up before a 15 in Q3 got quietly binned by the drop. The finals were relentless — 3/3/4 for a total of 6 — which is normally a podium and this time was exactly one countback short of one. Fourth and 97 points is a strong weekend that is going to feel like a mugging.

  5. 5th
    Collin Miles no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 13/6/4

    A thirteenth in the opening qualifier, then 6 and 4 to take the fifth seed, and then he held it exactly: 5/4/6 in the finals for a total of 9. No series licence, so no championship points, but five drivers who do have one finished behind him and they all know it. Consistency like that usually gets rewarded with more than a handshake.

  6. 6th
    Owen Vanderbeek 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 5/14/7

    A tenth in the first A-main is a hole, and 7 then 3 was him climbing out of it for a total of 10. The JConcepts-supported driver held his sixth seed to the letter and left with 95 points. The last A-main was comfortably the best twenty minutes of his weekend.

  7. 7th
    Jeff Statkiewicz 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 11/7/9

    The eighth and last seeded slot on a 16 from 11/7/9, and then he threw down the surprise of the finals by running second in A2. Ninths either side left him on a total of 11, but that was still worth a place gained and seventh overall. Ninety-four points out of the back of the seeded eight is good business in anyone's language.

  8. 8th
    Ryder Himanek 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P12 · bumped up from the B · qual score 21 · Q 10/11/34

    Bumped into the A-main on the day and then finished ahead of a driver who had qualified inside the seeded eight, running 6/8/5 for a total of 11. That is level with Jeff Statkiewicz in front of him, separated only by countback. For someone who had to race his way into the show, eighth is a very tidy afternoon's work.

  9. 9th
    Daigan Bledsoe 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 14 · Q 18/9/5

    An 18 in the opening qualifier looked terminal until 9 and 5 rescued the seventh seed out of it. The finals were steady rather than spectacular at 7/5/8 for a total of 12, and ninth was the return. Ninety-two points, and a weekend where the recovery drive happened in the heats instead of the mains.

  10. 10th
    Dustin Fox 91 ptsbumped up
    91 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 16 · Q 9/8/8

    Bumped up rather than seeded this time, a step back from the fourth seed he carried at Brookfield. The finals gave him 8/10/7 for a total of 15 and tenth, last of the A-main runners. Ninety-one points still holds him fourth in the championship on 187, so the damage is a lot smaller than the sheet makes it look.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Aaron Mitchell 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 17 · Q 7/35/10

    Missing the seeded eight kept him out of the A-main entirely, which is a strange result for a driver who finished second at Brookfield. Eleventh and 90 points is hardly a catastrophe: he sits third in the championship on 189, nine off the lead. The floor under his season is holding even on the weekends the ceiling falls in.

  13. 13th
    Connor Barrows 88 ptsbumped up
    88 pts · qualified P18 · bumped up from the C · qual score 30 · Q 16/32/14

    The C went about as well as a C can go: second on the grid, first at the flag, 20 laps in 5:04.604 with 98.89% consistency behind it. Starting ninth in the B after that, he still came out fifth. Thirteenth overall and 88 points, which is two places and two points behind a driver currently third in the championship — rather better perspective on the lower mains than that phrase usually gets.

  14. 15th
    Evan Ciresi 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 24 · Q 8/22/16

    A run to fifteenth from outside the seeded eight, worth 86 points. Nothing loud happened, which in a lower main is very often the entire point of the exercise.

  15. 16th
    Nolan Hunt 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 27 · Q 15/12/21

    No seeded slot, no A-main, and sixteenth at the end of it for 85 points. That moves him to seventh in the championship on 155 across two starts, which is the reward for turning up twice and finishing twice. The qualifying is the bit that needs work; the racing clearly does not.

  16. 17th
    Benjamin Decker 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 23 · Q 26/5/18

    The eighth seed at Brookfield, and this time no seed at all, which turned into seventeenth and 84 points. It still leaves him fifth in the championship on 175, because in this format appearances count for as much as heroics. A weekend to file away and move on from.

  17. 18th
    Tyler Davis 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 25 · Q 12/16/13

    Qualifying outside the seeded eight put him in a lower main and eighteenth was where it ended, worth 83 points. One place and one point behind Benjamin Decker, which is a gap you could close by breathing on it.

  18. 20th
    Brody Thompson 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 36 · Q 24/36/12

    A trip to twentieth from outside the seeded eight, with 81 points to show for it. Two rounds of five are gone and the best-three format means there is still a great deal of season left to reshape this.

  19. 21st
    Luke Siela 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P22 · qual score 40 · Q 19/21/32

    One position behind Brody Thompson and one point behind him too, on 80. Missing the seeded eight is the whole story of the weekend, and it was a story a lot of quick drivers were telling at Macomb.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Two rounds down and the table still reads perfectly straight: nobody has more than two starts, so the best-three column and the raw column are identical for every name in the top ten. Brady Carrico converted the third qualifying seed into the win and leads on 198, nine clear of Talon Henley on 191, with Aaron Mitchell (189) and Dustin Fox (187) tucked in behind and Benjamin Decker fifth on 175 despite a weekend spent entirely outside the A-main. The winner of round one does not appear in this top ten at all, which is the cold arithmetic of a best-three series — points only accumulate for the people standing in the drivers' box. Maccoy Martin's TQ bonus means he and the race winner both banked 100 at Macomb, a result that will be re-read several times before anyone accepts it. Further down, Evan Tapp (164), Nolan Hunt (155) and Zack Mazurek (154) are building respectable totals without ever troubling the seeded eight, which is a perfectly legitimate way to run a championship campaign. Three rounds remain and every score on the board is still a counting one.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Talon Henley+98375−832924
2Brady Carrico+100382−922904
3Maccoy Martin+10029002903
4Aaron Mitchell+9028402843
5Benjamin Decker+84364−842804
6Andrew Thomas–27702773
7Luke Pravechek–27502753
8Owen Vanderbeek+9525602563

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Domnic Paccione — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 41 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Domnic Paccione21120/5:15.37015.195 fast · 15.769 avg320/5:07.98415.062 fast · 15.399 avg120/5:05.59914.911 fast · 15.280 avg
2Maccoy Martin2120/5:06.22215.041 fast · 15.311 avg420/5:08.33815.152 fast · 15.417 avg320/5:06.94315.134 fast · 15.347 avg
3Daniel Chavez2320/5:07.40015.011 fast · 15.370 avg120/5:06.82315.148 fast · 15.341 avg1219/5:00.01715.006 fast · 15.790 avg
4Benjamin Decker6420/5:10.82715.177 fast · 15.541 avg620/5:09.81915.103 fast · 15.491 avg420/5:09.36315.016 fast · 15.468 avg
5Braeden Banci8820/5:13.87715.281 fast · 15.694 avg520/5:09.35915.184 fast · 15.468 avg520/5:10.43915.283 fast · 15.522 avg
6Andrew Thomas11620/5:13.63815.310 fast · 15.682 avg1819/5:02.27315.451 fast · 15.909 avg720/5:12.87315.363 fast · 15.644 avg
7Aaron Mitchell12520/5:12.28715.379 fast · 15.614 avg920/5:11.51715.329 fast · 15.576 avg1619/5:02.85715.334 fast · 15.940 avg
8Brady Carrico141020/5:15.23815.478 fast · 15.762 avg2619/5:11.30615.191 fast · 16.385 avg620/5:10.78215.253 fast · 15.539 avg
9Ryder Himanek14920/5:15.20815.366 fast · 15.760 avg720/5:09.91215.174 fast · 15.496 avg2219/5:06.58415.287 fast · 16.136 avg
10Talon Henley151419/5:00.52115.433 fast · 15.817 avg820/5:10.54315.175 fast · 15.527 avg920/5:14.11815.205 fast · 15.706 avg
11Daigan Bledsoe161519/5:01.22915.372 fast · 15.854 avg1020/5:11.78215.290 fast · 15.589 avg820/5:13.78815.080 fast · 15.689 avg
12Jeff Statkiewicz17720/5:13.86615.323 fast · 15.693 avg1220/5:13.11615.483 fast · 15.656 avg4010/2:47.198 (DNF)15.220 fast · 16.720 avg
13Kyle Holmberg231220/5:15.66615.225 fast · 15.783 avg1320/5:13.82615.248 fast · 15.691 avg2119/5:06.15015.239 fast · 16.113 avg
14Jake Wiggs241319/5:00.33915.392 fast · 15.807 avg1420/5:14.01115.429 fast · 15.701 avg1319/5:00.60815.327 fast · 15.821 avg
15Jacob Sweisberger281919/5:03.85115.398 fast · 15.992 avg1120/5:12.52115.266 fast · 15.626 avg420/0.000 (DNF)
16Brody Thompson291719/5:02.68415.578 fast · 15.931 avg1620/5:15.40415.422 fast · 15.770 avg1519/5:01.93915.376 fast · 15.892 avg
17Larry Wright IV314015/3:58.026 (DNF)15.473 fast · 15.868 avg2219/5:06.67315.255 fast · 16.141 avg1120/5:14.71215.422 fast · 15.736 avg
18Evan Tapp311619/5:02.55115.458 fast · 15.924 avg1719/5:01.25415.468 fast · 15.855 avg419/2:24.322 (DNF)15.347 fast · 16.036 avg
19Evan Ciresi322419/5:06.08215.742 fast · 16.110 avg2519/5:11.03815.546 fast · 16.370 avg1020/5:14.66215.437 fast · 15.733 avg
20Tucker Mitchel331819/5:03.69215.437 fast · 15.984 avg2319/5:06.96415.663 fast · 16.156 avg1719/5:03.36115.578 fast · 15.966 avg
21Zack Mazurek342219/5:05.07015.516 fast · 16.056 avg2819/5:11.69815.659 fast · 16.405 avg1419/5:01.29515.492 fast · 15.858 avg
22KC Belke342119/5:04.44015.402 fast · 16.023 avg1520/5:14.28115.438 fast · 15.714 avg3118/5:00.51715.439 fast · 16.695 avg
23Connor Barrows372019/5:04.43915.383 fast · 16.023 avg1919/5:03.13615.454 fast · 15.955 avg2419/5:09.09215.569 fast · 16.268 avg
24Schuyler Mandella404210/2:44.570 (DNF)15.795 fast · 16.457 avg2419/5:08.71415.713 fast · 16.248 avg1819/5:03.93715.704 fast · 15.997 avg
25Daniel Bender413318/5:06.73315.675 fast · 17.041 avg2019/5:05.38815.609 fast · 16.073 avg2319/5:08.62615.675 fast · 16.243 avg
26Nolan Hunt422319/5:05.69015.379 fast · 16.089 avg2119/5:05.77415.334 fast · 16.093 avg2719/5:11.44615.386 fast · 16.392 avg
27Luke Pravechek442719/5:08.81515.573 fast · 16.253 avg418/2:06.489 (DNF)15.626 fast · 15.811 avg1919/5:04.51215.551 fast · 16.027 avg
28Owen Vanderbeek442619/5:07.75315.962 fast · 16.198 avg3019/5:12.81715.701 fast · 16.464 avg2019/5:04.90315.813 fast · 16.048 avg
29Gavin Moeller492519/5:07.15215.936 fast · 16.166 avg2919/5:12.63615.785 fast · 16.455 avg2619/5:11.43815.751 fast · 16.391 avg
30Colby Rogers522919/5:17.84416.192 fast · 16.729 avg3119/5:13.88516.056 fast · 16.520 avg2519/5:10.64215.922 fast · 16.350 avg
31Jordan Vandenplas532819/5:10.70715.805 fast · 16.353 avg2719/5:11.59715.825 fast · 16.400 avg2819/5:12.78215.757 fast · 16.462 avg
32Gracin Spieker603218/5:06.04616.142 fast · 17.003 avg3718/5:14.18015.766 fast · 17.454 avg3019/5:16.93015.957 fast · 16.681 avg
33Luke Siela603018/5:00.63616.093 fast · 16.702 avg3219/5:14.16415.734 fast · 16.535 avg3218/5:01.60515.821 fast · 16.756 avg
34Collyn Miller633618/5:16.89215.697 fast · 17.605 avg4012/3:27.728 (DNF)15.833 fast · 17.311 avg2919/5:15.17815.698 fast · 16.588 avg
35Dawson Camacho643118/5:05.56716.287 fast · 16.976 avg3618/5:08.71616.296 fast · 17.151 avg3518/5:07.58816.239 fast · 17.088 avg
36Tyler Davis654113/3:38.293 (DNF)16.214 fast · 16.792 avg3319/5:15.40316.123 fast · 16.600 avg3418/5:07.42216.222 fast · 17.079 avg
37James Dewild653418/5:06.85016.730 fast · 17.047 avg3518/5:05.46816.651 fast · 16.970 avg3318/5:06.65216.407 fast · 17.036 avg
38Joe Zaier Jr673518/5:13.93116.302 fast · 17.441 avg3419/5:15.98816.015 fast · 16.631 avg3618/5:15.40916.539 fast · 17.523 avg
39Ennis Graves733917/5:10.43416.768 fast · 18.261 avg3818/5:17.88716.694 fast · 17.660 avg3717/5:01.13216.913 fast · 17.714 avg
40Shawn Dimech743717/5:01.07716.162 fast · 17.710 avg427/2:13.514 (DNF)16.766 fast · 19.074 avg3917/5:11.99416.720 fast · 18.353 avg
41Kris Hackenson743817/5:09.41117.354 fast · 18.201 avg3917/5:05.68617.160 fast · 19.105 avg3817/5:08.07217.368 fast · 18.122 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Domnic Paccione1P120/5:04.07714.94115.19098.99%+101
2Maccoy Martin2P220/5:07.44414.91715.31298.38%+99
3Daniel Chavez3P320/5:08.17415.01215.33098.21%+98
4Braeden Banci4P520/5:11.55215.25315.49398.98%no licence
5Benjamin Decker5P420/5:10.03215.04715.42398.53%+96
6Aaron Mitchell6P720/5:14.48815.32815.57698.98%+95
7Daigan Bledsoebumped up7P1020/5:16.88015.09115.69296.74%+94
8Ryder Himanekbumped up8P919/5:00.22015.22415.59098.63%+93
9Brady Carrico9P819/5:04.29615.29015.85496.00%+92
10Andrew Thomas10P619/5:00.41415.23515.69397.40%+91
B-main
1Ryder Himanekup to the AP120/5:11.03315.26815.52699.02%–
2Daigan Bledsoeup to the AP320/5:11.77015.24115.52498.94%–
3Kyle Holmberg11P519/5:00.89015.24115.75196.70%no licence
4Jake Wiggs12P619/5:01.32615.42215.75698.42%no licence
5Larry Wright IVbumped up13P1019/5:02.17515.35115.71998.39%+88
6Jacob Sweisberger14P719/5:08.00515.19716.09592.88%no licence
7Zack Mazurekbumped up15P919/5:12.61315.51816.31291.51%+86
8Jeff Statkiewicz16P416/4:09.752 (DNF)15.19315.51099.04%+85
9Brody Thompson17P89/2:42.165 (DNF)15.88617.95187.97%+84
10Talon Henley18P24/1:05.696 (DNF)16.05716.40098.07%+83
C-main
1Zack Mazurekup to the BP519/5:05.85715.57815.97398.60%–
2Larry Wright IVup to the BP119/5:08.62815.23916.24292.54%–
3Luke Pravechekbumped up19P919/5:09.87315.63616.08996.74%+82
4Schuyler Mandella20P819/5:12.13415.58316.26996.47%+81
5Tucker Mitchel21P419/5:14.92815.76916.51091.79%+80
6Daniel Benderbumped up22P1019/5:15.17815.64216.36295.56%+79
7Evan Ciresi23P319/5:16.60815.59316.62490.63%+78
8KC Belke24P618/5:00.09915.43116.56590.51%no licence
9Connor Barrows25P718/5:03.43115.54816.67890.42%+76
10Evan Tapp26P218/5:09.13215.64617.18088.88%+75
D-main
1Luke Pravechekup to the CP319/5:03.87715.55615.91098.34%–
2Daniel Benderup to the CP119/5:05.50415.66416.03898.04%–
3Nolan Hunt27P219/5:10.69415.58316.30194.34%+74
4Jordan Vandenplas28P719/5:11.14815.79716.25596.32%+73
5Colby Rogers29P619/5:11.98615.84016.28498.03%no licence
6Gavin Moeller30P519/5:12.19615.59016.32991.83%+71
7Collyn Millerbumped up31P918/5:01.88215.84016.63494.28%no licence
8Luke Sielabumped up32P1018/5:04.33415.79216.75194.17%+69
9Gracin Spieker33P818/5:06.46915.69916.88992.92%no licence
10Owen Vanderbeek34P413/3:34.765 (DNF)15.72216.40391.71%+67
E-main
1Collyn Millerup to the DP219/5:11.90415.85416.35797.98%–
2Luke Sielaup to the DP119/5:14.09016.07816.49397.72%–
3Dawson Camacho35P319/5:17.77716.08216.59695.16%+66
4Tyler Davis36P418/5:02.00116.19016.63698.36%+65
5James Dewild37P518/5:07.28316.57616.93598.16%no licence
6Joe Zaier Jr38P618/5:11.37616.26517.15994.50%no licence
7Kris Hackenson39P917/5:11.32217.11818.11693.84%no licence
8Shawn Dimech40P817/5:20.51616.18818.47990.50%no licence
9Ennis Graves41P716/5:04.21116.85418.90191.15%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Domnic Paccione 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 11/3/1 · TQ

    An eleventh in the opening qualifier from the man who ended up on pole is a strange sentence to write, but 3 and 1 afterwards gave him a score of 4 and the countback over two drivers on the same number. The finals then went 4/1/1 — the same shape as Brookfield, the same result, the same 101 points. Two starts, two TQs, two wins, and a championship position of tenth on 202, which tells you everything about how this format rewards attendance. Nobody in this class has a better scoring rate and nobody in the top nine cares.

  2. 2nd
    Maccoy Martin 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 1/4/3

    Won the opening qualifier and tied Domnic Paccione on a score of 4, losing pole on the countback. The finals were every bit as tight: 1/2/2 for a total of 3, one point short of the win. Ninety-nine points and a second consecutive weekend as the quickest man not to take the trophy home.

  3. 3rd
    Daniel Chavez 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 4 · Q 3/1/12

    Three drivers qualified on a score of 4 and he was the third of them, with 3 and 1 counting and a 12 dropped without ceremony. The finals were metronomic — 2/3/3 for a total of 5 — and third was the result. That is back-to-back top-four weekends of doing everything right except being one position further forward. Ninety-eight points is a fine consolation for it.

  4. 4th
    Braeden Banci no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 8/5/5

    Fifth seed on a 10 from 8/5/5, and then third in the opening A-main put him straight into the conversation. A fifth and a tenth followed, the tenth got dropped, and a total of 8 was enough to take fourth on countback. No series licence means no points, but six A-main drivers finished behind him and that is six A-main drivers.

  5. 5th
    Benjamin Decker 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 8 · Q 4/6/4

    An eighth in the first A-main was the outlier and 4 then 4 after it left him on a total of 8, level with Braeden Banci ahead and beaten only by the tiebreak. The fourth seed on an 8 from 4/6/4 is comfortably his best qualifying of the season. Fifth and 96 points lifts him to fourth in the championship on 271, and this is the weekend where his season started looking serious.

  6. 6th
    Aaron Mitchell 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 14 · Q 5/9/16

    Qualifying seventh on a 14, with a 16 in the last heat that the drop rule mercifully swallowed. The finals were 5/6/8 for a total of 11 and sixth, which is 95 points and, far more usefully, second in the championship on 284. Six behind Brady Carrico with two rounds left and three starts each — this is a title fight now, not a table.

  7. 7th
    Daigan Bledsoe 94 ptsbumped up
    94 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 15/10/8

    Bumped into the A-main and then ran the most gloriously boring set of finals imaginable: 6/7/6 for a total of 12 and seventh. Boring is a compliment here, because from a grid slot he had to earn on the day he still finished ahead of two seeded drivers. Ninety-four points for a weekend without a single wasted lap.

  8. 8th
    Ryder Himanek 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 16 · Q 9/7/22

    Another bump-up who made the seeded eight look ornamental, going 10/9/5 for a total of 14 and eighth. The tenth in the opener was the drop and the fifth in the final leg was the point of the whole exercise. Two rounds, two bump-ups, two eighth places — at some point that stops being luck.

  9. 9th
    Brady Carrico 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 10/26/6

    A 26 in the second qualifier is a genuinely startling number to find on a championship leader's sheet, and 10 then 6 still scraped him the eighth seed out of it. The finals never got the ground back: 9/8/7 for a total of 15 and ninth. Ninety-two points is a thin haul, but it keeps him top of the championship on 290, which is exactly what a points lead is for.

  10. 10th
    Andrew Thomas 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 13 · Q 6/18/7

    Qualifying sixth on a 13 with an 18 discarded along the way, and then the finals slid steadily the wrong direction: 7/10/9 for a total of 16. Being the last of the A-main runners still pays 91 points, and it is a clear step up from being the first man to miss the show at Brookfield. The pace is there; the middle legs are not.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 13th
    Larry Wright IV 88 ptsbumped up
    88 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 33 · Q 40/22/11

    Out of the C in second from the front of its grid, and into the B by way of its tenth and last starting slot. He made fifth of that, 19 laps in 5:02.175 at 98.39% consistency, against the 92.54% he ran in the C — tidier in the tougher race. Thirteenth and 88 points, six places and six points better than his Brookfield weekend; steady improvement is not a headline, it is a strategy, and it is working.

  13. 15th
    Zack Mazurek 86 ptsbumped up
    86 pts · qualified P21 · bumped up from the C · qual score 36 · Q 22/28/14

    Fifth on the C grid and first at the flag — 19 laps in 5:05.857 at 98.60% consistency — which is exactly how you talk your way into the B. That was a tougher room and seventh from ninth on the grid was the honest return, but fifteenth overall and 86 points quietly moves him fifth in the championship on 240. Three starts, three scores, and a top-five position assembled entirely out of turning up and climbing while quicker drivers argued over countbacks.

  14. 16th
    Jeff Statkiewicz 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 19 · Q 7/12/40

    The eighth seed at Macomb became no seed at all here, and sixteenth was the consequence, worth 85 points. Two thirds of a good weekend went missing in qualifying, which is precisely where his last one was won.

  15. 17th
    Brody Thompson 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 31 · Q 17/16/15

    Another weekend spent outside the seeded eight and another afternoon in a lower main, this one ending in seventeenth for 84 points. That is three places and three points better than Macomb, which is the right direction even if it is a slow one.

  16. 18th
    Talon Henley 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 17 · Q 14/8/9

    Third in the championship coming in and eighteenth on the road going out — the sort of weekend a best-three format was invented to forgive. Missing the seeded eight left him with nowhere to attack from and 83 points was all there was to collect. He holds third on 274, sixteen behind Brady Carrico, so the season is entirely intact even if the weekend was not.

  17. 19th
    Luke Pravechek 82 ptsbumped up
    82 pts · qualified P27 · bumped up from the D · qual score 46 · Q 27/41/19

    Winning the D from the third slot was the escape act — 19 laps in 5:03.877 and the best consistency figure in that race at 98.34% — and it dropped him into the C on the ninth grid slot. He climbed six of those to finish third. Nineteenth overall and 82 points is a long way from the fifth seed he carried at Brookfield, but the qualifying is the whole problem and the racing plainly is not.

  18. 20th
    Schuyler Mandella 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P24 · qual score 42 · Q 42/24/18

    Outside the seeded eight for the second time this season and twentieth at the flag, worth 81 points. Three places and three points off Brody Thompson, which is a margin that decides nothing in June and quite possibly something later.

  19. 21st
    Tucker Mitchel 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 35 · Q 18/23/17

    A twenty-first place and 80 points looks unremarkable right up until you notice it puts him ninth in the championship on 210 across three starts. Turning up and finishing is a badly underrated way to build a season, and he has 210 points that agree with the strategy.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Three rounds gone and the format has still not started biting: nobody in the top ten has more than three starts, so best-three and raw remain the same number for every driver listed. Brady Carrico holds the lead on 290 despite a ninth place at Muscatine, with Aaron Mitchell six behind on 284, Talon Henley third on 274 and Benjamin Decker fourth on 271 after his best weekend of the season. The most extraordinary line on the sheet is the last one: Domnic Paccione sits tenth on 202 from two starts, two TQs and two wins, which is a flawless scoring rate and a championship position of tenth, all at once. His third start, whenever it arrives, is pure profit — he has nothing to discard and everyone above him is already carrying three results. Behind the leaders, Zack Mazurek (240), Evan Tapp (239) and Nolan Hunt (229) keep converting lower-main finishes into championship position, while Tucker Mitchel is ninth on 210 having done the same. Two rounds left, six points between first and second, and a man averaging the maximum lurking at the bottom of the top ten.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Talon Henley+83375−832924
2Brady Carrico+92382−922904
3Maccoy Martin+9929002903
4Aaron Mitchell+9528402843
5Benjamin Decker+96364−842804
6Andrew Thomas+9127702773
7Luke Pravechek+8227502753
8Owen Vanderbeek+6725602563

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Talon Henley — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 27 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Talon Henley0114/5:19.22622.388 fast · 22.802 avg114/5:16.91622.069 fast · 22.637 avg414/5:19.18422.029 fast · 22.799 avg
2Luke Pravechek2314/5:21.09522.600 fast · 22.935 avg414/5:21.33122.529 fast · 22.952 avg114/5:17.33422.275 fast · 22.667 avg
3Ivan Moreno4513/5:00.63822.483 fast · 23.126 avg314/5:20.32422.483 fast · 22.880 avg314/5:17.85122.177 fast · 22.704 avg
4Andrew Thomas8413/5:00.08322.796 fast · 23.083 avg613/5:00.42422.488 fast · 23.110 avg2013/5:20.15323.064 fast · 24.627 avg
5Kadin Meeks8613/5:02.47622.417 fast · 23.267 avg514/5:22.28522.355 fast · 23.020 avg514/5:21.21322.344 fast · 22.944 avg
6Keaton Grant12713/5:03.19922.691 fast · 23.323 avg813/5:03.65322.651 fast · 23.358 avg713/5:00.92122.550 fast · 23.148 avg
7Maccoy Martin16913/5:06.36023.007 fast · 23.566 avg913/5:05.28822.936 fast · 23.484 avg1313/5:10.38222.931 fast · 23.876 avg
8Brady Carrico171413/5:11.37122.703 fast · 23.952 avg1313/5:09.03522.846 fast · 23.772 avg613/5:00.62022.610 fast · 23.125 avg
9Benjamin Decker171113/5:08.20922.779 fast · 23.708 avg1513/5:11.72022.836 fast · 23.978 avg813/5:02.41322.508 fast · 23.263 avg
10Ryan Prince17813/5:06.00322.964 fast · 23.539 avg1913/5:24.15223.017 fast · 24.935 avg1113/5:05.55323.198 fast · 23.504 avg
11Owen Vanderbeek171013/5:07.93922.654 fast · 23.688 avg1113/5:06.66622.744 fast · 23.590 avg913/5:02.81822.745 fast · 23.294 avg
12Shane Alberico201513/5:11.50522.270 fast · 23.962 avg713/5:02.21722.596 fast · 23.247 avg1513/5:12.60922.635 fast · 24.047 avg
13Gregory Tennies201613/5:11.66423.172 fast · 23.974 avg1213/5:08.28523.061 fast · 23.714 avg1013/5:05.49322.987 fast · 23.499 avg
14Dalton Conradt201313/5:10.51522.367 fast · 23.886 avg1013/5:06.56023.132 fast · 23.582 avg1213/5:06.89522.693 fast · 23.607 avg
15William Schroeder241213/5:08.24023.047 fast · 23.711 avg1413/5:10.94823.007 fast · 23.919 avg2112/5:00.58323.169 fast · 25.049 avg
16Emerson Sturgeon291713/5:13.28722.805 fast · 24.099 avg260/0.000 (DNS)1413/5:11.12822.648 fast · 23.933 avg
17Connor Esbeck312113/5:22.17023.628 fast · 24.782 avg1713/5:14.12623.045 fast · 24.164 avg1613/5:14.51722.604 fast · 24.194 avg
18Daniel Bender321813/5:14.75023.027 fast · 24.212 avg1613/5:13.92122.743 fast · 24.148 avg1813/5:17.08823.071 fast · 24.391 avg
19Bentley Schwartz332013/5:21.06423.777 fast · 24.697 avg1813/5:20.20623.874 fast · 24.631 avg1713/5:15.26723.775 fast · 24.251 avg
20Evan Ciresi371913/5:20.41123.114 fast · 24.647 avg2012/5:01.30223.714 fast · 25.109 avg2412/5:06.52123.512 fast · 25.543 avg
21Connor Barrows41280/0.000 (DNS)2412/5:05.63023.725 fast · 25.469 avg1913/5:18.53623.590 fast · 24.503 avg
22TJ Williams422412/5:02.67823.490 fast · 25.223 avg2112/5:02.87523.166 fast · 25.240 avg2312/5:02.13323.310 fast · 25.178 avg
23Anthony Woodruff432312/5:01.72823.153 fast · 25.144 avg2212/5:03.37323.757 fast · 25.281 avg274/1:44.056 (DNF)24.471 fast · 26.014 avg
24Hendrick Westmoreland452212/5:01.30623.635 fast · 25.109 avg2512/5:19.39024.658 fast · 26.616 avg2611/5:01.90823.553 fast · 27.446 avg
25Tanner Dillin462612/5:18.47224.691 fast · 26.539 avg260/0.000 (DNS)2212/5:00.77623.517 fast · 25.065 avg
26Teagan Cummings462512/5:13.57724.142 fast · 26.131 avg2312/5:03.71024.369 fast · 25.309 avg284/1:44.812 (DNF)24.187 fast · 26.203 avg
27Owen Jordan492712/5:27.56123.919 fast · 27.297 avg260/0.000 (DNS)2512/5:14.11624.444 fast · 26.176 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Talon Henley1P114/5:10.29622.04022.54598.85%+101
2Ivan Moreno2P314/5:12.13222.25122.64099.09%no licence
3Luke Pravechek3P214/5:14.70822.40222.86296.75%+98
4Kadin Meeks4P514/5:17.28622.32322.96397.52%+97
5Andrew Thomas5P414/5:16.89622.49122.91998.96%+96
6Keaton Grant6P614/5:19.92022.40323.13298.19%+95
7Owen Vanderbeekbumped up7P1014/5:21.08922.27622.95698.17%+94
8Benjamin Deckerbumped up8P914/5:22.04322.53323.20797.61%+93
9Brady Carrico9P813/5:02.11322.78423.49497.62%+92
10Maccoy Martin10P713/5:02.73222.84023.59294.37%+91
B-main
1Benjamin Deckerup to the AP113/5:05.89023.14224.05597.38%–
2Owen Vanderbeekup to the AP313/5:08.48023.21024.18292.98%–
3Connor Esbeckbumped up11P913/5:09.61623.03924.05195.48%+90
4Dalton Conradt12P613/5:09.79123.24124.16694.96%no licence
5Shane Alberico13P413/5:11.64023.05724.42295.21%no licence
6Daniel Benderbumped up14P1013/5:17.54523.25224.39994.07%+87
7Gregory Tennies15P513/5:20.84323.44925.08193.32%+86
8Ryan Prince16P212/4:48.847 (DNF)23.22124.65292.76%no licence
9Emerson Sturgeon17P812/5:00.36223.63525.46093.36%no licence
10William Schroeder18P712/5:00.98823.58425.49893.45%no licence
C-main
1Connor Esbeckup to the BP113/5:02.72623.26823.75798.36%–
2Daniel Benderup to the BP213/5:08.19123.03224.14494.38%–
3Bentley Schwartz19P313/5:12.65223.35924.49294.86%no licence
4Connor Barrows20P513/5:20.67823.44325.09993.65%+81
5Evan Ciresi21P413/5:23.91823.94225.28393.37%+80
6Tanner Dillin22P913/5:30.18923.88125.54589.03%no licence
7Hendrick Westmoreland23P812/5:00.74223.90025.37194.35%no licence
8Anthony Woodruff24P712/5:05.55524.04125.65193.87%no licence
9Teagan Cummings25P1012/5:15.99524.09426.68689.99%no licence
10Owen Jordan26P1112/5:19.98224.39026.41689.57%no licence
11TJ Williams27P68/3:19.552 (DNF)24.38125.66993.87%+74

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Talon Henley 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/4 · TQ

    Won the first two qualifiers for a score of 2 and the pole, then won the first two A-mains as well, at which point the tenth in the final leg became somebody else's problem — the drop rule erased it and left him on a total of 2. That is 101 points, the maximum on offer, and it puts him top of the championship on 292. The raw number is 375 across four starts, so he is already carrying a discarded 83 that does him no good at all. Leading by two while throwing a score away is a nice position to be in and a nervous one to defend.

  2. 2nd
    Ivan Moreno no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 6 · Q 5/3/3

    Third seed on a 6 from 5/3/3 and then the most consistent card in the class: 2/2/1 for a total of 3, including the one A-main Talon Henley did not win. No series licence means the 99 points attached to second place stay on the table, which does not alter the fact that eight A-main drivers spent the weekend behind him. On pure racing this was the second-best performance in Omaha and it is worth saying out loud.

  3. 3rd
    Luke Pravechek 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/4/1

    Won the final qualifier and took the second seed on a 4, then ran 3/3/2 for a total of 5 and the last step of the podium. After a nineteenth at Muscatine this is a proper reset, and 98 points lifts him to seventh in the championship on 275. All three of his scores still count, which means there is no dead weight anywhere in that total.

  4. 4th
    Kadin Meeks 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 6/5/5

    Qualifying fifth on a 10 from 6/5/5, he made the finals a climb rather than a charge: 5/7/3 for a total of 8 and fourth on countback. The third A-main was the best leg of his weekend and it landed at exactly the right moment. Ninety-seven points, the same number he took away from Brookfield.

  5. 5th
    Andrew Thomas 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 4/6/20

    A 20 in the last qualifier got dropped and 4 and 6 held him the fourth seed regardless. The finals produced 4/8/4 for a total of 8 — dead level with Kadin Meeks and second best on the tiebreak. Ninety-six points puts him sixth in the championship on 277 from three starts, with nothing yet discarded and nothing yet wasted.

  6. 6th
    Keaton Grant 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 14 · Q 7/8/7

    A tenth in the opening A-main is not how top-six weekends usually begin, and 4 then 6 buried it for a total of 10. Sixth seed, sixth place, 95 points, and an improvement of fifteen positions on the twenty-first he took at Brookfield. Consistency arrived exactly when he needed it to.

  7. 7th
    Owen Vanderbeek 94 ptsbumped up
    94 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 10/11/9

    Bumped into the A-main and then finished ahead of two drivers who had qualified inside the seeded eight, running 9/6/5 for a total of 11. The JConcepts-supported driver has spent the season on the right side of that trade and it has him eighth in the championship on 256 from three starts. The improving leg-by-leg shape of his weekend is becoming a signature.

  8. 8th
    Benjamin Decker 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 11/15/8

    Another bump-up job: 6/5/7 for a total of 11, level with Owen Vanderbeek and beaten on countback for seventh. This is his fourth start of the season and the first time the maths gets interesting — 364 raw, 280 on best three, meaning an 84 has already been thrown overboard. The 93 he took here goes straight into the counting three, which is the whole reason he is fifth in the championship.

  9. 9th
    Brady Carrico 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 19 · Q 14/13/6

    A fourteenth and a thirteenth in the first two qualifiers left him scrambling, and a 6 in the last one bought the eighth seed and nothing more than that. The finals were 7/9/9 for a total of 16 and ninth on the road. Awkwardly, the 92 points he earned here is now the number he discards: 382 raw across four starts, 290 on best three, and second in the championship behind a man with a smaller raw total. Nobody has scored more actual points this season and it is not currently buying him the lead.

  10. 10th
    Maccoy Martin 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 18 · Q 9/9/13

    Ninths in the first two qualifiers and a 13 in the last gave him a score of 18 and the seventh seed, comfortably his roughest qualifying of the year. The finals agreed with that assessment — 8/10/8 for a total of 16 and tenth on countback. Ninety-one points nevertheless leaves him level with Brady Carrico on 290, and he has got there in three starts to Carrico's four, which is much the more interesting half of the sentence.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Connor Esbeck 90 ptsbumped up
    90 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 33 · Q 21/17/16

    Nobody hands out a C-main win, and he took his from the first grid slot: 13 laps in 5:02.726 at 98.36% consistency and a move up to the B. Then came the harder half — ninth on the B grid, third at the flag, with the only two cars that finished ahead of him going through to the A. One slot short of the main show is a cruel place to stop, and 90 points and eleventh overall is still eleven places better than the twenty-second the same qualifying situation produced at Brookfield.

  13. 14th
    Daniel Bender 87 ptsbumped up
    87 pts · qualified P18 · bumped up from the C · qual score 34 · Q 18/16/18

    Second on the C grid, second at the flag, and second is all the bump takes — 13 laps in 5:08.191 and a promotion into the B. That race put him on the tenth and last grid slot and he worked up to sixth, with the quicker of his two fast laps, a 23.032, having come back in the C. Fourteenth overall and 87 points, and in a championship where tenth place sits on 244, scores of that size are the raw material rather than the afterthought.

  14. 15th
    Gregory Tennies 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 22 · Q 16/12/10

    No seeded slot this weekend and fifteenth was the return, worth 86 points. He bumped his way into the A-main at Brookfield, so he knows the route back and he knows it starts in qualifying.

  15. 20th
    Connor Barrows 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 43 · Q 28/24/19

    A run to twentieth was worth 81 points, and it leaves him ninth in the championship on 245 from three starts — proof that a quiet weekend and a good season are entirely compatible. Not one of those three starts has come from inside the seeded eight and he is still in the championship top ten.

  16. 21st
    Evan Ciresi 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 39 · Q 19/20/24

    One position behind Connor Barrows on the day and, as it happens, one point behind him in the championship too, on 244. That is tenth overall from three starts, built without a seeded slot to his name. The two of them have been near-inseparable all season and neither shows any sign of blinking.

  17. 27th
    TJ Williams 74 pts
    74 pts · qualified P22 · qual score 44 · Q 24/21/23

    A long weekend in the lower mains finished in twenty-seventh, worth 74 points and the smallest number on this sheet. There is still a fifth round to come, and in a best-three championship the first score is only ever a starting point.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

Four rounds in and the best-three rule has finally started separating the raw totals from the ones that count. Talon Henley leads on 292 from four starts and a raw 375, meaning an 83 has already been thrown away; Brady Carrico is second on 290 from a raw 382 — the biggest actual points haul in the class — and is discarding a 92, which is why the highest scorer in the championship is not the championship leader. Maccoy Martin is level with Carrico on 290 but has done it in three starts rather than four, so every point he has earned is still counting, and the same is true of Aaron Mitchell (284), Andrew Thomas (277), Luke Pravechek (275) and Owen Vanderbeek (256). Benjamin Decker is fifth on 280 from a raw 364, the other four-start driver in the top ten and the other one already sacrificing a score, an 84 in his case. The practical consequence is that round five is a swap rather than an addition for everybody up here: Carrico must beat 92 to gain anything, Henley must beat 83, Martin and Mitchell must beat 91 and 90 respectively, and Pravechek only needs to top an 82. Two points cover the top three, Connor Barrows (245) and Evan Ciresi (244) are separated by one at the bottom of the table, and there is exactly one round left to sort all of it out.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Talon Henley+101375−832924
2Brady Carrico+92382−922904
3Maccoy Martin+9129002903
4Aaron Mitchell–28402843
5Benjamin Decker+93364−842804
6Andrew Thomas+9627702773
7Luke Pravechek+9827502753
8Owen Vanderbeek+9425602563

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

13.5 Independent 4wd Buggy

13 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Ethan Maki29629601131st9798101*–·
2Adam McKown29429400131st10096–98·
3Lex Mott28828800032nd949599–·
4Lane Lazarz286375−890044th89949795·
5Tyler Heinzelmann269356−8700410th91878791·
6Thomas Vandervelden26326300036th95–9078·
7Bryan Dortch18718700027th–9394–·
8Garrett Reese Miller177177000212th–8889–·
9Ronnie Wint17717700029th––9285·
10Chad Mishler175175000211th–9085–·
11Eli Vanderbeek168168000217th84––84·
12Shane Petitjean167167000216th85––82·
13Kyrie Barritt154154000223rd78––76·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Nick Seng — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 26 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Nick Seng0120/5:09.43615.156 fast · 15.472 avg120/5:11.45915.018 fast · 15.573 avg120/5:07.13714.645 fast · 15.357 avg
2Adam McKown4519/5:01.00915.123 fast · 15.843 avg320/5:14.69614.852 fast · 15.735 avg320/5:13.27714.737 fast · 15.664 avg
3Jason Blades5320/5:15.06115.179 fast · 15.753 avg419/5:01.14615.145 fast · 15.850 avg420/5:13.87415.139 fast · 15.694 avg
4Thomas Vandervelden7419/5:00.68315.322 fast · 15.825 avg519/5:02.95115.300 fast · 15.945 avg519/5:00.12715.276 fast · 15.796 avg
5Andy Martinez10619/5:01.70715.627 fast · 15.879 avg619/5:07.84415.588 fast · 16.202 avg1419/5:11.72114.971 fast · 16.406 avg
6Kevin Waller12919/5:08.26715.377 fast · 16.225 avg719/5:09.18814.861 fast · 16.273 avg719/5:03.64815.328 fast · 15.981 avg
7Lex Mott151518/5:07.99215.521 fast · 17.111 avg1119/5:13.81515.655 fast · 16.517 avg619/5:03.20815.442 fast · 15.958 avg
8Ethan Maki151019/5:08.67515.343 fast · 16.246 avg919/5:09.64015.524 fast · 16.297 avg819/5:04.16615.530 fast · 16.009 avg
9Tyler Heinzelmann15819/5:06.60715.737 fast · 16.137 avg2117/5:04.06815.769 fast · 17.886 avg919/5:07.11615.039 fast · 16.164 avg
10Andy Kahrs161119/5:11.16515.538 fast · 16.377 avg819/5:09.43915.431 fast · 16.286 avg1019/5:08.27615.328 fast · 16.225 avg
11Dalton Castillo18719/5:06.11815.315 fast · 16.111 avg1318/5:03.77915.539 fast · 16.877 avg1319/5:09.31415.461 fast · 16.280 avg
12Dooney Nowak221219/5:14.60315.776 fast · 16.558 avg1418/5:07.09315.413 fast · 17.061 avg1219/5:09.16615.718 fast · 16.272 avg
13Carter Roehl232417/5:15.17416.021 fast · 18.540 avg1019/5:11.24915.747 fast · 16.382 avg1518/5:00.48315.214 fast · 16.694 avg
14Mark Kuhr241418/5:05.97015.393 fast · 16.998 avg1219/5:16.11215.442 fast · 16.637 avg1618/5:02.53915.799 fast · 16.808 avg
15Shane Petitjean291318/5:02.60616.108 fast · 16.811 avg1818/5:12.39915.888 fast · 17.356 avg1818/5:06.78316.077 fast · 17.044 avg
16Mike Byng301718/5:18.35116.024 fast · 17.686 avg1518/5:08.20215.981 fast · 17.122 avg1918/5:13.31215.881 fast · 17.406 avg
17Larry Wright III311818/5:19.87916.127 fast · 17.771 avg1618/5:10.14615.827 fast · 17.230 avg1718/5:05.60615.565 fast · 16.978 avg
18Lane Lazarz322317/5:11.57115.197 fast · 18.328 avg2713/3:30.738 (DNF)14.744 fast · 16.211 avg1119/5:08.56515.362 fast · 16.240 avg
19Bill Moeller331618/5:14.89616.215 fast · 17.494 avg1918/5:16.71916.444 fast · 17.596 avg2610/2:56.275 (DNF)16.040 fast · 17.628 avg
20Eli Vanderbeek341917/4:59.669 (DNF)16.037 fast · 17.628 avg1718/5:10.95415.790 fast · 17.275 avg2117/5:16.01515.736 fast · 18.589 avg
21Nick Cooper392117/5:04.26716.169 fast · 17.898 avg2217/5:04.17216.378 fast · 17.892 avg2018/5:14.85816.642 fast · 17.492 avg
22Dave Cooper402017/5:02.53916.239 fast · 17.796 avg2516/5:06.76716.627 fast · 19.173 avg2217/5:16.96016.626 fast · 18.645 avg
23Elliott Castillo442615/5:02.53616.574 fast · 20.169 avg2018/5:18.10716.713 fast · 17.673 avg276/1:58.234 (DNF)17.248 fast · 19.706 avg
24Andrew Schulz442217/5:10.81416.791 fast · 18.283 avg2417/5:14.21116.616 fast · 18.483 avg2514/4:24.993 (DNF)16.268 fast · 18.928 avg
25Mark Dechant452516/5:06.47817.129 fast · 19.155 avg2317/5:13.25116.485 fast · 18.427 avg2416/5:09.39217.064 fast · 19.337 avg
26Kyrie Barritt472714/5:20.14916.392 fast · 22.868 avg2615/5:03.27516.155 fast · 20.218 avg2316/5:00.64216.725 fast · 18.790 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Adam McKown1P220/5:08.47614.88815.33996.99%+100
2Nick Seng2P120/5:11.29515.04015.49798.24%no licence
3Jason Blades3P319/5:03.63915.31215.84595.76%no licence
4Ethan Maki4P820/5:13.61614.96315.46997.86%+97
5Andy Martinez5P519/5:03.47915.22915.79896.04%no licence
6Thomas Vandervelden6P419/5:09.72815.38616.13892.97%+95
7Lex Mott7P719/5:04.93815.33015.72198.61%+94
8Dalton Castillobumped up8P919/5:14.02315.56016.26991.15%no licence
9Kevin Waller9P619/5:06.03515.19015.93294.94%no licence
10Tyler Heinzelmannbumped up10P1019/5:07.60915.17215.93496.10%+91
B-main
1Dalton Castilloup to the AP323/6:07.87515.59315.90598.51%–
2Tyler Heinzelmannup to the AP123/6:08.30315.57515.97596.90%–
3Carter Roehl11P523/6:13.10115.44716.07496.12%no licence
4Lane Lazarzbumped up12P923/6:13.27515.11116.03392.41%+89
5Mark Kuhr13P622/6:06.05315.38416.48493.78%no licence
6Andy Kahrs14P222/6:12.00715.03716.88986.82%no licence
7Dooney Nowak15P421/6:09.36115.75117.36089.07%no licence
8Shane Petitjean16P721/6:15.92515.76517.79290.38%+85
9Eli Vanderbeekbumped up17P1020/6:12.63815.79518.38784.24%+84
10Mike Byng18P80/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
C-main
1Lane Lazarzup to the BP222/6:00.02515.18216.29991.51%–
2Eli Vanderbeekup to the BP422/6:14.84615.88316.92692.67%–
3Nick Cooper19P521/6:09.64416.18817.49490.43%no licence
4Dave Cooper20P621/6:14.02516.08717.70090.90%no licence
5Bill Moeller21P320/6:03.14016.08417.88188.88%no licence
6Elliott Castillo22P720/6:08.81216.06118.32485.33%no licence
7Kyrie Barritt23P1019/6:05.13516.79919.01089.77%+78
8Andrew Schulz24P810/3:04.625 (DNF)16.86618.01792.06%no licence
9Larry Wright III25P16/1:40.819 (DNF)15.95416.70394.72%no licence
10Mark Dechant26P90/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Adam McKown 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 6 · Q 5/3/3

    A scruffy seventh in the opening A-main, then first in the second, and because the format throws away your worst leg that arithmetic turns into a round win. He had qualified second on a 6 from 5/3/3, never better than third in a heat and never worse than fifth, which is the profile of a driver who intends to still be there when it matters. That left him level with the TQ on a dropped-worst total of 1 and on the right side of the tiebreak. A hundred points and the championship lead out of the opener.

  2. 2nd
    Nick Seng no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Three heats, three heat wins, a qualifying score of 2 and the top seed — you cannot ask more of a Saturday than that. The first A-main went to plan as well, and then a second in the closing leg left him tied with Adam McKown on a total of 1 and on the losing end of the split. Racing without a series licence, he takes no points from it either, so the fastest driver in Brookfield leaves with the TQ trophy and an empty line in the standings.

  3. 3rd
    Jason Blades no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 3/4/4

    Qualified third on a 7 from 3/4/4 and then put a second in A1 on the board, which had him in the argument for the whole thing. A tenth in the second leg is the sort of result that would wreck a cumulative format, but here it simply evaporated, leaving a total of 2 and the last podium spot. Consistent all weekend, punished for none of it.

  4. 4th
    Ethan Maki 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 10/9/8

    The eighth seed on a 17 from 10/9/8, so qualifying said midfield and the mains said something else entirely. He ran third in both legs — five places better than his grid slot, twice — for a total of 3 and the best finish of any driver who started outside the front two rows. Ninety-seven points and second in the opening championship for a car that clearly liked the long runs.

  5. 5th
    Andy Martinez no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 12 · Q 6/6/14

    A 6 and a 6 in the first two heats were tidy work; the 14 in Q3 is precisely the result that best-two-of-three exists to absorb, and he still took the fifth seed on a 12. The mains were quietly excellent, a sixth then a fourth for a total of 4, and that was enough to edge Thomas Vandervelden on the split. Fifth on the road, ahead of a man who started a row in front of him.

  6. 6th
    Thomas Vandervelden 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 4/5/5

    Fourth seed on a 9 from 4/5/5 and a fourth in A1 to match — form doing exactly what form promised. The second leg slid to ninth, and although the drop meant it barely touched his total of 4, it cost him the countback against Andy Martinez. Ninety-five points and third in the championship is a perfectly respectable way to open a season.

  7. 7th
    Lex Mott 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 17 · Q 15/11/6

    Qualifying that reads like a man learning the building in real time: 15th, then 11th, then 6th, for a score of 17 and the seventh seed. The mains carried on in the same direction, an eighth followed by a fifth, and a total of 5 was good for seventh overall. Ninety-four points banked, and a Q3 that says the pace turned up before the weekend ran out.

  8. 8th
    Dalton Castillo no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 7/13/13

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeding into it, which is the hard way through the door, and then ran fifth and seventh against drivers who had the easier route. A total of 5 tied him with Lex Mott and the split went the other way, so eighth it is. He still finished ahead of a driver who had been handed a top-eight seed, which is the sort of detail that makes bump-ups dangerous.

  9. 9th
    Kevin Waller no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 14 · Q 9/7/7

    Qualifying was solid enough — a 9 and then a pair of 7s for a score of 14 and the sixth seed. The A-mains never matched it: ninth in the first, sixth in the second, a total of 6 and a finish three places worse than where he lined up. The raw pace was there on Saturday and declined to travel to Sunday.

  10. 10th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 91 ptsbumped up
    91 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 8/21/9

    Bumped his way into the A-main, which is a full weekend's work before the main event has even started. The two legs came home tenth and eighth for a total of 8 and the bottom line of the sheet, but the ninety-one points spend exactly the same as anybody else's. Fifth in the opening standings from a driver who had to earn his grid slot twice over.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 12th
    Lane Lazarz 89 ptsbumped up
    89 pts · qualified P18 · bumped up from the C · qual score 34 · Q 23/27/11

    A 23rd and a 27th in the opening two heats left everything resting on the last one, and the 11th he posted there put him second on the C-main grid. He won that race, moved up into the B, and from ninth on that grid ran 23 laps for fourth with a quicker lap than he had managed in the race below. Twelfth overall, two spots off the A-main sheet in a field that had ten genuine contenders in it, and eighty-nine points is still the sixth-best haul in the room.

  13. 16th
    Shane Petitjean 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 31 · Q 13/18/18

    Outside the top-eight seeds and sixteenth at the flag, six places shy of the last A-main spot. Eighty-five points is seventh in a championship that has only just opened its eyes, and fifteen points is a gap that four remaining rounds can erase without breaking a sweat.

  14. 17th
    Eli Vanderbeek 84 ptsbumped up
    84 pts · qualified P20 · bumped up from the C · qual score 36 · Q 19/17/21

    Getting out of the C took 22 laps and second place from the fourth grid slot, and that was comfortably the better half of his day. The B, from the tenth and last spot on the grid, was harder going — 20 laps and ninth, which leaves him one spot behind Shane Petitjean and a single point adrift of him in the standings. Eighty-four points is a modest first deposit but it is a deposit, and eighth after one round means he is on the sheet while quicker names are not.

  15. 23rd
    Kyrie Barritt 78 pts
    78 pts · qualified P26 · qual score 49 · Q 27/26/23

    Qualified outside the seeded eight and took twenty-third, the last driver to make the opening championship table. Seventy-eight points is a long way from the front of this room, but the scoring system rewards showing up and finishing and he did both. Ninth place after one round is a starting position, not a verdict.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

One round down and the championship is simply the A-main sheet with everyone who did not bring a licence deleted from it: Adam McKown 100, Ethan Maki 97, Thomas Vandervelden 95, Lex Mott 94, Tyler Heinzelmann 91. Nick Seng won all three heats, took the TQ, finished level with McKown on a dropped-worst total of 1, and collects nothing for the entire performance. Every driver on the board has exactly one start, so best-three and raw totals are the same number for all nine of them — the discard rule is currently a rumour rather than a factor. Twenty-two points separate first from ninth, which in a series where a single event pays up to 101 means nothing whatsoever has been decided. Two of the ten drivers in that A-main got there by bumping up, and both of them beat seeded cars.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Ethan Maki+9729602963
2Adam McKown+10029402943
3Lex Mott+9428802883
4Lane Lazarz+89375−892864
5Tyler Heinzelmann+91356−872694
6Thomas Vandervelden+9526302633
7Eli Vanderbeek+8416801682
8Shane Petitjean+8516701672

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Ryan Priebe — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 16 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Ryan Priebe0120/5:14.61915.069 fast · 15.731 avg120/5:15.09715.168 fast · 15.755 avg1711/3:26.353 (DNF)15.189 fast · 18.759 avg
2Bentley Schwartz2619/5:17.14015.654 fast · 16.692 avg319/5:08.22315.465 fast · 16.222 avg119/5:00.66315.391 fast · 15.824 avg
3Jacob Doron6519/5:11.05515.237 fast · 16.371 avg159/2:29.510 (DNF)15.215 fast · 16.612 avg319/5:05.84315.410 fast · 16.097 avg
4Adam McKown6319/5:07.29515.580 fast · 16.173 avg718/5:02.30315.359 fast · 16.795 avg519/5:11.98715.413 fast · 16.420 avg
5Ethan Maki6419/5:08.78915.866 fast · 16.252 avg419/5:14.58315.582 fast · 16.557 avg419/5:10.19815.699 fast · 16.326 avg
6Lex Mott9718/5:00.90415.561 fast · 16.717 avg519/5:16.09815.495 fast · 16.637 avg619/5:13.95915.644 fast · 16.524 avg
7Jesse Walz151118/5:16.08316.320 fast · 17.560 avg618/5:01.82316.067 fast · 16.768 avg1218/5:14.88216.432 fast · 18.522 avg
8Lane Lazarz15918/5:08.21415.561 fast · 17.123 avg818/5:04.65815.688 fast · 16.925 avg918/5:09.31015.320 fast · 18.195 avg
9Bryan Dortch15818/5:07.95215.660 fast · 17.108 avg918/5:08.39815.812 fast · 17.133 avg1018/5:09.42715.415 fast · 17.190 avg
10Ken McKendrick161517/5:15.02916.315 fast · 18.531 avg1118/5:13.60515.978 fast · 17.423 avg718/5:08.38715.921 fast · 17.133 avg
11Matthew Martin181018/5:10.15416.827 fast · 17.231 avg1018/5:11.48416.398 fast · 17.305 avg1417/4:52.150 (DNF)16.132 fast · 17.185 avg
12Tyler Heinzelmann191616/5:00.21816.102 fast · 18.764 avg1318/5:15.33616.080 fast · 17.519 avg818/5:09.30115.924 fast · 17.183 avg
13Garrett Reese Miller231710/3:24.175 (DNF)16.270 fast · 22.686 avg1412/3:51.865 (DNF)16.519 fast · 19.322 avg1118/5:10.91615.844 fast · 17.273 avg
14Chad Mishler231417/5:08.19916.175 fast · 18.129 avg1218/5:13.81716.074 fast · 17.434 avg1318/5:15.37516.128 fast · 17.521 avg
15Zachary Kohler251217/5:00.19316.226 fast · 18.762 avg166/2:01.641 (DNF)16.651 fast · 20.274 avg1517/5:04.88015.957 fast · 17.934 avg
16Jack Boutton271317/5:01.18216.491 fast · 17.717 avg173/58.453 (DNF)18.369 fast · 19.484 avg1617/5:08.83015.985 fast · 19.302 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Ryan Priebe1P120/5:13.36515.30715.74995.54%no licence
2Jacob Doron2P319/5:00.76715.33515.81397.84%no licence
3Ethan Maki3P519/5:07.58915.57916.22395.02%+98
4Bentley Schwartz4P219/5:05.79115.29716.19793.42%no licence
5Adam McKown5P419/5:09.99915.59916.37792.29%+96
6Lex Mott6P619/5:12.23715.32316.39592.91%+95
7Lane Lazarz7P818/5:01.72515.46616.60591.50%+94
8Bryan Dortchbumped up8P918/5:05.75815.37017.00090.74%+93
9Jesse Walz9P718/5:14.64516.31517.26795.19%no licence
10Ken McKendrickbumped up10P1017/5:02.37215.96517.79589.90%no licence
B-main
1Bryan Dortchup to the AP122/6:04.85115.80516.68493.28%–
2Ken McKendrickup to the AP221/6:02.95115.66617.35793.12%–
3Chad Mishler11P621/6:03.95416.08117.31393.77%+90
4Matthew Martin12P321/6:05.92516.36017.47891.03%no licence
5Garrett Reese Miller13P521/6:08.60716.21317.57791.28%+88
6Tyler Heinzelmann14P420/6:01.08615.99217.79187.69%+87
7Zachary Kohler15P720/6:06.76116.01118.28588.95%no licence
8Jack Boutton16P80/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Ryan Priebe no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/17 · TQ

    TQ, pole, and then both A-mains won outright for a total of 1 that nobody else was ever going to threaten. The single blemish on the whole weekend is a 17 in the third heat, which the best-two-of-three rule swallowed whole after a pair of heat wins. With no series licence attached, the maximum score of 101 goes unclaimed for the second round running — a fact the championship leaders will be studying with quiet gratitude.

  2. 2nd
    Jacob Doron no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 5/15/3

    A 15 in the middle heat did its level best to ruin the weekend, and a 5 and a 3 around it still made an 8 and the third seed. Second in the opening A-main kept him within sight of Priebe, and a seventh in the second leg went straight in the bin under the drop. A total of 2 and the runner-up spot, decided by the split over Ethan Maki.

  3. 3rd
    Ethan Maki 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 8 · Q 4/4/4

    Three heats, three fourth places, a score of 8 and the fifth seed — the most reliably boring qualifying line on the sheet, and meant entirely as a compliment. He then improved on it in both legs, a fourth and a second for a total of 2, and lost second overall only on the countback. Ninety-eight points, third on the road, and second in the championship on 195, a single point behind the leader.

  4. 4th
    Bentley Schwartz no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 6/3/1

    Built his qualifying backwards in the best possible way — sixth, then third, then an outright heat win for a score of 4 and the front row. The mains were consistent without ever getting near Priebe: third and fourth for a total of 3. Fourth overall, and the split over Adam McKown was the difference between a good weekend and a very good one.

  5. 5th
    Adam McKown 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 8 · Q 3/7/5

    The same shape as Brookfield — a scruffy opening leg, seventh, then a third in A2 to rescue the total, with the drop covering the damage. Level with Bentley Schwartz on 3 and beaten on the countback, so fifth at the flag for 96 points. The consolation is arithmetic: three of the four cars that beat him score no championship points, so he leaves Macomb still leading on 196.

  6. 6th
    Lex Mott 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 7/5/6

    Took the sixth seed on an 11 from 7/5/6, and then ran fifth in both A-mains, which is about as literal a reading of your own pace as it is possible to produce. A total of 5, sixth overall, 95 points and third in the standings. The drop rule had absolutely nothing to do all afternoon.

  7. 7th
    Lane Lazarz 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 9/8/9

    Grabbed the last seeded slot on a 17 from 9/8/9 and then went one better in the opening A-main with a sixth. The tenth in the second leg was the one the format discarded, leaving a total of 6 and seventh overall. Ninety-four points and fourth in the championship after two rounds, which is a considerable step up from where his weekend at Brookfield finished.

  8. 8th
    Bryan Dortch 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 8/9/10

    Bumped in from outside the seeded eight, opened with a tenth that looked like the end of it, and then produced a sixth in A2 that tied him with Lane Lazarz on a total of 6. The split went to Lazarz and Dortch takes eighth, which for a driver who had to race his way into the field is a genuinely good day. Ninety-three points and straight into the standings.

  9. 9th
    Jesse Walz no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 17 · Q 11/6/12

    The 6 in the middle heat is the flash of real pace; the 11 and 12 either side made a 17 and the seventh seed. Both A-mains then came home eighth — identical legs, a total of 8, and nothing for the drop rule to fix. Ninth at the flag, two places down on where he started.

  10. 10th
    Ken McKendrick no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 15/11/7

    Bumped into the A-main and then ran two of the steadiest ninths you will see, which is not nothing in a field with this many quick drivers in it. A total of 9 and tenth overall means he got the entire show for his entry fee. Nobody in the room was more predictable.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Chad Mishler 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 25 · Q 14/12/13

    Outside the seeded eight and one place off the A-main sheet, which is comfortably the most annoying result available at a race meeting. The compensation arrives as ninety points and eighth in the championship at the first attempt. One spot in either direction and this reads as a completely different weekend.

  13. 13th
    Garrett Reese Miller 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 25 · Q 17/14/11

    No seed inside the eight and a thirteenth-place finish, three places back from the A-main cut. Eighty-eight points is a solid opening entry and it lands him ninth in the standings straight away, ahead of drivers who have been on the sheet since February.

  14. 14th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 21 · Q 16/13/8

    He bumped his way into the A-main at Brookfield and missed the seeded eight here, so the direction of travel is not the one he wanted. Eighty-seven points still keeps the run going and moves him to 178 from two starts, fifth in the championship. In a series that pays everyone who finishes, turning up twice is worth more than one brilliant weekend.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Two rounds in and a single point covers the lead: Adam McKown 196, Ethan Maki 195, with Lex Mott 189 and Lane Lazarz 183 behind them. McKown's total is built from a win and a fifth; Maki's is built from a fourth and a third and no bad afternoons at all, which is a different kind of dangerous. Nobody has more than two starts, so best-three and raw remain identical for the whole table and the drivers sitting on one start — Thomas Vandervelden 95, Bryan Dortch 93, Chad Mishler 90 — are carrying blank space rather than baggage, which is worth more than the standings make it look. Ryan Priebe TQ'd and won both legs at Macomb for a total of 1 and, with no series licence, the maximum 101 goes unclaimed for the second round running. Two rounds, two flawless TQ performances, zero championship points awarded for either.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Ethan Maki+9829602963
2Adam McKown+9629402943
3Lex Mott+9528802883
4Lane Lazarz+94375−892864
5Tyler Heinzelmann+87356−872694
6Thomas Vandervelden–26302633
7Bryan Dortch+9318701872
8Garrett Reese Miller+8817701772

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Ethan Maki — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 22 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Ethan Maki0418/5:03.33116.094 fast · 16.852 avg119/5:10.90715.879 fast · 16.364 avg119/5:07.00115.950 fast · 16.158 avg
2Stephen Shuey4318/5:01.79115.892 fast · 16.766 avg318/5:01.07415.943 fast · 16.726 avg319/5:11.57015.876 fast · 16.398 avg
3Lex Mott6518/5:04.68016.016 fast · 16.927 avg418/5:03.58015.838 fast · 16.866 avg419/5:14.02015.734 fast · 16.527 avg
4Dayn Hoeli8618/5:05.65816.355 fast · 16.981 avg518/5:05.43516.587 fast · 16.969 avg519/5:15.06116.195 fast · 16.582 avg
5Lane Lazarz10118/5:01.28615.988 fast · 16.738 avg1117/5:00.25216.316 fast · 17.662 avg1218/5:12.03916.079 fast · 17.336 avg
6Ryan Hovis10918/5:19.75816.241 fast · 17.764 avg618/5:05.64116.126 fast · 16.980 avg619/5:15.96415.835 fast · 16.630 avg
7Jacob Heidbreder13718/5:06.60016.614 fast · 17.033 avg2216/5:00.97316.730 fast · 18.811 avg818/5:07.78616.404 fast · 17.099 avg
8Bryan Dortch14232/34.091 (DNF)16.749 fast · 17.046 avg918/5:13.09216.398 fast · 17.394 avg718/5:04.10516.237 fast · 16.895 avg
9Evan Sandberg161417/5:06.16516.846 fast · 18.010 avg718/5:05.66116.565 fast · 16.981 avg1118/5:10.83516.366 fast · 17.269 avg
10Thomas Vandervelden16818/5:08.98716.563 fast · 17.166 avg1018/5:15.68616.327 fast · 17.538 avg1018/5:09.15816.362 fast · 17.175 avg
11Ronnie Wint181117/5:03.39116.803 fast · 17.847 avg1417/5:03.53316.525 fast · 17.855 avg918/5:08.65816.672 fast · 17.148 avg
12Garrett Reese Miller211017/5:00.31416.838 fast · 17.666 avg2316/5:01.59416.878 fast · 18.850 avg1318/5:14.14516.591 fast · 17.453 avg
13Tyler Steele221917/5:14.49816.617 fast · 18.500 avg818/5:10.86316.513 fast · 17.270 avg1617/5:05.33816.454 fast · 17.961 avg
14Tyler Heinzelmann231217/5:03.75016.650 fast · 17.868 avg1317/5:02.81316.638 fast · 17.813 avg2117/5:17.50216.934 fast · 18.677 avg
15Tim Koob242117/5:18.26016.839 fast · 18.721 avg1217/5:02.60616.577 fast · 17.800 avg1417/5:04.04116.911 fast · 17.885 avg
16Chad Mishler261317/5:05.07317.003 fast · 17.945 avg1517/5:04.88416.861 fast · 17.934 avg234/1:12.587 (DNF)16.982 fast · 18.147 avg
17Brian Fraley301817/5:13.90016.670 fast · 18.465 avg1717/5:08.55916.089 fast · 18.151 avg1517/5:04.77516.422 fast · 17.928 avg
18Laine Matlock311517/5:10.51216.800 fast · 18.265 avg2017/5:11.16016.659 fast · 18.304 avg1817/5:08.27716.802 fast · 18.134 avg
19Thomas McCleary321617/5:10.72617.321 fast · 18.278 avg1817/5:08.74117.284 fast · 18.161 avg228/2:34.704 (DNF)17.145 fast · 19.338 avg
20Joe Zaier 3321717/5:11.72017.374 fast · 18.336 avg1917/5:10.49716.914 fast · 18.265 avg1717/5:06.50516.929 fast · 18.030 avg
21Doug Oakley342017/5:16.14517.300 fast · 18.597 avg1617/5:05.00216.949 fast · 17.941 avg2017/5:11.90017.173 fast · 18.347 avg
22Samm Sienknecht382214/4:20.342 (DNF)17.258 fast · 18.596 avg2117/5:16.06517.207 fast · 18.592 avg1917/5:08.99716.919 fast · 18.176 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Ethan Maki1P119/4:51.856 (DNF)15.50321.15452.55%+101
2Lex Mott2P319/5:12.50516.06416.36399.05%+99
3Stephen Shuey3P219/5:16.17415.93216.54395.47%no licence
4Lane Lazarz4P519/5:13.85516.07316.33898.86%+97
5Dayn Hoeli5P418/5:00.43216.10516.55698.12%no licence
6Ryan Hovis6P618/5:01.89915.78516.63595.04%no licence
7Bryan Dortch7P818/5:03.17516.17816.66594.96%+94
8Evan Sandbergbumped up8P918/5:07.13716.39016.86698.03%no licence
9Ronnie Wintbumped up9P1018/5:13.38716.55717.24194.13%+92
10Jacob Heidbreder10P718/5:15.68216.21517.31395.00%no licence
B-main
1Evan Sandbergup to the AP122/6:14.26316.32417.00696.58%–
2Ronnie Wintup to the AP321/6:08.56716.67617.46894.70%–
3Thomas Vandervelden11P221/6:08.82216.62217.56392.24%+90
4Garrett Reese Miller12P421/6:11.97116.83317.53695.58%+89
5Brian Fraleybumped up13P921/6:12.42616.52117.40893.72%no licence
6Tyler Heinzelmann14P621/6:18.19616.54317.62393.12%+87
7Tyler Steele15P520/6:04.54116.47017.96593.44%no licence
8Chad Mishler16P820/6:06.09716.84618.11392.00%+85
9Tim Koob17P719/6:03.58716.92118.95380.25%no licence
10Laine Matlockbumped up18P1017/6:00.85517.97020.96984.44%no licence
C-main
1Brian Fraleyup to the BP121/6:05.18416.49917.23995.41%–
2Laine Matlockup to the BP220/6:02.14416.97718.07289.55%–
3Thomas McCleary19P320/6:03.77717.08318.06693.45%no licence
4Doug Oakley20P520/6:04.95017.18518.17393.68%no licence
5Samm Sienknecht21P620/6:06.85317.00418.18793.52%no licence
6Joe Zaier 322P420/6:08.29116.62918.12692.61%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Ethan Maki 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 4/1/1 · TQ

    The maximum, and there is nothing above it. A fourth in the opening heat and then two heat wins gave him a score of 2 and the top seed, and he led both A-mains home for a total of 1 — a hundred points for the win plus the TQ bonus, 101 in all. It is also the first TQ this class has produced all season with a series licence attached to it, the previous two having paid precisely nothing. He leaves Muscatine leading the championship on 296.

  2. 2nd
    Lex Mott 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 5/4/4

    Third seed on an 8 from 5/4/4 and then a second in the opening leg that at least made Maki look over his shoulder. A fifth in A2 was mostly forgiven by the drop, leaving a total of 2 and the runner-up spot on the split over Stephen Shuey. Ninety-nine points is his best return of the year and it puts him second in the standings on 288.

  3. 3rd
    Stephen Shuey no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 6 · Q 3/3/3

    Three heats, three third places, a score of 6 and the front row — you cannot get more consistent than repeating yourself twice. The first A-main went wrong to the tune of a seventh, which the format duly discarded, and a second in the closing leg tied him with Lex Mott on a total of 2. The countback sent him to third, which is a thin margin on which to lose a podium step.

  4. 4th
    Lane Lazarz 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 12 · Q 1/11/12

    Won the opening heat outright and then posted an 11 and a 12, which made his score of 12 and fifth seed look far more ordinary than that first run suggested. The mains sorted it out completely: third and third, a total of 3, and 97 points — his best of the season. He also took second in 21.5 Independent 2WD at this same meeting, so the transponder earned its keep. Third in the championship on 280.

  5. 5th
    Dayn Hoeli no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 6/5/5

    Fourth seed on a 10 from 6/5/5, and then an opening A-main that went to tenth and would have ended a lot of weekends. The drop rule exists for exactly that, and a fourth in the second leg produced a total of 4 and fifth overall. Recovered everything that was recoverable.

  6. 6th
    Ryan Hovis no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 9/6/6

    The mirror image of Dayn Hoeli's afternoon — fourth in the first leg, tenth in the second, the same total of 4, and the countback fell the other way. Qualifying was a 12 from 9/6/6, so sixth on the grid became sixth at the flag after a considerable amount of movement in between. A lot of weather for very little travel.

  7. 7th
    Bryan Dortch 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 23/9/7

    A 23 in the opening heat is normally where a weekend goes to die; a 9 and a 7 after it made a 16 and the last seeded slot. From there he ran fifth and seventh for a total of 5 and seventh overall, which is a full recovery by any measure. Ninety-four points takes him to 187 from two starts and sixth in the championship.

  8. 8th
    Evan Sandberg no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 14/7/11

    Bumped into the A-main and then ran sixth twice, so the drop had nothing to discard and he had no variance to hide. A total of 6 and eighth overall, ahead of a driver who was handed a top-eight seed and did rather less with it. Getting into the show from outside the seeds and then beating seeded cars is the whole point of a bump.

  9. 9th
    Ronnie Wint 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 11/14/9

    Raced his way in from outside the seeded eight and then delivered two identical eighths, which is a tidy and completely stress-free way to spend an afternoon. A total of 8 and ninth overall on his first appearance in this championship. Ninety-two points and tenth in the standings from a standing start.

  10. 10th
    Jacob Heidbreder no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 15 · Q 7/22/8

    A 7 and an 8 in qualifying were perfectly good; the 22 sandwiched between them was not, and best-two-of-three handed him a 15 and the seventh seed regardless. The mains were a matched pair of ninths for a total of 9 and the bottom line of the A-main sheet, three places down on his grid slot. The format was kinder to him in qualifying than the racing was afterwards.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Thomas Vandervelden 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 18 · Q 8/10/10

    Missed the seeded eight and finished eleventh, one place off the A-main, which is the cruellest slot on any results sheet ever printed. Ninety points is still a solid second start of the season and moves him to 185, seventh in the championship. Two rounds run for him, three for the drivers above.

  13. 12th
    Garrett Reese Miller 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 23 · Q 10/23/13

    Outside the top-eight seeds again and twelfth at the flag, one place better than his Macomb weekend and still one row short of where he wants to be. Eighty-nine points brings him to 177 from two starts and eighth in the standings, which for a driver who has never seen the inside of an A-main this year is a decent piece of accounting.

  14. 14th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 25 · Q 12/13/21

    Character-for-character what he took out of Macomb — same position, same score, different state, eighty-seven points either way. That gives him three starts and 265 points, and fourth place in the championship without ever having finished on a podium. The scoring system rewards relentlessness and he is currently its favourite pupil.

  15. 16th
    Chad Mishler 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 28 · Q 13/15/23

    No seed inside the eight and sixteenth on the day, five places down on his Macomb finish and a fair way off the A-main conversation. Eighty-five points still gets him to 175 for the season and ninth in the standings. Two starts, two scores, nothing thrown away yet.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Ethan Maki has turned a good season into a lead: 296 points from three starts with the first TQ of the year that came with a licence attached, and the first perfect 101 anybody in this class has scored. Behind him Lex Mott is on 288 and Lane Lazarz on 280, both also on three starts, so the top three are separated by sixteen points with no discards anywhere in the table — every score any of them has counts in full. Tyler Heinzelmann is fourth on 265 without a single podium to his name, which is what happens when you finish three rounds while quicker drivers finish two. That is the live tension: Adam McKown sits fifth on 196 from two starts, a hundred points down but with an empty slot that a single good weekend fills completely, whereas everyone above him now has to improve on a score rather than simply add one. Thomas Vandervelden, Bryan Dortch, Garrett Reese Miller and Chad Mishler are all in the same position, two starts and room to grow.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Ethan Maki+10129602963
2Adam McKown–29402943
3Lex Mott+9928802883
4Lane Lazarz+97375−892864
5Tyler Heinzelmann+87356−872694
6Thomas Vandervelden+9026302633
7Bryan Dortch+9418701872
8Garrett Reese Miller+8917701772

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Beau Jacobsen — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 34 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Beau Jacobsen0113/5:08.20922.967 fast · 23.708 avg113/5:13.56222.978 fast · 24.120 avg113/5:09.94023.152 fast · 23.842 avg
2Alton Henley5712/5:06.79023.960 fast · 25.566 avg413/5:20.62422.679 fast · 24.663 avg313/5:12.15223.424 fast · 24.012 avg
3Adam McKown5312/5:02.39424.016 fast · 25.200 avg612/5:00.47923.937 fast · 25.040 avg413/5:16.29823.536 fast · 24.331 avg
4Wayne Schroeder81212/5:13.38423.700 fast · 26.115 avg313/5:20.58523.927 fast · 24.660 avg713/5:21.40723.595 fast · 24.724 avg
5Lane Lazarz8512/5:05.59223.787 fast · 25.466 avg812/5:04.08423.634 fast · 25.340 avg513/5:17.24823.629 fast · 24.404 avg
6Charlie Hicklin9612/5:06.31124.376 fast · 25.526 avg513/5:35.71423.540 fast · 25.824 avg1912/5:18.97523.999 fast · 26.581 avg
7Anthony Santi111012/5:11.45024.089 fast · 25.954 avg712/5:03.80124.049 fast · 25.317 avg613/5:19.46023.921 fast · 24.574 avg
8Charlie Kleinhagen15912/5:09.08024.902 fast · 25.757 avg1312/5:09.87524.828 fast · 25.823 avg813/5:23.35123.804 fast · 24.873 avg
9Milo Brown16412/5:02.55824.507 fast · 25.213 avg2211/5:03.84424.245 fast · 27.622 avg1412/5:11.08024.243 fast · 25.923 avg
10Ben Danko16812/5:07.89224.774 fast · 25.658 avg1012/5:08.15724.256 fast · 25.680 avg1312/5:07.30824.802 fast · 25.609 avg
11Tyler Heinzelmann201911/5:00.44025.075 fast · 27.313 avg1212/5:09.11124.314 fast · 25.759 avg1012/5:05.26725.002 fast · 25.439 avg
12Ryley Howard201112/5:12.86124.433 fast · 26.072 avg1512/5:14.09524.650 fast · 26.175 avg1112/5:05.60324.162 fast · 25.467 avg
13Ben Ludlum211412/5:19.36524.960 fast · 26.614 avg912/5:05.71624.434 fast · 25.476 avg1812/5:17.17224.708 fast · 26.431 avg
14Eli Vanderbeek221512/5:25.46724.162 fast · 27.122 avg1712/5:19.37524.810 fast · 26.615 avg912/5:04.26525.038 fast · 25.355 avg
15David Miller231312/5:16.43225.370 fast · 26.369 avg1412/5:11.79524.513 fast · 25.983 avg1212/5:06.30825.200 fast · 25.526 avg
16Ronnie Wint261711/4:53.225 (DNF)24.580 fast · 26.657 avg1112/5:08.78424.509 fast · 25.732 avg2012/5:20.02024.383 fast · 26.668 avg
17Shane Petitjean301612/5:35.61325.480 fast · 27.968 avg1812/5:20.91925.191 fast · 26.743 avg1612/5:15.70125.082 fast · 26.308 avg
18Charles Kock311811/5:00.01524.886 fast · 27.274 avg2111/5:01.64425.595 fast · 27.422 avg1512/5:13.66325.267 fast · 26.139 avg
19Derek Lewis342011/5:03.71625.260 fast · 27.611 avg1612/5:19.26125.154 fast · 26.605 avg2511/5:11.60124.975 fast · 28.327 avg
20Alexander Eichler362111/5:06.30125.395 fast · 27.846 avg2311/5:10.29325.741 fast · 28.208 avg1712/5:16.71425.633 fast · 26.393 avg
21Chris Shepard382211/5:07.06826.845 fast · 27.915 avg1912/5:21.16623.276 fast · 26.764 avg2111/5:00.56126.341 fast · 27.324 avg
22Jayden Alvarado422511/5:27.32026.554 fast · 29.756 avg2012/5:25.71225.835 fast · 27.143 avg2411/5:05.88025.572 fast · 27.807 avg
23Ryan Stephens452611/5:27.90427.202 fast · 29.810 avg2411/5:14.96126.018 fast · 28.633 avg2311/5:03.22625.834 fast · 27.566 avg
24Chris Brown462710/5:00.95025.458 fast · 30.095 avg2611/5:25.90125.614 fast · 29.627 avg2211/5:01.84125.756 fast · 27.440 avg
25Kyrie Barritt472411/5:21.54426.685 fast · 29.231 avg2511/5:17.53826.403 fast · 28.867 avg3010/5:08.64227.263 fast · 30.864 avg
26Jeremy Jordan492311/5:13.81526.284 fast · 28.529 avg354/2:42.836 (DNF)28.300 fast · 40.709 avg2810/5:00.42026.863 fast · 30.042 avg
27Trevor Brinkman522810/5:07.86125.658 fast · 30.786 avg319/4:14.548 (DNF)25.751 fast · 28.283 avg2611/5:19.04425.369 fast · 29.004 avg
28Chuck Copple543010/5:28.36728.309 fast · 32.837 avg2710/5:06.08826.911 fast · 30.609 avg2910/5:05.42427.867 fast · 30.542 avg
29Joseph Alvarado562910/5:26.47228.681 fast · 32.647 avg2910/5:17.29927.928 fast · 31.730 avg3110/5:13.46327.747 fast · 31.346 avg
30Jordan Jenkins573110/5:32.23529.872 fast · 33.224 avg2810/5:15.27029.338 fast · 31.527 avg3210/5:27.63828.788 fast · 32.764 avg
31Jakob Otten59350/0.000 (DNS)347/3:50.552 (DNF)27.758 fast · 32.936 avg2711/5:25.30726.646 fast · 29.573 avg
32Thomas Vandervelden62348/3:36.453 (DNF)24.909 fast · 27.057 avg309/3:57.956 (DNF)25.025 fast · 29.745 avg357/2:57.117 (DNF)24.632 fast · 25.302 avg
33Keith Heller62329/5:36.39233.604 fast · 37.377 avg329/5:07.64230.970 fast · 34.183 avg339/5:23.66032.338 fast · 35.962 avg
34Sydney Halamicek64339/5:38.96430.007 fast · 37.663 avg338/5:15.88935.574 fast · 39.486 avg348/5:15.28534.085 fast · 39.411 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Beau Jacobsen1P113/5:03.03623.17623.79497.44%no licence
2Alton Henley2P213/5:04.29023.29023.87498.13%no licence
3Adam McKown3P313/5:08.71323.80824.13998.74%+98
4Wayne Schroeder4P413/5:11.47923.31024.35297.16%no licence
5Anthony Santi5P713/5:20.23523.98624.88896.93%no licence
6Lane Lazarz6P513/5:17.20223.65524.75795.88%+95
7Charlie Hicklin7P613/5:25.07624.28325.39794.89%no licence
8Charlie Kleinhagen8P813/5:22.72624.48025.09997.93%no licence
9Ben Dankobumped up9P1012/5:02.10424.03625.20897.43%no licence
10Tyler Heinzelmannbumped up10P912/5:12.93724.45926.44894.31%+91
B-main
1Tyler Heinzelmannup to the AP315/6:13.64224.39125.26897.83%–
2Ben Dankoup to the AP215/6:19.72224.96925.73797.84%–
3Ryley Howard11P415/6:23.03924.69625.91793.14%no licence
4David Miller12P715/6:25.09524.77425.51897.93%no licence
5Milo Brown13P115/6:25.38924.90226.18895.61%no licence
6Ben Ludlum14P514/6:07.82725.32326.67393.40%no licence
7Charles Kockbumped up15P1014/6:21.99125.47227.59992.13%no licence
8Ronnie Wint16P89/4:13.993 (DNF)24.90228.04590.81%+85
9Eli Vanderbeek17P64/1:53.155 (DNF)25.00927.48792.38%+84
10Derek Lewisbumped up18P90/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
C-main
1Derek Lewisup to the BP315/6:27.50125.18526.23994.81%–
2Charles Kockup to the BP214/6:06.10925.28826.68694.99%–
3Shane Petitjean19P114/6:12.12225.15627.03194.48%+82
4Alexander Eichler20P414/6:14.58325.41427.18793.71%no licence
5Jayden Alvarado21P614/6:23.00925.51527.33488.22%no licence
6Chris Brown22P814/6:26.13225.61027.83693.80%no licence
7Thomas Vanderveldenbumped up23P914/6:31.99224.65428.31486.94%+78
8Chris Shepard24P513/6:02.40226.13928.35692.13%no licence
9Kyrie Barrittbumped up25P1013/6:07.03625.40228.67788.00%+76
10Ryan Stephens26P713/6:14.06426.42829.12591.16%no licence
D-main
1Thomas Vanderveldenup to the CP812/5:18.38425.06226.79293.55%–
2Kyrie Barrittup to the CP111/5:00.13626.22528.10895.20%–
3Jeremy Jordan27P211/5:01.75026.35828.10094.17%no licence
4Jakob Otten28P710/5:04.03128.04230.76792.46%no licence
5Joseph Alvarado29P510/5:08.89530.21731.18897.45%no licence
6Jordan Jenkins30P610/5:22.28130.27732.99791.67%no licence
7Keith Heller31P99/5:23.54630.81936.47190.70%no licence
8Sydney Halamicek32P109/5:26.11631.35536.92588.70%no licence
9Trevor Brinkman33P37/3:09.312 (DNF)26.56827.91896.08%no licence
10Chuck Copple34P44/1:56.625 (DNF)29.80230.51598.13%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Beau Jacobsen no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Three heats, three wins, a score of 2, the TQ and pole — the qualifying was a clean sweep and the opening A-main went the same way. A second in the closing leg still left him on a dropped-worst total of 1, level with Alton Henley and on the right side of the countback. Without a series licence the 101 points on offer stay on the shelf, which makes this the third round of four where the fastest man in the building has walked away with nothing on the championship sheet.

  2. 2nd
    Alton Henley no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 7 · Q 7/4/3

    Qualifying built beautifully — seventh, fourth, third for a score of 7 and the front row — and then the first A-main went to ninth, which looked like the end of the story. The second leg he simply won, which dropped the nine, tied him with Beau Jacobsen on a total of 1 and left the split to decide it. Eight places gained between legs is the largest swing anyone in this A-main produced.

  3. 3rd
    Adam McKown 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 3/6/4

    Qualified on a 7 from 3/6/4 for the third seed and then did exactly what he has done all season: a second and a fourth, no theatrics, a total of 2 and first licensed car home. Ninety-eight points is his best score of the year and it takes him to 294, two behind Ethan Maki with a round still to run. Third on the road, top of the pile that actually counts.

  4. 4th
    Wayne Schroeder no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 12/3/7

    A 12 in the opening heat looked like trouble until a 3 and a 7 turned it into a 10 and the fourth seed. Both A-mains then came home third for a total of 3 and a finish precisely where he qualified. Nothing flashy, nothing squandered, and he was never worse than third once the mains started.

  5. 5th
    Anthony Santi no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 10/7/6

    Qualifying trended the right way all day — tenth, seventh, sixth for a 13 and the seventh seed — and the first A-main was better still with a fourth. An eighth in the second leg went straight into the discard pile, leaving a total of 4 and fifth overall, two places up on his grid slot. Every session he ran was an improvement on the last until the format stopped caring.

  6. 6th
    Lane Lazarz 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 5/8/5

    Fifth seed on a 10 from 5/8/5 and then two workmanlike legs, a sixth and a fifth, for a total of 5 and ninety-five points. The interesting number is elsewhere: this is his fourth start, so his raw total of 375 has been trimmed to 286 by the best-three rule, with the 89 he earned at Brookfield now surplus. Fourth in the championship and the only driver in the top four already throwing a result away.

  7. 7th
    Charlie Hicklin no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 6/5/19

    A 19 in the final heat is exactly the kind of session best-two-of-three was invented to erase, and a 6 and a 5 before it made an 11 and the sixth seed. The mains gave him a fifth and a ninth for a total of 5, level with Lane Lazarz and beaten on the split. Seventh on the road, one countback away from sixth.

  8. 8th
    Charlie Kleinhagen no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 9/13/8

    Last of the seeded eight on a 17 from 9/13/8, with the middle heat the one he would happily hand back. The mains improved steadily, an eighth then a sixth for a total of 6, and he held station at eighth overall against both drivers who bumped their way into the field. Defending your seed is unglamorous and it is still the job.

  9. 9th
    Ben Danko no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 8/10/13

    Bumped into the A-main and then produced a matched pair of sevenths, so the drop rule sat there with nothing whatsoever to do. A total of 7 and ninth overall, which for a driver who was not handed a seed is a solid afternoon. Nobody in Omaha was easier to predict.

  10. 10th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 91 ptsbumped up
    91 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 22 · Q 19/12/10

    Bumped his way into the A-main once more, which is becoming his signature move, and then ran tenth in both legs for a total of 10 and the last line of the sheet. Ninety-one points matches his Brookfield haul exactly, and this being a fourth start, the best-three rule has begun charging rent — a raw 356 becomes a counted 269. Fifth in the championship, built on turning up and finishing rather than on any single big result.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 16th
    Ronnie Wint 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 28 · Q 17/11/20

    Outside the seeded eight this time and sixteenth at the flag, a long way from the A-main he raced his way into at Muscatine. Eighty-five points still nearly doubles his season to 177 and lifts him to ninth in the standings. Two starts on the board and nothing discarded yet.

  13. 17th
    Eli Vanderbeek 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 24 · Q 15/17/9

    Precisely what he took out of Brookfield: seventeenth on the road and eighty-four points, the same finishing position and the same score, five months apart. Consistency this exact is either a very good plan or a very strange coincidence. No seed inside the eight, no drama, one more score on the sheet.

  14. 19th
    Shane Petitjean 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P17 · qual score 32 · Q 16/18/16

    Missed the top-eight seeds and came home nineteenth, three places and three points down on his Brookfield weekend. Eighty-two points is a modest return from a round where the front of the field was busy trading tenths. Two scores now sit against his name, both from the same part of the results sheet.

  15. 23rd
    Thomas Vandervelden 78 ptsbumped up
    78 pts · qualified P32 · bumped up from the D · qual score 64 · Q 34/30/35

    Qualifying went badly wrong — 32nd of 34 on a score of 64 — which dumped him into the D-main and only eighth on its grid. He won it from there, then took 14 laps and seventh out of the C from the ninth slot, so two races' worth of climbing rescued a seventy-eight out of it. With only three starts to his name, that 78 counts in full rather than getting quietly discarded, which is the part that stings. Sixth in the championship on 263, still ahead of everyone with fewer rounds behind them.

  16. 25th
    Kyrie Barritt 76 ptsbumped up
    76 pts · qualified P25 · bumped up from the D · qual score 49 · Q 24/25/30

    Poled the D-main and held on to second in it, which is all the format asks of him: the top two moved up and he went with them. The C-main handed him the tenth and last grid slot by way of thanks, and he still found a quicker lap there than anything he ran in the D on the way to ninth. His Brookfield opener read twenty-third and seventy-eight points; Omaha reads twenty-fifth and seventy-six, which is about as stable as form gets in the back half of a 34-car entry list.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

The discard rule has finally started biting, and it has picked its victims. Lane Lazarz has raced all four rounds for a raw 375, but only his best three count, so he stands fourth on 286 with his Brookfield 89 already in the bin; Tyler Heinzelmann is fifth with a raw 356 trimmed to 269. Above them, Ethan Maki leads on 296, Adam McKown is two behind on 294 and Lex Mott sits third on 288 — all three from three starts, meaning every one of them can add a fifth-round score in full while Lazarz and Heinzelmann can only replace their weakest counted result. Neither Maki nor Mott appears on the Omaha sheet at all, and McKown's 98 for third on the road was the largest points haul available on a weekend where the two cars ahead of him scored nothing at all. Six points cover the top three, two of them have a completely free slot remaining, and the man with the most laps run this season is the one carrying dead weight into the finale.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Ethan Maki–29602963
2Adam McKown+9829402943
3Lex Mott–28802883
4Lane Lazarz+95375−892864
5Tyler Heinzelmann+91356−872694
6Thomas Vandervelden+7826302633
7Bryan Dortch–18701872
8Garrett Reese Miller–17701772

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

13.5 Short Course

9 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Ethan Maki29429400032nd969999–·
2Ryan Benedict28028001131st81101*98–·
3Adam Chodara27227200034th88–8797·
4Daniel Paddock26026000035th789686–·
5Reyna Chodara254254000311th75–8990·
6Ian Schultz19619600121st100––96·
7DJ Shepherd19119100024th–9497–·
8Tyler Marg18418400027th90––94·
9Jose M Garay170170000210th79–91–·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Michael Meister — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 30 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Michael Meister0118/5:03.60416.474 fast · 16.867 avg118/5:05.53616.515 fast · 16.974 avg118/5:02.19216.397 fast · 16.788 avg
2Ian Schultz4618/5:11.82116.516 fast · 17.323 avg318/5:06.09716.609 fast · 17.005 avg318/5:02.89816.372 fast · 16.828 avg
3Adam Gratz91717/5:06.03816.902 fast · 18.002 avg718/5:11.24516.882 fast · 17.291 avg418/5:05.92316.361 fast · 16.996 avg
4Kaden Kahrs9418/5:07.12916.592 fast · 17.063 avg1318/5:16.69516.336 fast · 17.594 avg718/5:06.84216.306 fast · 17.047 avg
5Jeff Piske91817/5:07.94216.422 fast · 18.114 avg518/5:08.36116.316 fast · 17.131 avg618/5:06.62316.108 fast · 17.035 avg
6Jun Villaruz10718/5:13.29516.628 fast · 17.405 avg1018/5:13.09416.449 fast · 17.394 avg518/5:05.95616.335 fast · 16.998 avg
7Leo Dake11318/5:06.70416.131 fast · 17.039 avg1118/5:15.63016.149 fast · 17.535 avg1018/5:09.21116.271 fast · 17.178 avg
8Matthew Bendlin11917/5:00.28216.638 fast · 17.664 avg418/5:08.15816.579 fast · 17.120 avg918/5:08.80516.556 fast · 17.156 avg
9Kevin Waller14818/5:17.22916.653 fast · 17.624 avg818/5:11.98416.678 fast · 17.332 avg818/5:07.91616.477 fast · 17.106 avg
10Ethan Maki152117/5:09.54116.821 fast · 18.208 avg618/5:09.64416.756 fast · 17.202 avg1118/5:11.87616.659 fast · 17.326 avg
11Tyler Obrien16518/5:11.75216.661 fast · 17.320 avg1418/5:18.09416.405 fast · 17.672 avg1318/5:13.42816.442 fast · 17.413 avg
12Adam Chodara221617/5:05.89116.984 fast · 17.994 avg1218/5:16.24616.674 fast · 17.569 avg1218/5:13.20416.596 fast · 17.400 avg
13Aaron Martinez251117/5:02.96616.981 fast · 17.822 avg1617/5:04.10016.617 fast · 17.888 avg1618/5:17.57317.002 fast · 17.643 avg
14Jason Bunnell281017/5:02.43617.238 fast · 17.790 avg2017/5:08.84617.122 fast · 18.167 avg2417/5:15.63817.155 fast · 18.567 avg
15Dalton Castillo281317/5:04.60016.799 fast · 17.918 avg2117/5:09.29716.625 fast · 18.194 avg1717/5:00.68216.820 fast · 17.687 avg
16Matthew Erdman282217/5:12.11917.083 fast · 18.360 avg1517/5:01.53116.772 fast · 17.737 avg1518/5:17.18017.037 fast · 17.621 avg
17Tyler Marg292317/5:17.25316.841 fast · 18.662 avg918/5:12.85516.632 fast · 17.381 avg2217/5:08.23816.422 fast · 18.132 avg
18Bucky Bachman291217/5:04.30216.971 fast · 17.900 avg2317/5:14.26717.013 fast · 18.486 avg1917/5:03.77516.814 fast · 17.869 avg
19Ryan Benedict302915/5:07.44417.126 fast · 20.496 avg1817/5:06.04116.769 fast · 18.002 avg1418/5:13.81416.792 fast · 17.434 avg
20Ryan Thierfelder301417/5:04.62817.080 fast · 17.919 avg2416/4:59.286 (DNF)16.782 fast · 18.705 avg1817/5:01.03216.562 fast · 17.708 avg
21Jerry Klingbeil301517/5:04.74017.372 fast · 17.926 avg1717/5:05.32517.487 fast · 17.960 avg2516/5:03.73316.901 fast · 18.983 avg
22Brian Gaedke361917/5:08.78917.649 fast · 18.164 avg1917/5:07.44817.164 fast · 18.085 avg2017/5:05.39516.860 fast · 17.964 avg
23Daniel Paddock412017/5:09.33617.411 fast · 19.334 avg3015/4:38.344 (DNF)17.167 fast · 18.556 avg2317/5:10.89117.394 fast · 18.288 avg
24Jose M Garay412416/5:05.03517.203 fast · 19.065 avg2217/5:10.89716.807 fast · 18.288 avg2117/5:07.01116.724 fast · 18.059 avg
25Reyna Chodara492616/5:10.14217.902 fast · 19.384 avg2516/5:03.73817.807 fast · 18.984 avg2616/5:04.36818.027 fast · 19.023 avg
26Michael Mazur492516/5:07.23017.638 fast · 19.202 avg2616/5:09.65917.411 fast · 19.354 avg2816/5:11.63717.188 fast · 19.477 avg
27Jeffery Hilgendorf522716/5:10.33917.326 fast · 19.396 avg2716/5:10.51917.656 fast · 19.407 avg2716/5:05.72517.708 fast · 19.108 avg
28Mark Dechant553114/4:33.725 (DNF)18.062 fast · 19.552 avg2816/5:12.02917.722 fast · 19.502 avg2916/5:13.37717.982 fast · 19.586 avg
29Rob Fugelseth552816/5:14.97218.295 fast · 19.686 avg2916/5:21.03717.955 fast · 20.065 avg3016/5:18.75918.635 fast · 19.922 avg
30Woody Haberkorn593015/5:10.14718.152 fast · 20.676 avg3115/5:09.70018.546 fast · 20.647 avg3115/5:02.37218.687 fast · 20.158 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Ian Schultz1P218/5:02.32616.22316.66398.09%+100
2Michael Meister2P118/5:02.86716.24416.79097.88%no licence
3Adam Gratz3P318/5:09.31316.54417.05597.53%no licence
4Leo Dake4P718/5:11.05016.32517.03896.26%no licence
5Ethan Makibumped up5P918/5:12.94216.52817.14498.09%+96
6Kaden Kahrs6P418/5:13.86116.27617.34892.12%no licence
7Tyler Obrienbumped up7P1018/5:16.51516.12417.31893.97%no licence
8Matthew Bendlin8P818/5:19.72416.60717.57091.54%no licence
9Jeff Piske9P517/5:01.29116.64217.62291.30%no licence
10Jun Villaruz10P617/5:02.34616.39417.63092.21%no licence
B-main
1Ethan Makiup to the AP221/6:06.98516.98517.40198.06%–
2Tyler Obrienup to the AP321/6:07.07716.45217.35695.96%–
3Tyler Margbumped up11P921/6:10.93816.32017.22295.89%+90
4Kevin Waller12P121/6:14.22516.67217.81694.06%no licence
5Adam Chodara13P421/6:15.29316.45717.66193.02%+88
6Bucky Bachmanbumped up14P1020/6:13.38016.85518.20989.45%no licence
7Matthew Erdman15P820/6:14.82416.45918.32892.47%no licence
8Aaron Martinez16P520/6:17.17616.83918.54690.69%no licence
9Jason Bunnell17P620/6:18.45917.16318.64190.81%no licence
10Dalton Castillo18P720/6:19.66416.94418.60790.79%no licence
C-main
1Tyler Margup to the BP121/6:11.46916.53617.51095.51%–
2Bucky Bachmanup to the BP221/6:12.53816.63617.69190.54%–
3Brian Gaedke19P621/6:17.05317.18017.68396.87%no licence
4Ryan Benedict20P321/6:17.49116.78217.89192.77%+81
5Ryan Thierfelder21P420/6:00.46316.74717.92193.08%no licence
6Jose M Garay22P820/6:16.29117.23118.62689.03%+79
7Daniel Paddock23P719/6:06.12617.23218.99088.75%+78
8Jerry Klingbeil24P519/6:07.52417.39919.25788.78%no licence
9Jeffery Hilgendorfbumped up25P1018/6:01.30817.42219.74689.52%no licence
10Reyna Chodarabumped up26P918/6:18.64617.93920.80388.45%+75
D-main
1Mark Dechant27P416/5:00.98417.78718.67595.16%no licence
2Reyna Chodaraup to the CP116/5:05.76217.87919.07391.67%–
3Jeffery Hilgendorfup to the CP316/5:13.35517.42119.55390.11%–
4Rob Fugelseth28P516/5:15.06317.86219.54189.42%no licence
5Woody Haberkorn29P615/5:04.12018.21120.14291.05%no licence
6Michael Mazur30P20/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Ian Schultz 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 6 · Q 6/3/3

    Qualified second on a 6 built from 6/3/3, which is the sort of tidy, unspectacular weekend that usually gets you a solid podium and a handshake. Instead he took second in A1, won A2, and walked out of Brookfield with the round win and a total of 1. Michael Meister matched him on that total and Schultz still came out ahead where it counted, which is a hell of a way to start a season. Full 100 points, championship lead, no argument.

  2. 2nd
    Michael Meister no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Won all three qualifiers for a score of 2 and grabbed TQ, then won A1 as well, which by any reasonable reading of the weekend should have been that. A second in A2 left him tied with Ian Schultz on a total of 1 and on the wrong side of the split, so the perfect start turned into the runner-up spot by the narrowest margin the format allows. He races without a series licence, so the scoreboard gives him nothing, but four of the five sessions that mattered were his.

  3. 3rd
    Adam Gratz no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 11 · Q 17/7/4

    Opened qualifying with a 17 and then went 7 and 4 to salvage an 11 and the third seed, which is the drop rule doing exactly what it was designed to do. A fifth in A1 looked like the grid slot was going to waste until he came back with a third in A2 for a total of 3 and the last podium spot. No licence means no points, but he beat five drivers who did start from a seed.

  4. 4th
    Leo Dake no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 3/11/10

    Seventh seed on a 13 from 3/11/10, so the raw pace was there in Q1 and then went quietly missing. He answered that by finishing third in A1 from the seventh grid slot, added a fifth in A2 for a total of 3, and split the tiebreak with Adam Gratz to land fourth. Three positions better than he started is honest work in a class where the front six were separated by two points.

  5. 5th
    Ethan Maki 96 ptsbumped up
    96 pts · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 21/6/11

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeding into it, which meant starting the first leg from the very back of the room. Tenth in A1, then fourth in A2 for a total of 4 — a six-place improvement between legs and the best result of any licenced driver bar the winner. Ninety-six points and second in the championship for a man who had to earn his grid slot the hard way.

  6. 6th
    Kaden Kahrs no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 11 · Q 4/13/7

    Qualified fourth on an 11 that came out of 4/13/7, so the middle heat is the one he would like back. Fourth in A1 held the grid exactly, but an eighth in A2 dropped him to a total of 4 and sixth overall on the tiebreak with Ethan Maki. Solid Saturday, expensive Sunday.

  7. 7th
    Tyler Obrien no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 5/14/13

    Bumped up rather than seeding into the top eight, then went out and finished sixth in both A-mains for a total of 6. There is something faintly magnificent about running the identical result twice and letting everyone else's variance sort itself out around you. Seventh overall from outside the seeded eight is a clean afternoon's work.

  8. 8th
    Matthew Bendlin no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 13 · Q 9/4/9

    Took the eighth seed on a 13 from 9/4/9, with the Q2 result carrying the whole weekend. A ninth in A1 and a seventh in A2 gave him a total of 7, which was good enough to take the tiebreak over Jeff Piske and finish eighth. Started eighth, finished eighth, and the paperwork will show none of the shuffling in between.

  9. 9th
    Jeff Piske no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 18/5/6

    An 18 in the opening qualifier is the kind of number that ends most weekends, and he responded with 5 and 6 to post an 11 and the fifth seed. The A-mains did not reward it — seventh then ninth for a total of 7, and he lost the split with Matthew Bendlin to end up ninth. The recovery in qualifying was the best part of his round by a distance.

  10. 10th
    Jun Villaruz no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 7/10/5

    Sixth seed on a 12 from 7/10/5, with the last heat comfortably his strongest. The mains went the other direction, eighth then tenth for a total of 8, which left him at the back of a ten-car A-main. Getting into the show at all beat most of the entry list, so the seed was not the problem.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Tyler Marg 90 ptsbumped up
    90 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 31 · Q 23/9/22

    Pole for the C-main and a win in it, 21 laps in 6:11.469, and that was the ticket into the B. Ninth on that grid became third at the flag, and he was quicker doing it than he had been winning the race below — a 16.320 best lap against 16.536, and 95.89% consistency against 95.51%. One place short of the two who bumped on into the A is the sort of result that stings for exactly as long as it takes to read the sheet. Ninety points is still the third-best haul any licenced driver took out of Brookfield, and third in the championship after one round is a fine place to be standing.

  13. 13th
    Adam Chodara 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 24 · Q 16/12/12

    Qualified outside the top-eight seeds and came home thirteenth, which in a class this deep is a perfectly respectable Sunday. Eighty-eight points puts him fourth in the opening standings, ahead of several drivers who spent the weekend in the A-main. The scoring system rewards showing up and finishing, and he did both.

  14. 20th
    Ryan Benedict 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 32 · Q 29/18/14

    No seed inside the eight and a twentieth-place finish, so the weekend never really got going. Eighty-one points is not nothing — it is fifth in the championship — but it is a long way from the front of a room he was presumably expecting to be nearer. Plenty of season left to make that look like a footnote.

  15. 22nd
    Jose M Garay 79 pts
    79 pts · qualified P24 · qual score 43 · Q 24/22/21

    Outside the seeded eight and twenty-second at the flag, which is a quiet debut in a class where the front runners were trading tenths. Seventy-nine points still puts him sixth in the opening standings, because finishing the weekend is worth more than most people credit. Something to build on.

  16. 23rd
    Daniel Paddock 78 pts
    78 pts · qualified P23 · qual score 43 · Q 20/30/23

    Missed the top-eight seeds and finished twenty-third, one spot behind Jose M Garay and a single point adrift of him in the standings. Seventy-eight points banked from a round that never opened up. Seventh in the championship is a starting position, not a verdict.

  17. 26th
    Reyna Chodara 75 ptsbumped up
    75 pts · qualified P25 · bumped up from the D · qual score 51 · Q 26/25/26

    Her weekend began at the front of the D-main grid, and she turned that into second place and a ride up into the C, 16 laps at 91.67% consistency. Ninth on the C grid was a stiffer proposition and she came home tenth, though her best lap of 17.939 sat within a tenth of the one she set climbing out of the D. Seventy-five points for twenty-sixth is a modest first deposit, but it is a deposit, and eighth place after one round means she is on the board while plenty of quicker names are not.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

Brookfield produced a round win for Ian Schultz and a championship table with only eight names on it, because six of the ten A-main finishers race without a series licence and take nothing away from the weekend but bragging rights. Schultz leads on 100 from a single start, with Ethan Maki on 96 after bumping into the A-main and climbing from tenth to fourth between legs. Behind them the order runs Tyler Marg on 90, Adam Chodara on 88 and Ryan Benedict on 81 — all drivers who never saw the A-main and are on the board anyway. With everyone on exactly one start, the best-three championship figure and the raw all-events total are identical for every driver, so nothing is being discarded and nothing is hidden. That changes the moment somebody banks a fourth score, but for now the table is simply a list of what happened.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Ethan Maki+9629402943
2Ryan Benedict+8128002803
3Adam Chodara+8827202723
4Daniel Paddock+7826002603
5Reyna Chodara+7525402543
6Ian Schultz+10019601962
7Tyler Marg+9018401842
8Jose M Garay+7917001702

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Ryan Benedict — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 9 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Ryan Benedict2317/5:00.57116.628 fast · 17.681 avg118/5:13.88616.657 fast · 17.438 avg417/5:04.42316.741 fast · 17.907 avg
2Matthew Hudak2417/5:02.16316.582 fast · 17.774 avg318/5:17.16316.772 fast · 17.620 avg118/5:14.79416.593 fast · 17.489 avg
3Carter Irish2118/5:14.97916.575 fast · 17.499 avg914/4:08.825 (DNF)16.587 fast · 17.773 avg317/5:02.17516.436 fast · 17.775 avg
4Ethan Maki7716/5:00.30317.362 fast · 18.769 avg417/5:10.54417.230 fast · 18.267 avg517/5:07.74617.215 fast · 18.103 avg
5DJ Shepherd9517/5:13.62317.698 fast · 18.448 avg616/5:09.60317.312 fast · 19.350 avg1013/4:11.125 (DNF)17.237 fast · 19.317 avg
6Michael Thornton9617/5:17.85817.316 fast · 18.698 avg517/5:17.45816.868 fast · 18.674 avg617/5:17.86817.780 fast · 18.698 avg
7Daniel Paddock12815/5:08.64817.780 fast · 20.577 avg716/5:14.04117.555 fast · 19.628 avg716/5:00.52517.736 fast · 18.783 avg
8Jeff Todd14915/5:10.22419.106 fast · 20.682 avg815/5:02.29418.888 fast · 20.153 avg815/5:18.48419.251 fast · 21.232 avg
9Juan Nava171014/5:04.56919.080 fast · 21.755 avg1014/5:12.16919.729 fast · 22.298 avg914/5:01.60919.328 fast · 21.544 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Ryan BenedictP118/5:05.59616.46417.05896.15%+101
2Ethan MakiP418/5:08.77416.80917.17798.69%+99
3Matthew HudakP218/5:09.30616.70117.28997.11%no licence
4Carter IrishP318/5:13.20916.58917.48992.94%no licence
5Daniel PaddockP717/5:10.76717.55118.31896.04%+96
6Michael ThorntonP617/5:14.69917.23018.46292.48%no licence
7DJ ShepherdP516/5:01.06417.09918.54993.75%+94
8Jeff ToddP815/5:00.01717.98820.07089.96%no licence
9Juan NavaP914/5:16.48819.84322.67887.42%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Ryan Benedict 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 3/1/4 · TQ

    Twentieth at Brookfield, TQ and round winner at Macomb — that is the entire range of a racing season compressed into two events. He qualified on a 4 from 3/1/4, took the top seed, won A1, and a fourth in A2 was more than enough for a total of 1 and the tiebreak over Ethan Maki. That is 101 points, the maximum the format allows, and nobody else in this class has managed it. He arrives in the standings at second on 182 with the only TQ and the only win of the weekend.

  2. 2nd
    Ethan Maki 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 7/4/5

    Fourth seed on a 9 from 7/4/5, then third in A1 and a win in A2 for a total of 1 — level with Ryan Benedict and beaten only on the split. Ninety-nine points is the best return of his season so far and it moves him to the top of the championship on 195 from two starts. Two rounds, no wins, no TQs, and a championship lead built entirely out of finishing higher than nearly everyone else.

  3. 3rd
    Matthew Hudak no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 4/3/1

    Qualified on a 4 from 4/3/1, winning the final heat to tie the top three seeds on score and land second on the grid. He backed it up properly — second in A1, third in A2, a total of 2 and the tiebreak over Carter Irish for third overall. No licence, so no championship points, but he outran two drivers who left with 96 and 94.

  4. 4th
    Carter Irish no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 4 · Q 1/9/3

    Won the opening qualifier outright, posted a 9 in the middle heat that the drop rule quietly erased, and came out with a 4 and the third seed. Fourth in A1 and second in A2 gave him a total of 2, identical to Matthew Hudak, and the split sent him to fourth. A weekend of being exactly as fast as the man ahead of him and one placing worse.

  5. 5th
    Daniel Paddock 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 14 · Q 8/7/7

    Seventh seed on a 14 from 8/7/7, which is about as consistent as a qualifying score gets without being fast. He turned it into seventh in A1 and fifth in A2 for a total of 5, taking the tiebreak over Michael Thornton for fifth overall. Ninety-six points more than doubles his season haul and lifts him to third in the championship on 174 — twenty-third place at Brookfield is starting to look like an outlier.

  6. 6th
    Michael Thornton no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 6/5/6

    Qualified sixth on an 11 from 6/5/6, then went fifth in A1 and sixth in A2 for a total of 5. Same total as Daniel Paddock, wrong side of the split, sixth place. The car did what it was asked to do in every session and the tiebreak still found a way to charge him for it.

  7. 7th
    DJ Shepherd 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 5/6/10

    Fifth seed on an 11 from 5/6/10, with the last heat spoiling what had been a genuinely tidy pair of runs. A sixth and a seventh in the mains gave him a total of 6 and seventh overall. Ninety-four points on debut puts him fifth in the championship, which is a good return for a weekend that never quite clicked.

  8. 8th
    Jeff Todd no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 9/8/8

    Took the eighth seed on a 16 from 9/8/8, then went out and finished eighth in both A-mains for a total of 8. Started eighth, ran eighth, ended eighth — there is a certain purity to a weekend that refuses to move in any direction. Consistency is a virtue right up until you want to overtake somebody.

  9. 9th
    Juan Nava no points
    no series licence · qualified P9 · qual score 19 · Q 10/10/9

    Lined up last on the grid, ran ninth in A1, ran ninth in A2, and took ninth at the flag. Whatever else happened at Macomb, nobody could accuse him of unpredictability. Making a nine-car A-main in this class means he was quicker than a room full of drivers who did not get that far.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Macomb rearranged the top of the standings without a single driver from the Brookfield A-main podium being involved. Ethan Maki takes the championship lead on 195 from two starts, and he has done it without a TQ or a round win to his name — just a fifth and a second, which in a 101-point-maximum format is worth more than heroics. Ryan Benedict is second on 182 after converting twentieth at the opening round into the only maximum score anyone has posted, TQ and win in the same weekend. Daniel Paddock sits third on 174, and Ian Schultz has slipped to fourth on 100 purely by not being at Macomb — his one start is now the shortest record in the top four. Nobody has more than two starts yet, so best-three still equals the raw total for every driver on the sheet and the only real currency is rounds attended.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Ethan Maki+9929402943
2Ryan Benedict+10128002803
3Adam Chodara–27202723
4Daniel Paddock+9626002603
5Reyna Chodara–25402543
6Ian Schultz–19601962
7DJ Shepherd+9419101912
8Tyler Marg–18401842

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Geoffrey Ketler — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 16 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Geoffrey Ketler0117/5:06.67017.629 fast · 18.039 avg117/5:05.17717.510 fast · 17.952 avg117/5:04.90217.631 fast · 17.935 avg
2Ryan Benedict5916/5:09.02718.098 fast · 19.314 avg317/5:09.74017.710 fast · 18.220 avg417/5:15.89217.761 fast · 18.582 avg
3Blaine Gould5417/5:14.26517.971 fast · 18.486 avg617/5:11.08717.963 fast · 18.299 avg317/5:09.81017.856 fast · 18.224 avg
4DJ Shepherd71016/5:09.36618.223 fast · 19.335 avg417/5:10.37317.774 fast · 18.257 avg517/5:15.96617.786 fast · 18.586 avg
5Ethan Maki8317/5:12.60417.939 fast · 18.388 avg717/5:14.76717.743 fast · 18.516 avg816/5:01.89218.000 fast · 18.868 avg
6Tom Knapper8517/5:17.43118.133 fast · 18.672 avg517/5:10.81517.869 fast · 18.283 avg916/5:03.31217.925 fast · 18.957 avg
7Jacob Heidbreder10616/5:02.03518.016 fast · 18.877 avg916/5:02.10318.053 fast · 18.881 avg617/5:16.49418.075 fast · 18.617 avg
8Kyle Kosek13816/5:06.50518.511 fast · 19.157 avg1016/5:03.71618.235 fast · 18.982 avg716/5:00.55618.313 fast · 18.785 avg
9Dayn Hoeli13716/5:03.76417.975 fast · 18.985 avg817/5:17.14217.851 fast · 18.655 avg1016/5:04.85317.754 fast · 19.053 avg
10Adam Chodara201116/5:15.38018.721 fast · 19.711 avg1116/5:05.38718.448 fast · 19.087 avg1216/5:14.08518.522 fast · 19.630 avg
11Jose M Garay211216/5:18.98418.969 fast · 19.937 avg1216/5:10.47618.807 fast · 19.405 avg1116/5:10.54918.736 fast · 19.409 avg
12Daniel Paddock241415/5:17.27418.649 fast · 21.152 avg1316/5:18.50318.641 fast · 19.906 avg1315/5:02.76618.659 fast · 20.184 avg
13John Dobran251315/5:00.38818.810 fast · 20.026 avg1415/5:10.66019.092 fast · 20.711 avg175/1:43.546 (DNF)19.260 fast · 20.709 avg
14Reyna Chodara271514/5:00.49120.199 fast · 21.464 avg1515/5:19.58420.095 fast · 21.306 avg1415/5:17.75520.005 fast · 21.184 avg
15Corbin Friesen291614/5:04.88820.696 fast · 21.778 avg1713/5:09.37920.504 fast · 23.798 avg1514/5:00.88620.044 fast · 21.492 avg
16Mark Talley301714/5:07.74820.767 fast · 21.982 avg1613/4:49.402 (DNF)20.964 fast · 22.262 avg1614/5:03.83720.529 fast · 21.703 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Geoffrey Ketler1P117/5:03.55117.45217.83397.76%no licence
2Ethan Maki2P517/5:09.65617.91618.14098.85%+99
3Ryan Benedict3P217/5:13.74817.80818.28798.67%+98
4DJ Shepherd4P417/5:14.76917.91118.48797.93%+97
5Tom Knapper5P617/5:17.74818.04118.59797.63%no licence
6Kyle Kosek6P816/5:03.16018.15918.63497.59%no licence
7Blaine Gould7P316/5:06.24917.77618.98893.21%no licence
8Jacob Heidbreder8P716/5:09.35617.93419.10891.98%no licence
9Dayn Hoelibumped up9P916/5:12.58018.14919.40692.32%no licence
10Jose M Garaybumped up10P1016/5:11.54518.45519.24296.95%+91
B-main
1Dayn Hoeliup to the AP120/6:17.31018.04118.82395.54%–
2Jose M Garayup to the AP319/6:14.77218.62319.68694.50%–
3John Dobran11P518/6:07.38518.71820.24294.99%no licence
4Reyna Chodara12P617/6:10.41620.06021.74491.68%+89
5Corbin Friesen13P716/6:00.20420.49722.39791.18%no licence
6Adam Chodara14P215/4:56.788 (DNF)18.49319.77891.97%+87
7Daniel Paddock15P42/43.005 (DNF)19.45119.451–+86
8Mark Talley16P80/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified. A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so a run cut shorter than that shows none.

  1. 1st
    Geoffrey Ketler no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Won every qualifier for a score of 2, took TQ, then won both A-mains for a total of 1. That is a clean sweep of every session that carried a result at Muscatine, and it is the first flawless weekend anyone has put together in this class all season. He holds no series licence so the championship table will not acknowledge any of it, which does nothing to change the fact that he beat everybody, twice, from the front.

  2. 2nd
    Ethan Maki 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 3/7/8

    Fifth seed on a 10 from 3/7/8, so the qualifying trend was pointing the wrong way heading into the mains. He then finished second in both A-mains for a total of 2 and the runner-up spot, three grid places better than he started and comfortably the best of the licenced runners. Ninety-nine more points takes him to 294 and keeps him at the head of the championship on three starts. He also won the 13.5 Independent 4WD title at this round, which suggests the trouble was never the driving.

  3. 3rd
    Ryan Benedict 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 7 · Q 9/3/4

    Opened with a 9 in Q1 and recovered through 3 and 4 for a 7 and the second seed, the drop rule earning its keep again. Third in A1 and fifth in A2 gave him a total of 3, and he took the split from DJ Shepherd for third overall. Ninety-eight points moves him to 280 and second in the standings, fourteen behind Ethan Maki and still the only driver in the championship table with a TQ next to his name.

  4. 4th
    DJ Shepherd 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 10/4/5

    Qualified fourth on a 9 from 10/4/5, then produced the strangest pair of legs in the A-main — eighth in the first, third in the second, five places found from one run to the next. That averaged to a total of 3, level with Ryan Benedict and beaten on the split, so fourth it is. Ninety-seven points is his best of the season and puts him fourth in the championship on 191 from two starts.

  5. 5th
    Tom Knapper no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 10 · Q 5/5/9

    Sixth seed on a 10 from 5/5/9, and a fourth in A1 from that grid slot looked like the start of a proper afternoon. An eighth in A2 undid most of it, leaving a total of 4 and the tiebreak over Kyle Kosek for fifth. Two very different legs from what was clearly the same car.

  6. 6th
    Kyle Kosek no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 15 · Q 8/10/7

    Took the last seeded slot on a 15 from 8/10/7, the weakest qualifying score of the eight by some margin. He then went fifth and fourth in the A-mains for a total of 4, matching Tom Knapper and losing the split, which still means he finished two places better than he started. The worst qualifier of the seeded eight was not the worst racer of them.

  7. 7th
    Blaine Gould no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 4/6/3

    Third seed on a 7 from 4/6/3, level on score with Ryan Benedict and genuinely quick across all three heats. The mains gave him a sixth and a sixth for a total of 6 and seventh overall, four places worse than his grid slot. Whatever was working on Saturday was not answering the phone on Sunday.

  8. 8th
    Jacob Heidbreder no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 12 · Q 6/9/6

    Seventh seed on a 12 from 6/9/6, then ninth in A1 and seventh in A2 for a total of 7. He took the tiebreak from Dayn Hoeli to finish eighth, one place behind where he lined up. A perfectly ordinary weekend in a room where ordinary still meant beating most of the entry.

  9. 9th
    Dayn Hoeli no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 15 · Q 7/8/10

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeding in, which makes a seventh in the first leg a legitimately good result. A tenth in A2 pushed his total to 7 and handed the split to Jacob Heidbreder, leaving him ninth. Getting into the show from outside the seeded eight is the hard part, and he did that.

  10. 10th
    Jose M Garay 91 ptsbumped up
    91 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 23 · Q 12/12/11

    Bumped up into the A-main, which is a substantial step forward from twenty-second at the opening round. Tenth in A1 and ninth in A2 for a total of 9 put him at the back of the field, but the back of this A-main is a better place to be than most of the building. Ninety-one points is his best of the year and moves him to sixth in the championship on 170.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 12th
    Reyna Chodara 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 29 · Q 15/15/14

    Qualified outside the seeded eight and finished twelfth, which is fourteen places better than her opening round and the sort of jump that does not happen by accident. Eighty-nine points is a considerably heavier deposit than the 75 she banked at Brookfield, and 164 from two starts has her seventh in the championship. The trajectory is the story here.

  13. 14th
    Adam Chodara 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 22 · Q 11/11/12

    No top-eight seed and a fourteenth-place finish, one spot down on his thirteenth at the opening round. Eighty-seven points is almost exactly what he scored in February, which makes him one of the more predictable propositions in the class. That gets him 175 and fifth in the standings on two starts.

  14. 15th
    Daniel Paddock 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 26 · Q 14/13/13

    Arrived third in the championship and left it there, but this was not the weekend he wanted — outside the seeded eight and fifteenth at the flag after finishing fifth in the A-main at Macomb. Eighty-six points is his weakest return of the season and takes him to 260, now thirty-four behind Ethan Maki. Three starts, three finishes, and one of them he will not want to look at again.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Muscatine belonged entirely to Geoffrey Ketler, who won all three qualifiers and both A-mains and scores nothing for it, which is the sharpest illustration of the licence rule the series has produced so far. In the championship Ethan Maki extends to 294 from three starts, still without a win or a TQ, and Ryan Benedict stays second on 280 after a third place. Daniel Paddock holds third on 260 but the gap has grown to thirty-four after his weakest weekend of the year, while DJ Shepherd's 97 lifts him to fourth on 191 from only two starts. Adam Chodara, Jose M Garay and Reyna Chodara are all now on two or three scores and clustered between 164 and 175, close enough that one strong round reorders them completely. Every driver in the table is still on three starts or fewer, so best-three and the raw total remain the same number for everybody — no discards yet, which means the drivers on two starts have a clean score still to add while those on three are about to start throwing one away.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Ethan Maki+9929402943
2Ryan Benedict+9828002803
3Adam Chodara+8727202723
4Daniel Paddock+8626002603
5Reyna Chodara+8925402543
6Ian Schultz–19601962
7DJ Shepherd+9719101912
8Tyler Marg–18401842

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Dalton Conradt — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 13 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Dalton Conradt0112/5:08.83425.024 fast · 25.736 avg113/5:23.30124.561 fast · 24.869 avg140/0.000 (DNS)
2Alton Henley2312/5:33.52625.827 fast · 27.794 avg411/5:00.22125.658 fast · 27.293 avg112/5:12.58425.762 fast · 26.049 avg
3Adam Chodara7511/5:10.38326.883 fast · 28.217 avg511/5:03.50026.299 fast · 27.591 avg411/5:00.42426.585 fast · 27.311 avg
4Tanner Dillin8811/5:11.62026.516 fast · 28.329 avg711/5:09.73026.555 fast · 28.157 avg312/5:28.31226.425 fast · 27.359 avg
5Ian Schultz8911/5:16.88226.645 fast · 28.807 avg312/5:29.48626.417 fast · 27.457 avg711/5:08.11026.704 fast · 28.010 avg
6Tyler Marg8411/5:09.78126.848 fast · 28.162 avg911/5:23.97926.763 fast · 29.453 avg611/5:05.15426.182 fast · 27.741 avg
7Aaron Kuhn9711/5:11.61527.303 fast · 28.329 avg611/5:08.11327.160 fast · 28.010 avg511/5:04.07426.718 fast · 27.643 avg
8Anthony Woodruff12611/5:10.48726.657 fast · 28.226 avg811/5:14.93726.522 fast · 28.631 avg811/5:17.58326.847 fast · 28.871 avg
9Benjamin Cropper171011/5:20.64428.145 fast · 29.149 avg1111/5:27.27127.479 fast · 29.752 avg911/5:18.89728.038 fast · 28.991 avg
10Michael McIntire181110/5:09.86328.050 fast · 30.986 avg1011/5:25.81928.186 fast · 29.620 avg1010/5:00.12028.587 fast · 30.012 avg
11Reyna Chodara211210/5:17.82729.663 fast · 31.783 avg1210/5:08.30329.179 fast · 30.830 avg1110/5:05.70929.511 fast · 30.571 avg
12Joseph Alvarado23139/5:03.73530.736 fast · 33.748 avg139/5:00.26230.145 fast · 33.362 avg1210/5:14.93529.487 fast · 31.494 avg
13Nick Chesnut25148/5:11.35836.162 fast · 38.920 avg148/5:04.85131.689 fast · 38.106 avg138/5:10.39935.892 fast · 38.800 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Dalton Conradt1P113/5:22.53524.80725.34098.70%no licence
2Alton Henley2P212/5:18.59525.39027.16994.63%no licence
3Tanner Dillin3P412/5:20.04726.64427.14498.34%no licence
4Adam Chodara4P311/5:02.39426.04628.17694.86%+97
5Ian Schultz5P511/5:05.03126.06328.30194.13%+96
6Anthony Woodruff6P811/5:06.46626.93828.29595.37%no licence
7Tyler Marg7P611/5:04.83826.45828.13994.02%+94
8Aaron Kuhn8P711/5:11.18026.65628.83591.08%no licence
9Michael McIntirebumped up9P911/5:20.82127.59729.57295.03%no licence
10Benjamin Cropperbumped up10P1011/5:29.61128.30530.45095.76%no licence
B-main
1Michael McIntireup to the AP213/6:16.42228.42929.53596.85%–
2Benjamin Cropperup to the AP113/6:21.35728.68429.85795.31%–
3Reyna Chodara11P312/6:01.85729.11030.24397.81%+90
4Joseph Alvarado12P412/6:23.79829.81732.19695.33%no licence
5Nick Chesnut13P55/3:05.632 (DNF)34.99939.12492.99%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Dalton Conradt no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/14 · TQ

    Won the first two qualifiers and then posted a 14 in the third, which the drop rule swallowed whole and left him with a 2 and the top seed. He then won both A-mains for a total of 1 and the round, so the wobble in Q3 cost him precisely nothing. No series licence means the standings will ignore the whole performance, but Omaha belonged to him from Friday onward.

  2. 2nd
    Alton Henley no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/4/1

    Qualified on a 4 from 3/4/1, winning the last heat to take second on the grid behind a man who had already won two. Second in both A-mains gave him a total of 2 and the runner-up spot — no mistakes, no slip, just nobody quite quick enough to reach the car in front. Four sessions, four results, and never worse than fourth.

  3. 3rd
    Tanner Dillin no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 8/7/3

    Fourth seed on a 10 from 8/7/3, the trend line pointing sharply upward through qualifying. He converted that into a third in A1, then a sixth in A2 cost him the momentum, leaving a total of 3 and the tiebreak win over Adam Chodara for the last podium spot. The third qualifier and the first main were the two best runs of his weekend and he built the whole result on them.

  4. 4th
    Adam Chodara 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 9 · Q 5/5/4

    Qualified third on a 9 from 5/5/4, his strongest seed of the season by a distance after two rounds spent outside the eight entirely. Fourth in A1 and third in A2 gave him a total of 3, level with Tanner Dillin and beaten on the split, but a fourth-place A-main finish is a different species of result from thirteenth and fourteenth. Ninety-seven points takes him to 272 and third in the championship, ahead of Daniel Paddock and only eight adrift of Ryan Benedict.

  5. 5th
    Ian Schultz 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 9/3/7

    Back after two rounds away and straight into the top eight, fifth seed on a 10 from 9/3/7 with the opening heat quietly discarded. Fifth in A1 and fourth in A2 for a total of 4 and fifth overall, holding his grid slot in a field where the front five were covered by three points. Ninety-six points gives him 196 from two starts and sixth in the championship, level on starts with the two men directly behind him and one short of everybody ahead.

  6. 6th
    Anthony Woodruff no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 14 · Q 6/8/8

    Eighth seed on a 14 from 6/8/8, the weakest of the seeded scores, then he went sixth and fifth in the A-mains for a total of 5. Two places better than his grid slot and ahead of three drivers who qualified in front of him, which is what you want from the last row of the seeded eight. Understated weekend, decent haul.

  7. 7th
    Tyler Marg 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 10 · Q 4/9/6

    Sixth seed on a 10 from 4/9/6, tied on qualifying score with Tanner Dillin and Ian Schultz and beaten by both when the mains ran. A seventh and an eighth left him with a total of 7 and the tiebreak over Aaron Kuhn for seventh overall. Ninety-four points is his first score since the opening round and moves him to 184 and eighth in the standings on two starts.

  8. 8th
    Aaron Kuhn no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 11 · Q 7/6/5

    Qualified seventh on an 11 from 7/6/5, improving in each heat, which is generally a good sign about where the car is heading. Eighth in A1 and seventh in A2 gave him a total of 7, identical to Tyler Marg and one place worse after the split. Held his ground in a field where holding your ground was harder than it looked.

  9. 9th
    Michael McIntire no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 11/10/10

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeding in, so tenth in the first leg was always the likely opening. He improved to ninth in A2 for a total of 9 and took the tiebreak over Benjamin Cropper for ninth overall. Making the top main from outside the seeded eight is the achievement; the finishing order after that is detail.

  10. 10th
    Benjamin Cropper no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 10/11/9

    Also bumped up, and he actually beat Michael Mcintire in the first A-main with a ninth before giving it back with a tenth in the second. Same total of 9, wrong end of the split, tenth at the flag. Two drivers who qualified outside the eight, one place between them, and neither gave the other an inch.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Reyna Chodara 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 23 · Q 12/12/11

    Qualified outside the seeded eight and finished eleventh, one spot short of the A-main and her best raw finishing position of the season. Ninety points is also her biggest score yet, following 75 and 89, so the graph has only gone one way all year. That puts her fifth in the championship on 254 from three starts, ahead of every driver with fewer.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

Omaha went to Dalton Conradt, who took TQ off a 2 and won both A-mains without scoring a point, and the championship consequences came instead from the drivers behind him. Ethan Maki keeps the lead on 294 and Ryan Benedict stays second on 280 despite neither of them being at HobbyPlex, which tells you how much the three-score system rewards banking big early. Adam Chodara is the mover: fourth in the A-main for 97 takes him to 272 and third overall, jumping Daniel Paddock on 260, while Reyna Chodara's third straight improvement puts her fifth on 254. Ian Schultz returns to 196 and Tyler Marg to 184, both from just two starts, and DJ Shepherd sits between them on 191 in the same position. With one round to run, best-three and the raw total are still identical for every driver in the table, because nobody has made four starts — which sets up the real split: Maki, Benedict, Chodara, Paddock and Reyna Chodara are on three scores and can only gain by beating their own worst result, while Schultz, Shepherd, Marg and Garay are on two and add whatever they score in full.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Ethan Maki–29402943
2Ryan Benedict–28002803
3Adam Chodara+9727202723
4Daniel Paddock–26002603
5Reyna Chodara+9025402543
6Ian Schultz+9619601962
7DJ Shepherd–19101912
8Tyler Marg+9418401842

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

13.5 Stadium Truck

20 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Owen Vanderbeek29429401032nd–999699*·
2Evan Ciresi282372−900045th92969490·
3Connor Barrows27227200036th–959384·
4Lex Mott26226200039th809092–·
5Zack Mazurek26226200038th839386–·
6Nick Gibson20020001121st100*––100·
7Ryder Himanek19919900121st–10099–·
8Emerson Sturgeon19419400022nd95––99·
9Evan Cook19419400024th–9797–·
10Noah Hicklin19219200024th97––95·
11Connor Esbeck18518500025th89––96·
12Tyler Marg176176000210th85––91·
13Ben Ellis175175000213th8887––·
14Garrett Miller172172000213th–8488–·
15Kraig Obrien170170000213th–8882–·
16Larry Wright IV165165000217th84–81–·
17Charles Kock157157000214th70––87·
18DJ Shepherd154154000224th–7777–·
19Chad Mishler153153000223rd–7875–·
20Nick Malato150150000225th74–76–·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Nick Gibson — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 32 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Nick Gibson0120/5:12.56515.032 fast · 15.628 avg120/5:08.53715.035 fast · 15.427 avg120/5:12.09914.875 fast · 15.605 avg
2Tyler Aubart5419/5:04.07315.341 fast · 16.004 avg320/5:09.72915.191 fast · 15.486 avg1219/5:12.19014.951 fast · 17.344 avg
3Josh Melia5319/5:02.59815.197 fast · 15.926 avg420/5:15.12115.278 fast · 15.756 avg519/5:00.74415.204 fast · 15.829 avg
4Noah Hicklin71019/5:13.46915.616 fast · 16.498 avg619/5:04.84215.723 fast · 16.044 avg320/5:15.02815.068 fast · 15.751 avg
5Casey Blasczyk8519/5:04.41315.520 fast · 16.022 avg519/5:00.18915.250 fast · 15.799 avg619/5:01.90415.224 fast · 15.890 avg
6Steve Richter9719/5:09.37615.843 fast · 16.283 avg819/5:06.47415.624 fast · 16.130 avg419/5:00.30615.372 fast · 15.806 avg
7Emerson Sturgeon11619/5:08.93315.280 fast · 16.260 avg719/5:05.08315.183 fast · 16.057 avg719/5:04.54115.318 fast · 16.028 avg
8Leo Dake16919/5:13.41915.589 fast · 16.496 avg1718/5:03.19715.564 fast · 16.844 avg919/5:07.19915.582 fast · 16.168 avg
9Tyler Marg171418/5:04.04615.682 fast · 16.891 avg1119/5:11.34115.660 fast · 16.386 avg819/5:04.56515.547 fast · 16.030 avg
10Connor Esbeck181618/5:04.54115.453 fast · 16.919 avg919/5:07.22615.449 fast · 16.170 avg1119/5:11.66115.134 fast · 16.403 avg
11Andy Martinez211119/5:15.63316.133 fast · 16.612 avg1219/5:12.98015.981 fast · 16.473 avg3017/5:13.75215.728 fast · 18.456 avg
12Jason Mayer22819/5:13.33916.049 fast · 16.492 avg1618/5:01.59416.017 fast · 16.755 avg1818/5:04.29116.014 fast · 16.905 avg
13Evan Ciresi231818/5:07.60115.859 fast · 17.089 avg1518/5:01.27916.102 fast · 16.738 avg1019/5:10.14915.802 fast · 16.324 avg
14Larry Wright IV231518/5:04.17815.862 fast · 16.899 avg1019/5:10.82115.717 fast · 16.359 avg2618/5:16.86715.514 fast · 17.604 avg
15Broc Stroebel241219/5:16.35816.152 fast · 16.650 avg1918/5:05.61516.086 fast · 16.979 avg1418/5:00.21015.759 fast · 16.678 avg
16Zack Mazurek241318/5:00.09815.624 fast · 16.672 avg1319/5:14.43915.652 fast · 16.549 avg2518/5:15.13515.521 fast · 17.508 avg
17Ben Ellis322418/5:14.25516.036 fast · 17.459 avg2118/5:07.85016.030 fast · 17.103 avg1319/5:17.85416.073 fast · 16.729 avg
18Reed Stout332218/5:10.10316.099 fast · 17.228 avg2018/5:06.96616.220 fast · 17.054 avg1518/5:03.19216.259 fast · 16.844 avg
19Lex Mott342617/5:00.98315.909 fast · 17.705 avg1418/5:00.75815.994 fast · 16.709 avg2218/5:09.84715.967 fast · 17.214 avg
20Andy Kahrs351718/5:06.63616.164 fast · 17.035 avg2318/5:11.08515.815 fast · 17.283 avg2018/5:07.98815.767 fast · 17.111 avg
21Matt Miller362118/5:08.55116.275 fast · 17.142 avg2518/5:13.06916.153 fast · 17.393 avg1718/5:04.11616.285 fast · 16.895 avg
22Jun Villaruz372018/5:08.33616.017 fast · 17.130 avg325/1:31.697 (DNF)16.291 fast · 18.339 avg1918/5:06.34116.131 fast · 17.019 avg
23Nick Lopez381918/5:08.04816.420 fast · 17.114 avg2717/5:06.72816.428 fast · 18.043 avg2118/5:08.49816.020 fast · 17.139 avg
24Corey Heft392518/5:15.58816.355 fast · 17.533 avg2617/5:03.49316.174 fast · 17.853 avg1618/5:03.19616.434 fast · 16.844 avg
25Todd Peifer392318/5:10.72616.280 fast · 17.263 avg1818/5:03.95916.361 fast · 16.887 avg2318/5:09.98316.166 fast · 17.221 avg
26Brian Gaedke442917/5:05.49317.035 fast · 17.970 avg2218/5:08.24016.196 fast · 17.124 avg2418/5:11.53716.438 fast · 17.308 avg
27Brian Faust492717/5:02.69016.920 fast · 17.805 avg2418/5:12.00716.504 fast · 17.334 avg2717/5:05.11516.456 fast · 17.948 avg
28Sticks Bailey543017/5:17.23016.884 fast · 18.661 avg2817/5:10.80017.007 fast · 18.282 avg2817/5:06.73617.103 fast · 18.043 avg
29Gene Labar552817/5:04.16416.432 fast · 17.892 avg3016/5:01.09416.406 fast · 18.818 avg2917/5:08.64916.039 fast · 18.156 avg
30Jerry Klingbeil593216/5:07.91617.323 fast · 19.245 avg2917/5:18.04017.090 fast · 18.708 avg320/0.000 (DNF)
31Charles Kock603316/5:13.39718.221 fast · 19.587 avg3112/3:49.570 (DNF)17.372 fast · 19.131 avg3116/5:10.46417.662 fast · 19.404 avg
32Nick Malato613116/5:02.94216.927 fast · 18.934 avg334/1:19.899 (DNF)17.859 fast · 19.975 avg320/0.000 (DNF)

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Tyler Aubart1P220/5:07.08414.92915.26797.81%no licence
2Nick Gibson2P120/5:09.09615.15115.41798.59%+100
3Josh Melia3P319/5:01.21014.93215.77395.43%no licence
4Noah Hicklin4P419/5:01.73015.27115.74197.75%+97
5Casey Blasczyk5P519/5:03.09915.08215.80196.37%no licence
6Emerson Sturgeon6P719/5:10.93815.29915.93196.41%+95
7Leo Dake7P819/5:13.30615.56816.26497.12%no licence
8Jason Mayerbumped up8P918/5:03.93115.74616.68593.92%no licence
9Evan Ciresibumped up9P1018/5:08.20515.71416.91093.05%+92
10Steve Richter10P618/5:04.92715.31116.58492.43%no licence
B-main
1Jason Mayerup to the AP422/6:01.36515.78416.30698.53%–
2Evan Ciresiup to the AP522/6:02.14115.50216.31897.70%–
3Andy Martinez11P322/6:06.96415.87316.59894.00%no licence
4Connor Esbeck12P222/6:08.47415.20716.53690.17%+89
5Ben Ellisbumped up13P922/6:12.83416.07116.70296.66%+88
6Broc Stroebel14P722/6:13.89815.62816.76793.28%no licence
7Reed Stoutbumped up15P1022/6:14.29815.98816.74596.57%no licence
8Tyler Marg16P121/6:07.25515.73217.28288.89%+85
9Larry Wright IV17P621/6:11.27015.74517.56184.95%+84
10Zack Mazurek18P820/6:07.75716.02218.18086.86%+83
C-main
1Ben Ellisup to the BP122/6:02.76915.81416.44196.18%–
2Reed Stoutup to the BP222/6:09.37216.14616.71396.37%–
3Todd Peiferbumped up19P922/6:12.92516.03016.67394.83%no licence
4Matt Miller20P522/6:13.62115.87916.83895.74%no licence
5Lex Mott21P321/6:00.00716.03717.03391.34%+80
6Brian Gaedkebumped up22P1021/6:07.87416.49517.21495.02%no licence
7Corey Heft23P821/6:08.60615.98517.13088.74%no licence
8Andy Kahrs24P421/6:09.79515.81617.42689.85%no licence
9Jun Villaruz25P621/6:15.18915.86217.65984.56%no licence
10Nick Lopez26P720/6:03.29116.11217.86486.63%no licence
D-main
1Todd Peiferup to the CP118/5:06.97916.07817.01596.20%–
2Brian Gaedkeup to the CP217/5:01.21216.85517.65594.29%–
3Nick Malato27P817/5:06.25716.97917.64797.72%+74
4Gene Labar28P517/5:07.27716.22917.93389.89%no licence
5Jerry Klingbeil29P617/5:11.40717.45918.13495.14%no licence
6Sticks Bailey30P417/5:15.44917.11418.46692.64%no licence
7Charles Kock31P716/5:10.24417.37919.19087.70%+70
8Brian Faust32P36/1:47.264 (DNF)17.17317.55798.00%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Tyler Aubart no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 7 · Q 4/3/12

    Seeded second on a 7 from 4/3/12, the 12 in the third heat quietly binned by the best-two-of-three rule, and then he turned the A-mains into a two-truck argument he won. Mains of 2 and 1 gave him a total of 1, level with Nick Gibson, and the closing main settled it his way. No series licence means the trophy is his and the 100 points belong to somebody else, which is a brutal exchange rate for the quickest man in the building.

  2. 2nd
    Nick Gibson 100 pts TQ
    100 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Three qualifiers, three heat wins, a score of 2 and the pole is about as loud as a Friday gets, and the TQ bonus turned a runner-up finish into a full 100 points. He and Aubart tied on a total of 1 after splitting the mains 1 and 2; the tiebreak went the other way. The JConcepts man leaves Brookfield beaten on track and leading the championship, an arithmetic only a licensed driver gets to enjoy.

  3. 3rd
    Josh Melia no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 3/4/5

    Qualifying went 3/4/5 for a tidy score of 7 and the third grid slot, and he held exactly that ground with mains of 3 and 5 for a total of 3. Nothing spectacular, nothing squandered, and a podium out of it. Without a licence there is no championship reward, but he put seven trucks behind him and never looked like being caught by them.

  4. 4th
    Noah Hicklin 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 10/6/3

    A 10 in the opening qualifier is normally the end of a weekend; he answered it with a 6 and a 3 to salvage a score of 9 and the fourth seed. The A-mains followed the same shape, a 7 first and then a 3, and the drop-worst format rewarded the recovery with a total of 3. Only four drivers in this A-main were scoring points at all, and he collected 97 of them to sit second in the championship.

  5. 5th
    Casey Blasczyk no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 5/5/6

    You could set a metronome to this truck: 5/5/6 in qualifying for a score of 10, then a 4 and a 4 in the two A-mains. No fireworks, no mistakes, just the same run over and over from the fifth seed to fifth overall. The 40-plus specialist banks nothing without a licence, but five A-main drivers spent Sunday looking at the back of his truck.

  6. 6th
    Emerson Sturgeon 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 6/7/7

    Qualifying was three shades of the same colour, 6/7/7 for a 13 and the seventh seed. The first A-main was the good one, a 5 that dragged him up the order, and the 10 in the second was exactly what the drop rule exists to erase. Third in the championship on 95 points is a handsome reward for one strong main.

  7. 7th
    Leo Dake no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 18 · Q 9/17/9

    The eighth seed came with an asterisk attached: 9/17/9, with a 17 in the middle heat that must have felt like a very long four minutes. The A-mains were far tidier, a 6 and a 7 for a total of 6, and he gained a place on the grid slot he was handed. Score of 18 to seventh overall is a proper Sunday recovery.

  8. 8th
    Jason Mayer no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P12 · bumped up from the B · qual score 24 · Q 8/16/18

    Bumping into the A-main is one thing; going 8 and 6 once you get there is another. He never had a top-eight seed to lean on and still beat Steve Richter, who arrived with the sixth-best qualifying effort in the class and the grid slot to match. No licence, no points, but a very good afternoon's work.

  9. 9th
    Evan Ciresi 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P13 · bumped up from the B · qual score 25 · Q 18/15/10

    No top-eight seed, so he had to bump his way into the A, and then he ran a 10 and an 8 in a field where only the 8 ended up counting. Ninth on the road, fourth in the championship, because six of the ten drivers in that main are not scoring a thing. It is not glamorous and it is not a highlight reel. It is 92 points.

  10. 10th
    Steve Richter no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 7/8/4

    The 4 in the last qualifier was the highlight of the weekend, good enough for an 11 and the sixth seed. Both A-mains then came back a 9, which is a very consistent way to travel four places in the wrong direction. Last in a ten-truck A-main with the sixth-best qualifying score in the class is the sort of Sunday that gets replayed on the drive home.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 12th
    Connor Esbeck 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 20 · Q 16/9/11

    Missing the top-eight seed put him in a lower main, and twelfth overall is a perfectly respectable way out of one. The championship table is where it gets fun: 89 points has him fifth, ahead of several drivers who beat him on track and cannot bank a single point for it.

  13. 13th
    Ben Ellis 88 ptsbumped up
    88 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 34 · Q 24/21/13

    Seventeenth of 32 in qualifying meant the C-main, and he put that on pole and simply left with it: 22 laps in 6:02.769 at 96.18% consistency, unarguable from the front. The bump into the B dropped him to ninth on a ten-car grid and he still came out fifth, tidier doing it at 96.66% than he had been winning the race below. Thirteenth overall and 88 points, which is sixth in the championship after one round and every bit of it earned climbing rather than sitting.

  14. 16th
    Tyler Marg 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 19 · Q 14/11/8

    Outside the seeded eight and out of the A-main, P16 on the road and 85 points in the bag for seventh in the standings. In a class where the front of the A-main keeps handing its points back, showing up and finishing is a genuine strategy.

  15. 17th
    Larry Wright IV 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 25 · Q 15/10/26

    One place behind Tyler Marg and one point behind him, which is exactly how a 101-minus-position system behaves. Seventeenth from outside the seeded eight, 84 points, eighth in the championship: a completely unremarkable weekend that turns out to be worth quite a lot.

  16. 18th
    Zack Mazurek 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 26 · Q 13/13/25

    No top-eight seed and a lower main is not a headline, but 83 points is 83 points and it lands him ninth in the opening standings. Six drivers finished the A-main this weekend with nothing whatsoever to show for it.

  17. 21st
    Lex Mott 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 36 · Q 26/14/22

    Rounding out the championship top ten on 80 points, which required nothing more exotic than a P21 finish and a series licence. He qualified outside the seeded eight and never got a look at the A-main grid, and the table does not ask about that.

  18. 27th
    Nick Malato 74 pts
    74 pts · qualified P32 · qual score 63 · Q 31/33/32

    A P27 finish from outside the seeded eight is a long way from the A-main, but 74 points go on the board all the same. With only a driver's best three events counting across five rounds, a quiet Brookfield is enormously better than an absent one.

  19. 31st
    Charles Kock 70 pts
    70 pts · qualified P31 · qual score 62 · Q 33/31/31

    The deepest finish on our list at P31, and still worth 70 championship points, because the scoring curve is generous to anyone who takes the green and sees the flag. No seeded start, no A-main, and a full weekend of racing banked for later.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

Brookfield hands the championship lead to Nick Gibson, who swept all three qualifiers for a score of 2, lost the A-main tiebreak to Tyler Aubart, and still walked away with the full 100 thanks to the TQ bonus. The headline number, though, is six: six of the ten A-main finishers have no series licence, so the points from that main got distributed very strangely indeed. Only four A-main runners score at all, which is why Connor Esbeck is fifth in the championship from a P12 finish and Ben Ellis is sixth from P13. Everybody in the top ten is on a single start, so best-three totals and raw totals are the same number for now and nobody is carrying a discarded result. With four rounds still to come, the gap from first to tenth is 20 points, which is roughly one bad main event.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Evan Ciresi+92372−902824
2Lex Mott+8026202623
3Zack Mazurek+8326202623
4Nick Gibson+10020002002
5Emerson Sturgeon+9519401942
6Noah Hicklin+9719201922
7Connor Esbeck+8918501852
8Tyler Marg+8517601762

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Nate Sutherland — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 27 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Nate Sutherland0119/5:02.19915.217 fast · 15.905 avg120/5:14.76315.238 fast · 15.738 avg320/5:15.37515.037 fast · 15.769 avg
2Evan Cook2519/5:08.98415.572 fast · 16.262 avg319/5:03.97815.395 fast · 15.999 avg120/5:15.26115.388 fast · 15.763 avg
3Brandon Marsh6319/5:05.25715.495 fast · 16.066 avg519/5:06.78315.438 fast · 16.146 avg272/33.553 (DNF)15.753 fast · 16.777 avg
4Owen Vanderbeek7419/5:07.26415.325 fast · 16.172 avg619/5:08.29315.419 fast · 16.226 avg519/5:05.62115.571 fast · 16.085 avg
5Ryder Himanek8919/5:18.53815.384 fast · 16.765 avg419/5:04.93315.369 fast · 16.049 avg619/5:10.26515.337 fast · 16.330 avg
6Evan Ciresi9719/5:14.06215.594 fast · 16.530 avg819/5:13.94515.573 fast · 16.523 avg419/5:04.75315.345 fast · 16.040 avg
7Ryan Hovis14619/5:13.08915.966 fast · 16.478 avg1218/5:08.46815.849 fast · 17.137 avg1018/5:06.07915.994 fast · 17.004 avg
8Zack Mazurek141118/5:08.94815.773 fast · 17.164 avg919/5:20.06815.926 fast · 16.846 avg719/5:12.78715.890 fast · 16.462 avg
9Lex Mott161817/5:01.96216.001 fast · 17.762 avg1018/5:04.37615.841 fast · 16.910 avg818/5:00.13916.104 fast · 16.674 avg
10Tucker Mitchel19819/5:15.81716.053 fast · 16.622 avg1817/5:04.49316.047 fast · 17.911 avg1318/5:09.55115.655 fast · 17.197 avg
11Connor Barrows202812/3:32.067 (DNF)15.676 fast · 17.672 avg719/5:10.69215.663 fast · 16.352 avg1518/5:11.96615.564 fast · 17.331 avg
12Garrett Miller211218/5:09.34516.487 fast · 17.186 avg1118/5:05.44716.251 fast · 16.969 avg1218/5:08.86216.240 fast · 17.159 avg
13Wally Mayne221518/5:15.30816.228 fast · 17.517 avg268/2:45.217 (DNF)16.646 fast · 20.652 avg918/5:00.25016.135 fast · 16.681 avg
14Ben Ellis221717/5:00.89215.977 fast · 17.700 avg1318/5:08.76216.106 fast · 17.153 avg1118/5:08.68616.096 fast · 17.149 avg
15Blake Salmon231018/5:05.77216.247 fast · 16.987 avg1517/5:00.96416.167 fast · 17.704 avg1817/5:01.04416.091 fast · 17.708 avg
16Kraig Obrien261418/5:11.68716.511 fast · 17.316 avg1418/5:17.12116.423 fast · 17.618 avg1718/5:15.48516.447 fast · 17.527 avg
17Cody Hawks281618/5:15.31816.808 fast · 17.518 avg1617/5:01.29916.726 fast · 17.723 avg1418/5:10.80316.432 fast · 17.267 avg
18Frank Prestiagiacomo312216/5:01.00716.572 fast · 18.813 avg1717/5:04.16416.594 fast · 17.892 avg1618/5:15.15116.427 fast · 17.508 avg
19Daniel Marino351318/5:09.85016.299 fast · 17.214 avg277/2:00.566 (DNF)16.342 fast · 17.224 avg2411/3:20.184 (DNF)15.943 fast · 18.199 avg
20Jesse Walz371917/5:03.75717.042 fast · 17.868 avg2017/5:16.60817.039 fast · 18.624 avg2017/5:07.95116.567 fast · 18.115 avg
21Chad Mishler382516/5:12.00517.667 fast · 19.500 avg1917/5:07.14516.738 fast · 18.067 avg2117/5:14.38516.848 fast · 18.493 avg
22Connor Glover392316/5:05.00216.616 fast · 19.063 avg2215/5:09.70016.989 fast · 20.647 avg1917/5:01.30716.660 fast · 17.724 avg
23Chris Boyer402117/5:15.04016.931 fast · 18.532 avg2117/5:18.18917.132 fast · 18.717 avg2216/5:05.89616.887 fast · 19.119 avg
24DJ Shepherd442017/5:09.21716.728 fast · 18.189 avg282/46.414 (DNF)19.306 fast · 23.207 avg265/1:40.489 (DNF)17.322 fast · 20.098 avg
25Colin Walter462614/5:08.21018.301 fast · 22.015 avg2315/5:23.51618.612 fast · 21.568 avg258/2:46.328 (DNF)19.328 fast · 20.791 avg
26Matthew Whitehead462714/5:18.94218.399 fast · 22.782 avg2514/5:04.96718.540 fast · 21.783 avg2314/5:16.46718.516 fast · 22.605 avg
27Juan Nava50309/4:11.614 (DNF)21.207 fast · 27.957 avg2414/5:03.95919.469 fast · 21.711 avg281/25.257 (DNF)25.257 fast · 25.257 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Ryder Himanek1P520/5:12.90315.24415.65297.53%+100
2Owen Vanderbeek2P420/5:13.49315.22815.73897.67%+99
3Nate Sutherland3P120/5:13.56814.87615.78591.90%no licence
4Evan Cook4P219/5:01.93315.28915.85896.75%+97
5Evan Ciresi5P619/5:07.06215.49416.21796.29%+96
6Connor Barrowsbumped up6P919/5:09.74515.49516.26994.54%+95
7Tucker Mitchelbumped up7P1018/5:17.25915.56817.65186.14%no licence
8Zack Mazurek8P818/5:17.64215.97917.72386.46%+93
9Ryan Hovis9P717/5:08.07015.90118.24885.30%no licence
10Brandon Marsh10P30/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
B-main
1Connor Barrowsup to the AP323/6:12.53615.60616.20995.94%–
2Tucker Mitchelup to the AP222/6:05.49715.88816.68095.32%–
3Lex Mott11P122/6:10.98115.97816.75395.10%+90
4Frank Prestiagiacomobumped up12P1022/6:12.25716.01516.84695.23%no licence
5Kraig Obrien13P822/6:14.28315.91616.96794.13%+88
6Ben Ellis14P621/6:08.20016.03717.47291.55%+87
7Cody Hawksbumped up15P921/6:10.25716.62017.52493.23%no licence
8Blake Salmon16P721/6:16.50816.29517.77990.62%no licence
9Garrett Miller17P421/6:17.43615.60718.07072.34%+84
10Wally Mayne18P54/1:06.747 (DNF)16.65216.75599.41%no licence
C-main
1Cody Hawksup to the BP121/6:02.53316.51717.33295.37%–
2Frank Prestiagiacomoup to the BP221/6:05.24216.29717.49890.71%–
3Daniel Marino19P321/6:05.59816.67317.46394.20%no licence
4Jesse Walz20P421/6:07.12716.65517.52394.24%no licence
5Connor Glover21P621/6:15.78516.50917.93491.60%no licence
6Chris Boyer22P720/6:09.97116.86618.46991.28%no licence
7Chad Mishler23P519/6:03.34817.01119.24989.42%+78
8DJ Shepherd24P819/6:15.38416.67419.86383.71%+77
9Juan Navabumped up25P1015/5:39.374 (DNF)19.57122.73590.38%no licence
10Colin Walterbumped up26P912/4:31.550 (DNF)18.49522.96877.41%no licence
D-main
1Colin Walterup to the CP14/1:16.23517.97719.32892.78%–
2Juan Navaup to the CP34/1:17.23319.27719.37499.63%–
3Matthew Whitehead27P23/58.217 (DNF)18.90320.410–no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified. A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so a run cut shorter than that shows none.

  1. 1st
    Ryder Himanek 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 9/4/6

    A 9 in the first qualifier looked like a write-off; the 4 and the 6 that followed turned it into a 10 and the fifth seed. He then won the opening A-main outright, banked the 1, and could afford the 8 that came in the second because the worst score gets thrown away. Level on a total of 1 with Owen Vanderbeek, the win went his way: 100 points from the fifth spot on the grid.

  2. 2nd
    Owen Vanderbeek 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 4/6/5

    Qualifying was steady rather than startling, 4/6/5 for a 9 and the fourth seed, and the first A-main matched it with a 4. The second one did not match it at all, because he won it. Tied with Himanek on a total of 1 and beaten on the tiebreak, which is the cruellest possible way to leave a point on the table.

  3. 3rd
    Nate Sutherland no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/3 · TQ

    Two heat wins and a 3 made a score of 2 and the pole, and the Schumacher man then ran second in both A-mains for a total of 2. Perfectly quick, perfectly consistent, and third overall only because two other drivers each found a main win. Without a licence the TQ bonus and the podium go nowhere near the championship table, which is a harsh return for a weekend with no visible mistakes in it.

  4. 4th
    Evan Cook 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 5/3/1

    The third qualifier was the one that mattered, a heat win to go with a 5 and a 3 for a score of 4 and the second seed. Both A-mains then came back a 3, which is a tidy way to be the best of the rest behind three drivers who each had something extra. 97 points and not a moment of drama.

  5. 5th
    Evan Ciresi 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 7/8/4

    Qualifying went 7/8/4 for an 11 and the sixth seed, his first seeded start of the season. Mains of 5 and 4 moved him up a place and put 96 points in the bank. Two starts, no TQ, no win, not even an A-main podium, and he leaves Macomb leading the championship on 188. Turning up and finishing is, it turns out, a strategy.

  6. 6th
    Connor Barrows 95 ptsbumped up
    95 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 22 · Q 28/7/15

    No top-eight seed, so he bumped into the A-main and then immediately looked like he belonged in it: a 6 and a 5 for a total of 5, ahead of two drivers who earned their grid slots the proper way. 95 points on his first score of the season is a fine day's work.

  7. 7th
    Tucker Mitchel no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 21 · Q 8/18/13

    Another bump-in who made the main event look considerably easier than it is, running a 7 and then a 6 for a total of 6. He finished ahead of Zack Mazurek and Ryan Hovis, both of whom had seeded starts he never got near. No licence, so it is a result to enjoy rather than a return to bank.

  8. 8th
    Zack Mazurek 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 11/9/7

    Qualifying was a steady climb, an 11, then a 9, then a 7, for a 16 and the last seeded slot on the grid. The mains repeated the trick in miniature with an 8 and a 7, and he held station in eighth. That is 93 points to stack on Brookfield's 83, and second in the championship on 176 from two entirely undramatic weekends.

  9. 9th
    Ryan Hovis no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 16 · Q 6/12/10

    The 6 in the opening heat was the good one; a 12 and a 10 followed and still added up to a 16 and the seventh seed. Both A-mains came back a 9, two places adrift of where he started and never really threatening anything ahead. No licence and no points from a weekend that never quite got going.

  10. 10th
    Brandon Marsh no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 3/5/27

    A 3 and a 5 in the first two heats put him on the sharp end of the grid, and the 27 in the third is precisely the number the best-two-of-three rule exists to forgive, an 8 still buying the third seed. The A-mains were considerably less forgiving: a 10 and a 10, last and last. Third on the grid to tenth on the road is the biggest slide in the main event, and there is no licence to soften the landing.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Lex Mott 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 18 · Q 18/10/8

    Missing the A-main by one place is the worst seat in the building, but P11 pays 90 points and four of the ten drivers who did make that main will not bank a single one. Two rounds, two lower mains, and fourth in the championship on 170. He has yet to see a top-eight seed and it has yet to matter.

  13. 13th
    Kraig Obrien 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 28 · Q 14/14/17

    No top-eight seed and a lower main, and yet 88 points drop into the bag for thirteenth on the road. That is the sort of return that quietly builds a best-three total while the front of the A-main keeps handing its points back to nobody.

  14. 14th
    Ben Ellis 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 24 · Q 17/13/11

    Another lower-main weekend, another solid haul, and third in the championship on 175 from two rounds. He has now banked 88 and 87 without ever seeing an A-main grid slot. The standings have never once asked where the points came from.

  15. 17th
    Garrett Miller 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 23 · Q 12/11/12

    Outside the seeded eight and into a lower main, P17 on the road and 84 points for the trouble. Not a weekend anyone frames, but in a series that counts a driver's best three events it is a floor worth having.

  16. 23rd
    Chad Mishler 78 pts
    78 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 40 · Q 25/19/21

    P23 in a deep Macomb field with no seeded start to build from, and 78 points for the effort. The scoring curve is kind to anyone who finishes, and he finished.

  17. 24th
    DJ Shepherd 77 pts
    77 pts · qualified P24 · qual score 46 · Q 20/28/26

    One spot back from Chad Mishler and one point behind him, which is how 101-minus-position always works out. No top-eight seed and no A-main, but 77 points more than anybody who stayed home.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Evan Ciresi leads the championship on 188 without a win, a TQ or even an A-main podium to his name, which tells you everything about how this series is being decided. He, Zack Mazurek, Ben Ellis and Lex Mott are the only drivers with two starts, and they occupy the entire top four; everybody from fifth down is on one event and has a free slot waiting. Raw totals and best-three totals are still identical across the board because nobody has raced three times yet, so nothing has been discarded and every point banked so far is a point that counts. Macomb also produced its own licence problem: Nate Sutherland TQ'd and finished on the podium for nothing, while Ryder Himanek's win and Owen Vanderbeek's runner-up spot are worth 100 and 99. Gibson and Himanek are tied on 100 from one start apiece, which is a very different 100 to the ones being assembled underneath them.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Owen Vanderbeek+9929402943
2Evan Ciresi+96372−902824
3Connor Barrows+9527202723
4Lex Mott+9026202623
5Zack Mazurek+9326202623
6Nick Gibson–20002002
7Ryder Himanek+10019901992
8Emerson Sturgeon–19401942

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Kyle Holmberg — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 28 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Kyle Holmberg0119/5:10.73715.946 fast · 16.355 avg119/5:09.00515.935 fast · 16.263 avg119/5:09.81715.895 fast · 16.306 avg
2Ryder Himanek4319/5:14.95916.255 fast · 16.577 avg319/5:13.84416.250 fast · 16.518 avg419/5:16.11515.986 fast · 16.638 avg
3Evan Cook5419/5:15.42416.118 fast · 16.601 avg419/5:14.35916.144 fast · 16.545 avg319/5:10.17116.130 fast · 16.325 avg
4Jake Wiggs9518/5:00.70416.449 fast · 16.706 avg718/5:05.40416.443 fast · 16.967 avg618/5:02.50716.423 fast · 16.806 avg
5Geoffrey Ketler10718/5:03.14416.405 fast · 16.841 avg518/5:02.31916.520 fast · 16.796 avg918/5:07.00516.387 fast · 17.056 avg
6Owen Vanderbeek10618/5:01.19616.357 fast · 16.733 avg618/5:05.15616.157 fast · 16.953 avg818/5:05.01416.220 fast · 16.945 avg
7Connor Barrows11818/5:07.64816.460 fast · 17.092 avg1218/5:13.09616.336 fast · 17.394 avg519/5:16.80716.225 fast · 16.674 avg
8Evan Ciresi131118/5:11.34116.289 fast · 17.297 avg818/5:05.51716.510 fast · 16.973 avg718/5:02.97516.315 fast · 16.832 avg
9Blaine Gould171218/5:11.64016.793 fast · 17.313 avg918/5:06.66416.688 fast · 17.037 avg1018/5:07.81416.718 fast · 17.101 avg
10Stephen Shuey18918/5:10.42816.806 fast · 17.246 avg1118/5:11.40816.983 fast · 17.300 avg1218/5:10.41616.831 fast · 17.245 avg
11Zack Mazurek181018/5:10.50716.733 fast · 17.250 avg1018/5:09.81816.745 fast · 17.212 avg1518/5:14.79316.766 fast · 17.489 avg
12Lex Mott221318/5:14.70216.691 fast · 17.484 avg1318/5:15.72916.719 fast · 17.541 avg1118/5:08.65416.733 fast · 17.148 avg
13John Eidsmoe251418/5:14.98217.017 fast · 17.499 avg1817/5:02.18316.902 fast · 17.775 avg1318/5:13.68416.970 fast · 17.427 avg
14Garrett Miller271717/5:07.60617.369 fast · 18.094 avg1518/5:16.21816.982 fast · 17.568 avg1418/5:14.02217.107 fast · 17.446 avg
15Jacob Heidbreder301517/5:00.16117.028 fast · 17.657 avg1917/5:04.30016.896 fast · 17.900 avg1717/5:03.69716.928 fast · 17.865 avg
16Joe Zaier Jr311917/5:08.38416.831 fast · 18.140 avg1418/5:16.20217.089 fast · 17.567 avg1917/5:07.67716.827 fast · 18.099 avg
17Ed Fiore322017/5:08.46717.065 fast · 18.145 avg1618/5:17.02316.799 fast · 17.612 avg1817/5:05.96216.823 fast · 17.998 avg
18Larry Wright IV341617/5:01.94917.448 fast · 17.762 avg2117/5:10.81117.302 fast · 18.283 avg2017/5:10.90817.345 fast · 18.289 avg
19DJ Shepherd352117/5:08.61317.461 fast · 18.154 avg286/1:46.500 (DNF)17.597 fast · 17.750 avg1617/5:02.27717.013 fast · 17.781 avg
20Kraig Obrien361817/5:08.25716.990 fast · 18.133 avg2017/5:09.40617.287 fast · 18.200 avg2317/5:18.02117.233 fast · 18.707 avg
21Tom Knapper392417/5:16.77317.233 fast · 18.634 avg1717/5:01.92017.173 fast · 17.760 avg290/0.000 (DNS)
22Chad Mishler422317/5:12.00317.865 fast · 18.353 avg2317/5:17.04617.645 fast · 18.650 avg2117/5:13.32417.721 fast · 18.431 avg
23Phil Knoll422217/5:11.18717.936 fast · 18.305 avg2217/5:12.44417.963 fast · 18.379 avg2217/5:13.67117.828 fast · 18.451 avg
24Bradley Brungardt46290/0.000 (DNF)2416/5:18.44918.637 fast · 19.903 avg2416/5:09.40618.328 fast · 19.338 avg
25Trevor Warner482516/5:00.62817.844 fast · 18.789 avg2515/5:00.95917.642 fast · 20.064 avg2516/5:11.68817.948 fast · 19.481 avg
26Nick Malato502616/5:18.46218.934 fast · 19.904 avg2615/5:01.78319.084 fast · 20.119 avg2714/5:10.96619.779 fast · 22.212 avg
27Doug Oakley522811/3:38.696 (DNF)18.094 fast · 19.881 avg290/0.000 (DNS)2615/5:01.66518.278 fast · 20.111 avg
28Sarah Brummel522714/5:18.69720.765 fast · 22.764 avg2714/5:08.45820.326 fast · 22.033 avg2814/5:13.05321.075 fast · 22.361 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Kyle Holmberg1P119/5:09.65415.91616.29798.03%no licence
2Ryder Himanek2P219/5:12.73716.11816.42499.04%+99
3Geoffrey Ketler3P519/5:16.02216.19116.52698.94%no licence
4Evan Cook4P319/5:13.31516.09716.43898.76%+97
5Owen Vanderbeek5P618/5:00.32616.03816.54397.69%+96
6Jake Wiggs6P418/5:01.59316.20116.51398.91%no licence
7Evan Ciresi7P818/5:07.19716.43516.95097.20%+94
8Connor Barrows8P718/5:04.41416.24716.61798.69%+93
9Lex Mottbumped up9P918/5:12.01916.57417.19495.81%+92
10Blaine Gouldbumped up10P1018/5:13.17116.65617.18995.52%no licence
B-main
1Lex Mottup to the AP422/6:16.69716.73717.04198.78%–
2Blaine Gouldup to the AP121/6:00.62416.76917.14297.97%–
3Stephen Shuey11P221/6:04.83916.86717.33295.75%no licence
4Ed Fiorebumped up12P921/6:10.44016.90517.47197.85%no licence
5Garrett Miller13P621/6:12.96316.70717.50995.72%+88
6John Eidsmoe14P521/6:14.53216.90417.73992.96%no licence
7Zack Mazurek15P321/6:15.13516.73517.82990.09%+86
8Jacob Heidbreder16P720/6:00.08317.04617.90093.16%no licence
9Joe Zaier Jr17P820/6:05.08616.93818.13793.72%no licence
10Tom Knapperbumped up18P1020/6:05.74517.02118.06694.13%no licence
C-main
1Ed Fioreup to the BP121/6:12.88817.03517.72896.62%–
2Tom Knapperup to the BP521/6:14.57117.19817.69097.83%–
3Kraig Obrien19P420/6:00.37417.34717.89298.14%+82
4Larry Wright IV20P220/6:00.63617.33317.96296.20%+81
5Phil Knoll21P720/6:11.04717.72018.37698.22%no licence
6Trevor Warnerbumped up22P920/6:12.14217.34418.40394.18%no licence
7Bradley Brungardt23P818/6:13.55018.56620.70088.95%no licence
8DJ Shepherd24P317/5:18.579 (DNF)17.77318.65193.79%+77
9Nick Malatobumped up25P1017/6:01.82618.60121.17585.89%+76
10Chad Mishler26P65/1:36.024 (DNF)17.60618.73691.94%+75
D-main
1Trevor Warnerup to the CP117/5:17.84117.86218.66894.58%–
2Nick Malatoup to the CP215/5:17.57719.06820.81990.44%–
3Doug Oakley27P314/5:01.12918.90021.24892.40%no licence
4Sarah Brummel28P414/5:15.33920.36122.40790.42%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Kyle Holmberg no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Three qualifiers, three heat wins, a score of 2 and the pole, and then he went out and won both A-mains as well. There is no cleaner weekend available than the one he just had: nothing but 1s from the first heat to the last main, and a total of 1 that nobody got within a place of. He has no series licence, so the championship table records precisely none of it, which is either a scoring quirk or a small tragedy depending on your mood.

  2. 2nd
    Ryder Himanek 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 6 · Q 3/3/4

    Qualifying was three sensible runs, 3/3/4 for a 6 and the second grid slot. The opening A-main was a straight second behind Holmberg, and the 6 in the other one got dropped, which is the entire point of dropping the worst. 99 points, second on the road, and a championship position built on two starts while the men above him have three.

  3. 3rd
    Geoffrey Ketler no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 12 · Q 7/5/9

    A 7, a 5 and a 9 made a 12 and the fifth seed, and the first A-main went the same modest way with another 7. The second one did not: a run to second put him level with Himanek on a total of 2 and only the tiebreak kept him off the middle step. Not bad at all for a driver who had spent the whole weekend looking like a mid-A runner.

  4. 4th
    Evan Cook 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 4/4/3

    Qualifying was 4/4/3 for a 7 and the third seed, and the mains were a 3 and a 4; you could swap the two sets of numbers around and nobody would notice. Fourth on the road for 97 points, which is his second 97 of the season and puts him on 194 from two starts. Relentlessly, profitably ordinary.

  5. 5th
    Owen Vanderbeek 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 6/6/8

    The sixth seed off a 12 from 6/6/8, and then a genuine step up when it counted: a 4 and a 3 for a total of 3, level with Cook and beaten on the tiebreak. Fifth on the road, 96 points, 195 in the championship from two rounds. Muscatine was a better weekend than the qualifying sheet suggested it would be.

  6. 6th
    Jake Wiggs no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 11 · Q 5/7/6

    Seeded fourth on an 11 from 5/7/6, and then he ran a 5 in both A-mains, which is about as repeatable as this sport allows anyone to be. Sixth overall, two places off his grid slot, and no licence to convert any of it into championship points.

  7. 7th
    Evan Ciresi 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 15 · Q 11/8/7

    An 11 in the first qualifier was the worst of it; an 8 and a 7 followed for a 15 and the last seeded slot. He then did what he keeps doing: a 6 in the first main, an 8 in the second that he could throw away, seventh on the road, 94 points. Three starts, three finishes, no wins, no TQs, and a 20-point championship lead that nobody is going to make a highlight reel out of.

  8. 8th
    Connor Barrows 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 8/12/5

    The third qualifier rescued the seeding sheet, a 5 alongside an 8 for a 13 and the seventh spot, the 12 in between quietly discarded. A 10 in the first A-main was a poor way to start Sunday, and the 7 that followed dropped it. Eighth for 93 points and 188 in the championship.

  9. 9th
    Lex Mott 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P12 · bumped up from the B · qual score 24 · Q 13/13/11

    A third straight weekend without a top-eight seed, and this time he bumped his way into the A-main regardless. Mains of 8 and 10 left him ninth, which is 92 points and comfortably his best haul of the year. Second in the championship on 262 from three starts, still with no seeded start to his name.

  10. 10th
    Blaine Gould no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 12/9/10

    Bumping into the A-main is the hard part; he then ran a 9 and a 9, which at least has the virtue of being entirely predictable. Tenth on the road with no seeded start and no licence, but he was in the main event, which is more than most of the entry list can say.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 13th
    Garrett Miller 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 29 · Q 17/15/14

    Another weekend outside the seeded eight, another lower main, and another 88 points onto the pile. Two starts, 172 in the championship, ninth in the standings, and not one A-main appearance to explain any of it.

  13. 15th
    Zack Mazurek 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 20 · Q 10/10/15

    The one weekend he does not get a seeded start is the one where he ends up fifteenth, and 86 is the smallest of his three scores. He is still dead level with Lex Mott on 262 and placed just behind him in the standings. Three starts, three finishes, and the only round so far where he has not made the A.

  14. 19th
    Kraig Obrien 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 38 · Q 18/20/23

    A quieter weekend than Macomb, P19 on the road and 82 points, but the two-start total of 170 sits tenth in the championship. No seeded start, no A-main, and no need for either just yet.

  15. 20th
    Larry Wright IV 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 36 · Q 16/21/20

    P20 from outside the seeded eight, 81 points, and a second score to put alongside Brookfield's 84. Nothing about it is dramatic, which in a best-of-three championship is not the insult it sounds like.

  16. 24th
    DJ Shepherd 77 pts
    77 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 37 · Q 21/28/16

    P24 again and 77 points again, an exact repeat of his Macomb weekend down to the last point. No seeded start, no A-main, and two identical scores on the board. The man has located his level and parked comfortably on it.

  17. 25th
    Nick Malato 76 ptsbumped up
    76 pts · qualified P26 · bumped up from the D · qual score 52 · Q 26/26/27

    The D-main was where his weekend began, and second place out of it from the second grid slot was the ticket up into the C. Sent to the back of that grid, he took nearly half a second off his best lap of the day for the trouble, 18.601 against the 19.068 he had managed a main earlier, and brought it home ninth. P25 and 76 points is two better than Brookfield, where he ran the D and stayed in it, which counts as progress in the only direction the table measures.

  18. 26th
    Chad Mishler 75 pts
    75 pts · qualified P22 · qual score 44 · Q 23/23/21

    P26 and 75 points, three shy of his Macomb score, from another weekend spent outside the seeded eight. With only three events counting in the end, every one of these still has a job to do.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Three rounds in and Evan Ciresi still leads on 282, still without a win or a TQ, and now with the maximum three starts against his name. Lex Mott and Zack Mazurek are level on 262 behind him, also on three starts, which means the top three have nothing left to gain from simply attending: from here they can only replace their weakest score. Everybody from fourth down is on two events, so Ryder Himanek on 199, Owen Vanderbeek on 195, Evan Cook on 194 and Connor Barrows on 188 all have a free slot to fill and can add a full score rather than a difference. Raw and best-three totals remain identical for every driver in the top ten, because nobody has yet raced a fourth time and nothing has been thrown away. Muscatine's other story is Kyle Holmberg, who swept qualifying for a score of 2, won both A-mains and left with nothing at all on the table, which is the fourth different winner in three rounds if you count the ones the championship refuses to.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Owen Vanderbeek+9629402943
2Evan Ciresi+94372−902824
3Connor Barrows+9327202723
4Lex Mott+9226202623
5Zack Mazurek+8626202623
6Nick Gibson–20002002
7Ryder Himanek+9919901992
8Emerson Sturgeon–19401942

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Owen Vanderbeek — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 25 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Owen Vanderbeek0413/5:19.12223.453 fast · 24.548 avg113/5:10.85023.356 fast · 23.912 avg113/5:08.70223.233 fast · 23.746 avg
2Nick Gibson2113/5:13.80923.409 fast · 24.139 avg313/5:13.46323.343 fast · 24.113 avg313/5:09.55323.165 fast · 23.812 avg
3Connor Esbeck7513/5:22.00823.543 fast · 24.770 avg513/5:22.99924.123 fast · 24.846 avg413/5:12.78823.683 fast · 24.061 avg
4Shane Alberico8613/5:24.58323.764 fast · 24.968 avg413/5:19.92223.743 fast · 24.609 avg613/5:23.67223.463 fast · 24.898 avg
5Emerson Sturgeon91412/5:19.82223.948 fast · 26.652 avg612/5:01.15024.087 fast · 25.096 avg513/5:13.37323.614 fast · 24.106 avg
6Anthony Woodruff14712/5:10.53925.423 fast · 25.878 avg1312/5:27.26525.499 fast · 27.272 avg912/5:06.52524.640 fast · 25.544 avg
7Tanner Dillin14812/5:10.70525.078 fast · 25.892 avg812/5:14.72224.978 fast · 26.227 avg812/5:05.85824.514 fast · 25.488 avg
8Joe Duffy161112/5:12.67524.424 fast · 26.056 avg256/2:31.883 (DNF)24.794 fast · 25.314 avg713/5:29.17424.193 fast · 25.321 avg
9Tyler Marg16912/5:12.09924.597 fast · 26.008 avg912/5:17.85324.678 fast · 26.488 avg1112/5:11.95224.516 fast · 25.996 avg
10Anthony Santi201512/5:20.56925.023 fast · 26.714 avg712/5:10.98225.240 fast · 25.915 avg1512/5:21.43725.429 fast · 26.786 avg
11Beau Jacobsen201312/5:19.57724.790 fast · 26.632 avg1212/5:20.90625.434 fast · 26.742 avg1012/5:08.09224.374 fast · 25.674 avg
12David Miller211811/5:01.60825.715 fast · 27.419 avg1012/5:18.43725.778 fast · 26.536 avg1312/5:16.75525.775 fast · 26.396 avg
13TJ Williams221012/5:12.24224.977 fast · 26.020 avg1411/5:05.29024.478 fast · 27.754 avg1412/5:19.79825.044 fast · 26.650 avg
14Evan Ciresi221212/5:13.99624.542 fast · 26.166 avg247/2:56.055 (DNF)24.347 fast · 25.151 avg1212/5:12.69224.801 fast · 26.058 avg
15Noah Hicklin24313/5:16.25923.528 fast · 24.328 avg238/3:50.026 (DNF)24.384 fast · 28.753 avg269/3:40.843 (DNF)23.681 fast · 24.538 avg
16Connor Barrows251612/5:22.68225.180 fast · 26.890 avg1112/5:19.08925.104 fast · 26.591 avg1911/5:02.13925.074 fast · 27.467 avg
17Ben Ludlum31267/3:23.172 (DNF)25.607 fast · 29.025 avg1611/5:09.97925.365 fast · 28.180 avg1711/5:00.29425.737 fast · 27.299 avg
18Aaron Kuhn321712/5:25.24825.383 fast · 27.104 avg1711/5:10.83125.833 fast · 28.257 avg1811/5:01.75125.420 fast · 27.432 avg
19Charles Kock352111/5:12.46026.836 fast · 28.405 avg263/1:22.940 (DNF)26.390 fast · 27.647 avg1612/5:26.72926.561 fast · 27.227 avg
20Matthew Leibman362411/5:28.04127.604 fast · 29.822 avg1511/5:05.54426.496 fast · 27.777 avg2311/5:12.37926.799 fast · 28.398 avg
21Chris Shepard362011/5:10.39226.956 fast · 28.217 avg1811/5:12.19927.256 fast · 28.382 avg2011/5:02.86626.821 fast · 27.533 avg
22Derek Lewis361911/5:02.49226.343 fast · 27.499 avg1911/5:16.85325.758 fast · 28.805 avg2211/5:09.12525.619 fast · 28.102 avg
23Michael McIntire412311/5:26.93027.556 fast · 29.721 avg2011/5:26.78926.994 fast · 29.708 avg2510/5:03.73727.779 fast · 30.374 avg
24Milo Brown412211/5:18.17426.752 fast · 28.925 avg2210/5:06.92326.757 fast · 30.692 avg2111/5:06.40925.991 fast · 27.855 avg
25Benjamin Cropper432510/5:00.63927.936 fast · 30.064 avg2111/5:32.30127.592 fast · 30.209 avg2411/5:27.25127.375 fast · 29.750 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Nick Gibson1P213/5:02.47223.25023.73798.47%+100
2Emerson Sturgeon2P513/5:11.10123.71224.25797.91%+99
3Owen Vanderbeek3P113/5:05.39123.17524.01096.30%+99
4Shane Alberico4P413/5:17.03123.62824.61295.88%no licence
5Connor Esbeck5P313/5:21.68324.05125.22995.98%+96
6Noah Hicklinbumped up6P913/5:27.21323.64525.45589.02%+95
7Joe Duffy7P813/5:25.04024.05025.02896.13%no licence
8Tanner Dillin8P712/5:07.04725.48725.96798.49%no licence
9Anthony Woodruff9P612/5:22.97525.06427.45092.11%no licence
10Tyler Margbumped up10P1012/5:20.82324.59827.06390.00%+91
B-main
1Noah Hicklinup to the AP715/6:19.72023.74625.34392.78%–
2Tyler Margup to the AP114/6:00.44725.07726.10994.10%–
3Evan Ciresi11P614/6:02.25124.78526.07492.62%+90
4TJ Williams12P514/6:07.21124.66026.49093.44%no licence
5Aaron Kuhnbumped up13P914/6:12.14225.64926.76996.66%no licence
6Charles Kockbumped up14P1014/6:20.57326.33527.27697.42%+87
7Anthony Santi15P214/6:22.27025.45627.85790.07%no licence
8David Miller16P414/6:30.34825.74128.25493.99%no licence
9Connor Barrows17P85/2:20.484 (DNF)25.94728.13994.96%+84
10Beau Jacobsen18P30/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
C-main
1Aaron Kuhnup to the BP214/6:15.95226.37327.36495.12%–
2Charles Kockup to the BP314/6:25.11326.42527.73797.43%–
3Chris Shepard19P513/6:00.66826.89728.15696.05%no licence
4Milo Brown20P813/6:08.88526.52428.59493.77%no licence
5Derek Lewis21P613/6:10.68226.56728.53190.17%no licence
6Matthew Leibman22P413/6:15.43326.43628.80392.86%no licence
7Michael McIntire23P713/6:26.64027.40729.81793.79%no licence
8Benjamin Cropper24P912/6:06.47427.41431.03491.92%no licence
9Ben Ludlum25P19/4:14.018 (DNF)26.49728.95891.62%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Nick Gibson 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 1/3/3

    A heat win to open, then a 3 and a 3 for a score of 4 and the second grid slot, and this time Sunday went his way. Mains of 2 and 1 made a total of 1 and the tiebreak over Emerson Sturgeon, which is exactly the scenario that cost him at Brookfield, flipped the right way round. That is 100 points, one shy of the theoretical maximum, and 200 on the board from just two starts.

  2. 2nd
    Emerson Sturgeon 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 14/6/5

    A 14 in the opening qualifier is the kind of number that ends weekends; a 6 and a 5 turned it into an 11 and the fifth seed. He then won the first A-main outright and backed it up with a 3, tying Gibson on a total of 1 and losing it by the width of a single main. 99 points and 194 in the championship from two rounds, three places better than the grid slot his qualifying earned him.

  3. 3rd
    Owen Vanderbeek 99 pts TQ
    99 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 4/1/1 · TQ

    Two heat wins and a 4 made a score of 2 and the TQ, and that single bonus point is doing enormous work: third on the road pays 98, the TQ makes it 99, and he ends the day level on points with the man who beat him. Mains of 3 and 2 were solid rather than devastating. He leaves Omaha leading the championship on 294 from three starts.

  4. 4th
    Shane Alberico no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 6/4/6

    Qualifying was 6/4/6 for a 10 and the fourth seed, and the mains came back a 6 and a 4, the same numbers rearranged all weekend long. Fourth on the road, precisely where he gridded, with a total of 4 that tied Connor Esbeck and went his way on the tiebreak. No licence, so the reward is the result itself.

  5. 5th
    Connor Esbeck 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 9 · Q 5/5/4

    Seeded third on a 9 from 5/5/4, and the A-mains handed back a 4 and a 5 for a total of 4, level with Alberico and beaten on the tiebreak. Fifth for 96 points, comfortably his best weekend of the season after the 89 he took out of Brookfield.

  6. 6th
    Noah Hicklin 95 ptsbumped up
    95 pts · qualified P15 · bumped up from the B · qual score 26 · Q 3/23/26

    No top-eight seed this time, so he bumped in, and then ran a 5 and a 6 among drivers who had all earned their grid slots properly. Sixth on the road for 95 points and 192 in the championship from two starts. Beating three seeded runners from a bumped-up grid slot is a decent way to spend a Sunday.

  7. 7th
    Joe Duffy no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 18 · Q 11/25/7

    An 11, a 25 and a 7 is a genuinely strange set of qualifiers, and the best-two rule filed it as an 18 and the last seeded slot. A 10 in the first A-main was dropped in favour of a 7 in the second, which was enough to take seventh from Tanner Dillin on the tiebreak. From the back of the grid to the middle of the order, and no licence to bank it with.

  8. 8th
    Tanner Dillin no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 16 · Q 8/8/8

    Three qualifiers, three eighth places, a score of 16 and the seventh seed. The mains then produced a 7 and an 8, because of course they did. Eighth overall on a tiebreak, and the most metronomic set of numbers anybody put on the sheet this weekend.

  9. 9th
    Anthony Woodruff no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 16 · Q 7/13/9

    Same qualifying score as Dillin at 16, but assembled the hard way out of a 7, a 13 and a 9, and it was still good for the sixth seed. The mains went 8 and then 10, three places worse than the grid slot he started from, and there is no licence to soften that.

  10. 10th
    Tyler Marg 91 ptsbumped up
    91 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 9/9/11

    Bumping into the A-main and then running two 9s is not a highlight reel, but tenth in this main is worth 91 points, six more than he took from Brookfield. No seeded start, no fuss, and a second score on the board for the season.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Evan Ciresi 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 24 · Q 12/24/12

    First man out of the A-main, and for the championship leader that is expensive in a way the results sheet hides. P11 pays 90 points, his worst score of the year, so his best-three total does not move at all and stays exactly where it was on 282. He has now raced four events for 372 raw points, 90 of which do nothing whatsoever, and Owen Vanderbeek has gone past him on 294 from three. Four starts, four finishes, no wins, no TQs, and no lead.

  13. 14th
    Charles Kock 87 ptsbumped up
    87 pts · qualified P19 · bumped up from the C · qual score 37 · Q 21/26/16

    Nineteenth in qualifying meant the C-main, where third on the grid became second at the flag and a promotion into the B. He then did the same job from the very back of the B grid, 14 laps at 97.42% consistency, a figure nobody else in that race beat and almost exactly the 97.43% he had posted in the C. P14 is worth 87 points, a full 17 better than the 70 he banked at Brookfield, and this time he raced his way up a main to get it.

  14. 17th
    Connor Barrows 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 27 · Q 16/11/19

    Another weekend outside the seeded eight, and this one cost him: P17 on the road and 84 points, the smallest of his three scores by nine. It still lifts him to 272 and third in the championship, because a best-of-three total has no opinion about how the points arrive. Three starts, three finishes, and 22 off the lead.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

Owen Vanderbeek takes the championship lead on 294 from three starts, built out of a 99, a 96 and another 99, the last of those bought with a TQ bonus that turned third on the road into second-place money. Evan Ciresi is second on 282 and this is where the format finally bites: he has four starts and 372 raw points, so 90 of them have been discarded, and his P11 in Omaha genuinely moved him backwards in the standings while adding to his raw total. That gap between 372 and 282 is the difference between the man who has raced everything and the man who has raced enough; Vanderbeek, Connor Barrows on 272, Mott and Mazurek on 262 are all still on three and can add a fresh score in the finale, while Ciresi can only add whatever a fifth event beats 92 by. Nick Gibson on 200 and Ryder Himanek on 199 have raced twice apiece and have an entire empty slot to fill, which makes them the most dangerous numbers on the sheet even from sixth and seventh. One round of the five remains, and the leader's advantage over third is 22 points.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Owen Vanderbeek+9929402943
2Evan Ciresi+90372−902824
3Connor Barrows+8427202723
4Lex Mott–26202623
5Zack Mazurek–26202623
6Nick Gibson+10020002002
7Ryder Himanek–19901992
8Emerson Sturgeon+9919401942

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

17.5 Expert 2wd Buggy

42 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Aaron Mitchell29229200032nd999499–·
2Brady Carrico288379−910042nd98999191·
3Talon Henley282372−900046th93909495·
4Benjamin Decker280363−830043rd87959883·
5Maccoy Martin28028000033rd–989785·
6Luke Pravechek27927900033rd97–8498·
7Andrew Thomas26626600037th94–8290·
8Owen Vanderbeek26426400035th–937596·
9Evan Tapp247247000310th917977–·
10Evan Ciresi243305−6200414th62877086·
11Connor Barrows241241000313th–887677·
12Tucker Mitchel228228000316th618285–·
13Nolan Hunt225225000317th688473–·
14Zack Mazurek225225000321st807768–·
15Jordan Vandenplas214214000327th747169–·
16Daniel Chavez19819801121st–97101*–·
17Domnic Paccione19719701121st101*–96–·
18Dustin Fox19719701121st96101*––·
19Jeff Statkiewicz18918900025th–9693–·
20Daigan Bledsoe18418400029th–9292–·
21Kadin Meeks18218200022nd83––99·
22Evan Cook177177000212th–8988–·
23Alex Sturgeon17517500027th81––94·
24Schuyler Mandella17317300029th92–81–·
25Keaton Grant17117100028th78––93·
26Ryder Himanek171171000215th–8586–·
27Gavin Moeller16916900026th95–74–·
28Connor Esbeck16416400029th72––92·
29Larry Wright IV163163000217th84–79–·
30Brody Thompson160160000221st–8080–·
31Daniel Bender160160000219th––7882·
32Luke Siela154154000218th–8371–·
33Tyler Davis150150000223rd–7872–·
34TJ Williams146146000213th58––88·
35Dawson Camacho140140000228th–7367–·
36Tyler Marg139139000222nd60––79·
37Chris Garay134134000228th73–61–·
38Mike Champ134134000232nd6569––·
39Ben Ellis130130000232nd6961––·
40Kyle Kosek130130000235th66–64–·
41DJ Shepherd118118000241st–6058–·
42Joseph Finn118118000239th–6256–·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Domnic Paccione — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 50 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Domnic Paccione0120/5:00.36614.498 fast · 15.018 avg320/5:01.79114.614 fast · 15.090 avg121/5:14.46414.677 fast · 14.974 avg
2Aaron Mitchell2320/5:01.40114.598 fast · 15.070 avg121/5:14.82714.706 fast · 14.992 avg520/5:05.80914.671 fast · 15.290 avg
3Dustin Fox6520/5:06.86914.449 fast · 15.343 avg2319/5:02.26714.394 fast · 15.909 avg320/5:02.36814.556 fast · 15.118 avg
4Brady Carrico61720/5:15.13815.078 fast · 15.757 avg420/5:04.98514.699 fast · 15.249 avg420/5:02.67814.609 fast · 15.134 avg
5Gavin Moeller11720/5:09.63615.140 fast · 15.482 avg620/5:07.31214.986 fast · 15.366 avg1820/5:11.76715.112 fast · 15.588 avg
6Schuyler Mandella12820/5:10.27415.228 fast · 15.514 avg2119/5:01.06315.116 fast · 15.845 avg620/5:05.84115.030 fast · 15.292 avg
7Luke Pravechek14920/5:10.92215.089 fast · 15.546 avg720/5:07.68514.974 fast · 15.384 avg1220/5:08.98114.927 fast · 15.449 avg
8Evan Tapp161620/5:13.87215.286 fast · 15.694 avg1120/5:12.34115.086 fast · 15.617 avg720/5:06.10115.056 fast · 15.305 avg
9Tallen Deede17520/0.000 (DNS)820/5:10.60615.210 fast · 15.530 avg1120/5:06.99714.919 fast · 15.350 avg
10Andrew Thomas171320/5:13.19214.975 fast · 15.660 avg1020/5:12.00715.244 fast · 15.600 avg920/5:06.70214.985 fast · 15.335 avg
11Talon Henley18420/5:04.50314.640 fast · 15.225 avg2219/5:01.79914.759 fast · 15.884 avg1620/5:10.26614.637 fast · 15.513 avg
12Craig Schlegel18620/5:09.41414.986 fast · 15.471 avg522/30.774 (DNF)15.324 fast · 15.387 avg1420/5:09.95614.930 fast · 15.498 avg
13Tyler Aubart211420/5:13.58915.042 fast · 15.679 avg920/5:11.41114.895 fast · 15.571 avg2220/5:15.01514.869 fast · 15.751 avg
14Colton Kruse211020/5:12.74315.094 fast · 15.637 avg1320/5:14.22314.996 fast · 15.711 avg1720/5:10.51714.806 fast · 15.526 avg
15Kadin Meeks231520/5:13.78315.064 fast · 15.689 avg2019/5:00.95015.081 fast · 15.839 avg1020/5:06.75114.990 fast · 15.338 avg
16Rich Peters231820/5:15.43815.541 fast · 15.772 avg1220/5:13.73615.369 fast · 15.687 avg1320/5:09.53215.134 fast · 15.477 avg
17Larry Wright IV244019/5:16.95514.960 fast · 16.682 avg520/5:05.87815.011 fast · 15.294 avg2120/5:14.65015.042 fast · 15.733 avg
18Alex Sturgeon251220/5:13.14215.254 fast · 15.657 avg1820/5:15.82115.336 fast · 15.791 avg1520/5:09.96115.195 fast · 15.498 avg
19Benjamin Decker311919/5:00.14715.093 fast · 15.797 avg1420/5:14.32514.924 fast · 15.716 avg2419/5:00.21314.990 fast · 15.801 avg
20Matt McDonough331120/5:13.02515.288 fast · 15.651 avg2419/5:03.07715.259 fast · 15.951 avg2619/5:00.66815.216 fast · 15.825 avg
21Zack Mazurek332019/5:01.15115.431 fast · 15.850 avg1520/5:14.76715.361 fast · 15.738 avg3219/5:04.72015.209 fast · 16.038 avg
22Chris Rothwell342319/5:03.16215.439 fast · 15.956 avg1720/5:15.40015.357 fast · 15.770 avg1920/5:14.55715.356 fast · 15.728 avg
23Josh Melia392219/5:02.81515.576 fast · 15.938 avg1919/5:00.59515.526 fast · 15.821 avg3519/5:08.97915.375 fast · 16.262 avg
24Brody Treharne422819/5:09.00115.225 fast · 16.263 avg1620/5:14.89915.318 fast · 15.745 avg3119/5:04.66215.159 fast · 16.035 avg
25Chris Garay432519/5:06.13715.673 fast · 16.112 avg2719/5:03.98315.526 fast · 15.999 avg2020/5:14.60915.216 fast · 15.730 avg
26Nolan Hunt462119/5:01.61715.397 fast · 15.875 avg4219/5:15.47215.529 fast · 16.604 avg2719/5:02.19015.160 fast · 15.905 avg
27Kyle Kocourek474118/4:37.891 (DNF)14.932 fast · 15.438 avg5110/2:56.685 (DNF)15.116 fast · 17.669 avg820/5:06.69515.031 fast · 15.335 avg
28Keaton Grant472619/5:06.96215.284 fast · 16.156 avg4318/5:03.63215.253 fast · 16.868 avg2320/5:15.35115.290 fast · 15.768 avg
29Adrian Stillwell502719/5:07.31715.631 fast · 16.175 avg3919/5:14.04015.197 fast · 16.528 avg2519/5:00.49815.325 fast · 15.816 avg
30Connor Esbeck523219/5:10.82315.177 fast · 16.359 avg2519/5:03.18415.231 fast · 15.957 avg2919/5:03.16315.206 fast · 15.956 avg
31Jordan Vandenplas552919/5:09.13215.423 fast · 16.270 avg3419/5:10.49115.700 fast · 16.342 avg2819/5:02.45215.348 fast · 15.919 avg
32Aven Dortch572419/5:05.82315.711 fast · 16.096 avg3519/5:11.40815.611 fast · 16.390 avg3819/5:10.50315.570 fast · 16.342 avg
33Michael Meister613019/5:09.68215.588 fast · 16.299 avg3819/5:13.68415.765 fast · 16.510 avg3319/5:05.26315.712 fast · 16.066 avg
34Jun Villaruz623619/5:15.09315.564 fast · 16.584 avg2819/5:05.57015.563 fast · 16.083 avg4718/5:03.66515.388 fast · 16.870 avg
35Michael Labar623419/5:13.02015.658 fast · 16.475 avg3019/5:07.14215.701 fast · 16.165 avg3419/5:06.41615.534 fast · 16.127 avg
36Ben Ellis623319/5:11.18715.908 fast · 16.378 avg3119/5:08.78715.603 fast · 16.252 avg3619/5:09.19015.754 fast · 16.273 avg
37Evan Ciresi653819/5:15.32115.724 fast · 16.596 avg2919/5:06.29715.529 fast · 16.121 avg4019/5:12.00815.521 fast · 16.421 avg
38Kyle Kosek663119/5:10.67215.753 fast · 16.351 avg3719/5:12.92815.773 fast · 16.470 avg4119/5:12.22515.977 fast · 16.433 avg
39Tyler Marg673719/5:15.20615.912 fast · 16.590 avg3219/5:09.99915.820 fast · 16.316 avg3919/5:11.57715.227 fast · 16.399 avg
40Brayden Hauch684318/5:00.39815.421 fast · 16.689 avg4019/5:14.84315.192 fast · 17.491 avg3019/5:03.22015.407 fast · 15.959 avg
41Mike Champ693519/5:13.05215.681 fast · 16.476 avg3619/5:12.79115.515 fast · 16.463 avg3719/5:10.43315.655 fast · 16.339 avg
42Tucker Mitchel704618/5:05.74215.611 fast · 16.986 avg2619/5:03.93115.463 fast · 15.996 avg4618/5:00.32015.354 fast · 16.684 avg
43TJ Williams784718/5:12.06415.986 fast · 17.337 avg3319/5:10.41415.448 fast · 16.338 avg4818/5:05.59115.662 fast · 16.977 avg
44Reed Stout793919/5:15.74216.139 fast · 16.618 avg4418/5:03.83016.025 fast · 16.879 avg4219/5:13.63615.635 fast · 16.507 avg
45Gene Labar864518/5:03.87216.128 fast · 16.882 avg4618/5:05.45915.698 fast · 16.970 avg4319/5:15.11715.972 fast · 16.585 avg
46Garrett Londre874418/5:02.30215.960 fast · 16.795 avg4518/5:04.25715.639 fast · 16.903 avg5018/5:14.47815.884 fast · 17.471 avg
47Lawson Drinkwater904218/5:00.26516.055 fast · 16.681 avg5017/5:07.81315.842 fast · 18.107 avg5118/5:14.67515.662 fast · 17.482 avg
48Jeff Piske904918/5:15.17316.151 fast · 17.510 avg4718/5:05.93315.735 fast · 16.996 avg4519/5:18.59115.777 fast · 16.768 avg
49Matthew Erdman944818/5:12.10816.008 fast · 17.339 avg4818/5:06.73816.237 fast · 17.041 avg4918/5:13.17316.405 fast · 17.399 avg
50Michael Mazur985116/5:12.66217.090 fast · 19.541 avg4917/5:00.33016.784 fast · 17.666 avg5216/5:00.46016.682 fast · 18.779 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Domnic Paccione1P120/5:00.67014.75914.98399.24%+101
2Aaron Mitchell2P220/5:00.52314.59914.96698.54%+99
3Brady Carrico3P420/5:06.41314.68415.20297.03%+98
4Luke Pravechek4P720/5:07.49314.91915.18398.82%+97
5Dustin Fox5P320/5:09.01914.55615.31294.34%+96
6Gavin Moeller6P520/5:10.40914.85115.37295.90%+95
7Andrew Thomasbumped up7P1020/5:12.31315.08015.40398.39%+94
8Talon Henleybumped up8P919/5:03.56514.90815.74594.60%+93
9Schuyler Mandella9P620/5:14.61314.58015.54194.50%+92
10Evan Tapp10P819/5:04.40415.30915.77597.16%+91
B-main
1Talon Henleyup to the AP320/5:10.35114.89215.38397.40%–
2Andrew Thomasup to the AP220/5:13.81714.98115.57795.39%–
3Rich Peters11P820/5:15.22615.24215.56798.00%no licence
4Tallen Deede12P119/5:01.31415.10615.82593.15%no licence
5Craig Schlegel13P419/5:01.60414.87115.73492.06%no licence
6Benjamin Deckerbumped up14P1019/5:02.34214.75315.67694.70%+87
7Tyler Aubart15P519/5:06.88014.69615.99991.30%no licence
8Colton Kruse16P619/5:07.18314.92016.00491.20%no licence
9Larry Wright IVbumped up17P919/5:13.25914.98716.30788.88%+84
10Kadin Meeks18P718/5:04.08015.08116.75481.45%+83
C-main
1Larry Wright IVup to the BP120/5:10.83515.02815.48798.41%–
2Benjamin Deckerup to the BP320/5:14.92214.98415.62994.67%–
3Matt McDonough19P419/5:00.50115.38215.67698.66%no licence
4Alex Sturgeon20P219/5:01.22815.10215.77497.07%+81
5Zack Mazurek21P519/5:04.65715.23115.88793.83%+80
6Kyle Kocourekbumped up22P919/5:11.13215.04116.11091.02%no licence
7Keaton Grantbumped up23P1019/5:13.83614.93116.28789.34%+78
8Chris Rothwell24P618/5:03.77715.18316.74684.38%no licence
9Brody Treharne25P818/5:10.09415.23116.98187.24%no licence
10Josh Melia26P716/4:34.744 (DNF)15.59316.95190.62%no licence
D-main
1Kyle Kocourekup to the CP319/5:00.45815.13015.65195.20%–
2Keaton Grantup to the CP419/5:07.62914.97916.03790.57%–
3Jordan Vandenplas27P719/5:10.75415.64416.16495.51%+74
4Chris Garay28P119/5:13.14215.42316.46192.76%+73
5Connor Esbeck29P619/5:15.77415.31516.16892.63%+72
6Aven Dortch30P818/5:00.40315.59216.49493.63%no licence
7Michael Meisterbumped up31P918/5:01.01415.52116.49793.69%no licence
8Ben Ellisbumped up32P1018/5:05.32915.51716.53892.53%+69
9Nolan Hunt33P218/5:09.23615.43217.00187.74%+68
10Adrian Stillwell34P518/5:14.07615.57017.00187.67%no licence
E-main
1Michael Meisterup to the DP119/5:05.31715.73716.01198.79%–
2Ben Ellisup to the DP419/5:08.54615.84216.11398.74%–
3Kyle Kosek35P619/5:13.12015.87016.29197.86%+66
4Mike Champbumped up36P1019/5:14.81915.59016.30797.82%+65
5Michael Labar37P319/5:15.93115.73616.53793.98%no licence
6Brayden Hauch38P819/5:17.24215.34116.50292.29%no licence
7Evan Ciresi39P519/5:20.49415.71216.73989.33%+62
8Tucker Mitchelbumped up40P918/5:00.05615.64816.43693.65%+61
9Tyler Marg41P718/5:01.10315.47216.51194.63%+60
10Jun Villaruz42P217/5:02.68415.68917.81485.16%no licence
F-main
1Tucker Mitchelup to the EP219/5:10.73015.78416.24398.45%–
2Mike Champup to the EP119/5:13.69315.74516.42496.86%–
3TJ Williams43P318/5:00.81415.68316.57993.41%+58
4Lawson Drinkwater44P718/5:02.94015.70216.45194.75%no licence
5Reed Stout45P418/5:06.71915.85716.89693.65%no licence
6Garrett Londre46P618/5:08.79115.61316.98191.33%no licence
7Jeff Piske47P818/5:11.00215.74817.03091.39%no licence
8Matthew Erdman48P917/5:06.32616.48017.66392.05%no licence
9Gene Labar49P514/4:10.641 (DNF)16.18917.75790.34%no licence
10Michael Mazur50P100/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Domnic Paccione 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/3/1 · TQ

    TQ and the win, 101 points, the largest number this scoring system is capable of producing. He qualified on a 2 from heats of 1/3/1 — won two of the three outright, and the 3 in the middle was the worst thing that happened to him all weekend. The A-mains came back 1/2/1 for a total of 2, so the only leg he lost was the one that got dropped anyway. The reigning ROAR Dirt Nationals 17.5 2WD champion arriving and looking exactly like the reigning ROAR Dirt Nationals 17.5 2WD champion.

  2. 2nd
    Aaron Mitchell 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/1/5

    A heat win in Q2 and a 3 in Q1 gave him a qualifying score of 4 and the outside front row, and he spent the mains being the only man in the building who could take a leg off Paccione. Legs of 2/1/2 for a total of 3 is about as close as anyone got. Ninety-nine points, second overall, and a weekend where converting the grid slot exactly was worth more than any heroics would have been.

  3. 3rd
    Brady Carrico 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 8 · Q 17/4/4

    Opening qualifier: 17th. Everything after that: two 4s, a qualifying score of 8, and a front-two-rows start, because best-two-of-three is the most forgiving rule in racing. The mains told a similar story — 3/8/3 for a total of 6, the 8 politely deleted — and he converted a P4 grid into a podium. Ninety-eight points for a driver whose day began in the ditch.

  4. 4th
    Luke Pravechek 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 16 · Q 9/7/12

    Seeded seventh off a 16 (9 and 7 counting, the 12 binned) and then went to work in the mains: 5/3/6 for a total of 8, three grid spots gained, fourth overall. He and Fox ended up on identical totals and the tiebreak went his way, which is the sort of luck you earn by putting a 3 on the board when it counts. Ninety-seven points from the fourth row is a good afternoon's work.

  5. 5th
    Dustin Fox 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 5/23/3

    Qualifying was a mood swing in car form — a 5, then a 23, then a 3 — but best-two-of-three turned that into an 8 and the inside of row two. The mains were the exact opposite: 4, 4 and 4, three identical legs, a metronome with a body clip. It netted a total of 8, level with Pravechek, and the tiebreak sent him to fifth. Ninety-six points and the strange distinction of finishing in exactly the same place three times and still going backwards from his grid slot.

  6. 6th
    Gavin Moeller 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 13 · Q 7/6/18

    The first A-main went badly enough — tenth — that the other two had to carry the whole weekend, and they did: back-to-back 5s for a total of 10 and sixth overall. He qualified on a 13 from 7/6/18, so the pattern of one wobble plus two tidy runs held all day. Ninety-five points, and no evidence anywhere that the tenth was representative.

  7. 7th
    Andrew Thomas 94 ptsbumped up
    94 pts · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 13/10/9

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeded into it, which usually means a long afternoon of being lapped by people with better grid slots. Instead he ran 6/6/7 — the tightest spread of anybody outside the top five — for a total of 12 and seventh overall. Beating three drivers who qualified inside the seeded eight while starting from behind all of them is the most quietly impressive line on the sheet. Ninety-four points earned the hard way.

  8. 8th
    Talon Henley 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 4/22/16

    Another bump-in, another driver who declined to be a rolling chicane: legs of 7/10/8 for a total of 15 and eighth. The 10 was the throwaway, so his real weekend was a 7 and an 8 from a grid slot he had to fight for on Sunday morning. The JConcepts man opens his season with 93 points and a top eight he was not seeded into.

  9. 9th
    Schuyler Mandella 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 14 · Q 8/21/6

    Qualified sixth on a 14 built from an 8 and a 6, with a 21 in the middle that the format kindly ignored. The mains never quite came to him — 9/7/10, total 16 — and he gave up three places from where he gridded. Ninety-two points is still a solid opening deposit in a five-round series.

  10. 10th
    Evan Tapp 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 18 · Q 16/11/7

    Steadily improving qualifying — 16, then 11, then a 7 — got him the last seeded slot on an 18, and he held station from there. Legs of 8/9/9 for a total of 17 rounded out the A-main. Ninety-one points, tenth, and the satisfaction of being the man who made the seeded eight by the skin of one good heat.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 14th
    Benjamin Decker 87 ptsbumped up
    87 pts · qualified P19 · bumped up from the C · qual score 33 · Q 19/14/24

    Nineteenth in qualifying put him in the C-main, and he made second place out of it from third on the grid — twenty laps in 5:14.922 — which earned him a seat in the B. Gridded last of ten in there he picked off four cars for sixth and set his quickest lap of either main doing it, a 14.753. P14 overall and 87 points, four adrift of the last man in the A-main, is a long way from being a passenger.

  13. 17th
    Larry Wright IV 84 ptsbumped up
    84 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 26 · Q 40/5/21

    Top qualifier of the C-main field, and he made it count: twenty laps in 5:10.835, the win, and a promotion into the B. That was a harsher room — ninth of ten on the grid, ninth at the flag — though he did trim his fast lap to 14.987 in it. P17 overall for 84 points, and a weekend where he won a race and still went home in the midfield.

  14. 18th
    Kadin Meeks 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 25 · Q 15/20/10

    One spot behind Wright and one point behind him too, P18 and 83 points, in a class where the difference between a good day and an anonymous one is measured in single positions. The seeded eight stayed out of reach, but he banked something for the table.

  15. 20th
    Alex Sturgeon 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 27 · Q 12/18/15

    Outside the seeded eight and out of the A-main, he banked 81 points from P20. Ten points separate him from the last man in the big race, which sounds like a gulf until you remember the scoring only ever hands out one point per position.

  16. 21st
    Zack Mazurek 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 35 · Q 20/15/32

    Qualified outside the top-eight seeds and finished P21 for 80 points. A round where everything happens in the lower mains is not a wasted round; it's a floor to build on.

  17. 23rd
    Keaton Grant 78 ptsbumped up
    78 pts · qualified P28 · bumped up from the D · qual score 49 · Q 26/43/23

    A D-main start is what a P28 qualifying score buys you in a fifty-car entry, and he made short work of it — second from fourth on the grid, nineteen laps in 5:07.629, and a transfer into the C. Dropped to the back of the ten-car C grid he still climbed to seventh, knocking his fast lap down to 14.931 along the way. P23 and 78 points, which is two races' worth of work for a number that reads like an ordinary midfield afternoon.

  18. 27th
    Jordan Vandenplas 74 pts
    74 pts · qualified P31 · qual score 57 · Q 29/34/28

    Missing the seeded eight left him down in P27 for 74 points, and the honest read is that Brookfield was not his weekend. There are four more rounds and only the best three count, which is the friendliest sentence in this entire rulebook.

  19. 28th
    Chris Garay 73 pts
    73 pts · qualified P25 · qual score 45 · Q 25/27/20

    Rounding out the scoring drivers we have data on at P28 and 73 points, 28 behind the maximum. It is a first round in a long series and the only genuinely bad result is the one you don't turn up for.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

One round in, the championship table is simply the Round 1 A-main with the paint still wet — Paccione 101, Mitchell 99, Carrico 98, and so on down to Tapp on 91. Every driver in the top ten has exactly one start, so best-three and raw totals are identical and nobody is carrying a discard yet; that arithmetic only gets interesting once somebody starts a fourth event. Paccione's 101 is the maximum the system can produce, TQ included, and it is the only score of the weekend that cannot be beaten, only matched. The whole top ten is covered by ten points, which sounds close and is: one bad main at the next event reorders the lot.Below the A-main, Decker's 87 and the rest of the lower-main scorers sit outside the top ten for now, but four rounds and a best-three count is a lot of runway.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Aaron Mitchell+9929202923
2Brady Carrico+98379−912884
3Talon Henley+93372−902824
4Benjamin Decker+87363−832804
5Luke Pravechek+9727902793
6Andrew Thomas+9426602663
7Evan Tapp+9124702473
8Evan Ciresi+62305−622434

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Dustin Fox — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 43 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Dustin Fox0121/5:14.66914.728 fast · 14.984 avg620/5:04.83714.508 fast · 15.242 avg121/5:13.02414.695 fast · 14.906 avg
2Brady Carrico21020/5:12.88214.675 fast · 15.644 avg120/5:00.35614.798 fast · 15.018 avg321/5:14.35114.725 fast · 14.969 avg
3Daniel Chavez4320/5:03.81414.725 fast · 15.191 avg320/5:01.88414.735 fast · 15.094 avg420/5:01.20214.686 fast · 15.060 avg
4Aaron Mitchell7420/5:06.13014.790 fast · 15.307 avg520/5:04.46314.746 fast · 15.223 avg720/5:03.26414.786 fast · 15.163 avg
5Maccoy Martin8920/5:12.50514.759 fast · 15.625 avg420/5:03.13414.930 fast · 15.157 avg620/5:02.84614.843 fast · 15.142 avg
6Collin Miles11620/5:10.39915.038 fast · 15.520 avg720/5:06.08514.980 fast · 15.304 avg2819/5:09.38614.902 fast · 16.283 avg
7Jeff Statkiewicz14820/5:11.78215.117 fast · 15.589 avg820/5:08.33215.065 fast · 15.417 avg3218/4:39.695 (DNF)14.913 fast · 15.539 avg
8Benjamin Decker151220/5:14.72614.859 fast · 15.736 avg1220/5:11.92614.908 fast · 15.596 avg520/5:02.74414.818 fast · 15.137 avg
9Evan Cook15720/5:11.52215.233 fast · 15.576 avg1020/5:11.16415.083 fast · 15.558 avg1819/5:00.56015.083 fast · 15.819 avg
10Owen Vanderbeek16520/5:06.18914.887 fast · 15.309 avg1620/5:13.34115.074 fast · 15.667 avg1320/5:11.44814.932 fast · 15.572 avg
11Nolan Hunt171120/5:14.54015.346 fast · 15.727 avg1320/5:12.09915.145 fast · 15.605 avg820/5:08.14115.038 fast · 15.407 avg
12Ryder Himanek192619/5:12.51515.093 fast · 16.448 avg1120/5:11.42815.028 fast · 15.571 avg1020/5:10.25014.882 fast · 15.513 avg
13Evan Ciresi211419/5:00.20715.045 fast · 15.800 avg920/5:11.00515.211 fast · 15.550 avg1520/5:15.06515.308 fast · 15.753 avg
14Daigan Bledsoe241519/5:01.14214.990 fast · 15.850 avg1720/5:16.14014.898 fast · 15.807 avg1120/5:10.62614.870 fast · 15.531 avg
15Connor Barrows282119/5:06.77915.382 fast · 16.146 avg2219/5:04.73615.555 fast · 16.039 avg920/5:10.03215.082 fast · 15.502 avg
16Talon Henley291619/5:01.25714.830 fast · 15.856 avg1520/5:13.17814.961 fast · 15.659 avg2419/5:05.36114.845 fast · 16.072 avg
17Caleb Kuretich311320/5:14.83214.885 fast · 15.742 avg2019/5:03.27414.775 fast · 15.962 avg2719/5:08.64814.941 fast · 16.245 avg
18Ilan Sanderson311919/5:03.08315.064 fast · 15.952 avg2719/5:09.86315.288 fast · 16.309 avg1420/5:12.44815.278 fast · 15.622 avg
19Evan Tapp332319/5:07.53715.186 fast · 16.186 avg2819/5:11.04815.179 fast · 16.371 avg1220/5:10.74215.112 fast · 15.537 avg
20Tucker Mitchel333618/5:08.26215.290 fast · 18.133 avg1919/5:03.21115.387 fast · 15.958 avg1620/5:15.19615.333 fast · 15.760 avg
21Brody Thompson341819/5:02.90715.301 fast · 15.942 avg1819/5:01.47215.435 fast · 15.867 avg2919/5:10.28215.173 fast · 16.331 avg
22Nathanial Betley351719/5:02.13715.554 fast · 15.902 avg3019/5:12.82415.290 fast · 16.464 avg2019/5:03.41115.115 fast · 15.969 avg
23Carter Irish362419/5:09.31015.058 fast · 16.279 avg1420/5:12.53615.161 fast · 15.627 avg2619/5:08.29815.014 fast · 16.226 avg
24Zack Mazurek383318/5:04.03315.360 fast · 16.891 avg2319/5:06.95215.356 fast · 16.155 avg1719/5:00.33115.305 fast · 15.807 avg
25Luke Siela432919/5:13.62415.298 fast · 16.507 avg2619/5:09.7611919/5:00.76915.377 fast · 15.830 avg
26Daniel Marino432019/5:05.57215.442 fast · 16.083 avg2519/5:09.65715.582 fast · 16.298 avg4116/4:31.110 (DNF)15.386 fast · 16.944 avg
27Tyler Davis432819/5:13.31815.567 fast · 16.490 avg2419/5:07.61015.661 fast · 16.190 avg2119/5:03.42615.460 fast · 15.970 avg
28Dawson Camacho452519/5:10.82915.578 fast · 16.359 avg2919/5:12.07715.422 fast · 16.425 avg2219/5:03.76715.619 fast · 15.988 avg
29Jason Engel462719/5:12.95815.264 fast · 16.471 avg2119/5:03.77915.442 fast · 15.988 avg3019/5:13.75415.468 fast · 16.513 avg
30Jordan Vandenplas513019/5:19.66415.441 fast · 16.824 avg3418/5:02.25415.791 fast · 16.792 avg2319/5:04.73115.558 fast · 16.038 avg
31Ryan Hovis522219/5:07.24915.211 fast · 16.171 avg3219/5:15.20614.946 fast · 16.590 avg3717/5:07.43315.157 fast · 18.084 avg
32Blake Salmon553218/5:01.22516.165 fast · 16.735 avg3718/5:09.11715.678 fast · 17.173 avg2519/5:06.45015.779 fast · 16.129 avg
33Wyatt Gaskins623518/5:06.07116.017 fast · 17.004 avg3119/5:13.63716.013 fast · 16.507 avg3318/5:00.33815.692 fast · 16.685 avg
34Ben Ellis623118/5:00.51015.652 fast · 16.695 avg3319/5:15.22515.827 fast · 16.591 avg4216/4:38.764 (DNF)15.734 fast · 17.423 avg
35Mike Champ633418/5:04.05315.892 fast · 16.892 avg3518/5:04.24515.869 fast · 16.903 avg3119/5:15.87815.929 fast · 16.625 avg
36Connor Glover713718/5:10.37116.172 fast · 17.243 avg3618/5:08.08915.903 fast · 17.116 avg4316/5:02.55316.115 fast · 18.910 avg
37Alex Via723818/5:11.83915.686 fast · 17.324 avg3918/5:10.89515.852 fast · 17.272 avg3617/5:03.23115.520 fast · 18.952 avg
38Michael Thornton734416/5:16.21416.205 fast · 19.763 avg4117/5:02.63315.942 fast · 17.802 avg3418/5:03.97616.109 fast · 16.888 avg
39Dalton Campbell744116/5:03.25116.054 fast · 18.953 avg4217/5:08.24616.356 fast · 18.132 avg3517/5:01.64716.131 fast · 17.744 avg
40Dylan Hall764016/5:03.12616.097 fast · 18.945 avg3818/5:09.85616.047 fast · 18.227 avg4415/4:37.527 (DNF)15.889 fast · 18.502 avg
41Joseph Finn773917/5:06.43216.238 fast · 18.025 avg4017/5:01.42516.086 fast · 17.731 avg4017/5:14.29715.930 fast · 18.488 avg
42DJ Shepherd794316/5:08.57616.605 fast · 19.286 avg4416/5:06.53616.260 fast · 19.159 avg3817/5:08.85316.378 fast · 18.168 avg
43Wesley Brattin794216/5:06.35117.224 fast · 19.147 avg4316/5:02.48516.707 fast · 18.905 avg3917/5:12.69216.858 fast · 18.394 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Dustin Fox1P121/5:10.13414.59614.85898.46%+101
2Brady Carrico2P221/5:13.80814.69615.01297.40%+99
3Maccoy Martin3P521/5:14.66214.82115.01099.37%+98
4Daniel Chavez4P321/5:15.77914.69315.87579.68%+97
5Jeff Statkiewicz5P720/5:01.82714.69515.07597.41%+96
6Benjamin Decker6P820/5:01.15814.75014.99898.82%+95
7Aaron Mitchell7P420/5:05.07014.62815.28294.00%+94
8Owen Vanderbeekbumped up8P920/5:08.61214.77915.18896.79%+93
9Daigan Bledsoebumped up9P1020/5:08.98614.81215.40494.06%+92
10Collin Miles10P620/5:09.87714.82015.52095.10%no licence
B-main
1Owen Vanderbeekup to the AP220/5:02.14814.96715.15798.69%–
2Daigan Bledsoeup to the AP620/5:08.01414.89415.40495.97%–
3Talon Henley11P820/5:13.10314.77715.67091.37%+90
4Evan Cook12P120/5:13.64714.97015.77689.60%+89
5Connor Barrows13P719/5:00.29615.05715.81094.88%+88
6Evan Ciresi14P519/5:04.64414.79215.95389.22%+87
7Ilan Sandersonbumped up15P919/5:05.02915.04716.05591.30%no licence
8Ryder Himanek16P419/5:05.65115.01516.14591.35%+85
9Nolan Hunt17P319/5:07.15415.27916.24589.70%+84
10Luke Sielabumped up18P1019/5:10.84715.18316.36192.30%+83
C-main
1Ilan Sandersonup to the BP220/5:12.65815.09315.71793.82%–
2Luke Sielaup to the BP920/5:15.87315.36415.71698.67%–
3Tucker Mitchel19P420/5:21.89415.58316.12791.26%+82
4Nathanial Betley20P619/5:09.63015.23316.06689.15%no licence
5Brody Thompson21P519/5:10.13915.30116.36192.04%+80
6Evan Tapp22P319/5:11.62915.19416.46390.55%+79
7Tyler Davisbumped up23P1019/5:13.31215.43816.38592.54%+78
8Zack Mazurek24P819/5:14.74615.31016.58689.20%+77
9Carter Irish25P718/4:58.193 (DNF)15.40816.60290.41%no licence
10Caleb Kuretich26P118/5:00.32714.91516.77986.35%no licence
D-main
1Luke Sielaup to the BP119/5:00.25915.46415.85597.49%–
2Tyler Davisup to the CP319/5:04.87515.43816.07793.62%–
3Ryan Hovis27P719/5:05.37515.55916.04695.85%no licence
4Dawson Camacho28P419/5:07.17715.49216.19395.34%+73
5Wyatt Gaskinsbumped up29P919/5:12.44015.56516.40993.81%no licence
6Jordan Vandenplas30P619/5:13.88415.64316.54591.21%+71
7Blake Salmon31P819/5:15.66515.99516.60194.40%no licence
8Mike Champbumped up32P1018/5:08.72615.97317.13694.46%+69
9Jason Engel33P517/5:08.62415.40118.30078.54%no licence
10Daniel Marino34P217/5:12.98615.52318.60883.57%no licence
E-main
1Wyatt Gaskinsup to the DP119/5:10.32015.63916.36996.06%–
2Mike Champup to the DP319/5:16.80616.06416.69197.50%–
3Michael Thornton35P618/5:06.86815.82717.08489.97%no licence
4Alex Via36P518/5:07.15415.47017.07990.09%no licence
5Dalton Campbell37P718/5:10.86516.20417.25092.07%no licence
6Connor Glover38P418/5:13.18916.10517.45988.38%no licence
7Joseph Finn39P918/5:13.86315.97117.25990.75%+62
8Ben Ellis40P217/4:57.982 (DNF)15.71417.67889.25%+61
9DJ Shepherd41P1017/5:05.82716.07317.43993.47%+60
10Wesley Brattin42P1116/5:03.53316.59818.47285.90%no licence
11Dylan Hall43P82/41.528 (DNF)22.43322.433–no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified. A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so a run cut shorter than that shows none.

  1. 1st
    Dustin Fox 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/6/1 · TQ

    TQ and the win, the full 101, and a rather pointed answer to a Round 1 where he ran three identical A-mains and went backwards anyway. Qualifying went 1/6/1 for a score of 2 — two heat wins, and the 6 discarded — then the mains came 3/1/1 for a total of 2. He lost the opening leg and won everything after it. That is a driver who found something between Wisconsin and Michigan.

  2. 2nd
    Brady Carrico 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 10/1/3

    Won the opening A-main from the outside of the front row, followed it with a 2, and only a 5 in the final leg kept him from making Fox genuinely uncomfortable; total of 3 for second. Qualifying was the usual Carrico shape — a 10 to open, then a heat win and a 3 for a score of 4. Second in the round and 99 points, and he now has back-to-back podiums without yet winning a round.

  3. 3rd
    Maccoy Martin 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 9/4/6

    The first A-main handed him a tenth; the other two came back third and second. Total of 5, third overall, and one of the more emphatic recoveries on the sheet. He seeded fifth on a 10 from 9/4/6, so the pace was always there — it just needed one clean leg to prove it. Ninety-eight points for the XRAY driver and a first podium of the series.

  4. 4th
    Daniel Chavez 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 6 · Q 3/3/4

    Qualified third on a 6 from 3/3/4, the most repeatable set of heats anybody produced all weekend, then ran second in the opening main and looked like a genuine threat. Legs of 6 and 10 followed, and a total of 8 left him fourth once the drop was applied. Ninety-seven points on debut in this table, which is a start most people would take.

  5. 5th
    Jeff Statkiewicz 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 16 · Q 8/8/32

    His qualifying line reads 8/8/32, which is either heartbreak or a rule quirk depending on your temperament — best-two-of-three made it a 16 and the seventh seed. The mains were the tidy version of him: 4/5/4 for a total of 8 and a two-spot gain to fifth. Ninety-six points and the tiebreak lost to Chavez, but nobody's checking the fine print in six months.

  6. 6th
    Benjamin Decker 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 12/12/5

    Last of the seeded eight after a 17 built from a 12 and a 5, then he set about outqualifying his qualifying. A 3 in the final A-main was the fastest thing anyone outside the top three managed, and legs of 6/9/3 gave him a total of 9 and sixth overall. Ninety-five points, up two from his grid slot, and a considerable upgrade on Round 1.

  7. 7th
    Aaron Mitchell 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 4/5/7

    Fourth seed on a 9 from 4/5/7, and then a main-day that went 5/4/6 — competent, unremarkable, and three places worse than where he started. Total of 9, seventh, and a tiebreak lost to Decker on top of it. Ninety-four points is a perfectly fine haul from a weekend where nothing clicked, and after a runner-up in Round 1 he can afford one of these.

  8. 8th
    Owen Vanderbeek 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 5/16/13

    Bumped into the A-main and then refused to be the traffic: 7/10/7 for a total of 14 and eighth, ahead of a driver who had a seeded start. The JConcepts-supported man banks 93 points and a top eight he had to qualify his way into twice in one weekend.

  9. 9th
    Daigan Bledsoe 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P14 · bumped up from the B · qual score 26 · Q 15/17/11

    Another bump-in who made the seeded runners work — legs of 9/7/8 for a total of 15 and ninth overall. There is nothing flashy in that spread, but there is nothing broken in it either, and 92 points from the back of the transfer is a good day's return.

  10. 10th
    Collin Miles no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 13 · Q 6/7/28

    Seeded sixth on a 13 from 6/7/28, which means two thoroughly decent heats and one the format was happy to forget. The mains settled at 8/8/9 for a total of 16 and tenth in the A. He races without a series licence so the championship table won't show it, but the timing screen did: he made the A-main on merit and finished it.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Talon Henley 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 31 · Q 16/15/24

    Missed the seeded eight and missed the A-main by a single position — P11, 90 points, the cruellest slot on the sheet. He follows a Round 1 top eight with a round where the bump didn't go his way, and still walks out with a score that keeps him firmly in the conversation.

  13. 12th
    Evan Cook 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 17 · Q 7/10/18

    Outside the seeded eight and home in P12 for 89 points, one place off Henley and two off the A-main. Rounds like this are how you stay relevant in a best-three championship while the headline names trade wins.

  14. 13th
    Connor Barrows 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 30 · Q 21/22/9

    No top-eight seed and a run to P13, worth 88 points. It was a quiet weekend by the standards of the people above him, but the table doesn't ask how you felt about it — eighty-eight points is eighty-eight points.

  15. 14th
    Evan Ciresi 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 23 · Q 14/9/15

    Came out of the lower mains in P14 for 87 points after missing the seeded eight. Two rounds in, he is exactly the kind of driver a best-three format is built for: keep collecting these and the discard will do the editing for you.

  16. 16th
    Ryder Himanek 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 21 · Q 26/11/10

    No seed and a P16 finish, worth 85 points. It is a long way off the sharp end and a long way from nothing, which is roughly where most of a 2WD stock entry lives.

  17. 17th
    Nolan Hunt 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 19 · Q 11/13/8

    Another weekend spent outside the seeded eight, and another 84 points collected from P17 for the trouble. That is enough to put him inside the championship top ten after two rounds, which is proof that showing up twice beats showing up brilliantly once.

  18. 18th
    Luke Siela 83 ptsbumped up
    83 pts · qualified P25 · bumped up from the D · qual score 45 · Q 29/26/19

    Three races, two promotions, one very long day. From D-main pole he won it in 5:00.259, then lined up ninth of ten in the C and came second with a 98.67% consistency figure, the best in that race, to climb again. The B was a step too far — gridded last, he finished last — but P18 and 83 points off a P25 qualifying score is a great deal of racing packed into one afternoon.

  19. 19th
    Tucker Mitchel 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 35 · Q 36/19/16

    Qualifying outside the seeded eight left him in P19 for 82 points. The gap to the A-main runners is real, but the gap between him and the drivers directly above is a single position each — this class is stacked like bricks.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Carrico and Fox come out of Macomb dead level on 197 apiece from two starts, with Carrico listed ahead on the tiebreak and Fox holding the only TQ and the only round win between them. Mitchell is third on 193 after a 99 and a 94, still without a round win but still in the fight. Behind them Henley on 183 and Decker on 182 have quietly assembled top-five championship positions out of a P8, a P11, a P14 and a P6 — no headlines, no gaps. Everyone in the top ten is on two starts, so raw and best-three totals remain identical and the discard has yet to bite anyone. The oddest line in the table is who isn't on it: Paccione won Round 1 outright with the maximum score and sits outside the top ten, because 101 points from one start loses to 145 from two every time.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Aaron Mitchell+9429202923
2Brady Carrico+99379−912884
3Talon Henley+90372−902824
4Benjamin Decker+95363−832804
5Maccoy Martin+9828002803
6Luke Pravechek–27902793
7Andrew Thomas–26602663
8Owen Vanderbeek+9326402643

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Daniel Chavez — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 47 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Daniel Chavez2319/5:02.31815.625 fast · 15.911 avg819/5:04.34715.572 fast · 16.018 avg119/5:00.06315.500 fast · 15.793 avg
2Maccoy Martin5119/5:01.56315.488 fast · 15.872 avg919/5:04.47015.590 fast · 16.025 avg619/5:02.83415.515 fast · 15.939 avg
3Domnic Paccione61019/5:06.06415.707 fast · 16.109 avg120/5:15.73615.529 fast · 15.787 avg719/5:03.04915.535 fast · 15.950 avg
4Benjamin Decker71219/5:07.07615.806 fast · 16.162 avg519/5:01.76715.703 fast · 15.882 avg419/5:01.08715.687 fast · 15.847 avg
5Kyle Holmberg7519/5:03.17815.631 fast · 15.957 avg419/5:01.75415.548 fast · 15.882 avg519/5:01.61515.407 fast · 15.874 avg
6Talon Henley9819/5:05.02915.735 fast · 16.054 avg319/5:01.51115.572 fast · 15.869 avg2019/5:09.21215.493 fast · 16.274 avg
7Aaron Mitchell10619/5:03.52515.620 fast · 15.975 avg619/5:02.13515.720 fast · 15.902 avg919/5:04.38315.628 fast · 16.020 avg
8Jeff Statkiewicz12419/5:02.76215.672 fast · 15.935 avg1019/5:04.91215.722 fast · 16.048 avg1519/5:06.96715.544 fast · 16.156 avg
9Daigan Bledsoe12719/5:04.44015.688 fast · 16.023 avg719/5:03.26915.653 fast · 15.962 avg819/5:04.32215.529 fast · 16.017 avg
10Brady Carrico161519/5:07.88015.570 fast · 16.204 avg1719/5:08.78815.761 fast · 16.252 avg319/5:00.14915.488 fast · 15.797 avg
11Ryder Himanek17919/5:05.82915.858 fast · 16.096 avg2719/5:13.33115.845 fast · 16.491 avg1019/5:05.00515.872 fast · 16.053 avg
12Jake Wiggs201119/5:06.08915.847 fast · 16.110 avg1119/5:05.38315.899 fast · 16.073 avg1219/5:05.19815.758 fast · 16.063 avg
13KC Belke243818/5:09.88215.881 fast · 17.216 avg1519/5:07.68215.702 fast · 16.194 avg1119/5:05.14015.681 fast · 16.060 avg
14Braeden Banci241319/5:07.56915.855 fast · 16.188 avg1319/5:06.03615.716 fast · 16.107 avg1319/5:05.20715.816 fast · 16.064 avg
15Luke Pravechek281819/5:08.52915.875 fast · 16.238 avg1219/5:05.45415.659 fast · 16.077 avg2119/5:10.47615.824 fast · 16.341 avg
16Evan Cook282119/5:13.37216.055 fast · 16.493 avg1619/5:08.26015.916 fast · 16.224 avg1419/5:05.51415.871 fast · 16.080 avg
17Andrew Thomas311419/5:07.74915.938 fast · 16.197 avg3019/5:15.48815.722 fast · 16.605 avg1919/5:08.23215.730 fast · 16.223 avg
18Schuyler Mandella321619/5:07.92615.937 fast · 16.207 avg1819/5:09.39915.716 fast · 16.284 avg2519/5:11.45715.589 fast · 16.392 avg
19Jacob Sweisberger352319/5:14.50415.889 fast · 16.553 avg1419/5:07.48415.769 fast · 16.183 avg2619/5:12.24115.724 fast · 16.434 avg
20Larry Wright IV364118/5:12.83416.054 fast · 17.380 avg2119/5:11.02115.882 fast · 16.370 avg1719/5:08.07615.906 fast · 16.215 avg
21Brody Thompson382019/5:10.13816.078 fast · 16.323 avg2019/5:10.58116.051 fast · 16.346 avg2819/5:13.09515.904 fast · 16.479 avg
22Tucker Mitchel392219/5:14.10515.960 fast · 16.532 avg1919/5:10.30215.913 fast · 16.332 avg2219/5:11.12515.778 fast · 16.375 avg
23Connor Barrows411719/5:08.33315.998 fast · 16.228 avg2619/5:12.95216.042 fast · 16.471 avg4417/5:00.35516.233 fast · 17.668 avg
24Owen Vanderbeek411919/5:10.10315.999 fast · 16.321 avg2419/5:11.91416.181 fast · 16.417 avg2419/5:11.41516.147 fast · 16.390 avg
25Daniel Bender432718/5:00.60715.901 fast · 16.700 avg3618/5:07.66416.034 fast · 17.092 avg1819/5:08.13215.880 fast · 16.217 avg
26Evan Tapp443018/5:02.71416.063 fast · 16.818 avg3219/5:15.90615.970 fast · 16.627 avg1619/5:08.03715.970 fast · 16.212 avg
27Gavin Moeller462519/5:17.18716.291 fast · 16.694 avg3119/5:15.69816.201 fast · 16.616 avg2319/5:11.30816.147 fast · 16.385 avg
28Nolan Hunt482818/5:01.35715.784 fast · 16.742 avg2219/5:11.05915.816 fast · 16.372 avg3718/5:03.81316.035 fast · 16.879 avg
29Jordan Vandenplas503118/5:03.19716.097 fast · 16.844 avg2519/5:12.03415.948 fast · 16.423 avg2719/5:12.99916.023 fast · 16.474 avg
30Luke Siela532618/5:00.27016.260 fast · 16.682 avg3318/5:01.32716.246 fast · 16.740 avg2919/5:13.35716.210 fast · 16.492 avg
31Zack Mazurek553618/5:07.45916.349 fast · 17.081 avg2319/5:11.78416.035 fast · 16.410 avg3418/5:00.38416.033 fast · 16.688 avg
32Evan Ciresi552918/5:01.70816.294 fast · 16.762 avg2819/5:13.72016.062 fast · 16.512 avg3119/5:17.10115.976 fast · 16.690 avg
33Collyn Miller572419/5:16.53716.262 fast · 16.660 avg4018/5:10.74016.167 fast · 17.263 avg3518/5:01.35116.057 fast · 16.742 avg
34Tyler Davis573418/5:06.06516.236 fast · 17.004 avg2919/5:15.10916.252 fast · 16.585 avg3019/5:14.18016.294 fast · 16.536 avg
35Geoffrey Ketler623218/5:03.78216.386 fast · 16.877 avg4814/4:00.613 (DNF)16.207 fast · 17.187 avg3218/5:00.23816.352 fast · 16.680 avg
36Colby Rogers643318/5:04.95216.637 fast · 16.942 avg3518/5:06.23816.320 fast · 17.013 avg3318/5:00.32716.503 fast · 16.685 avg
37Dawson Camacho693518/5:06.89216.454 fast · 17.050 avg3718/5:08.59616.704 fast · 17.144 avg3618/5:02.64216.343 fast · 16.814 avg
38James Dewild733718/5:09.78516.964 fast · 17.210 avg3818/5:09.29916.755 fast · 17.183 avg4018/5:10.69216.847 fast · 17.261 avg
39Shawn Dimech744317/5:02.63616.635 fast · 17.802 avg3418/5:05.19616.510 fast · 16.955 avg4218/5:19.99116.673 fast · 17.777 avg
40Chris Garay764018/5:11.17016.703 fast · 17.287 avg4118/5:20.58616.544 fast · 17.810 avg3818/5:07.29816.558 fast · 17.072 avg
41Kyle Kosek763918/5:11.06516.650 fast · 17.281 avg3918/5:09.93216.431 fast · 17.218 avg3918/5:07.30916.579 fast · 17.073 avg
42Gracin Spieker824516/4:59.175 (DNF)16.874 fast · 18.698 avg4317/5:05.42816.644 fast · 17.966 avg4118/5:13.24816.716 fast · 17.403 avg
43DJ Shepherd824217/5:01.59917.010 fast · 17.741 avg4217/5:04.71016.887 fast · 17.924 avg4517/5:03.93316.932 fast · 17.878 avg
44Ennis Graves854714/4:15.356 (DNF)17.000 fast · 18.240 avg4417/5:11.05516.999 fast · 18.297 avg4317/5:00.31216.966 fast · 17.665 avg
45Kris Hackenson884417/5:15.80517.824 fast · 18.577 avg4715/5:00.75117.901 fast · 20.050 avg4617/5:13.21017.612 fast · 18.424 avg
46Bradley Brungardt904616/5:04.96417.927 fast · 19.060 avg4616/5:10.85717.809 fast · 19.429 avg4716/5:03.20917.429 fast · 18.951 avg
47Joseph Finn91485/1:29.144 (DNF)17.149 fast · 17.829 avg4516/5:02.94017.323 fast · 18.934 avg481/20.697 (DNF)20.697 fast · 20.697 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Daniel Chavez1P120/5:15.32715.43915.78099.14%+101
2Aaron Mitchell2P719/5:02.45115.52215.85398.99%+99
3Benjamin Decker3P419/5:01.50115.41415.80698.51%+98
4Maccoy Martin4P219/5:00.29915.63815.76699.25%+97
5Domnic Paccione5P319/5:03.18615.63015.93597.87%+96
6Kyle Holmberg6P519/5:04.01315.72815.91899.09%no licence
7Talon Henley7P619/5:01.21315.35515.75598.55%+94
8Jeff Statkiewicz8P819/5:03.14615.62515.83399.33%+93
9Daigan Bledsoebumped up9P1019/5:04.18215.52915.86098.52%+92
10Brady Carricobumped up10P919/5:05.63915.55015.95496.64%+91
B-main
1Brady Carricoup to the AP219/5:03.68315.49215.92995.48%–
2Daigan Bledsoeup to the AP119/5:04.32115.47915.99795.79%–
3Jake Wiggs11P419/5:04.94215.75815.95899.12%no licence
4KC Belke12P519/5:06.11715.71916.00698.96%no licence
5Evan Cook13P819/5:08.24915.90716.07999.48%+88
6Braeden Banci14P619/5:12.32715.91316.16399.32%no licence
7Ryder Himanek15P319/5:12.62915.83416.39992.59%+86
8Tucker Mitchelbumped up16P919/5:13.08415.92316.33395.61%+85
9Luke Pravechek17P719/5:13.44615.89716.39195.58%+84
10Jacob Sweisbergerbumped up18P1019/5:13.99415.82216.36295.42%no licence
11Andrew Thomasbumped up19P1118/5:07.97315.90816.93890.79%+82
C-main
1Schuyler Mandella20P219/5:07.75215.81116.10199.05%+81
2Tucker Mitchelup to the BP619/5:09.15315.85216.09798.45%–
3Jacob Sweisbergerup to the BP319/5:09.73915.68116.09898.04%–
4Andrew Thomasup to the BP119/5:10.12215.81616.24795.82%–
5Brody Thompson21P519/5:12.12416.00816.29899.00%+80
6Larry Wright IV22P419/5:13.09716.04816.29998.85%+79
7Daniel Benderbumped up23P919/5:14.53116.00316.22198.77%+78
8Evan Tappbumped up24P1019/5:21.87116.02216.75888.96%+77
9Connor Barrows25P718/5:03.05315.97216.61793.81%+76
10Owen Vanderbeek26P818/5:05.01915.96416.75889.15%+75
D-main
1Daniel Benderup to the CP119/5:07.75415.93716.16899.29%–
2Evan Tappup to the CP219/5:09.78615.91316.25498.59%–
3Gavin Moeller27P319/5:12.26916.01016.36297.75%+74
4Nolan Hunt28P419/5:13.27315.98016.39598.10%+73
5Tyler Davisbumped up29P919/5:15.74916.00216.44398.75%+72
6Luke Siela30P618/5:05.13516.08016.85695.10%+71
7Evan Ciresi31P818/5:05.53216.11716.81994.45%+70
8Jordan Vandenplas32P518/5:06.65416.12516.76993.20%+69
9Zack Mazurek33P718/5:08.32016.09217.00588.16%+68
10Dawson Camachobumped up34P1018/5:11.85916.28217.15494.43%+67
E-main
1Tyler Davisup to the DP219/5:14.77116.22516.51898.87%–
2Dawson Camachoup to the DP518/5:02.32116.36416.65498.82%–
3Collyn Miller35P118/5:02.89716.17216.84293.66%no licence
4James Dewild36P618/5:12.48616.66917.24596.70%no licence
5Kyle Kosekbumped up37P918/5:13.13716.59517.22095.02%+64
6Colby Rogers38P418/5:15.55016.22517.47890.21%no licence
7Geoffrey Ketler39P318/5:16.30616.30317.54090.34%no licence
8Chris Garay40P817/5:00.09116.61117.49091.55%+61
9Shawn Dimech41P717/5:03.20116.46117.63490.24%no licence
10Gracin Spiekerbumped up42P1017/5:08.09816.48317.44892.23%no licence
F-main
1Kyle Kosekup to the EP118/5:07.47216.58417.01398.91%–
2Gracin Spiekerup to the EP218/5:13.76316.46417.32391.89%–
3DJ Shepherd43P317/5:03.75216.71317.77394.51%+58
4Ennis Graves44P416/5:02.44217.08818.81685.83%no licence
5Joseph Finn45P716/5:05.09417.26218.82689.26%+56
6Bradley Brungardt46P616/5:05.94317.63419.08092.44%no licence
7Kris Hackenson47P510/3:07.541 (DNF)17.71918.47393.20%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Daniel Chavez 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 3/8/1 · TQ

    TQ and the win with a wobble on the end of it, which is the best advertisement for the drop rule you will ever see. He qualified on a 4 from 3/8/1, took pole, then won the first two A-mains outright — at which point the third leg's 10 was completely irrelevant. Total of 2, 101 points, the maximum. Fourth in Round 2, first here; the trajectory speaks for itself.

  2. 2nd
    Aaron Mitchell 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 12 · Q 6/6/9

    Seventh seed on a 12 from 6/6/9, and then a main-day of 2/2/4 that carved five places out of the field. Total of 4, second overall, 99 points, and a second runner-up finish of the season. He has yet to win a round in this series and he is now leading it, which is either an indictment of the winners or a very loud endorsement of turning up and finishing second.

  3. 3rd
    Benjamin Decker 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 12/5/4

    Opened the mains with a tenth and then produced back-to-back 3s to salvage a total of 6 and a podium, which is the second round running he has driven straight past his qualifying. He seeded fourth on a 9 from 12/5/4. Ninety-eight points, third overall, and three rounds into the year he has gone 87, 95, 98 — the only direction that matters.

  4. 4th
    Maccoy Martin 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 7 · Q 1/9/6

    Won the final A-main, which nobody else outside the front row managed, and it dragged a 6 and an 8 up into a total of 7 and fourth overall. He seeded second on a 7 from 1/9/6, so both ends of the weekend had a heat win in them and a muddle in the middle. Ninety-seven points, and he took second in 13.5 Expert 4WD at this same event, so the Muscatine weekend was a busy one.

  5. 5th
    Domnic Paccione 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 10/1/7

    The Round 1 winner qualified third on an 8 from 10/1/7 — one heat win, one heat where the wheels metaphorically fell off — and never got the mains to line up: 3/5/9 for a total of 8 and fifth. Ninety-six points is a good return from a difficult weekend, but for a driver who took the maximum in Brookfield it is the first time this season he has been anywhere other than the front.

  6. 6th
    Kyle Holmberg no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 9 · Q 5/4/5

    Fifth seed on a 9 from 5/4/5 — three heats inside the top five, no drama in any of them — and A-mains of 4/4/8 for a total of 8, level with Paccione and beaten only on the tiebreak. He runs without a series licence so no points are posted, which is a shame, because sixth in this field on this weekend was worth 95 of them.

  7. 7th
    Talon Henley 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 8/3/20

    Second in the final A-main after 7s in the first two, which lifted him to a total of 9 and seventh overall. He qualified sixth on an 11 from 8/3/20, so the pattern of one wild heat and two good ones continues to be survivable under best-two-of-three. Ninety-four points for the JConcepts man and a third straight round in the points.

  8. 8th
    Jeff Statkiewicz 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 14 · Q 4/10/15

    Last of the seeded eight on a 14 from 4/10/15, and then a main-day that refused to settle: a 5, a 10, another 5, total of 10, eighth overall. Ninety-three points and a second consecutive A-main appearance, which is the harder half of this sport. Consistency of result, if not yet consistency of leg.

  9. 9th
    Daigan Bledsoe 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 14 · Q 7/7/8

    Bumped into the A-main for the second round running and once again finished ahead of a seeded driver, with legs of 8/6/6 for a total of 12. Ninety-two points and ninth overall. Making the show the hard way twice in a row is a skill, not an accident.

  10. 10th
    Brady Carrico 91 ptsbumped up
    91 pts · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 15/17/3

    The championship leader coming in missed the seeded eight entirely and had to bump into the A-main, then ran 9/9/7 for a total of 16 and tenth. Ninety-one points is the smallest haul of his season after a 98 and a 99, and it is worth noting he still salvaged a top ten from a weekend that started badly. The gap at the top has changed hands; the damage could have been far worse.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 13th
    Evan Cook 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 30 · Q 21/16/14

    Out of the seeded eight again, but P13 and 88 points is one place and one point better than his Round 2. Incremental, unglamorous, and precisely how drivers climb these tables.

  13. 15th
    Ryder Himanek 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 19 · Q 9/27/10

    Again without a top-eight seed, and again out of the lower mains: P15 and 86 points. That's one better than Macomb, and in a class this tightly packed a single position of improvement per round is a perfectly good business plan.

  14. 16th
    Tucker Mitchel 85 ptsbumped up
    85 pts · qualified P22 · bumped up from the C · qual score 41 · Q 22/19/22

    Sixth on the C-main grid, second at the flag, and a 98.45% consistency figure to go with it — that is how you leave a lower main. The B then gridded him ninth of eleven and he came out of it eighth, still on nineteen laps, the same count as the man who won it. P16 and 85 points, three places better than his last outing, and three starts from three now have him inside the championship top ten.

  15. 17th
    Luke Pravechek 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 30 · Q 18/12/21

    Fourth in Round 1, and here he missed the seeded eight altogether and came home P17 for 84 points. Qualifying he cannot control; the 84 he can, and it keeps a round on the board that a DNS would have cost him entirely. Not a weekend he'll frame.

  16. 19th
    Andrew Thomas 82 ptsbumped up
    82 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 33 · Q 14/30/19

    Pole in the C-main did not turn into a win — fourth was where he finished it — but fourth was enough to move him up to the B. There he was handed the eleventh and last slot on the grid and it stayed that way, eighteen laps where the ten cars ahead of him all managed nineteen. P19 and 82 points is a step back from the seventh he took out of the Round 1 A-main, though a round containing a promotion is not a wasted one.

  17. 20th
    Schuyler Mandella 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 34 · Q 16/18/25

    He made the seeded eight in Round 1; here he missed it, and P20 was worth 81 points. It is a lean return, but in a five-round series with a best-three count, one lean weekend is a survivable thing.

  18. 21st
    Brody Thompson 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 40 · Q 20/20/28

    A weekend that never got him near the seeded eight still ended with 80 points from P21. It is a first mark in the ledger, and everyone above him in this table started with one of these too.

  19. 22nd
    Larry Wright IV 79 pts
    79 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 38 · Q 41/21/17

    No top-eight seed and a P22 finish for 79 points, five spots and five points down on his Brookfield weekend. Muscatine did not cooperate, but he has now scored in two of three rounds and the format only counts the good ones.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Mitchell leads the championship on 292 from three starts without a single round win or TQ to his name — in fact not one driver in the current top ten has won a round or taken a TQ all season, which is a remarkable way for a table to look after three events. Carrico is four back on 288 after his weakest weekend of the year, Decker third on 280 and climbing hard on the back of 95 and 98, and Henley fourth on 277 having never finished outside the top eleven. Every one of those drivers is on three starts, so raw totals and best-three totals are still the same number and nobody has anything to throw away. Chavez took the maximum here and does not appear in the top ten at all, for the same reason Paccione's Round 1 maximum vanished from view — the format rewards attendance ruthlessly. Two rounds remain and the top four are separated by fifteen points, which is one scruffy A-main.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Aaron Mitchell+9929202923
2Brady Carrico+91379−912884
3Talon Henley+94372−902824
4Benjamin Decker+98363−832804
5Maccoy Martin+9728002803
6Luke Pravechek+8427902793
7Andrew Thomas+8226602663
8Owen Vanderbeek+7526402643

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Matthew Gonzales — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 31 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Matthew Gonzales2113/5:08.44723.504 fast · 23.727 avg313/5:05.07523.013 fast · 23.467 avg513/5:07.19023.008 fast · 23.630 avg
2Talon Henley3413/5:10.18522.944 fast · 23.860 avg113/5:04.55322.960 fast · 23.427 avg327/2:45.648 (DNF)22.941 fast · 23.664 avg
3Ivan Moreno3913/5:11.62823.045 fast · 23.971 avg413/5:06.96423.093 fast · 23.613 avg113/5:05.39122.985 fast · 23.492 avg
4Brady Carrico4313/5:09.67423.224 fast · 23.821 avg1013/5:13.70523.099 fast · 24.131 avg313/5:06.61322.904 fast · 23.586 avg
5Owen Vanderbeek9513/5:10.31323.344 fast · 23.870 avg1113/5:14.86323.385 fast · 24.220 avg613/5:09.06023.165 fast · 23.774 avg
6Alex Sturgeon10813/5:11.43123.222 fast · 23.956 avg813/5:12.59723.386 fast · 24.046 avg413/5:07.10023.152 fast · 23.623 avg
7Luke Pravechek10613/5:10.77723.488 fast · 23.906 avg613/5:10.78523.661 fast · 23.907 avg813/5:10.61323.167 fast · 23.893 avg
8Kadin Meeks121213/5:15.22623.249 fast · 24.248 avg713/5:10.99723.306 fast · 23.923 avg713/5:09.90423.153 fast · 23.839 avg
9Connor Esbeck141113/5:12.98723.513 fast · 24.076 avg513/5:09.90223.428 fast · 23.839 avg1213/5:15.24623.454 fast · 24.250 avg
10Keaton Grant18713/5:11.16323.399 fast · 23.936 avg1313/5:17.21923.453 fast · 24.401 avg1413/5:18.34223.464 fast · 24.488 avg
11Andrew Thomas181013/5:12.63523.542 fast · 24.049 avg1413/5:17.37323.631 fast · 24.413 avg1013/5:13.62023.259 fast · 24.125 avg
12Shane Alberico221613/5:19.38923.641 fast · 24.568 avg1513/5:18.91523.878 fast · 24.532 avg913/5:12.88923.382 fast · 24.068 avg
13Ryan Prince231413/5:18.37623.752 fast · 24.490 avg1613/5:23.59224.170 fast · 24.892 avg1113/5:15.08623.581 fast · 24.237 avg
14Benjamin Decker241913/5:28.35623.688 fast · 25.258 avg913/5:13.18523.407 fast · 24.091 avg1712/5:02.09323.373 fast · 25.174 avg
15Maccoy Martin241313/5:18.27424.122 fast · 24.483 avg2312/5:07.12223.978 fast · 25.594 avg1313/5:17.87723.957 fast · 24.452 avg
16Evan Ciresi281513/5:19.27524.126 fast · 24.560 avg1812/5:01.24024.146 fast · 25.103 avg1513/5:22.28924.223 fast · 24.791 avg
17Dalton Conradt292012/5:04.64223.982 fast · 25.387 avg1213/5:16.33023.514 fast · 24.333 avg1912/5:05.06223.268 fast · 25.422 avg
18Daniel Bender311813/5:24.53823.832 fast · 24.964 avg1712/5:00.80924.099 fast · 25.067 avg1612/5:00.67023.731 fast · 25.056 avg
19William Schroeder371713/5:19.39523.899 fast · 24.569 avg2212/5:05.18424.307 fast · 25.432 avg2812/5:17.36824.210 fast · 26.447 avg
20Tanner Dillin392112/5:09.06424.301 fast · 25.755 avg2012/5:03.59524.334 fast · 25.300 avg2412/5:09.73324.285 fast · 25.811 avg
21TJ Williams402312/5:09.81424.018 fast · 25.818 avg1912/5:01.83924.511 fast · 25.153 avg2712/5:12.45124.145 fast · 26.038 avg
22Bentley Schwartz412212/5:09.52924.508 fast · 25.794 avg2912/5:23.91624.486 fast · 26.993 avg2112/5:07.07024.997 fast · 25.589 avg
23Connor Barrows42320/0.000 (DNS)2112/5:03.85324.294 fast · 25.321 avg2312/5:07.48324.463 fast · 25.624 avg
24Tyler Marg452712/5:24.03225.354 fast · 27.003 avg2812/5:21.75024.727 fast · 26.813 avg2012/5:07.05724.563 fast · 25.588 avg
25David Peavler462412/5:19.70224.833 fast · 26.642 avg2412/5:07.77924.611 fast · 25.648 avg2912/5:21.86924.753 fast · 26.822 avg
26Hendrick Westmoreland473111/5:14.94724.450 fast · 28.632 avg326/2:33.764 (DNF)24.754 fast · 25.627 avg1812/5:04.98824.610 fast · 25.416 avg
27Sean King482812/5:25.98024.984 fast · 27.165 avg2512/5:13.64925.047 fast · 26.137 avg2512/5:10.74324.696 fast · 25.895 avg
28Owen Jordan492911/5:04.80724.889 fast · 27.710 avg3110/5:05.74326.562 fast · 30.574 avg2212/5:07.21824.346 fast · 25.602 avg
29Teagan Cummings492512/5:20.28225.326 fast · 26.690 avg2712/5:18.88224.609 fast · 26.574 avg2612/5:11.95824.785 fast · 25.997 avg
30Anthony Woodruff502612/5:23.87025.153 fast · 26.989 avg2612/5:14.44024.880 fast · 26.203 avg3111/5:00.16124.840 fast · 27.287 avg
31Dylan Haas583011/5:14.52625.858 fast · 28.593 avg3012/5:24.24125.426 fast · 27.020 avg3011/5:00.07125.798 fast · 27.279 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Matthew Gonzales1P113/5:00.27923.01423.57698.89%no licence
2Kadin Meeks2P813/5:04.78623.11923.65398.66%+99
3Luke Pravechek3P713/5:06.36023.48823.81298.99%+98
4Ivan Moreno4P313/5:07.31323.36423.89998.31%no licence
5Owen Vanderbeek5P513/5:03.40023.48023.68299.20%+96
6Talon Henley6P213/5:06.77623.14324.05296.14%+95
7Alex Sturgeon7P613/5:04.28323.33023.70499.07%+94
8Keaton Grantbumped up8P913/5:11.43723.26523.89596.61%+93
9Connor Esbeckbumped up9P1013/5:13.07123.69124.34097.15%+92
10Brady Carrico10P413/5:10.27723.30024.06496.70%+91
B-main
1Keaton Grantup to the AP213/5:08.25823.49824.16897.97%–
2Connor Esbeckup to the AP113/5:14.73723.78524.72497.44%–
3Andrew Thomas11P313/5:20.79323.82025.17593.71%+90
4Ryan Prince12P512/5:00.42224.16725.45295.71%no licence
5TJ Williamsbumped up13P1012/5:00.94524.34325.34994.07%+88
6Shane Alberico14P412/5:01.79724.11625.65193.99%no licence
7Evan Ciresi15P812/5:07.24124.33125.90094.13%+86
8Maccoy Martin16P712/5:11.71824.29426.27991.47%+85
9Dalton Conradtbumped up17P910/4:29.013 (DNF)24.07827.54079.34%no licence
10Benjamin Decker18P67/3:01.656 (DNF)24.16726.66092.39%+83
C-main
1Dalton Conradtup to the BP113/5:16.01223.85224.82497.45%–
2TJ Williamsup to the BP513/5:21.88724.47725.11697.71%–
3Daniel Bender19P212/5:02.31524.58325.79694.41%+82
4David Peavlerbumped up20P912/5:09.61324.61726.03194.41%no licence
5William Schroeder21P312/5:13.80024.91426.71193.41%no licence
6Tyler Marg22P812/5:15.35725.18226.59495.49%+79
7Tanner Dillin23P412/5:19.37625.46927.12792.64%no licence
8Connor Barrows24P712/5:20.81124.77227.17691.18%+77
9Bentley Schwartz25P611/5:01.86724.35127.77986.22%no licence
10Anthony Woodruffbumped up26P100/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
D-main
1David Peavlerup to the CP113/5:22.95724.59225.34197.92%–
2Anthony Woodruffup to the CP612/5:06.00525.14725.79898.65%–
3Owen Jordan27P412/5:12.58624.89426.54191.95%no licence
4Hendrick Westmoreland28P212/5:21.96624.87827.19692.00%no licence
5Dylan Haas29P712/5:24.04326.01727.40892.84%no licence
6Sean King30P312/5:25.39225.74827.72692.75%no licence
7Teagan Cummings31P511/5:03.25525.54828.18992.85%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 3 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Matthew Gonzales no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 1/3/5 · TQ

    Turned up, took TQ on a 4 from heats of 1/3/5, and then won the last two A-mains for a total of 2 and the overall victory. The opening leg's 4 was the only thing he dropped all weekend, and he dropped it. He races without a series licence, so the championship table records absolutely nothing about the fact that he just beat everybody in Omaha — the results sheet, mercifully, is less forgetful.

  2. 2nd
    Kadin Meeks 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 14 · Q 12/7/7

    Won the first A-main from the last seeded grid slot, which is the single loudest thing anybody did all weekend. He qualified eighth on a 14 from 12/7/7, then ran 1/5/3 for a total of 4 and second overall — six places gained on his grid. Ninety-nine points, and after a P18 in Round 1 this is a transformation rather than an improvement.

  3. 3rd
    Luke Pravechek 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 12 · Q 6/6/8

    Seventh seed on a 12 from 6/6/8, and the mains improved every time he went out: a 5, then a 4, then a 2. Total of 6, third overall, four grid spots gained, 98 points. After a Round 3 that never got out of the lower mains, this is the version of him that finished fourth in Brookfield, with interest.

  4. 4th
    Ivan Moreno no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 5 · Q 9/4/1

    Won the final qualifier to seed third on a 5, then ran a 3 in the opening A-main and looked set for the podium before a tenth in leg two cost him the tiebreaks. Recovered for a 4 in the finale and a total of 7, fourth overall. No series licence means no championship points, which does nothing to change the fact that he beat six of the seeded eight.

  5. 5th
    Owen Vanderbeek 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 5/11/6

    The middle A-main produced a second place, his standout leg, bracketed by a pair of 6s for a total of 8 and fifth overall. He seeded fifth on an 11 from 5/11/6, so he finished exactly where he started — which, given three drivers ahead of him gained places, took some holding. Ninety-six points and a second A-main of his season.

  6. 6th
    Talon Henley 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 5 · Q 4/1/32

    Second on the grid and second in the opening A-main, and then it slid away — a 6 and a 9 left him on a total of 8, beaten on the tiebreak by Vanderbeek and shuffled to sixth. His qualifying was the now-familiar shape, a 4 and a heat win with a 32 thrown out. Ninety-five points is his best raw score of the year, which tells you how tight this class is at the top.

  7. 7th
    Alex Sturgeon 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 8/8/4

    Opened the mains with a ninth and then went 3 and 5 to claw back to a total of 8 — the third driver in a row on that number, and the one who lost both tiebreaks. Sixth seed on a 12 from 8/8/4. Ninety-four points and seventh overall, a very long way forward from the P20 he took in Round 1.

  8. 8th
    Keaton Grant 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 7/13/14

    Bumped into the A-main and then held the seeded runners at arm's length with legs of 8/8/7 for a total of 15. Eighth overall, 93 points, and a night-and-day improvement on the P23 he managed at Brookfield. Getting into the show from outside the eight and then beating two men who were inside it is the good stuff.

  9. 9th
    Connor Esbeck 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 16 · Q 11/5/12

    Another bump-in, another driver who improved as the day went on: a 10, then a 7, then an 8 for a total of 15, level with Grant and beaten on the tiebreak. Ninety-two points and ninth in a main he had to earn his way into on Sunday morning.

  10. 10th
    Brady Carrico 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 6 · Q 3/10/3

    Fourth on the grid off a 6 from 3/10/3 and then the mains simply never came: 7, 9 and 10 for a total of 16 and last of the A-main runners. Ninety-one points, an exact repeat of his Round 3 score and his second lean weekend running. He arrived leading nobody's idea of a comfortable championship and left with a result that, under the best-three rule, may not even end up counting.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Andrew Thomas 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 20 · Q 10/14/10

    Missed the seeded eight and then missed the A-main by one position — P11, 90 points, and the most frustrating result available at any race meeting. It is still his best round since Brookfield and it keeps him inside the championship top ten.

  13. 13th
    TJ Williams 88 ptsbumped up
    88 pts · qualified P21 · bumped up from the C · qual score 42 · Q 23/19/27

    The C-main was where his weekend started and it did not detain him long: second from fifth on the grid, thirteen laps at 97.71% consistency, and a seat in the B. Handed the last slot on that grid he moved up five places to fifth and knocked his fast lap to 24.343 doing it. P13 and 88 points from a P21 qualifying score is a proper afternoon of climbing.

  14. 15th
    Evan Ciresi 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 30 · Q 15/18/15

    No seed and P15, worth 86 points — and, more interestingly, a fourth start of the season, which makes him one of the few drivers in this table carrying a discard. Every round from here is a chance to replace his worst, and that is a different kind of race to the one most of the field is running.

  15. 16th
    Maccoy Martin 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 26 · Q 13/23/13

    Third in Round 2, fourth in Round 3, and then Omaha handed him a weekend outside the seeded eight and a P16 finish for 85 points. It is his lowest score of the year by a distance and it lands with him on three starts, so it counts in full. The pace that won an A-main leg in Muscatine did not go anywhere; it just did not show up here.

  16. 18th
    Benjamin Decker 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 26 · Q 19/9/17

    After a 95 and a 98 in the previous two rounds, this one bit: no top-eight seed, P18, 83 points. It is a fourth start, which means the best-three rule gets to quietly ignore it, and that is about the only consolation on offer. Rounds like this are exactly why the drop exists.

  17. 19th
    Daniel Bender 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 33 · Q 18/17/16

    Coming from outside the seeded eight, he took P19 and 82 points. It is a first score on the board in a class where the distance between him and the A-main is nine positions and nine points.

  18. 22nd
    Tyler Marg 79 pts
    79 pts · qualified P24 · qual score 47 · Q 27/28/20

    A long afternoon in the lower mains, no seed, and 79 points banked from P22. In a series counting the best three of five, a score like this is a placeholder rather than a verdict.

  19. 24th
    Connor Barrows 77 pts
    77 pts · qualified P23 · qual score 44 · Q 32/21/23

    Outside the seeded eight once more, and P24 this time for 77 points, five places down on his Round 2 outing. Omaha was not kind, but he has two rounds on the board and the format still has room for him to throw one away.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

Aaron Mitchell still leads on 292 and did it without turning a wheel in Omaha — his three starts are unchanged, and that number is now the most fragile-looking lead in the series precisely because it is also the most efficient. The gap between best-three and raw totals finally opens up behind him: Carrico is second on 288 from a raw 379 across four starts, Henley third on 282 from 372, Decker fourth on 280 from 363, and Ciresi tenth on 243 from a raw 305. Each of those men has already spent his discard, so at Round 5 they can only improve by beating their own worst counting score — while Martin (280), Pravechek (279), Thomas (266) and Vanderbeek (264) are all on three starts and get to add a fifth-round result straight onto the pile. That is the whole championship in one sentence: the drivers chasing have more upside than the drivers leading. Omaha's winner, Matthew Gonzales, scores none of it — he took TQ and the round without a series licence, so the biggest performance of the weekend leaves the table completely unchanged at the top. Still no round win or TQ anywhere in the championship top ten.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Aaron Mitchell–29202923
2Brady Carrico+91379−912884
3Talon Henley+95372−902824
4Benjamin Decker+83363−832804
5Maccoy Martin+8528002803
6Luke Pravechek+9827902793
7Andrew Thomas+9026602663
8Owen Vanderbeek+9626402643

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

17.5 Independent 2wd Buggy

15 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Adam McKown29529500231st95100–100·
2Leo Dake28828800032nd99–9396·
3Lane Lazarz287377−900044th94909697·
4Ethan Maki28328300033rd889897–·
5Tyler Heinzelmann265347−820048th86828693·
6Lex Mott26026000036th937295–·
7Bryan Dortch246246000313th758883–·
8Shane Petitjean245245000312th81–8975·
9Ronnie Wint168168000215th––8286·
10Chad Mishler166166000213th–7888–·
11Cody Ervin164164000214th77––87·
12Charles Kock163163000216th78––85·
13Mike Cook155155000221st–7580–·
14Kyrie Barritt148148000224th71––77·
15Zach Shannon141141000223rd–6378–·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Jason Blades — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 31 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Jason Blades3719/5:10.73715.642 fast · 16.355 avg419/5:05.00715.637 fast · 16.053 avg119/5:01.31515.506 fast · 15.859 avg
2Broc Stroebel31318/5:05.18115.773 fast · 16.955 avg119/5:03.05315.598 fast · 15.950 avg419/5:07.12815.350 fast · 16.165 avg
3Ryan Thierfelder61019/5:14.57415.898 fast · 16.557 avg319/5:03.89515.532 fast · 15.994 avg519/5:08.36815.425 fast · 16.230 avg
4Kaden Kahrs7319/5:04.96015.723 fast · 16.051 avg619/5:10.40615.403 fast · 16.337 avg1518/5:07.13415.351 fast · 17.063 avg
5Leo Dake91418/5:06.21815.618 fast · 17.012 avg519/5:10.04715.802 fast · 16.318 avg619/5:08.88815.654 fast · 16.257 avg
6Lex Mott101618/5:08.85015.922 fast · 17.158 avg919/5:13.36715.984 fast · 16.493 avg319/5:06.01115.677 fast · 16.106 avg
7Nick Seng10419/5:05.50215.535 fast · 16.079 avg819/5:12.66215.572 fast · 16.456 avg1818/5:08.88715.445 fast · 17.160 avg
8Adam McKown10519/5:08.80315.722 fast · 16.253 avg719/5:11.16315.603 fast · 16.377 avg719/5:09.21815.630 fast · 16.275 avg
9Lane Lazarz11119/5:03.52415.253 fast · 15.975 avg1518/5:01.69715.448 fast · 16.761 avg1219/5:14.96215.323 fast · 16.577 avg
10Dan Jones15619/5:10.03115.862 fast · 16.317 avg1118/5:00.01215.784 fast · 16.667 avg2218/5:24.62215.752 fast · 18.035 avg
11Jake Ward16819/5:12.41515.774 fast · 16.443 avg2917/5:08.54915.700 fast · 18.150 avg1019/5:11.75315.945 fast · 16.408 avg
12Tyler Obrien16919/5:13.55615.722 fast · 16.503 avg1019/5:15.56415.660 fast · 16.609 avg919/5:10.90415.487 fast · 16.363 avg
13Ethan Maki171118/5:00.57116.000 fast · 16.698 avg1218/5:00.84516.193 fast · 16.714 avg819/5:09.75015.654 fast · 16.303 avg
14Shawn Elkins231218/5:04.58916.273 fast · 16.922 avg1418/5:01.66316.323 fast · 16.759 avg1318/5:02.37516.087 fast · 16.799 avg
15Bucky Bachman25320/0.000 (DNS)1318/5:01.21415.762 fast · 16.734 avg1418/5:06.96415.838 fast · 17.054 avg
16Cameron Liss262217/5:01.95215.749 fast · 17.762 avg1718/5:04.83915.650 fast · 16.936 avg1119/5:14.19915.652 fast · 16.537 avg
17Kevin Waller311718/5:13.27716.140 fast · 17.404 avg1818/5:06.60415.790 fast · 17.034 avg1618/5:07.85315.841 fast · 17.103 avg
18Shane Petitjean321818/5:15.05016.309 fast · 17.503 avg1618/5:04.38816.273 fast · 16.910 avg1918/5:09.97416.207 fast · 17.221 avg
19Mark Kuhr353016/5:10.98715.898 fast · 19.437 avg2018/5:15.63315.822 fast · 17.535 avg1718/5:07.90315.908 fast · 17.106 avg
20Tyler Heinzelmann361518/5:07.04115.589 fast · 17.058 avg2517/5:03.00515.712 fast · 17.824 avg2317/5:08.04916.170 fast · 18.121 avg
21Mike Byng392117/5:01.51616.371 fast · 17.736 avg2317/5:00.60616.859 fast · 17.683 avg2018/5:10.79116.455 fast · 17.266 avg
22Chris Kern412417/5:06.13416.343 fast · 18.008 avg1918/5:08.33516.360 fast · 17.130 avg320/0.000 (DNS)
23Bryan Dortch411918/5:22.56416.417 fast · 17.920 avg2417/5:02.34116.181 fast · 17.785 avg2916/4:50.803 (DNF)15.899 fast · 18.175 avg
24Cody Ervin412317/5:06.11016.233 fast · 19.132 avg2217/5:00.24916.921 fast · 17.662 avg2118/5:16.35116.514 fast · 17.575 avg
25Sticks Bailey442017/5:00.82117.160 fast · 17.695 avg2817/5:07.73116.846 fast · 18.102 avg2617/5:09.85117.028 fast · 18.227 avg
26Andrew Schulz452617/5:12.80716.691 fast · 18.400 avg2118/5:16.71416.534 fast · 17.595 avg3016/5:08.83816.460 fast · 19.302 avg
27Nick Cooper482717/5:15.71016.814 fast · 18.571 avg2617/5:06.06216.819 fast · 18.004 avg2417/5:09.33916.877 fast · 18.196 avg
28Dave Cooper482517/5:06.46616.575 fast · 18.027 avg3017/5:17.17816.835 fast · 18.658 avg2517/5:09.53617.035 fast · 18.208 avg
29Charles Kock522816/5:00.13017.435 fast · 18.758 avg2717/5:06.61517.200 fast · 18.036 avg2717/5:10.91417.064 fast · 18.289 avg
30Kyrie Barritt573116/5:22.14516.809 fast · 20.134 avg3116/5:00.59816.955 fast · 18.787 avg2817/5:20.10316.951 fast · 18.830 avg
31Woody Haberkorn582916/5:08.38517.068 fast · 19.274 avg3216/5:19.08117.996 fast · 19.943 avg3116/5:09.74317.271 fast · 19.359 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Jason Blades1P119/5:04.26915.31315.96398.19%no licence
2Leo Dake2P519/5:05.82714.94915.94594.87%+99
3Dan Jonesbumped up3P919/5:12.48715.32816.17696.81%no licence
4Broc Stroebel4P219/5:10.88615.52316.29092.47%no licence
5Ryan Thierfelder5P319/5:13.20515.72816.36795.04%no licence
6Adam McKown6P819/5:11.41315.26316.07395.30%+95
7Lane Lazarzbumped up7P1019/5:15.26215.36716.31793.72%+94
8Lex Mott8P618/5:01.42815.89216.54596.35%+93
9Nick Seng9P718/5:10.86915.30817.05587.37%no licence
10Kaden Kahrs10P417/5:09.45615.59817.95677.29%no licence
B-main
1Dan Jonesup to the AP223/6:13.90315.78416.17597.91%–
2Bucky Bachman11P722/6:01.88715.68216.29197.80%no licence
3Lane Lazarzup to the AP122/6:04.00615.02916.53991.46%–
4Jake Ward12P322/6:08.07915.64316.63891.26%no licence
5Ethan Maki13P521/6:02.85815.65717.17891.09%+88
6Cameron Liss14P821/6:03.71415.46317.12790.85%no licence
7Tyler Heinzelmannbumped up15P921/6:06.12015.91017.26091.64%+86
8Mark Kuhrbumped up16P1011/3:28.274 (DNF)15.83418.68985.28%no licence
9Shawn Elkins17P610/2:59.151 (DNF)15.98317.62088.93%no licence
10Tyler Obrien18P45/1:35.502 (DNF)16.35219.12086.35%no licence
C-main
1Tyler Heinzelmannup to the BP422/6:02.75815.70616.37196.73%–
2Mark Kuhrup to the BP322/6:06.51915.76416.56894.17%–
3Kevin Waller19P121/6:02.29116.18517.24092.18%no licence
4Shane Petitjean20P221/6:08.48016.05017.52288.60%+81
5Chris Kern21P621/6:15.78616.01617.76188.57%no licence
6Mike Byng22P521/6:16.65316.31317.84790.38%no licence
7Charles Kockbumped up23P1020/6:00.42216.87217.78292.90%+78
8Cody Ervin24P820/6:07.52416.61218.21491.74%+77
9Andrew Schulzbumped up25P920/6:15.03116.33618.45188.94%no licence
10Bryan Dortch26P74/1:13.218 (DNF)16.77417.45495.07%+75
D-main
1Andrew Schulzup to the CP218/5:11.93016.33817.22895.21%–
2Charles Kockup to the CP518/5:20.64316.53017.57293.71%–
3Dave Cooper27P417/5:00.23816.51117.52492.33%no licence
4Sticks Bailey28P117/5:05.68416.52617.95290.96%no licence
5Nick Cooper29P316/5:02.45716.44518.73586.50%no licence
6Kyrie Barritt30P616/5:04.01516.91818.87489.60%+71
7Woody Haberkorn31P716/5:16.95217.59019.64190.94%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Jason Blades no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 5 · Q 7/4/1 · TQ

    Started his weekend with a 7th in the opening heat and finished it by winning both A-mains, which is about as tidy as a Brookfield weekend gets. A 4th and a 1st in the last two qualifiers made a score of 5 and the TQ, and from pole nobody got a proper look at him again. The only blemish on the scorecard is that with no series licence none of it turns into championship points.

  2. 2nd
    Leo Dake 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 14/5/6

    A 14th in the opening heat is not the usual launchpad for a podium, but a 5th and a 6th after it dragged the qualifying score down to 11 and put him on the third row. The mains went 5th then 2nd for a total of 2, and with the two men ahead of him racing without a licence, that made him the leading points scorer of the round. 99 points and top of the very first championship table of the season.

  3. 3rd
    Dan Jones no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 6/11/22

    Bumped into the A-main without a seeded spot and then finished 2nd in the first running of it, which is the sort of thing that ruins a seeded driver's afternoon. A 6th in the second A left him level with Leo Dake on a total of 2 and a tiebreak shy of second overall. No seed, no licence, and still third on the day.

  4. 4th
    Broc Stroebel no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 5 · Q 13/1/4

    Won the second heat outright and backed it with a 4th, matching Jason Blades on a qualifying score of 5 and lining up right alongside him. The mains were less generous, a 6th and then a 3rd for a total of 3, but a 13th in the opening heat was the only genuinely rough patch in the whole weekend. Fourth from the front row is a small step back and a perfectly respectable one.

  5. 5th
    Ryan Thierfelder no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 10/3/5

    Qualified third on a score of 8 and justified it immediately with a 3rd in the first A-main. The second one went the other way at 8th, and because the worst result drops, his total of 3 was identical to Broc Stroebel's and the tiebreak sent him the wrong side of it. From a 10th in the opening heat to fifth overall is still a weekend's work well done.

  6. 6th
    Adam McKown 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 12 · Q 5/7/7

    Metronomic qualifying, 5th, 7th and 7th, for a score of 12 and the last of the seeded grid slots. The first A-main was a write-off at 10th, but he answered with a 4th in the second, and with the worst score binned that total of 4 was worth sixth overall. 95 points and second in the championship from the back row of the A is a long way from a wasted trip to Wisconsin.

  7. 7th
    Lane Lazarz 94 ptsbumped up
    94 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 13 · Q 1/15/12

    No place in the seeded eight, so he bumped his way in and promptly ran 4th in the first A-main, ahead of five drivers who had earned their grid slots the orthodox way. A 7th in the second left him tied with Adam McKown on a total of 4 and seventh on the tiebreak. The reigning 21.5 Independent 2WD winner from the Fall Indoor Nationals evidently travels well between classes. 94 points and third in the table.

  8. 8th
    Lex Mott 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 16/9/3

    Opened with a 16th and then found the pace, going 9th and 3rd to drag the qualifying score to 12 and claim sixth on the grid. The mains were the model of holding station, a 7th and a 5th for a total of 5, and eighth on the day. 93 points and fourth in the opening championship standings.

  9. 9th
    Nick Seng no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 12 · Q 4/8/18

    A 4th and an 8th early gave him a qualifying score of 12 and seventh on the grid, and the 18th in the final heat was harmlessly discarded. The A-mains never quite caught fire, 8th and then 9th for a total of 8, but he was in both of them, which most of a 30-plus car entry never got near.

  10. 10th
    Kaden Kahrs no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 3/6/15

    Qualifying was the good part: a 3rd and a 6th for a score of 9 and fourth on the grid, with a 15th in the last heat thrown straight in the bin. The mains refused to cooperate, 9th and then 10th for a total of 9 and the bottom rung of the A. The speed is plainly in the car; it just needs to survive two races in a row.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 13th
    Ethan Maki 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 19 · Q 11/12/8

    Missed the seeded eight and so never saw the A-main, but 13th overall still banked 88 points and fifth place in the first championship table of the year. He is an INS stock-class regular and it shows in the way a missed seed still turns into a scoring afternoon.

  13. 15th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 86 ptsbumped up
    86 pts · qualified P20 · bumped up from the C · qual score 38 · Q 15/25/23

    Winning the C-main is the cleanest exit available from a lower main, and twenty-two laps in 6:02.758 from fourth on the grid got it done. Promotion to the B put him ninth of ten and he still came out of it seventh. Fifteenth overall for 86 points and sixth in the opening standings, all of it assembled after a twentieth-place qualifying score.

  14. 20th
    Shane Petitjean 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 34 · Q 18/16/19

    Outside the seeded eight, like most of this list, and 20th on the day for 81 points and seventh in the championship. In a field this deep that is a solid afternoon, and after one round of five the gaps behind the leaders are small enough to be almost decorative.

  15. 23rd
    Charles Kock 78 ptsbumped up
    78 pts · qualified P29 · bumped up from the D · qual score 54 · Q 28/27/27

    Twenty-ninth of thirty-one qualifiers is the bottom of the entry, so the D-main was the only door open — and second place in it, from fifth on the grid, got him through. The C-main then started him dead last of ten and he still worked up to seventh, twenty laps in 6:00.422. That is 78 points, 23rd overall and eighth in the opening championship table, out of a weekend that began about as far back as a weekend can.

  16. 24th
    Cody Ervin 77 pts
    77 pts · qualified P24 · qual score 43 · Q 23/22/21

    One place behind Charles Kock and, since the scoring is 101 minus your finishing position, exactly one point behind him too. A 24th from outside the seeded eight is 77 points and ninth in the championship after round one.

  17. 26th
    Bryan Dortch 75 pts
    75 pts · qualified P23 · qual score 43 · Q 19/24/29

    A 26th from outside the seeded eight is 75 points, and it was just enough to sneak him into the opening top ten of the championship. Four rounds still to run and the best-three rule has not even begun to bite yet, so there is nothing here he cannot erase later.

  18. 30th
    Kyrie Barritt 71 pts
    71 pts · qualified P30 · qual score 59 · Q 31/31/28

    Rounded out the scoring names for the weekend with a 30th, good for 71 points from outside the seeded eight. After one round of five, a start logged and a number on the board is worth exactly what everybody else's single result is worth.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

One round down and the table is entirely honest: every driver on it has exactly one start, so the best-three championship figure and the raw all-events total are the same number for everybody and the interesting arithmetic has not begun. Leo Dake leads on 99 after a 2nd place that functioned as a win, because the two men who beat him at Brookfield race without a series licence and score nothing. Adam McKown is on 95 and Lane Lazarz on 94, which means the top three are separated by less than the gap between a P1 and a P6. Ethan Maki heads the drivers who never saw the A-main on 88, a useful reminder that missing the seeded eight costs a lot less than it feels like at the time. With four rounds still to run and only the best three counting, nobody has actually lost anything yet.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Adam McKown+9529502953
2Leo Dake+9928802883
3Lane Lazarz+94377−902874
4Ethan Maki+8828302833
5Tyler Heinzelmann+86347−822654
6Lex Mott+9326002603
7Bryan Dortch+7524602463
8Shane Petitjean+8124502453

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Ryan Priebe — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 41 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Ryan Priebe0918/5:02.37615.692 fast · 16.799 avg119/5:02.92015.601 fast · 15.943 avg119/5:01.65315.611 fast · 15.876 avg
2Adam McKown2119/5:05.85515.486 fast · 16.098 avg519/5:08.74015.357 fast · 16.249 avg319/5:06.64115.470 fast · 16.139 avg
3Daniel Marino5319/5:09.30915.180 fast · 16.279 avg619/5:12.91515.569 fast · 16.469 avg419/5:07.14215.566 fast · 16.165 avg
4Wally Mayne81618/5:11.46915.830 fast · 17.304 avg419/5:06.49815.479 fast · 16.131 avg619/5:09.96415.776 fast · 16.314 avg
5Bentley Schwartz101418/5:06.05715.860 fast · 17.003 avg319/5:04.50415.416 fast · 16.027 avg919/5:17.67615.545 fast · 17.649 avg
6Matthew Hudak10419/5:10.49915.661 fast · 16.342 avg2217/5:01.38015.748 fast · 17.728 avg819/5:16.24815.700 fast · 16.645 avg
7Jacob Doron10719/5:20.01915.784 fast · 17.779 avg719/5:15.37415.782 fast · 16.599 avg519/5:07.80215.723 fast · 16.200 avg
8Ethan Maki13819/5:20.67615.886 fast · 16.878 avg1018/5:01.61215.658 fast · 16.756 avg719/5:12.53215.777 fast · 16.449 avg
9Mike Ellis16519/5:12.75715.786 fast · 16.461 avg2517/5:02.46615.797 fast · 17.792 avg1318/5:06.79116.015 fast · 17.044 avg
10Scott Walter171218/5:03.79616.284 fast · 16.878 avg819/5:17.93616.220 fast · 16.733 avg1118/5:04.07515.979 fast · 16.893 avg
11Brian Sullivan18619/5:13.07515.516 fast · 16.478 avg1418/5:10.62715.714 fast · 17.257 avg3515/4:08.242 (DNF)15.877 fast · 16.549 avg
12Dave Saul181118/5:03.74716.004 fast · 16.875 avg918/5:00.68716.186 fast · 16.705 avg1718/5:14.14715.949 fast · 17.453 avg
13T Main191018/5:02.53116.251 fast · 16.807 avg1118/5:03.86715.948 fast · 16.882 avg1418/5:09.15316.043 fast · 17.175 avg
14Chris Hall211318/5:04.02315.913 fast · 16.890 avg1618/5:12.87216.068 fast · 17.382 avg1018/5:03.79816.354 fast · 16.878 avg
15Lane Lazarz252218/5:16.22115.915 fast · 17.568 avg1218/5:05.51515.561 fast · 16.973 avg1518/5:09.71915.803 fast · 17.207 avg
16Eli Kuretich311518/5:06.51515.970 fast · 17.029 avg1818/5:13.76415.853 fast · 17.431 avg3912/3:35.927 (DNF)15.943 fast · 17.994 avg
17Jesse Walz332717/5:02.62016.514 fast · 17.801 avg1518/5:12.37116.555 fast · 17.354 avg2018/5:15.98616.641 fast · 17.555 avg
18Ken McKendrick343417/5:16.14516.316 fast · 18.597 avg2417/5:01.86115.905 fast · 17.757 avg1218/5:06.50316.021 fast · 18.030 avg
19Bryan Dortch34423/58.665 (DNF)17.419 fast · 19.555 avg1718/5:13.23416.162 fast · 17.402 avg1918/5:15.62716.227 fast · 17.535 avg
20Chris Boyer351718/5:12.46716.666 fast · 17.359 avg2018/5:16.06116.466 fast · 17.559 avg3715/5:04.01916.443 fast · 20.268 avg
21Gregory Akins372018/5:14.98516.285 fast · 17.499 avg1918/5:14.74816.431 fast · 17.486 avg2617/5:04.48616.130 fast · 17.911 avg
22Tyler Brown382418/5:21.26715.957 fast · 17.848 avg4211/3:06.305 (DNF)16.299 fast · 16.937 avg1618/5:11.61315.994 fast · 17.312 avg
23Chad Mishler381918/5:14.95816.342 fast · 17.498 avg2917/5:07.89616.576 fast · 18.112 avg2118/5:17.13416.348 fast · 17.619 avg
24Tyler Heinzelmann393517/5:18.14217.092 fast · 18.714 avg1318/5:06.98616.052 fast · 17.055 avg2817/5:07.82916.099 fast · 18.108 avg
25Lex Mott391818/5:13.32015.949 fast · 17.407 avg3117/5:12.05916.140 fast · 18.356 avg2318/5:29.78616.057 fast · 18.321 avg
26Zachary Kohler392517/5:01.22016.645 fast · 17.719 avg2317/5:01.51116.411 fast · 17.736 avg1818/5:15.08016.231 fast · 17.504 avg
27Brad Johnson422318/5:17.22616.704 fast · 17.624 avg2117/5:00.30316.592 fast · 17.665 avg3017/5:14.32716.658 fast · 18.490 avg
28Matthew Martin452118/5:15.72016.517 fast · 17.540 avg2617/5:03.76616.492 fast · 17.869 avg2717/5:05.70216.488 fast · 17.983 avg
29Aaron Rees462617/5:01.75415.555 fast · 17.750 avg3017/5:09.04415.483 fast · 18.179 avg2218/5:19.02515.658 fast · 17.724 avg
30Rich Yox522917/5:05.62916.706 fast · 17.978 avg3217/5:17.10716.589 fast · 18.653 avg2517/5:04.44516.272 fast · 17.909 avg
31Mike Cook533117/5:10.74616.707 fast · 18.279 avg3316/5:00.55616.931 fast · 18.785 avg2417/5:00.40416.718 fast · 17.671 avg
32Blake Yox563017/5:06.31516.738 fast · 18.019 avg2817/5:07.36016.538 fast · 18.080 avg3117/5:18.64416.209 fast · 18.744 avg
33Avery Holyfield573217/5:14.58416.417 fast · 18.505 avg2717/5:04.15416.349 fast · 17.891 avg4110/3:00.317 (DNF)15.986 fast · 18.032 avg
34Jack Boutton592817/5:03.22316.443 fast · 18.951 avg3716/5:13.06716.028 fast · 19.567 avg3316/5:03.66516.109 fast · 20.244 avg
35Carlos Swenson643716/5:14.68517.164 fast · 19.668 avg3816/5:15.72916.851 fast · 19.733 avg2917/5:12.54516.314 fast · 18.385 avg
36Dwayne Henderson663317/5:15.40417.114 fast · 18.553 avg3516/5:07.00817.295 fast · 19.188 avg4012/3:48.836 (DNF)17.265 fast · 19.070 avg
37Lewis Warner663616/5:11.97917.152 fast · 19.499 avg3416/5:03.69417.133 fast · 18.981 avg3416/5:07.62817.404 fast · 19.227 avg
38Zach Shannon683816/5:16.43616.511 fast · 19.777 avg3916/5:23.58517.083 fast · 20.224 avg3216/5:00.77816.523 fast · 18.799 avg
39Lance Brownsworth733915/5:07.97317.703 fast · 20.532 avg3616/5:11.79517.585 fast · 19.487 avg4210/3:21.300 (DNF)18.034 fast · 20.130 avg
40Joseph Iannucci744015/5:09.68718.267 fast · 20.646 avg4015/5:03.16217.030 fast · 20.211 avg3615/5:02.56018.240 fast · 20.171 avg
41Matthew Whitehead774113/5:11.47518.383 fast · 23.960 avg4113/5:04.94318.827 fast · 23.457 avg3813/5:01.40418.701 fast · 23.185 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Adam McKown1P219/5:00.22015.35915.88097.81%+100
2Ryan Priebe2P119/5:02.10815.46516.00297.47%no licence
3Ethan Maki3P819/5:04.17415.53815.92097.80%+98
4Daniel Marino4P319/5:04.85715.17916.09595.87%no licence
5Jacob Doron5P719/5:13.46915.55816.46294.11%no licence
6Matthew Hudak6P619/5:17.35315.61216.71592.47%no licence
7Wally Mayne7P419/5:14.57015.16416.61790.56%no licence
8Bentley Schwartz8P519/5:17.65315.34116.77292.17%no licence
9T Mainbumped up9P918/5:03.68215.91616.80393.50%no licence
10Scott Walterbumped up10P1018/5:13.92115.83017.25190.45%no licence
B-main
1T Mainup to the AP522/6:00.55915.81816.24798.35%–
2Scott Walterup to the AP222/6:03.91616.01216.55895.91%–
3Lane Lazarz11P722/6:09.07915.74216.66194.78%+90
4Brian Sullivan12P322/6:10.31415.70916.91291.40%no licence
5Bryan Dortchbumped up13P921/6:04.07415.76017.15192.57%+88
6Dave Saul14P421/6:14.78216.01417.43093.17%no licence
7Mike Ellis15P120/6:01.31715.74617.95988.50%no licence
8Eli Kuretich16P820/6:05.06315.80617.88089.33%no licence
9Tyler Brownbumped up17P1020/6:12.50515.82218.33887.22%no licence
10Chris Hall18P69/2:52.064 (DNF)16.55419.04791.77%no licence
C-main
1Bryan Dortchup to the BP321/6:02.67916.69217.31096.29%–
2Tyler Brownup to the BP621/6:03.43916.12417.21095.42%–
3Tyler Heinzelmann19P821/6:05.95816.26717.17392.01%+82
4Ken McKendrick20P221/6:06.23216.23117.43891.27%no licence
5Aaron Reesbumped up21P921/6:07.00515.80317.44888.32%no licence
6Jesse Walz22P121/6:15.07116.07517.71887.61%no licence
7Chad Mishler23P720/6:03.06016.41718.12387.17%+78
8Gregory Akins24P520/6:04.01916.40918.22685.89%no licence
9Chris Boyer25P420/6:08.82716.37318.51487.02%no licence
10Mike Cookbumped up26P1020/6:09.69816.50718.39990.83%+75
D-main
1Aaron Reesup to the CP519/5:13.29815.78316.32697.46%–
2Mike Cookup to the CP718/5:14.06416.83317.41795.19%–
3Zachary Kohler27P217/5:01.66816.14817.85985.02%no licence
4Rich Yox28P617/5:06.86016.43217.89588.36%no licence
5Lex Mott29P117/5:06.99316.27519.29173.16%+72
6Avery Holyfieldbumped up30P917/5:16.26216.14618.51986.35%no licence
7Matthew Martin31P417/5:17.17215.92718.74087.85%no licence
8Blake Yox32P816/5:00.70815.21418.72482.31%no licence
9Brad Johnson33P316/5:02.61216.45418.66279.72%no licence
10Joseph Iannuccibumped up34P1016/5:15.07217.43319.55188.82%no licence
E-main
1Avery Holyfieldup to the DP117/5:05.58416.56118.11792.48%–
2Joseph Iannucciup to the DP817/5:08.94217.19418.03996.06%–
3Carlos Swenson35P317/5:16.65616.84218.55192.21%no licence
4Dwayne Henderson36P416/5:06.26617.02819.31188.61%no licence
5Lance Brownsworth37P716/5:12.34417.48619.52092.39%no licence
6Zach Shannon38P616/5:13.92016.63119.27587.91%+63
7Matthew Whitehead39P916/5:21.20717.41119.67490.97%no licence
8Lewis Warner40P57/2:14.849 (DNF)17.52418.87094.28%no licence
9Jack Boutton41P20/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Adam McKown 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 1/5/3

    Won the opening heat, backed it with a 5th and a 3rd for a qualifying score of 4, then won the first A-main from the outside of the front row. A 4th in the second was all he needed once the worst score dropped, and a total of 1 took the round on the tiebreak. 100 points hauls him to the top of the championship on 195 from two starts. Macomb owed him nothing and he took it anyway.

  2. 2nd
    Ryan Priebe no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 9/1/1 · TQ

    Recovered from a 9th in the opening heat by winning the next two, a qualifying score of 2 and the TQ with room to spare. He went 2nd and then 1st in the mains for a total of 1, identical to Adam McKown's, and lost the round on the tiebreak. Pole, a main win and no licence to convert it into a single championship point.

  3. 3rd
    Ethan Maki 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 15 · Q 8/10/7

    Squeaked into the seeded eight on a score of 15, the highest of the eight, and then wrote the best story of the round with it. A 4th and a 2nd in the A-mains made a total of 2 and a podium, which is five grid places gained and 98 points collected. That moves him to 186 and second in the championship, and it makes qualifying look rather less important than everyone pretends.

  4. 4th
    Daniel Marino no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 3/6/4

    A qualifying score of 7 off a 3rd, a 6th and a 4th, with no drama attached to any of it, and third on the grid as the reward. He then ran 3rd in both A-mains for a total of 3, hitting the same number twice in a row, which is more than most of this field managed. Fourth on the day, entirely on merit.

  5. 5th
    Jacob Doron no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 12 · Q 7/7/5

    Two 7ths and a 5th made a qualifying score of 12 and seventh on the grid. The first A-main was a disaster at 10th, dead last, and the second was a 5th, and with the worst result dropped that was worth fifth overall. In a two-main format one bad race is close to a rounding error, and he proved it.

  6. 6th
    Matthew Hudak no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 4/22/8

    Owned the worst single heat result of anyone in the seeded eight, a 22nd in the middle qualifier, and it cost him nothing at all because the 4th and the 8th were the two that counted. That is a score of 12 and sixth on the grid, converted into a 5th and a 7th for a total of 5. Level with Jacob Doron and a tiebreak behind him.

  7. 7th
    Wally Mayne no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 16/4/6

    A 16th in the opening heat was a bad start; the 4th and 6th that followed repaired it and left him fourth on the grid with a score of 10. The mains slid the other way, 8th then 6th for a total of 6, and three grid positions quietly went missing over the course of the day. Seventh is still a full A-main weekend.

  8. 8th
    Bentley Schwartz no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 12 · Q 14/3/9

    Buried a 14th in the first qualifier and answered it with a 3rd, which is how a score of 12 and fifth on the grid happen. A 6th in the first A looked like business as usual before a 10th in the second; the drop rule bailed him out and a total of 6 tied him with Wally Mayne. Eighth on the tiebreak, but present in the big race all day.

  9. 9th
    T Main no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P13 · bumped up from the B · qual score 21 · Q 10/11/14

    Got into the A the hard way, bumping up with no seeded spot at all, then ran 7th and 8th in the two mains for a total of 7. Ninth on the day in a field where eight of the ten cars around him arrived with a grid slot already in hand. An entry ticket earned rather than issued.

  10. 10th
    Scott Walter no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 12/8/11

    The other bump-up in the A, and he produced a pair of results you could set a clock by: 9th, then 9th again, for a total of 9. Tenth on the day, but he made the biggest race of the weekend without a seed and finished both runnings of it, which is not nothing in an entry this size.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Lane Lazarz 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 27 · Q 22/12/15

    One place off the A-main and outside the seeded eight, which is the most annoying square on the board to land on. It still pays 90 points, and that lifts him to 184 and third in the championship, two behind Ethan Maki and eleven off the lead. Nothing lost but the fun of racing in the main event.

  13. 13th
    Bryan Dortch 88 ptsbumped up
    88 pts · qualified P19 · bumped up from the C · qual score 36 · Q 42/17/19

    The C-main went to him from third on the grid, twenty-one laps in 6:02.679, and that was his ticket into the B. Gridded ninth in there he moved up to fifth and found nearly a second of fast lap on his C run, 15.760 against 16.692, which rather suggests the C was never where he belonged. Thirteenth overall is 88 points and a 13-place jump on Brookfield, leaving him sixth in the championship on 163 from two starts.

  14. 19th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P24 · qual score 41 · Q 35/13/28

    A 19th from outside the seeded eight is four places and four points worse than his Brookfield weekend, which in this scoring system is the definition of a shrug. He sits fourth on 168 from two starts, and at this stage of a five-round series that says as much about turning up as it does about pace.

  15. 23rd
    Chad Mishler 78 pts
    78 pts · qualified P23 · qual score 40 · Q 19/29/21

    First appearance on the board this season and a good one, 23rd overall from outside the seeded eight for 78 points and ninth in the championship on a single start. Everybody above him except Leo Dake and Shane Petitjean already has two rounds banked, which makes the 78 look considerably better than the position does.

  16. 26th
    Mike Cook 75 ptsbumped up
    75 pts · qualified P31 · bumped up from the D · qual score 55 · Q 31/33/24

    A qualifying score that left him 31st of 41 meant the day started in the D-main, and second place there, from seventh on the grid, bought a step up to the C. That one did not go the same way — last on the grid, last at the flag — though he did trim his fast lap to 16.507 in the process. Twenty-sixth overall for 75 points opens his account, with three rounds still to come and only the best three of them counting.

  17. 29th
    Lex Mott 72 pts
    72 pts · qualified P25 · qual score 41 · Q 18/31/23

    Came in fourth in the championship and went out 29th on the day, a rough weekend by any reading, and the 72 points are his to keep whether he wants them or not. He slips to fifth on 165, still only 30 behind Adam McKown, with the best-three rule sitting there waiting to forgive precisely this sort of round.

  18. 38th
    Zach Shannon 63 pts
    63 pts · qualified P38 · qual score 70 · Q 38/39/32

    The deepest finisher on the scoring list at 38th, worth 63 points from outside the seeded eight. In a five-round series where only your best three count, the first result on the card is also the cheapest one to eventually spend.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Two rounds scored and the championship is still reading straight, with every driver in the top ten showing a best-three figure identical to their raw total because nobody has started more than two events. Adam McKown leads on 195 off a 6th and a win, with Ethan Maki on 186 and Lane Lazarz on 184 behind him, a top three covered by less than a single bad main. The story underneath is attendance: Leo Dake sits seventh on 99 having skipped Macomb entirely, and that leaves him 64 adrift of Bryan Dortch, who has done nothing more dramatic than turn up twice. Chad Mishler and Charles Kock are level on 78 with one start each and the whole thing still in front of them. Three rounds remain and the discard has yet to come into play, so showing up is currently worth more than winning.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Adam McKown+10029502953
2Leo Dake–28802883
3Lane Lazarz+90377−902874
4Ethan Maki+9828302833
5Tyler Heinzelmann+82347−822654
6Lex Mott+7226002603
7Bryan Dortch+8824602463
8Shane Petitjean–24502453

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Stephen Shuey — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 25 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Stephen Shuey0119/5:16.02916.250 fast · 16.633 avg119/5:14.58816.332 fast · 16.557 avg419/5:24.83516.051 fast · 17.097 avg
2Ethan Maki3418/5:04.08716.306 fast · 16.894 avg418/5:00.52816.444 fast · 16.696 avg119/5:15.27116.256 fast · 16.593 avg
3Blaine Gould4318/5:03.80316.519 fast · 16.878 avg618/5:03.59616.343 fast · 16.866 avg319/5:21.19516.324 fast · 16.905 avg
4Lex Mott8718/5:10.50316.817 fast · 17.250 avg318/5:00.43316.320 fast · 16.691 avg818/5:08.31316.342 fast · 17.129 avg
5Lane Lazarz8518/5:06.18516.669 fast · 17.010 avg718/5:07.33916.591 fast · 17.074 avg518/5:02.43516.614 fast · 16.802 avg
6John Eidsmoe9618/5:08.76716.507 fast · 17.154 avg518/5:02.99816.590 fast · 16.833 avg718/5:07.57716.592 fast · 18.093 avg
7Mason Burke12818/5:11.34316.603 fast · 17.297 avg818/5:10.76716.449 fast · 17.265 avg618/5:07.48116.688 fast · 17.082 avg
8Ryan Hovis161417/5:01.70616.261 fast · 17.747 avg918/5:10.83316.482 fast · 17.269 avg918/5:11.04316.573 fast · 17.280 avg
9Jacob Heidbreder181018/5:15.02116.558 fast · 17.501 avg1018/5:11.84916.706 fast · 17.325 avg1018/5:11.41216.414 fast · 17.301 avg
10Leo Dake19918/5:12.71416.870 fast · 17.373 avg1218/5:12.65616.699 fast · 17.370 avg2017/5:11.87016.769 fast · 18.345 avg
11Dayn Hoeli201218/5:17.95616.836 fast · 17.664 avg1118/5:12.04816.819 fast · 17.336 avg1118/5:11.85116.719 fast · 17.325 avg
12Evan Sandberg241118/5:15.73216.923 fast · 17.541 avg1717/5:04.99916.677 fast · 17.941 avg1518/5:14.90816.799 fast · 17.495 avg
13Bryan Dortch251317/5:00.44016.938 fast · 17.673 avg2017/5:11.69816.707 fast · 18.335 avg1418/5:14.68916.857 fast · 17.483 avg
14Chad Mishler271917/5:09.34117.118 fast · 18.197 avg1617/5:03.36516.919 fast · 17.845 avg1318/5:14.54817.006 fast · 17.475 avg
15Brian Fraley271717/5:06.12816.678 fast · 18.008 avg1318/5:16.40116.889 fast · 17.578 avg1618/5:15.49316.800 fast · 17.527 avg
16Tyler Heinzelmann271517/5:04.67017.008 fast · 17.922 avg1418/5:18.49117.078 fast · 17.694 avg1718/5:17.43416.899 fast · 17.635 avg
17Ronnie Wint321617/5:05.31017.439 fast · 17.959 avg1917/5:10.94317.454 fast · 18.291 avg1817/5:06.05717.265 fast · 18.003 avg
18Tyler Steele33273/55.871 (DNF)17.211 fast · 18.624 avg2317/5:16.50816.943 fast · 18.618 avg1218/5:12.57616.827 fast · 17.365 avg
19Doug Oakley332017/5:10.27317.292 fast · 18.251 avg1517/5:02.43017.274 fast · 17.790 avg270/0.000 (DNS)
20Shane Petitjean341817/5:07.05817.211 fast · 18.062 avg1817/5:09.29617.174 fast · 18.194 avg2316/5:02.13417.300 fast · 18.883 avg
21Mike Cook412416/5:03.97618.197 fast · 18.999 avg2416/5:01.54817.567 fast · 18.847 avg1917/5:10.94617.838 fast · 18.291 avg
22Trevor Warner422316/5:03.27117.547 fast · 18.954 avg2117/5:13.07117.625 fast · 18.416 avg2516/5:04.57117.487 fast · 19.036 avg
23Zach Shannon422217/5:25.23517.526 fast · 19.131 avg2217/5:15.08317.578 fast · 18.534 avg2217/5:17.12417.450 fast · 18.654 avg
24Samm Sienknecht432117/5:17.55617.619 fast · 18.680 avg2616/5:10.65217.081 fast · 19.416 avg2416/5:02.80317.335 fast · 18.925 avg
25Bill Moeller442516/5:06.45817.680 fast · 19.154 avg2716/5:11.86517.614 fast · 19.492 avg2117/5:15.98517.554 fast · 18.587 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Stephen Shuey1P119/5:14.95016.18916.50599.03%no licence
2Blaine Gould2P318/5:04.06316.41116.70098.91%no licence
3John Eidsmoe3P618/5:04.15416.51416.77998.68%no licence
4Ethan Maki4P218/5:07.14416.17116.78397.39%+97
5Lane Lazarz5P518/5:08.40416.57017.00796.90%+96
6Lex Mott6P418/5:08.05616.48016.97694.52%+95
7Mason Burke7P718/5:10.75016.43216.88398.67%no licence
8Leo Dakebumped up8P918/5:15.57416.58817.32594.58%+93
9Ryan Hovis9P817/5:05.81516.52117.76291.26%no licence
10Dayn Hoelibumped up10P1017/5:10.13316.78317.87191.56%no licence
B-main
1Leo Dakeup to the AP222/6:16.86016.59217.09198.37%–
2Dayn Hoeliup to the AP321/6:05.48816.61517.34996.23%–
3Jacob Heidbreder11P121/6:11.14216.68217.68292.13%no licence
4Shane Petitjeanbumped up12P1020/6:03.47617.35717.99596.75%+89
5Chad Mishler13P620/6:06.67516.88018.23488.67%+88
6Evan Sandberg14P420/6:07.79116.93218.34291.65%no licence
7Tyler Heinzelmann15P820/6:08.73517.18818.29088.81%+86
8Tyler Steelebumped up16P920/6:08.96316.88618.05592.89%no licence
9Brian Fraley17P720/6:09.11316.97318.33993.29%no licence
10Bryan Dortch18P516/4:52.390 (DNF)16.81018.04991.68%+83
C-main
1Tyler Steeleup to the BP221/6:14.66616.89017.65894.35%–
2Shane Petitjeanup to the BP420/6:08.50917.21618.30993.77%–
3Ronnie Wint19P120/6:18.28417.44518.74088.70%+82
4Samm Sienknecht20P819/6:02.04917.31318.82190.30%no licence
5Mike Cook21P519/6:02.15217.67818.84793.29%+80
6Trevor Warner22P619/6:05.83117.12018.79086.97%no licence
7Zach Shannon23P719/6:09.85517.31919.33486.31%+78
8Bill Moeller24P919/6:24.31517.20719.74479.72%no licence
9Doug Oakley25P36/2:03.031 (DNF)17.75918.37693.92%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Stephen Shuey no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/4 · TQ

    Won the first two heats for a qualifying score of 2 and the TQ, then won both A-mains for a total of 1. Pole, both mains, nothing left on the table anywhere on the sheet; the only item missing is a series licence to turn it into points. Muscatine belonged to him from the first heat onward.

  2. 2nd
    Blaine Gould no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 6 · Q 3/6/3

    Two 3rds and a 6th made a qualifying score of 6 and the inside of row two. He turned that into a 2nd and a 3rd in the mains for a total of 2, which is the closest anyone got to Stephen Shuey all weekend. Nobody in the top three of this A-main held a series licence, which made the points table read very strangely indeed.

  3. 3rd
    John Eidsmoe no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 6/5/7

    A qualifying score of 11 put him sixth on the grid, and the first A-main went to script with a 6th. The second one did not: a 2nd, and with the worst result dropped that made a total of 2, level with Blaine Gould and a tiebreak away from the runner-up spot. Three grid positions gained in the races that mattered.

  4. 4th
    Ethan Maki 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 5 · Q 4/4/1

    Won the third qualifier and paired it with a 4th for a score of 5 and the front row. The mains gave him a 3rd and a 4th for a total of 3, fourth on the day but first among the drivers actually collecting championship points. That is 97 points and the championship lead on 283 from three starts, which makes him the man everybody else is now chasing.

  5. 5th
    Lane Lazarz 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 5/7/5

    Two 5ths and a 7th made a qualifying score of 10 and fifth on the grid, and he held the line with a 4th and a 6th in the mains for a total of 4. 96 points is his best haul of the season and lifts him to 280, three adrift of Ethan Maki with the pair of them now clear of the rest. Third round, third genuinely useful weekend.

  6. 6th
    Lex Mott 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 7/3/8

    The 3rd in his middle heat rescued a qualifying score of 10 and earned fourth on the grid, and then he went 5th and 5th in the mains for a total of 5. After the 29th at Macomb, 95 points is exactly the medicine required, and it leaves him third in the championship on 260 from three starts.

  7. 7th
    Mason Burke no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 14 · Q 8/8/6

    Qualifying gave him an 8th, an 8th and a 6th for a score of 14 and seventh on the grid, followed by a 7th in both A-mains for a total of 7 and seventh overall. Grid position honoured to the letter, twice, with nothing borrowed and nothing given away. Some drivers gamble; this one filed a tax return.

  8. 8th
    Leo Dake 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 21 · Q 9/12/20

    No top-eight seed this time, so he bumped his way into the A and then hit the same wall twice, going 8th and 8th for a total of 8. It is still 93 points, and after sitting out Macomb entirely he now holds seventh in the championship on 192 from two starts. Making the A without a seed remains a better afternoon than most of this entry had.

  9. 9th
    Ryan Hovis no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 18 · Q 14/9/9

    Scraped the final seeded slot with a qualifying score of 18, the highest of the eight, off a 14th and a pair of 9ths. The mains then handed him the same number he had already run twice, 9th and 9th, for a total of 9 and ninth overall. There is at least a pleasing symmetry to the whole thing.

  10. 10th
    Dayn Hoeli no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 22 · Q 12/11/11

    Bumped into the A-main without a seed, which is the hard route in, and then ran 10th in both runnings for a total of 10. Last of the ten, but every driver who never got out of a lower main finished behind him, and there were a lot of those. Getting there on merit from outside the eight is the entire point of a bump.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 12th
    Shane Petitjean 89 ptsbumped up
    89 pts · qualified P20 · bumped up from the C · qual score 36 · Q 18/18/23

    Qualifying twentieth of twenty-five put him in the C-main, where second from fourth on the grid was enough to move him up. The B then handed him the tenth and final slot on the grid and he drove through six cars to finish fourth, lapping quicker on average than he had in the C, 17.995 against 18.309. Twelfth overall is 89 points, comfortably his best of the season after the 81 at Brookfield, and it makes 170 from two starts and eighth in the championship.

  13. 13th
    Chad Mishler 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 29 · Q 19/16/13

    Followed his 78 at Macomb with an 88 here, 13th overall from outside the seeded eight, and he is ninth in the championship on 166 from two starts. Progress at this depth of the field is a slow burn, but both of his numbers are moving in the direction that pays.

  14. 15th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 29 · Q 15/14/17

    A 15th again, the same finish and the same 86 points he took at Brookfield, from outside the seeded eight for the third round running. He is fourth in the championship on 254 from three starts, which is what happens when you never miss a round. Not spectacular; extremely effective.

  15. 18th
    Bryan Dortch 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 27 · Q 13/20/14

    Slotted an 18th neatly between his previous two results, worth 83 points from outside the seeded eight. That is 246 and fifth in the championship on three starts, which is the reward for a season with no gaps anywhere in it.

  16. 19th
    Ronnie Wint 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P17 · qual score 34 · Q 16/19/18

    First name on his season's card, a 19th worth 82 points from outside the seeded eight. Arriving at round three means two events have already gone by without him, but with two rounds still to run he can still assemble a full three-event score.

  17. 21st
    Mike Cook 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 43 · Q 24/24/19

    Up from 26th at Macomb to 21st here, and the 80 points take him to 155 and tenth in the championship from two starts. Improving from outside the seeded eight is not glamorous work, but it has put him in the top ten.

  18. 23rd
    Zach Shannon 78 pts
    78 pts · qualified P23 · qual score 44 · Q 22/22/22

    A giant stride from the 38th at Macomb to 23rd here, worth 78 points and a 15-point improvement in a single round from outside the seeded eight. Not enough for the top ten yet, but the direction of travel is completely unambiguous.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Three rounds in and the championship finally has some tension in it: Ethan Maki leads on 283 from Lane Lazarz on 280, and both figures are raw totals across three starts, so neither man is yet carrying a discarded result. Everyone in the top five has run all three rounds, which is why the table rewards attendance as heavily as it does speed. Adam McKown has a win and 195 from two starts and sits sixth, 88 behind a leader who has not won a round all year. Lex Mott's 260 still includes the 72 he took for a 29th at Macomb, a number he will be delighted to bin the moment he starts a fourth event, while Leo Dake's 192 from two starts needs only one more scoring weekend to put him right back in the argument. With two rounds left, the drivers on two starts hold the freer hand and the drivers on three hold the lead.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Adam McKown–29502953
2Leo Dake+9328802883
3Lane Lazarz+96377−902874
4Ethan Maki+9728302833
5Tyler Heinzelmann+86347−822654
6Lex Mott+9526002603
7Bryan Dortch+8324602463
8Shane Petitjean+8924502453

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Beau Jacobsen — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 34 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Beau Jacobsen0113/5:22.04523.588 fast · 24.773 avg113/5:23.69523.754 fast · 24.900 avg113/5:16.97323.663 fast · 24.383 avg
2Leo Dake4712/5:10.63524.638 fast · 25.886 avg312/5:02.82024.394 fast · 25.235 avg312/5:04.12224.820 fast · 25.344 avg
3Adam McKown5312/5:04.07724.495 fast · 25.340 avg412/5:04.07524.325 fast · 25.340 avg412/5:05.81924.489 fast · 25.485 avg
4Anthony Santi8412/5:05.99825.143 fast · 25.500 avg1112/5:16.90324.767 fast · 26.409 avg612/5:12.11125.024 fast · 26.009 avg
5Wayne Schroeder9612/5:07.80824.903 fast · 25.651 avg512/5:06.08224.482 fast · 25.507 avg712/5:12.19924.909 fast · 26.017 avg
6Lane Lazarz10512/5:06.14724.562 fast · 25.512 avg712/5:07.91024.309 fast · 25.659 avg1412/5:20.61124.599 fast · 26.718 avg
7Alton Henley131512/5:29.03424.021 fast · 27.420 avg1012/5:15.65824.601 fast · 26.305 avg512/5:11.24124.401 fast · 25.937 avg
8Tyler Heinzelmann152111/5:02.48625.232 fast · 27.499 avg612/5:07.83224.842 fast · 25.653 avg1112/5:17.60325.168 fast · 26.467 avg
9Ben Ludlum15912/5:16.04324.704 fast · 26.337 avg812/5:10.02224.698 fast · 25.835 avg1612/5:23.73125.306 fast · 26.978 avg
10Ryley Howard15812/5:15.62125.335 fast · 26.302 avg1512/5:19.20025.189 fast · 26.600 avg912/5:16.76524.940 fast · 26.397 avg
11Mathew Schroeder18337/3:11.621 (DNF)25.548 fast · 27.374 avg1212/5:18.27924.906 fast · 26.523 avg812/5:12.62925.054 fast · 26.052 avg
12Ronnie Wint201012/5:20.90824.843 fast · 26.742 avg1712/5:24.57324.891 fast · 27.048 avg1212/5:17.79325.091 fast · 26.483 avg
13Aaron Kuhn221412/5:28.03125.310 fast · 27.336 avg1412/5:19.19525.460 fast · 26.600 avg1012/5:17.29025.119 fast · 26.441 avg
14David Miller231212/5:24.39226.047 fast · 27.033 avg1612/5:23.11025.438 fast · 26.926 avg1312/5:18.41525.339 fast · 26.535 avg
15Charlie Kleinhagen241911/5:01.05325.430 fast · 27.368 avg912/5:13.66025.230 fast · 26.138 avg1712/5:23.99024.996 fast · 26.999 avg
16Cody Ervin291612/5:30.95925.679 fast · 27.580 avg2511/5:19.30225.430 fast · 29.027 avg1512/5:23.53225.943 fast · 26.961 avg
17Jayme Peavler301112/5:24.29624.591 fast · 27.025 avg2111/5:08.35524.641 fast · 28.032 avg2311/5:07.14124.800 fast · 27.922 avg
18Shane Petitjean302211/5:08.39426.009 fast · 28.036 avg1312/5:18.80025.738 fast · 26.567 avg1911/5:02.23625.320 fast · 27.476 avg
19Charles Kock301312/5:24.89026.328 fast · 27.074 avg1911/5:06.09226.428 fast · 27.827 avg2611/5:12.95426.294 fast · 28.450 avg
20Alexander Eichler341811/5:00.40625.702 fast · 27.310 avg1811/5:00.42326.290 fast · 27.311 avg2111/5:03.14925.646 fast · 27.559 avg
21Kyrie Barritt362910/5:02.52127.727 fast · 30.252 avg2011/5:07.12526.659 fast · 27.920 avg1811/5:01.01026.353 fast · 27.365 avg
22Matthew Leibman371711/5:00.10926.088 fast · 27.283 avg2211/5:08.45026.034 fast · 28.041 avg2711/5:18.19025.819 fast · 28.926 avg
23Derek Lewis402011/5:01.84526.113 fast · 27.440 avg343/1:25.819 (DNF)27.434 fast · 28.606 avg2211/5:06.59325.250 fast · 27.872 avg
24Jayden Alvarado422411/5:08.47125.475 fast · 28.043 avg2411/5:17.22926.008 fast · 28.839 avg2011/5:02.51925.183 fast · 27.502 avg
25Benjamin Cropper453010/5:04.08927.638 fast · 30.409 avg2311/5:10.61526.820 fast · 28.238 avg2411/5:09.14726.855 fast · 28.104 avg
26Milo Brown492311/5:08.41925.363 fast · 28.038 avg2811/5:27.08824.993 fast · 29.735 avg3110/5:02.83825.159 fast · 30.284 avg
27Chris Brown492611/5:16.96826.575 fast · 28.815 avg337/3:35.587 (DNF)26.602 fast · 30.798 avg2511/5:11.19926.403 fast · 28.291 avg
28Jakob Otten512511/5:08.58426.342 fast · 28.053 avg3010/5:11.92127.146 fast · 31.192 avg2811/5:18.54726.806 fast · 28.959 avg
29Jerry Doherty53350/0.0002611/5:20.02528.046 fast · 29.093 avg2911/5:20.03327.284 fast · 29.094 avg
30Jeremy Jordan532811/5:27.37427.308 fast · 29.761 avg2711/5:23.38027.773 fast · 29.398 avg3210/5:12.92126.819 fast · 31.292 avg
31Chuck Kleinhagen3542711/5:22.51427.197 fast · 29.319 avg2910/5:04.89726.326 fast · 30.490 avg3010/5:00.54527.105 fast · 30.055 avg
32Chuck Copple603110/5:20.40029.124 fast · 32.040 avg3110/5:25.38029.694 fast · 32.538 avg350/0.000 (DNS)
33Jordan Jenkins623210/5:22.77728.630 fast · 32.278 avg329/5:13.05229.933 fast · 34.784 avg349/5:17.23231.212 fast · 35.248 avg
34Trevor Brinkman65342/1:10.655 (DNF)31.209 fast · 35.328 avg350/0.000 (DNS)3310/5:19.57126.842 fast · 31.957 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Adam McKown1P313/5:15.89124.27924.70698.43%+100
2Beau Jacobsen2P113/5:17.56224.01224.94694.81%no licence
3Wayne Schroeder3P512/5:02.04724.81825.51496.50%no licence
4Lane Lazarz4P613/5:21.85724.39625.03997.23%+97
5Leo Dake5P212/5:06.46924.36825.94492.88%+96
6Anthony Santi6P412/5:08.35924.81626.04595.89%no licence
7Alton Henley7P712/5:07.86024.03025.85593.28%no licence
8Tyler Heinzelmann8P812/5:11.28124.90726.15895.25%+93
9Ryley Howardbumped up9P1012/5:16.59325.19526.41295.44%no licence
10Mathew Schroederbumped up10P912/5:10.37024.12426.23792.24%no licence
B-main
1Mathew Schroederup to the AP314/6:04.78525.28826.54195.34%–
2Ryley Howardup to the AP214/6:10.47125.55926.91793.95%–
3David Miller11P614/6:13.30725.96326.96396.31%no licence
4Ben Ludlum12P114/6:15.75425.71927.41291.34%no licence
5Charlie Kleinhagen13P714/6:18.79425.83927.43893.54%no licence
6Cody Ervin14P814/6:19.20525.63427.25295.06%+87
7Ronnie Wint15P413/6:00.10025.17928.23792.53%+86
8Charles Kockbumped up16P1013/6:01.47625.98927.83595.07%+85
9Jayme Peavlerbumped up17P912/6:11.51526.58831.40789.89%no licence
10Aaron Kuhn18P55/2:32.862 (DNF)26.94130.93789.68%no licence
C-main
1Jayme Peavlerup to the BP114/6:07.48924.80326.81992.15%–
2Charles Kockup to the BP314/6:15.14525.67527.27595.57%–
3Benjamin Cropperbumped up19P1014/6:26.30726.61527.90495.48%no licence
4Milo Brownbumped up20P913/5:53.584 (DNF)25.56027.27491.34%no licence
5Alexander Eichler21P413/6:02.98225.94927.95892.08%no licence
6Matthew Leibman22P613/6:09.98826.53328.98594.69%no licence
7Derek Lewis23P713/6:11.50026.70628.86795.04%no licence
8Kyrie Barritt24P513/6:19.21626.83929.70591.59%+77
9Jayden Alvarado25P813/6:30.59626.41130.38490.81%no licence
10Shane Petitjean26P24/1:48.898 (DNF)26.95027.97495.32%+75
D-main
1Milo Brownup to the CP212/5:16.15225.36326.94893.37%–
2Benjamin Cropperup to the CP111/5:00.83226.80727.93395.55%–
3Trevor Brinkman27P1011/5:07.95926.18628.49391.86%no licence
4Chuck Kleinhagen328P711/5:11.78326.12528.69293.67%no licence
5Jeremy Jordan29P611/5:21.31527.85729.72191.73%no licence
6Chris Brown30P310/5:06.13327.46631.28688.80%no licence
7Jordan Jenkins31P99/5:03.82929.35434.04490.13%no licence
8Jerry Doherty32P58/5:13.08528.26530.05394.81%no licence
9Jakob Otten33P42/52.095 (DNF)29.91229.912–no licence
10Chuck Copple34P80/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified. A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so a run cut shorter than that shows none.

  1. 1st
    Adam McKown 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 3/4/4

    Qualified third on a score of 7 and then opened the A-mains with a 10th, dead last, which is the worst imaginable way to start a day. He simply won the second one, and because the worst score drops, a 10 and a 1 became a total of 1 and the round win on the tiebreak. 100 points, his second victory of the season, and the championship lead on 295 from three starts with nothing yet discarded.

  2. 2nd
    Beau Jacobsen no points TQ
    no series licence · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/1 · TQ

    Won all three qualifiers, 1st, 1st and 1st for a score of 2 and the TQ, which is everything the sheet has to give, then won the first A-main from pole. A 2nd in the second main left him on a total of 1, identical to Adam McKown's, and the tiebreak took the round away from him. Perfect qualifying, a main win, and no licence to turn any of it into championship points; Omaha was cruel.

  3. 3rd
    Wayne Schroeder no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 6/5/7

    A 6th, a 5th and a 7th for a qualifying score of 11 and fifth on the grid, and then a 2nd in the first A-main that nobody on row three had any business producing. The second was a 5th, and the drop rule turned the pair into a total of 2 and a podium. That is the best finish of anyone who started outside the top four on the grid.

  4. 4th
    Lane Lazarz 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 5/7/14

    Sixth on the grid off a qualifying score of 12, and he beat that in both mains, a 4th and a 3rd for a total of 3 and fourth on the day. 97 points is his best of the season and gives him a raw total of 377 from four starts, more than anyone else in this class has scored all year. The catch is that only three count, so the championship reads 287 and third, with the 90 from Macomb now dead weight.

  5. 5th
    Leo Dake 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 6 · Q 7/3/3

    Two 3rds after an opening 7th made a qualifying score of 6 and the front row. The mains produced a 3rd and a 4th for a total of 3, the same figure as Lane Lazarz, and this time the tiebreak went the other way. Still 96 points, still only three starts on the card, and 288 puts him second in the championship, seven off the lead.

  6. 6th
    Anthony Santi no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 4/11/6

    Bookended an 11th with a 4th and a 6th for a qualifying score of 10 and fourth on the grid. The mains were a 5th and a 7th for a total of 5 and sixth overall, so two positions were surrendered, but it was a clean weekend in the biggest race on the property.

  7. 7th
    Alton Henley no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 15 · Q 15/10/5

    Began qualifying with a 15th and ended it with a 5th, which is a score of 15 and seventh on the grid. A 9th in the first main was not the plan; the 6th in the second was, and the total of 6 held onto his grid slot exactly. Seventh in, seventh out, with the day's improvement curve pointing the right way.

  8. 8th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 21/6/11

    A 21st in the opening heat could have ended the weekend on the spot; the 6th and 11th that followed made a score of 17 and the final seeded slot instead. He then ran 6th in the first A-main, his first A-main of the season after three rounds of lower mains, before a 10th in the second tied him with Alton Henley on 6. 93 points is his biggest score of the year and takes his raw total to 347 from four starts, of which only 265 actually counts.

  9. 9th
    Ryley Howard no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 8/15/9

    Bumped into the A with no seeded spot and then beat two seeded drivers in the first main on his way to 7th. A 9th in the second gave him a total of 7 and ninth overall. Getting into an A-main the hard way and then declining to be the slowest car in it is a fine weekend's work.

  10. 10th
    Mathew Schroeder no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 33/12/8

    The other bump-up in the field, and he made it count with an 8th in both mains for a total of 8. Tenth on the day, which is still ahead of every driver who spent the afternoon in a lower main. Two identical results from a driver with no seed is nothing whatsoever to apologise for.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 14th
    Cody Ervin 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 31 · Q 16/25/15

    Back on the board after Brookfield with a 14th from outside the seeded eight, worth 87 points and a ten-place improvement on his season opener. Two starts logged in a series that counts the best three, which makes this a good position to be holding.

  13. 15th
    Ronnie Wint 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 22 · Q 10/17/12

    A 15th from outside the seeded eight is 86 points and a second scoring round in a row, putting him on 168 and ninth in the championship. Every single driver above him in the table has three starts or more, so he is doing this on half the mileage.

  14. 16th
    Charles Kock 85 ptsbumped up
    85 pts · qualified P19 · bumped up from the C · qual score 32 · Q 13/19/26

    Third on the C-main grid and second at the flag, fourteen laps in 6:15.145, and the C was behind him. The B put him last of ten and he made two places out of it for eighth, a fair return in a race full of drivers who had qualified above him. Sixteenth overall for 85 points, a seven-place improvement on his Brookfield 23rd, and a second result on the card.

  15. 24th
    Kyrie Barritt 77 pts
    77 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 38 · Q 29/20/18

    Up from 30th at the opener to 24th here, worth 77 points, again from outside the seeded eight. Six places gained in a round is real progress, even if the scoreboard is not inclined to make a fuss about it.

  16. 26th
    Shane Petitjean 75 pts
    75 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 32 · Q 22/13/19

    A 26th is his worst finish of the season after the 20th at Brookfield and the 12th at Muscatine, and 75 points does his championship no favours at all. He clings to eighth on 245 from three starts with nothing discarded, meaning every point he owns is a point he is currently counting. A fourth start would let him throw this one away, which has to be a tempting thought.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

Four rounds scored and the discard has finally started doing real damage. Adam McKown leads on 295 from three starts and three counting results, nothing wasted and nothing thrown away, after a round win assembled from a last-place first main and a victory in the second. Leo Dake is seven back on 288, also on three starts, so the two men at the top are running the leanest campaigns in the class. Behind them the arithmetic turns brutal: Lane Lazarz has the biggest raw total in the championship at 377 from four starts and it converts to just 287 and third, with his 90 from Macomb sitting in the bin, while Tyler Heinzelmann's 347 shrinks to 265 for exactly the same reason. Ethan Maki sat out Omaha and slid from first to fourth on 283 without turning a wheel. With one round to run, the drivers on three starts can only add to their totals, while the drivers on four have to beat their own discarded scores to move at all.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Adam McKown+10029502953
2Leo Dake+9628802883
3Lane Lazarz+97377−902874
4Ethan Maki–28302833
5Tyler Heinzelmann+93347−822654
6Lex Mott–26002603
7Bryan Dortch–24602463
8Shane Petitjean+7524502453

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

21.5 Independent 2wd Buggy

17 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Lane Lazarz302402−1004241st101*100*100*101*·
2Tyler Heinzelmann290379−890042nd94899799·
3Ryan Benedict28328300131st9093100–·
4Thomas Vandervelden27427400034th87–9097·
5Reyna Chodara249249000312th80–8089·
6Daniel Paddock245245000315th868178–·
7Lincoln Dake230230000315th69–7586·
8Ian Schultz19619600023rd98––98·
9Garrett Reese Miller17517500029th–8392–·
10Mike Cook175175000212th–8689–·
11Andy Mitchel17417400027th–8094–·
12Cody Ervin17417400025th78––96·
13Jose M Garay167167000213th79–88–·
14Kyrie Barritt161161000211th71––90·
15Bill Moeller160160000217th76–84–·
16Maddie Stuker155155000219th–7382–·
17Rylan Hunt147147000225th–7176–·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Lane Lazarz — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 34 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Lane Lazarz0418/5:01.68215.735 fast · 16.760 avg119/5:07.52115.349 fast · 16.185 avg119/5:08.41015.481 fast · 16.232 avg
2Matthew Bendlin61618/5:13.73516.093 fast · 17.430 avg419/5:15.45116.242 fast · 16.603 avg419/5:14.01216.184 fast · 16.527 avg
3Andy Kahrs7618/5:02.11515.921 fast · 16.784 avg319/5:12.16615.851 fast · 16.430 avg1218/5:02.50515.937 fast · 16.806 avg
4Adam Gratz7318/5:01.15716.152 fast · 16.731 avg1018/5:05.87915.965 fast · 16.993 avg619/5:14.61216.095 fast · 16.559 avg
5Ian Schultz8119/5:15.54116.077 fast · 16.607 avg1418/5:08.63715.884 fast · 17.147 avg918/5:00.16015.805 fast · 16.676 avg
6Jake Ward8818/5:03.11216.076 fast · 16.840 avg719/5:16.26516.175 fast · 16.646 avg319/5:13.50516.079 fast · 16.500 avg
7Dalton Castillo10718/5:02.82115.963 fast · 16.823 avg519/5:15.57716.113 fast · 16.609 avg819/5:18.26215.976 fast · 16.751 avg
8Kevin Waller11518/5:02.07715.971 fast · 16.782 avg818/5:00.74715.934 fast · 16.708 avg1518/5:08.05216.000 fast · 17.114 avg
9Tyler Heinzelmann141218/5:10.95115.752 fast · 17.275 avg619/5:15.72215.863 fast · 16.617 avg1018/5:00.18415.596 fast · 16.677 avg
10Dooney Nowak14918/5:03.63016.134 fast · 16.868 avg1718/5:12.21216.235 fast · 17.345 avg719/5:16.24816.050 fast · 16.645 avg
11Ryan Benedict192017/5:03.96716.280 fast · 17.880 avg1618/5:09.63916.365 fast · 17.202 avg519/5:14.53716.116 fast · 16.555 avg
12Thomas Vandervelden201318/5:11.07516.286 fast · 17.282 avg918/5:03.38616.128 fast · 16.855 avg1318/5:02.98316.071 fast · 16.832 avg
13Carter Roehl211018/5:06.96316.321 fast · 17.054 avg1318/5:07.98816.229 fast · 17.110 avg1418/5:03.89916.205 fast · 16.883 avg
14Aaron Martinez241418/5:11.41816.402 fast · 17.301 avg1218/5:07.27716.187 fast · 17.071 avg1618/5:08.05316.098 fast · 17.114 avg
15Reece Adelmeyer272317/5:07.94416.165 fast · 18.114 avg1818/5:13.61516.213 fast · 17.423 avg1118/5:00.80816.164 fast · 16.712 avg
16Mark Kuhr271118/5:07.77916.064 fast · 17.099 avg1918/5:14.13616.019 fast · 17.452 avg1818/5:12.02616.275 fast · 17.335 avg
17Chris Kern281518/5:11.95916.474 fast · 17.331 avg1518/5:09.22416.235 fast · 17.179 avg2118/5:15.37416.123 fast · 17.521 avg
18Mike Byng312217/5:06.47816.659 fast · 18.028 avg1118/5:06.47616.688 fast · 17.026 avg2317/5:03.91316.452 fast · 17.877 avg
19Jose M Garay341917/5:03.78916.379 fast · 17.870 avg2317/5:01.86616.079 fast · 17.757 avg1718/5:10.19016.193 fast · 17.233 avg
20Bill Moeller341717/5:00.33116.665 fast · 17.667 avg2117/5:00.28116.428 fast · 17.664 avg1918/5:12.17416.263 fast · 17.343 avg
21Daniel Paddock361817/5:02.90216.597 fast · 17.818 avg2018/5:16.77916.623 fast · 17.599 avg2517/5:07.75516.706 fast · 18.103 avg
22Andrew Schulz422716/5:01.69416.614 fast · 18.856 avg2417/5:05.03216.687 fast · 17.943 avg2018/5:12.23316.477 fast · 17.346 avg
23Sticks Bailey452117/5:06.06517.058 fast · 18.004 avg2617/5:13.46817.074 fast · 18.439 avg3216/5:09.29017.540 fast · 19.331 avg
24Reyna Chodara472816/5:04.89417.442 fast · 19.056 avg2717/5:15.44417.053 fast · 18.556 avg2217/5:01.85016.992 fast · 17.756 avg
25Cody Ervin472517/5:11.53716.991 fast · 18.326 avg3316/5:17.55317.498 fast · 19.847 avg2417/5:06.64416.828 fast · 18.038 avg
26Matt Douglas472417/5:11.12817.474 fast · 18.302 avg2517/5:09.37917.282 fast · 18.199 avg2617/5:09.21417.252 fast · 18.189 avg
27Elliott Castillo513116/5:08.48818.386 fast · 19.281 avg2217/5:01.32917.114 fast · 17.725 avg3315/5:01.31016.679 fast · 20.087 avg
28Jeffery Hilgendorf522617/5:20.61317.667 fast · 18.860 avg3116/5:02.46817.078 fast · 18.904 avg2817/5:15.70217.465 fast · 18.571 avg
29Mike Adelmeyer542916/5:06.09917.280 fast · 19.131 avg2916/5:00.98317.210 fast · 18.811 avg2717/5:13.28916.987 fast · 18.429 avg
30Kyrie Barritt563016/5:07.35317.127 fast · 19.210 avg2817/5:17.32716.988 fast · 18.666 avg3016/5:05.59516.777 fast · 19.100 avg
31Mark Dechant593216/5:09.24117.462 fast · 19.328 avg3216/5:06.14116.942 fast · 19.134 avg2916/5:02.99417.424 fast · 18.937 avg
32Rob Fugelseth593316/5:16.37617.498 fast · 19.774 avg3016/5:01.73317.355 fast · 18.858 avg3116/5:09.16817.568 fast · 19.323 avg
33Lincoln Dake663414/5:07.43317.740 fast · 21.960 avg3513/4:51.969 (DNF)18.699 fast · 22.459 avg3414/5:16.92818.752 fast · 22.638 avg
34Geoff Dewitt673514/5:08.35118.545 fast · 22.025 avg3415/5:15.28219.149 fast · 21.019 avg3514/5:21.65419.270 fast · 22.975 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Lane Lazarz1P119/5:08.21015.31916.15597.37%+101
2Matthew Bendlin2P219/5:11.34215.66616.33497.79%no licence
3Ian Schultz3P519/5:13.10115.78616.32097.89%+98
4Jake Ward4P619/5:15.43915.90216.42998.27%no licence
5Adam Gratz5P418/5:04.65315.82316.79892.94%no licence
6Dooney Nowakbumped up6P1018/5:07.78516.02116.77294.25%no licence
7Tyler Heinzelmannbumped up7P918/5:03.46415.65816.48992.52%+94
8Andy Kahrs8P318/5:09.22415.60117.13689.43%no licence
9Dalton Castillo9P718/5:10.83416.02717.09090.70%no licence
10Kevin Waller10P817/5:13.54716.25418.30989.52%no licence
B-main
1Tyler Heinzelmannup to the AP123/6:16.73415.94116.31998.57%–
2Dooney Nowakup to the AP222/6:09.89915.96616.72096.86%–
3Ryan Benedict11P321/6:00.93816.03517.09691.70%+90
4Reece Adelmeyer12P721/6:02.47116.33517.06695.92%no licence
5Mark Kuhr13P821/6:03.46816.16017.03593.09%no licence
6Thomas Vandervelden14P421/6:06.08316.28217.33792.91%+87
7Daniel Paddockbumped up15P921/6:08.26616.44017.32096.69%+86
8Aaron Martinez16P621/6:15.54616.13217.47491.74%no licence
9Sticks Baileybumped up17P1020/6:07.80317.01418.12192.35%no licence
10Carter Roehl18P518/6:06.42216.18720.36278.20%no licence
C-main
1Daniel Paddockup to the BP521/6:09.44216.46117.44095.86%–
2Sticks Baileyup to the BP721/6:12.04816.54917.49795.25%–
3Mike Byng19P221/6:12.92816.64417.65092.99%no licence
4Chris Kern20P121/6:15.84716.88517.89693.86%no licence
5Reyna Chodara21P820/6:03.88916.61917.92191.85%+80
6Jose M Garay22P320/6:05.46016.37118.22888.89%+79
7Cody Ervinbumped up23P919/6:01.11817.25618.80491.73%+78
8Andrew Schulz24P619/6:02.84716.32318.96785.40%no licence
9Bill Moeller25P419/6:03.35116.56018.82882.73%+76
10Matt Douglasbumped up26P1019/6:04.40717.05818.97388.75%no licence
D-main
1Cody Ervinup to the CP117/5:06.81617.13817.96096.59%–
2Matt Douglasup to the CP217/5:11.75817.20817.91496.59%–
3Elliott Castillo27P317/5:15.10016.64918.27692.48%no licence
4Mark Dechant28P716/5:02.01717.28518.68795.17%no licence
5Jeffery Hilgendorf29P416/5:07.15717.16219.07489.39%no licence
6Kyrie Barritt30P616/5:07.31917.04618.83490.06%+71
7Rob Fugelseth31P815/5:13.52416.94320.32478.48%no licence
8Lincoln Dake32P914/5:01.22417.88521.02683.63%+69
9Geoff Dewitt33P1013/5:01.54718.98222.13986.08%no licence
10Mike Adelmeyer34P59/2:52.073 (DNF)17.27017.70998.54%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Lane Lazarz 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 4/1/1 · TQ

    Opened the series the way you would draw it up on a napkin: 4th in the first heat, then won the other two for a qualifying score of 2 and the TQ. Backed it up with a 2nd and a win across the two A-mains for a total of 1, which is the lowest number on the board. TQ plus the round win is the maximum 101 points this format allows, and he took every one of them.

  2. 2nd
    Matthew Bendlin no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 8 · Q 16/4/4

    A 16th in the opening qualifier is the sort of thing that ends a weekend before it starts, so he answered it with a 4th and a 4th and seeded second on a score of 8. Then he went out and won the first A-main outright, and only a 4th in the second leg left him level with Lazarz on a total of 1 and second on the tiebreak. No series licence means the points sheet ignores all of that, which is the only disappointing part of a genuinely brilliant weekend.

  3. 3rd
    Ian Schultz 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 1/14/9

    Winning the opening heat and then posting a 14th and a 9th is a rollercoaster even by best-two-of-three standards, but a score of 10 still bought him fifth on the grid. The first A-main was a quiet 6th; the second was a 2nd, and that late surge to a total of 2 pulled him onto the podium. Ninety-eight points and second in the championship after one round is a very healthy return.

  4. 4th
    Jake Ward no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 10 · Q 8/7/3

    Saved his best heat for last with a 3rd, and then repeated the trick in the mains: 8th in the opener, 3rd in the second leg, total of 3. Sixth on the grid to fourth at the flag with a licence-free entry that took real scalps on the way.

  5. 5th
    Adam Gratz no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 3/10/6

    A 3rd in the opening qualifier set up the fourth grid slot, and a 3rd in the first A-main said the pace was still there. The second leg was a 7th, which left him tied with Jake Ward on a total of 3 and on the wrong end of the tiebreak. Fifth overall, and a 10th in the middle heat is the one blemish standing between him and a much tidier weekend.

  6. 6th
    Dooney Nowak no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 16 · Q 9/17/7

    Bumped up into the A-main and then out-raced three drivers who had earned seeded starts. A 4th in the first leg and a 6th in the second gave him a total of 4 and sixth overall, from a grid slot he had to fight for rather than qualify for. Coming in through the bump and beating half the front of the field is about the most satisfying way to spend a weekend.

  7. 7th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 94 ptsbumped up
    94 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 16 · Q 12/6/10

    Another one who arrived via the bump rather than the seeded eight, and another one who made it count. A 9th in the first A-main became a 5th in the second for a total of 5 and seventh at the flag. Ninety-four points and third in the championship without ever appearing on the qualifying sheet is a nice trick if you can manage it.

  8. 8th
    Andy Kahrs no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 9 · Q 6/3/12

    The 12th in his final qualifier is the number he will want back, because a 6th and a 3rd had him on course for something better than the third grid slot. A 5th in the first A-main kept the weekend alive before a 9th in the second leg dropped him to a total of 5 and eighth on the tiebreak. Third on the grid to eighth at the flag is a harsh trade for one bad leg.

  9. 9th
    Dalton Castillo no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 12 · Q 7/5/8

    Consistency is a virtue right up until it stops moving you forward: 7th, 5th and 8th in the heats, then 7th and 8th in the two A-mains. Qualified seventh, finished ninth, and never really had a bad run all weekend. In a field where everyone else found something in the mains, staying exactly where you were counts as going backwards.

  10. 10th
    Kevin Waller no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 13 · Q 5/8/15

    Qualifying started brightly with a 5th, then an 8th and a 15th pushed the score out to 13 and the last of the seeded starts. Two 10ths in the A-mains made for a long afternoon at the back of the fastest ten cars in the class. Still the fastest ten cars in the class, mind.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Ryan Benedict 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 21 · Q 20/16/5

    Missing the A-main by a single position is the cruellest possible way to open a season, and that is exactly what happened here. No seeded start, no A-main, and yet 90 points and fourth in the championship after round one. The stopwatch says he belongs; the results sheet just needs a nudge.

  13. 14th
    Thomas Vandervelden 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 22 · Q 13/9/13

    Started the weekend outside the seeded eight and worked a lower main into 87 points and fifth in the early championship table. Nothing loud about it, but in a series scored on your best three rounds, banking a real number in February is worth more than it looks.

  14. 15th
    Daniel Paddock 86 ptsbumped up
    86 pts · qualified P21 · bumped up from the C · qual score 38 · Q 18/20/25

    Twenty-first in qualifying, fifth on the C-main grid, and then the win in it — the promotion into the B was earned rather than inherited. Starting ninth in that one looked like a demotion in disguise, but 21 laps at 96.69% consistency brought him home 7th. Eighty-six points and sixth place in the opening championship standings, all from outside the seeded eight.

  15. 21st
    Reyna Chodara 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P24 · qual score 49 · Q 28/27/22

    An afternoon spent outside the seeded eight still ended with 80 points and a spot inside the championship top ten, which says as much about the depth of this entry list as it does about the drive. Points on the board, a top-ten championship slot and four rounds still to come.

  16. 22nd
    Jose M Garay 79 pts
    79 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 36 · Q 19/23/17

    Banked 79 points from outside the seeded eight, one place and one point behind Chodara in a lower main that clearly did not lack for company. Eighth in the championship after one round from a weekend most people would call quiet.

  17. 23rd
    Cody Ervin 78 ptsbumped up
    78 pts · qualified P25 · bumped up from the D · qual score 49 · Q 25/33/24

    Led the D-main away from pole and won it, 17 laps at 96.59% consistency, which is the only route out of the bottom race of the day. The C-main was harder work from the ninth grid slot and 7th was the answer, but the climb turned a 25th-place qualifying effort into 78 points and ninth in the opening standings. Three points covers him, Jose M Garay and Reyna Chodara in the table, which is a reminder that the midfield of this class is a genuine scrap rather than a queue.

  18. 25th
    Bill Moeller 76 pts
    76 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 36 · Q 17/21/19

    The support mains are where most of this class actually lives, and 76 points from one is a perfectly respectable place to start a five-round campaign. Tenth in the championship with four more rounds to fix it and only your best three counting.

  19. 30th
    Kyrie Barritt 71 pts
    71 pts · qualified P30 · qual score 58 · Q 30/28/30

    Rolled off from outside the seeded eight and came away with 71 points, which in a series that only counts your best three rounds is a floor rather than a verdict. Everyone in the A-main started a weekend like this one at some point.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

Round one at Trackside belongs entirely to Lane Lazarz, who TQ'd, won and took the maximum 101 points available — there is literally no better score to have. Behind him the results sheet and the points sheet tell different stories: Matthew Bendlin finished second on the road and scores nothing without a series licence, which promotes Ian Schultz to second in the championship on 98. Tyler Heinzelmann is the eye-catcher at 94 and third overall, achieved without ever qualifying inside the seeded eight, and Ryan Benedict sits fourth on 90 after missing the A-main by a single place. With everyone on one start there is no divergence yet between the best-three championship figure and the raw all-events total — every driver's points are simply what they scored on Sunday. That changes the moment somebody runs a fourth round, and in a class where the top ten is covered by 25 points, showing up to everything is going to matter more than any single big result.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Lane Lazarz+101402−1003024
2Tyler Heinzelmann+94379−892904
3Ryan Benedict+9028302833
4Thomas Vandervelden+8727402743
5Reyna Chodara+8024902493
6Daniel Paddock+8624502453
7Lincoln Dake+6923002303
8Ian Schultz+9819601962

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Lane Lazarz — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 32 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Lane Lazarz2418/5:04.65416.006 fast · 16.925 avg119/5:09.95515.856 fast · 16.313 avg319/5:20.39115.677 fast · 16.863 avg
2Daniel Marino2818/5:09.81215.665 fast · 17.212 avg318/4:56.466 (DNF)15.831 fast · 16.470 avg119/5:15.08515.859 fast · 16.583 avg
3Matthew Hudak5318/5:02.24516.091 fast · 16.791 avg418/5:02.99516.011 fast · 16.833 avg618/5:04.70815.974 fast · 16.928 avg
4Ryan Benedict8618/5:08.30816.229 fast · 17.128 avg1817/5:07.95516.520 fast · 18.115 avg418/5:01.11116.300 fast · 16.728 avg
5Easton Shores81417/5:04.78715.977 fast · 17.929 avg518/5:03.89216.029 fast · 16.883 avg518/5:02.08415.861 fast · 16.782 avg
6Aaron Rees10118/5:02.06815.904 fast · 16.782 avg1118/5:16.69415.742 fast · 17.594 avg1318/5:10.00315.849 fast · 17.222 avg
7Mike Ellis11518/5:07.02016.032 fast · 17.057 avg1218/5:18.46416.289 fast · 17.692 avg818/5:06.15916.424 fast · 17.009 avg
8Scott Walter12718/5:08.99516.335 fast · 17.166 avg718/5:06.25716.308 fast · 17.014 avg918/5:06.58916.339 fast · 17.033 avg
9T Main151117/5:00.43916.700 fast · 17.673 avg618/5:05.92616.057 fast · 16.996 avg1218/5:09.94316.369 fast · 17.219 avg
10Tyler Brown151018/5:12.57315.914 fast · 17.365 avg2017/5:15.86115.973 fast · 18.580 avg718/5:05.69916.154 fast · 16.983 avg
11Cody Hawks17918/5:12.12916.571 fast · 17.341 avg1917/5:08.07516.211 fast · 18.122 avg1018/5:07.29116.307 fast · 17.072 avg
12Rich Yox212216/5:06.02016.466 fast · 19.126 avg918/5:14.39616.765 fast · 17.466 avg1418/5:11.84816.555 fast · 17.325 avg
13Avery Holyfield211217/5:02.78216.053 fast · 17.811 avg1417/5:03.79716.255 fast · 17.870 avg1118/5:09.29716.265 fast · 17.183 avg
14Chris Hall231517/5:05.47316.532 fast · 17.969 avg1018/5:15.48616.449 fast · 17.527 avg2417/5:13.17516.337 fast · 18.422 avg
15Tyler Heinzelmann272816/5:22.97117.290 fast · 20.186 avg818/5:07.94916.178 fast · 17.108 avg2117/5:05.90316.257 fast · 17.994 avg
16Garrett Reese Miller281317/5:04.65416.480 fast · 17.921 avg2217/5:18.46416.500 fast · 18.733 avg1717/5:00.75516.435 fast · 17.691 avg
17Mike Cook281617/5:07.65616.729 fast · 18.097 avg1517/5:04.94016.891 fast · 17.938 avg1518/5:12.22016.487 fast · 17.346 avg
18Brad Johnson312316/5:07.73417.381 fast · 19.233 avg1317/5:01.91417.013 fast · 17.760 avg2017/5:05.73516.603 fast · 17.984 avg
19Chris Boyer311717/5:10.70417.063 fast · 18.277 avg1617/5:06.33517.074 fast · 18.020 avg2616/5:12.00416.942 fast · 19.500 avg
20Andy Mitchel331817/5:14.85617.301 fast · 18.521 avg1717/5:06.41616.875 fast · 18.024 avg1817/5:02.07716.816 fast · 17.769 avg
21Blake Yox361917/5:16.76017.066 fast · 18.633 avg2117/5:15.89616.832 fast · 18.582 avg1917/5:05.19716.512 fast · 17.953 avg
22Eli Kuretich392915/5:02.66216.492 fast · 20.177 avg2516/5:08.26416.406 fast · 19.267 avg1618/5:12.75716.400 fast · 17.375 avg
23Daniel Paddock412016/5:02.05217.154 fast · 18.878 avg2316/5:02.40616.902 fast · 18.900 avg2317/5:10.80316.639 fast · 18.283 avg
24Carlos Swenson442416/5:11.07217.106 fast · 19.442 avg2616/5:09.43517.042 fast · 19.340 avg2217/5:08.05317.052 fast · 18.121 avg
25Dwayne Henderson492116/5:04.25117.487 fast · 19.016 avg3015/5:01.83517.702 fast · 20.122 avg3212/3:46.695 (DNF)17.327 fast · 18.891 avg
26Lewis Warner493015/5:09.69817.364 fast · 20.647 avg2416/5:05.62017.006 fast · 19.101 avg2716/5:18.66617.310 fast · 19.917 avg
27Lance Brownsworth492616/5:13.70417.477 fast · 19.607 avg2716/5:10.00117.645 fast · 19.375 avg2516/5:05.08818.016 fast · 19.068 avg
28Maddie Stuker512516/5:13.33617.540 fast · 19.584 avg2816/5:13.56717.366 fast · 19.598 avg2915/5:19.29917.351 fast · 22.807 avg
29Joseph Iannucci532716/5:16.88017.681 fast · 19.805 avg2916/5:19.36717.441 fast · 19.960 avg2815/5:14.75317.540 fast · 20.984 avg
30Colin Walter603214/5:11.44718.461 fast · 22.246 avg3114/5:04.74817.991 fast · 21.768 avg3113/5:00.58118.311 fast · 23.122 avg
31Jeff Miles613313/5:11.81018.648 fast · 23.985 avg3314/5:17.25018.934 fast · 22.661 avg3014/5:08.41217.840 fast · 22.029 avg
32Rylan Hunt613114/5:10.42117.337 fast · 22.173 avg3214/5:16.40818.347 fast · 22.601 avg339/5:11.65917.009 fast · 34.629 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Matthew Hudak1P319/5:09.33415.96116.35497.98%no licence
2Lane Lazarz2P119/5:09.47415.74816.42694.81%+100
3Daniel Marino3P218/5:02.59415.75616.91793.54%no licence
4Tyler Brownbumped up4P1019/5:16.95215.70816.65896.16%no licence
5Mike Ellis5P718/5:03.41915.97616.71095.44%no licence
6Scott Walter6P818/5:08.12016.00617.15990.78%no licence
7Aaron Rees7P618/5:04.26715.85016.79092.71%no licence
8Ryan Benedict8P418/5:09.05616.16317.23093.75%+93
9Rich Yoxbumped up9P918/5:09.83716.23817.08094.61%no licence
10Easton Shores10P518/5:13.26516.07917.32193.32%no licence
B-main
1Rich Yoxup to the AP422/6:15.74216.58817.13897.77%–
2Tyler Brownup to the AP222/6:28.70416.10017.77485.11%–
3Cody Hawks11P321/6:00.80316.07017.21091.03%no licence
4Tyler Heinzelmann12P721/6:01.37316.32017.21293.69%+89
5Chris Hall13P621/6:04.29316.48917.30094.87%no licence
6T Main14P121/6:08.69516.14917.68389.60%no licence
7Mike Cookbumped up15P921/6:13.39216.68417.77992.58%+86
8Blake Yoxbumped up16P1020/6:08.41916.53518.40291.50%no licence
9Avery Holyfield17P519/6:03.14916.33719.21686.13%no licence
10Garrett Reese Miller18P85/1:32.380 (DNF)16.69617.84189.35%+83
C-main
1Mike Cookup to the BP121/6:02.21716.58817.35497.85%–
2Blake Yoxup to the BP521/6:10.44316.97717.68996.98%–
3Brad Johnson19P220/6:00.80116.70318.13287.53%no licence
4Daniel Paddock20P720/6:01.32116.53317.84988.85%+81
5Andy Mitchel21P420/6:02.93816.69818.03291.41%+80
6Carlos Swenson22P820/6:08.07716.77418.41888.27%no licence
7Chris Boyer23P319/6:04.13716.41719.19084.90%no licence
8Eli Kuretich24P619/6:15.39216.21819.61079.26%no licence
9Dwayne Hendersonbumped up25P919/6:16.82017.36719.71884.12%no licence
10Lance Brownsworthbumped up26P1019/6:20.29017.56120.08283.22%no licence
D-main
1Dwayne Hendersonup to the CP117/5:16.67216.97018.73089.05%–
2Lance Brownsworthup to the CP317/5:17.23417.72418.69394.26%–
3Joseph Iannucci27P516/5:00.49517.15818.65489.37%no licence
4Maddie Stuker28P416/5:10.49416.74619.26486.18%+73
5Lewis Warner29P215/5:01.19217.03920.32388.00%no licence
6Rylan Hunt30P815/5:03.48817.38220.33285.76%+71
7Colin Walter31P615/5:05.70218.51720.33392.71%no licence
8Jeff Miles32P713/5:13.07218.43024.14083.15%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Matthew Hudak no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 3/4/6

    Qualified third on a score of 7 off heats of 3, 4 and 6 — tidy, unspectacular, nobody's headline. Then he won both A-mains. A total of 1 from the third grid slot with the series' runaway TQ man sitting on pole is about as emphatic as a weekend gets, and the absence of a series licence is the only reason the championship table does not have his name at the top of it.

  2. 2nd
    Lane Lazarz 100 pts TQ
    100 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 4/1/3 · TQ

    Two rounds, two TQs, this one built on a 4th, a win and a 3rd for a score of 4 and pole by the narrowest of margins over Marino. The A-mains were a 3rd and a 2nd for a total of 2 and second overall, which is the first time all year somebody has beaten him to a race win. The TQ point turns 99 into 100, and the championship lead survives comfortably.

  3. 3rd
    Daniel Marino no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 8/3/1

    Went 8th, 3rd, 1st through the heats to tie Lazarz on a qualifying score of 4 and line up alongside him. A 2nd in the first A-main had him right in the fight, then an 8th in the second leg dropped him to a total of 2 and third on the tiebreak. Two different weekends stitched together, and the first half was excellent.

  4. 4th
    Tyler Brown no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 10/20/7

    Bumped up into the A-main and immediately made the seeded runners look silly: an 8th in the first leg, a 3rd in the second, total of 3 and fourth overall. That is five drivers with earned top-eight starts beaten by somebody who had to race his way into the field on the day.

  5. 5th
    Mike Ellis no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 5/12/8

    Qualified seventh on a score of 13, then threw down a 4th in the opening A-main that suggested a big result was coming. The second leg went the other way entirely with a 10th, and the dropped-worst format saved the weekend: a total of 4 and fifth overall. Two grid slots gained and one enormous sigh of relief.

  6. 6th
    Scott Walter no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 14 · Q 7/7/9

    Last of the seeded eight on a score of 14, built from a pair of 7ths and a 9th, and there was nothing in that to suggest what followed. A 7th in the first A-main and a 4th in the second gave him a total of 4 and sixth at the flag — two places better than he started, and from the worst grid slot of anyone seeded.

  7. 7th
    Aaron Rees no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 1/11/13

    Won the opening qualifier outright, which is the sort of start that gets people talking, and then an 11th and a 13th quietly took the conversation elsewhere. A score of 12 and sixth on the grid became a 5th and a 9th in the mains for a total of 5 and seventh overall. The pace clearly exists; it just needs to show up three times on the same day.

  8. 8th
    Ryan Benedict 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 6/18/4

    An 18th in the middle qualifier could easily have buried him, but a 6th and a 4th either side of it produced a score of 10 and the fourth grid slot. The A-mains were a 6th and a 5th for a total of 5 and eighth on the tiebreak — fewer points than the grid promised, but 93 of them all the same. Second in the championship on 183, and the top ten did not exist for him at Brookfield.

  9. 9th
    Rich Yox no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P12 · bumped up from the B · qual score 23 · Q 22/9/14

    Came in through the bump, opened with a 10th in the first A-main, and then went and posted a 6th in the second leg for a total of 6 and ninth overall. Beating a seeded runner from a grid slot you had to earn twice over is a decent way to spend a Sunday.

  10. 10th
    Easton Shores no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 14/5/5

    A 14th in the opening heat was answered with back-to-back 5ths for a score of 10 and the fifth grid slot, which is exactly how the best-two-of-three format is supposed to work. The mains refused to cooperate: a 9th and a 7th for a total of 7 and last of the ten. Five places lost from the grid is a frustrating way to end a weekend that qualified so well.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 12th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 29 · Q 28/8/21

    No seeded start again, no A-main this time, and yet still walking away with 89 points and a share of second in the championship on 183. Two rounds, two weekends spent entirely outside the qualifying sheet, and he is level with Benedict and only 18 off the lead. The consistency is doing an enormous amount of quiet work.

  13. 15th
    Mike Cook 86 ptsbumped up
    86 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 30 · Q 16/15/15

    Pole for the C-main and the win to go with it, 21 laps at 97.85% consistency, which is a tidy way to introduce yourself to a series in May. The B-main paid him back with the ninth grid slot and he dragged it up to 7th from there. Eighty-six points and seventh in the championship on a first showing. Plenty of drivers score more; not many arrive and immediately land in the top ten.

  14. 18th
    Garrett Reese Miller 83 pts
    83 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 30 · Q 13/22/17

    Missed the seeded eight and came out of a lower main with 83 points, good enough for eighth in the standings. In a championship counting your best three rounds, that is a perfectly serviceable opening deposit.

  15. 20th
    Daniel Paddock 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P23 · qual score 43 · Q 20/23/23

    Backed up a Brookfield result with another lower-main run, and 81 points on top of his 86 puts him fourth in the championship on 167. Two rounds, two starts, no wasted weekends — which is worth more in this format than one big day and a blank.

  16. 21st
    Andy Mitchel 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 35 · Q 18/17/18

    Arrived in Macomb without a seeded start and left with 80 points and ninth in the championship table. Not a headline, but a first entry on the board is exactly what makes rounds three, four and five interesting.

  17. 28th
    Maddie Stuker 73 pts
    73 pts · qualified P28 · qual score 53 · Q 25/28/29

    Came out of the lower mains with 73 points on the sheet from outside the seeded eight. This class is where a lot of people run their first national-level weekend, and finishing one with points banked is not a small thing.

  18. 30th
    Rylan Hunt 71 pts
    71 pts · qualified P32 · qual score 63 · Q 31/32/33

    Rolled home with 71 points from a weekend spent outside the qualifying eight, which in a best-three-rounds championship is a number to build on rather than apologise for. Three rounds left and everything still to play for in the mid-pack.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Macomb went to Matthew Hudak, who won both A-mains from the third grid slot and, without a series licence, leaves the championship table exactly as he found it. That hands Lane Lazarz a second-place finish worth 100 points with the TQ bonus, and a lead of 201 from two starts. The fight behind him is dead level: Ryan Benedict and Tyler Heinzelmann are tied on 183, Benedict via 90 and 93, Heinzelmann via 94 and 89, and neither has yet qualified inside the seeded eight at a single round. Daniel Paddock is fourth on 167 purely by attending both weekends and banking a score each time — worth more here than Ian Schultz's single 98, which has slipped to fifth. Nobody is discarding anything yet, so best-three and raw totals are still identical for everyone; the interesting arithmetic starts when the first driver reaches a fourth start.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Lane Lazarz+100402−1003024
2Tyler Heinzelmann+89379−892904
3Ryan Benedict+9328302833
4Thomas Vandervelden–27402743
5Reyna Chodara–24902493
6Daniel Paddock+8124502453
7Lincoln Dake–23002303
8Ian Schultz–19601962

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Lane Lazarz — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 29 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Lane Lazarz0317/5:00.32217.190 fast · 17.666 avg118/5:13.14817.113 fast · 17.397 avg118/5:12.05716.792 fast · 17.337 avg
2Ryan Benedict2118/5:16.86016.780 fast · 17.603 avg418/5:16.70016.671 fast · 17.594 avg318/5:12.51316.756 fast · 17.362 avg
3Ryan Hovis5417/5:00.57516.966 fast · 17.681 avg318/5:13.30616.770 fast · 17.406 avg3110/2:56.264 (DNF)16.742 fast · 17.627 avg
4Tyler Heinzelmann8517/5:01.95817.039 fast · 17.762 avg817/5:07.70417.241 fast · 18.100 avg517/5:05.56117.104 fast · 17.974 avg
5Leo Dake9917/5:10.24117.054 fast · 18.249 avg717/5:06.24517.168 fast · 18.014 avg417/5:00.93217.141 fast · 17.702 avg
6Mason Burke9617/5:02.56017.389 fast · 17.798 avg517/5:04.97017.278 fast · 17.939 avg1016/5:00.09516.997 fast · 18.756 avg
7Andy Mitchel10817/5:06.77417.012 fast · 18.046 avg617/5:05.33817.215 fast · 17.961 avg617/5:13.09617.459 fast · 18.417 avg
8Tyler Steele14717/5:04.32417.341 fast · 17.901 avg1117/5:25.69317.346 fast · 19.158 avg917/5:15.59417.188 fast · 18.564 avg
9Garrett Reese Miller181417/5:17.83317.289 fast · 18.696 avg1316/5:02.06217.365 fast · 18.879 avg717/5:13.63917.641 fast · 18.449 avg
10Tim Koob201317/5:17.28217.846 fast · 18.664 avg917/5:09.31517.599 fast · 18.195 avg1616/5:07.88617.823 fast · 19.243 avg
11Shane Evans211516/5:00.40418.009 fast · 18.775 avg1216/5:00.78517.707 fast · 18.799 avg1116/5:02.91317.808 fast · 18.932 avg
12Mike Cook221816/5:05.50718.018 fast · 19.094 avg1616/5:07.31917.927 fast · 19.207 avg817/5:15.32317.957 fast · 18.548 avg
13Jose M Garay221017/5:10.69817.916 fast · 18.276 avg1416/5:03.83617.793 fast · 18.990 avg1416/5:07.37317.668 fast · 19.211 avg
14Laine Matlock241117/5:10.91617.205 fast · 18.289 avg1516/5:04.39017.354 fast · 19.024 avg2216/5:18.16317.700 fast · 19.885 avg
15Thomas Vandervelden251716/5:02.03117.910 fast · 18.877 avg1017/5:13.73817.509 fast · 18.455 avg1716/5:08.08317.417 fast · 19.255 avg
16Thomas McCleary291217/5:15.29317.720 fast · 18.547 avg3012/4:00.643 (DNF)17.837 fast · 20.054 avg1916/5:13.73217.810 fast · 19.608 avg
17Daniel Paddock302116/5:14.44517.994 fast · 19.653 avg2016/5:11.77317.941 fast · 19.486 avg1216/5:04.99617.794 fast · 19.062 avg
18Joe Zaier 3302016/5:14.00117.683 fast · 19.625 avg1916/5:09.19017.763 fast · 19.324 avg1316/5:06.48817.998 fast · 19.156 avg
19Bill Moeller301916/5:05.73618.011 fast · 19.109 avg1716/5:07.50117.856 fast · 19.219 avg1516/5:07.43618.086 fast · 19.215 avg
20Samm Sienknecht321616/5:00.94217.960 fast · 18.809 avg2215/5:00.10717.789 fast · 20.007 avg1816/5:09.74018.121 fast · 19.359 avg
21Reyna Chodara402914/5:08.06119.153 fast · 22.004 avg1816/5:08.47918.155 fast · 19.280 avg2415/5:00.66518.286 fast · 20.044 avg
22Maddie Stuker422315/5:12.68719.040 fast · 20.846 avg2116/5:17.10919.078 fast · 21.141 avg2814/5:06.24918.630 fast · 21.875 avg
23John Dobran432515/5:17.38819.088 fast · 21.159 avg2615/5:11.64818.774 fast · 20.777 avg2016/5:15.85118.783 fast · 19.741 avg
24Corbin Friesen432215/5:10.56718.997 fast · 20.704 avg2315/5:02.87418.373 fast · 20.192 avg2316/5:18.44418.490 fast · 19.903 avg
25Rylan Hunt472415/5:13.75519.238 fast · 20.917 avg2515/5:11.31518.270 fast · 20.754 avg2515/5:05.52118.534 fast · 20.368 avg
26Mark Talley512814/5:05.76719.815 fast · 21.841 avg2715/5:15.86319.595 fast · 21.058 avg2615/5:09.67619.378 fast · 20.645 avg
27Tony Warner522614/5:02.42520.161 fast · 21.602 avg2815/5:19.00519.614 fast · 21.267 avg3013/5:01.53519.882 fast · 23.195 avg
28Lincoln Dake542714/5:05.41017.207 fast · 21.815 avg3112/5:02.67719.278 fast · 25.223 avg2914/5:08.56518.508 fast · 22.040 avg
29Sarah Brummel543014/5:13.66920.106 fast · 22.405 avg2915/5:20.62219.743 fast · 21.375 avg2714/5:05.94519.784 fast · 21.853 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Ryan Benedict1P218/5:10.55016.81417.24598.72%+100
2Lane Lazarz2P118/5:12.87116.73717.39296.15%+100
3Ryan Hovis3P317/5:01.01217.22717.67798.57%no licence
4Tyler Heinzelmann4P418/5:18.39517.30117.65697.98%+97
5Tyler Steele5P817/5:03.06817.19617.69897.62%no licence
6Mason Burke6P617/5:07.90417.26917.80097.28%no licence
7Andy Mitchel7P717/5:05.20717.09017.72797.55%+94
8Leo Dake8P517/5:05.43017.01117.77694.12%no licence
9Garrett Reese Millerbumped up9P917/5:09.34317.20218.06196.64%+92
10Tim Koobbumped up10P1016/5:12.20217.69519.15092.32%no licence
B-main
1Garrett Reese Millerup to the AP120/6:00.13817.44418.03595.79%–
2Tim Koobup to the AP220/6:11.96217.65518.41097.13%–
3Thomas Vandervelden11P720/6:12.04417.73418.49894.84%+90
4Mike Cook12P420/6:12.99917.64518.61396.78%+89
5Jose M Garay13P520/6:15.31917.84118.69392.82%+88
6Laine Matlock14P619/6:05.93517.86619.01592.73%no licence
7Shane Evans15P319/6:06.22417.72119.29093.72%no licence
8Samm Sienknechtbumped up16P919/6:09.56017.76419.26991.34%no licence
9Bill Moellerbumped up17P1019/6:13.37218.20719.53892.05%+84
10Thomas McCleary18P819/6:16.94617.70719.66190.36%no licence
C-main
1Samm Sienknechtup to the BP419/6:05.13817.87118.85296.46%–
2Bill Moellerup to the BP319/6:05.79818.14119.17394.65%–
3Maddie Stuker19P619/6:09.81718.62319.28596.04%+82
4Joe Zaier 320P219/6:11.11317.72119.30890.65%no licence
5Reyna Chodara21P519/6:12.44918.29219.58890.08%+80
6John Dobran22P719/6:14.75218.38919.52192.64%no licence
7Daniel Paddock23P119/6:16.19717.92019.84685.24%+78
8Corbin Friesen24P818/6:08.28818.42720.18589.69%no licence
9Rylan Huntbumped up25P918/6:11.30518.29120.28491.07%+76
10Lincoln Dakebumped up26P1016/6:02.00019.37522.55789.45%+75
D-main
1Rylan Huntup to the CP115/5:01.39018.94920.13793.31%–
2Lincoln Dakeup to the CP415/5:10.48319.17720.65790.42%–
3Sarah Brummel27P515/5:16.59119.18221.05688.13%no licence
4Tony Warner28P314/5:04.07919.47521.45392.59%no licence
5Mark Talley29P20/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Ryan Benedict 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 1/4/3

    Won the opening heat and never left the front of the conversation: a score of 4 off 1, 4 and 3 put him alongside Lazarz on the grid. A 3rd in the first A-main, then the win in the second, and a total of 1 that took the tiebreak and the round. First victory of the season, 100 points, and a leap to second in the championship on 283 — which for a driver who missed the A-main entirely at Brookfield is a hell of a turnaround.

  2. 2nd
    Lane Lazarz 100 pts TQ
    100 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 3/1/1 · TQ

    Nobody has taken a pole off him yet, and this one came on a score of 2 built from a 3rd and two heat wins, and the pole position that goes with it. Won the first A-main, took a 2nd in the second, and lost the round on a tiebreak with an identical total of 1. The TQ point still makes it 100 and the championship lead is 301 from three starts — but somebody finally out-scored him on a Sunday.

  3. 3rd
    Ryan Hovis no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 4/3/31

    A 31st in the third qualifier is the kind of number that ends weekends, and because only the best two of three count, it did precisely nothing: a 4th and a 3rd left him on a score of 7 and third on the grid. A 2nd in the first A-main and a 4th in the second gave him a total of 2 and the last podium slot. Best argument for the best-two-of-three format you will see all year.

  4. 4th
    Tyler Heinzelmann 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 5/8/5

    Finally showed up on a qualifying sheet, and did it properly — a score of 10 off 5, 8 and 5 for the fourth grid slot after two rounds spent entirely outside the seeded eight. A 4th and a 3rd in the A-mains held that position exactly, total of 3, 97 points. Third in the championship on 280 and closing on the men in front.

  5. 5th
    Tyler Steele no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 7/11/9

    Last of the seeded eight on a score of 16 and largely written off before the mains started, which turned out to be a mistake. A 6th and a 5th for a total of 5 and fifth overall means three drivers who qualified ahead of him went home behind him. Best grid-to-flag gain of anyone who qualified into this A-main.

  6. 6th
    Mason Burke no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 6/5/10

    A score of 11 bought the sixth grid slot, and a 5th in the first A-main had him running better than that. The second leg was a 9th, which tied him with Steele on a total of 5 and cost him the tiebreak. Sixth at the flag from sixth on the grid, with one leg that got away.

  7. 7th
    Andy Mitchel 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 12 · Q 8/6/6

    Heats of 8, 6 and 6 are about as level as this class gets, and a score of 12 put him seventh on the grid. An 8th in the first A-main and a 6th in the second held station for a total of 6 and 94 points — his best return of the season by 14. Eighth in the championship on 174 from two starts, with a spare round still in hand.

  8. 8th
    Leo Dake no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 9/7/4

    Qualified fifth on a score of 11 with a 4th in the final heat doing the heavy lifting, then ran a pair of 7ths in the A-mains for a total of 7. Identical placings in both legs is admirably tidy and, on this occasion, three positions worse than the grid slot he arrived with.

  9. 9th
    Garrett Reese Miller 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 14/13/7

    Bumped his way into the A-main and then turned a 10th in the first leg into an 8th in the second for a total of 8 and ninth overall. Ninety-two points is his best of the year and lifts him to sixth in the championship on 175 from two starts — all of it without ever qualifying inside the seeded eight.

  10. 10th
    Tim Koob no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 22 · Q 13/9/16

    Came in through the bump and ran a 9th and a 10th for a total of 9 and the last A-main slot. Racing the fastest ten cars in the class on a grid you had to earn on the day is not the worst place to spend a weekend, even when the result sheet puts you at the bottom of it.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Thomas Vandervelden 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 27 · Q 17/10/17

    One place off the A-main again, and 90 points is his best score of the season. Two starts, 177 in the bank, fifth in the championship, and a genuine argument that the gap between him and the seeded eight is smaller than the entry list suggests.

  13. 12th
    Mike Cook 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P12 · qual score 24 · Q 18/16/8

    Backed up an 86 at Macomb with an 89 here, all from outside the seeded eight, and 175 points from two rounds puts him seventh in the championship. Nobody has noticed yet, which is usually a good sign in a series scored on your best three.

  14. 13th
    Jose M Garay 88 pts
    88 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 24 · Q 10/14/14

    Returned to the score sheet with 88 points, nine better than his Brookfield effort, and moved to ninth in the championship on 167. Two rounds, two lower-main finishes, and a steadily improving number each time out.

  15. 17th
    Bill Moeller 84 ptsbumped up
    84 pts · qualified P19 · bumped up from the C · qual score 32 · Q 19/17/15

    Second in the C-main was all it took — the top two moved up, and 19 laps from the third grid slot did the job. That bought him the last spot on the B grid, where a 9th from the very back is a fair afternoon's work. An 84 is eight points better than his Brookfield weekend and two starts leave him tenth in the championship on 160: slow progress is still progress, and this format rewards showing up.

  16. 19th
    Maddie Stuker 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P22 · qual score 44 · Q 23/21/28

    Nine points better than Macomb, 82 on the board, and a second consecutive weekend finished from outside the seeded eight. Two rounds in, the trajectory is pointing the right way and that is the whole job at this stage.

  17. 21st
    Reyna Chodara 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 42 · Q 29/18/24

    Matched her Brookfield score exactly with another 80 points, which in a class this volatile is oddly impressive. Two identical results is a driver who knows what her car does, and the best-three rule means there is time to turn that into something bigger.

  18. 23rd
    Daniel Paddock 78 pts
    78 pts · qualified P17 · qual score 32 · Q 21/20/12

    A 78 is his weakest weekend of the three and it still leaves him fourth in the championship on 245, because three starts and three scores beats one big day every time. Nobody in the top four has been to more rounds than he has.

  19. 25th
    Rylan Hunt 76 ptsbumped up
    76 pts · qualified P25 · bumped up from the D · qual score 49 · Q 24/25/25

    Qualified 25th of 29 and then did the only thing that helps: won the D-main from pole, 15 laps in 5:01.390. Ninth on the C-main grid was the reward and 9th at the flag was the ceiling, but the climb still added a 76 to his Macomb 71. Three rounds of five gone and the improvement curve is doing exactly what you want it to.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Muscatine delivered the first crack in the Lazarz armour: Ryan Benedict tied him on a total of 1 and took the round win on the tiebreak, which is the first time anyone has beaten him on a Sunday. The TQ point still leaves Lazarz on 100 for the weekend and 301 for the season from three starts, with Benedict second on 283 and Tyler Heinzelmann third on 280 — that top three is now covered by 21 points. Everybody in the top four has three starts, so best-three and raw all-events totals remain identical across the board and nobody is carrying a discarded result yet. That is about to matter enormously, because Daniel Paddock's 245 comes from three modest weekends while Thomas Vandervelden sits fifth on 177 from two — one of them has a free score still to add and the other does not. Below that, Garrett Reese Miller and Mike Cook are level on 175 and Andy Mitchel is one point back on 174, all from two rounds, which makes round four the most consequential weekend of the year for the midfield.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Lane Lazarz+100402−1003024
2Tyler Heinzelmann+97379−892904
3Ryan Benedict+10028302833
4Thomas Vandervelden+9027402743
5Reyna Chodara+8024902493
6Daniel Paddock+7824502453
7Lincoln Dake+7523002303
8Ian Schultz–19601962

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Lane Lazarz — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 19 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Lane Lazarz0312/5:14.83924.792 fast · 26.237 avg112/5:14.53524.560 fast · 26.211 avg112/5:05.38923.974 fast · 25.449 avg
2Tyler Heinzelmann2112/5:13.13625.141 fast · 26.095 avg512/5:23.57724.918 fast · 26.965 avg312/5:20.37924.772 fast · 26.698 avg
3Ian Schultz6512/5:23.77224.728 fast · 26.981 avg312/5:15.55225.187 fast · 26.296 avg911/5:09.17025.804 fast · 28.106 avg
4Cody Ervin7412/5:21.93426.075 fast · 26.828 avg811/5:04.95226.063 fast · 27.723 avg512/5:23.03626.193 fast · 26.920 avg
5Ben Ludlum8811/5:10.67425.835 fast · 28.243 avg412/5:21.40725.295 fast · 26.784 avg611/5:04.63625.991 fast · 27.694 avg
6Thomas Vandervelden91111/5:23.39225.493 fast · 29.399 avg711/5:01.01726.445 fast · 27.365 avg412/5:22.60626.061 fast · 26.884 avg
7Chris Shepard10611/5:06.01926.924 fast · 27.820 avg612/5:26.71126.528 fast · 27.226 avg1111/5:17.86727.046 fast · 28.897 avg
8Jayden Alvarado141410/5:01.89126.857 fast · 30.189 avg911/5:14.93925.752 fast · 28.631 avg711/5:07.87126.074 fast · 27.988 avg
9Kyrie Barritt15711/5:07.71427.204 fast · 27.974 avg1011/5:16.22526.550 fast · 28.748 avg1211/5:17.96126.784 fast · 28.906 avg
10Ben Danko15911/5:13.23126.289 fast · 28.476 avg205/2:20.461 (DNF)25.852 fast · 28.092 avg811/5:08.20726.143 fast · 28.019 avg
11Matthew Leibman181011/5:15.57126.500 fast · 28.688 avg1111/5:19.71926.497 fast · 29.065 avg1011/5:12.00126.272 fast · 28.364 avg
12Michael McIntire221211/5:24.04027.666 fast · 29.458 avg1211/5:21.75827.710 fast · 29.251 avg200/0.000 (DNS)
13Jerry Doherty24200/0.0001311/5:28.57728.166 fast · 29.871 avg1311/5:23.75227.931 fast · 29.432 avg
14Reyna Chodara251311/5:28.71127.717 fast · 29.883 avg1410/5:03.97328.291 fast · 30.397 avg1410/5:14.72028.194 fast · 31.472 avg
15Joseph Alvarado281510/5:14.66129.065 fast · 31.466 avg1610/5:30.74628.635 fast · 33.075 avg1510/5:28.60129.953 fast · 32.860 avg
16Lincoln Dake291610/5:27.96730.027 fast · 32.797 avg1510/5:17.75828.652 fast · 31.776 avg179/5:10.46030.149 fast · 34.496 avg
17Keith Heller31179/5:19.04729.519 fast · 35.450 avg198/5:53.70730.762 fast · 44.213 avg169/5:04.07629.301 fast · 33.786 avg
18Sydney Halamicek33188/5:03.87732.807 fast · 37.985 avg179/5:28.69834.212 fast · 36.522 avg198/5:17.92734.266 fast · 39.741 avg
19Ezra Stephens34198/5:31.91538.621 fast · 41.489 avg188/5:36.52937.838 fast · 42.066 avg188/5:00.42133.989 fast · 37.553 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Lane Lazarz1P112/5:03.54924.55725.87793.74%+101
2Tyler Heinzelmann2P212/5:07.35924.93026.13296.19%+99
3Ian Schultz3P312/5:06.63225.23126.06596.15%+98
4Thomas Vandervelden4P612/5:11.05125.36126.29597.19%+97
5Cody Ervin5P412/5:18.74126.21627.02197.87%+96
6Jayden Alvarado6P812/5:19.71826.28126.95298.53%no licence
7Ben Dankobumped up7P912/5:24.56925.74727.33896.21%no licence
8Chris Shepard8P711/5:01.07426.52127.75394.76%no licence
9Ben Ludlum9P511/5:04.31025.65927.94592.14%no licence
10Matthew Leibmanbumped up10P1011/5:12.25226.51128.66293.39%no licence
B-main
1Ben Dankoup to the AP214/6:24.74426.19828.08595.29%–
2Matthew Leibmanup to the AP313/6:07.47926.05328.82393.30%–
3Kyrie Barritt11P113/6:10.72626.89229.14391.86%+90
4Reyna Chodara12P613/6:29.23027.20430.23293.26%+89
5Michael McIntire13P412/6:03.99927.52130.39691.96%no licence
6Jerry Doherty14P512/6:12.76328.41431.58691.24%no licence
7Lincoln Dake15P812/6:26.64629.64432.55791.92%+86
8Joseph Alvarado16P711/6:08.93829.11734.53090.66%no licence
9Keith Heller17P911/6:14.66630.96333.75192.00%no licence
10Sydney Halamicek18P1010/6:15.21433.33537.62994.11%no licence
11Ezra Stephens19P118/5:11.706 (DNF)35.59639.19194.27%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Lane Lazarz 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 3/1/1 · TQ

    Four rounds, four TQs, this one a score of 2 off a 3rd and two heat wins, and he has now started every single A-main from pole. A 2nd and a win in the two legs for a total of 1, the round win, and the maximum 101 points. That is two 101s and two 100s from four starts, and the score his best-three total has to throw away is a 100. Absurd.

  2. 2nd
    Tyler Heinzelmann 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 1/5/3

    Won the opening qualifier and put together a score of 4 for the front row, his best grid slot of the season by some margin. Won the first A-main outright too, and only a 2nd in the second leg left him tied with Lazarz on a total of 1 and beaten on the tiebreak. Ninety-nine points, second in the championship on 290, and after two rounds spent outside the seeded eight entirely he is now racing the TQ man for wins.

  3. 3rd
    Ian Schultz 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 5/3/9

    A score of 8 put him on the second row, and what followed was the most metronomic weekend on the sheet: 3rd in the first A-main, 3rd in the second, 3rd overall. Ninety-eight points matches his Brookfield return exactly, and two starts have him eighth in the championship on 196. Two rounds attended, two podiums.

  4. 4th
    Thomas Vandervelden 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 11/7/4

    Broke into the seeded eight for the first time this season on a score of 11, an 11th in the opening heat washed away by a 7th and a 4th. Then he improved on his grid slot in both A-mains — 6th and 4th for a total of 4 and fourth overall. Ninety-seven points is comfortably his best of the year and lifts him to fourth in the championship on 274 from three starts, with a spare round still to play.

  5. 5th
    Cody Ervin 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 4/8/5

    Qualified fourth on a score of 9 and ran 4th and 5th in the A-mains for a total of 4 and fifth on the tiebreak with Vandervelden. Ninety-six points, up 18 on his Brookfield weekend, and a first appearance in the seeded eight. Two rounds in attendance and both of them productive.

  6. 6th
    Jayden Alvarado no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 14/9/7

    Last of the seeded eight on a score of 16 after a 14th in the opening heat, and then he beat both of the seeded drivers who had qualified ahead of him. A 5th and a 6th for a total of 5 and sixth at the flag is two grid slots gained and the sort of A-main debut that gets you invited back.

  7. 7th
    Ben Danko no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 9/20/8

    Bumped into the A-main and then finished ahead of two seeded runners, which is exactly what a bump-up is for. A 7th and an 8th for a total of 7 and seventh overall, beaten only on the tiebreak by a driver who started a row ahead of him.

  8. 8th
    Chris Shepard no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 12 · Q 6/6/11

    Heats of 6, 6 and 11 produced a score of 12 and the seventh grid slot, and the mains were an 8th and a 7th for a total of 7. Level with Danko and beaten on the tiebreak by a driver who had to race his way into the field, which will sting for about a week.

  9. 9th
    Ben Ludlum no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 8/4/6

    An 8th, a 4th and a 6th made a score of 10 and the fifth grid slot — a genuinely solid qualifying weekend. The mains did not follow: a 9th and a 10th for a total of 9 and ninth overall, four places worse than he started. The pace was there on Saturday and went missing on Sunday.

  10. 10th
    Matthew Leibman no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 10/11/10

    Came in through the bump, opened with a 10th and improved to a 9th in the second leg for a total of 9 — level with Ben Ludlum and beaten only on the tiebreak. Tenth of ten on the sheet, having raced his way into a field he was never seeded for, and only a tiebreak away from beating a driver who started fifth.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Kyrie Barritt 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 17 · Q 7/10/12

    Nineteen points better than Brookfield with a 90, and a first appearance in the championship conversation. Missing the A-main by a single position is a horrible way to spend a Sunday, but going from 71 points to 90 between rounds is the sort of jump that says the learning is happening fast.

  13. 12th
    Reyna Chodara 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 27 · Q 13/14/14

    After two weekends of scoring exactly 80, she turned in an 89 and jumped to fifth in the championship on 249. Three starts, three scores, and every one of them from outside the seeded eight — this is what turning up to every round does for you in a best-three format.

  14. 15th
    Lincoln Dake 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 31 · Q 16/15/17

    Eighty-six points from outside the seeded eight, and a third start of the season puts him seventh in the championship on 230. No TQs, no A-main here, no drama, and somehow ahead of a lot of drivers who have had all three.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

Omaha gives us the first genuine divergence between the two totals, and it is a big one. Lane Lazarz has raced four rounds for a raw 402, but only his best three count, so his championship figure is 302 — the result he has to throw away is a 100-point weekend. Tyler Heinzelmann is in the same boat with a raw 379 reduced to 290, discarding an 89, and his 99 at HobbyPlex means he has closed the gap to 12 despite dropping a score. Behind them the arithmetic flips: Ryan Benedict on 283 and Thomas Vandervelden on 274 have only three starts each, so their raw and best-three totals are the same number and round five is pure upside for them, while Lazarz and Heinzelmann can only improve by replacing scores of 100 and 94. Reyna Chodara's rise to fifth on 249 and Lincoln Dake's seventh on 230 are both built the same way — three rounds attended, three scores banked, no A-mains required. One round remains, and in this class the driver who simply keeps turning up is a genuine threat to the driver who keeps winning.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Lane Lazarz+101402−1003024
2Tyler Heinzelmann+99379−892904
3Ryan Benedict–28302833
4Thomas Vandervelden+9727402743
5Reyna Chodara+8924902493
6Daniel Paddock–24502453
7Lincoln Dake+8623002303
8Ian Schultz+9819601962

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

40+ 2wd Buggy

17 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Casey Blasczyk297394−970141st971009899·
2Allen Horne297391−941042nd99100*9498·
3Brent Thielke29529502131st101*94100*–·
4Mark Decker279366−870045th87969291·
5Mack Vanderbeek27927900036th9292–95·
6Eddie Henley265351−8600412th86898987·
7Kraig Obrien262262000311th908785–·
8Greg Carrico25425400038th827993–·
9Adam Chodara244244000319th81–8182·
10Shane Petitjean238238000317th77–7784·
11Alex Sturgeon19919901121st98––101*·
12Jamie Thompson19219200024th–9597–·
13Brad Hauch19019000025th94––96·
14Brian Jaeger18818800026th93–95–·
15Josh Cyrul18818800023rd–9890–·
16Joseph Finn161161000220th–8180–·
17Nick Malato152152000222nd73–79–·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Brent Thielke — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 28 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Brent Thielke0131
2Allen Horne23128
3Alex Sturgeon6653
4Brad Hauch6445
5Casey Blasczyk7574
6Steve Richter11786
7Matt McDonough12869
8Brian Jaeger1710914
9Kraig Obrien1818128
10Mack Vanderbeek1914157
11Todd Filter20121012
12Jason Mayer20111311
13Chris Rothwell23151610
14Eddie Henley2491817
15Bucky Bachman25291413
16Mark Decker26131915
17Broc Stroebel27211118
18Adam Chodara32171729
19Todd Peifer33162019
20Corey Heft37192120
21Greg Carrico38242616
22Matt Miller40202222
23Brian Faust43222423
24Gene Labar44252521
25Matt Kocourek45272324
26Shane Petitjean47232826
27Kris Hackenson49262725
28Nick Malato53282927

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Brent Thielke1P121/5:13.39214.53714.87498.48%+101
2Allen Horne2P221/5:15.61314.40714.90195.38%+99
3Alex Sturgeon3P320/5:01.80114.57814.97398.82%+98
4Casey Blasczyk4P520/5:03.55614.25614.96498.02%+97
5Matt McDonough5P720/5:09.25014.70815.23597.51%no licence
6Steve Richter6P620/5:16.82014.95015.70892.54%no licence
7Brad Hauch7P419/5:02.93614.77815.85589.22%+94
8Brian Jaeger8P819/5:00.93614.96215.58893.64%+93
9Mack Vanderbeekbumped up9P1019/5:04.80214.74215.71393.87%+92
10Chris Rothwellbumped up10P919/5:10.17014.84416.11491.37%no licence
B-main
1Chris Rothwellup to the AP523/6:05.01115.10315.76196.97%–
2Mack Vanderbeekup to the AP223/6:08.00915.20215.96494.11%–
3Kraig Obrien11P123/6:14.50415.22016.28193.41%+90
4Todd Filter12P322/6:01.08115.24616.35290.65%no licence
5Jason Mayer13P422/6:01.69015.50616.26795.07%no licence
6Mark Decker14P822/6:09.85515.23516.48692.94%+87
7Eddie Henley15P622/6:10.18515.36916.70689.50%+86
8Broc Stroebelbumped up16P921/6:06.23315.78017.10990.53%no licence
9Todd Peiferbumped up17P1020/6:07.50715.96818.19789.10%no licence
10Bucky Bachman18P720/6:15.87416.13918.57887.86%no licence
C-main
1Broc Stroebelup to the BP122/6:10.28415.87516.71091.16%–
2Greg Carrico19P522/6:11.65915.33616.63192.59%+82
3Todd Peiferup to the BP321/5:49.46716.12816.53297.76%–
4Adam Chodara20P221/6:02.84315.63217.18588.40%+81
5Brian Faust21P721/6:03.11615.90517.12792.72%no licence
6Corey Heft22P421/6:04.08916.02717.22288.18%no licence
7Gene Labar23P821/6:07.22115.96017.30486.78%no licence
8Shane Petitjeanbumped up24P921/6:10.55216.27917.43588.52%+77
9Matt Miller25P621/6:13.89816.34917.61987.74%no licence
10Matt Kocourekbumped up26P1021/6:16.84316.15017.73889.58%no licence
D-main
1Shane Petitjeanup to the CP218/5:11.24116.25917.03798.12%–
2Matt Kocourekup to the CP118/5:11.92316.41717.25191.70%–
3Kris Hackenson27P317/5:01.91417.22717.63596.57%no licence
4Nick Malato28P417/5:09.76016.79018.08290.74%+73

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Brent Thielke 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/3/1 · TQ

    Heat wins in the first and third qualifiers gave him a score of 2 and the TQ, and then he did the one thing that makes a TQ worth having: won both A-mains. A total of 1 is the lowest number on the sheet and 101 points is the maximum this series hands out. Nobody got close enough to make him work for it, and the only man who finished within a position of him never got a mistake to pounce on.

  2. 2nd
    Allen Horne 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/1/28

    A 28th in the final qualifier sounds ruinous until you remember only the best two count -- a 3rd and a heat win carried him to a score of 4 and the front row. Two second places in two A-mains is about as tidy as a runner-up weekend gets, and it left him exactly one position adrift all day. Ninety-nine points banked, and the uncomfortable knowledge that Thielke simply never wobbled.

  3. 3rd
    Alex Sturgeon 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 6/5/3

    Qualifying got better every time he went out -- 6th, 5th, then 3rd for a score of 8 and the third seed -- and the A-mains followed the same script, a 5th chased by a 3rd. That left him level on a total of 3 with Casey Blasczyk and on the right side of the tiebreak. Ninety-eight points for a driver who improved in more or less every session he ran.

  4. 4th
    Casey Blasczyk 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 9 · Q 5/7/4

    Third in the opening A-main was the best single leg of anyone starting outside the top three, and a 4th to back it up left him tied with Alex Sturgeon on a total of 3. The tiebreak was the only thing between them, which is a brutal way to be handed fourth instead of third. He came in as the fifth seed on a 9 from 5/7/4 and left with 97 points and a place gained on the grid.

  5. 5th
    Matt McDonough no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 14 · Q 8/6/9

    Seventh on the grid off a 14 from 8/6/9, and then a 4/5 pair in the A-mains that lifted him two places and put him ahead of three drivers who had out-qualified him. He races without a series licence, so the championship table will show none of that. The result sheet will, and the result sheet says fifth.

  6. 6th
    Steve Richter no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 13 · Q 7/8/6

    Held station all weekend, and there is nothing wrong with that: a 13 from 7/8/6 for the sixth seed, then 6th and 7th in the A-mains for a total of 6. That tied him with Brad Hauch, a driver who had qualified two rows in front, and the split went his way. No licence means no points, but he still beat men who collected some.

  7. 7th
    Brad Hauch 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 8 · Q 4/4/5

    A qualifying score of 8 from 4/4/5 made him the fourth seed, and then the first A-main went wrong in a hurry -- a 10th, the worst leg by anyone starting on the first two rows. He rebuilt it with a 6th in the second leg, which is the only reason he is this high, but a total of 6 lost the tiebreak to Steve Richter. Ninety-four points out of a weekend that had a good deal more than that written on it after qualifying.

  8. 8th
    Brian Jaeger 93 pts
    93 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 19 · Q 10/9/14

    Squeezed into the seeded eight on a 19 from 10/9/14, the highest qualifying score of anyone who made the cut, and turned the last seeded start into a 7th in the opening A-main. The 10th that followed was dropped, leaving a total of 7. Ninety-three points and an A-main start in the bank on the first weekend of the year.

  9. 9th
    Mack Vanderbeek 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 21 · Q 14/15/7

    Bumped into the A-main rather than seeding into it, then ran 8th in both legs -- identical results, no drama, nothing wasted. Doing that was enough to beat a driver who had earned a top-eight run, which is the hardest kind of pass to make. Ninety-two points collected entirely the difficult way.

  10. 10th
    Chris Rothwell no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P13 · bumped up from the B · qual score 25 · Q 15/16/10

    Also came through the bump, and also produced a matched pair: 9th and 9th for a total of 9. Two A-main legs from a driver with no seeded run behind him is a fair afternoon's work in a field this quick. The licence question keeps it off the points table; it does not keep it off the results.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Kraig Obrien 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 20 · Q 18/12/8

    First man on the wrong side of the A-main cut, which is the most irritating address in the building. Ninety points from outside the seeded eight is still real money in a championship that only ever counts your best three events, and it puts him eighth in the standings before anyone has run a second round.

  13. 14th
    Mark Decker 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 28 · Q 13/19/15

    No seeded start and a lower main to work out of, and 87 points collected anyway. In a class where the entire championship top ten is covered by 15 points, getting to the flag and adding a number is most of the job.

  14. 15th
    Eddie Henley 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 26 · Q 9/18/17

    Rounds out the championship top ten on his opening entry with 86 points, all of it earned from outside the seeded eight. Fifteenth in a field this deep is not a highlight reel, but it is exactly the sort of result that wins best-of-three championships when nobody is looking.

  15. 19th
    Greg Carrico 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 40 · Q 24/26/16

    Missed the seeded eight and came home 19th for 82 points. A modest opening deposit, but a deposit is a deposit in a format that never counts more than three of them.

  16. 20th
    Adam Chodara 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P18 · qual score 34 · Q 17/17/29

    One place and one point behind Greg Carrico, with 81 to his name and no seeded run to lean on. Ten positions separate him from the A-main cut, which sounds enormous until you see how tightly stacked this field is from about eighth backwards.

  17. 24th
    Shane Petitjean 77 ptsbumped up
    77 pts · qualified P26 · bumped up from the D · qual score 49 · Q 23/28/26

    Twenty-sixth of 28 in qualifying dropped him into the D-main, and he won it from the second grid slot -- 18 laps at 98.12% consistency, the best mark of the four cars in that race. The promotion into the C put him ninth on that grid and eighth at the flag, with a best lap that held within two hundredths of the one that got him out of the D. Seventy-seven points banked for 24th, and the part of the weekend worth keeping is the main he climbed out of rather than the one he finished in.

  18. 28th
    Nick Malato 73 pts
    73 pts · qualified P28 · qual score 55 · Q 28/29/27

    The last name on the scoring sheet, and he got there from outside the seeded eight for 73 points. It looks small next to Thielke's 101, but in a series scored off your best three weekends, an empty row looks a great deal worse.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

One round down and the championship is simply the finishing order with a TQ bonus stapled to the top of it. Brent Thielke leads on 101, the maximum this series allows, having taken pole and then won both A-mains; Allen Horne is on 99 and Alex Sturgeon on 98. Every driver has exactly one start, so the raw totals and the best-three championship figures are the same number and nobody has discarded anything -- the table is as honest now as it will ever be, and as fragile. The ghosts in the machine are Matt Mcdonough and Steve Richter, fifth and sixth on the road and ahead of three point-scoring drivers apiece, who appear nowhere on the standings at all. First to tenth covers 15 points, which at one point per finishing position means the entire championship top ten currently fits inside a single A-main field.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Casey Blasczyk+97394−972974
2Allen Horne+99391−942974
3Brent Thielke+10129502953
4Mark Decker+87366−872794
5Mack Vanderbeek+9227902793
6Eddie Henley+86351−862654
7Kraig Obrien+9026202623
8Greg Carrico+8225402543

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Allen Horne — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 28 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Allen Horne0119/5:04.604419/5:00.362120/5:10.109
2Casey Blasczyk3718/5:00.431120/5:11.230420/5:16.422
3Brent Thielke41018/5:07.044320/5:17.168320/5:12.106
4Mark Decker6319/5:05.124519/5:07.5362317/5:10.036
5Matt Brienzo8419/5:05.959619/5:09.173619/5:01.237
6Nathan Betley8519/5:08.7481019/5:12.505519/5:01.124
7Josh Cyrul11619/5:10.7262417/5:13.106719/5:02.680
8Kris Norlock14818/5:04.546919/5:12.449819/5:06.535
9Kraig Obrien17918/5:06.8611618/5:09.1521018/5:00.994
10Frank Prestiagiacomo211118/5:07.0861218/5:00.3801418/5:11.505
11Eddie Henley221618/5:15.5751119/5:14.5951318/5:10.565
12Mike Himanek22300/0.000 (DNS)1318/5:05.1071118/5:03.467
13Gregory Akins231318/5:10.2231718/5:13.0171218/5:08.285
14Jamie Thompson252017/5:05.324719/5:10.8922612/3:20.110 (DNF)
15Mack Vanderbeek252117/5:08.186819/5:11.2221918/5:15.626
16Garrett Miller252417/5:18.7251818/5:13.372919/5:15.869
17Ken McKendrick251218/5:09.7511518/5:07.5152417/5:12.288
18Tony Crowell311917/5:04.8491418/5:07.1162017/5:02.389
19Dave Saul311418/5:15.1101918/5:14.468290/0.000 (DNF)
20Mike Panackia321817/5:02.4922117/5:04.2501618/5:12.587
21Greg Carrico331717/5:00.6992018/5:21.5891818/5:14.865
22Brian Sullivan352716/5:03.9162217/5:06.3821518/5:11.564
23Chris Hall372217/5:10.7372717/5:20.9221718/5:12.896
24Joseph Finn38–––
25Rich Yox43–––
26Mike Winders45–––
27Carlos Swenson49–––
28Ramey Boteler50–––

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Casey Blasczyk1P220/5:04.33614.62715.27596.18%+100
2Allen Horne2P120/5:11.10414.79315.63293.90%+100
3Josh Cyrul3P720/5:13.87815.27615.68198.17%+98
4Matt Brienzo4P519/5:01.15314.75415.87092.96%no licence
5Mark Decker5P420/5:13.88614.63615.53793.16%+96
6Jamie Thompsonbumped up6P919/5:06.71215.08915.80495.79%+95
7Brent Thielke7P319/5:09.73414.70316.39488.42%+94
8Kris Norlock8P819/5:14.19915.39716.52893.82%no licence
9Mack Vanderbeekbumped up9P1019/5:07.42315.17416.08093.00%+92
10Nathan Betley10P618/5:04.71414.90216.69989.26%no licence
B-main
1Jamie Thompsonup to the AP623/6:04.52415.16715.75997.03%–
2Mack Vanderbeekup to the AP722/6:01.70215.77416.36093.41%–
3Ken McKendrickbumped up11P922/6:13.22515.69216.87791.67%no licence
4Eddie Henley12P321/6:03.50315.57417.37386.69%+89
5Gregory Akins13P521/6:15.99916.03017.94885.00%no licence
6Kraig Obrien14P120/6:02.21116.12118.27688.09%+87
7Frank Prestiagiacomo15P220/6:02.69714.84317.81783.64%no licence
8Garrett Miller16P817/6:09.35915.81121.98431.26%no licence
9Mike Himanek17P44/1:27.903 (DNF)16.29924.08054.74%no licence
10Brian Sullivanbumped up18P100/0.000 (DNS)–––no licence
C-main
1Ken McKendrickup to the BP122/6:10.37815.96616.91694.48%–
2Brian Sullivanup to the BP622/6:11.14515.83516.87191.42%–
3Rich Yoxbumped up19P921/6:03.35416.20117.30493.21%no licence
4Joseph Finn20P821/6:05.89816.05317.40991.21%+81
5Dave Saul21P321/6:07.28615.80917.58487.88%no licence
6Greg Carrico22P520/6:04.32715.74918.11185.50%+79
7Mike Panackia23P420/6:09.64716.23518.58687.45%no licence
8Chris Hall24P719/6:13.65116.32519.56969.72%no licence
9Tony Crowell25P217/4:44.182 (DNF)16.04616.80695.04%no licence
10Ramey Botelerbumped up26P106/1:45.636 (DNF)16.31017.44391.24%no licence
D-main
1Rich Yoxup to the CP117/5:01.57016.43817.90291.44%–
2Ramey Botelerup to the CP417/5:03.00115.97217.82989.27%–
3Carlos Swenson27P317/5:05.21216.38318.03090.63%no licence
4Mike Winders28P217/5:16.25916.33921.39458.00%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Casey Blasczyk 100 pts
    100 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 5 · Q 7/1/4

    A 7th in the opening qualifier was the only blemish on the weekend, and a heat win plus a 4th afterwards buried it under a score of 5 and a front-row start. He then won both A-mains, which remains the tidiest method ever devised for erasing a qualifying deficit. A total of 1 and 100 points, with the only thing missing from the sheet being the pole bonus that went to the man he beat.

  2. 2nd
    Allen Horne 100 pts TQ
    100 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/4/1 · TQ

    Two heat wins around a 4th gave him a score of 2 and the TQ, and then two second places in two A-mains gave him precisely the same points as the winner. That is the pole bonus doing its job: 99 for the finish, one for the TQ, 100 on the board, dead level with Blasczyk. Losing the round and matching the winner's score is a strange feeling, but it takes him to the top of the championship on 199.

  3. 3rd
    Josh Cyrul 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 6/24/7

    A 24th in the middle qualifier looked like a wrecked weekend and cost him nothing, because the 6th and 7th either side of it were the two that counted for a 13 and the seventh seed. He opened the mains with a 7th and then produced a 3rd, enough to tie Matt Brienzo on a total of 3 and win the split. Four places gained on his grid slot and 98 points on his first appearance in this series.

  4. 4th
    Matt Brienzo no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 10 · Q 4/6/6

    Third in the opening A-main was the best leg by anybody outside the front row, and the 6th that followed left him tied on 3 with Josh Cyrul and on the wrong end of the tiebreak. Qualifying had been metronomic -- 4/6/6 for a 10 and the fifth seed -- so nothing about the weekend was accidental. He carries no series licence, so beating six drivers in an A-main this stacked pays nothing at all.

  5. 5th
    Mark Decker 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 8 · Q 3/5/23

    A 23rd in the last qualifier vanished under the best-two rule and left him with an 8 and the fourth seed, which is a neat piece of housekeeping. The first A-main went the other way entirely -- a 9th -- before a 4th in the second leg rescued the day and tied him with Jamie Thompson on a total of 4. Ninety-six points is a nine-place and nine-point improvement on Brookfield, and it moves him to fifth in the championship.

  6. 6th
    Jamie Thompson 95 ptsbumped up
    95 pts · qualified P14 · bumped up from the B · qual score 27 · Q 20/7/26

    Came through the bump and then outran most of the people who had seeded in ahead of him: a 4th and a 5th for a total of 4, level with Mark Decker and separated only by the tiebreak. Doing that without a top-eight run behind you is the hardest version of the job on offer. Ninety-five points on his first weekend in the series is a serious way to introduce yourself.

  7. 7th
    Brent Thielke 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 6 · Q 10/3/3

    The Brookfield winner had to dig for this one: a 10th in the opening qualifier, then a 3rd and a 3rd to salvage a score of 6 and the third seed. The A-mains gave him a 5th and a 9th for a total of 5, and seventh is his first weekend of the year without a trophy on it. Ninety-four points, seven fewer than February, and the championship lead has gone to somebody else.

  8. 8th
    Kris Norlock no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 8/9/8

    Three qualifiers, three finishes in the same narrow band -- 8/9/8 for a 16 and the last of the seeded starts. The first A-main was the good one, a 6th that moved him up two places and stood as his total once the 10th was discarded. No series licence, so eighth in this company goes into the record book and nowhere near a points table.

  9. 9th
    Mack Vanderbeek 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P15 · bumped up from the B · qual score 27 · Q 21/8/19

    Second round running he had to bump into the A-main, and second round running he came out ninth for 92 points -- same result, same score, different state. The 10th in the first leg got binned in favour of the 7th that followed. Two starts, two finishes, and he sits fourth in the championship on 184 without ever cracking the top eight in qualifying.

  10. 10th
    Nathan Betley no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 10 · Q 5/10/5

    Qualified level with Matt Brienzo on a score of 10 from 5/10/5 and took the sixth seed, then ran 8th in both A-mains for a total of 8. That is four places surrendered from where he started, on a weekend when nobody around him was giving anything away. He races without a licence, so the slide costs him nothing on a table he is not on.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 12th
    Eddie Henley 89 pts
    89 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 24 · Q 16/11/13

    Two rounds, two finishes outside the A-main, two scoring results -- 86 at Brookfield, 89 here. That puts him seventh in the championship on 175 for the straightforward reason that he keeps turning up and keeps getting to the end. In a best-of-three format that is not a consolation prize, it is a strategy.

  13. 14th
    Kraig Obrien 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 19 · Q 9/16/10

    Missed the seeded eight for a second round running and still came away with 87 points and sixth in the championship on 177. Three places worse than Brookfield on the day and three points lighter in the pocket, which is the kind of drift you can absorb once. The A-main cut is the only thing standing between him and a genuine run at this.

  14. 20th
    Joseph Finn 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P24

    First entry on the scoresheet, 81 points, and no seeded start to make any of it easier. Twentieth in a 40+ modified field is a perfectly reasonable place to open an account.

  15. 22nd
    Greg Carrico 79 pts
    79 pts · qualified P21 · qual score 35 · Q 17/20/18

    A three-place slide from his Brookfield 19th, worth 79 points on top of the 82 he already had and eighth in the championship on 161. Both of his results have come from outside the seeded eight, which means there is upside sitting untouched if he ever gets a top-eight run. Two starts, two scores, nothing yet thrown away.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Allen Horne leaves Macomb leading on 199 without having won either round, which is what happens when you finish second twice and pick up a pole bonus on the way. Casey Blasczyk is two behind on 197 with the win here, and Brent Thielke -- the only man holding both a TQ and a round win -- is third on 195. Everyone in the top eight has two starts, so raw totals and championship figures remain identical and the discard pile is empty for every single one of them. That is precisely why Mack Vanderbeek sits fourth on 184 having never finished better than ninth or qualified inside the top eight: two rounds, two scores, no gaps. Alex Sturgeon and Josh Cyrul are tied on 98 in ninth and tenth off one start each, which is the clearest illustration yet that with three rounds still to run this format pays attendance before it pays outright speed.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Casey Blasczyk+100394−972974
2Allen Horne+100391−942974
3Brent Thielke+9429502953
4Mark Decker+96366−872794
5Mack Vanderbeek+9227902793
6Eddie Henley+89351−862654
7Kraig Obrien+8726202623
8Greg Carrico+7925402543

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Brent Thielke — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 24 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Brent Thielke2120/5:13.471420/5:12.716320/5:14.101
2Brad Borneill2319/5:00.668320/5:10.362120/5:13.541
3Casey Blasczyk3419/5:02.089120/5:09.745420/5:14.930
4David Joor8619/5:04.726519/5:02.457519/5:01.464
5Jamie Thompson10519/5:02.904262/31.930 (DNF)719/5:02.988
6Mark Decker101119/5:15.360619/5:03.479619/5:02.409
7Brian Jaeger12719/5:05.300719/5:05.545919/5:05.903
8T.J. Bradley14819/5:06.724819/5:06.3232017/5:09.303
9Allen Horne15919/5:08.3011019/5:08.312819/5:05.383
10Duane Fisher181818/5:11.954919/5:06.6841119/5:15.582
11Greg Carrico221319/5:15.6681119/5:14.3072513/3:41.754 (DNF)
12Tom Knapper221219/5:15.4281219/5:17.4741318/5:01.541
13Art Scrimo261618/5:08.4541318/5:00.1481518/5:02.132
14Kraig Obrien261418/5:00.2211718/5:14.6001418/5:01.876
15Joe Zaier Jr281918/5:13.5191818/5:19.4731218/5:01.125
16Josh Cyrul29–––
17Ed Fiore29–––
18Eddie Henley29–––
19Luke Sandberg36–––
20Adam Chodara37–––
21Tim Koob40–––
22Shane Petitjean41–––
23Joseph Finn45–––
24Nick Malato47–––

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Brad Borneill1P220/5:11.26715.13015.47298.28%no licence
2Brent Thielke2P120/5:11.69015.15915.53698.45%+100
3Casey Blasczyk3P320/5:11.61814.99115.46698.11%+98
4Jamie Thompson4P520/5:15.21415.27815.61198.69%+97
5David Joor5P419/5:03.54915.51515.84498.48%no licence
6Brian Jaeger6P719/5:07.42215.59315.96797.39%+95
7Allen Hornebumped up7P1019/5:08.04115.38315.96897.02%+94
8Greg Carricobumped up8P918/5:00.88015.98316.45297.37%+93
9Mark Decker9P619/5:07.81215.51016.05396.99%+92
10T.J. Bradley10P819/5:14.01715.52616.20195.67%no licence
B-main
1Greg Carricoup to the AP322/6:03.12915.88616.35495.75%–
2Josh Cyrul11P822/6:04.23515.45416.27395.95%+90
3Allen Horneup to the AP122/6:06.16015.74616.56593.98%–
4Eddie Henleybumped up12P1022/6:11.62615.70816.67595.57%+89
5Art Scrimo13P521/6:00.21216.13317.05593.90%no licence
6Joe Zaier Jr14P721/6:05.03216.23117.24092.92%no licence
7Ed Fiorebumped up15P921/6:10.69016.07717.24892.20%no licence
8Kraig Obrien16P621/6:13.18516.16117.55392.00%+85
9Duane Fisher17P219/5:13.474 (DNF)15.68116.43591.86%no licence
10Tom Knapper18P410/2:51.269 (DNF)16.00716.74193.70%no licence
C-main
1Ed Fioreup to the BP122/6:09.21215.92116.75495.61%–
2Eddie Henleyup to the BP222/6:11.04115.93816.81194.85%–
3Luke Sandberg19P322/6:16.82315.94717.07191.79%no licence
4Adam Chodara20P421/6:12.60016.54917.65594.07%+81
5Joseph Finn21P720/6:11.55316.82318.42490.49%+80
6Nick Malato22P819/6:05.30617.70219.04194.98%+79
7Tim Koob23P519/6:06.36317.21719.22890.59%no licence
8Shane Petitjean24P63/1:02.194 (DNF)17.45720.608–+77

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified. A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so a run cut shorter than that shows none.

  1. 1st
    Brad Borneill no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/3/1

    Won the final qualifier to post a score of 4 from 3/3/1, level with Brent Thielke, and lost the TQ on the tiebreak. He answered by winning the first A-main, and although Thielke took the second, the drop rule left them both on a total of 1 with Borneill on the right side of the split this time. He takes the round win and not one championship point for it, which is the harshest sentence this series knows how to hand down.

  2. 2nd
    Brent Thielke 100 pts TQ
    100 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 1/4/3 · TQ

    His second TQ of the season came from 1/4/3 for a score of 4 and a tiebreak call over Brad Borneill. The A-mains then split exactly the same way -- a 3rd, then a win, a total of 1, and a second tiebreak that went to the other man. One hundred points including the pole bonus, out of a weekend where he was never beaten by more than a hair and lost twice anyway.

  3. 3rd
    Casey Blasczyk 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 5 · Q 4/1/4

    A heat win inside 4/1/4 gave him a 5 and the third seed, and he then ran 2nd in both A-mains, the most consistent pair of legs anyone put down all weekend. It bought him third, which tells you rather a lot about how tight the front of this class has become. He also won the 40+ 4WD class at this same round, so the 98 points here came at the end of a very full three days.

  4. 4th
    Jamie Thompson 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 12 · Q 5/26/7

    A 26th in the middle qualifier is the sort of number that ends weekends and it barely registered -- the 5th and 7th either side were the counters for a 12 and the fifth seed. Two 4th places in the A-mains gave him a total of 4 and a place gained on the grid. Ninety-seven points, two better than his Macomb debut, and a second scoring round from two starts.

  5. 5th
    David Joor no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 10 · Q 6/5/5

    Fourth seed on a very tidy 10 from 6/5/5, and then the opening A-main went four places the wrong way with an 8th. A 5th in the second leg was the repair job, and it stood as his total once the drop was applied. No series licence, so fifth in a field containing the top three in the championship goes into the record and nowhere else.

  6. 6th
    Brian Jaeger 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 14 · Q 7/7/9

    Back-to-back 7ths in qualifying made a 14 and the seventh seed, and the A-mains improved on that: a 5th, then a 6th, total 5, level with David Joor and beaten on the tiebreak. Ninety-five points is his best return of the year and a place gained on where he started. His only previous outing was an eighth at Brookfield, so this is a proper step up rather than a repeat.

  7. 7th
    Allen Horne 94 ptsbumped up
    94 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 9/10/8

    The championship leader arrived without a seeded start, which is not a sentence anyone expected to write after his Macomb TQ. He bumped in, ran 6th and 7th for a total of 6, and limited the bill to 94 points -- enough to drop him from first to third in the standings but not enough to lose touch. Three starts, three scores, and the first weekend of his season that refused to cooperate.

  8. 8th
    Greg Carrico 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 24 · Q 13/11/25

    Bumped into the A-main after two rounds spent a very long way from one, and that is comfortably the biggest change of direction on this sheet. The 7th in the first leg was the counter, the 10th in the second was dropped, and 93 points is 11 better than anything he had managed before. Seventh in the championship on 254 and finally racing in the room where the trophies are.

  9. 9th
    Mark Decker 92 pts
    92 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 11/6/6

    Back-to-back 6ths in qualifying rescued an opening 11th and left him a 12 and the sixth seed, which was the good part of the weekend. The A-mains read 10th and 8th for a total of 8, three places lost from the grid, and 92 points is his slimmest haul since Brookfield. He is still fourth in the championship on 275, so this is a bruise rather than a break.

  10. 10th
    T.J. Bradley no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 8/8/20

    Two 8ths and a 20th in qualifying made a 16 and the last seeded start, and he then delivered a matched pair of 9ths in the A-mains. Consistency at that level does not make headlines, but it is a driver who knew exactly what his car would do in every session. No licence, so tenth in an A-main this loaded has to be its own reward.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Josh Cyrul 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P16

    The Macomb podium man missed the seeded eight this time and came out first driver on the outside of the A-main -- a swing of eight places in a single round. Ninety points still lifts him to 188 and a share of tenth in the championship. Two starts, two scores, and nothing discarded yet.

  13. 12th
    Eddie Henley 89 ptsbumped up
    89 pts · qualified P18 · bumped up from the C

    Second in the C-main from the second grid slot was the climb, and the B-main he earned with it handed him the very back of a ten-car grid as a thank-you. He came out of that fourth, on the same 22 laps as the three ahead of him and quicker on average than he had been a main earlier -- 16.675 against 16.811, with consistency up to 95.57%. Third round of the year, third finish outside the A-main, and third time he has walked away with points -- 89, identical to Macomb. That is fifth in the championship on 264, ahead of drivers with far better single weekends than anything on his sheet.

  14. 16th
    Kraig Obrien 85 pts
    85 pts · qualified P14 · qual score 28 · Q 14/17/14

    The line is drifting the wrong way: 11th, then 14th, now 16th, with 90, 87 and 85 points to match. He remains sixth in the championship on 262 because three scoring rounds is three scoring rounds, and plenty of quicker drivers do not have that. What he has not found in three attempts is a top-eight qualifying run, and it is the only thing his season is missing.

  15. 20th
    Adam Chodara 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P20

    Exactly the same result as Brookfield, right down to the point: 20th on the day for 81. Repeatability is worth more than it sounds in a series that counts your best three events, and he now has two entries on the board that look like carbon copies of each other.

  16. 21st
    Joseph Finn 80 pts
    80 pts · qualified P23

    One place further back than Macomb and one point lighter at 80, again with no seeded run behind him. Second start of the season and a second score in the bank, which is the foundation this format quietly rewards.

  17. 22nd
    Nick Malato 79 pts
    79 pts · qualified P24

    A six-place gain on the 28th he took away from Brookfield, worth 79 points against 73. That is genuine improvement in a class where the drivers ahead of him have had decades of practice at not making mistakes, and where nobody hands over a position out of politeness.

  18. 24th
    Shane Petitjean 77 pts
    77 pts · qualified P22

    Identical to his opening weekend: 24th, 77 points, no seeded start. He is quietly assembling a season out of finishes rather than headlines, and in a best-of-three championship those are worth exactly the same on the day the numbers get added up.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Brent Thielke and Casey Blasczyk leave Muscatine tied on 295 with Allen Horne two behind on 293, and all three are on exactly three starts -- raw totals and championship figures still identical, nothing thrown away by anybody. The moment any of them runs a fourth round that changes, because from then on a weekend is only worth the difference between it and their current worst score. Brad Borneill won the round outright and takes nothing from it, which leaves the top of the table looking a good deal calmer than the racing actually was. Mark Decker is fourth on 275, and behind him sit Eddie Henley on 264, Kraig Obrien on 262 and Greg Carrico on 254 -- three drivers who have not made a single seeded start between them this season and have scored at every round regardless. Jamie Thompson (192), Brian Jaeger (188) and Josh Cyrul (188) are the two-start brigade, each carrying a free slot into the rounds that remain. Seven drivers are covered by 41 points with two rounds left to run.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Casey Blasczyk+98394−972974
2Allen Horne+94391−942974
3Brent Thielke+10029502953
4Mark Decker+92366−872794
5Mack Vanderbeek–27902793
6Eddie Henley+89351−862654
7Kraig Obrien+8526202623
8Greg Carrico+9325402543

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Alex Sturgeon — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 22 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Alex Sturgeon0113/5:09.68723.373 fast · 23.822 avg313/5:08.93623.247 fast · 23.764 avg113/5:10.67323.294 fast · 23.898 avg
2Casey Blasczyk2313/5:12.84523.365 fast · 24.065 avg113/5:08.88623.062 fast · 23.760 avg313/5:14.43123.284 fast · 24.187 avg
3Allen Horne6512/4:50.798 (DNF)23.512 fast · 24.233 avg413/5:17.88924.156 fast · 24.453 avg413/5:14.60023.650 fast · 24.200 avg
4David Alberico7413/5:17.38823.673 fast · 24.414 avg513/5:19.47923.851 fast · 24.575 avg613/5:19.38423.907 fast · 24.568 avg
5Mack Vanderbeek9712/5:02.69524.454 fast · 25.225 avg613/5:22.60324.216 fast · 24.816 avg513/5:17.30023.875 fast · 24.408 avg
6Brad Hauch13912/5:04.10524.307 fast · 25.342 avg712/5:00.33924.235 fast · 25.028 avg813/5:20.65424.037 fast · 24.666 avg
7Mark Decker14612/5:01.76324.546 fast · 25.147 avg1012/5:05.38423.456 fast · 25.449 avg232/1:08.462 (DNF)24.433 fast · 34.232 avg
8Rob Katnich141412/5:15.77324.398 fast · 26.314 avg912/5:04.43924.630 fast · 25.370 avg713/5:20.26724.330 fast · 24.636 avg
9Brent Riley15215/2:29.168 (DNF)24.737 fast · 29.834 avg812/5:03.73224.555 fast · 25.311 avg912/5:00.72424.400 fast · 25.060 avg
10David Peavler17812/5:03.76124.365 fast · 25.313 avg1212/5:08.26324.458 fast · 25.689 avg1112/5:10.12623.770 fast · 25.844 avg
11Eddie Henley191112/5:10.38924.564 fast · 25.866 avg1112/5:06.35624.201 fast · 25.530 avg1012/5:09.43824.570 fast · 25.787 avg
12Sean King221012/5:08.74025.300 fast · 25.728 avg1412/5:14.13025.096 fast · 26.178 avg1512/5:19.72825.334 fast · 26.644 avg
13Seth Curtis221212/5:10.43425.240 fast · 25.870 avg1512/5:16.50124.530 fast · 26.375 avg1212/5:14.56024.618 fast · 26.213 avg
14Rob Sturghill241312/5:14.02925.010 fast · 26.169 avg1312/5:13.46325.102 fast · 26.122 avg1312/5:15.27524.793 fast · 26.273 avg
15Brian Cox271512/5:19.46425.657 fast · 26.622 avg1612/5:21.23225.760 fast · 26.769 avg1412/5:17.51625.543 fast · 26.460 avg
16Shane Petitjean301612/5:23.46625.936 fast · 26.956 avg1812/5:25.54825.422 fast · 27.129 avg1612/5:23.86725.949 fast · 26.989 avg
17Jonathan Haas321711/5:06.16126.693 fast · 27.833 avg1911/5:01.32126.430 fast · 27.393 avg1712/5:25.04125.967 fast · 27.087 avg
18Chad Bartlett33224/1:53.018 (DNF)25.755 fast · 28.255 avg1712/5:24.31325.598 fast · 27.026 avg1812/5:25.09125.477 fast · 27.091 avg
19Adam Chodara371911/5:13.32525.963 fast · 28.484 avg2011/5:05.55126.152 fast · 27.777 avg2011/5:09.24125.752 fast · 28.113 avg
20Matthew Martin381811/5:11.88226.797 fast · 28.353 avg2211/5:22.18926.860 fast · 29.290 avg2210/5:34.07126.873 fast · 33.407 avg
21Ronnie Wint38230/0.000 (DNS)2111/5:11.04625.671 fast · 28.277 avg1911/5:00.44925.526 fast · 27.314 avg
22Tim Sutherland392010/5:21.46428.378 fast · 32.147 avg2310/5:30.37329.545 fast · 33.037 avg2110/5:07.88426.122 fast · 30.788 avg

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Alex Sturgeon1P113/5:02.34123.46523.72499.34%+101
2Casey Blasczyk2P213/5:08.31823.07524.16895.06%+99
3Allen Horne3P313/5:09.48223.38624.22596.48%+98
4David Alberico4P413/5:09.89623.66224.20498.15%no licence
5Brad Hauch5P613/5:16.84923.94024.68695.86%+96
6Mack Vanderbeek6P513/5:17.38924.18924.77397.88%+95
7Brent Rileybumped up7P913/5:23.15424.04725.07697.14%no licence
8Rob Katnich8P813/5:23.43024.12025.07395.75%no licence
9David Peavlerbumped up9P1012/5:03.07624.59125.50997.23%no licence
10Mark Decker10P712/5:15.28623.52726.75190.72%+91
B-main
1Brent Rileyup to the AP115/6:20.04924.36025.79995.20%–
2David Peavlerup to the AP215/6:24.50524.80626.10193.72%–
3Seth Curtis11P514/6:01.46225.39126.18397.03%no licence
4Sean King12P414/6:05.56925.39026.54096.51%no licence
5Rob Sturghill13P614/6:06.36025.34126.26296.79%no licence
6Eddie Henley14P314/6:10.42824.57726.83494.18%+87
7Chad Bartlettbumped up15P914/6:10.50825.20726.38894.26%no licence
8Brian Cox16P714/6:25.26725.27827.68891.45%no licence
9Shane Petitjean17P814/6:29.73026.25228.06893.14%+84
10Ronnie Wintbumped up18P1014/6:35.58826.07928.57287.66%no licence
C-main
1Chad Bartlettup to the BP214/6:09.04225.64826.81394.47%–
2Ronnie Wintup to the BP514/6:14.80325.50627.06695.88%–
3Adam Chodara19P314/6:19.23825.35927.28088.52%+82
4Jonathan Haas20P114/6:21.04725.83427.56394.29%no licence
5Tim Sutherland21P612/6:00.64228.24430.68394.51%no licence
6Matthew Martin22P41/23.528 (DNF)–––no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Alex Sturgeon 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/3/1 · TQ

    Two heat wins for a score of 2 and the TQ, then both A-mains won from pole -- there is no cleaner sheet available anywhere in this series. A total of 1 and the maximum 101 points, on a weekend where he was never headed in anything that counted. His only other outing was a third place at Brookfield back in February, which makes this the most emphatic re-entrance of the season.

  2. 2nd
    Casey Blasczyk 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/1/3

    A heat win inside 3/1/3 gave him a 4 and the front row, and from there it was two second places behind a driver who was simply not going to be caught. Ninety-nine points is his fourth scoring round from four attempts and it takes him to the top of the championship on 297. It also means he now has a result to throw away, which is a problem most of this field would love to have.

  3. 3rd
    Allen Horne 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 5/4/4

    A score of 8 from 5/4/4 put him third on the grid and he stayed broadly there -- a 4th, then a 3rd, total 3, with the tiebreak over David Alberico falling his way. Ninety-eight points draws him level with Blasczyk at the head of the championship on 297, though the raw totals underneath tell you he has been running slightly closer to the edge all year. Four rounds, four scores, and still no round win next to his name.

  4. 4th
    David Alberico no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 4/5/6

    The fourth seed on a 9 from 4/5/6 and fourth on the road, but the middle of that was busier than the bare result suggests: a 3rd in the opening A-main put him ahead of Allen Horne before the second leg reversed it. Level on a total of 3 and beaten by the tiebreak is a very fine margin to lose a podium by. He holds no series licence, so the points table records none of it.

  5. 5th
    Brad Hauch 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 15 · Q 9/7/8

    A 15 from 9/7/8 was the highest qualifying score inside the top six seeds, so a sixth-place start was already worth having. He then ran 5th and 6th in the A-mains for a total of 5 and a place gained on the grid. Ninety-six points is two better than the 94 he took away from Brookfield, and he was never worse than sixth in anything that mattered.

  6. 6th
    Mack Vanderbeek 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 7/6/5

    For once he did not have to bump his way in: 7/6/5 for an 11 and the fifth seed, the first seeded start of his season after two rounds of doing it the hard way. The A-mains gave him a 7th and then a 5th for a total of 5, level with Brad Hauch and one place the wrong side of the split. Ninety-five points is his best score of the year and lifts him to fifth in the championship on 279 from three starts, with nothing discarded.

  7. 7th
    Brent Riley no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 21/8/9

    Bumped into the A-main with no seeded run behind him and promptly finished ahead of two drivers who had one. The 6th in the first leg was the counter and the 8th that followed was dropped, for a total of 6. There is no series licence, which is the only reason a weekend like this is not showing up on a points table somewhere.

  8. 8th
    Rob Katnich no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 16 · Q 14/9/7

    Qualifying was a steady climb -- 14th, 9th, then 7th for a 16, level on score with Mark Decker and eighth on the grid. The A-mains ran the same direction, a 9th improved into a 7th, and he finished two places ahead of the man he had tied with in qualifying. No licence and no points, but a weekend without a single wasted session.

  9. 9th
    David Peavler no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 8/12/11

    Came through the bump and then held his ground in an A-main containing both championship leaders and the TQ: 8th and 9th for a total of 8. That is a great deal of very quick traffic to stay out of the way of. Without a licence there is nothing to add to a table, but there is plenty to take home.

  10. 10th
    Mark Decker 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 16 · Q 6/10/23

    A 23rd in the last qualifier was discarded and the 6/10 in front of it still made a 16 and the seventh seed, so the platform was there. The A-mains refused to cooperate at all -- 10th and 10th, a total of 10, last of the A-main runners. Ninety-one points is his leanest score of the season, but on four starts he was always going to be dropping something, and this one replaces the 87 from Brookfield rather than costing him anything.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 14th
    Eddie Henley 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 21 · Q 11/11/10

    Fourth round, fourth score, and 87 points added to a season built entirely from outside the seeded eight. He sits sixth in the championship on 265 from a raw 351, which means his Brookfield 86 has just been quietly swapped out for this -- a one-point gain for a full weekend of work. That is what a fourth start does to you, and he still has the best attendance record in the top ten.

  13. 17th
    Shane Petitjean 84 pts
    84 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 32 · Q 16/18/16

    The best result of his season by seven places and seven points, 17th and 84, still without ever getting near the seeded eight. It lifts him into the championship top ten on 238 from three starts. Nothing discarded, which means every point he scores from here is a point he keeps in full.

  14. 19th
    Adam Chodara 82 pts
    82 pts · qualified P19 · qual score 39 · Q 19/20/20

    One place and one point better than the two identical 20ths he had been posting, which by his standards counts as a breakthrough. Eighty-two points puts him ninth in the championship on 244 from three starts. He is another driver carrying a completely empty discard pile into the finale, and that is worth more than it looks.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

Casey Blasczyk and Allen Horne finish the round dead level on 297, and the interesting number is the one underneath: Blasczyk's raw total across four starts is 394, Horne's is 391. Both are already discarding a result -- a 97 for Blasczyk, a 94 for Horne -- which means Blasczyk must score 98 or better at the final round to move his championship figure at all, while Horne only needs 95. Brent Thielke is third on 295 from three starts with an empty discard pile, so every point he scores in the finale is a point he actually keeps; on that arithmetic he may be the best-placed driver in the class despite sitting third. The same split runs all the way down the order: Mark Decker is fourth on 279 from a raw 366 across four rounds, while Mack Vanderbeek is fifth on the identical 279 from a raw 279 across three, carrying no dead weight whatsoever. Eddie Henley (265 from a raw 351) is caught in the four-start trap too, whereas Kraig Obrien on 262, Greg Carrico on 254, Adam Chodara on 244 and Shane Petitjean on 238 all still have a slot to fill. One round remains, first to fifth is separated by 18 points, and the drivers who have been to everything are the ones with the least left to gain from turning up again.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Casey Blasczyk+99394−972974
2Allen Horne+98391−942974
3Brent Thielke–29502953
4Mark Decker+91366−872794
5Mack Vanderbeek+9527902793
6Eddie Henley+87351−862654
7Kraig Obrien–26202623
8Greg Carrico–25402543

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

40+ 4wd Buggy

12 drivers
#DriverPointsbest 3▼Totalall events▼DroppedTQWinsStartsBestR1TracksideR2RCR3IslandR4HobbyPlexR5Oct
1Casey Blasczyk303404−1014441st101*101*101*101*·
2Mark Decker287378−910043rd91989495·
3Mack Vanderbeek27427400038th9390–91·
4Eddie Henley271361−9000410th90919090·
5Adam Chodara256256000314th83–8786·
6Allen Horne19719700022nd99––98·
7Brent Thielke19619600023rd98–98–·
8Brad Hauch19319300024th96––97·
9Jamie Thompson19319300024th–9697–·
10Brian Jaeger18718700026th92–95–·
11Josh Cyrul18618600026th–9591–·
12Nick Malato167167000215th81–86–·

Tap Points or Total to re-sort. Only a driver’s best three events count, so the two columns diverge as soon as somebody starts a fourth. A * marks a TQ, worth one bonus point.

Round-by-round commentary

Every round, the qualifying sheet and the top of the finishing order — who earned their grid slot, who converted it, and who threw it away.

Round 1 · Feb 6-8 Trackside Hobbies & Raceway

Brookfield, WI
TQ: Casey Blasczyk — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 20 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Casey Blasczyk21513
2Allen Horne2331
3Brent Thielke3144
4Matt McDonough74510
5Steve Richter9765
6Brad Hauch95116
7Chris Rothwell116712
8Mark Decker13897
9Brian Jaeger15989
10Mack Vanderbeek1610108
11Eddie Henley20111411
12Todd Peifer22121215
13Matt Miller24131613
14Todd Filter25161314
15Rustin Pattenaude31191518
16Matt Kocourek31171716
17Adam Chodara33211817
18Nick Lopez35182219
19Kris Hackenson37221920
20Nick Malato38202021

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Casey Blasczyk1P121/5:06.43214.08614.55096.44%+101
2Allen Horne2P221/5:09.46013.94814.67393.74%+99
3Brent Thielke3P321/5:07.98014.24214.57397.95%+98
4Matt McDonough4P420/5:03.29014.43015.05696.02%no licence
5Brad Hauch5P621/5:16.71014.35314.91695.82%+96
6Chris Rothwell6P720/5:05.46014.49415.02996.74%no licence
7Steve Richter7P520/5:04.95614.44915.09695.82%no licence
8Mack Vanderbeekbumped up8P920/5:14.03614.60015.35396.67%+93
9Brian Jaegerbumped up9P1019/5:04.69014.41515.84490.89%+92
10Mark Decker10P818/4:37.206 (DNF)14.44915.18995.78%+91
B-main
1Mack Vanderbeekup to the AP224/6:10.57614.70515.36095.41%–
2Brian Jaegerup to the AP123/6:00.88314.62115.63992.20%–
3Eddie Henley11P323/6:08.15014.68015.93992.12%+90
4Todd Peifer12P423/6:13.95515.22616.15693.49%no licence
5Matt Kocourek13P822/6:06.80115.89516.46396.02%no licence
6Todd Filter14P622/6:10.24014.84116.60988.72%no licence
7Nick Lopezbumped up15P1022/6:15.43015.50316.70495.15%no licence
8Matt Miller16P522/6:17.97215.47916.95892.71%no licence
9Rustin Pattenaude17P721/6:16.42315.30217.77986.81%no licence
10Adam Chodarabumped up18P920/6:04.91016.16417.98985.99%+83
C-main
1Adam Chodaraup to the BP122/6:01.34815.64516.40994.71%–
2Nick Lopezup to the BP222/6:12.92316.01316.80392.66%–
3Kris Hackenson19P321/6:06.49216.50717.34795.38%no licence
4Nick Malato20P421/6:15.88916.11217.80290.91%+81

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Casey Blasczyk 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 4 · Q 15/1/3 · TQ

    Opened his weekend with a 15 in the first qualifier, which is the worst single heat result anybody in the seeded eight carried, and then never gave the field another sniff. A 1 and a 3 in the last two heats made a qualifying score of 4 and, on tiebreak, the TQ. The mains went 1 and 2 for a total of 1, and the maximum 101 points went home with him on day one.

  2. 2nd
    Allen Horne 99 pts
    99 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/3/1

    Heats of 3, 3 and 1 gave him a qualifying score of 4 — identical to the TQ's — and the tiebreak handed the pole to somebody else. He answered by winning the second A-main outright and tying Blasczyk on a total of 1, which is as close as you can finish to a win without owning one. 99 points is a fine opening night; the manner of it will annoy him for weeks.

  3. 3rd
    Brent Thielke 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 5 · Q 1/4/4

    Won the opening qualifier and held a 5 from 1/4/4 for the third seed. He converted it immediately with a second place in the first A-main, and the 10 in the second race is precisely the sort of result the drop exists to erase. Total of 2, third overall, 98 points banked.

  4. 4th
    Matt McDonough no points
    no series licence · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 4/5/10

    Qualified fourth on a 9 from 4/5/10, which took some hanging on in the last heat, then improved where it counted: 6 in the first A-main, 3 in the second, total 3. Fourth overall in a field this sharp is a genuinely good day. Racing without a series licence means the points sheet ignores it, but the result sheet does not.

  5. 5th
    Brad Hauch 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 11 · Q 5/11/6

    An 11 from 5/11/6 put him sixth on the grid, and he turned out to be one of the steadier hands in the mains with a 4 and a 6 for a total of 4. That was worth fifth overall and 96 points, a place better than he started.

  6. 6th
    Chris Rothwell no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 6/7/12

    Seventh seed on a 13 from 6/7/12, and his weekend ran the right way round: an 8 in the first A-main, then a 4 in the second. Level with Hauch on a total of 4 and shaded for fifth, which is a thin margin to lose a place by. No championship points, plenty of evidence.

  7. 7th
    Steve Richter no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 7/6/5

    Metronome work in qualifying — 7, 6, 5 for a score of 11 — and then two identical fifths in the A-mains for a total of 5. He never finished a session worse than seventh all weekend and still came out seventh overall, which tells you exactly how tightly packed the front of this class is.

  8. 8th
    Mack Vanderbeek 93 ptsbumped up
    93 pts · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 18 · Q 10/10/8

    No top-eight seed, so he bumped his way onto the A-main grid and then held station with a 7 and an 8 for a total of 7. Eighth overall and 93 points for a driver who started the weekend outside the seeded eight is a solid return on a long three days.

  9. 9th
    Brian Jaeger 92 ptsbumped up
    92 pts · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 17 · Q 9/8/9

    Another bump-up who refused to look out of place: a 9 in the first A-main, a 7 in the second, total 7 and level with Vanderbeek just ahead. 92 points from a weekend that began with no seeded slot at all is money in the bank.

  10. 10th
    Mark Decker 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 15 · Q 8/9/7

    Last of the seeded eight on a 15 from 8/9/7, and the mains never opened up — 10 then 9, total 9, the back of the A-main. 91 points still lands on the board, and this is the kind of round that reads very differently once there are a few more of them underneath it.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Eddie Henley 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 22 · Q 11/14/11

    First man on the wrong side of the A-main cut, 11th overall after missing the seeded eight. 90 points for the weekend, and in a championship scored on best three events from five, an opening round in the 90s is a brick rather than a consolation prize.

  13. 18th
    Adam Chodara 83 ptsbumped up
    83 pts · qualified P17 · bumped up from the C · qual score 35 · Q 21/18/17

    The C-main was a four-car affair and he led it home from pole, 22 laps at 94.71% consistency, which is how a 17th-place qualifying score turns into a B-main start. The B was a step too far from ninth on the grid — 20 laps and last of the ten — but in a class where the A-main regulars are mining the high 90s, the 83 points are on the sheet and they count exactly as much as anybody else's 83 would. Ninth in the opening championship table with four rounds still to come.

  14. 20th
    Nick Malato 81 pts
    81 pts · qualified P20 · qual score 40 · Q 20/20/21

    A 40+ modified field is a hard place to open an account, and 20th is a long way from the seeded eight. The 81 points still go on the board, and with four rounds still to come and only three of them counting, every early score is provisional.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 1

One round in and the championship table is just the Brookfield result sheet with different formatting: every driver has a single start, so the best-three figure and the raw total are the same number for everybody. Blasczyk leads on 101, the only score in the class carrying a TQ bonus, with Horne on 99 and Thielke on 98 behind him after both were beaten by tiebreaks and drop scores rather than by much actual distance. The interesting gap is not at the front — three of the top seven finishers in the A-main, Mcdonough, Rothwell and Richter, scored no championship points at all, so the ladder behind Blasczyk is thinner than the results suggest. Henley, Chodara and Malato came away with 90, 83 and 81 from outside the A-main, and in a best-three-of-five season those are assets rather than consolation. Nobody is carrying a discarded result yet, which also means nobody has anything to hide behind. This is a field old enough to know exactly how long a season is and quick enough to make it hurt.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Casey Blasczyk+101404−1013034
2Mark Decker+91378−912874
3Mack Vanderbeek+9327402743
4Eddie Henley+90361−902714
5Adam Chodara+8325602563
6Allen Horne+9919701972
7Brent Thielke+9819601962
8Brad Hauch+9619301932

Round 2 · May 1-3 RC One Racing

Macomb, MI
TQ: Casey Blasczyk — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 13 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Casey Blasczyk0141
2Matt Brienzo4517
3Jamie Thompson5434
4Mark Decker7663
5Nathan Betley73116
6Kris Norlock10775
7Josh Cyrul11858
8Frank Prestiagiacomo159811
9Garrett Miller161399
10Tony Crowell18101012
11Mack Vanderbeek19111410
12Ramey Boteler23121314
13Eddie Henley23141213

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Casey Blasczyk1P120/5:00.74114.75315.10698.30%+101
2Matt Brienzo2P220/5:06.53714.74115.39894.90%no licence
3Mark Decker3P420/5:06.87414.62815.36194.75%+98
4Nathan Betley4P520/5:14.39414.79715.70593.84%no licence
5Jamie Thompson5P319/5:02.74914.64416.02789.76%+96
6Josh Cyrul6P719/5:08.70115.00116.16992.98%+95
7Tony Crowellbumped up7P919/5:10.66615.23816.31189.33%no licence
8Kris Norlock8P619/5:10.75414.92016.31390.00%no licence
9Frank Prestiagiacomo9P818/5:02.45115.14516.82088.95%no licence
10Eddie Henleybumped up10P100/0.000 (DNS)–––+91
B-main
1Tony Crowellup to the AP222/6:00.27615.23516.32791.43%–
2Eddie Henleyup to the AP522/6:01.89015.29916.33794.03%–
3Mack Vanderbeek11P322/6:03.66015.25416.52591.77%+90
4Ramey Boteler12P420/5:59.237 (DNF)16.11817.93388.97%no licence
5Garrett Miller13P118/4:59.231 (DNF)15.52116.76688.92%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Casey Blasczyk 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/4/1 · TQ

    Heats of 1, 4 and 1 for a qualifying score of 2 and a second straight TQ, then a win and a third in the A-mains for a total of 1. Two rounds, two poles, two wins, 202 points from 202 available. Macomb looked an awful lot like Brookfield from the commentary booth.

  2. 2nd
    Matt Brienzo no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 6 · Q 5/1/7

    Qualified on the front row with a 6 from 5/1/7, heat win included, and then he went out and took the second A-main outright. Tied Blasczyk on a total of 1 and lost the round on the order, which is the second time this season somebody has finished level with the man and still come away with nothing. No licence, no points, no doubt whatsoever about the pace.

  3. 3rd
    Mark Decker 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 6/6/3

    Seeded off a 9 from 6/6/3, and then he put in the most repeatable drive in the building: 2 in the first A-main, 2 in the second, total 2. A place gained on the grid, 98 points, and a considerable step up from his Brookfield weekend.

  4. 4th
    Nathan Betley no points
    no series licence · qualified P5 · qual score 9 · Q 3/11/6

    A 9 from 3/11/6 got him the fifth seed on the strength of the two heats that counted, and he backed it with third in the first A-main. The 8 in the second race was the one to throw away, leaving a total of 3 and fourth overall.

  5. 5th
    Jamie Thompson 96 pts
    96 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 4/3/4

    Qualified third on a tidy 4/3/4 and then had the first A-main go wrong at ninth, which left an awful lot of rebuilding to do in one race. He did it — 4 in the second main, total 4, fifth overall and 96 points. Nothing in the heat sheets suggested ninth was anywhere near his level.

  6. 6th
    Josh Cyrul 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 8/5/8

    Seventh seed on a 13 from 8/5/8, then a pair of identical fifths in the A-mains for a total of 5. A place better than he started, 95 points collected, and not a single session where anyone had to wonder where he was.

  7. 7th
    Tony Crowell no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 20 · Q 10/10/12

    Bumped up rather than seeded and immediately ran sixth in the first A-main, ahead of three drivers who had a top-eight seed in their pocket. The 9 in the second race got dropped and he took seventh on a total of 6 — a good weekend to have gone up rather than home.

  8. 8th
    Kris Norlock no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 12 · Q 7/7/5

    Sixth seed on a 12 from 7/7/5, and the mains mirrored the heats almost exactly with a 7 and a 6. Total of 6, eighth at the flag, and a weekend in which he was never more than a place away from where he had qualified.

  9. 9th
    Frank Prestiagiacomo no points
    no series licence · qualified P8 · qual score 17 · Q 9/8/11

    Took the last seeded spot with a 17 from 9/8/11, the highest qualifying score anyone in the top eight was carrying. Then he improved on it twice over: 8 in the first A-main, 7 in the second, total 7 and ninth overall.

  10. 10th
    Eddie Henley 91 ptsbumped up
    91 pts · qualified P13 · bumped up from the B · qual score 25 · Q 14/12/13

    Bumped into the A-main after missing the seeded eight, which is a full day's work before the mains even fire up. Two tenths gave him a total of 10 and the back row of the result, but 91 points and a second consecutive scoring round put him fourth in the championship on 181. Showing up remains undefeated.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Mack Vanderbeek 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P11 · qual score 21 · Q 11/14/10

    No top-eight seed this time and 11th overall, one place short of the A-main. The 90 points stack neatly on Brookfield's 93 and leave him third in the championship on 183, ahead of several drivers who have been quicker on any given weekend and absent on the others.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 2

Two rounds scored and Blasczyk has taken everything on offer: 202 points from two starts, two TQs and two wins, with his best-three figure still identical to his raw total because nobody has a fourth event to throw away yet. Decker is the story behind him — 91 at Brookfield, 98 at Macomb, second in the championship on 189, built on nothing more exotic than entering both. Vanderbeek on 183 and Henley on 181 are running the same arithmetic from further back, neither having troubled an A-main podium, both sitting ahead of drivers with far more single-weekend pace. That is the shape of this thing: Horne, Thielke and Hauch hold 99, 98 and 96 from one start each, and every one of them is a round adrift on attendance alone. With three of the five rounds still to run the best-three rule has not yet bitten anybody, but the moment a driver takes a fourth start their raw total and their championship figure part company permanently.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Casey Blasczyk+101404−1013034
2Mark Decker+98378−912874
3Mack Vanderbeek+9027402743
4Eddie Henley+91361−902714
5Adam Chodara–25602563
6Allen Horne–19701972
7Brent Thielke–19601962
8Brad Hauch–19301932

Round 3 · Jun 12-14 Island Speedway

Muscatine, IA
TQ: Casey Blasczyk — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 16 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Casey Blasczyk0131
2Brad Borneill2313
3Jamie Thompson64415
4Mark Decker7654
5Brent Thielke9566
6Brian Jaeger11885
7T.J. Bradley12777
8Josh Cyrul1711128
9Tom Knapper1791110
10Eddie Henley1715109
11Art Scrimo1710911
12Luke Sandberg23121317
13Dayn Hoeli25161512
14Phil Knoll25141413
15Adam Chodara28171614
16Nick Malato31181716

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Casey Blasczyk1P120/5:05.90814.96815.28698.88%+101
2Brad Borneill2P220/5:12.31715.09415.58894.16%no licence
3Brent Thielke3P520/5:15.20515.11815.68692.45%+98
4Jamie Thompson4P319/5:01.17815.24315.75495.70%+97
5T.J. Bradley5P719/5:01.32515.12315.74098.07%no licence
6Brian Jaeger6P619/5:04.00515.18615.84294.81%+95
7Mark Decker7P419/5:05.18015.18415.71198.02%+94
8Art Scrimobumped up8P919/5:15.81215.71716.47591.19%no licence
9Tom Knapperbumped up9P1018/5:15.29515.90016.75393.52%no licence
10Josh Cyrul10P818/5:00.56515.38216.50091.61%+91
B-main
1Art Scrimoup to the AP322/6:02.93415.80816.43696.59%–
2Tom Knapperup to the AP122/6:05.18515.42716.56992.39%–
3Eddie Henley11P222/6:18.79715.75417.06692.10%+90
4Luke Sandberg12P421/6:03.99415.97417.27990.44%no licence
5Phil Knoll13P620/6:03.60116.99418.09693.98%no licence
6Adam Chodara14P719/6:00.76416.53318.91278.05%+87
7Nick Malato15P819/6:08.58017.49119.26689.33%+86
8Dayn Hoeli16P514/3:54.179 (DNF)15.82416.52696.99%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Casey Blasczyk 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/3/1 · TQ

    A 2 from 1/3/1 for a third straight TQ, and then the first double A-main sweep of the season: won both, total 1, nothing left on the table. Three rounds, three poles, three wins, 303 points from 303 available. Somebody in this class is going to have to make him work for one eventually.

  2. 2nd
    Brad Borneill no points
    no series licence · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/1/3

    Lined up alongside the TQ on a 4 from 3/1/3, heat win in the middle of it, and then he shadowed the leader through both A-mains — 2 and 2, total 2. Nobody else at Muscatine finished within a place of Blasczyk in either race. The licence column is empty; nothing else about the weekend is.

  3. 3rd
    Brent Thielke 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 11 · Q 5/6/6

    Fifth on the grid with an 11 from 5/6/6, and he drove past two seeded drivers who started ahead of him. A 4 and a 3 in the mains made a total of 3 and third overall, his second podium of the season and 98 points — the identical score he took from Brookfield.

  4. 4th
    Jamie Thompson 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P3 · qual score 8 · Q 4/4/15

    Third seed on an 8 from 4/4/15: two clean heats and one to forget, which is exactly what best-two-of-three is for. Ran third in the first A-main, slipped to sixth in the second, and the total of 3 tied Thielke without quite beating him. 97 points and a second scoring round on the board.

  5. 5th
    T.J. Bradley no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 14 · Q 7/7/7

    Qualified 7, 7 and 7, which is either extraordinary consistency or a man who has located his exact level and parked on it, and a score of 14 for the seventh seed. He then went 6 and 4 in the mains for a total of 4 and fifth overall, two places up on where he started.

  6. 6th
    Brian Jaeger 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P6 · qual score 13 · Q 8/8/5

    A 13 from 8/8/5 for the sixth seed, and then the first A-main fell apart at 10th. The answer was a 5 in the second race, the drop erased the mess, and a total of 5 gave him sixth overall and 95 points. Bad race, good weekend.

  7. 7th
    Mark Decker 94 pts
    94 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 9 · Q 6/5/4

    Gridded fourth on a 9 from 6/5/4, and running fifth in the first A-main this looked like another front-half round. The 8 in the second cost him, total 5, seventh at the flag. 94 points still leaves him second in the championship on 283 and the only man on the sheet within touching distance of the leader.

  8. 8th
    Art Scrimo no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 10/9/11

    Bumped up rather than seeded, then produced the tidiest pair of runs in the bottom half of the A-main: 7 and 7 for a total of 7. Eighth overall, with a seeded driver collected on the way past.

  9. 9th
    Tom Knapper no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P9 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 9/11/10

    The other bump-up, and he was in the thick of it early with an 8 in the first A-main. A 10 in the second became the discard, leaving a total of 8 and ninth overall from a weekend that started outside the seeded eight entirely.

  10. 10th
    Josh Cyrul 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 19 · Q 11/12/8

    Scraped the final seeded spot with a 19 from 11/12/8, the roughest qualifying card in the top eight, and the mains stayed hard work at 9 and 9 for a total of 9. Tenth and 91 points, which still moves him to seventh in the championship on 186 — a reminder that a bad weekend in the A-main outscores a good one anywhere else.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Eddie Henley 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P10 · qual score 19 · Q 15/10/9

    Missed the seeded eight, finished 11th, took 90 points — the third round running he has come away in that neighbourhood. Boring is a strategy: three starts, 271 points, third in the championship, and not one of those scores is going spare.

  13. 14th
    Adam Chodara 87 pts
    87 pts · qualified P15 · qual score 30 · Q 17/16/14

    Four places better than Brookfield and 87 points for the trouble, still working from outside the seeded eight. Two rounds banked, 170 in the championship and ninth on the table, which is further up than a 14th-place finish sounds.

  14. 15th
    Nick Malato 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P16 · qual score 33 · Q 18/17/16

    Five spots and five points better than his Brookfield debut, which is the sort of progress that does not make headlines and does make championships. Two rounds in, he sits tenth on 167 with the man ahead of him only three points away.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 3

Three rounds, three TQs, three wins: Blasczyk's 303 is a perfect score and still identical to his raw total, because three starts is exactly the number the championship counts. Decker's 283 is the same story with less polish — three rounds, nothing discarded, 20 points adrift and clear of everything behind. Henley is third on 271 having finished 11th, 10th and 11th, a sequence that should not add up to a championship podium and does. Behind them sit Thielke on 196, Thompson on 193, Jaeger on 187, Cyrul on 186 and Vanderbeek on 183, all on two starts, all fast enough to be higher, all missing a round's worth of points that Henley simply drove out and collected. No one has a fourth start yet, so raw totals and championship figures still agree everywhere on the sheet. Muscatine's other headline is that the winner swept both A-mains for the first time this season, and the only driver to finish within a place of him in either race was Borneill, who scores no points for it.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Casey Blasczyk+101404−1013034
2Mark Decker+94378−912874
3Mack Vanderbeek–27402743
4Eddie Henley+90361−902714
5Adam Chodara+8725602563
6Allen Horne–19701972
7Brent Thielke+9819601962
8Brad Hauch–19301932

Round 4 · Jul 31 - Aug 2 HobbyPlex

Omaha, NE
TQ: Casey Blasczyk — worth one bonus point, so a TQ converted into a win pays the maximum 101.

Qualifying — three rounds, best two count, 16 entered

SeedDriverQual scoreRound 1Round 2Round 3
1Casey Blasczyk0113/5:01.510113/5:04.386313/5:03.827
2Allen Horne2313/5:03.258413/5:08.267113/5:02.589
3David Alberico5413/5:05.104313/5:08.087413/5:09.979
4Mark Decker9613/5:08.190513/5:15.872913/5:21.618
5Brad Hauch10513/5:08.156176/2:29.240 (DNF)713/5:18.270
6Rob Katnich11813/5:16.077913/5:24.697513/5:13.745
7Brent Riley11713/5:15.141713/5:18.731613/5:14.015
8Mack Vanderbeek13913/5:17.461613/5:18.6721312/5:08.738
9Eddie Henley161012/5:01.515813/5:22.4091013/5:23.065
10Seth Curtis171112/5:05.7001312/5:14.963813/5:20.409
11Jonathan Haas201212/5:10.7981012/5:05.4341212/5:03.635
12Sean King201412/5:16.5191112/5:11.2881113/5:24.616
13Adam Chodara231312/5:15.2511212/5:11.6101512/5:25.944
14Chad Bartlett261612/5:31.9061412/5:16.1071412/5:15.632
15Rob Sturghill291512/5:17.607169/3:49.664 (DNF)173/1:14.044 (DNF)
16Tim Sutherland291711/5:29.0991510/5:09.320165/2:31.574 (DNF)

Each round shows the finish, the run that produced it and that run’s quickest and average lap. Lowest score seeds highest, so the top qualifier reads 0, and a driver’s score is the sum of his two best rounds — those two are picked out, and the third is the one being thrown away. Note that this seeds on points across three rounds rather than on a single best run, so the quickest run in a row is not necessarily the one that put the driver where he is.

Main results — every driver, every main

PosDriverOverallGridLaps / timeFast lapAvg lapConsistencyPoints
A-main
1Casey Blasczyk1P114/5:20.04422.94523.27998.89%+101
2David Alberico2P313/5:02.63423.27223.67798.84%no licence
3Allen Horne3P213/5:07.42823.04124.10995.50%+98
4Brad Hauch4P513/5:10.26723.27224.20797.28%+97
5Rob Katnich5P613/5:12.27523.29932.49064.32%no licence
6Mark Decker6P413/5:17.06123.72124.82594.91%+95
7Brent Riley7P713/5:24.06823.59025.28389.80%no licence
8Jonathan Haasbumped up8P1012/5:06.04024.97625.78197.63%no licence
9Seth Curtisbumped up9P912/5:06.99824.47425.92793.85%no licence
10Mack Vanderbeek10P811/5:00.20023.99727.62873.96%+91
B-main
1Seth Curtisup to the AP215/6:17.21324.68625.55897.28%–
2Jonathan Haasup to the AP315/6:23.49524.72325.88997.61%–
3Eddie Henley11P114/6:00.47423.97426.29592.86%+90
4Rob Sturghill12P714/6:01.27224.83125.98193.91%no licence
5Sean King13P414/6:02.00724.77926.25192.86%no licence
6Chad Bartlett14P614/6:04.11824.63626.37594.04%no licence
7Adam Chodara15P514/6:08.09424.95626.58593.97%+86
8Tim Sutherland16P813/6:25.36227.44130.03995.12%no licence

Each main is listed as its own race. The A is run as 2 legs and a driver’s total is the sum with the single worst dropped, so its order is decided across all of them rather than by one race; the laps, time and lap figures shown are all from the leg he took his best placing in. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole entry. A driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Lower mains run first and the top finishers bump up a main at a time, so the C feeds the B and the B feeds the A, and a driver who moved up is listed twice — in the race he won his way out of, and in the one he went on to run. His overall position and his points sit on the higher of the two. Not everybody takes the ride: where a main’s winner stayed put and the drivers below him went up instead, that is what the race sheet says happened. Grid is the slot a driver started that main from, counted within the main itself, so each one runs from first the same way its result does. A driver who bumped up starts at the back of the main he moved into, whatever he qualified.

  1. 1st
    Casey Blasczyk 101 pts TQ
    101 pts · qualified P1 · qual score 2 · Q 1/1/3 · TQ

    A 2 from 1/1/3 for a fourth TQ in four rounds, then both A-mains won for a total of 1 and a second consecutive Omaha-style sweep. The scoring system now works against him in the funniest way available: his championship figure is 303 from a raw 404, meaning a perfect weekend is being discarded because he already has three of them. Four starts, four maximums, one of them surplus to requirements.

  2. 2nd
    David Alberico no points
    no series licence · qualified P3 · qual score 7 · Q 4/3/4

    Third seed on a 7 from 4/3/4 — three heats inside a place of each other — and he jumped the man gridded ahead of him to run 2 and 2 in the mains for a total of 2. The only driver all weekend to finish second in either A-main, and the only one who ever looked like being there.

  3. 3rd
    Allen Horne 98 pts
    98 pts · qualified P2 · qual score 4 · Q 3/4/1

    Won the third qualifier for a 4 from 3/4/1 and the front row, then delivered a textbook pair of thirds for a total of 3. Third overall, 98 points, and on his second start of the season he now has 197 in the championship with nothing yet discarded — a healthier position than the table's sixth place makes it look.

  4. 4th
    Brad Hauch 97 pts
    97 pts · qualified P5 · qual score 12 · Q 5/17/7

    A 17 in the middle qualifier could have written off the weekend; best-two-of-three quietly deleted it and left him fifth on the grid with a 12. The mains went 6 then 4 for a total of 4 and fourth overall, a place up on his grid slot and 97 points — his best score of the season.

  5. 5th
    Rob Katnich no points
    no series licence · qualified P6 · qual score 13 · Q 8/9/5

    Sixth seed on a 13 from 8/9/5, and then the fourth-quickest car in the first A-main and fifth in the second for a total of 4. Level with Hauch and beaten only on the order, which is a tight way to miss out on fourth, but fifth from the sixth grid slot is still forward progress.

  6. 6th
    Mark Decker 95 pts
    95 pts · qualified P4 · qual score 11 · Q 6/5/9

    Fourth on the grid with an 11 from 6/5/9, and a 5 in the first A-main had him in the argument. The 9 in the second was both the drop and the damage — total 5, sixth overall. 95 points keeps him second on 287, though a raw 378 across four starts means he is now throwing a round away while some of the men behind him are not.

  7. 7th
    Brent Riley no points
    no series licence · qualified P7 · qual score 13 · Q 7/7/6

    Qualified 7, 7 and 6 for a 13 and the seventh seed, then ran 7 and 6 in the mains for a total of 6. Seventh on the grid, seventh at the finish, and almost no variance anywhere in between — a weekend of doing exactly the job.

  8. 8th
    Jonathan Haas no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P11 · bumped up from the B · qual score 22 · Q 12/10/12

    Bumped up from outside the seeded eight and then made the A-main look like his natural habitat: 8 and 7 for a total of 7 and eighth overall, ahead of the eighth seed. Not a bad way to spend a grid slot you had to earn twice.

  9. 9th
    Seth Curtis no pointsbumped up
    no series licence · qualified P10 · bumped up from the B · qual score 19 · Q 11/13/8

    The other bump-up in the A-main, and he made it stick with a 9 and an 8 for a total of 8. Ninth in a ten-car A-main he was never seeded for is a perfectly respectable way to spend a Sunday in Omaha.

  10. 10th
    Mack Vanderbeek 91 pts
    91 pts · qualified P8 · qual score 15 · Q 9/6/13

    Made the seeded eight this time with a 15 from 9/6/13, which is a step up from bumping in, and then the mains went 10 and 10 for a total of 10 and the back of the field. The 91 points matter more than the finish: three starts, 274 in the championship, third overall, and not a single point of it discarded.

  11. Outside the A-main
  12. 11th
    Eddie Henley 90 pts
    90 pts · qualified P9 · qual score 18 · Q 10/8/10

    Another weekend just outside the A-main and another 90 points — the third time in four rounds the sheet has read exactly that next to his name. Four starts have earned a raw 361 but a championship figure of 271, because best-three is now quietly deleting one of his rounds. That is the tax on perfect attendance, and he is still fourth.

  13. 15th
    Adam Chodara 86 pts
    86 pts · qualified P13 · qual score 25 · Q 13/12/15

    Another run in the lower mains, a place and a point off what he took from Muscatine, and 86 more into the pot. Three starts, nothing thrown away and 256 points puts him fifth in the championship — ahead of a queue of A-main regulars sitting on two rounds apiece.

Positions are overall finishing positions across the whole entry. The A-main is listed in full; a driver without a series licence races and is scored here, but earns no championship points. Anyone below the A-main cut who scored is grouped separately, which is why the numbers jump.

Championship after Round 4

Four rounds in and the best-three rule has finally started eating results. Blasczyk's championship figure is 303 from a raw 404 — four starts, four TQs, four wins — which means the round being discarded is a maximum score, comfortably the most luxurious problem in the series. Decker's raw 378 becomes 287 as his Brookfield 91 turns into dead weight, and Henley's raw 361 becomes 271 for exactly the same reason. That is why Vanderbeek is third on 274 and Chodara fifth on 256 from three starts each: every point they own still counts and neither is carrying a discard. Below them Horne (197), Thielke (196), Hauch (193), Thompson (193) and Jaeger (187) are all on two starts — quick, and a round short. With one round left, the drivers on three clean starts have the tidiest arithmetic on the board, because a fourth event only adds whatever beats their worst score, and for the man in front that bar is set at 101.

#DriverThis roundAll eventsDroppedPointsStarts
1Casey Blasczyk+101404−1013034
2Mark Decker+95378−912874
3Mack Vanderbeek+9127402743
4Eddie Henley+90361−902714
5Adam Chodara+8625602563
6Allen Horne+9819701972
7Brent Thielke–19601962
8Brad Hauch+9719301932

Round 5 Hoosier RC Hobbyplex

Not yet run

New Albany, IN, Oct 16-18 — Oct 16-18.

2026 Calendar

Rd 1Trackside Hobbies & Raceway
Brookfield, WI · Feb 6-8		Complete
Rd 2RC One Racing
Macomb, MI · May 1-3		Complete
Rd 3Island Speedway
Muscatine, IA · Jun 12-14		Complete
Rd 4HobbyPlex
Omaha, NE · Jul 31 - Aug 2		Complete
Rd 5Hoosier RC Hobbyplex
New Albany, IN · Oct 16-18		Next race

How INS scoring works

Each event pays 101 minus your finishing position — a win is 100, second 99, third 98, and so on down the order.

TQ is worth one bonus point. Take the overall qualifier and win the main and you score 101, the most available. Qualifying itself is three rounds with the best two counting, scored lowest-wins.

Your best three events count. Race four and the weakest drops; race three and everything counts. It rewards showing up to the right rounds rather than all of them.

Standings from the official series sheet. Qualifying and finishing orders from race timing. The scoring formula above was derived from the published points and verified against all 234 driver entries with no mismatches.