Round 1 Apr 15, 2026
10 entriesQualifying — two qualifiers, split over 2 heats
| Seed | Driver | Best run | Fast lap | Avg lap | Consistency | Heat results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hendrick Westmoreland | 19/5:06.448 | 15.376 | 16.129 | 92.47% | Q1 P1, Q2 P2 |
| 2 | Orlando Martinez | 19/5:09.366 | 15.088 | 16.282 | 87.07% | Q1 P3, Q2 P1 |
| 3 | Paxton Gage | 18/5:04.093 | 14.903 | 16.894 | 85.07% | Q1 P2, Q2 P3 |
| 4 | Brian Zimmerman | 18/5:12.394 | 16.293 | 17.355 | 95.02% | Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2 |
| 5 | Adam Garrett | 17/5:00.818 | 16.466 | 17.695 | 92.53% | Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P1 |
| 6 | Mark Beach | 17/5:01.277 | 15.918 | 17.722 | 87.19% | Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P3 |
| 7 | C4 | 17/5:07.987 | 15.769 | 18.117 | 84.16% | Q1 P4, Q2 P4 |
| 8 | Henry Ballew | 16/4:55.724 | 16.468 | 18.483 | 92.73% | Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P4 |
| 9 | Zac Mathews | 16/5:05.052 | 17.301 | 19.066 | 86.38% | Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P5 |
| 10 | David Sellars | 16/5:19.110 | 17.638 | 19.944 | 90.62% | Q1 P5, Q2 P5 |
Seeding comes from the qualifying run, not from one fast lap: most laps wins, and on equal laps the quicker time wins. Every figure in a row describes that one run — the driver’s best completed qualifier — rather than their best lap from one heat and their best average from another. Heats are not raced against each other, so a heat win is not a class result.
Main results — every driver, every main
| Pos | Driver | Overall | Laps / time | Fast lap | Avg lap | Consistency | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-main | |||||||
| 1 | Paxton Gage | 1 | 19/5:08.595 | 14.997 | 16.243 | 93.67% | +100 |
| 2 | Orlando Martinez | 2 | 19/5:12.966 | 14.836 | 16.528 | 89.53% | +96 |
| 3 | Hendrick Westmoreland | 3 | 19/5:13.764 | 15.244 | 16.583 | 91.38% | +94 |
| 4 | C4bumped up | 4 | 18/5:04.136 | 15.495 | 16.815 | 94.34% | +92 |
| 5 | Mark Beach | 5 | 17/5:11.791 | 15.910 | 18.211 | 89.85% | +90 |
| 6 | Brian Zimmerman | 6 | 17/5:17.669 | 15.727 | 18.741 | 83.77% | +88 |
| 7 | Zac Mathewsbumped up | 7 | 16/5:07.831 | 16.782 | 19.223 | 86.41% | +86 |
| 8 | Adam Garrett | 8 | 16/5:12.547 | 16.162 | 19.453 | 84.64% | +84 |
| B-main | |||||||
| 1 | C4 | up to the A | 17/5:02.924 | 15.907 | 17.624 | 87.80% | – |
| 2 | Zac Mathews | up to the A | 17/5:09.994 | 16.423 | 18.181 | 87.92% | – |
| 3 | Henry Ballew | 9 | 16/5:02.075 | 16.152 | 18.889 | 88.21% | +82 |
| 4 | David Sellars | 10 | 15/5:04.888 | 18.017 | 20.250 | 89.86% | +80 |
Each main is listed as its own race, from first, so the C, the B and the A each read the way they finished. The quickest lap of the round is highlighted. Overall is where that finish put a driver across the whole class, which is what the championship scores off. Lower mains run first and the top two bump up a main at a time, so 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, because that is the finish that counted.
- 1stPaxton Gage 100 pts
The quickest single lap in the class belonged to him at 14.902, and so did one of the scruffiest qualifying consistency figures of the front group at 85.07% -- a 16.894 average says the heater was an outlier, not a habit. Then he went and made it a habit: 93.67% in the A-main, a tidy 19 laps, and a move for the lead so late he only had to hold it for three of them. Fastest lap in qualifying and first at the flag is the version of that story where nothing goes wrong.
- 2ndOrlando Martinez 96 pts
Second on pace at 15.088 and the owner of the fastest lap of the A-main at 14.836, he did the hard part -- taking the lead off Westmoreland and holding it for 14 of the 19 laps. The last few were the problem. An 89.53% consistency figure in the main against 87.07% in qualifying means the pace was never the issue; the 4.371 seconds he lost by came from somewhere else.
- 3rdHendrick Westmoreland 94 pts
Only a hair off the pace-setters on one lap (15.312) and streets ahead of them everywhere else -- 92.47% consistency and the only driver in the class to bank 19 laps in both qualifiers. He led the opening three laps of the A and then got shuffled backwards by two drivers with quicker single laps, finishing 0.798 seconds off second. Metronomic and third is a frustrating combination.
- 4thC4 92 ptsbumped up
Charlie Kleinhagen, C4 on the entry sheet, had the car properly sorted by the time the A-main came around. Qualifying produced the worst consistency number in the class at 84.16% and an 18.117 average that sat two full seconds off its own best lap; the main produced 94.34%, the tightest lap scatter of anyone in the A. Same car, completely different afternoon.
- 5thMark Beach 90 pts
A 15.918 best lap put him fifth on pace, and fifth is where he finished -- which sounds dull until you notice his best lap in the main was 15.910, eight thousandths quicker than his qualifying best. There is no mystery here and no drama either, just a driver who found his number early and hit it all evening. Seventeen laps and 90 points banked.
- 6thBrian Zimmerman 88 pts
Qualifying gave him 95.02% consistency, the best figure in the class and the sort of lap scatter you get from a car on rails. The A-main gave him 83.77%, the worst of anyone who ran the distance. The fastest lap actually improved, 15.961 to 15.727, so the speed was in there -- it just came with company he did not want.
- 7thZac Mathews 86 ptsbumped up
Ninth on qualifying pace at 16.666 with a 19.066 average that was the second-slowest in the class, so seventh in the A-main counts as a night where the racing outperformed the timesheet. He beat Adam Garrett to the flag despite Garrett throwing down a quicker lap in the same race. Sixteen laps, 86 points, and a decent shove up the order.
- 8thAdam Garrett 84 pts
A 92.53% consistency figure in qualifying and a heat win in the second qualifier -- which, with unseeded heats, is worth exactly as much as the 16.318 best lap that put him seventh on pace. In the main the consistency evaporated to 84.64%, and a 16.162 fastest lap that was comfortably quicker than Mathews' still landed him behind Mathews at the flag. Pace without repetition does not pay.
- Lower mains
- 9thHenry Ballew 82 pts
Scoring a blank in the first qualifier is a rough way to start, and it left him with only a 16/4:55.724 from Q2 to argue with. The B-main was the answer: 16 laps in 5:02.075, which is a quicker 16-lap run than either of the drivers who finished seventh and eighth in the A managed. Ninth overall and 82 points, earned on the road rather than on the timing sheet.
- 10thDavid Sellars 80 pts
Slowest best lap in the class at 17.638 and the slowest average at 19.944, but a 90.62% consistency figure that a fair few quicker drivers would have taken -- he was not throwing it away, he was just giving away over two seconds a lap to the front. Fifteen laps in the B and 80 points to open the account. The rhythm is there; the speed is the homework.
This list runs in overall order rather than by main — the A-main, then the B, then the C, as one continuous run — and a driver who bumped up appears once in it, at the finish that scored. The table above has each main as its own race. The A is written up in full; below it only the drivers who scored are shown.
Standings after Round 1
Ten cars opened the season and the results went almost exactly the way the pace order suggested they would, with one significant exception -- Paxton Gage converted the quickest lap in the class into the win despite the scruffiest consistency figure of the front-runners, and leaves with the full 100. Orlando Martinez led 14 of the 19 laps and came away with 96 for his trouble, while Hendrick Westmoreland's class-leading two 19-lap qualifiers turned into 94 and third. The spread from first to tenth is 20 points, which is the tightest this table will ever look. With one round run there is nothing being dropped yet, so the standings are simply the finishing order with a date on it. Everything from here is about who keeps turning up.
Through Round 1 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.
| # | Driver | This round | Season pts | Dropped | Pointsw/ drops | Starts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paxton Gage | +100 | 100 | 0 | 100 | 1 |
| 2 | Orlando Martinez | +96 | 96 | 0 | 96 | 1 |
| 3 | Hendrick Westmoreland | +94 | 94 | 0 | 94 | 1 |
| 4 | C4 | +92 | 92 | 0 | 92 | 1 |
| 5 | Mark Beach | +90 | 90 | 0 | 90 | 1 |
| 6 | Brian Zimmerman | +88 | 88 | 0 | 88 | 1 |
| 7 | Zac Mathews | +86 | 86 | 0 | 86 | 1 |
| 8 | Adam Garrett | +84 | 84 | 0 | 84 | 1 |