2026-27
Saturday Showdown

Seeded position

Qualifiers

Main results

1. 1st
   Robert Summers 100 pts

   A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.371 · 96.61% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.598 · 90.54% cons

   Robert Summers had to win this race twice. The TQ led the first five laps, lost the front to Victor Burger on lap 6, and had it back on lap 14 for good. Steadiness got him there. His 90.54% was the cleanest main in the class, and he was the only driver to reach 18 laps. Add the quickest lap of the main, a 16.598, and nobody in 21.5 put a more complete night together.

2. 2nd
   Victor Burger 96 pts

   A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.351 · 94.29% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.717 · 85.61% cons

   Victor Burger had this race in his hands for the middle of the main. He took the lead off Robert Summers on lap 6 and held it through lap 13, then finished with 17 laps to the winner's 18. How does a man lead 8 laps and end up a lap down? An 85.61% main against the 90.54% Summers ran, and that is where the lap went. The pace was real, because his 16.351 in qualifying is his best 21.5 lap anywhere on the site. Put a cleaner main under that and I like his chances against anybody in this class.

3. 3rd
   Chris Gross 94 pts

   A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.532 · 95.73% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.756 · 85.48% cons

   Every qualifier was better than the last for Chris Gross, from 16 laps in Q1 to 18 in Q3, and only Summers qualified steadier than his 95.73%. Then the main came in at 85.48%. He still made the podium, 17 laps in 5:06.890 with Victor Burger in at 5:04.170 on the same lap count, and a main anywhere near his qualifying form takes second place off Burger.

4. 4th
   Chuck Burns 92 pts

   A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.727 · 91.31% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.697 · 84.84% cons

   Chuck Burns threw down the hot lap of qualifying, a 16.320, and got very little else out of it. He won his Q1 heat with 17 laps, managed 16 in each of the next two, and seeded fourth behind three drivers who all found 18. The main went the same way. His 16.697 was the second quickest lap in it, but an 84.84% run left him 17 laps in 5:12.558 and behind Gross. He couldn't string the laps together, and fourth is the bill.

5. 5th
   Henry Ballew 90 pts

   A-main P5 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 17.385 · 89.04% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.397 · 88.37% cons

   Nobody came further than Henry Ballew. He was last in the official qualifying order, with the slowest average in qualifying at 20.160, and every driver seeded fifth through eighth finished behind him. No qualifier gave him more than 15 laps, and the main gave him 17. His 17.385 and 90.19% in qualifying are the quickest lap and the steadiest run he has on record in 21.5 anywhere on the site. Last on the grid to the 17-lap group is the best drive in this class tonight.

6. 6th
   Steve Spears 88 pts

   A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.792 · 89.26% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.099 · 86.21% cons

   A Q2 heat win with 16 laps is worth less than it looks when two drivers in the other heat reached 18, and Steve Spears had the lowest qualifying consistency in the class at 89.26%. His main stayed down there, 86.21% over 16 laps. The fifth seed should not finish behind the ninth, and Henry Ballew, who started from the back, had 17 laps to his 16.

7. 7th
   Jason Ruhnke 86 pts

   A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 18.139 · 92.98% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.023 · 84.38% cons

   Jason Ruhnke and Jordan Fortuno spent 8 laps of the main inside two seconds of each other, and Ruhnke came out in front. He did it with the slower best lap, 18.023 to Fortuno's 17.658, so he got more out of his run than the stopwatch suggests. His 15 laps in 5:01.045 kept Fortuno behind on the same lap at 5:05.979. The slowest best lap in qualifying was his, and he still held seventh against a quicker car, which earns him full marks from me.

8. 8th
   Jordan Fortuno 84 pts

   A-main P8 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.675 · 92.05% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.658 · 83.91% cons

   No 21.5 lap Jordan Fortuno has turned anywhere on the site beats the 17.658 he found in the main, and it still left him chasing Ruhnke home. The two ran together for 8 laps, and the speed was on Fortuno's side, since Ruhnke's best was 18.023. The consistency was not. Nobody in the class ran a scrappier main than his 83.91%, and that is how the quicker car came home eighth.

9. 9th
   Zach Spears 82 pts

   A-main P9 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 17.235 · 93.35% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 19.210 · 89.11% cons

   The biggest slide in the class belongs to Zach Spears, sixth on the grid and last at the flag. Qualifying had a 17.235 in it, the quickest he has gone in 21.5 anywhere on the site, and a Q3 heat win with 16 laps, even if Q2 stopped short at 12 laps. In the main, his best lap was 19.210. Something went wrong out there, because a run steady enough for 89.11% only came to 14 laps, the fewest in the A-main.

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.

Seeded position

Qualifiers

Main results

A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so a run cut shorter than that shows none.

1. 1st
   James Dewild 100 pts

   A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.682 · 92.50% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.815 · 94.81% cons

   James Dewild TQ'd off a 20-lap Q2 and led the A-main flag to flag, and C4 still made him earn it. The two ran neck and neck for 14 of the 19 racing laps, and Dewild's answer was a 94.81% main, the steadiest he has run in this class anywhere on the site. C4 had the quicker lap in the main, 14.783 to 14.815. Dewild had the better average by 0.164 a lap and crossed the line 3.649 seconds clear, which is a magnificent way to open a series.

2. 2nd
   C4 96 pts

   A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.257 · 93.31% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.783 · 94.59% cons

   C4 ran exactly one qualifier, and 19 laps in 5:06.203 in Q3 put Charlie Kleinhagen second on the grid. From there he stayed inside two seconds of James Dewild for 14 racing laps. His 94.59% is steadier than anything he has run on a club night and only 0.22 short of the winner's. Dewild still got home 3.649 seconds ahead. I want to see what Kleinhagen does with all three qualifiers, because one was enough to keep the winner honest.

3. 3rd
   Mark Beach 94 pts

   A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.511 · 96.33% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.343 · 89.46% cons

   The steadiest qualifying in the class was Mark Beach's, 96.33%, and it's the best he has run in 13.5 4wd anywhere on the site. Then he ran the main at 89.46%. With 19 laps he was a lap down on the top two, and his 16.946 average gave up 1.349 a lap to James Dewild. The podium and 94 points are his, but a 15.343 best in the main is slow for a driver whose best on a club night is a 14.804.

4. 4th
   Charlie Hicklin 92 pts

   A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 14.574 · 83.89% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 14.528 · 75.61% cons

   Charlie Hicklin turned the quickest lap in qualifying, a 14.408, and the quickest in the main, a 14.528, and still finished two laps behind the winner. A 75.61% main explains it: his 17.636 average was 2.039 a lap off James Dewild's. He gained a place on his fifth seed all the same. I'd swap a few tenths of that heater for a main in the 90s without a second thought, because nobody in the class showed more speed.

5. 5th
   Robert Summers 90 pts

   A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.646 · 93.19% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.812 · 92.11% cons

   Level on average and still 2.839 seconds apart: Robert Summers averaged 17.639 in the main to Charlie Hicklin's 17.636, and Hicklin crossed the line ahead on the same lap. Summers got his the tidy way at 92.11%. The quick lap went missing: his best in the main was 15.812, slower than the 15.646 he turned in qualifying. Losing a spot from the fourth seed by under three seconds is the kind of night I'd want back.

6. 6th
   Victor Burger 88 pts

   A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.466 · 93.90% qual cons · 8 laps · fast 16.396 · 84.52% cons

   Qualifying was the best Victor Burger has done in this class anywhere on the site: a 16.246, and 93.90% against a club-night best of 86.46%. He put 17 laps on the board in all three qualifiers. The main is the sore part, because it stopped at 8 laps and 2:30.796, and I'd hate for that to bury the rest of his night.

7. 7th
   Chris Gross 86 pts

   A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.799 · 83.83% qual cons · 2 laps · fast 17.708

   Chris Gross's main lasted 24.691 seconds, so the night went wrong almost as soon as the A-main started. Qualifying had more to it. His 15.799 was 0.152 off the 15.647 he turned in a Sizzling Summer A-main, though the 88.97% around it fell well short of the 95.00% he ran at a July club night. He banks 86 points for his place, and I'd like to see that 15.799 get a full main.

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.

Seeded position

Qualifiers

Main results

1. 1st
   Mark Beach 100 pts

   A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.098 · 93.35% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 16.108 · 97.38% cons

   Mark Beach topped all three qualifiers and took the TQ with the only 18-lap run in the class. In the A-main he led flag to flag and finished two laps clear of Chris Gross, which is a beating. His 97.38% is the tidiest truck run he has put together anywhere on the site, and he did it averaging 16.913 when nobody else in the main averaged under 18 seconds. That much speed with that little scatter is preposterous, and right now I don't see anybody in this class with an answer for it.

2. 2nd
   Chris Gross 96 pts

   A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.075 · 88.46% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.256 · 93.26% cons

   Steve Spears spent 6 of the 18 racing laps inside two seconds of Chris Gross, and it was Gross who came out of it 15.839 seconds clear on the same 17 laps. From the third seed, I've got no complaints. He did it at 93.26%, the best consistency he has posted in a truck anywhere on the site and the cleanest main in the class behind the winner. The gap to Beach is another matter entirely: two laps, and an average lap 1.565 slower.

3. 3rd
   Steve Spears 94 pts

   A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 18.033 · 91.89% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.335 · 90.98% cons

   I like what Steve Spears did with the fourth seed. He went at it with Chris Gross for 6 laps of the A-main, and while Gross was clear by the flag, Spears kept Henry Ballew 7.037 seconds behind him for the last podium spot. His 17.335 in the main beat everything he turned in qualifying. It's still well short of the 16.740 he ran in the Sizzling Summer's fourth round, his quickest in a truck anywhere on the site, so there's more in him than this.

4. 4th
   Henry Ballew 92 pts

   A-main P4 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 17.722 · 93.69% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.191 · 87.31% cons

   How does the second seed, with the second-quickest lap of the A-main, finish fourth? An 87.31% main. Henry Ballew was the steadiest qualifier in the class at 93.69%, then averaged 19.875 when the points were paid, slower even than Chuck Burns, who finished a lap down on him. The 17.191 shows the speed came with him. I'd swap a chunk of it to get the qualifying rhythm back.

5. 5th
   Chuck Burns 90 pts

   A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 18.327 · 90.34% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.771 · 87.47% cons

   Something went wrong for Chuck Burns in Q1, because it stopped at 5 laps and 1:57.538. He got better from there, 14 laps in Q2 and 15 in Q3, and the 17.771 he turned in the A-main beat his best qualifying lap by 0.556. I don't love an 87.47% main. I do love a driver who keeps finding speed as the night goes on. Russell Rima finished 16.020 seconds behind him, both of them on 16 laps.

6. 6th
   Russell Rima 88 pts

   A-main P6 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 18.522 · 90.27% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.601 · 85.24% cons

   Russell Rima came out of qualifying with the slowest average in the class, 21.605, and 14 laps in every run, which is how a driver ends up seeded eighth. The main was much better. He turned a 17.601 that beat his qualifying best, and Jason Ruhnke and Zach Spears, two drivers who had lined up ahead of him, both finished behind. An 85.24% main leaves plenty of time on the table, but from the last seed I'll call two places a decent return.

7. 7th
   Jason Ruhnke 86 pts

   A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 18.727 · 88.14% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.554 · 89.52% cons

   Steady is Jason Ruhnke's whole game right now: 89.56% in qualifying and 89.52% in the main, which beats what Henry Ballew managed in the A-main. Pace is what holds him back. His 18.718 was the slowest best lap in qualifying, and even the 18.554 he found in the main, a personal best in a truck anywhere on the site, was beaten by six of the seven other trucks. Zach Spears was 18.664 seconds back at the flag, a fair return for running that clean.

8. 8th
   Zach Spears 84 pts

   A-main P8 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 18.047 · 88.75% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 19.601 · 85.04% cons

   Zach Spears was second only to Mark Beach in Q1, and from there the night ran downhill. By the main his best lap was a 19.601, the slowest in the A-main and 1.758 off the 17.843 he turned in qualifying, inside an 85.04% run that was the scrappiest of the eight. Finishing last from the sixth seed with that kind of speed already shown is unacceptable.

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.

Seeded position

Qualifiers

A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so 1 run here has none shown.

Main results

1. 1st
   Noah Hicklin 100 pts

   A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 13.433 · 92.00% qual cons · 22 laps · fast 13.541 · 91.82% cons

   Noah Hicklin didn't see the front of this A-main until lap 14, and once he had it he never gave it back. Nick Gibson had led 12 laps by then and Mitchel Gardner one, and for 8 laps the three of them ran together, each inside two seconds of the car in front. What settled it was the best average in the main, 14.337, off a 91.82% run, and Gibson crossed on the same 22 laps in 5:12.931 to his 5:05.110. Add the 13.433 heater in qualifying, the quickest lap anybody in the class turned all night, and nobody in Mod 2wd had a better Saturday.

2. 2nd
   Nick Gibson 96 pts

   A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.762 · 95.88% qual cons · 22 laps · fast 13.472 · 87.49% cons

   Most laps led, the hot lap of the A-main at 13.472, and Nick Gibson still finished second. He had the front for laps 1 to 5, lost it to Gardner on lap 6, got it straight back and held it through lap 13, and from lap 14 it was Hicklin's. So how does the TQ lose from there? An 87.49% main, rougher than anyone's in the A bar Mathew Schroeder's, and an average of 14.720 to Hicklin's 14.337. Those 22 laps in 5:13.205 in Q1 earned him pole, and a main that ragged gave the win away.

3. 3rd
   Mitchel Gardner 94 pts

   A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 13.876 · 93.18% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 13.956 · 91.07% cons

   Mitchel Gardner is the only driver besides Gibson and Hicklin who led a lap of this A-main, and lap 6 was his. He hung on to those two for 8 laps of their three-way fight, but 21 laps to their 22 left him a lap down at the flag, and a 13.956 best in the main was well off Gibson's 13.472. I like where his qualifying went, though: a lap more each time out, 19 up to 21, and a 13.851 that's the quickest he has turned anywhere on the site.

4. 4th
   William Schroeder 92 pts

   A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 14.515 · 92.05% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.557 · 90.09% cons

   Best salvage job of the night belongs to William Schroeder. His first two qualifiers ended at 9 laps and then at 2, and he answered with 19 laps in 5:00.008 to win his Q3 heat and start fourth in the A. The main put him in a three-car train with Wayne Schroeder and Mathew Schroeder for 7 laps, and he came out of it with 20 laps to their 19 and 18. One of tonight's runs also came in at 92.75%, the steadiest he has been in Mod 2wd anywhere on the site.

5. 5th
   Lane McGhee 90 pts

   A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 14.755 · 92.70% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.758 · 89.02% cons

   I want more from Lane McGhee, because the speed is there. His 14.706 in qualifying is his best Mod 2wd lap anywhere on the site, and on the 17 Oct club night he put together a 95.61% A-main. This one came in at 89.02%. Wayne Schroeder came up through the B and still finished on the same 19 laps, 5:03.975 to his 5:02.679, and a driver with his lap time shouldn't have a transfer that close behind him at the flag.

6. 6th
   Wayne Schroeder 88 ptsbumped up

   A-main P6 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.001 · 91.55% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.931 · 91.62% cons

   Up from the B, Wayne Schroeder made the transfer pay. Only Hicklin ran a cleaner A-main than his 91.62%, and the 14.931 he found in there beat his 15.001 from qualifying. No lap of his anywhere on the site is quicker. He spent 7 laps running with William Schroeder and Mathew Schroeder, then finished two places ahead of Mathew Schroeder, who hadn't needed the B at all.

7. 7th
   Joe Walters 86 ptsbumped up

   A-main P7 · bumped up from the B · qualified P8 · qual best lap 15.477 · 89.38% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.180 · 89.48% cons

   Every qualifier put Joe Walters second in his heat with 18 laps, steady work that still left him eighth on the grid and in the B. He got out of it, and the A is where he went quickest: a 15.180, with 19 laps that kept Mathew Schroeder behind him at the flag. Earlier in the night he'd also run 94.54%, and that and the 15.180 are both the best he has done in Mod 2wd across the site.

8. 8th
   Mathew Schroeder 84 pts

   A-main P8 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.037 · 91.87% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 14.933 · 86.24% cons

   Both drivers who came through the B finished ahead of Mathew Schroeder, and he'd qualified straight into the A. That's on an 86.24% main, the scrappiest of the eight. His best lap in it was 14.933 to Wayne Schroeder's 14.931, as near identical as lap times get, and Wayne Schroeder still turned that into 19 laps to his 18. He had 7 laps in the group with William Schroeder and Wayne Schroeder and came out of it at the back. Qualifying was the better half, with a Q1 heat win and a 14.596, the fastest Mod 2wd lap to his name on the site.

9. Lower mains
10. 9th
    Chris Rupard 82 pts

    B-main P3 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 15.940 · 93.54% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.895 · 89.72% cons

    Chris Rupard did his best driving before the B-main started. Qualifying gave him a 15.642 and a 93.54% run. The B gave him 89.72% and a best of 15.895, and 18 laps in 5:16.384 left him the first car behind the two transfers. I'm marking him down for going backwards on both counts when a spot in the A was on the line.

11. 10th
    Josh Strumillo 80 pts

    B-main P4 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 15.217 · 89.77% qual cons · 10 laps · fast 16.843 · 91.87% cons

    Josh Strumillo's B-main ended at 10 laps, 2:55.725 on the clock, while Chris Rupard ran on to 18, so his night stopped well short. That's a shame, because there was pace in the car: his 15.217 beat both Joe Walters and Rupard in qualifying. The 10 laps he did get in the B ran at 91.87%, steadier than Rupard's full race, which makes the early finish hurt more.

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.

Seeded position

Qualifiers

Main results

1. 1st
   Noah Hicklin 100 pts

   A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.262 · 94.95% qual cons · 23 laps · fast 13.235 · 93.21% cons

   How does a driver who won one qualifier out of three take the TQ? Noah Hicklin did it with 22 laps in 5:03.656 in Q2, the best run anybody put together, and then led the A-main flag to flag. Nick Gibson turned the same 13.235 in the main and still finished 3.692 seconds down, because Noah Hicklin averaged 13.868 to his 14.018. Throw in a 12.981 in qualifying, the only lap under 13 in the class and his quickest in Mod 4wd anywhere on the site, and that is a magnificent night's work.

2. 2nd
   Nick Gibson 96 pts

   A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 13.203 · 96.56% qual cons · 23 laps · fast 13.235 · 93.70% cons

   Nick Gibson did nearly everything right, and that's the best argument for how good Noah Hicklin was. He won Q1 and Q3 and ran 96.56% in qualifying, his best consistency in Mod 4wd anywhere on the site. In the A-main he matched the winner's 13.235 for the quickest lap of the race and was the tidier of the two, 93.70% to 93.21%. An average 0.150 a lap slower was enough to leave him 3.692 seconds behind at the flag, and I'd back him to close it.

3. 3rd
   Charlie Hicklin 94 pts

   A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.523 · 89.65% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.875 · 90.98% cons

   Qualifying went backwards for Charlie Hicklin, 18 laps in Q1 and then 17 twice, and he lined up fourth of four. The A-main put it right. He ran 90.98% there and finished three laps clear of Josh Strumillo, the driver who had outqualified him, which is how a last seed ends up on the podium. His 14.779 in qualifying is the quickest he has gone in Mod 4wd anywhere on the site, and Strumillo never found a lap that quick at any point. Four laps down on the front two is the distance he still has to cover.

4. 4th
   Josh Strumillo 92 pts

   A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.393 · 92.36% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 15.423 · 46.77% cons

   Josh Strumillo ran 18 laps in every qualifier and got quicker each time, and his 92.36% in qualifying is the steadiest he has been in Mod 4wd anywhere on the site. That earned him the third seed. The main came back at 46.77%. Something went wrong out there, because he averaged 19.834 a lap, more than four seconds off his own best of the race, and came home three laps behind Charlie Hicklin, who started behind him. Half his qualifying consistency in the one run that pays is a preposterous way to give back a place.

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.

Seeded position

Qualifiers

One fast lap here is not the one the timing printed. A transponder counted a lap twice, producing a time quicker than the class has ever gone from a run nowhere near that pace, so the figure shown is that driver’s quickest genuine lap of the run instead. Nothing else about it moves: the finish, the laps and time and the average are as they were raced.

Main results

1. 1st
   Wayne Schroeder 100 pts

   A-main P1 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.211 · 89.46% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 15.120 · 92.13% cons

   Two lead changes, and Wayne Schroeder made the one that counted. He led lap 1, lost the front to Joe Walters for three laps, took it back on lap 5 and kept it to the flag, the only driver in the class to reach 20 laps. A 16.304 average, best in the main by 0.145 a lap, won it. This from the third seed, after a Q2 that stopped at 10 laps in 3:04.760. He'd turned the quickest lap in qualifying at 15.211, so the grid had him too low and he spent the main proving it.

2. 2nd
   Kevin Moyer 96 pts

   A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.487 · 94.10% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.585 · 94.01% cons

   The TQ belonged to Kevin Moyer, who won Q2 and Q3 and ran the steadiest qualifying in the class at 94.10%. He took that rhythm into the main at 94.01% and it carried him to second, but his best lap there, a 15.585, was only fifth quickest of the seven cars that turned one. Wayne Schroeder's best was 15.120, and that 0.465 is the part of the job Moyer still has to find.

3. 3rd
   Dennis Keith 94 pts

   A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.587 · 92.44% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.564 · 91.52% cons

   Dennis Keith turned a 15.225 in qualifying, just 0.014 off Wayne Schroeder's quickest. His main never found it again: he topped out at 15.564 and ran 91.52%, well short of the 96.71% he managed in a Sizzling Summer A-main. Third from the second seed is fair. Kevin Moyer was 12.323 seconds up the road, and with Joe Walters only 2.823 seconds behind at the flag, I'd say he got away with it.

4. 4th
   Joe Walters 92 pts

   A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.295 · 89.98% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.860 · 87.95% cons

   From lap 2 to lap 4 the 40+ main belonged to Joe Walters, and somewhere in it he turned a 14.860, the quickest lap in the class all night and his quickest 40+ lap anywhere on the site. Three laps in front and a heater is a lot to like. The other laps are the problem. An 87.95% run averaged 17.181, 0.877 a lap off Wayne Schroeder, and that's how a 14.860 ends up 2.823 seconds off the podium. Speed like that belongs on the box, and the consistency kept it off.

5. 5th
   Jack Foster 90 pts

   A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.958 · 90.56% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.653 · 89.98% cons

   Steadier than Joe Walters and still a lap behind him: Jack Foster ran 89.98% to Walters' 87.95% and came home with 18 laps. Walters averaged 17.181 to Foster's 17.776, so this was a pace gap, and I'd rather have that problem than the other one. Foster held his fifth seed, and his best lap in the main, 15.653, came within 0.088 of his best in qualifying.

6. 6th
   Charlie Hicklin 88 pts

   A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.258 · 82.01% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.112 · 83.38% cons

   Over one lap, Charlie Hicklin had the winner covered: his 15.112 in the main was 0.008 quicker than Wayne Schroeder's best. Over the whole main he averaged 19.639, more than three seconds a lap slower, on an 83.38% run that was the scrappiest in the A-main. Timing gave him a 14.466 in Q2, 0.781 under anything else in that run, and it was refused as a bad reading. His real best there was 15.247. Seventeen laps to the winner's 20 is what the laps in between cost him.

7. 7th
   Donnie Schroeder 86 pts

   A-main P7 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.537 · 85.48% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 18.637 · 94.49% cons

   Nobody in the A-main ran steadier than Donnie Schroeder. His 94.49% beat the winner's 92.13% and Kevin Moyer's 94.01%, and it's his steadiest 40+ run anywhere on the site. Speed is the gap. His best lap in the main was an 18.637, 1.100 slower than the 17.537 he turned in qualifying and 3.517 off the winning car's best. I'd keep every bit of that rhythm and go looking for the missing second.

8. 8th
   Joshua Loyd 84 pts No laps

   A-main P8 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.184 · 86.28% qual cons · 0 laps

   Joshua Loyd put in three qualifiers, the best of them 16 laps in 5:17.630, and earned the seventh slot on the A-main grid. The main went off without him, so it goes down as a rough night, but the 84 points for his place are banked like anyone else's, and I'd love to see him back on that grid.

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.

Seeded position

Qualifiers

One fast lap here is not the one the timing printed. A transponder counted a lap twice, producing a time quicker than the class has ever gone from a run nowhere near that pace, so the figure shown is that driver’s quickest genuine lap of the run instead. Nothing else about it moves: the finish, the laps and time and the average are as they were raced.

Main results

1. 1st
   Kevin Moyer 100 pts

   A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.968 · 98.39% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 16.628 · 98.15% cons

   No laps at all in Q1, and Kevin Moyer still took the TQ and then won the A-main flag to flag with 0.003 in hand. Matt McGhee had the quicker lap and spent 9 laps within two seconds of him, and never once got in front. A 98.15% main, steadier than anyone's, is how Moyer kept it that way. Timing gave him a 12.225 in Q2, straight after a 23.080, and the two together are just a pair of ordinary 17.6-second laps read wrong, so 16.600 stands in for it.

2. 2nd
   Matt McGhee 96 pts

   A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.834 · 97.48% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 16.481 · 96.17% cons

   Matt McGhee lost the A-main by 0.003 of a second, and it hurts to write. His 16.481 was the quickest lap in the class all night and the quickest he has turned in a short course truck anywhere on the site, and he spent 9 of the 18 racing laps inside two seconds of Kevin Moyer without leading one of them. How does a man win Q1 and Q2 and still start second? Seeding goes on the best run, and Moyer's 18 laps in 5:13.383 in Q3 beat anything McGhee put together. In a race that close, that grid slot was the race.

3. 3rd
   Joes Fortuno 94 pts

   A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 19.959 · 91.03% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.478 · 88.29% cons

   Joes Fortuno went from 13 laps in Q1 to 15 in the main, and his 18.478 in that main is his best short course lap anywhere on the site. That's still 15 laps to the leaders' 19, and there's a long way to go, but I like the direction. He did finish Q1 ahead of Kevin Moyer (who turned no laps in it), which is a line worth keeping.

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.

Seeded position

Qualifiers

Main results

1. 1st
   Isaac Loyd 100 pts

   ranked on qualifying · qualified P1 · qual best lap 19.711 · 91.77% qual cons

   Isaac Loyd won all three qualifiers with 14 laps every time, and that's the TQ and the night's 100 points. How does a 19.711 best lap beat a 17.595? With steadiness: Loyd ran 94.66%, his best anywhere on the site, to 83.16% from Kayson Moran, and his best run averaged 21.565 to Moran's 21.611. Three runs and 14 laps in every one of them is as complete a night as a Novice can put together.

2. 2nd
   Kayson Moran 96 pts

   ranked on qualifying · qualified P2 · qual best lap 18.083 · 83.16% qual cons

   Nobody in Novice had Kayson Moran's speed. His 17.595 was the quickest lap in the class by a distance, and the only lap of his on the site that beats it is the 17.515 from the Sizzling R6 A-main. What kept him second was the laps around it: 83.16% consistency, and a Q2 of 12 laps when his other two runs made 14. Q3 shows how close he is, 14 laps in 5:02.557 to Isaac Loyd's 5:01.913. He ran a 91.22% A-main on the 26 Sep club night, and that steadiness with this speed would give anybody in the class a problem.

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.