Fastlane Raceway · Blue Springs, MO

Sizzling Summer
Indoor Series

Indoor offroad on Saturday afternoons at 2:00, six rounds with your best five counting. Three qualifiers and mains every night.

Round 6 of 6 scored Season complete 6 rounds · 1 drop

This series is finished. The standings below are final.

17.5 Expert 2wd Buggy

20 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	Dropped	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Chris Camara	450	536	−86	–	6	3rd	86	88	92	94	90	86
2	William Schroeder	444	444	0	4	5	1st	76	100	100	–	84	84
3	Mathew Schroeder	440	440	0	–	5	2nd	94	82	82	–	86	96
4	Albert Bredernitz	426	506	−80	–	6	6th	80	84	86	88	88	80
5	Henry Ballew	422	422	0	–	5	6th	84	86	88	–	82	82
6	Hendrick Westmoreland	378	378	0	1	4	1st	90	94	94	–	100	–
7	C4	368	368	0	–	4	2nd	96	90	–	92	–	90
8	Mark Beach	362	362	0	–	4	4th	–	92	90	–	92	88
9	Orlando Martinez	286	286	0	–	3	2nd	–	96	96	–	–	94
10	Russell Rima	252	252	0	–	3	5th	78	–	84	90	–	–
11	Dallas Boyd	192	192	0	–	2	2nd	–	–	–	96	96	–
12	Dennis Keith	186	186	0	–	2	3rd	–	–	–	–	94	92
13	Wayne Schroeder	172	172	0	–	2	4th	92	–	80	–	–	–
14	Paxton Gage	100	100	0	–	1	1st	100	–	–	–	–	–
15	Colby Rogers	100	100	0	1	1	1st	–	–	–	100	–	–
16	Shane Alberico	100	100	0	–	1	1st	–	–	–	–	–	100
17	Vaughn Vance	88	88	0	–	1	6th	88	–	–	–	–	–
18	Matt Leibman	86	86	0	–	1	7th	–	–	–	86	–	–
19	Jagger Vance	82	82	0	–	1	9th	82	–	–	–	–	–
20	Josh Strumillo	80	80	0	–	1	10th	–	–	–	–	80	–

Tap Points w/ drops or Total all rounds to re-sort. Six rounds with your best five counting — the drop comes in one result at a time as the season goes, matching the track’s own standings sheet, and right now that is one result coming off — the full allowance for the season. The Dropped column shows what it costs each driver. A dot is a round the class did not run; a dash is a round the driver missed.

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Every driver in the class, every round — the qualifiers, lap times and consistency straight from race timing.

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Round 1 · Apr 11

12 in the class

TQ: Hendrick Westmoreland

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:00.566	15.123	15.819	95.31%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2, Q3H2 P2
2	Paxton Gage	19/5:02.640	15.009	15.928	92.65%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P3, Q3H2 P1
3	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:04.228	15.262	16.012	94.45%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3H2 P3
4	William Schroeder	19/5:11.166	15.582	16.377	96.46%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3H2 P4
5	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:01.249	15.390	17.721	78.74%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P1, Q3H2 P6
6	Vaughn Vance	18/5:04.354	15.971	16.909	95.63%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2, Q3H2 P5
7	C4	18/5:12.193	15.462	17.344	90.39%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3, Q3 P1
8	Chris Camara	17/5:07.378	15.800	18.081	92.12%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5, Q3 P2
9	Henry Ballew	16/5:14.001	16.400	19.625	84.38%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4, Q3 P3
10	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:13.552	18.896	20.903	92.79%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P6, Q3 P4
11	Russell Rima	14/5:00.746	18.313	21.482	88.45%	Q1H2 P6, Q2H2 P5, Q3 P5
12	Jagger Vance	14/5:15.232	19.207	22.517	87.01%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6, Q3 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:00.566	15.123	15.819	95.31%	✓
2	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:08.818	15.457	17.157	76.38%
3	William Schroeder	19/5:11.166	15.582	16.377	96.46%	✓
4	C4	17/5:01.140	15.665	17.714	82.14%
5	Chris Camara	15/5:02.839	16.347	20.189	87.58%
6	Jagger Vance	14/5:15.232	19.207	22.517	87.01%	✓
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Vaughn Vance	18/5:04.354	15.971	16.909	95.63%	✓
2	Paxton Gage	18/5:14.459	15.475	17.470	90.69%
3	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:15.585	15.579	17.533	86.44%
4	Henry Ballew	14/5:01.318	17.209	21.523	83.22%
5	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:02.279	18.957	21.591	88.56%
6	Russell Rima	14/5:04.886	18.526	21.778	88.14%
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:04.228	15.262	16.012	94.45%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	18/5:06.200	15.246	17.011	85.01%
3	C4	17/5:00.963	15.472	17.704	89.78%
4	William Schroeder	17/5:01.658	15.945	17.745	87.81%
5	Chris Camara	15/5:06.966	17.024	20.464	86.27%
6	Jagger Vance	3/51.508	16.792	17.169	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:01.249	15.390	17.721	78.74%	✓
2	Vaughn Vance	18/5:14.939	15.579	17.497	89.67%
3	Paxton Gage	17/5:01.135	15.499	17.714	89.93%
4	Henry Ballew	15/5:09.551	16.997	20.637	88.37%
5	Russell Rima	14/5:00.746	18.313	21.482	88.45%	✓
6	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:13.026	18.799	22.359	88.29%
Qualifier 3 · heat 1 of 2
1	C4	18/5:12.193	15.462	17.344	90.39%	✓
2	Chris Camara	17/5:07.378	15.800	18.081	92.12%	✓
3	Henry Ballew	16/5:14.001	16.400	19.625	84.38%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:13.552	18.896	20.903	92.79%	✓
5	Russell Rima	14/5:06.088	17.667	21.863	84.38%
6	Jagger Vance	3/54.618	17.655	18.206	–
Qualifier 3 · heat 2 of 2
1	Paxton Gage	19/5:02.640	15.009	15.928	92.65%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:05.331	14.873	16.070	90.33%
3	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:10.069	15.323	16.319	93.28%
4	William Schroeder	19/5:15.707	15.466	16.616	91.42%
5	Vaughn Vance	17/5:16.537	15.702	18.620	86.49%
6	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:18.074	15.485	19.880	60.26%

A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so 2 runs here have none shown.

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Paxton Gage	1	19/5:11.046	15.501	16.384	94.28%	+100
2	C4	2	18/5:04.573	15.506	16.657	91.34%	+96
3	Mathew Schroeder	3	18/5:04.892	15.781	19.139	70.73%	+94
4	Wayne Schroeder	4	18/5:05.950	15.373	17.020	85.06%	+92
5	Hendrick Westmoreland	5	17/5:00.290	15.484	17.831	88.92%	+90
6	Vaughn Vance	6	17/5:11.799	14.982	18.236	80.28%	+88
7	Chris Camarabumped up	7	16/5:02.762	16.166	18.950	83.28%	+86
8	Henry Ballewbumped up	8	15/5:07.316	16.950	20.482	86.94%	+84
B-main
1	Henry Ballew	up to the A	17/5:15.261	16.463	18.332	91.30%	–
2	Chris Camara	up to the A	17/5:18.750	16.560	18.898	86.51%	–
3	Jagger Vance	9	17/5:20.282	16.358	19.865	78.16%	+82
4	Albert Bredernitz	10	15/5:12.548	18.167	20.863	90.92%	+80
5	Russell Rima	11	14/5:04.081	18.166	21.395	90.67%	+78
Ranked on qualifying
12	William Schroeder	12	–	–	–	–	+76

1st
Paxton Gage 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.009 · 92.65% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.501 · 94.28% cons
Paxton Gage won this by a lap, and he didn't need the fastest car to do it. His 15.501 was only the fourth-quickest lap of the A-main, but 94.28% was the cleanest run in the race and 16.384 the best average, and he was the only driver to reach 19 laps. Second on the grid behind Westmoreland, two laps ahead of him at the flag. I love a win built like that, all rhythm and no fuss, and 100 points puts him top after one round, for whatever one round of standings is worth.
2nd
C4 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.462 · 90.39% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.506 · 91.34% cons
From the seventh seed to the podium, and Charlie Kleinhagen got there by 0.319 seconds. C4 and Mathew Schroeder both had 18 laps, his 5:04.573 reached the line first, and Wayne Schroeder was only 1.377 behind him. A 15.506 best, five thousandths off Gage's, and a 91.34% run that only the winner beat for tidiness say this was no fluke. I'd call it the drive of the night.
3rd
Mathew Schroeder 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.390 · 78.74% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.781 · 70.73% cons
Mathew Schroeder spent 8 of the 19 laps inside two seconds of Wayne Schroeder and beat him to the flag by 1.058 seconds. Second was only 0.319 away. Three cars finished on 18 laps inside a second and a half, and he was the one in the middle. His 15.781 was only the sixth-quickest lap of the race, yet he finished ahead of three cars that went quicker, and from the fifth seed that's a podium I'll give him every bit of credit for.
4th
Wayne Schroeder 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.262 · 94.45% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.373 · 85.06% cons
The second-quickest lap of the A-main belonged to Wayne Schroeder, a 15.373 that only Vaughn Vance beat, and it came with fourth place, 1.058 seconds off the podium. He and Mathew Schroeder ran together for 8 laps, and on the same 18 laps it was Mathew Schroeder who reached the line first. Qualifying was third at 94.45% with three 19-lap runs, and the main came in at 85.06%, which is where the podium went. With the second-best lap in the race, this is one I'd want back.
5th
Hendrick Westmoreland 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.123 · 95.31% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.484 · 88.92% cons
How does the TQ, with the quickest lap in qualifying, finish fifth and two laps down? Hendrick Westmoreland's average went from 15.819 in qualifying to 17.831 in the main, two seconds a lap slower, and 17 laps was all that added up to. He'd qualified at 95.31% with a 14.873, the kind of run that should have him fighting for the win. From the top seed, fifth is a collapse and I'm not dressing it up.
6th
Vaughn Vance 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.971 · 95.63% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 14.982 · 80.28% cons
Vaughn Vance threw down the hot lap of the A-main, a 14.982 and the only lap in the race under 15 seconds, and finished sixth with 17 laps. An 80.28% run is why. Chris Camara came up from the B and ran with him for 10 of the 19 laps, and the fastest car in the main has no business keeping a bump-up company that long. He qualified at 95.63%, so the tidy version of Vaughn Vance exists. The main never saw it.
7th
Chris Camara 86 ptsbumped up
A-main P7 · bumped up from the B · qualified P8 · qual best lap 15.800 · 92.12% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.166 · 83.28% cons
The long way into the A is through the B, and that's how Chris Camara got there. Bumped up, he went at it with Vaughn Vance for 10 of the 19 laps, which is no small thing given Vance had the quickest lap in the race. The flag found them a lap apart, 17 to 16, and 83.28% consistency says where that lap went. From the eighth seed, one place up and 86 points is an honest start.
8th
Henry Ballew 84 ptsbumped up
A-main P8 · bumped up from the B · qualified P9 · qual best lap 16.400 · 84.38% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 16.950 · 86.94% cons
Henry Ballew made the A through the B, where he and Jagger Vance were neck and neck for 9 of its 17 laps, and it was Ballew who came out with the transfer. The A was harder going: 15 laps and a 16.950 best, the slowest fast lap in the race, and eighth was as far up as that pace was going to carry him. The ninth seed racing in the A-main still counts as a good day in my book.
Lower mains
9th
Jagger Vance 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P12 · qual best lap 19.207 · 87.01% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.358 · 78.16% cons
Two of Jagger Vance's three qualifiers ended after 3 laps, so he qualified last off a 16.792 from a run too short to judge. The B gave a much better account of him: 17 laps, a 16.358 best, and 9 of those laps spent within two seconds of Henry Ballew. Ballew took the bump into the A and Vance finished third in the B, one place short of joining him. I liked that a lot more than his qualifying.
10th
Albert Bredernitz 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 18.896 · 92.79% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.167 · 90.92% cons
Albert Bredernitz qualified tenth with the slowest best lap in the class, 18.799, then found more than half a second in the B, where his 18.167 came in a 15-lap run at 90.92%. That beat Russell Rima by a lap. A driver getting quicker as the day goes on is what I want to see, and 80 points is a fair start.
11th
Russell Rima 78 pts
B-main P5 · qualified P11 · qual best lap 18.313 · 88.45% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 18.166 · 90.67% cons
Nobody can call Russell Rima unpredictable: 14 laps in all three qualifiers and 14 more in the B. His 18.166 in the main was a single thousandth quicker than Albert Bredernitz's best, and Bredernitz still finished a lap ahead. That stings more when Rima's qualifying best of 17.667 was over a second quicker than Bredernitz's 18.799. The speed was there and the laps weren't, which is 78 points and eleventh.
12th
William Schroeder 76 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.582 · 96.46% qual cons
William Schroeder ran the most consistent qualifying in the class, 96.46% with two 19-lap runs, and earned the fourth seed for it. The A-main went off with his grid slot empty, and the order pays him 76 points for twelfth.

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.

Championship after Round 1

Paxton Gage leads the 17.5 Expert 2wd with 100 points after one round, and he won it by a lap without the quickest lap in the A-main, or the second or third quickest either. The real fight was behind him, where C4, Mathew Schroeder and Wayne Schroeder all finished on 18 laps inside 1.377 seconds, and Charlie Kleinhagen beat Mathew Schroeder to second by 0.319 from the seventh seed. The two quickest laps in the class both missed the podium: Hendrick Westmoreland TQ'd with a 14.873 and finished fifth, and Vaughn Vance's 14.982 in the main bought him sixth. William Schroeder qualified fourth at 96.46%, the most consistent in the class, and the A-main started with a hole on the grid where his car should have been, which makes him the tidiest twelfth-place finisher I've ever seen. One round in, the standings are just the finishing order at two points a place, so nobody gets to call anything yet.

Through Round 1 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Paxton Gage	+100	100	100	1
2	C4	+96	96	96	1
3	Mathew Schroeder	+94	94	94	1
4	Wayne Schroeder	+92	92	92	1
5	Hendrick Westmoreland	+90	90	90	1
6	Vaughn Vance	+88	88	88	1
7	Chris Camara	+86	86	86	1
8	Henry Ballew	+84	84	84	1

Round 2 · May 9

9 in the class

TQ: William Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	William Schroeder	20/5:07.776	14.541	15.389	94.71%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.163	14.886	15.851	91.86%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:16.777	15.265	16.672	90.00%	Q1 P2, Q2 P4, Q3 P4
4	Chris Camara	18/5:06.624	16.257	17.035	94.84%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2, Q3H2 P1
5	Mark Beach	18/5:07.514	15.852	17.084	87.74%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P1, Q3H2 P2
6	C4	17/5:11.371	15.698	18.316	88.76%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3 P3
7	Henry Ballew	16/5:05.728	16.988	19.108	92.42%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P3, Q3H2 P4
8	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:11.713	17.810	20.781	84.63%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P4, Q3H2 P3
9	Mathew Schroeder	0/0.000	–	–	–

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	William Schroeder	19/5:03.194	14.939	15.958	90.50%
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:16.777	15.265	16.672	90.00%	✓
3	C4	16/5:00.090	16.318	18.756	87.67%
4	Orlando Martinez	16/5:02.364	14.949	18.898	76.15%
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Chris Camara	17/5:05.715	16.155	17.983	89.74%
2	Henry Ballew	16/5:18.790	17.347	19.924	89.46%
3	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:11.156	18.334	22.225	88.92%
4	Mark Beach	10/2:54.014	15.807	17.401	87.70%
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:11.068	14.745	15.553	91.30%
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.914	14.787	15.890	91.24%
3	C4	14/5:01.756	17.375	21.554	85.29%
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	4/1:10.575	15.734	17.644	89.70%
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:07.514	15.852	17.084	87.74%	✓
2	Chris Camara	17/5:02.312	15.918	17.783	84.35%
3	Henry Ballew	16/5:05.728	16.988	19.108	92.42%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:02.155	17.505	21.583	87.10%
Qualifier 3 · heat 1 of 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:07.776	14.541	15.389	94.71%	✓
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.163	14.886	15.851	91.86%	✓
3	C4	17/5:11.371	15.698	18.316	88.76%	✓
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	14/3:41.564	15.057	15.826	93.20%
Qualifier 3 · heat 2 of 2
1	Chris Camara	18/5:06.624	16.257	17.035	94.84%	✓
2	Mark Beach	17/5:03.257	15.567	17.839	88.90%
3	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:11.713	17.810	20.781	84.63%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	14/5:06.749	17.801	21.911	87.20%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	William Schroeder	1	19/5:04.122	14.886	16.001	92.73%	+100
2	Orlando Martinez	2	18/5:01.078	14.921	16.456	91.83%	+96
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	3	18/5:01.951	15.220	16.710	90.71%	+94
4	Mark Beach	4	18/5:18.741	15.499	17.639	88.54%	+92
5	C4	5	17/5:15.932	16.122	18.330	89.77%	+90
6	Chris Camara	6	17/5:19.942	16.268	18.867	86.79%	+88
7	Henry Ballew	7	14/5:06.015	17.626	21.645	87.01%	+86
8	Albert Bredernitz	8	13/5:03.542	18.893	23.507	81.87%	+84
Ranked on qualifying
9	Mathew Schroeder	9	–	–	–	–	+82

1st
William Schroeder 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.541 · 94.71% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.886 · 92.73% cons
In April he was the empty slot on the Round 1 grid. In May William Schroeder won every qualifier in his heat and TQ'd off back-to-back 20-lap runs. Then he led the A-main flag to flag, and nobody finished on his lap. His 14.541 in qualifying was the quickest lap anyone in the class turned all day, and I'd call this the most complete night of the series so far. It leaves him third with 176 points, level with Mathew Schroeder and ahead on the countback, because a win outranks a third.
2nd
Orlando Martinez 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.886 · 91.86% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 14.921 · 91.83% cons
First round in the class this summer, and Orlando Martinez had to hang on for his podium. Seeded second and second on pace with a 14.787, he finished a lap down on William Schroeder but 0.873 clear of Hendrick Westmoreland on the same 18 laps. His 14.921 was the second-quickest race lap in the class, behind only the winner's 14.886. The 16-lap Q1 is the one thing I'd hold against him, because the two runs after it went 19 laps each.
3rd
Hendrick Westmoreland 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.265 · 90.00% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.220 · 90.71% cons
Less than a second kept Hendrick Westmoreland off second place: he finished 0.873 behind Orlando Martinez with the same lap count. Qualifying was a mess after a 19-lap Q1, with Q2 over at 4 laps and Q3 at 14 laps in 3:41.564, and that opener was enough to seed him third. Third in the main is his best finish of the year and lifts him to second in the standings with 184 points, two points behind C4. From fifth in April, I like the direction.
4th
Mark Beach 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.852 · 87.74% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.499 · 88.54% cons
A 10-lap Q1 that stopped at 2:54.014 was a rough way for Mark Beach to open his summer in this class. He recovered with a heat win in Q2 and a 15.567 best that ranked fourth on pace, then turned the fifth seed into fourth place in the A-main. The podium was a long way off, though, 16.790 behind Hendrick Westmoreland on the same lap. His main averaged 17.639 to Hendrick's 16.710, nearly a second a lap, and that's the gap.
5th
C4 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.698 · 88.76% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.122 · 89.77% cons
The championship has a new leader, and he finished fifth. C4 started sixth and came home two laps down on the winner with 17 laps, yet a 90-point night on top of April's second place gives him 186 points, two points clear of Hendrick Westmoreland. Paxton Gage, who won Round 1, didn't race this one, and that's the opening C4 drove through. The pace worries me more, because Charlie Kleinhagen's 16.122 best in the main was more than half a second off every car in the top four.
6th
Chris Camara 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.257 · 94.84% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.268 · 86.79% cons
Chris Camara had the tidiest qualifying in the class at 94.84%, a hair above William Schroeder's 94.71%, and won two of the three heat-two qualifiers. Then the main got away from him. Seeded fourth, he finished sixth, 4.010 behind C4 on 17 laps, with his consistency down to 86.79%. Fifth in the standings with 174 points is a fine place to be. Giving back two spots from his seed is not.
7th
Henry Ballew 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.988 · 92.42% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 17.626 · 87.01% cons
Henry Ballew ran 16 laps in two of his three qualifiers and only 14 in the A-main, and that drop is his night in one number. Seventh on the grid, seventh at the flag, with a 21.645 average in the main against 19.108 across qualifying. Sixth in the standings with 170 points is a better spot than that run deserves, and he owes it to racing both rounds.
8th
Albert Bredernitz 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.810 · 84.63% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 18.893 · 81.87% cons
Thirteen laps in the A-main, from a driver who ran 14 and 15 in qualifying, is the wrong direction. Albert Bredernitz started eighth and finished eighth, and his consistency slid from 88.92% in qualifying to 81.87% in the main, with an 18.893 best well off the 17.505 he found in qualifying. The table is kinder: 164 points, seventh, and ahead of everyone who has missed a round.
Lower mains
9th
Mathew Schroeder 82 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P9
Mathew Schroeder is ninth in the official order and never took the start of the A-main, so there's no drive to write about. Ninth pays 82 points, and with April's third place that's 176 points, level with William Schroeder, who sits ahead on the countback with his win.

Championship after Round 2

Round 2 handed the championship lead to a driver who finished fifth. C4 has 186 points and Hendrick Westmoreland has 184 points, while William Schroeder, who TQ'd and then won flag to flag by a lap, is only third with 176 points because his Round 1 was a main he never started. Two rounds run means both results count for everybody, so nothing comes off yet and attendance is doing the sorting: Paxton Gage, April's winner, missed May and slides to eighth with 100 points. Mathew Schroeder took over the empty-grid-slot act William Schroeder performed in April, ninth in the order and absent when the A-main went green, and the order still paid him 82 points. That leaves the two of them level on the table, which is the strangest pair of results in the class: one won the race and one never started it.

Through Round 2 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	C4	+90	186	186	2
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	+94	184	184	2
3	William Schroeder	+100	176	176	2
4	Mathew Schroeder	+82	176	176	2
5	Chris Camara	+88	174	174	2
6	Henry Ballew	+86	170	170	2
7	Albert Bredernitz	+84	164	164	2
8	Paxton Gage	–	100	100	1

Round 3 · Jun 6

10 in the class

TQ: William Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	William Schroeder	20/5:08.675	14.693	15.434	93.69%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P1, Q3H2 P1
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.580	15.077	15.873	92.14%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:11.902	15.821	16.416	95.81%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2, Q3H2 P4
4	Mark Beach	18/5:16.950	16.043	17.608	93.18%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3, Q3 P2
5	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:17.004	15.599	17.611	88.66%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2, Q3 P5
6	Chris Camara	17/5:02.176	16.421	17.775	93.20%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P3, Q3H2 P2
7	Henry Ballew	16/5:09.578	16.575	19.349	88.24%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4, Q3H2 P3
8	Russell Rima	15/5:10.465	17.458	20.698	86.60%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5, Q3 P3
9	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:11.735	18.504	20.782	89.74%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4, Q3 P4
10	Wayne Schroeder	13/3:40.390	15.449	16.953	90.33%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P5, Q3H2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.580	15.077	15.873	92.14%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:16.950	16.043	17.608	93.18%	✓
3	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:04.241	15.552	17.897	90.08%
4	Russell Rima	14/5:07.096	18.706	21.935	88.94%
5	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:17.770	19.594	22.698	89.93%
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:11.902	15.821	16.416	95.81%	✓
2	Chris Camara	17/5:09.830	16.641	18.225	88.40%
3	Wayne Schroeder	13/3:40.390	15.449	16.953	90.33%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	13/5:01.291	18.163	23.176	85.53%
5	William Schroeder	7/1:50.354	15.339	15.765	97.01%
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	18/5:12.018	15.177	17.334	85.59%
2	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:17.004	15.599	17.611	88.66%	✓
3	Mark Beach	17/5:15.945	16.319	18.585	85.63%
4	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:11.735	18.504	20.782	89.74%	✓
5	Russell Rima	11/4:14.532	19.618	23.139	88.82%
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:08.675	14.693	15.434	93.69%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	17/4:45.984	15.724	16.823	90.97%
3	Chris Camara	17/5:11.292	16.696	18.311	89.09%
4	Henry Ballew	16/5:14.580	16.419	19.661	84.65%
5	Wayne Schroeder	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 3 · heat 1 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:07.719	14.979	16.196	91.97%
2	Mark Beach	17/5:06.993	16.103	18.058	87.66%
3	Russell Rima	15/5:10.465	17.458	20.698	86.60%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:18.180	18.583	21.212	88.24%
5	Mathew Schroeder	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 3 · heat 2 of 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:11.873	14.773	15.594	91.06%
2	Chris Camara	17/5:02.176	16.421	17.775	93.20%	✓
3	Henry Ballew	16/5:09.578	16.575	19.349	88.24%	✓
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	12/3:16.108	15.642	16.342	93.72%
5	Wayne Schroeder	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	William Schroeder	1	19/5:00.818	14.712	15.859	91.93%	+100
2	Orlando Martinez	2	19/5:05.121	14.765	15.876	93.52%	+96
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	3	18/5:06.004	15.231	16.844	91.39%	+94
4	Chris Camara	4	17/5:08.106	16.352	17.995	92.32%	+92
5	Mark Beach	5	17/5:11.615	16.504	18.143	93.89%	+90
6	Henry Ballew	6	15/5:14.468	17.424	20.960	76.08%	+88
7	Albert Bredernitz	7	7/2:39.784	19.281	22.377	89.96%	+86
8	Russell Rima	8	3/1:27.165	27.813	29.448	–	+84
Ranked on qualifying
9	Mathew Schroeder	9	–	–	–	–	+82
10	Wayne Schroeder	10	–	–	–	–	+80

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

1st
William Schroeder 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.693 · 93.69% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.712 · 91.93% cons
Two wins in a row, and this one he had to win twice. William Schroeder TQ'd again despite a Q1 that stopped at 7 laps, then led the first 15 laps of the A-main before Orlando Martinez took over for lap 16. He was back in front a lap later and stayed there, 4.303 clear at the flag after the pair spent 7 laps neck and neck. His 14.712 was the quickest race lap in the class. Best two now count, so April's 76 points come off, and he leads the championship with 200 points.
2nd
Orlando Martinez 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.077 · 92.14% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.765 · 93.52% cons
Orlando Martinez won all three heat-one qualifiers, led lap 16 of the A-main and finished on the winner's lap, which makes this a far better second place than the one he took in May. Over the full main he averaged 15.876 to William Schroeder's 15.859 and ran cleaner, 93.52% to 91.93%. What he lost came at the end, with William Schroeder back in front on lap 17 and 4.303 ahead at the flag after their 7 laps together. He's second in the championship with 192 points from two starts, eight points off the lead. On those averages, he's every bit as quick as the man who beat him.
3rd
Hendrick Westmoreland 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.821 · 95.81% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.231 · 91.39% cons
Hendrick Westmoreland has 278 raw points, more than anybody in the class, and sits third with 188 points once his Round 1 fifth goes. On the night it was May all over again: seeded third, finished third, a lap down at 18 laps. Qualifying fell apart after a 19-lap Q1, with Q2 stopping at 17 laps in 4:45.984 and Q3 at 12 laps. His 15.231 was the best race lap outside the two cars a lap ahead of him.
4th
Chris Camara 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.421 · 93.20% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.352 · 92.32% cons
From sixth on the grid to fourth at the flag: Chris Camara's best result of the series, and he built it on staying tidy. His 16.421 best in qualifying was only eighth on pace, two thousandths behind Henry Ballew, but he ran 17 laps in all three qualifiers and kept 92.32% in the main to finish 3.509 ahead of Mark Beach on the same lap. He's sixth in the standings with 180 points, and his April seventh is the result that doesn't count.
5th
Mark Beach 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.043 · 93.18% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.504 · 93.89% cons
Mark Beach ran the cleanest full-length main in the class, 93.89% over 17 laps, and still lost a place. Seeded fourth after qualifying runs of 18, 17 and 17 laps, he couldn't find his qualifying speed in the main: a 16.504 best against 16.043. Chris Camara started two places behind him and finished 3.509 ahead. He has 182 points from his two rounds and sits fifth, six points behind Hendrick Westmoreland.
6th
Henry Ballew 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.575 · 88.24% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.424 · 76.08% cons
For one qualifying lap Henry Ballew was quicker than Chris Camara, 16.419 to 16.421. The A-main was another story: 15 laps, a 17.424 best and 76.08% consistency, the scrappiest run in the main by a distance. He still climbed from seventh to sixth, and he can thank Mathew Schroeder's empty grid slot for that. With his Round 1 eighth dropped, he has 174 points and sits eighth.
7th
Albert Bredernitz 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 18.504 · 89.74% qual cons · 7 laps · fast 19.281 · 89.96% cons
Something went wrong for Albert Bredernitz, because after qualifying runs of 14, 15 and 15 laps his A-main stopped at 7 laps and 2:39.784. Seeded ninth, he still came away seventh, with Russell Rima's even shorter run and two empty grid slots behind him. That's 86 points for the night, and with his April tenth off he's tenth in the standings with 170 points.
8th
Russell Rima 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.458 · 86.60% qual cons · 3 laps · fast 27.813
Russell Rima's A-main was over after 3 laps and 1:27.165, and his 27.813 best in it was more than ten seconds off his qualifying pace. A shame, because qualifying had a 15-lap Q3 and a 17.458 best that was quicker than anything Albert Bredernitz turned all day. Back after missing Round 2, he takes 84 points from eighth.
Lower mains
9th
Mathew Schroeder 82 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.599 · 88.66% qual cons
For the second round running, the A-main went off without Mathew Schroeder. He'd qualified fifth, with a 15.552 best that was fourth on pace, so the grid slot was earned. The order paid him ninth place and 82 points, and with April's third counting he's seventh in the standings with 176 points.
10th
Wayne Schroeder 80 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P10 · qual best lap 15.449 · 90.33% qual cons
Wayne Schroeder's 15.449 was the third-quickest lap of qualifying, and it came from the only run he made, 13 laps in 3:40.390 in Q1. That left him tenth and last in the order, and he never took the start of the A-main. Tenth pays 80 points, which puts him ninth in the standings with 172 points from his two rounds.

Championship after Round 3

William Schroeder leads with 200 points, and the drop window put him there. Three rounds run means best two count, so the 76 points from his Round 1 non-start come off, while Hendrick Westmoreland, who has the most raw points in the class at 278 points, loses a fifth place and sits third with 188 points. Orlando Martinez is between them with 192 points from his two starts, and he was the only driver who finished on William Schroeder's lap. C4 sat this round out and slides from first to fourth with 186 points. And two grid slots sat empty: Mathew Schroeder and Wayne Schroeder both made the official order and neither took the start, so a 10-car class lined up eight for the A-main, and the order paid them 82 points and 80 points for the honour of being listed.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	William Schroeder	+100	276	−76	200	3
2	Orlando Martinez	+96	192	0	192	2
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	+94	278	−90	188	3
4	C4	–	186	0	186	2
5	Mark Beach	+90	182	0	182	2
6	Chris Camara	+92	266	−86	180	3
7	Mathew Schroeder	+82	258	−82	176	3
8	Henry Ballew	+88	258	−84	174	3

Round 4 · Jul 25

7 in the class

TQ: Colby Rogers

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Colby Rogers	19/5:15.371	15.891	16.598	95.36%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Dallas Boyd	18/5:14.461	16.233	17.470	94.61%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3, Q3 P2
3	C4	17/5:04.941	15.713	17.938	89.59%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2, Q3 P3
4	Matt Leibman	17/5:16.830	17.179	18.637	93.27%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4, Q3 P5
5	Chris Camara	17/5:17.271	16.481	18.663	85.53%	Q1 P3, Q2 P5, Q3 P4
6	Russell Rima	14/5:00.112	17.726	21.437	90.02%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6, Q3 P6
7	Albert Bredernitz	12/5:16.946	19.589	26.412	67.43%	Q1 P7, Q2 P7, Q3 P7

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Colby Rogers	18/5:08.470	15.975	17.137	93.82%
2	Dallas Boyd	17/5:13.175	16.066	18.422	79.73%
3	Chris Camara	17/5:18.549	16.811	18.738	91.15%
4	C4	16/5:04.303	16.108	19.019	85.83%
5	Matt Leibman	16/5:10.345	17.006	19.397	88.92%
6	Russell Rima	13/5:03.616	18.933	23.355	88.63%
7	Albert Bredernitz	9/4:12.735	21.737	28.082	83.24%
Qualifier 2
1	Colby Rogers	19/5:15.371	15.891	16.598	95.36%	✓
2	C4	17/5:04.941	15.713	17.938	89.59%	✓
3	Dallas Boyd	17/5:12.153	16.450	18.362	86.94%
4	Matt Leibman	17/5:16.830	17.179	18.637	93.27%	✓
5	Chris Camara	16/5:03.244	16.881	18.953	88.60%
6	Russell Rima	14/5:00.112	17.726	21.437	90.02%	✓
7	Albert Bredernitz	12/5:16.946	19.589	26.412	67.43%	✓
Qualifier 3
1	Colby Rogers	18/5:12.578	15.657	17.365	89.16%
2	Dallas Boyd	18/5:14.461	16.233	17.470	94.61%	✓
3	C4	17/5:08.432	16.112	18.143	87.33%
4	Chris Camara	17/5:17.271	16.481	18.663	85.53%	✓
5	Matt Leibman	16/5:12.429	16.882	19.527	88.69%
6	Russell Rima	6/2:03.278	19.142	20.546	93.04%
7	Albert Bredernitz	1/24.684	24.684	24.684	–

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

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Colby Rogers	19/5:08.583	15.769	16.950	92.60%	+100
2	Dallas Boyd	18/5:01.081	16.156	17.427	92.46%	+96
3	Chris Camara	18/5:07.403	16.189	17.768	91.85%	+94
4	C4	18/5:11.279	15.665	18.011	90.91%	+92
5	Russell Rima	15/5:02.315	17.031	21.203	82.71%	+90
6	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:14.207	19.147	21.990	87.64%	+88
7	Matt Leibman	10/3:13.952	17.628	21.006	91.39%	+86

1st
Colby Rogers 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.891 · 95.36% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.769 · 92.60% cons
Colby Rogers turned up for his first night in this class and nobody laid a finger on him. With no heat split, he won all three qualifiers outright to TQ, and his 15.657 was the quickest lap of qualifying. Then he led the A-main flag to flag and finished a lap clear of Dallas Boyd. (The one blot: C4's 15.665 in the main was quicker than any lap Colby turned in it.) One round in, he has 100 points, and the leaders have 278 points.
2nd
Dallas Boyd 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.233 · 94.61% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.156 · 92.46% cons
A podium on debut, and Dallas Boyd made it look routine. Seeded second off an 18-lap Q3, he finished second, a lap down on Colby Rogers but 6.322 clear of Chris Camara, and his 17.427 average in the main was a shade quicker than his 17.470 across qualifying. C4 ran inside two seconds of him for 6 of the 18 racing laps and finished behind. Second to a flag-to-flag winner is the most this main offered anyone.
3rd
Chris Camara 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.481 · 85.53% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.189 · 91.85% cons
Chris Camara has raced every round of this series, and Round 4 finally put him on the podium. He qualified fifth, with a 16.481 best that was fourth on pace, then turned a 16.189 in the main, quicker than anything he did in qualifying, and came home 6.322 behind Dallas Boyd. He and C4 were neck and neck for 10 of the 18 racing laps, and C4 is the one who finished fourth. Seventh, sixth, fourth, third: every round better than the last. Best three counting takes his Round 1 seventh off, and his 274 points sit four points off the joint lead.
4th
C4 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.713 · 89.59% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.665 · 90.91% cons
The quickest lap of the A-main belonged to C4, a 15.665, and he finished fourth. How? An 18.011 average, the slowest of the top four, from a car that started third. He went at it with Dallas Boyd for 6 racing laps and with Chris Camara for 10, and finished behind both. The standings don't care: Charlie Kleinhagen leads with 278 points, level with Hendrick Westmoreland and ahead on the countback through his Round 1 second, while William Schroeder and Hendrick Westmoreland sat this one out.
5th
Russell Rima 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 17.726 · 90.02% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.031 · 82.71% cons
After a 3-lap main in Round 3, Russell Rima ran 15 laps here, and his 17.031 best beat his own qualifying best by 0.695. He climbed from sixth on the grid to fifth, his best finish of the series, though 82.71% says the run was ragged and C4, the nearest car ahead, finished three laps up. With 252 points from three rounds and nothing dropped, he's eighth in the standings.
6th
Albert Bredernitz 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 19.589 · 67.43% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 19.147 · 87.64% cons
Albert Bredernitz qualified last after runs of 9, 12 and 1 lap, and his 19.589 best came off that single-lap Q3. The main went far better: 15 laps, a 19.147 best and his best result of the series so far. He and Chris Camara are the only drivers to have raced all four rounds, and with his Round 1 tenth off he has 258 points, level with Mathew Schroeder and Henry Ballew. Mathew Schroeder sits ahead of both on the countback through his Round 1 third.
7th
Matt Leibman 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.179 · 93.27% qual cons · 10 laps · fast 17.628 · 91.39% cons
Matt Leibman qualified fourth in his first round in the class, running 16 or 17 laps every time at 93.27%, and finished last. Something went wrong in the A-main, because it stopped at 10 laps and 3:13.952 when every other car ran past five minutes. His 17.628 before it ended was well off the 16.882 he found in qualifying, and Russell Rima and Albert Bredernitz, both seeded below him, finished ahead with 15 laps. On his qualifying, he belongs a good deal nearer the front than this.

Championship after Round 4

Four points now cover the top four, and two of them didn't race. C4 leads with 278 points, level with Hendrick Westmoreland and ahead on the countback through his Round 1 second, William Schroeder is two points back with 276 points, and Chris Camara is fourth with 274 points. The window moved to best three, so William Schroeder's 76 points from April and Hendrick Westmoreland's Round 1 fifth count again, and of the four only Chris Camara, with a fourth result to his name, drops anything. The calendar handed points back to both drivers who sat out, and William Schroeder still lost the lead to C4's fourth place. Colby Rogers took everything on his first night in the class, TQ and flag to flag, and his 100 points sit a long way below that fight.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	C4	+92	278	0	278	3
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	278	0	278	3
3	William Schroeder	–	276	0	276	3
4	Chris Camara	+94	360	−86	274	4
5	Mathew Schroeder	–	258	0	258	3
6	Henry Ballew	–	258	0	258	3
7	Albert Bredernitz	+88	338	−80	258	4
8	Russell Rima	+90	252	0	252	3

Round 5 · Aug 29

10 in the class

TQ: William Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	William Schroeder	20/5:10.716	14.353	15.536	94.37%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P1, Q3H2 P1
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:15.074	15.056	15.754	96.19%	Q1 P1, Q2 P4, Q3 P2
3	Mathew Schroeder	19/5:04.187	14.351	16.010	90.93%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2, Q3H2 P2
4	Dallas Boyd	19/5:09.217	15.330	16.275	94.11%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
5	Dennis Keith	19/5:14.777	15.486	16.567	94.17%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2, Q3 P3
6	Chris Camara	18/5:11.623	16.407	17.312	95.71%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3, Q3 P4
7	Mark Beach	17/5:01.927	16.024	17.760	92.70%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P3, Q3H2 P3
8	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:05.771	18.311	21.841	90.69%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4, Q3H2 P4
9	Henry Ballew	11/3:47.401	17.310	20.673	83.30%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P5, Q3H2 P5
10	Josh Stramillo	0/0.000	–	–	–	Q1 P5, Q2 P5, Q3 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:15.074	15.056	15.754	96.19%	✓
2	Dallas Boyd	19/5:12.099	15.112	16.426	92.86%
3	Dennis Keith	19/5:15.565	15.470	16.609	90.52%
4	Chris Camara	17/5:03.460	16.418	17.851	91.75%
5	Josh Strumillo	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:01.825	15.067	16.768	89.29%
2	William Schroeder	18/5:15.382	14.471	17.521	85.26%
3	Mark Beach	17/5:23.408	15.994	19.024	83.76%
4	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:09.504	18.290	23.808	78.06%
5	Henry Ballew	11/3:47.401	17.310	20.673	83.30%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Dallas Boyd	19/5:14.690	15.268	16.563	90.40%
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:14.777	15.486	16.567	94.17%	✓
3	Chris Camara	18/5:11.623	16.407	17.312	95.71%	✓
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	-	–	–	–
5	Josh Strumillo	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	William Schroeder	19/5:02.619	14.436	15.927	91.74%
2	Mathew Schroeder	19/5:08.445	14.475	16.234	88.25%
3	Mark Beach	17/5:02.211	15.901	17.777	89.76%
4	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:05.771	18.311	21.841	90.69%	✓
5	Henry Ballew	6/2:21.360	17.461	23.560	61.96%
Qualifier 3 · heat 1 of 2
1	Dallas Boyd	19/5:09.217	15.330	16.275	94.11%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:12.275	14.714	16.436	85.00%
3	Dennis Keith	18/5:04.243	15.652	16.902	92.85%
4	Chris Camara	18/5:12.473	16.342	17.360	92.64%
5	Josh Strumillo	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 3 · heat 2 of 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:10.716	14.353	15.536	94.37%	✓
2	Mathew Schroeder	19/5:04.187	14.351	16.010	90.93%	✓
3	Mark Beach	17/5:01.927	16.024	17.760	92.70%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:14.247	18.404	22.446	82.90%
5	Henry Ballew	10/3:06.939	16.417	18.694	90.87%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	1	21/5:17.079	14.690	15.653	91.64%	+100
2	Dallas Boyd	2	19/5:09.082	15.461	16.911	89.56%	+96
3	Dennis Keith	3	19/5:15.571	15.341	17.250	84.84%	+94
4	Mark Beach	4	18/5:07.100	16.282	17.653	91.38%	+92
5	Chris Camara	5	18/5:10.836	16.292	17.949	91.67%	+90
6	Albert Bredernitz	6	15/5:18.987	16.545	22.233	86.34%	+88
7	Mathew Schroeder	7	11/3:07.763	14.747	18.344	80.61%	+86
8	William Schroeder	8	7/1:37.892	14.589	15.720	92.79%	+84
Ranked on qualifying
9	Henry Ballew	9	-	–	–	–	+82
10	Josh Strumillo	10	-	–	–	–	+80

1st
Hendrick Westmoreland 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.056 · 96.19% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 14.690 · 91.64% cons
Two laps. No winner in this series had finished more than one lap clear of second, and Hendrick Westmoreland put two on Dallas Boyd. William Schroeder had the lead for the first two laps, and from lap 3 to the flag it belonged to Westmoreland, who ran the best average lap in the race at 15.653. He sat out Round 4, came back, won his first main of the series and took over the championship with 378 points from four starts, nothing dropped. Magnificent, and it started in qualifying, where his 96.19% was the cleanest in the class.
2nd
Dallas Boyd 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.330 · 94.11% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.461 · 89.56% cons
Dallas Boyd has raced two rounds of this class and finished runner-up in both, and I'm starting to think he likes the view. This one came from fourth on the grid, helped along by two Schroeders seeded ahead of him whose mains ended early. What he never got near was the winner: 19 laps to Hendrick Westmoreland's 21, on an 89.56% main that has to get a lot tidier before second turns into first.
3rd
Dennis Keith 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.486 · 94.17% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.341 · 84.84% cons
Dennis Keith's first round in this class all summer ended on the podium. Seeded fifth after qualifying at 94.17%, he turned a 15.341 in the main that Dallas Boyd never matched. So how does the quicker lap finish behind? An 84.84% main, and 19 laps that scrappy left him 6.489 seconds adrift of Boyd at the flag. I love the start he's made, and I'd love it more at 94%.
4th
Mark Beach 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.024 · 92.70% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.282 · 91.38% cons
Seeded seventh and home fourth, Mark Beach had to fight for the last of those places. He and Chris Camara ran inside two seconds of each other for 8 of the 20 racing laps, and Beach came out of it 3.736 seconds clear with the same 18 laps. His 16.282 best was nothing special. The 91.38% that went with it was enough, and that's three Expert rounds this summer and three top-five finishes for him.
5th
Chris Camara 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.407 · 95.71% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.292 · 91.67% cons
Chris Camara lost the fight with Mark Beach: they ran together for 8 of the 20 racing laps, and at the flag he was 3.736 seconds behind. The standings are kinder. He's second with 364 points, 14 behind the leader, and he and Albert Bredernitz are the only two who have raced all five rounds, so his 86 from Round 1 is the one coming off. He qualified at 95.71% too, second only to Hendrick Westmoreland, which tells me turning up isn't all he's bringing.
6th
Albert Bredernitz 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 18.311 · 90.69% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 16.545 · 86.34% cons
One lap here I don't believe: a 16.545 in the main from Albert Bredernitz, almost a second quicker than anything he had turned in this series and nowhere near his 22.233 average. The rest of his night was honest work, eighth on the grid to sixth at the flag and ahead of both Schroeders, and he's fourth in the championship with 346 points. He has raced every round, so the best-four window takes his 80 from Round 1 off a raw 426.
7th
Mathew Schroeder 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.351 · 90.93% qual cons · 11 laps · fast 14.747 · 80.61% cons
Mathew Schroeder had the quickest lap in qualifying, a 14.351 that beat William Schroeder by two thousandths, and his main was over at 11 laps and 3:07.763. While it lasted the car was flying: only two drivers in the race beat his 14.747. Third on the grid to seventh at the flag is a collapse, and it came on the night Hendrick Westmoreland won and went top. He leaves fifth with 344 points, 34 off the lead, and a 14.351 that deserved a whole lot more.
8th
William Schroeder 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.353 · 94.37% qual cons · 7 laps · fast 14.589 · 92.79% cons
TQ, the lead for the first two laps and the quickest lap of the A-main at 14.589: William Schroeder had all of it, for 7 laps. His main ended there, at 1:37.892. How does the man with the quickest lap in the race finish last of the eight who started? Seven laps against the winner's 21. He stays third with 360 points, 18 behind Hendrick Westmoreland, and a TQ taking 84 points while Westmoreland banks 100 is unacceptable.
Lower mains
9th
Henry Ballew 82 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P9 · qual best lap 17.310 · 83.30% qual cons
Henry Ballew qualified ninth and the main went off without him, so the 82 points are for his place in the order and not for anything he drove. None of his three qualifiers went the full five minutes either: 11 laps, then 6, then 10. He's sixth in the championship with 340 points.
10th
Josh Strumillo 80 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P10
A rough night for Josh Strumillo: no timed laps in any of the three qualifiers and no start in the main. The order lists him tenth and pays him 80 points for it.

Championship after Round 5

Hendrick Westmoreland didn't even race Round 4, and he leads the championship now: a two-lap win took him to 378 points from four starts, with nothing dropped. Chris Camara is 14 behind with 364 points and already carrying a drop, because he and Albert Bredernitz are the only two who have raced all five rounds, and the best-four window shaves an 86 off Camara and an 80 off Bredernitz. This was the night for the Schroeders to take over, and neither got there: William Schroeder TQ'd and his main ended at 7 laps, Mathew Schroeder had the quickest lap in qualifying and his ended at 11 laps, and they leave third with 360 points and fifth with 344 points when the door was wide open. Six drivers now sit within 38 points of each other with one round left. Two grid slots stood empty when the main went off, Henry Ballew's and Josh Strumillo's, and Strumillo collects 80 points for a day without a single timed lap, a points-per-lap figure no calculator can handle.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	+100	378	0	378	4
2	Chris Camara	+90	450	−86	364	5
3	William Schroeder	+84	360	0	360	4
4	Albert Bredernitz	+88	426	−80	346	5
5	Mathew Schroeder	+86	344	0	344	4
6	Henry Ballew	+82	340	0	340	4
7	C4	–	278	0	278	3
8	Mark Beach	+92	274	0	274	3

Round 6 · Oct 3

10 in the class

TQ: William Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	William Schroeder	20/5:04.723	14.525	15.236	92.89%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1
2	Shane Alberico	20/5:08.171	14.348	15.409	90.74%	Q1 P1, Q2 P3
3	Dennis Keith	19/5:12.129	15.747	16.428	96.18%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2
4	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:05.979	15.513	16.999	90.02%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P1
5	Mark Beach	18/5:07.321	15.967	17.073	93.91%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2
6	Chris Camara	18/5:13.375	15.944	17.410	92.59%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4
7	Orlando Martinez	17/5:02.514	15.565	17.795	88.03%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5
8	Henry Ballew	17/5:13.984	17.279	18.470	95.54%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P4
9	C4	16/5:09.489	14.617	19.343	62.16%	Q2H2 P3
10	Albert Bredernitz	16/5:17.286	17.583	19.830	90.42%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P5
–	Dallas Boyd	–	–	–	–	Q1H2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Shane Alberico	20/5:08.171	14.348	15.409	90.74%	✓
2	William Schroeder	19/5:00.465	14.534	15.814	89.12%
3	Dennis Keith	19/5:17.587	15.620	16.715	93.40%
4	Chris Camara	18/5:16.952	15.977	17.608	90.56%
5	Orlando Martinez	17/5:03.248	15.507	17.838	89.26%
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:07.321	15.967	17.073	93.91%	✓
2	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:21.174	15.312	17.843	86.42%
3	Henry Ballew	17/5:13.984	17.279	18.470	95.54%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	16/5:17.286	17.583	19.830	90.42%	✓
5	Dallas Boyd	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:04.723	14.525	15.236	92.89%	✓
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:12.129	15.747	16.428	96.18%	✓
3	Shane Alberico	19/5:13.970	14.415	16.525	86.46%
4	Chris Camara	18/5:13.375	15.944	17.410	92.59%	✓
5	Orlando Martinez	17/5:02.514	15.565	17.795	88.03%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:05.979	15.513	16.999	90.02%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:15.120	16.145	17.507	90.23%
3	C4	16/5:09.489	14.617	19.343	62.16%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	16/5:12.951	17.286	19.559	86.96%
5	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:12.489	17.452	20.833	87.28%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Shane Alberico	1	20/5:06.212	14.425	15.910	89.87%	+100
2	Mathew Schroeder	2	20/5:10.784	14.693	16.103	91.90%	+96
3	Orlando Martinezbumped up	3	20/5:17.106	15.187	16.399	93.15%	+94
4	Dennis Keith	4	19/5:05.211	15.450	16.716	93.44%	+92
5	C4bumped up	5	19/5:10.418	14.916	16.915	80.50%	+90
6	Mark Beach	6	19/5:14.258	15.881	17.188	90.09%	+88
7	Chris Camara	7	18/5:07.182	16.210	17.750	88.72%	+86
8	William Schroeder	8	2/19.038	15.408	15.408	–	+84
B-main
1	Orlando Martinez	up to the A	19/5:05.025	15.428	16.723	88.86%	–
2	C4	up to the A	17/5:07.262	15.300	18.912	75.42%	–
3	Henry Ballew	9	17/5:15.137	16.614	18.972	90.83%	+82
4	Albert Bredernitz	10	17/5:21.612	17.644	19.739	90.09%	+80

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

1st
Shane Alberico 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.348 · 90.74% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.425 · 89.87% cons
Shane Alberico's first round in this class all summer, and he took it apart. Quickest lap in qualifying at 14.348, quickest lap of the main at 14.425, and once William Schroeder's lead was over after lap 1, Alberico had it for the other 18 racing laps. Mathew Schroeder finished with the same 20 laps and still couldn't get within 4.572 seconds of him.
2nd
Mathew Schroeder 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.513 · 90.02% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.693 · 91.90% cons
From an 11-lap main last time out to 20 laps and second place, 4.572 seconds off Shane Alberico. That's Mathew Schroeder's best finish of the series, with a 14.693 that only Alberico beat in the A-main and a 91.90% run to go with it. It lifts him to third in the standings with 440 points, four behind William Schroeder and ten behind Chris Camara, and I love the bounce-back. I can't love the two mains he never started back in May and June.
3rd
Orlando Martinez 94 ptsbumped up
A-main P3 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.565 · 88.03% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 15.187 · 93.15% cons
Orlando Martinez raced his way out of the B-main and onto the podium. Seeded seventh, he bumped up into the A, ran inside two seconds of Dennis Keith for 7 of the 19 racing laps and finished a lap clear of him, 20 to 19. Three rounds raced this summer, three podiums. So how does a driver with that record start in the B? Two qualifiers of 17 laps, when everyone seeded ahead of him found 18 or more.
4th
Dennis Keith 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.747 · 96.18% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.450 · 93.44% cons
Cleanest driver in the class all day, and Dennis Keith has fourth to show for it. His 96.18% in qualifying was the best of anyone, his 93.44% A-main was the best of anyone who went the distance, and from third on the grid he finished a lap behind the podium after running with Orlando Martinez for 7 racing laps. Tidy is great. A 15.450 best, sixth-quickest in the A-main, is why tidy wasn't enough.
5th
C4 90 ptsbumped up
A-main P5 · bumped up from the B · qualified P9 · qual best lap 14.617 · 62.16% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.916 · 80.50% cons
C4 had the speed again and not the laps. Charlie Kleinhagen ran one qualifier all day, 16 laps at 62.16%, which is how the third-quickest lap of qualifying (14.617) ends up seeded ninth and starting in the B. He bumped up, threw in a 14.916 that only Shane Alberico and Mathew Schroeder beat in the A-main, and finished on an 80.50% run. Ninth on the grid to fifth is a fine recovery, and he ends the summer seventh with 368 points from four rounds.
6th
Mark Beach 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.967 · 93.91% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.881 · 90.09% cons
Two cars started in the B and both finished ahead of Mark Beach, which is hard to explain from the fifth seed. He found a 15.881 in the main, quicker than anything he did in qualifying, ran 90.09%, and still came home 3.840 seconds behind C4 with the same 19 laps. His four Expert rounds this summer have gone fourth, fifth, fourth and sixth, worth 362 points and eighth in the standings. Reliable, and I wanted more than reliable from a top-five seed.
7th
Chris Camara 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.944 · 92.59% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.210 · 88.72% cons
Chris Camara never won a round this summer, and after six of them nobody has more points. He and Albert Bredernitz are the only two who raced all six, his best finish was third, and his worst was seventh, which is what he got tonight: 18 laps, a lap down on Dennis Keith, 86 points. His two worst nights both paid 86, the drop takes one of them off, and that leaves him 450 points, six clear of William Schroeder. The quicker cars kept stopping short or staying home. Camara started and finished every main of the summer, and I wouldn't hear a word against it.
8th
William Schroeder 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.525 · 92.89% qual cons · 2 laps · fast 15.408
Four TQs this summer, two wins, and William Schroeder finishes it six points behind Chris Camara. Tonight was the TQ again, the lead on lap 1, and then a main that was over after 2 laps and 19.038. That's two rounds running his A-main has ended early, 7 laps last time and 2 now, and both paid 84 points. How does the best qualifier in the class end up second in the standings? Nine laps across his last two mains. With that much speed, 444 points and second is egregious.
Lower mains
9th
Henry Ballew 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.279 · 95.54% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.614 · 90.83% cons
Henry Ballew was seeded eighth, which meant the B-main, and he finished third in it behind the two cars that bumped up. Seventeen laps at 90.83% followed a 95.54% qualifying, second only to Dennis Keith's. He ends the summer fifth with 422 points from five rounds, four behind Albert Bredernitz.
10th
Albert Bredernitz 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 17.583 · 90.42% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.644 · 90.09% cons
Not one top-five finish all summer, and Albert Bredernitz ends it fourth in the standings with 426 points, four clear of Henry Ballew. He and Chris Camara are the only two who raced all six rounds. Tonight was fourth in the B-main, 17 laps with a 17.644 best, and the 80 points it paid match his Round 1 score exactly, so one of the two comes off a raw 506. Fourth in the standings without a top-five finish is a season built on showing up, and I'm a fan.

Championship after Round 6

Chris Camara is the 2026 Sizzling Summer champion in 17.5 Expert without winning a single round, and I love everything about how he did it. He's one of only two drivers who raced all six, the best-five rule took an 86 off a raw 536, and 450 points is six more than William Schroeder, who had four TQs and two wins and nothing to drop from his five rounds. William Schroeder's last two A-mains ended at 7 laps and 2, and that's the title right there. Mathew Schroeder's runner-up finish lifts him to third with 440 points, while Hendrick Westmoreland, top of the table after Round 5, didn't race tonight and slides to sixth with 378 points. Shane Alberico won the night on his first appearance in the class and Orlando Martinez came out of the B to finish third, but the championship belongs to the man who started and finished every main of the summer.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Chris Camara	+86	536	−86	450	6
2	William Schroeder	+84	444	0	444	5
3	Mathew Schroeder	+96	440	0	440	5
4	Albert Bredernitz	+80	506	−80	426	6
5	Henry Ballew	+82	422	0	422	5
6	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	378	0	378	4
7	C4	+90	368	0	368	4
8	Mark Beach	+88	362	0	362	4

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18 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	Dropped	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Robert Summers	482	568	−86	2	6	1st	96	96	100	90	100	86
2	Chris Gross	464	546	−82	–	6	2nd	94	92	90	96	92	82
3	Jason Ruhnke	442	442	0	–	5	4th	90	–	92	88	88	84
4	Mark Beach	386	386	0	2	4	1st	–	100	94	–	96	96
5	Victor Burger	380	380	0	1	4	1st	–	–	96	100	94	90
6	Steve Spears	276	276	0	–	3	3rd	88	94	–	94	–	–
7	Josh Strumillo	180	180	0	–	2	4th	–	–	88	–	–	92
8	Camila Mitchell	172	172	0	–	2	7th	–	86	86	–	–	–
9	Vaughn Vance	100	100	0	–	1	1st	100	–	–	–	–	–
10	Kevin Moyer	100	100	0	1	1	1st	–	–	–	–	–	100
11	Mathew Schroeder	94	94	0	–	1	3rd	–	–	–	–	–	94
12	Terry Gile	92	92	0	–	1	4th	92	–	–	–	–	–
13	Brad McGuire	92	92	0	–	1	4th	–	–	–	92	–	–
14	Payton Boyd	90	90	0	–	1	5th	–	90	–	–	–	–
15	Charlie Hicklin	90	90	0	–	1	5th	–	–	–	–	90	–
16	Chris Cupp	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	88	–	–	–	–
17	Joe Krore	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	–	–	–	88
18	Chuck Burns	86	86	0	–	1	7th	–	–	–	–	86	–

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Round 1 · Apr 11

6 in the class

TQ: Robert Summers

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Robert Summers	18/5:09.661	16.425	17.203	96.69%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Vaughn Vance	18/5:18.954	16.753	17.720	88.71%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
3	Chris Gross	17/5:05.323	16.343	17.960	92.12%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3 P3
4	Steve Spears	16/5:04.610	17.628	19.038	91.88%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3, Q3 P4
5	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:00.837	19.050	20.056	93.91%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5, Q3 P5
6	Terry Gile	15/5:18.801	18.105	21.253	86.08%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6, Q3 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Vaughn Vance	17/5:07.258	16.901	18.074	91.46%
2	Robert Summers	17/5:14.192	16.931	18.482	88.99%
3	Chris Gross	16/5:03.374	16.677	18.961	87.74%
4	Steve Spears	16/5:13.326	17.503	19.583	85.57%
5	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:00.837	19.050	20.056	93.91%	✓
6	Terry Gile	15/5:23.673	18.938	21.578	86.23%
Qualifier 2
1	Robert Summers	18/5:10.966	16.340	17.276	97.10%
2	Vaughn Vance	17/5:15.168	16.590	18.539	88.14%
3	Steve Spears	16/5:04.610	17.628	19.038	91.88%	✓
4	Chris Gross	16/5:06.568	16.760	19.161	90.01%
5	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:01.362	18.252	20.091	89.66%
6	Terry Gile	15/5:18.801	18.105	21.253	86.08%	✓
Qualifier 3
1	Robert Summers	18/5:09.661	16.425	17.203	96.69%	✓
2	Vaughn Vance	18/5:18.954	16.753	17.720	88.71%	✓
3	Chris Gross	17/5:05.323	16.343	17.960	92.12%	✓
4	Steve Spears	16/5:04.952	16.888	19.060	89.21%
5	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:14.345	18.274	20.956	88.02%
6	Terry Gile	14/5:04.070	18.426	21.719	91.15%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Vaughn Vance	18/5:06.093	16.519	16.940	98.51%	+100
2	Robert Summers	18/5:14.167	16.605	17.444	97.15%	+96
3	Chris Gross	17/5:16.151	16.730	18.612	89.96%	+94
4	Terry Gile	15/5:08.890	17.402	20.476	91.13%	+92
5	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:10.773	18.160	20.443	89.05%	+90
6	Steve Spears	12/3:51.981	17.563	19.349	85.46%	+88

1st
Vaughn Vance 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.753 · 88.71% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.519 · 98.51% cons
On rails. Vaughn Vance ran 98.51% over 18 laps, and a main that clean and that quick left the rest of the field nothing to hang on to. Robert Summers led the first two laps, the lead was Vance's from lap 3 to the flag, and he won by 8.074 seconds with the same 18 laps. The quickest lap of the race (16.519) and the best average (16.940) were his as well. He came in seeded second behind Summers and leaves with the first 100 points of the summer.
2nd
Robert Summers 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.425 · 96.69% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.605 · 97.15% cons
TQ, the quickest lap in qualifying at 16.340 and the lead for the first two laps: Robert Summers had the opener in his hands. Vaughn Vance took it off him on lap 3, and Summers finished 8.074 seconds back. His 97.15% main was superb driving, and it still lost to a 98.51% with a quicker best lap (16.519 to his 16.605). From the TQ I want the win, and eight seconds is too big a gap to call it close.
3rd
Chris Gross 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.343 · 92.12% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.730 · 89.96% cons
Chris Gross brought the speed: a 16.343 in qualifying, three thousandths off Robert Summers' quickest. The main was another story, 89.96% and 17 laps while the top two both ran better than 97% and got 18. He had the speed and not the laps. A podium in the opener is fine, but with a qualifying lap like that I expected him a lot nearer the front than a lap down.
4th
Terry Gile 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 18.105 · 86.08% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.402 · 91.13% cons
Terry Gile was seeded last of six and came home fourth, the biggest climb anyone made in this main. His 17.402 best was seven tenths quicker than anything he found in qualifying, and 15 laps in 5:08.890 kept him 1.883 seconds clear of Jason Ruhnke at the flag. Steve Spears started two places ahead of him and finished two behind. That's how to open a summer from the bottom of the order.
5th
Jason Ruhnke 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 19.050 · 93.91% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.160 · 89.05% cons
Qualifying was the better half of Jason Ruhnke's night: 93.91% across his runs, second only to Robert Summers. The main came in at 89.05%, and Terry Gile, seeded behind him, beat him by 1.883 seconds over the same 15 laps. He held fifth only because Steve Spears' main stopped short. The bigger worry is pace, since his 18.160 was the slowest best lap of anyone in the A-main.
6th
Steve Spears 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.628 · 91.88% qual cons · 12 laps · fast 17.563 · 85.46% cons
Steve Spears put in three 16-lap qualifiers and sat fourth on the grid, so how does that end in last place? Twelve laps, three fewer than anybody else managed, with the main over at 3:51.981 and more than a minute of it left unraced. Both of the bottom two seeds finished ahead of him. The 85.46% across those 12 laps says it was scrappy well before it ended, and that's the collapse of the opener.

Championship after Round 1

Vaughn Vance opened the Sizzling Summer with 98.51% over 18 laps, took the lead from Robert Summers on lap 3 and won by 8.074 seconds. Summers was the TQ and had the quickest lap in qualifying, and a 97.15% main still only got him second, which is the measure of how good Vance was. Those two were the only drivers to reach 18 laps. Chris Gross was a lap down in third even though his best qualifying lap was three thousandths off Summers', and behind him the order flipped: Terry Gile climbed from the bottom seed to fourth while Steve Spears went from fourth on the grid to last on a 12-lap main. One round in, the points are simply the finishing order, and Vance has the first 100 of them.

Through Round 1 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Vaughn Vance	+100	100	100	1
2	Robert Summers	+96	96	96	1
3	Chris Gross	+94	94	94	1
4	Terry Gile	+92	92	92	1
5	Jason Ruhnke	+90	90	90	1
6	Steve Spears	+88	88	88	1

Round 2 · May 9

7 in the class

TQ: Robert Summers

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Robert Summers	18/5:11.391	16.622	17.300	95.86%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P2
2	Mark Beach	17/5:03.504	16.960	17.853	95.53%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P1
3	Steve Spears	16/5:03.929	17.841	18.996	94.15%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3 P3
4	Chris Gross	16/5:12.487	17.118	19.530	89.58%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4, Q3 P5
5	Chris Cupp	16/5:12.755	17.757	19.547	90.98%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5, Q3 P4
6	Payton Boyd	15/5:09.996	19.211	20.666	87.25%	Q1 P5, Q2 P7, Q3 P7
7	Camila Mitchell	14/5:04.328	18.538	21.738	87.32%	Q1 P7, Q2 P6, Q3 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Robert Summers	17/5:07.684	16.917	18.099	92.52%
2	Mark Beach	17/5:13.389	16.722	18.435	90.95%
3	Steve Spears	16/5:03.929	17.841	18.996	94.15%	✓
4	Chris Gross	15/5:08.413	17.028	20.561	87.46%
5	Payton Boyd	15/5:09.996	19.211	20.666	87.25%	✓
6	Chris Cupp	14/5:09.933	18.286	22.138	84.97%
7	Camila Mitchell	14/5:19.347	18.910	22.811	84.30%
Qualifier 2
1	Robert Summers	18/5:11.391	16.622	17.300	95.86%	✓
2	Mark Beach	17/5:10.168	16.788	18.245	92.85%
3	Steve Spears	16/5:05.411	17.603	19.088	90.80%
4	Chris Gross	16/5:12.487	17.118	19.530	89.58%	✓
5	Chris Cupp	15/5:06.762	16.845	20.451	82.81%
6	Camila Mitchell	14/5:04.328	18.538	21.738	87.32%	✓
7	Payton Boyd	14/5:06.371	18.965	21.884	88.23%
Qualifier 3
1	Mark Beach	17/5:03.504	16.960	17.853	95.53%	✓
2	Robert Summers	17/5:25.652	16.740	19.156	83.13%
3	Steve Spears	16/5:05.492	16.984	19.093	89.70%
4	Chris Cupp	16/5:12.755	17.757	19.547	90.98%	✓
5	Chris Gross	16/5:16.211	16.749	19.763	87.73%
6	Camila Mitchell	13/5:00.935	18.265	23.149	79.95%
7	Payton Boyd	3/1:18.154	21.445	26.051	–

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

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Mark Beach	18/5:11.904	16.652	17.318	97.70%	+100
2	Robert Summers	18/5:15.822	16.401	17.361	94.64%	+96
3	Steve Spears	16/5:01.383	16.914	18.879	89.19%	+94
4	Chris Gross	16/5:14.200	16.769	19.417	89.53%	+92
5	Payton Boyd	15/5:04.804	18.925	20.046	95.57%	+90
6	Chris Cupp	14/5:02.813	17.546	21.653	83.42%	+88
7	Camila Mitchell	13/5:09.566	18.160	23.698	78.74%	+86

1st
Mark Beach 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.960 · 95.53% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.652 · 97.70% cons
Mark Beach missed the opener, showed up for Round 2 and led every lap of the A-main. Robert Summers was the TQ and turned the quickest lap in the class at 16.401, so how does the second seed win flag to flag? With a 97.70% main, the cleanest anyone ran, and a 17.318 average that kept Summers behind him through the 8 laps they ran together. Winning by 3.918 seconds on his first night in the series is magnificent.
2nd
Robert Summers 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.622 · 95.86% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.401 · 94.64% cons
Robert Summers has TQ'd both rounds and finished second in both. He turned the quickest lap in the class, 16.401 in the main, and spent 8 laps within two seconds of Mark Beach without leading a single one. Beach was simply tidier, 97.70% to 94.64%. I'd still take his night over most: 192 points leads the championship, and nobody else has two top-two finishes.
3rd
Steve Spears 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.841 · 94.15% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.914 · 89.19% cons
Round 1 ended with his main stopping at 12 laps, so a podium four weeks later is a proper answer from Steve Spears. Seeded third and third at the flag, he ran 16 laps in 5:01.383 and finished 12.817 seconds clear of Chris Gross, even though Gross had the quicker best lap, 16.769 to 16.914. That's his first podium of the series, and 182 points has him third in the standings, ten off the lead.
4th
Chris Gross 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.118 · 89.58% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.769 · 89.53% cons
Pace was never the problem for Chris Gross: 16.769 was the third-quickest lap of the main. A 19.417 average was, and it left him 12.817 seconds behind Steve Spears on the same lap. His two mains in this series have come in at 89.96% and 89.53%, near enough the same night twice, with slow laps mixed in among the quick ones. Second in the standings with 186 points, six behind Summers, is a fine return on that.
5th
Payton Boyd 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 19.211 · 87.25% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.925 · 95.57% cons
Payton Boyd brought the slowest best lap in qualifying, 18.965, and a Q3 that ended after 3 laps, then ran the second-cleanest main in the class at 95.57%. Only Mark Beach was tidier. His 20.046 average beat Chris Cupp's 21.653, and that's how a car more than a second slower on its best lap finished a lap ahead. That kind of main turns a sixth seed into fifth place, and I'd frame it.
6th
Chris Cupp 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.757 · 90.98% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 17.546 · 83.42% cons
That 16.845 in qualifying was fourth-quickest and within a tenth of Chris Gross, so Chris Cupp brought real speed to his first round of the series. Then the main went 14 laps at 83.42% with a 21.653 average, and he finished behind a car whose best lap was 1.379 seconds slower than his. With that much pace in hand, sixth is hard to defend. The 17.546 best lap says the quick ones were there, just not often enough.
7th
Camila Mitchell 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 18.538 · 87.32% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 18.160 · 78.74% cons
Camila Mitchell went quicker in the main than in qualifying, 18.160 against 18.265, and that best lap beat Payton Boyd's by more than seven tenths. The rest of the main was the trouble, 78.74% consistency and a 23.698 average, the scrappiest in the class. Thirteen laps and 86 points from her first Sizzling Summer round, and that 18.160 says there's more in the car than the result shows.

Championship after Round 2

Two rounds, two different winners, and neither of them leads the championship. Robert Summers TQ'd both nights and finished second both nights, and he tops the table with 192 points, every one of them counting because nobody has raced enough yet to drop a result. Chris Gross is six back with 186 points and Steve Spears ten back with 182 points, and they're the only other drivers to have raced both rounds. Vaughn Vance won the opener and Mark Beach won this one flag to flag, and each has 100 points from a single start. Right now turning up twice is worth more than winning once, and Summers has everything except a win after Beach beat him to one from the second seed.

Through Round 2 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Robert Summers	+96	192	192	2
2	Chris Gross	+92	186	186	2
3	Steve Spears	+94	182	182	2
4	Vaughn Vance	–	100	100	1
5	Mark Beach	+100	100	100	1
6	Terry Gile	–	92	92	1
7	Jason Ruhnke	–	90	90	1
8	Payton Boyd	+90	90	90	1

Round 3 · Jun 6

7 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	18/5:17.342	16.926	17.630	97.02%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2, Q3 P1
2	Victor Burger	17/5:00.304	17.148	17.665	98.09%	Q1 P3, Q2 P1, Q3 P3
3	Robert Summers	17/5:01.782	17.012	17.752	96.30%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3, Q3 P2
4	Josh Strumillo	17/5:13.691	16.876	18.452	90.54%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4, Q3 P4
5	Chris Gross	16/5:01.174	17.280	18.823	91.91%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5, Q3 P5
6	Camila Mitchell	16/5:11.748	18.200	19.484	93.56%	Q1 P7, Q2 P7, Q3 P6
7	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:01.887	18.904	20.126	92.55%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6, Q3 P7

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Mark Beach	17/5:06.565	16.594	18.033	93.73%
2	Robert Summers	17/5:10.242	17.551	18.250	97.71%
3	Victor Burger	17/5:16.099	17.131	18.594	93.53%
4	Chris Gross	16/5:01.174	17.280	18.823	91.91%	✓
5	Josh Strumillo	16/5:20.281	17.772	20.018	88.86%
6	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:01.887	18.904	20.126	92.55%	✓
7	Camila Mitchell	14/5:17.753	18.729	22.697	88.04%
Qualifier 2
1	Victor Burger	17/5:00.304	17.148	17.665	98.09%	✓
2	Mark Beach	17/5:01.751	16.964	17.750	96.07%
3	Robert Summers	17/5:01.782	17.012	17.752	96.30%	✓
4	Josh Strumillo	17/5:14.012	17.263	18.471	92.22%
5	Chris Gross	16/5:17.697	17.531	19.856	88.75%
6	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:11.028	18.114	20.735	87.02%
7	Camila Mitchell	14/5:09.583	18.514	22.113	85.96%
Qualifier 3
1	Mark Beach	18/5:17.342	16.926	17.630	97.02%	✓
2	Robert Summers	17/5:06.318	16.626	18.019	92.45%
3	Victor Burger	17/5:07.506	16.963	18.089	92.48%
4	Josh Strumillo	17/5:13.691	16.876	18.452	90.54%	✓
5	Chris Gross	16/5:06.621	17.445	19.164	87.93%
6	Camila Mitchell	16/5:11.748	18.200	19.484	93.56%	✓
7	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:13.396	17.868	20.893	85.48%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Robert Summers	18/5:15.915	16.629	17.487	94.84%	+100
2	Victor Burger	17/5:01.504	16.996	17.635	97.21%	+96
3	Mark Beach	17/5:16.841	16.696	18.018	92.07%	+94
4	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:12.545	18.198	19.449	90.60%	+92
5	Chris Gross	16/5:14.619	17.219	19.397	87.26%	+90
6	Josh Strumillo	15/5:01.708	17.100	19.891	83.01%	+88
7	Camila Mitchell	15/5:06.925	18.392	20.034	92.15%	+86

1st
Robert Summers 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.012 · 96.30% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.629 · 94.84% cons
Third on the grid, then a lap clear of everybody. Robert Summers led every lap, made 18 when nobody else made more than 17, and turned the quickest lap of the main at 16.629 on the way to his first win of the series. Second, second, first: nobody else has been top two in every round. He leads with 196 points, two ahead of Mark Beach, though a 96 of his already comes off under the best-two rule (292 raw) while Beach drops nothing.
2nd
Victor Burger 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 17.148 · 98.09% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.996 · 97.21% cons
Victor Burger's first Sizzling Summer round looked like he'd been racing it all year. He qualified at 98.09% consistency, the cleanest in the class, which is how a 16.963 best lap, only fourth-quickest, earned the second seed. Then he ran 97.21% in the main, again the tidiest of anyone, and finished 15.337 seconds ahead of Mark Beach, the TQ. A podium on his first visit, and I'd bottle that main if I could.
3rd
Mark Beach 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.926 · 97.02% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.696 · 92.07% cons
TQ and the quickest lap in qualifying at 16.594, and Mark Beach came home third, a lap down on the winner. How does the top seed lose a lap to the driver seeded third? His 18.018 average was more than half a second a lap slower than Robert Summers' 17.487, over a 92.07% main. Still, 194 points from two starts has him second in the standings, two behind a man who has raced all three rounds and is already dropping a result.
4th
Jason Ruhnke 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 18.904 · 92.55% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 18.198 · 90.60% cons
Jason Ruhnke started from the last grid slot and came from the back to beat Chris Gross and Josh Strumillo, whose best laps were each about a second quicker than his 18.198. He did it at 90.60%, with 16 laps and 2.074 seconds in hand over Gross on the same lap. Seventh seed to fourth on the second-slowest best lap in the main is my favorite result of the night. That's 182 points from two starts, level with Steve Spears, who stays ahead on the countback with his third place from Round 2.
5th
Chris Gross 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.280 · 91.91% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.219 · 87.26% cons
Chris Gross has raced all three rounds and his finishes read third, fourth, fifth, which is two steps the wrong way. An 87.26% main, his scrappiest of the series, left him 2.074 seconds behind Jason Ruhnke on the same lap, and Ruhnke's best lap was nearly a second slower than his 17.219. The best-two rule does him a favor, since tonight's 90 is the one that comes off, and he's third with 186 points, ten behind Summers.
6th
Josh Strumillo 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.876 · 90.54% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.100 · 83.01% cons
A 16.876 in qualifying, third-quickest and behind only Mark Beach and Robert Summers, is a serious way to arrive in a series. Josh Strumillo's main didn't follow: 15 laps at 83.01%, the lowest consistency in the A-main, and a 19.891 average from a car with a 17.100 best lap, nearly 2.8 seconds a lap going missing. He had the speed and not the laps, and sixth from the fourth seed is a waste of a car that quick.
7th
Camila Mitchell 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 18.200 · 93.56% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.392 · 92.15% cons
From 78.74% in Round 2 to 92.15% in this one, Camila Mitchell cleaned up her main more than anyone who raced both nights. Fifteen laps put her on the same lap as Josh Strumillo, 5.217 seconds behind a driver who qualified fourth, and her 16-lap Q3 was two laps better than either of her other runs. Last place again, but 172 points from two starts is sixth in the standings, and the trend is all hers.

Championship after Round 3

Robert Summers has finished first or second in all three rounds and leads with 196 points, which is exactly as it should be. Mark Beach is two behind with 194 points, and tonight is the difference: each has one win, and Summers' other counting result is a second while Beach's is this third, taken after he TQ'd and finished a lap down. Summers is already throwing away a 96 under the best-two rule, 292 raw, while Beach has raced twice and keeps every point. Chris Gross is third with 186 points, his 90 from tonight the result that comes off. Steve Spears and Jason Ruhnke are level with 182 points, Spears ahead on the countback with his third place from Round 2. Victor Burger ran the cleanest main in the class on his first visit and leaves eighth with 96 points.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Robert Summers	+100	292	−96	196	3
2	Mark Beach	+94	194	0	194	2
3	Chris Gross	+90	276	−90	186	3
4	Steve Spears	–	182	0	182	2
5	Jason Ruhnke	+92	182	0	182	2
6	Camila Mitchell	+86	172	0	172	2
7	Vaughn Vance	–	100	0	100	1
8	Victor Burger	+96	96	0	96	1

Round 4 · Jul 25

6 in the class

TQ: Victor Burger

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Victor Burger	17/5:04.157	16.801	17.892	95.10%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P2
2	Robert Summers	17/5:06.171	16.825	18.010	92.82%	Q1 P2, Q2 P5, Q3 P1
3	Steve Spears	17/5:15.424	16.688	18.554	91.14%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3 P3
4	Chris Gross	17/5:19.865	17.213	18.816	91.65%	Q1 P5, Q2 P6, Q3 P4
5	Brad McGuire	16/5:02.984	17.490	18.937	92.87%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2, Q3 P5
6	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:03.935	17.910	18.996	92.85%	Q1 P6, Q2 P3, Q3 P6

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.

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Victor Burger	17/5:13.659	16.980	18.451	90.71%
2	Robert Summers	16/5:04.920	17.477	19.058	93.78%
3	Steve Spears	16/5:06.463	16.825	19.154	87.02%
4	Brad McGuire	16/5:07.888	17.266	19.243	89.48%
5	Chris Gross	15/5:00.089	16.984	20.006	82.65%
6	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:00.447	18.323	20.030	92.84%
Qualifier 2
1	Victor Burger	17/5:04.157	16.801	17.892	95.10%	✓
2	Brad McGuire	16/5:02.984	17.490	18.937	92.87%	✓
3	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:03.935	17.910	18.996	92.85%	✓
4	Steve Spears	16/5:03.968	17.310	18.998	89.41%
5	Robert Summers	16/5:05.667	17.014	19.104	89.79%
6	Chris Gross	16/5:12.728	17.035	19.546	88.08%
Qualifier 3
1	Robert Summers	17/5:06.171	16.825	18.010	92.82%	✓
2	Victor Burger	17/5:07.797	16.837	18.106	92.62%
3	Steve Spears	17/5:15.424	16.688	18.554	91.14%	✓
4	Chris Gross	17/5:19.865	17.213	18.816	91.65%	✓
5	Brad McGuire	16/5:11.969	17.718	19.498	90.42%
6	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:03.896	18.136	20.260	88.23%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Victor Burger	18/5:04.956	16.883	17.701	95.60%	+100
2	Chris Gross	18/5:19.298	16.761	18.468	89.36%	+96
3	Steve Spears	17/5:01.625	16.920	18.538	92.36%	+94
4	Brad McGuire	17/5:09.968	17.086	19.016	87.86%	+92
5	Robert Summers	17/5:12.375	16.423	19.241	86.25%	+90
6	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:11.954	18.371	20.407	92.40%	+88

1st
Victor Burger 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.801 · 95.10% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.883 · 95.60% cons
Victor Burger TQ'd, and the lead changed hands three times in the first six laps between him and Robert Summers before Burger took it for good and led the last 12 of the 17 racing laps. By the flag he was 14.342 seconds clear of Chris Gross, and his 95.60% was the cleanest main in the class for the second round running. Two rounds in this series have brought a second and a win, and with two starts he's already fifth in the standings with 196 points.
2nd
Chris Gross 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.213 · 91.65% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.761 · 89.36% cons
The only driver on the lead lap with the winner came from the fourth seed. Chris Gross made 18 laps when nobody behind him managed more than 17, turned the second-quickest lap of the main at 16.761 and took his best finish of the series. An 89.36% main sits right where all his mains have, between 87% and 90%, and this time the speed carried it. He's second with 282 points, ten behind Summers, with a 90 coming off under the best-three rule.
3rd
Steve Spears 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.688 · 91.14% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.920 · 92.36% cons
Steve Spears threw down the quickest lap in qualifying, 16.688, and still only seeded third, because his best run of 17 laps in 5:15.424 came up nine seconds short of Robert Summers' best run. In the main he ran with Summers for 6 of the 17 racing laps and finished 10.750 seconds clear of him, 92.36% to 86.25%. A second podium of the series, and with only three starts he keeps every one of his 276 points, third in the standings.
4th
Brad McGuire 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.490 · 92.87% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.086 · 87.86% cons
Brad McGuire's first round of the series ended with the man who came in leading the championship behind him. He qualified fifth on pace at 17.266 and turned 17 laps in 5:09.968, 2.407 seconds ahead of Robert Summers on the same lap, even though Summers' best was two thirds of a second quicker than his 17.086. The 87.86% is rough around the edges, but 92 points for a first visit is a solid night's work.
5th
Robert Summers 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.825 · 92.82% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.423 · 86.25% cons
The quickest lap in the class came from Robert Summers in the main, 16.423, along with two spells in the lead, and he finished fifth behind a driver making his series debut. How does the car with the quickest lap end up there? An 86.25% main, by some distance the scrappiest main he's run in this series, and a 19.241 average, more than two and a half seconds a lap off his own best. He ran 6 laps right with Steve Spears and still lost 10.750 seconds to him by the flag. The best-three rule absorbs it: this 90 is the result that comes off, and he still leads with 292 points.
6th
Jason Ruhnke 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 17.910 · 92.85% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 18.371 · 92.40% cons
Jason Ruhnke ran the second-cleanest main in the class at 92.40%, a whisker ahead of Steve Spears, and it got him sixth, because his 18.371 best lap was more than a second off everybody else's. Clean is his whole game, and it keeps paying: 270 points from three starts, fourth in the standings and six behind Spears.

Championship after Round 4

Robert Summers finished fifth, his worst night of the series, and his lead grew from two points to ten. The window moved to best three after four rounds, so tonight's 90 is the result he throws away and he leads with 292 points, while Mark Beach, two behind him a round ago, sat this one out. Chris Gross took his best finish of the series in second and is ten back with 282 points, dropping a 90 of his own. Steve Spears has raced three times and keeps all 276 points, Jason Ruhnke all 270, so the top four are covered by 22 points. Victor Burger TQ'd and won, and with a podium both times he's raced, his 196 points already sit above Beach's 194. A fifth place that doesn't count is exactly what the drop rule is for, and Summers got full value from it.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Robert Summers	+90	382	−90	292	4
2	Chris Gross	+96	372	−90	282	4
3	Steve Spears	+94	276	0	276	3
4	Jason Ruhnke	+88	270	0	270	3
5	Victor Burger	+100	196	0	196	2
6	Mark Beach	–	194	0	194	2
7	Camila Mitchell	–	172	0	172	2
8	Vaughn Vance	–	100	0	100	1

Round 5 · Aug 29

7 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	18/5:14.443	16.556	17.469	94.35%	Q1 P3, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Charlie Hicklin	17/5:06.279	16.814	18.016	94.61%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2, Q3 P5
3	Robert Summers	17/5:07.259	16.708	18.074	93.16%	Q1 P5, Q2 P3, Q3 P3
4	Victor Burger	17/5:07.937	16.797	18.114	90.95%	Q1 P2, Q2 P4, Q3 P2
5	Chris Gross	17/5:09.537	17.180	18.208	95.29%	Q1 P1, Q2 P7, Q3 P4
6	Chuck Burns	16/5:05.452	17.139	19.091	88.96%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5, Q3 P7
7	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:12.823	17.188	19.551	87.46%	Q1 P7, Q2 P6, Q3 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Chris Gross	17/5:09.537	17.180	18.208	95.29%	✓
2	Victor Burger	17/5:12.956	16.856	18.409	91.17%
3	Mark Beach	16/5:04.916	16.417	19.057	78.83%
4	Charlie Hicklin	16/5:08.078	17.086	19.255	81.88%
5	Robert Summers	16/5:17.796	16.725	19.862	85.64%
6	Chuck Burns	15/5:10.189	17.698	20.679	85.91%
7	Jason Ruhnke	15/5:13.718	17.866	20.915	83.15%
Qualifier 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:14.443	16.556	17.469	94.35%	✓
2	Charlie Hicklin	17/5:06.279	16.814	18.016	94.61%	✓
3	Robert Summers	17/5:07.259	16.708	18.074	93.16%	✓
4	Victor Burger	17/5:19.488	16.985	18.793	91.51%
5	Chuck Burns	16/5:05.452	17.139	19.091	88.96%	✓
6	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:13.790	17.722	19.612	89.26%
7	Chris Gross	14/4:24.141	17.089	18.867	92.98%
Qualifier 3
1	Mark Beach	17/5:04.695	16.180	17.923	88.23%
2	Victor Burger	17/5:07.937	16.797	18.114	90.95%	✓
3	Robert Summers	17/5:13.808	16.541	18.459	89.37%
4	Chris Gross	17/5:17.224	17.259	18.660	91.56%
5	Charlie Hicklin	16/5:05.073	16.457	19.067	87.21%
6	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:12.823	17.188	19.551	87.46%	✓
7	Chuck Burns	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Robert Summers	1	19/5:13.794	16.357	17.155	92.56%	+100
2	Mark Beach	2	19/5:15.918	16.224	17.304	94.33%	+96
3	Victor Burger	3	17/5:01.270	16.509	18.500	89.32%	+94
4	Chris Gross	4	17/5:11.375	17.600	19.112	93.51%	+92
5	Charlie Hicklin	5	17/5:12.285	16.823	19.223	84.05%	+90
6	Jason Ruhnke	6	17/5:16.814	17.925	19.406	90.68%	+88
Ranked on qualifying
7	Chuck Burns	7	-	–	–	–	+86

1st
Robert Summers 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.708 · 93.16% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 16.357 · 92.56% cons
A last-lap pass for the win, and Robert Summers had to work for every bit of it. He led laps 2 to 6, watched Mark Beach lead the next eleven, ran neck and neck with him for 13 laps and took it back on lap 18. How does the driver with the slower best lap win? Summers averaged 17.155 to Beach's 17.304, the quickest average in the class, and won by 2.124 seconds. That's his second win of the series, and he leads with 392 points, 18 clear of Chris Gross.
2nd
Mark Beach 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.556 · 94.35% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 16.224 · 94.33% cons
Mark Beach led 11 laps and lost the only one that counts. He TQ'd, had the quickest lap in the class in both qualifying and the main, 16.180 and 16.224, and was inside two seconds of Robert Summers for 13 laps before Summers took the lead on the last one. Second by 2.124 seconds is a brutal way to lose a race he led for most of its length. With three starts, 290 points has him level with Victor Burger.
3rd
Victor Burger 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.797 · 90.95% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.509 · 89.32% cons
From the fourth seed, Victor Burger led the opening lap, and then the main slipped away: 17 laps, two down on the winner, at 89.32%, his first main of the series under 95%. He still finished third, which means he's been on the podium in all three rounds he's raced, and 290 points has him level with Mark Beach. I'd call this his off night, and his off night is a podium.
4th
Chris Gross 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.180 · 95.29% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.600 · 93.51% cons
Chris Gross beat Charlie Hicklin to fourth by 0.910 seconds on the same lap, and his best lap of 17.600 was more than three quarters of a second slower than Hicklin's. What decided it was 93.51% against 84.05%, the second-cleanest main in the class against the scrappiest. He's second with 374 points, 18 behind Summers, with a 90 coming off under the best-four rule, and nights like this are why he's there.
5th
Charlie Hicklin 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.814 · 94.61% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.823 · 84.05% cons
Second seed on his first night in the series, and Charlie Hicklin finished fifth. His 16.457 was the second-quickest lap in qualifying and his 16.823 was fourth-quickest in the main, so the speed was real. An 84.05% main, the lowest in the class, let Chris Gross finish 0.910 seconds ahead of him on the same lap with a best lap 0.777 seconds slower. Fifth from the second seed is a lot of speed going nowhere.
6th
Jason Ruhnke 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 17.188 · 87.46% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.925 · 90.68% cons
Jason Ruhnke turned 17 laps at 90.68% with the slowest best lap in the main, 17.925, and sixth was about what that pace buys. The standings are another matter: no podium all summer, and he's third with 358 points, all four results counting and every one between 88 and 92 points. Mark Beach and Victor Burger have beaten him every time they've met, and they're 68 points behind because they've raced three rounds to his four.
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7th
Chuck Burns 86 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P6 · qual best lap 17.139 · 88.96% qual cons
Chuck Burns ran two qualifiers on his first visit, 15 and 16 laps with a best of 17.139 that was quicker than Jason Ruhnke's, and earned the sixth seed. His slot on the A-main grid stayed empty, and the order still pays him seventh and 86 points.

Championship after Round 5

Robert Summers took the lead on the final lap and the win with it, and he leaves 18 points clear, 392 points to Chris Gross's 374, both of them discarding a 90 under the best-four rule. He has finished in the top two in four of the five rounds and he deserves the top of the table. Mark Beach TQ'd and led 11 laps, and he's 102 points back because he has raced three rounds to Summers' five. Jason Ruhnke is third with 358 points without a podium to his name, and Beach and Victor Burger are level at 290 points. Chuck Burns did the hard part, qualifying sixth on his first night in the series, and then the A-main went off with a gap on the grid where his car should have been. The order paid him 86 points anyway, the easiest 86 points anybody collected tonight.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Robert Summers	+100	482	−90	392	5
2	Chris Gross	+92	464	−90	374	5
3	Jason Ruhnke	+88	358	0	358	4
4	Mark Beach	+96	290	0	290	3
5	Victor Burger	+94	290	0	290	3
6	Steve Spears	–	276	0	276	3
7	Camila Mitchell	–	172	0	172	2
8	Vaughn Vance	–	100	0	100	1

Round 6 · Oct 3

9 in the class

TQ: Kevin Moyer

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Kevin Moyer	18/5:06.183	16.578	17.010	98.50%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Robert Summers	18/5:10.997	16.305	17.278	96.06%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P1
3	Josh Strumillo	18/5:15.480	16.589	17.527	93.62%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P2
4	Mark Beach	18/5:17.001	16.244	17.611	93.70%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P3
5	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:02.194	16.521	17.776	90.56%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2
6	Chris Gross	16/5:01.541	16.921	18.846	85.94%	Q1 P2, Q2 P5
7	Victor Burger	16/5:03.392	16.828	18.962	89.27%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4
8	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:13.440	17.983	19.590	90.11%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3
9	Joe Krore	16/5:16.277	17.502	19.767	88.21%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4
–	Charlie Hicklin	15/5:05.092	17.189	20.339	83.25%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Kevin Moyer	18/5:06.593	16.547	17.033	97.36%
2	Chris Gross	16/5:01.541	16.921	18.846	85.94%	✓
3	Mathew Schroeder	16/5:02.102	16.623	18.881	83.61%
4	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:13.440	17.983	19.590	90.11%	✓
5	Joe Krore	16/5:16.277	17.502	19.767	88.21%	✓
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:17.001	16.244	17.611	93.70%	✓
2	Josh Strumillo	17/5:05.031	16.863	17.943	93.26%
3	Robert Summers	17/5:16.245	16.454	18.603	88.52%
4	Victor Burger	16/5:03.392	16.828	18.962	89.27%	✓
5	Charlie Hicklin	15/5:05.092	17.189	20.339	83.25%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Kevin Moyer	18/5:06.183	16.578	17.010	98.50%	✓
2	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:02.194	16.521	17.776	90.56%	✓
3	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:15.931	17.771	19.746	89.76%
4	Joe Krore	16/5:22.151	16.912	20.134	87.74%
5	Chris Gross	2/39.780	17.223	19.890	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Robert Summers	18/5:10.997	16.305	17.278	96.06%	✓
2	Josh Strumillo	18/5:15.480	16.589	17.527	93.62%	✓
3	Mark Beach	17/5:15.056	16.351	18.533	89.28%
4	Victor Burger	16/5:10.239	16.691	19.390	79.60%
5	Charlie Hicklin	6/1:51.046	16.955	18.508	92.47%

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

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Kevin Moyer	19/5:15.741	16.668	17.314	95.93%	+100
2	Mark Beach	18/5:06.007	15.922	17.727	89.81%	+96
3	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:11.800	16.416	18.041	91.24%	+94
4	Josh Strumillo	18/5:13.039	16.570	18.150	86.10%	+92
5	Victor Burger	18/5:14.149	16.737	18.159	90.90%	+90
6	Joe Krore	17/5:01.214	16.849	18.416	90.38%	+88
7	Robert Summers	17/5:05.328	16.526	18.816	86.67%	+86
8	Jason Ruhnke	16/5:15.189	18.169	20.607	89.13%	+84
9	Chris Gross	16/5:16.951	17.037	20.771	85.57%	+82

1st
Kevin Moyer 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.578 · 98.50% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 16.668 · 95.93% cons
Kevin Moyer turned up for his first 21.5 round of the series and won it by a lap. Two 18-lap qualifiers at 98.50%, with the lowest average lap in qualifying at 17.010, made him the TQ, and then he led the main flag to flag as the only car to reach 19 laps. Nobody else finished on the lead lap. The regulars who have run this class since April should be embarrassed by how easy he made it look.
2nd
Mark Beach 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.244 · 93.70% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.922 · 89.81% cons
The quickest lap in qualifying at 16.244, then a 15.922 in the main, the first lap under 16 seconds in six rounds of this series, and Mark Beach finished a lap down. So where did the lap go? Into an 89.81% main averaging 17.727, more than four tenths a lap slower than Kevin Moyer's 17.314. Seed 4 to second is a decent night for most of this field. With that kind of speed in the car, second is a win he let get away.
3rd
Mathew Schroeder 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.521 · 90.56% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.416 · 91.24% cons
Mathew Schroeder's first round in the class ends on the podium, and he earned it in company. Seeded fifth, he ran in a three-car group with Josh Strumillo and Victor Burger for 6 of the 18 racing laps and finished at the front of it, 18 laps in 5:11.800. His 16.416 was the second-quickest lap of the main, behind only Mark Beach. Of the three in that fight he had the fewest rounds in this class, and he beat the other two.
4th
Josh Strumillo 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.589 · 93.62% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.570 · 86.10% cons
Better than June, which counts for something. Josh Strumillo went from sixth in Round 3 to fourth here, and his main went from 83.01% to 86.10%. I still want more. Seeded third, he spent 6 racing laps in the group with Mathew Schroeder and Victor Burger and finished 1.239 seconds behind Schroeder on the same lap. In a fight that close, 86.10% won't carry anybody onto the podium.
5th
Victor Burger 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.828 · 89.27% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.737 · 90.90% cons
Two 16-lap qualifiers at 89.27% left a Round 4 winner seventh on the grid, and Victor Burger spent the main getting some of it back. Eighteen laps at 90.90%, 6 racing laps in the group with Mathew Schroeder and Josh Strumillo, and a finish 1.110 seconds behind Strumillo on the same lap. Two places gained in a nine-car field is honest work. He sits fifth in the standings with 380 points, six points behind Mark Beach, and each of them has raced four rounds.
6th
Joe Krore 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 17.502 · 88.21% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.849 · 90.38% cons
Last of nine in qualifying, and Joe Krore came from the back in his first 21.5 round of the series. Seventeen laps at 90.38% put him ahead of three drivers seeded above him, Robert Summers among them, and his 16.849 best in the main was quicker than anything he turned in qualifying. His qualifying, 16 laps twice at 88.21%, is what buried him on the grid. I like everything about this one except that he waited until the main to show it.
7th
Robert Summers 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.305 · 96.06% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.526 · 86.67% cons
A 96.06% qualifying and an 18-lap Q2 put Robert Summers second on the grid, and the main undid all of it. He had the speed, a 16.526 that only Mark Beach and Mathew Schroeder beat, and not the laps: 17 of them at 86.67%, for his worst finish of the series by two places, behind Joe Krore, who started ninth. From the second slot that's unacceptable. The drop rescues him. This 86 is the result that comes off, and he's still top of the standings with 482 points.
8th
Jason Ruhnke 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.983 · 90.11% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 18.169 · 89.13% cons
Jason Ruhnke and Chris Gross spent 8 of the 18 racing laps within two seconds of each other at the back of the A-main, and Ruhnke came out of it 1.762 seconds ahead on the same lap. He did that with the slowest best lap in the main, 18.169, so give the 89.13% the credit. Beating the driver second in the standings head to head is how I'd want to sign off a season. All five of his starts count, and they add up to 442 points and third place.
9th
Chris Gross 82 pts
A-main P9 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.921 · 85.94% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.037 · 85.57% cons
I can't dress up last place in the A-main for Chris Gross, and he started sixth. Qualifying already had a Q2 that stopped at 2 laps, and the main was 16 laps at 85.57%, with 8 racing laps spent in a fight with Jason Ruhnke that he lost by 1.762 seconds. His 17.037 best was more than a second quicker than Ruhnke's, which makes losing that one harder to accept. He's raced all six rounds, this 82 is the one he drops, and he stays second with 464 points.

Championship after Round 6

Robert Summers is the 2026 Sizzling Summer 21.5 champion with 482 points, and he finished it off with his worst night of the year. Seventh from the second slot on the grid is ugly, but with the best five of six counting it's the result he drops, and Chris Gross dropped his last place in the A-main as well. So the final night left the top of the table exactly where it was: 18 points between them going in, 18 coming out, 482 to 464, with Jason Ruhnke third with 442 points from five starts that all count. The night itself belonged to Kevin Moyer, who TQ'd in his first 21.5 round of the series, led flag to flag and was the only car to reach 19 laps. Mark Beach turned the series' first sub-16 lap, a 15.922, and it bought him second, a lap down.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Robert Summers	+86	568	−86	482	6
2	Chris Gross	+82	546	−82	464	6
3	Jason Ruhnke	+84	442	0	442	5
4	Mark Beach	+96	386	0	386	4
5	Victor Burger	+90	380	0	380	4
6	Steve Spears	–	276	0	276	3
7	Josh Strumillo	+92	180	0	180	2
8	Camila Mitchell	–	172	0	172	2

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19 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	Dropped	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Chris Camara	456	542	−86	–	6	4th	92	92	92	90	90	86
2	Chris Gross	446	530	−84	–	6	3rd	90	88	94	86	88	84
3	C4	376	376	0	–	4	2nd	96	90	–	94	–	96
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	296	296	0	3	3	1st	100	96	–	–	100	–
5	Orlando Martinez	288	288	0	1	3	1st	–	100	100	–	–	88
6	Dennis Keith	286	286	0	–	3	2nd	–	–	–	96	96	94
7	Mark Beach	278	278	0	–	3	2nd	–	–	96	–	92	90
8	Dallas Boyd	272	272	0	–	3	3rd	–	94	–	–	86	92
9	Josh Strumillo	184	184	0	–	2	3rd	–	–	90	–	94	–
10	Charlie Hicklin	174	174	0	–	2	4th	–	–	–	92	–	82
11	Albert Bredernitz	170	170	0	–	2	7th	84	86	–	–	–	–
12	Keeron Ward	170	170	0	–	2	7th	86	–	–	–	84	–
13	James Dewild	100	100	0	1	1	1st	–	–	–	100	–	–
14	Shane Alberico	100	100	0	1	1	1st	–	–	–	–	–	100
15	Robert Summers	94	94	0	–	1	3rd	94	–	–	–	–	–
16	Steve Spears	88	88	0	–	1	6th	88	–	–	–	–	–
17	Wayne Schroeder	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	88	–	–	–
18	Brad McGuire	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	–	88	–	–
19	J.J. Miller	82	82	0	–	1	9th	82	–	–	–	–	–

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Round 1 · Apr 11

9 in the class

TQ: Hendrick Westmoreland

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:11.108	14.719	15.555	94.41%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P4, Q3H2 P1
2	C4	19/5:01.499	14.872	15.868	91.81%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P1, Q3 P1
3	Chris Camara	18/5:13.107	16.517	17.395	96.30%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P2, Q3 P2
4	Robert Summers	18/5:15.657	15.998	17.537	91.22%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P3
5	Keeron Ward	17/5:17.493	16.965	18.676	91.53%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P5, Q3H2 P2
6	Chris Gross	17/5:18.630	16.981	18.743	92.07%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2, Q3 P4
7	Steve Spears	16/5:19.682	16.884	19.980	87.88%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3H2 P3
8	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:05.428	17.755	20.362	88.46%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P3, Q3H2 P4
9	J.J. Miller	14/5:20.794	16.949	22.914	74.66%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4, Q3H2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Chris Gross	16/5:06.129	16.307	19.133	86.82%
2	Robert Summers	16/5:07.815	16.900	19.238	87.63%
3	Steve Spears	15/5:10.445	17.065	20.696	86.15%
4	J.J. Miller	14/5:20.794	16.949	22.914	74.66%	✓
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	C4	19/5:06.062	15.175	16.109	94.25%
2	Chris Camara	17/5:11.770	17.232	18.339	94.70%
3	Keeron Ward	16/5:12.521	17.478	19.533	89.21%
4	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:05.428	17.755	20.362	88.46%	✓
5	Hendrick Westmoreland	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Robert Summers	17/5:02.755	16.171	17.809	91.04%
2	Chris Gross	16/5:07.032	16.487	19.190	86.36%
3	Steve Spears	15/5:09.900	17.204	20.660	86.67%
4	J.J. Miller	13/4:25.227	16.936	20.402	86.67%
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	C4	19/5:02.362	14.797	15.914	91.00%
2	Chris Camara	17/5:01.362	16.674	17.727	95.75%
3	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:20.371	18.183	21.358	88.18%
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	8/5:07.849	14.821	–	–
5	Keeron Ward	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 3 · heat 1 of 2
1	C4	19/5:01.499	14.872	15.868	91.81%	✓
2	Chris Camara	18/5:13.107	16.517	17.395	96.30%	✓
3	Robert Summers	18/5:15.657	15.998	17.537	91.22%	✓
4	Chris Gross	17/5:18.630	16.981	18.743	92.07%	✓
Qualifier 3 · heat 2 of 2
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:11.108	14.719	15.555	94.41%	✓
2	Keeron Ward	17/5:17.493	16.965	18.676	91.53%	✓
3	Steve Spears	16/5:19.682	16.884	19.980	87.88%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:10.876	17.565	20.725	89.44%
5	J.J. Miller	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	1	19/5:04.422	14.742	15.840	92.01%	+100
2	C4	2	18/5:06.836	15.037	16.695	89.47%	+96
3	Robert Summers	3	18/5:08.825	15.688	17.113	93.47%	+94
4	Chris Camara	4	17/5:06.586	16.234	17.868	90.75%	+92
5	Chris Gross	5	17/5:13.560	16.792	18.039	94.12%	+90
6	Steve Spears	6	16/5:08.183	16.633	19.055	90.24%	+88
7	Keeron Ward	7	16/5:11.448	16.629	19.366	89.43%	+86
8	Albert Bredernitz	8	10/3:58.253	20.534	23.854	87.62%	+84
Ranked on qualifying
9	J.J. Miller	9	–	–	–	–	+82

1st
Hendrick Westmoreland 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.719 · 94.41% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.742 · 92.01% cons
Hendrick Westmoreland had no laps in Q1 and eight in Q2, then put down the only 20-lap run of qualifying in Q3 and took the TQ with it. One run was all he needed. Robert Summers had the lead on lap 1, Westmoreland had it for the other 18, and at the flag he was a full lap clear of C4 with the quickest lap of the main, a 14.742. I've got no complaints. The quickest car in the class won by a lap, and on the day everybody else was racing for second.
2nd
C4 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.872 · 91.81% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.037 · 89.47% cons
C4 ran 19 laps in all three qualifiers, each run quicker than the last, down to 5:01.499 in Q3. Charlie Kleinhagen did everything in qualifying except find a 20th lap, and Westmoreland found one. The main came up a lap short of the winner as well, 18 to 19, and his 15.037 best was nearly a quarter of a second off the 14.797 he ran in qualifying. Second and 96 points is a good start. There was a better one in C4, and that 14.797 proves it.
3rd
Robert Summers 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.998 · 91.22% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.688 · 93.47% cons
Fourth in the order and leading the A-main after one lap: Robert Summers made the start count. Westmoreland took over on lap 2 and kept it, but Summers held on for third with 18 laps at 93.47%, second only to Gross for consistency in the main. His 15.688 best beat anything he managed in qualifying, too. C4 was 1.989 seconds up the road on the same lap. Third from fourth with a lap in front thrown in is the best drive in this main that didn't end in a win.
4th
Chris Camara 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.517 · 96.30% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.234 · 90.75% cons
Nobody in the class qualified at a higher consistency than Chris Camara's 96.30%, and an 18-lap Q3 put him third in the order. The main dropped to 90.75% and 17 laps, a lap behind Summers, a driver he'd out-qualified. His 16.234 was the fourth-quickest lap of the race and fourth is where he finished, so the result is honest. I just wanted the 96.30% driver to show up for the main.
5th
Chris Gross 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.981 · 92.07% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.792 · 94.12% cons
A place gained and the tidiest main of anyone: Chris Gross went from sixth in the order to fifth at 94.12% over 17 laps. Only Bredernitz had a slower best lap in the race than his 16.792, so every bit of this came from keeping it clean. I'll take the seventh-quickest lap finishing fifth on any night. The speed is the next job, though, because Camara was 6.974 seconds ahead of him with the same 17 laps.
6th
Steve Spears 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.884 · 87.88% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.633 · 90.24% cons
Steve Spears gained a place on his seed, seventh to sixth, and his consistency climbed from 87.88% in qualifying to 90.24% in the main. Ward's best lap was four thousandths quicker than his, 16.629 to 16.633, and Spears still finished 3.265 seconds ahead on the same 16 laps. He averaged 19.055 to Ward's 19.366. That's where sixth came from, and I like a driver who wins on the laps nobody notices.
7th
Keeron Ward 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.965 · 91.53% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.629 · 89.43% cons
Fifth in the order off two qualifying runs (he had no laps in Q2), so Keeron Ward did the hard part. The main undid it. His 16.629 was the fifth-quickest lap of the race, quicker than both Spears and Gross, and he finished behind both of them with 16 laps at 89.43%. A 19.366 average is where two places went, and that's a good grid slot handed back.
8th
Albert Bredernitz 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.755 · 88.46% qual cons · 10 laps · fast 20.534 · 87.62% cons
Something went wrong for Albert Bredernitz, because his main stopped at 10 laps and 3:58.253 after three straight 15-lap runs in qualifying. Even the laps he did turn were off his own pace, a 20.534 best against 17.565 in qualifying. Eighth matched his seed and still paid 84 points. I'm writing this one off as a lost round and nothing more.
Lower mains
9th
J.J. Miller 82 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P9 · qual best lap 16.949 · 74.66% qual cons
J.J. Miller qualified ninth, with 14 laps in Q1, 13 in Q2 and no Q3 run, and then didn't take the start of the main. His 16.936 best in qualifying beat both Ward and Bredernitz, who went on to finish it. Ninth in the order pays 82 points.

Championship after Round 1

Hendrick Westmoreland took the TQ with the only 20-lap run of qualifying and won the A-main by a lap, and on this evidence he's the driver the rest of the class has to catch. After one round the standings are simply the finishing order at two points a place, so his 100 points over C4's 96 tells us who won and nothing more. My drive of the round belongs to Robert Summers, who led lap 1 from fourth in the order and held on for third. J.J. Miller earned the ninth grid slot over two qualifying runs and then let the slot do the racing: it finished ninth, exactly where it started, and paid 82 points.

Through Round 1 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	+100	100	100	1
2	C4	+96	96	96	1
3	Robert Summers	+94	94	94	1
4	Chris Camara	+92	92	92	1
5	Chris Gross	+90	90	90	1
6	Steve Spears	+88	88	88	1
7	Keeron Ward	+86	86	86	1
8	Albert Bredernitz	+84	84	84	1

Round 2 · May 9

7 in the class

TQ: Hendrick Westmoreland

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:08.329	14.616	15.416	94.74%	Q1 P1, Q2 P6, Q3 P1
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.841	14.511	15.886	89.05%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P4
3	Dallas Boyd	19/5:03.367	15.070	15.967	95.12%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
4	C4	18/5:00.829	15.202	16.713	90.10%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3 P3
5	Chris Camara	17/5:07.079	16.618	18.063	91.87%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4, Q3 P5
6	Chris Gross	15/5:06.895	16.979	20.460	77.77%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5, Q3 P6
7	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:11.721	17.953	20.781	89.53%	Q1 P7, Q2 P7, Q3 P7

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:11.868	14.815	15.593	89.74%
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:15.589	14.822	16.610	87.79%
3	C4	18/5:00.829	15.202	16.713	90.10%	✓
4	Dallas Boyd	18/5:02.942	15.596	16.830	93.23%
5	Chris Camara	16/5:03.962	17.050	18.998	93.85%
6	Chris Gross	15/5:09.213	17.067	20.614	85.10%
7	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:26.432	17.531	21.762	82.46%
Qualifier 2
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.841	14.511	15.886	89.05%	✓
2	Dallas Boyd	19/5:04.633	15.014	16.033	94.56%
3	C4	17/5:01.812	15.231	17.754	86.46%
4	Chris Camara	17/5:07.079	16.618	18.063	91.87%	✓
5	Chris Gross	15/5:11.390	16.393	20.759	78.81%
6	Hendrick Westmoreland	13/5:07.805	14.632	23.677	-17.53%
7	Albert Bredernitz	7/2:24.348	17.575	20.621	83.25%
Qualifier 3
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:08.329	14.616	15.416	94.74%	✓
2	Dallas Boyd	19/5:03.367	15.070	15.967	95.12%	✓
3	C4	18/5:11.763	15.187	19.485	54.79%
4	Orlando Martinez	17/5:07.026	14.551	18.060	73.54%
5	Chris Camara	16/5:11.414	17.544	19.463	93.55%
6	Chris Gross	15/5:06.895	16.979	20.460	77.77%	✓
7	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:11.721	17.953	20.781	89.53%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.376	14.533	15.779	91.99%	+100
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	18/5:00.284	14.550	16.794	81.82%	+96
3	Dallas Boyd	18/5:02.946	15.040	16.735	89.63%	+94
4	Chris Camara	17/5:11.347	17.057	18.254	93.66%	+92
5	C4	17/5:12.426	16.002	18.385	80.86%	+90
6	Chris Gross	15/5:08.000	16.371	20.243	83.04%	+88
7	Albert Bredernitz	7/2:41.325	17.511	23.115	72.43%	+86

1st
Orlando Martinez 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.511 · 89.05% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.533 · 91.99% cons
Westmoreland led the first six laps. Orlando Martinez led the other 13, and by the flag he was a full lap clear, 19 to 18, with the quickest lap of the main at 14.533. This was his first round of the series. His 14.511 in qualifying was the quickest lap anyone in the class turned all day, so the speed was no surprise, but converting it into a lap's margin over the Round 1 winner is magnificent. One start leaves him sixth in the standings with 100 points, behind five drivers who have two.
2nd
Hendrick Westmoreland 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.616 · 94.74% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 14.550 · 81.82% cons
Two 20-lap runs gave Hendrick Westmoreland the TQ again, and he led the first six laps of the main. His best lap was 14.550, just 0.017 off the winner's. So how does he lose by a lap? He averaged 16.794 to Martinez's 15.779, a full second a lap, at 81.82% consistency. That's a lead he handed over. Second still keeps him top of the standings with 196 points, ten clear of C4, and that's the only part of this I'd frame.
3rd
Dallas Boyd 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.070 · 95.12% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.040 · 89.63% cons
Dallas Boyd's first night in the series produced a podium, and he earned every bit of it. Nobody in the class qualified more consistently than his 95.12%, and he turned third in the order into third at the flag, 2.662 seconds behind Westmoreland on the same 18 laps. Better still, his 16.735 average in the main beat the runner-up's 16.794. Westmoreland had a 14.550 in his pocket and Boyd still out-averaged him, which tells me he belongs at the sharp end of this class.
4th
Chris Camara 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.618 · 91.87% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.057 · 93.66% cons
A best lap more than a second slower than C4's, 17.057 to 16.002, and Chris Camara beat him anyway. Both ran 17 laps. Camara got there 1.079 seconds sooner on 93.66% consistency, the tidiest main in the class, while C4 ran 80.86%. That's fourth for the second round in a row, and it puts him third in the standings with 184 points, two behind Kleinhagen. In a two-point fight, I know which method I trust.
5th
C4 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.202 · 90.10% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.002 · 80.86% cons
Charlie Kleinhagen averaged 18.385 in the main, 1.672 seconds a lap slower than he managed in qualifying, and ran 80.86%. That's how a 16.002 best lap ends up fifth, 1.079 seconds behind Camara on the same 17 laps. He's still second in the standings with 186 points, ten behind Westmoreland. Had he finished ahead of Camara, the gap between them would be six points instead of two, and that's the bill for a scrappy main.
6th
Chris Gross 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.979 · 77.77% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 16.371 · 83.04% cons
Fifteen laps in every qualifier and 15 again in the main: Chris Gross found a number and stayed on it. The trouble is that his 16.371 best in the main was quicker than Camara's 17.057, and Camara still turned two more laps. A 20.243 average is where they went. Sixth from sixth keeps him fourth in the standings with 178 points, six behind Camara, and his best lap says he should be ahead of him.
7th
Albert Bredernitz 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 17.953 · 89.53% qual cons · 7 laps · fast 17.511 · 72.43% cons
Seven laps in Q2 and seven laps in the main: Albert Bredernitz had two runs stop short in one day. The main ended at 2:41.325, and the annoying part is that his 17.511 best was a touch quicker than anything he ran in qualifying. When he did get a full run in, Q1 and Q3, it was 15 laps both times. Seventh pays 86 points and holds him fifth in the standings with 170 points, a better return than the running deserved.

Championship after Round 2

Orlando Martinez turned up for the first time this series and beat Westmoreland by a lap, but one start leaves him sixth with 100 points, and that's what missing Round 1 costs. Westmoreland lost the race and kept the lead with 196 points, ten clear of C4. The fight I care about is underneath him: C4 has 186 points and Camara 184, two apart, after a main in which Camara beat him on the same lap count with a best lap more than a second slower. Chris Gross is fourth with 178 points and Albert Bredernitz fifth with 170 points. With two results counting and nobody past two starts, nothing has been dropped yet.

Through Round 2 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	+96	196	196	2
2	C4	+90	186	186	2
3	Chris Camara	+92	184	184	2
4	Chris Gross	+88	178	178	2
5	Albert Bredernitz	+86	170	170	2
6	Orlando Martinez	+100	100	100	1
7	Robert Summers	–	94	94	1
8	Dallas Boyd	+94	94	94	1

Round 3 · Jun 6

6 in the class

TQ: Orlando Martinez

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Orlando Martinez	20/5:13.488	14.596	15.674	88.95%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P5
2	Chris Camara	18/5:02.302	15.809	16.795	92.29%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3, Q3 P1
3	Mark Beach	18/5:06.495	15.496	17.028	89.24%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
4	Josh Strumillo	18/5:12.743	16.325	17.375	93.00%	Q1 P3, Q2 P5, Q3 P4
5	Chris Gross	17/5:03.635	16.047	17.861	91.85%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4, Q3 P3
6	Wayne Schroeder	0/0.000	–	–	–	Q1 P6, Q2 P6, Q3 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Orlando Martinez	20/5:13.488	14.596	15.674	88.95%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:06.495	15.496	17.028	89.24%	✓
3	Josh Strumillo	18/5:12.743	16.325	17.375	93.00%	✓
4	Chris Camara	17/5:06.081	15.863	18.005	87.76%
5	Chris Gross	17/5:09.926	16.098	18.231	91.96%
6	Wayne Schroeder	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:09.144	14.385	16.271	85.70%
2	Mark Beach	18/5:12.561	15.310	17.365	89.77%
3	Chris Camara	17/5:02.539	15.784	17.796	88.05%
4	Chris Gross	17/5:03.635	16.047	17.861	91.85%	✓
5	Josh Strumillo	17/5:12.933	16.513	18.408	91.28%
6	Wayne Schroeder	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 3
1	Chris Camara	18/5:02.302	15.809	16.795	92.29%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:13.509	15.865	17.417	92.55%
3	Chris Gross	16/5:04.128	16.042	19.008	88.28%
4	Josh Strumillo	16/5:13.554	16.055	19.597	86.53%
5	Orlando Martinez	13/3:37.961	14.520	16.766	87.27%
6	Wayne Schroeder	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Orlando Martinez	1	20/5:08.494	14.335	15.421	91.45%	+100
2	Mark Beach	2	19/5:15.673	15.728	16.555	95.67%	+96
3	Chris Gross	3	17/5:02.443	15.647	17.754	86.98%	+94
4	Chris Camara	4	17/5:08.325	15.886	18.152	86.33%	+92
5	Josh Strumillo	5	14/5:02.136	16.033	21.789	49.36%	+90
Ranked on qualifying
6	Wayne Schroeder	6	–	–	–	–	+88

1st
Orlando Martinez 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.596 · 88.95% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.335 · 91.45% cons
Orlando Martinez TQ'd off a 20-lap Q1, led the A-main flag to flag, and checked out: 20 laps to Beach's 19, with a 14.335 best that was 1.312 seconds quicker than anyone else managed in the race. That's two starts in the series and two wins. It also makes him the championship leader with 200 points, and with only two results counting, 200 is the most anybody could have. Westmoreland didn't race this round and now trails him by four. I've run out of arguments against him.
2nd
Mark Beach 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.496 · 89.24% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.728 · 95.67% cons
Dialed is the word. Mark Beach ran his first A-main of the series at 95.67% over 19 laps, the tidiest race in the class, and turned third in the order into second. Camara, seeded ahead of him, finished two laps back. Martinez was a lap clear with a 14.335 nobody was answering, so second was the best result on offer, and Beach took it. Three qualifying runs of exactly 18 laps had already told me he'd be this steady.
3rd
Chris Gross 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.047 · 91.85% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.647 · 86.98% cons
A podium from fifth in the order, and Chris Gross got it with speed he hadn't shown yet in this series. His 15.647 was the second-quickest lap of the main, quicker than Beach's 15.728 and nearly four tenths up on his own qualifying best of 16.042. Seventeen laps in 5:02.443 put him 5.882 seconds clear of Camara on the same lap. That third place also pulls him level with Camara, 184 points each, and puts him ahead on the countback. Best drive of his season so far, and it isn't close.
4th
Chris Camara 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.809 · 92.29% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.886 · 86.33% cons
Chris Camara won Q3 outright, 18 laps in 5:02.302, and was seeded second. Then came his third fourth place in three rounds. How? His average went from 16.795 in qualifying to 18.152 in the main, 1.357 seconds a lap, and his consistency from 92.29% to 86.33%. That was enough for Gross, seeded three places behind him, to finish ahead on the same 17 laps. Now they're level on 184 points and Gross has the countback with a podium Camara hasn't got. That's unacceptable from the second seed.
5th
Josh Strumillo 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.325 · 93.00% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 16.033 · 49.36% cons
Josh Strumillo turned a 16.033 in the main, quicker than anything he managed in qualifying, and ran 49.36% consistency. Put those side by side and the main explains itself: one quick lap and 14 laps at a 21.789 average. Something went wrong out there, because the same driver qualified at 93.00% with an 18-lap Q1. Fifth on his series debut pays 90 points, and the qualifying Strumillo is the one I'd rather watch.
Lower mains
6th
Wayne Schroeder 88 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P6
No laps in any of the three qualifiers and no start in the main, so Wayne Schroeder's round was a rough one from first call to last. The official order still lists him sixth, and sixth pays 88 points.

Championship after Round 3

Orlando Martinez leads the championship with 200 points from two starts, both of them wins, and with only the best two results counting after three rounds, nobody can have more. Westmoreland (196 points) and C4 (186 points) didn't race this round and missing it cost them nothing under the window, so they sit four and 14 points back. Chris Gross and Chris Camara have raced all three rounds, so each now has a result coming off, and they're level on 184 points with Gross ahead on the countback: his third place this round against Camara's best of fourth. Camara's 276 before the drop is the bigger number and plays no part in it. Then there's Wayne Schroeder, who made the official order in sixth without completing a lap in three qualifiers and left his grid slot empty for the main, and sixth still pays 88 points, which on a points-per-lap basis makes him untouchable.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Orlando Martinez	+100	200	0	200	2
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	196	0	196	2
3	C4	–	186	0	186	2
4	Chris Gross	+94	272	−88	184	3
5	Chris Camara	+92	276	−92	184	3
6	Albert Bredernitz	–	170	0	170	2
7	Mark Beach	+96	96	0	96	1
8	Robert Summers	–	94	0	94	1

Round 4 · Jul 25

7 in the class

TQ: James Dewild

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	James Dewild	19/5:03.008	14.748	15.948	92.58%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P2
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:05.697	14.889	16.089	92.85%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P1
3	C4	18/5:07.151	15.004	17.064	86.02%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3 P4
4	Charlie Hicklin	17/5:02.340	14.751	17.785	84.58%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4, Q3 P3
5	Brad McGuire	17/5:03.629	16.904	17.861	95.18%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2, Q3H2 P1
6	Chris Camara	17/5:08.895	16.886	18.170	91.82%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P1, Q3H2 P2
7	Chris Gross	16/5:12.185	16.451	19.512	90.04%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P3, Q3H2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	James Dewild	19/5:05.890	14.744	16.099	92.83%
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:09.875	15.348	16.309	93.61%
3	C4	18/5:15.562	15.330	17.531	88.51%
4	Charlie Hicklin	16/5:09.986	14.698	19.374	75.75%
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Brad McGuire	17/5:13.841	17.333	18.461	93.64%
2	Chris Camara	17/5:18.968	17.128	18.763	92.02%
3	Chris Gross	16/5:15.388	16.755	19.712	84.65%
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	James Dewild	19/5:03.008	14.748	15.948	92.58%	✓
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:05.697	14.889	16.089	92.85%	✓
3	C4	18/5:07.151	15.004	17.064	86.02%	✓
4	Charlie Hicklin	17/5:04.281	15.036	17.899	86.79%
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Chris Camara	17/5:08.895	16.886	18.170	91.82%	✓
2	Brad McGuire	16/5:12.742	17.251	19.546	90.25%
3	Chris Gross	15/5:04.550	16.045	20.303	82.18%
Qualifier 3 · heat 1 of 2
1	Dennis Keith	19/5:10.050	14.665	16.318	90.07%
2	James Dewild	19/5:10.812	14.791	16.359	90.47%
3	Charlie Hicklin	17/5:02.340	14.751	17.785	84.58%	✓
4	C4	15/4:17.128	15.401	17.142	89.62%
Qualifier 3 · heat 2 of 2
1	Brad McGuire	17/5:03.629	16.904	17.861	95.18%	✓
2	Chris Camara	16/5:05.618	16.403	19.101	86.02%
3	Chris Gross	16/5:12.185	16.451	19.512	90.04%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	James Dewild	20/5:14.028	14.573	16.341	88.02%	+100
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:08.726	14.821	16.929	88.57%	+96
3	C4	19/5:12.255	15.448	16.960	85.35%	+94
4	Charlie Hicklin	18/5:22.027	15.075	18.668	86.08%	+92
5	Chris Camara	17/5:07.806	16.687	18.901	92.48%	+90
6	Brad McGuire	16/5:06.167	16.362	20.072	85.27%	+88
7	Chris Gross	16/5:11.615	17.545	20.403	87.32%	+86

1st
James Dewild 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.748 · 92.58% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.573 · 88.02% cons
A TQ and a win in his first Sizzling Summer round, and James Dewild had to work for the second of them. He led the opening five laps, lost the lead to Dennis Keith on lap 6, and took it back on lap 13 for the rest of the way. Keith ran within two seconds of him for 11 of the 19 racing laps. Dewild had the quickest lap of the race at 14.573 and he needed every bit of it. No main in this class has been better this season, and the right man won it.
2nd
Dennis Keith 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.889 · 92.85% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.821 · 88.57% cons
Nobody in the class went quicker in qualifying than Dennis Keith's 14.665, and three runs of 19 laps had him second in the order behind Dewild. In the main he was the only other driver to lead, taking over on lap 6 and holding it for seven laps before Dewild got it back on lap 13. For 11 racing laps the two of them were inside two seconds of each other. A podium on his first night in the series, with a 14.821 best that only Dewild beat in the race. I'd have paid to watch another five minutes of it.
3rd
C4 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.004 · 86.02% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.448 · 85.35% cons
C4 didn't race Round 3 and leaves Round 4 leading the championship. Third from third in the order was worth 94 points, and with the window now counting three results, his three starts add up to 280 points, four clear of Camara. Martinez and Westmoreland have the wins and only two starts each, so they've slid to fourth and fifth. The main itself was ordinary by Kleinhagen's standards, 85.35% and 3.529 seconds behind Keith on the same 19 laps. I don't care. A second, a fifth and a third is how he got here, and every one of those points counts.
4th
Charlie Hicklin 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 14.751 · 84.58% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.075 · 86.08% cons
Charlie Hicklin turned a 14.698 in qualifying, 0.033 off the quickest lap in the class, and averaged 17.785. That gap came with him to the main. His 15.075 was the third-quickest lap of the race, yet 18 laps at an 18.668 average left him a lap behind C4, whose best was slower. He had the speed and not the laps. Fourth from fourth pays 92 points, and with the second-quickest lap in qualifying I wanted more than that.
5th
Chris Camara 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.886 · 91.82% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.687 · 92.48% cons
Every result Chris Camara has scored this season is 92 or 90 points, and the 90 from this round is the one that comes off. He went from sixth in the order to fifth with 92.48%, the tidiest main in the class, though 17 laps left him two short of C4 in third. His counting total is 276 points, three fourth places' worth, four behind C4 and good for second. The 366 he's scored across all four rounds is the biggest raw total in the class and plays no part. I respect the steadiness, but a 16.687 best, second-slowest in the main, is why the podium keeps going to somebody else.
6th
Brad McGuire 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.904 · 95.18% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.362 · 85.27% cons
Brad McGuire qualified at 95.18%, cleaner than anyone in the class, and won two runs in the second heat, though with the heats not seeded against each other that bought him fifth in the order and no more. The main went the other way. He found speed, a 16.362 best against 16.904 in qualifying, and lost the tidiness, 85.27% over 16 laps. Camara, seeded behind him, finished a lap ahead with a slower best. On his first outing in the series, I'd take the qualifying version.
7th
Chris Gross 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.451 · 90.04% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.545 · 87.32% cons
Slowest best lap in the main by more than eight tenths, a 17.545, and that's a second and a half off the 16.045 Chris Gross ran in qualifying. Sixteen laps left him 5.448 seconds behind McGuire and last of seven, worth 86 points. The window does him a favour: that's the result that comes off, so his 272 points all come from the first three rounds, third in the championship and eight behind C4. I'd call this his worst round of the season so far, and for now the standings don't count it.

Championship after Round 4

C4 leads the Sizzling Summer with 280 points, and Charlie Kleinhagen hasn't won a round. The window now counts three results, and that explains the order: his three starts all count, while Martinez (200 points) and Westmoreland (196 points) have three wins between them from two starts each and have dropped to fourth and fifth. Camara and Gross have raced every round and both had this round's result come off, Camara second with 276 points from a raw 366 and Gross third with 272 points from 358, so eight points cover the top three. On track, James Dewild took the TQ and the win in his first round of the series, but Dennis Keith made him earn it, leading laps 6 to 12 and running neck and neck with him for 11 racing laps, something no two cars in this class had managed in the first three rounds.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	C4	+94	280	0	280	3
2	Chris Camara	+90	366	−90	276	4
3	Chris Gross	+86	358	−86	272	4
4	Orlando Martinez	–	200	0	200	2
5	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	196	0	196	2
6	Albert Bredernitz	–	170	0	170	2
7	James Dewild	+100	100	0	100	1
8	Mark Beach	–	96	0	96	1

Round 5 · Aug 29

8 in the class

TQ: Hendrick Westmoreland

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	21/5:13.036	14.213	14.906	97.96%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P8
2	Dallas Boyd	19/5:05.881	14.809	16.099	92.23%	Q1 P6, Q2 P3, Q3 P1
3	Dennis Keith	19/5:05.940	15.057	16.102	91.44%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
4	Mark Beach	18/5:00.762	15.513	16.709	91.65%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3 P3
5	Chris Camara	18/5:11.209	15.586	17.289	91.84%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5, Q3 P5
6	Keeron Ward	18/5:13.665	15.108	17.426	88.14%	Q1 P8, Q2 P7, Q3 P4
7	Josh Stramillo	17/5:05.905	15.824	17.994	90.59%	Q1 P5, Q2 P6, Q3 P7
8	Chris Gross	16/5:05.026	15.887	19.064	86.99%	Q1 P7, Q2 P8, Q3 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:05.135	14.319	15.257	96.26%
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:09.717	15.349	16.301	94.77%
3	Mark Beach	18/5:00.762	15.513	16.709	91.65%	✓
4	Chris Camara	18/5:16.756	16.202	17.598	90.77%
5	Josh Strumillo	17/5:05.905	15.824	17.994	90.59%	✓
6	Dallas Boyd	16/4:30.128	15.310	16.883	90.30%
7	Chris Gross	16/5:17.896	16.421	19.869	85.11%
8	Keeron Ward	15/5:00.372	16.496	20.025	89.07%
Qualifier 2
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	21/5:13.036	14.213	14.906	97.96%	✓
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:13.251	15.138	16.487	90.20%
3	Dallas Boyd	19/5:15.850	15.085	16.624	90.71%
4	Mark Beach	18/5:01.827	15.680	16.768	93.82%
5	Chris Camara	18/5:11.209	15.586	17.289	91.84%	✓
6	Josh Strumillo	17/5:11.684	16.148	18.334	89.17%
7	Keeron Ward	16/5:10.539	16.223	19.409	90.41%
8	Chris Gross	16/5:11.865	16.547	19.492	89.26%
Qualifier 3
1	Dallas Boyd	19/5:05.881	14.809	16.099	92.23%	✓
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:05.940	15.057	16.102	91.44%	✓
3	Mark Beach	18/5:01.835	14.995	16.769	92.40%
4	Keeron Ward	18/5:13.665	15.108	17.426	88.14%	✓
5	Chris Camara	17/5:08.204	15.985	18.130	89.36%
6	Chris Gross	16/5:05.026	15.887	19.064	86.99%	✓
7	Josh Strumillo	12/3:40.047	15.926	18.337	87.99%
8	Hendrick Westmoreland	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	21/5:11.682	14.342	15.402	93.35%	+100
2	Dennis Keith	20/5:08.074	14.916	15.973	93.54%	+96
3	Josh Strumillo	19/5:05.773	15.708	16.686	95.82%	+94
4	Mark Beach	19/5:13.611	15.224	17.150	87.25%	+92
5	Chris Camara	18/5:14.437	15.943	18.200	88.84%	+90
6	Chris Gross	17/5:09.708	16.171	18.987	91.81%	+88
7	Dallas Boyd	12/3:06.183	15.193	16.535	90.93%	+86
8	Keeron Ward	9/2:56.668	18.001	21.434	82.02%	+84

1st
Hendrick Westmoreland 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.213 · 97.96% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 14.342 · 93.35% cons
Three rounds entered, three TQs, and this time Hendrick Westmoreland made the main look like his qualifying. He led every lap and finished with 21 laps, a full lap clear of Dennis Keith, and his 14.342 was more than half a second quicker than anyone else managed in the race. Qualifying was frightening on its own: a 14.213 at 97.96%, 21 laps in Q2, and Q3 went off without him. When he turns up he's the class of this field, and 296 points from three starts has him third, 70 behind Chris Camara.
2nd
Dennis Keith 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.057 · 91.44% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.916 · 93.54% cons
Dennis Keith ran second in all three qualifiers and still started third, because Dallas Boyd's best run beat his by 0.059 seconds, both of them 19 laps long. The main went the way the qualifiers did: two rounds in this class, two runner-up finishes. His 93.54% was the second-cleanest main in the field and still left him a lap down on Westmoreland, which is the distance between very good and the best car here tonight. Sixth in the standings with 192 points.
3rd
Josh Strumillo 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.824 · 90.59% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.708 · 95.82% cons
How does the seventh seed end up on the podium? Josh Strumillo ran the cleanest main in the field, 95.82% over 19 laps, and averaged 16.686, which is 1.308 seconds a lap quicker than he managed in qualifying. That was enough to beat Mark Beach on the same lap count. Back in June this man ran a 49.36% main, so I'll admit I didn't see this coming, and I love it. He's eighth in the standings with 184 points.
4th
Mark Beach 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.513 · 91.65% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.224 · 87.25% cons
Mark Beach qualified at 93.82% with a 14.995, third on pace, then ran an 87.25% main, and that drop cost him a podium. He had the fourth-quickest lap of the race at 15.224 and still finished 7.838 seconds behind Josh Strumillo on the same 19 laps. Strumillo's best lap was nearly half a second slower than his. I'd be livid about that one.
5th
Chris Camara 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.586 · 91.84% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.943 · 88.84% cons
Chris Camara has never finished higher than fourth this summer, and he leads the championship. Tonight was fifth from the fifth seed, 18 laps at 88.84%, though the 15.586 he turned in qualifying is his quickest lap of this series so far. What put him top is turning up. He has raced all five rounds, so with the best four counting he has 366 points to Chris Gross's 360, and C4, who came in leading, didn't enter. A lead built on attendance counts the same as any other, and I won't hear a word against it.
6th
Chris Gross 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 15.887 · 86.99% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.171 · 91.81% cons
Last on the grid and last on pace at 15.887, and then Chris Gross ran a 91.81% main, his tidiest since April, for sixth and 17 laps. Two drivers who started above him finished behind him. That lifts him to second with 360 points behind Chris Camara, and like Camara he hasn't missed a round. Six points between the pair who never miss is the best thing about this championship right now.
7th
Dallas Boyd 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.809 · 92.23% qual cons · 12 laps · fast 15.193 · 90.93% cons
A 14.809 in qualifying that only Westmoreland beat, the second seed, and Dallas Boyd finished seventh. His main ended after 12 laps and 3:06.183. The laps he did run averaged 16.535, third-best in the race behind the top two, so the podium pace was there for 12 laps and no further. He'd started ahead of Dennis Keith, and Keith finished second. Ninth in the standings with 180 points.
8th
Keeron Ward 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.108 · 88.14% qual cons · 9 laps · fast 18.001 · 82.02% cons
Keeron Ward got better every time out in qualifying, from 15 laps in Q1 to 18 in Q3, and his 15.108 was fifth on pace, quicker than the man who now leads the championship. The main undid all of it. It stopped after 9 laps and 2:56.668, and his best lap in it, an 18.001, was nearly three seconds off his qualifying speed. I liked the direction of travel right up until the start.

Championship after Round 5

Chris Camara leads the Sizzling Summer with 366 points, and he hasn't finished higher than fourth all summer. He and Chris Gross are the only two drivers who have raced all five rounds, both now drop a result with the best four counting, and six points separate them. Hendrick Westmoreland was the fastest car in the class tonight, TQ with the quickest lap in qualifying and in the main, then flag to flag and a lap clear, and all of that lifts him only to third with 296 points, because three starts can't keep up with five. C4 came in leading with 280 points, didn't enter, and drops to fourth. Josh Strumillo went from seventh on the grid to the podium on a 95.82% main, the best drive of the night. Speed is winning nights in this class, and attendance is winning the championship.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Chris Camara	+90	456	−90	366	5
2	Chris Gross	+88	446	−86	360	5
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	+100	296	0	296	3
4	C4	–	280	0	280	3
5	Orlando Martinez	–	200	0	200	2
6	Dennis Keith	+96	192	0	192	2
7	Mark Beach	+92	188	0	188	2
8	Josh Strumillo	+94	184	0	184	2

Round 6 · Oct 3

9 in the class

TQ: Shane Alberico

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Shane Alberico	19/5:02.163	13.820	15.903	83.93%	Q1 P1, Q2 P8
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:15.413	15.496	16.601	92.58%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3
3	Orlando Martinez	19/5:15.432	14.931	16.602	88.73%	Q1 P4, Q2 P1
4	Mark Beach	18/5:00.020	15.587	16.668	91.14%	Q1 P5, Q2 P2
5	Charlie Hicklin	18/5:07.035	15.108	17.058	88.42%	Q1 P3, Q2 P5
6	C4	18/5:07.576	15.080	17.088	92.90%	Q2 P4
7	Chris Camara	16/5:03.566	16.165	18.973	82.33%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6
8	Chris Gross	15/5:00.501	17.135	20.033	89.02%	Q1 P7, Q2 P7
9	Dallas Boyd	9/2:43.951	15.624	18.217	89.35%	Q1 P8

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Shane Alberico	19/5:02.163	13.820	15.903	83.93%	✓
2	Dennis Keith	19/5:15.413	15.496	16.601	92.58%	✓
3	Charlie Hicklin	18/5:07.035	15.108	17.058	88.42%	✓
4	Orlando Martinez	18/5:08.412	15.010	17.134	84.96%
5	Mark Beach	17/5:06.823	16.095	18.048	90.20%
6	Chris Camara	16/5:10.565	15.972	18.269	86.62%
7	Chris Gross	15/5:16.564	17.324	21.104	88.46%
8	Dallas Boyd	9/2:43.951	15.624	18.217	89.35%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:15.432	14.931	16.602	88.73%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:00.020	15.587	16.668	91.14%	✓
3	Dennis Keith	18/5:06.584	15.305	17.032	89.86%
4	C4	18/5:07.576	15.080	17.088	92.90%	✓
5	Charlie Hicklin	17/5:13.516	15.275	18.442	77.46%
6	Chris Camara	16/5:03.566	16.165	18.973	82.33%	✓
7	Chris Gross	15/5:00.501	17.135	20.033	89.02%	✓
8	Shane Alberico	20/5:13.436	14.523	15.672	94.44%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Shane Alberico	22/5:14.349	13.884	14.804	91.74%	+100
2	C4	20/5:08.888	15.406	16.873	79.92%	+96
3	Dennis Keith	20/5:14.971	14.795	16.365	87.03%	+94
4	Dallas Boyd	19/5:04.155	15.062	16.571	92.24%	+92
5	Mark Beach	19/5:07.937	15.291	16.844	92.06%	+90
6	Orlando Martinez	19/5:11.351	14.338	17.064	85.00%	+88
7	Chris Camara	17/5:01.881	15.806	18.514	85.96%	+86
8	Chris Gross	16/5:06.293	16.289	19.989	86.36%	+84
9	Charlie Hicklin	9/2:29.360	14.821	18.073	87.98%	+82

1st
Shane Alberico 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.820 · 83.93% qual cons · 22 laps · fast 13.884 · 91.74% cons
His first round in this class in this series, and Shane Alberico took the TQ and won by two laps. I squinted at the 13.820 he ran in qualifying, 1.111 clear of anybody else in the class, and then the main made a believer of me: his 14.804 average was quicker than every other driver's best single lap bar two. His 22 laps left C4 and Dennis Keith two behind, and nobody had won a main in this class by more than a lap in this series until tonight. He checked out.
2nd
C4 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.080 · 92.90% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 15.406 · 79.92% cons
One qualifier, the sixth seed, and Charlie Kleinhagen finished second. C4 ran only Q2, 18 laps with a 15.080 that was third-quickest in the class, then put 20 laps in 5:08.888 on the board in the main, 6.083 seconds clear of Dennis Keith on the same lap count, and Keith had started four places ahead of him. Off a single qualifying run, that's magnificent. It makes a podium in three of his four starts this summer, and 376 points puts him third in the final standings, behind the only two drivers who raced every round.
3rd
Dennis Keith 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.496 · 92.58% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.795 · 87.03% cons
Dennis Keith's best qualifier beat Orlando Martinez's by 0.019 seconds on matching 19-lap runs, and that sliver is how he started second. He turned it into third. His 16.365 average was second only to Alberico's, so second place was there to be had, and C4 came from four spots back on the grid and took it. Three rounds in this class, three podiums, 286 points and sixth overall. I'd have liked to see six rounds of that.
4th
Dallas Boyd 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 15.624 · 89.35% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.062 · 92.24% cons
Dead last on the grid after one 9-lap qualifier, and Dallas Boyd finished fourth. That's coming from the back. His 92.24% was the cleanest main in the race and his 16.571 average third-best, which is how the ninth seed ends up 3.782 seconds clear of Mark Beach on 19 laps. Last round his main stopped after 12. This one went the distance, and it lifts him to eighth with 272 points.
5th
Mark Beach 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.587 · 91.14% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.291 · 92.06% cons
Mark Beach's 18 laps in 5:00.020 in Q2 put him fourth on the grid, and his 92.06% main was the second-cleanest in the race. It wasn't quick enough. Dallas Boyd started five places behind him and beat him to the line, both cars on 19 laps. Beach's three rounds in this class went second, fourth and fifth, each a step further back than the last, and that's 278 points and seventh in the final standings.
6th
Orlando Martinez 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.931 · 88.73% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.338 · 85.00% cons
How does the second-quickest lap in the race finish sixth? Orlando Martinez turned a 14.338 that only Alberico beat, then ran an 85.00% main that left him 7.196 seconds behind Dallas Boyd on the same 19 laps. Boyd started last. That's unacceptable from a man who has already won twice in this class this summer. Fifth in the final standings with 288 points from three starts.
7th
Chris Camara 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.165 · 82.33% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.806 · 85.96% cons
The worst result of Chris Camara's summer came on the last night, and it costs him nothing, because it's the one that comes off. He was eighth on pace in qualifying and seventh in a 17-lap main at 85.96%, and there's little in the round itself to like. The season is another matter. He raced all six, never finished higher than fourth, and ends it with 456 points, ten clear of Chris Gross. That's the least glamorous way to top a table I can imagine, and I wouldn't take a point of it away.
8th
Chris Gross 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.135 · 89.02% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.289 · 86.36% cons
Chris Gross ran 16 laps at 86.36% from the eighth seed, and his 17.135 in qualifying was more than a second off anybody else in the class. It's the result he drops, so the table doesn't feel it, and he finishes second with 446 points, ten behind Chris Camara. Of the two he's the one with a podium, third back in June. Losing out to a man who never got closer than fourth sounds like a robbery until the head-to-head: Camara finished ahead of him in five of the six rounds.
9th
Charlie Hicklin 82 pts
A-main P9 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.108 · 88.42% qual cons · 9 laps · fast 14.821 · 87.98% cons
A 14.821 is the fourth-quickest lap of the main, and Charlie Hicklin finished last with it. His race ended after 9 laps and 2:29.360, and from the fifth seed, with a 15.108 in qualifying that was fourth on pace, that's a brutal way to close the summer. In July he ran 18 laps and finished fourth, so the speed is no surprise. Tenth in the final standings with 174 points from two starts.

Championship after Round 6

Chris Camara is the 13.5 Expert 4wd champion with 456 points, and he never stood on a podium all summer. His best finish was fourth, his worst was tonight's seventh, and he and Chris Gross were the only two drivers to race all six rounds, which is exactly why they finish first and second, ten points apart. Hendrick Westmoreland topped qualifying in all three of his rounds and won two of them, and he ends up fourth with 296 points. Orlando Martinez, another two-time winner, is fifth with 288 points. Shane Alberico won the night by two laps from the TQ in his first round in the class, and C4 came from the sixth seed to second to finish third overall with 376 points. Speed won the nights this summer and attendance won the title, and I have no complaint about that.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Chris Camara	+86	542	−86	456	6
2	Chris Gross	+84	530	−84	446	6
3	C4	+96	376	0	376	4
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	296	0	296	3
5	Orlando Martinez	+88	288	0	288	3
6	Dennis Keith	+94	286	0	286	3
7	Mark Beach	+90	278	0	278	3
8	Dallas Boyd	+92	272	0	272	3

13.5 Stadium Truck

12 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	Dropped	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Sam Bredernitz	492	492	0	3	5	1st	96	100	–	96	100	100
2	Chris Gross	472	560	−88	–	6	2nd	88	96	96	88	96	96
3	Henry Ballew	464	464	0	1	5	1st	84	92	100	–	94	94
4	Albert Bredernitz	366	366	0	–	4	4th	–	–	92	90	92	92
5	Steve Spears	282	282	0	–	3	3rd	94	94	–	94	–	–
6	Russell Rima	278	278	0	–	3	3rd	92	–	94	92	–	–
7	Jagger Vance	100	100	0	–	1	1st	100	–	–	–	–	–
8	Matt Leibman	100	100	0	1	1	1st	–	–	–	100	–	–
9	Terry Gile	90	90	0	–	1	5th	90	–	–	–	–	–
10	Jax Bredernitz	90	90	0	–	1	5th	–	–	–	–	90	–
11	Chuck Burns	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	–	–	88	–
12	Conner Herrick	86	86	0	1	1	7th	86	–	–	–	–	–

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Round 1 · Apr 11

8 in the class

TQ: Conner Herrick

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Conner Herrick	18/5:14.452	16.235	17.470	92.75%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Henry Ballew	17/5:17.309	16.667	18.665	91.33%	Q1 P7, Q2 P4, Q3 P2
3	Jagger Vance	17/5:19.870	17.266	18.816	91.55%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2, Q3 P3
4	Steve Spears	16/5:19.686	18.369	19.980	93.25%	Q1 P5, Q2 P3, Q3 P6
5	Chris Gross	15/5:05.991	17.968	20.399	91.32%	Q1 P3, Q2 P6, Q3 P4
6	Russell Rima	15/5:08.915	18.978	20.594	91.24%	Q1 P4, Q2 P7, Q3 P7
7	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:13.202	17.727	20.880	88.61%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5, Q3 P5
8	Terry Gile	13/5:06.508	19.213	23.578	87.24%	Q1 P8, Q2 P8, Q3 P8

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Jagger Vance	16/5:13.914	17.743	19.620	88.05%
2	Conner Herrick	15/5:02.188	18.064	20.146	87.13%
3	Chris Gross	15/5:08.193	17.595	20.546	90.81%
4	Russell Rima	15/5:08.915	18.978	20.594	91.24%	✓
5	Steve Spears	14/5:01.976	18.752	21.570	89.82%
6	Sam Bredernitz	14/5:04.183	18.205	21.727	84.02%
7	Henry Ballew	14/5:04.863	18.325	21.776	84.32%
8	Terry Gile	13/5:06.508	19.213	23.578	87.24%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Conner Herrick	17/5:15.767	16.666	18.575	91.71%
2	Jagger Vance	17/5:19.870	17.266	18.816	91.55%	✓
3	Steve Spears	16/5:19.686	18.369	19.980	93.25%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	15/5:10.861	17.270	20.724	88.24%
5	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:15.492	18.072	21.033	89.05%
6	Chris Gross	15/5:19.173	18.804	21.278	91.94%
7	Russell Rima	14/5:16.068	18.554	22.576	84.61%
8	Terry Gile	13/5:11.335	19.747	23.949	83.30%
Qualifier 3
1	Conner Herrick	18/5:14.452	16.235	17.470	92.75%	✓
2	Henry Ballew	17/5:17.309	16.667	18.665	91.33%	✓
3	Jagger Vance	16/5:01.080	17.008	18.818	87.28%
4	Chris Gross	15/5:05.991	17.968	20.399	91.32%	✓
5	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:13.202	17.727	20.880	88.61%	✓
6	Steve Spears	15/5:15.058	17.723	21.004	84.18%
7	Russell Rima	14/5:05.358	18.803	21.811	88.78%
8	Terry Gile	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Jagger Vance	17/5:05.960	16.623	17.969	91.12%	+100
2	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:12.415	18.100	19.376	94.13%	+96
3	Steve Spears	15/5:13.678	18.143	21.113	90.23%	+94
4	Russell Rima	15/5:17.614	18.236	21.281	86.65%	+92
5	Terry Gile	14/5:16.405	18.900	22.752	86.64%	+90
6	Chris Gross	7/5:20.658	17.812	20.318	87.20%	+88
7	Conner Herrick	-	–	–	–	+86
8	Henry Ballew	-	–	–	–	+84

1st
Jagger Vance 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.266 · 91.55% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.623 · 91.12% cons
Steve Spears led lap 1. Jagger Vance led the other 16 and checked out, a full lap clear of Sam Bredernitz at the flag. His 16.623 was 1.189 seconds quicker than any other lap in the main, and he did it from the third seed, behind two cars that never got a lap on the board. One round of standings proves nothing, but the 100 points and the margin are both his.
2nd
Sam Bredernitz 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 17.727 · 88.61% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 18.100 · 94.13% cons
Seeded seventh of eight, Sam Bredernitz finished second, and that's the upset of the night. His best lap in the main was 18.100, well off Jagger Vance's pace, so the result came from somewhere else: 94.13%, the cleanest main anyone in the class ran. He finished a lap behind Jagger and a lap ahead of Steve Spears, and coming from the back to second is worth every one of his 96 points.
3rd
Steve Spears 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 18.369 · 93.25% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.143 · 90.23% cons
Steve Spears had the lead after lap 1, which only one other driver in the class can say. Jagger Vance had it from lap 2 and Steve finished third, 15 laps with an 18.143 best. His 93.25% in qualifying was the steadiest in the field, and 90.23% in the main didn't quite carry that over. Fourth seed to the podium is still a good start to a season, and 94 points with it.
4th
Russell Rima 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 18.978 · 91.24% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.236 · 86.65% cons
Russell Rima turned the sixth seed into fourth, on the same lap as Steve Spears and 3.936 seconds behind him. His 18.554 in qualifying was second slowest in the class, so finishing ahead of three drivers who qualified quicker is a decent return. The 86.65% in the main is what I'd work on, because that's the gap between him and the podium.
5th
Terry Gile 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 19.213 · 87.24% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 18.900 · 86.64% cons
Slowest in qualifying by more than half a second, and Terry Gile still finished fifth. His 18.900 in the main beat his 19.213 qualifying best, and 14 laps put him ahead of Chris Gross and both of the top two seeds. A lot of that came from staying out there while quicker cars didn't, and I'll give him full credit for it. Ninety points from the eighth seed is a good night's work.
6th
Chris Gross 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.968 · 91.32% qual cons · 7 laps · fast 17.812 · 87.20% cons
Chris Gross had the speed and not the laps. His 17.812 was the second-quickest lap of the A-main, behind only Jagger Vance, and his main produced 7 laps in 5:20.658, fewer than half the winner's 17. That lap count is the whole story of a main that went wrong. He'd run 15 laps in all three qualifiers, so a 7-lap main is a long way below anything he showed all day, and 88 points is a poor return on that speed.
7th
Conner Herrick 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.235 · 92.75% qual cons
Eighteen laps in Q3 made Conner Herrick TQ, and nobody else in the class ran more than 17 in any qualifier. His 16.235 was the quickest lap in the class all day, 0.432 clear of Henry Ballew. Then he lined up for the A-main and didn't complete a single lap. Top seed to seventh is the collapse of the night, and 86 points is all he has to show for the best pace in the class.
8th
Henry Ballew 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.667 · 91.33% qual cons
Henry Ballew climbed from 14 laps in Q1 to 17 in Q3, and his 16.667 was second only to Conner Herrick's 16.235. Then he joined Conner with no laps in the main, and eighth pays 84 points. Two of the three quickest cars in qualifying finished seventh and eighth, and Henry was one of them. A day that kept getting better in qualifying deserved a main at the end of it.

Championship after Round 1

Jagger Vance opens the season on top after taking over from Steve Spears on lap 2 and winning by a lap. The bigger story is at the other end: Conner Herrick, TQ on 18 laps, and Henry Ballew, the second seed, were the two quickest cars in qualifying and between them completed no laps of the A-main. The order still pays them 86 and 84 points, and it made for a roomier five minutes for the other six. Sam Bredernitz was the upset, seventh seed to second at 94.13%, the cleanest main in the class. After one round the standings are just the finishing order, two points a place, so they prove nothing yet.

Through Round 1 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Jagger Vance	+100	100	100	1
2	Sam Bredernitz	+96	96	96	1
3	Steve Spears	+94	94	94	1
4	Russell Rima	+92	92	92	1
5	Terry Gile	+90	90	90	1
6	Chris Gross	+88	88	88	1
7	Conner Herrick	+86	86	86	1
8	Henry Ballew	+84	84	84	1

Round 2 · May 9

4 in the class

TQ: Sam Bredernitz

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:07.221	17.161	18.072	94.10%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Chris Gross	16/5:13.929	17.382	19.621	91.60%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
3	Steve Spears	15/5:02.120	17.592	20.141	86.15%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3 P4
4	Henry Ballew	15/5:17.784	18.557	21.186	87.86%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3, Q3 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:07.221	17.161	18.072	94.10%	✓
2	Chris Gross	16/5:16.839	17.604	19.802	89.28%
3	Steve Spears	15/5:02.120	17.592	20.141	86.15%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	10/4:07.491	18.599	24.749	75.65%
Qualifier 2
1	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:13.047	16.657	18.415	88.77%
2	Chris Gross	16/5:13.929	17.382	19.621	91.60%	✓
3	Henry Ballew	14/5:02.464	17.823	21.605	84.17%
4	Steve Spears	14/5:08.959	17.335	22.069	80.78%
Qualifier 3
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:02.148	16.646	18.884	88.41%
2	Chris Gross	15/5:03.178	17.730	20.212	89.43%
3	Henry Ballew	15/5:17.784	18.557	21.186	87.86%	✓
4	Steve Spears	2/53.689	24.935	26.845	–

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

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:05.099	16.504	17.928	91.89%	+100
2	Chris Gross	15/5:07.347	17.562	20.603	87.79%	+96
3	Steve Spears	15/5:17.044	17.123	21.276	84.58%	+94
4	Henry Ballew	13/5:11.148	18.780	24.039	85.88%	+92

1st
Sam Bredernitz 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 17.161 · 94.10% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.504 · 91.89% cons
Seventh seed in April, TQ in May. Sam Bredernitz topped all three qualifiers, then led the A-main flag to flag and finished two laps clear of Chris Gross. The 16.504 he threw down in the main was the quickest lap in the class all night, quicker than his own 16.646 in qualifying. He's the new championship leader with 196 points, eight clear of Steve Spears, and the seventh seed of April is now the man to catch.
2nd
Chris Gross 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 17.382 · 91.60% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.562 · 87.79% cons
After a 7-lap main in April, Chris Gross needed a full one, and he got it. He and Steve Spears ran within two seconds of each other for 6 of the 17 laps, and Chris came out of it 9.697 seconds clear on the same lap. His 87.79% isn't pretty, but it was enough. Second pays 96 points and puts him third in the standings with 184 points, four behind Steve.
3rd
Steve Spears 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.592 · 86.15% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.123 · 84.58% cons
Steve Spears turned the second-quickest lap of the main, 17.123, and still finished third behind Chris Gross. The pace was there and the 84.58% wasn't, and after 6 laps running together that was the difference, 9.697 seconds of it at the flag. He's been on the podium both nights he's raced, though, and that has him second in the championship with 188 points, eight behind Sam Bredernitz.
4th
Henry Ballew 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 18.557 · 87.86% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 18.780 · 85.88% cons
From no laps in April to 13 in May is progress of a sort for Henry Ballew. A 24.039 average left him two laps behind Chris Gross and Steve Spears, which is a long way from the driver who qualified second last time out on a 16.667. Fourth pays 92 points, and with 176 points he's only 20 off the lead, a generous place to be after a night like this.

Championship after Round 2

Sam Bredernitz went from seventh seed in April to TQ, a flag-to-flag win and the championship lead in May, and he now leads with 196 points. Steve Spears (188 points), Chris Gross (184 points) and Henry Ballew (176 points) are the only others who raced both rounds, so four drivers are covered by 20 points. Chris and Steve gave the night its only real fight, 6 laps inside two seconds of each other, and Chris finished it 9.697 seconds clear. Jagger Vance won in April and wasn't entered here, so he drops to fifth with 100 points. With two results counting from two rounds run, nobody has anything to throw away yet.

Through Round 2 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Sam Bredernitz	+100	196	196	2
2	Steve Spears	+94	188	188	2
3	Chris Gross	+96	184	184	2
4	Henry Ballew	+92	176	176	2
5	Jagger Vance	–	100	100	1
6	Russell Rima	–	92	92	1
7	Terry Gile	–	90	90	1
8	Conner Herrick	–	86	86	1

Round 3 · Jun 6

4 in the class

TQ: Henry Ballew

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Henry Ballew	16/5:05.459	16.783	19.091	91.40%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Russell Rima	16/5:20.565	16.889	20.035	86.85%	Q1 P1, Q2 P3, Q3 P2
3	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:02.018	17.888	20.135	90.96%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2, Q3 P3
4	Chris Gross	13/5:08.325	17.726	23.717	70.61%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4, Q3 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Russell Rima	15/5:09.965	17.667	20.664	89.28%
2	Henry Ballew	14/5:13.037	17.830	22.360	83.42%
3	Albert Bredernitz	13/4:23.816	18.456	20.294	90.57%
4	Chris Gross	13/5:08.325	17.726	23.717	70.61%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Henry Ballew	16/5:18.836	17.258	19.927	86.07%
2	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:08.235	17.950	20.549	91.43%
3	Russell Rima	15/5:19.472	17.602	21.298	88.48%
4	Chris Gross	5/1:35.291	17.238	19.058	91.29%
Qualifier 3
1	Henry Ballew	16/5:05.459	16.783	19.091	91.40%	✓
2	Russell Rima	16/5:20.565	16.889	20.035	86.85%	✓
3	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:02.018	17.888	20.135	90.96%	✓
4	Chris Gross	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Henry Ballew	17/5:17.097	17.053	18.478	92.28%	+100
2	Chris Gross	16/5:05.421	16.625	19.033	88.14%	+96
3	Russell Rima	16/5:08.440	17.457	19.161	93.71%	+94
4	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:01.784	19.779	23.095	86.41%	+92

1st
Henry Ballew 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.783 · 91.40% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.053 · 92.28% cons
The lead changed hands three times, and Henry Ballew had it when it counted. Chris Gross led the first 8 laps, Henry took over for laps 9 and 10, Chris had lap 11, and Henry led the last 6. He was TQ off 16 laps in Q2 and Q3, and his 92.28% in the main against Chris's 88.14% is the race in one line. In April he didn't complete a lap of the main. Tonight he won one, and he's level with Chris on 192 points, ahead on the countback because of this win.
2nd
Chris Gross 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.726 · 70.61% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.625 · 88.14% cons
Chris Gross led more laps than the winner, 9 to Henry Ballew's 8, and his 16.625 was quicker than anyone managed in qualifying or the main. How does that finish second? Henry averaged 18.478 to his 19.033, and over a five-minute main that's the race. Seeded last of four after a 5-lap Q2 and nothing in Q3, Chris still took 96 points out of it, and his raw 280 points is the most in the class. The drop takes his 88 from April off, which is why only 192 points of it count, the same as Henry.
3rd
Russell Rima 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.889 · 86.85% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.457 · 93.71% cons
Nobody in the class ran a cleaner main than Russell Rima's 93.71%, and he finished third, 3.019 seconds behind Chris Gross on the same lap. A 19.161 average is what that gets against two drivers who could go quicker. His 16.889 in qualifying was second only to Henry Ballew's 16.783, so the speed is in there. With 186 points he's fifth, two behind Steve Spears and ten off the lead, and in a table this bunched that's firmly in the hunt.
4th
Albert Bredernitz 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.888 · 90.96% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 19.779 · 86.41% cons
Albert Bredernitz's first night in the class started tidily, with 91.43% in qualifying, the best figure in the field by 0.03 over Henry Ballew. The main didn't follow it. His best lap there was 19.779, slowest of the four, and 13 laps left him four down on the winner. Fourth pays 92 points, and that qualifying run is the thing to build on.

Championship after Round 3

Drops arrive, and they shuffle the table: two results count from three rounds, so Chris Gross carries the biggest raw total in the class, 280 points, and has 192 points that count once his April 88 comes off. Henry Ballew drops his April 84 and has 192 points too, ahead of Chris on the countback for tonight's win. Sam Bredernitz didn't race and still leads with 196 points, Steve Spears has 188 points and Russell Rima 186 points, so five drivers are covered by ten points. The A-main was the best race of the series so far, with the lead changing hands three times between Chris and Henry before Henry took it for good on lap 12.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Sam Bredernitz	–	196	0	196	2
2	Henry Ballew	+100	276	−84	192	3
3	Chris Gross	+96	280	−88	192	3
4	Steve Spears	–	188	0	188	2
5	Russell Rima	+94	186	0	186	2
6	Jagger Vance	–	100	0	100	1
7	Albert Bredernitz	+92	92	0	92	1
8	Terry Gile	–	90	0	90	1

Round 4 · Jul 25

6 in the class

TQ: Matt Leibman

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Matt Leibman	17/5:10.595	16.893	18.270	93.64%	Q1 P6, Q2 P2, Q3 P1
2	Steve Spears	16/5:12.398	16.740	19.525	92.62%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P2
3	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:13.433	16.681	19.590	91.15%	Q1 P1, Q2 P3, Q3 P3
4	Russell Rima	15/5:13.885	18.506	20.926	88.12%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3 P6
5	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:07.982	18.702	21.999	91.86%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5, Q3 P4
6	Chris Gross	10/5:16.942	17.178	31.694	-3.51%	Q1 P5, Q2 P6, Q3 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:20.377	16.695	20.024	88.87%
2	Steve Spears	15/5:06.525	17.837	20.435	89.67%
3	Russell Rima	15/5:13.885	18.506	20.926	88.12%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:39.226	19.194	24.230	79.02%
5	Chris Gross	5/2:13.091	23.919	26.618	90.61%
6	Matt Leibman	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Steve Spears	16/5:15.506	17.101	19.719	87.91%
2	Matt Leibman	15/5:04.790	17.178	20.319	86.52%
3	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:09.278	16.665	20.619	84.44%
4	Russell Rima	15/5:26.372	18.434	21.758	85.23%
5	Albert Bredernitz	11/5:01.502	19.495	25.125	72.19%
6	Chris Gross	1/22.501	22.501	22.501	–
Qualifier 3
1	Matt Leibman	17/5:10.595	16.893	18.270	93.64%	✓
2	Steve Spears	16/5:12.398	16.740	19.525	92.62%	✓
3	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:13.433	16.681	19.590	91.15%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:07.982	18.702	21.999	91.86%	✓
5	Chris Gross	10/5:16.942	17.178	31.694	-3.51%	✓
6	Russell Rima	2/50.744	19.448	25.372	–

A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so 2 runs here have none shown. 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

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Matt Leibman	17/5:02.073	17.140	18.604	91.47%	+100
2	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:13.885	16.919	19.082	89.24%	+96
3	Steve Spears	16/5:03.306	17.247	19.883	86.97%	+94
4	Russell Rima	15/5:08.998	18.584	21.657	85.73%	+92
5	Albert Bredernitz	14/4:29.787	17.731	20.323	89.73%	+90
6	Chris Gross	14/4:46.747	17.402	21.547	86.77%	+88

1st
Matt Leibman 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.893 · 93.64% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.140 · 91.47% cons
First round of the series, nothing at all on the board in Q1, and Matt Leibman still left with the TQ and the win. His 17-lap Q3 was the only run of qualifying to reach 17, and in the A-main he led every lap and crossed 11.812 seconds clear of Sam Bredernitz. How does the third-quickest lap in qualifying win the night by that much? An 18.604 average in the main, nearly half a second a lap better than anyone else managed. Magnificent, and built on laps rather than one hot one.
2nd
Sam Bredernitz 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.681 · 91.15% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.919 · 89.24% cons
The quickest lap of the A-main belonged to Sam Bredernitz, a 16.919, and he still crossed nearly 12 seconds behind Matt Leibman. His 19.082 average explains it. He and Steve Spears ran inside two seconds of each other for 7 of the 16 racing laps before Sam got a lap clear of him by the flag. Second keeps him top of the standings with 292 points, but the man with the hot lap of the main shouldn't be losing a race by 12 seconds.
3rd
Steve Spears 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.740 · 92.62% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.247 · 86.97% cons
Three rounds raced, three thirds, and I mean that as praise. Steve Spears qualified second off a 16-lap Q3 that beat Sam Bredernitz's best run by 1.035 seconds, then ran with Sam for 7 of the 16 racing laps. The main came in at 86.97%, well short of the 92.62% he qualified with, and it left him a lap down on 16 laps. Third pays 94 points for the third time, and 282 points has him second in the standings, ten behind Sam.
4th
Russell Rima 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 18.506 · 88.12% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.584 · 85.73% cons
The timing credited Russell Rima with a 16.098 in his second qualifier, and he never drove it: it sits straight before a 26.340, and the two together are two of his ordinary 21-second laps with the crossing read early. His real best that run was an 18.434. The A-main gave him an 18.584, the slowest best lap of the six, and 15 laps at 85.73% for fourth from the fourth seed, which is what that pace earns. He sits fourth in the standings with 278 points, 14 off the lead.
5th
Albert Bredernitz 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 18.702 · 91.86% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 17.731 · 89.73% cons
Between qualifying and the main, Albert Bredernitz found nearly a full second. His 18.702 was the slowest best lap of qualifying, and in the A-main he ran a 17.731. Then his race was over at 14 laps and 4:29.787, half a minute short of the full five. He still finished ahead of Chris Gross, 14 laps apiece, and 90 points takes him to 182 points from his two rounds in the series.
6th
Chris Gross 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 17.178 · -3.51% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 17.402 · 86.77% cons
Five laps in Q1, one in Q2, ten in Q3. Sixteen qualifying laps across three runs is unacceptable from a driver who finished second last time out, and it put Chris Gross last on the grid. The main stopped early as well, 14 laps at 4:46.747. What saves him is the window: four starts and three count, so this 88 sits beside his Round 1 88 and one of them comes off. He's still third in the standings with 280 points, 12 off the lead.

Championship after Round 4

Matt Leibman turned up for his first round of the Sizzling Summer and took this class apart: TQ off the only 17-lap qualifier, then every lap of the A-main led. Behind him the championship has become a five-truck argument. Sam Bredernitz leads with 292 points, Steve Spears has 282 points from three thirds in three starts, Chris Gross has 280 points, Russell Rima 278 points and Henry Ballew 276 points, so first to fifth is 16 points. Chris is already paying for the best-three window, 368 raw points cut to 280 points, while Henry sat this one out and kept everything he had, because three starts is exactly what counts. He still slid from second to fifth without turning a wheel.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Sam Bredernitz	+96	292	0	292	3
2	Steve Spears	+94	282	0	282	3
3	Chris Gross	+88	368	−88	280	4
4	Russell Rima	+92	278	0	278	3
5	Henry Ballew	–	276	0	276	3
6	Albert Bredernitz	+90	182	0	182	2
7	Jagger Vance	–	100	0	100	1
8	Matt Leibman	+100	100	0	100	1

Round 5 · Aug 29

6 in the class

TQ: Sam Bredernitz

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:14.459	16.610	18.498	92.18%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:07.836	17.499	25.653	28.32%	Q1 P5, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
3	Chris Gross	15/5:11.177	17.563	20.745	89.45%	Q1 P2, Q2 P6, Q3 P4
4	Chuck Burns	15/5:11.197	18.324	20.746	87.05%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3, Q3 P6
5	Henry Ballew	15/5:15.536	17.431	21.036	83.12%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3 P3
6	Jax Bredernitz	13/5:15.982	20.228	24.306	88.26%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5, Q3 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:14.459	16.610	18.498	92.18%	✓
2	Chris Gross	15/5:11.177	17.563	20.745	89.45%	✓
3	Henry Ballew	14/5:08.653	18.407	22.047	89.34%
4	Chuck Burns	13/5:12.219	18.462	24.017	58.08%
5	Albert Bredernitz	9/5:18.137	20.141	35.349	26.86%
6	Jax Bredernitz	8/5:05.243	27.613	38.155	80.31%
Qualifier 2
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:22.275	16.713	20.142	87.96%
2	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:07.836	17.499	25.653	28.32%	✓
3	Chuck Burns	15/5:11.197	18.324	20.746	87.05%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	15/5:24.118	17.947	21.608	83.28%
5	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:17.006	19.955	26.417	86.36%
6	Chris Gross	8/3:11.515	21.005	23.939	89.37%
Qualifier 3
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:02.735	17.133	18.921	91.69%
2	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:09.722	18.139	20.654	88.93%
3	Henry Ballew	15/5:15.536	17.431	21.036	83.12%	✓
4	Chris Gross	14/5:01.826	17.545	21.559	90.89%
5	Jax Bredernitz	13/5:15.982	20.228	24.306	88.26%	✓
6	Chuck Burns	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Sam Bredernitz	1	17/5:16.050	17.154	19.475	89.20%	+100
2	Chris Gross	2	16/5:15.619	17.443	20.639	81.47%	+96
3	Henry Ballew	3	15/5:17.575	17.541	22.272	79.22%	+94
4	Albert Bredernitz	4	14/5:11.858	17.849	30.675	40.89%	+92
5	Jax Bredernitz	5	12/5:03.238	19.851	26.839	74.72%	+90
Ranked on qualifying
6	Chuck Burns	6	-	–	–	–	+88

1st
Sam Bredernitz 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.610 · 92.18% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.154 · 89.20% cons
Sam Bredernitz won Q1, Q2 and Q3, and his 16.610 was 0.821 clear of the next quickest truck in qualifying. That's a TQ with no argument attached. The A-main went the same way: the quickest lap of the race at 17.154 and 17 laps to Chris Gross's 16, so he checked out by a full lap. An 89.20% main is scruffier than the result looks, and I don't care one bit. He leads with 392 points, 16 clear of Chris, and all four of his starts count.
2nd
Chris Gross 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.563 · 89.45% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.443 · 81.47% cons
Three runner-up finishes this season now for Chris Gross, and this one came out of an 81.47% main. That's a scrappy number for a podium, and it left him a lap behind Sam Bredernitz on 16 laps, but nobody else got to 16. Qualifying had its own wobble, a Q2 that stopped at 8 laps. He's second in the standings with 376 points, and he's the one paying for the window: 464 raw points, best four counting, so an 88 comes off.
3rd
Henry Ballew 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.431 · 83.12% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.541 · 79.22% cons
The second-quickest lap of qualifying was Henry Ballew's, a 17.431, and he still lined up fifth of six, because three other drivers also ran 15 laps and got there quicker. Then he came from the back to take third, ahead of Albert Bredernitz, who was seeded second. The 79.22% main was the scrappiest of the top three, and I'll forgive it, given where he started. Back after missing Round 4, he's third in the standings with 370 points, six behind Chris Gross, and all four of his starts count.
4th
Albert Bredernitz 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 17.499 · 28.32% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 17.849 · 40.89% cons
Seeded second, the best grid spot Albert Bredernitz has had in this series, and he came home fourth with 14 laps. Timing credited him with a 14.894 in the main, wedged between a 55.624 and a 35.378 and 2.6 seconds faster than anything he had run in this series. It was a bad reading, refused, and his real quickest lap was a 17.849. Fourth from second on the grid is a disappointing return, and 92 points lifts him to sixth in the standings with 274 points.
5th
Jax Bredernitz 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 20.228 · 88.26% qual cons · 12 laps · fast 19.851 · 74.72% cons
Eight laps, then 12, then 13: Jax Bredernitz got better every time out in qualifying, and that is the right direction for a first round in the series. He started last and ran 12 laps in the main, and his 19.851 there beat anything he managed in qualifying. The 74.72% says the main was a scrap. Ninety points for fifth and a full five minutes is a fair first night, and that qualifying curve is the part I liked best.
Lower mains
6th
Chuck Burns 88 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P4 · qual best lap 18.324 · 87.05% qual cons
Chuck Burns qualified fourth, 0.020 seconds away from third on a 15-lap run, and then the A-main went off without him. Sixth pays 88 points all the same.

Championship after Round 5

Sam Bredernitz won every qualifier and then won the A-main by a lap, which takes him to 392 points and stretches his lead over Chris Gross to 16 points. Chris has more raw points than anybody, 464 points, but the best-four window takes an 88 off him and leaves 376 points. Henry Ballew is six behind Chris with 370 points after taking third from fifth on the grid, and he has nothing to throw away. Steve Spears (282 points) and Russell Rima (278 points) both stayed home and are now more than 100 points off the lead. Chuck Burns, meanwhile, earned fourth on the grid, came within 0.020 seconds of third, and then the A-main ran with a hole where his truck should have been. Five trucks raced and six got paid.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Sam Bredernitz	+100	392	0	392	4
2	Chris Gross	+96	464	−88	376	5
3	Henry Ballew	+94	370	0	370	4
4	Steve Spears	–	282	0	282	3
5	Russell Rima	–	278	0	278	3
6	Albert Bredernitz	+92	274	0	274	3
7	Jagger Vance	–	100	0	100	1
8	Matt Leibman	–	100	0	100	1

Round 6 · Oct 3

4 in the class

TQ: Sam Bredernitz

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:04.462	16.640	19.029	85.89%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Henry Ballew	16/5:10.815	17.527	19.426	89.53%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:11.513	17.631	20.768	90.18%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3
4	Chris Gross	14/5:05.878	17.840	21.848	87.83%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:06.362	16.617	19.148	90.21%
2	Henry Ballew	15/5:15.975	18.769	21.065	91.58%
3	Chris Gross	14/5:05.878	17.840	21.848	87.83%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:05.735	17.466	23.518	84.41%
Qualifier 2
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:04.462	16.640	19.029	85.89%	✓
2	Henry Ballew	16/5:10.815	17.527	19.426	89.53%	✓
3	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:11.513	17.631	20.768	90.18%	✓
4	Chris Gross	14/5:16.981	18.289	22.642	81.52%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Sam Bredernitz	18/5:15.978	17.002	18.335	91.04%	+100
2	Chris Gross	17/5:14.915	17.505	19.318	90.82%	+96
3	Henry Ballew	16/5:06.338	16.961	20.122	87.59%	+94
4	Albert Bredernitz	12/3:47.201	16.872	20.209	88.36%	+92

1st
Sam Bredernitz 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.640 · 85.89% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 17.002 · 91.04% cons
Sam Bredernitz won both qualifiers for the TQ, with a 16.617 that nobody got within 0.8 seconds of, and then won the main with 18 laps to close out the title. Chris Gross had the lead off him for lap 5, Sam had it back on lap 6, and he held it for the last 12 laps. He raced five rounds, won three and was second in the other two, so all 492 points count and not one result needed throwing away. That's a driver with hands, all summer long.
2nd
Chris Gross 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.840 · 87.83% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.505 · 90.82% cons
Last on the grid, a lap down on the champion at the flag, and for lap 5 in between, Chris Gross led this race. The 90.82% main was his cleanest of the series from a driver whose other five mains all sat in the 80s. He finishes second in the championship with 472 points, the only driver to race all six rounds and the only one the drop touched: 560 raw points, the most in the class, with an 88 coming off. Four second places and no win leave him 20 points short, and that will sting.
3rd
Henry Ballew 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 17.527 · 89.53% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.961 · 87.59% cons
Henry Ballew was the most consistent qualifier in the field at 91.58% and lined up second, and then the main got messier, 87.59% over 16 laps. For 8 of the 17 racing laps he and Albert Bredernitz ran inside two seconds of each other, and Henry came out of it third once Albert's main ended at 12 laps. His 16.961 was the second-quickest lap of the race, which makes a lap down on Chris Gross harder to forgive. Third in the championship with 464 points, eight behind Chris, is a fair season from a man who missed a round.
4th
Albert Bredernitz 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.631 · 90.18% qual cons · 12 laps · fast 16.872 · 88.36% cons
How does the quickest truck in the A-main finish last of four? Albert Bredernitz ran a 16.872, the fastest lap of the race and more than half a second quicker than anything else he turned in this series, and then he was done after 12 laps and 3:47.201, more than a minute before the clock ran out. Up to then he and Henry Ballew had gone at it for 8 of the 17 racing laps. That's the fastest car finishing nowhere, and a lap like that deserved better than fourth of four. He still ends the season fourth with 366 points, up from sixth, with all four of his starts counting.

Championship after Round 6

Sam Bredernitz is the 2026 Sizzling Summer 13.5 Stadium Truck champion with 492 points, and he closed it out by leading 16 of the 17 racing laps from TQ. Chris Gross outscored him on raw points, 560 to 492, by being the only driver at all six rounds, and it buys him nothing: five results count, the drop takes an 88 off Chris, and Sam's five are three wins and two seconds. That leaves Chris second with 472 points, 20 short, and lap 5, the one lap Sam did not lead, belonged to him. Henry Ballew takes third with 464 points after an 8-lap fight with Albert Bredernitz that was over when Albert's run finished early, at 12 laps. Albert had the fastest lap of the race at 16.872, and his 366 points still lift him to fourth overall.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Sam Bredernitz	+100	492	0	492	5
2	Chris Gross	+96	560	−88	472	6
3	Henry Ballew	+94	464	0	464	5
4	Albert Bredernitz	+92	366	0	366	4
5	Steve Spears	–	282	0	282	3
6	Russell Rima	–	278	0	278	3
7	Jagger Vance	–	100	0	100	1
8	Matt Leibman	–	100	0	100	1

Mod 2wd Buggy

9 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Nick Gibson	392	392	2	4	1st	100	·	96	100	96	–
2	Noah Hicklin	196	196	1	2	1st	–	·	–	96	100	–
3	Kevin Moyer	188	188	–	2	2nd	–	·	92	–	–	96
4	Jake Stoeltzing	100	100	1	1	1st	–	·	100	–	–	–
5	David Alberico	100	100	1	1	1st	–	·	–	–	–	100
6	Teagan Cummings	94	94	–	1	3rd	–	·	94	–	–	–
7	Joe Duffy	94	94	–	1	3rd	–	·	–	94	–	–
8	Josh Strumillo	94	94	–	1	3rd	–	·	–	–	–	94
9	William Schroeder	92	92	–	1	4th	–	·	–	–	–	92

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Round 1 · Apr 11

1 in the class

TQ: Nick Gibson

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Nick Gibson	20/5:02.873	14.110	15.144	91.27%	Q1 P1, Q2 P4, Q3 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Nick Gibson	20/5:02.873	14.110	15.144	91.27%	✓
Qualifier 2
4	Nick Gibson	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 3
4	Nick Gibson	8/2:24.756	15.876	18.095	76.98%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Points
A-main
1	Nick Gibson	-	+100

1st
Nick Gibson 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.110 · 91.27% qual cons
The only car in Mod 2wd, so the 100 points are Nick Gibson's. Q1 was where he did his running, 20 laps with a 14.110 best. After that, Q2 produced no run, Q3 stopped at 8 laps and the main has no laps on record for him, which makes this about the roughest win a driver can have.

Championship after Round 1

Mod 2wd opened the Sizzling Summer with a field of one, and Nick Gibson leads the standings with 100 points because nobody else entered. All of his running came in qualifying, a 20-lap Q1 with a 14.110 best, and there are no main laps on record. A win without a main lap is as thin as results get. It counts in full all the same, and in a series that keeps a driver's best five results, 100 points banked on the first night is a handy thing to own.

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	Nick Gibson	+100	100	0	100	1

Round 2 · May 9

Class not run

This class wasn’t on the program that night. It scores nothing, and a round it skips is one of the results the drop rule absorbs.

Round 3 · Jun 6

4 in the class

TQ: Jake Stoeltzing

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Jake Stoeltzing	21/5:14.696	14.583	14.986	97.81%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2, Q3 P1
2	Nick Gibson	20/5:04.759	14.158	15.238	92.54%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P4
3	Kevin Moyer	19/5:08.316	15.350	16.227	95.24%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3 P3
4	Teagan Cummings	18/5:02.200	15.361	16.789	90.06%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4, Q3 P2

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Jake Stoeltzing	21/5:14.696	14.583	14.986	97.81%	✓
2	Nick Gibson	20/5:11.695	14.211	15.585	86.85%
3	Kevin Moyer	19/5:10.091	15.549	16.321	96.13%
4	Teagan Cummings	18/5:02.200	15.361	16.789	90.06%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Nick Gibson	20/5:04.759	14.158	15.238	92.54%	✓
2	Jake Stoeltzing	19/5:06.468	14.405	16.130	91.21%
3	Kevin Moyer	19/5:08.316	15.350	16.227	95.24%	✓
4	Teagan Cummings	18/5:09.730	15.178	17.207	89.83%
Qualifier 3
1	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:08.164	14.313	15.408	89.54%
2	Teagan Cummings	18/5:04.474	15.657	16.915	93.40%
3	Kevin Moyer	9/2:34.948	15.532	17.216	88.74%
4	Nick Gibson	2/1:56.790	17.900	58.395	–

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

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:03.388	14.617	15.170	95.69%	+100
2	Nick Gibson	20/5:07.024	14.204	15.156	93.15%	+96
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:15.304	15.615	16.551	92.67%	+94
4	Kevin Moyer	19/5:15.968	15.858	16.596	94.86%	+92

1st
Jake Stoeltzing 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.583 · 97.81% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.617 · 95.69% cons
Jake Stoeltzing came to his first Mod 2wd round of the series and owned the day. He TQ'd off a 21-lap Q1, the only 21-lap run in the class, with the lowest average lap in qualifying at 14.986, then led every lap of the main and did 20 laps in 5:03.388 at 95.69%. Nick Gibson had the quicker lap at both ends of the night and never once got the lead off him. A debut win built on laps rather than one hot one is the kind I trust.
2nd
Nick Gibson 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.158 · 92.54% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.204 · 93.15% cons
Quickest in qualifying at 14.158, quickest in the main at 14.204, and Nick Gibson still finished 3.636 seconds behind Jake Stoeltzing on the same lap. I'd put the gap down to the main at 93.15% against the winner's 95.69%, and his Q3 lasted all of 2 laps. He leaves Round 3 top of the standings with 196 points all the same, the only driver in the class with two starts, and right now turning up counts for more than speed.
3rd
Teagan Cummings 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.361 · 90.06% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.615 · 92.67% cons
Seeded last of four and on the podium by 0.664 of a second. Teagan Cummings and Kevin Moyer both did 19 laps, Cummings in 5:15.304 and Moyer in 5:15.968, and I'll give the speed the credit: a 15.615 best against Moyer's 15.858. Moyer ran the cleaner main at 94.86% to 92.67%, so the quicker car beat the tidier one this time. A debut podium won at the flag is my favourite result of the round.
4th
Kevin Moyer 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.350 · 95.24% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.858 · 94.86% cons
Kevin Moyer lost third to Teagan Cummings by 0.664 of a second, and that one stings. He qualified ahead of Cummings and ran the tidier main, 94.86% over 19 laps, with a 15.858 best that was the slowest lap of the main. Qualifying at 96.13% says the consistency is real, and fourth by that margin is a hard way to be paid for it.

Championship after Round 3

Mod 2wd came back after sitting out May with four cars, and Jake Stoeltzing took the night: TQ, flag to flag, 20 laps at 95.69%. Nick Gibson was quicker over one lap in qualifying and in the main and finished 3.636 seconds behind him, which is still enough to lead the standings with 196 points. That lead is attendance as much as anything, since Gibson is the only driver with two starts and Stoeltzing sits second with 100 points from one. With the best two counting after three rounds, nobody has anything to drop yet. The fight of the round was for third, where Teagan Cummings beat Kevin Moyer to the flag by 0.664 of a second on the same lap.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Nick Gibson	+96	196	196	2
2	Jake Stoeltzing	+100	100	100	1
3	Teagan Cummings	+94	94	94	1
4	Kevin Moyer	+92	92	92	1

Round 4 · Jul 25

3 in the class

TQ: Nick Gibson

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Nick Gibson	21/5:05.751	13.820	14.560	94.58%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P2
2	Noah Hicklin	21/5:13.695	13.979	14.938	92.81%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P1
3	Joe Duffy	19/5:01.258	14.710	15.856	89.79%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Nick Gibson	21/5:05.751	13.820	14.560	94.58%	✓
2	Noah Hicklin	19/5:03.863	14.902	15.993	91.63%
3	Joe Duffy	17/5:08.177	16.040	18.128	87.61%
Qualifier 2
1	Nick Gibson	21/5:17.018	13.658	15.096	90.73%
2	Noah Hicklin	20/5:03.438	14.022	15.172	92.09%
3	Joe Duffy	18/5:03.499	14.845	16.861	87.61%
Qualifier 3
1	Noah Hicklin	21/5:13.695	13.979	14.938	92.81%	✓
2	Nick Gibson	20/5:02.725	13.780	15.136	89.69%
3	Joe Duffy	19/5:01.258	14.710	15.856	89.79%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Nick Gibson	21/5:15.186	13.570	14.882	92.13%	+100
2	Noah Hicklin	20/5:02.433	13.662	14.949	90.89%	+96
3	Joe Duffy	19/5:11.579	14.645	16.236	87.76%	+94

1st
Nick Gibson 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.820 · 94.58% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 13.570 · 92.13% cons
Nick Gibson won a real fight. He TQ'd, led the first two laps, lost the lead to Noah Hicklin on lap 3, took it back on lap 4 and then had to watch Hicklin lead from lap 5 through lap 13. From lap 14 the main was Gibson's, 21 laps in 5:15.186 with the quickest lap of the main at 13.570, and the two of them spent 8 of the 21 laps inside two seconds of each other. The lead changed hands four times, and the last change was his. That's three starts and 296 points, and nobody else in the class has more than one.
2nd
Noah Hicklin 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 13.979 · 92.81% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 13.662 · 90.89% cons
Ten laps in the lead on his first night in the class. Noah Hicklin took over on lap 3, lost it, took it back on lap 5 and held it until lap 13, running together with Nick Gibson for 8 laps, with a 13.662 best that only Gibson went quicker than. Gibson had the answer from lap 14, and Hicklin finished with 20 laps to Gibson's 21. Half a main in front of the championship leader is a loud way to arrive, and second place doesn't take it back.
3rd
Joe Duffy 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.710 · 89.79% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.645 · 87.76% cons
Two laps behind the winner in his first Mod 2wd round, and Joe Duffy was never part of the fight up front: 19 laps in 5:11.579, with a 14.645 best almost a second off Noah Hicklin's. The 87.76% is the bigger worry, the scruffiest main in the class. I do like the qualifying, which went 17 laps, then 18, then 19, and he held the 19 in the main.

Championship after Round 4

Four lead changes in a three-car main, and Nick Gibson was the one in front at the flag. Noah Hicklin led 10 laps on his first night in the class and ran within two seconds of Gibson for 8 of the 21, but Gibson retook the lead on lap 14 and kept it. That makes three starts and 296 points for Gibson, every one of them counting under the best-three window, while nobody else in the class has raced more than once. Jake Stoeltzing sits second with 100 points from his June win and Hicklin third with 96 points, so the chase is a list of one-race drivers. Attendance is carrying this championship, and Gibson has more of it than anyone.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Nick Gibson	+100	296	296	3
2	Jake Stoeltzing	–	100	100	1
3	Noah Hicklin	+96	96	96	1
4	Teagan Cummings	–	94	94	1
5	Joe Duffy	+94	94	94	1
6	Kevin Moyer	–	92	92	1

Round 5 · Aug 29

2 in the class

TQ: Noah Hicklin

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:06.797	13.627	13.945	98.73%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Nick Gibson	21/5:11.432	13.579	14.830	87.26%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P2

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Noah Hicklin	21/5:10.100	13.333	14.767	86.56%
2	Nick Gibson	21/5:19.312	13.577	15.205	81.15%
Qualifier 2
1	Noah Hicklin	21/5:09.318	13.432	14.729	89.96%
2	Nick Gibson	21/5:11.432	13.579	14.830	87.26%	✓
Qualifier 3
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:06.797	13.627	13.945	98.73%	✓
2	Nick Gibson	20/5:06.491	13.796	15.325	87.97%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:13.349	13.364	14.084	94.35%	+100
2	Nick Gibson	21/5:11.169	13.413	14.578	92.86%	+96

1st
Noah Hicklin 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.627 · 98.73% qual cons · 22 laps · fast 13.364 · 94.35% cons
Noah Hicklin had Nick Gibson covered from the first qualifier to the flag. He TQ'd off the only 22-lap run of qualifying, with a 13.333 best and 98.73% consistency, then turned a 13.364 in the main that Gibson never matched and led 21 of its 22 laps. Gibson's one lap in front came on lap 2. After 10 laps in the lead last time out, this is the win that had been coming, and it arrived with a lap to spare.
2nd
Nick Gibson 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 13.579 · 87.26% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 13.413 · 92.86% cons
Nick Gibson led lap 2 and nothing else, and 21 laps, one down on the winner, is a long way back for a driver whose 13.413 best sat five hundredths off Noah Hicklin's. The difference was everywhere else: 87.97% in qualifying, and a 92.86% main against Hicklin's 94.35%. None of it touches the championship. Four starts give him 392 points, exactly double Hicklin's 196 points from two.

Championship after Round 5

Two cars, and the quicker one won by a lap. Noah Hicklin TQ'd and led 21 of the 22 laps, with Nick Gibson's only lap in front coming on lap 2, and the best laps of the main went Hicklin's way too, 13.364 to 13.413. Round 4 went to Gibson after four lead changes, so these two have a win apiece from the last two rounds. The standings barely notice: Gibson has 392 points from four starts and Hicklin 196 points from two, and with the best four counting Gibson still has nothing to drop. A 196-point gap with one round left is more than a win is worth.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Nick Gibson	+96	392	392	4
2	Noah Hicklin	+100	196	196	2
3	Jake Stoeltzing	–	100	100	1
4	Teagan Cummings	–	94	94	1
5	Joe Duffy	–	94	94	1
6	Kevin Moyer	–	92	92	1

Round 6 · Oct 3

4 in the class

TQ: David Alberico

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	David Alberico	20/5:01.716	14.522	15.086	96.93%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	William Schroeder	20/5:15.983	14.073	15.799	87.03%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2
3	Josh Strumillo	18/5:10.547	15.312	17.253	92.84%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3
4	Kevin Moyer	18/5:17.538	16.362	17.641	92.90%	Q1 P2, Q2 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	David Alberico	20/5:01.716	14.522	15.086	96.93%	✓
2	Kevin Moyer	17/5:10.933	17.351	18.290	94.95%
3	Josh Strumillo	16/5:08.494	16.285	19.281	84.03%
4	William Schroeder	13/3:36.951	14.734	16.689	82.26%
Qualifier 2
1	David Alberico	20/5:11.239	14.289	15.562	90.94%
2	William Schroeder	20/5:15.983	14.073	15.799	87.03%	✓
3	Josh Strumillo	18/5:10.547	15.312	17.253	92.84%	✓
4	Kevin Moyer	18/5:17.538	16.362	17.641	92.90%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	David Alberico	1	20/5:08.200	14.299	15.199	94.75%	+100
2	Kevin Moyer	2	18/5:09.600	15.832	16.592	96.58%	+96
3	Josh Strumillo	3	16/5:01.450	16.150	18.410	90.67%	+94
Ranked on qualifying
4	William Schroeder	4	-	–	–	–	+92

1st
David Alberico 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.522 · 96.93% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.299 · 94.75% cons
David Alberico's first Mod 2wd round of the series, and he checked out. He qualified off 20 laps in both runs at 96.93% to TQ, then led the main flag to flag with 20 laps at 94.75%, and the next car home had 18. William Schroeder turned the quicker lap in qualifying at 14.073, but Schroeder never started the main, so nobody found out whether that lap could live with this run. I'd have liked to see it.
2nd
Kevin Moyer 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.362 · 92.90% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.832 · 96.58% cons
Kevin Moyer qualified last of the four and turned it into second with the cleanest main in the class, 18 laps at 96.58%. His 15.832 best was a second and a half off David Alberico's, so nobody will mistake this for a speed run, and it still beat Josh Strumillo by two laps. Fourth in June, second now. He's third in the standings with 188 points, eight points behind Noah Hicklin.
3rd
Josh Strumillo 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.312 · 92.84% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.150 · 90.67% cons
A debut podium in Mod 2wd for Josh Strumillo, and he should enjoy it before looking too closely. Sixteen laps at 90.67%, a 16.150 best almost two seconds off David Alberico's, and four laps down at the flag. Of the three cars that took the start, he was the third. He collects 94 points for it, and I'd rather talk about the podium than the lap count.
Lower mains
4th
William Schroeder 92 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.073 · 87.03% qual cons
William Schroeder turned the quickest lap in qualifying, a 14.073, and seeded second off a 20-lap Q2 after a Q1 that ended at 13 laps. He never started the main. The order still pays him fourth, 92 points.

Championship after Round 6

Nick Gibson is the Mod 2wd champion with 392 points, and he won it without turning a wheel at the final round. Four starts were enough, because nobody else managed more than two: Noah Hicklin finishes second with 196 points and Kevin Moyer third with 188 points. The last night belonged to David Alberico, who TQ'd, led flag to flag and won by two laps on his first visit to the class. William Schroeder gets the roast: the quickest lap of qualifying at 14.073, the second slot on the grid, and then an empty space where his car should have been when the main went off. The order still paid him fourth, so that's 92 points for the quickest bit of empty grid in Mod 2wd.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Nick Gibson	–	392	392	4
2	Noah Hicklin	–	196	196	2
3	Kevin Moyer	+96	188	188	2
4	Jake Stoeltzing	–	100	100	1
5	David Alberico	+100	100	100	1
6	Teagan Cummings	–	94	94	1
7	Joe Duffy	–	94	94	1
8	Josh Strumillo	+94	94	94	1

Mod 4wd Buggy

5 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Noah Hicklin	200	200	2	2	1st	·	·	·	100	100	·
2	Nick Gibson	192	192	–	2	2nd	·	·	·	96	96	·
3	Joe Duffy	94	94	–	1	3rd	·	·	·	94	–	·
4	Charlie Hicklin	94	94	–	1	3rd	·	·	·	–	94	·
5	Josh Strumillo	92	92	–	1	4th	·	·	·	–	92	·

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Round 4 · Jul 25

3 in the class

TQ: Noah Hicklin

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:07.135	13.282	13.961	94.93%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Nick Gibson	21/5:01.122	13.461	14.339	92.11%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
3	Joe Duffy	20/5:01.803	14.159	15.090	91.99%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Noah Hicklin	21/5:00.174	13.550	14.294	93.42%
2	Nick Gibson	21/5:01.122	13.461	14.339	92.11%	✓
3	Joe Duffy	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:14.373	13.520	14.290	92.44%
2	Nick Gibson	20/5:00.638	13.383	15.032	89.33%
3	Joe Duffy	20/5:01.803	14.159	15.090	91.99%	✓
Qualifier 3
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:07.135	13.282	13.961	94.93%	✓
2	Nick Gibson	21/5:04.878	13.439	14.518	91.15%
3	Joe Duffy	5/1:19.131	14.179	15.826	85.65%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Noah Hicklin	23/5:15.652	13.182	14.185	92.56%	+100
2	Nick Gibson	22/5:03.405	13.256	14.259	93.10%	+96
3	Joe Duffy	-	–	–	–	+94

1st
Noah Hicklin 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.282 · 94.93% qual cons · 23 laps · fast 13.182 · 92.56% cons
Noah Hicklin owned Mod 4wd's first night of the series. He had the quickest lap in qualifying at 13.282, TQ'd off two 22-lap runs, then won flag to flag with 23 laps to Nick Gibson's 22 and a 13.182 in the main that Gibson didn't match. His own 92.56% was the scruffier of the two front runs, and it didn't matter one bit. A lap clear on the opening night is how a man announces himself in a class.
2nd
Nick Gibson 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 13.461 · 92.11% qual cons · 22 laps · fast 13.256 · 93.10% cons
A lap down from a tidy main is a strange way to lose. Nick Gibson ran 22 laps at 93.10%, cleaner than the winner, with a 13.256 best within a tenth of Noah Hicklin's. Hicklin had him beaten in all three qualifiers as well, so this was a night of being a little slower everywhere. Over 22 laps that came to a full lap, and 96 points to start the class.
3rd
Joe Duffy 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.159 · 91.99% qual cons
A rough night for Joe Duffy in Mod 4wd. Q1 produced no run, Q2 was a solid 20 laps with a 14.159 best, and Q3 stopped after 5 laps. There are no main laps on record for him, and the order still pays him third, 94 points.

Championship after Round 4

Mod 4wd's first night of the series was a three-car affair, and Noah Hicklin made it look like a one-car one. Hicklin took the quickest lap in qualifying, the TQ, every lap of the main and a lap's margin over Nick Gibson, who was cleaner than him in the main and still never on terms. Joe Duffy has no main laps on record and banks 94 points for third on the order. After one round the standings are only the finishing order, 100, 96 and 94 points, so they settle nothing. The pace says more: Gibson was within a tenth of Hicklin over a lap and a full lap behind over the distance.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Noah Hicklin	+100	100	100	1
2	Nick Gibson	+96	96	96	1
3	Joe Duffy	+94	94	94	1

Round 5 · Aug 29

4 in the class

TQ: Noah Hicklin

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:05.915	13.318	13.905	93.48%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Nick Gibson	22/5:07.364	13.133	13.971	91.80%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
3	Charlie Hicklin	18/5:00.587	15.207	16.699	93.28%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3 P3
4	Josh Stramillo	17/5:06.015	15.435	18.001	87.64%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3, Q3 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Nick Gibson	22/5:09.700	13.474	14.077	94.72%
2	Noah Hicklin	21/5:05.379	13.519	14.542	89.39%
3	Charlie Hicklin	18/5:00.587	15.207	16.699	93.28%	✓
4	Josh Strumillo	17/5:06.352	15.633	18.021	90.25%
Qualifier 2
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:10.596	13.212	14.118	94.28%
2	Nick Gibson	21/5:00.228	13.270	14.297	86.14%
3	Josh Strumillo	17/5:06.015	15.435	18.001	87.64%	✓
4	Charlie Hicklin	17/5:10.972	14.825	18.292	81.66%
Qualifier 3
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:05.915	13.318	13.905	93.48%	✓
2	Nick Gibson	22/5:07.364	13.133	13.971	91.80%	✓
3	Charlie Hicklin	17/5:04.371	14.936	17.904	84.83%
4	Josh Strumillo	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Noah Hicklin	23/5:07.452	13.294	13.819	95.29%	+100
2	Nick Gibson	22/5:12.351	13.357	14.693	86.66%	+96
3	Charlie Hicklin	18/5:15.160	15.048	18.277	83.95%	+94
4	Josh Strumillo	17/5:17.170	16.224	19.373	86.46%	+92

1st
Noah Hicklin 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.318 · 93.48% qual cons · 23 laps · fast 13.294 · 95.29% cons
Two Mod 4wd rounds, two TQs and every lap of both mains led. Noah Hicklin didn't have the quickest lap in qualifying this time (Nick Gibson did), and it made no difference: 23 laps at 95.29% with an average of 13.819, the lowest in the main by almost nine tenths, and Gibson a lap down again. I've seen enough. Until somebody beats him, this is Noah Hicklin's class, and he leads it with 200 points, eight points clear.
2nd
Nick Gibson 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 13.133 · 91.80% qual cons · 22 laps · fast 13.357 · 86.66% cons
Nick Gibson threw down a 13.133 in qualifying, the quickest lap anyone has turned in Mod 4wd this series, and then gave it all back in the main. An 86.66% run averaging 14.693, against Noah Hicklin's 13.819, put him a lap down for the second round running. He had the speed and not the laps, and against a driver this clean that won't do. Two runner-up finishes leave him with 192 points, eight points behind.
3rd
Charlie Hicklin 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.207 · 93.28% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.048 · 83.95% cons
A podium on his first Mod 4wd round for Charlie Hicklin, a lap clear of Josh Strumillo with 18 laps. The main is what bothers me: 83.95%, when he'd qualified at 93.28% and run 18 laps in Q1. That's the scrappier version of the same driver, and it left him five laps behind Noah Hicklin. Third on debut is worth having, and the qualifying version of Charlie Hicklin would have made it look a lot better.
4th
Josh Strumillo 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.435 · 87.64% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.224 · 86.46% cons
Josh Strumillo ran fourth in qualifying and fourth in the main, and the lap count kept him there: 17 laps at 86.46% against Charlie Hicklin's 18. His 16.224 best was more than a second off Charlie Hicklin's, so there was no making it up on pace either. Q3 went by without a run from him, and that's the part I'd fix first. It's still a first Mod 4wd round with 92 points in it.

Championship after Round 5

Noah Hicklin is two for two in Mod 4wd: TQ both nights, every lap led in both mains and Nick Gibson a lap behind him both times. Gibson had the quickest lap of qualifying at 13.133 and still couldn't turn it into anything, because an 86.66% main doesn't beat a 95.29% one. That leaves Noah Hicklin with 200 points and Gibson with 192 points, both from two starts, so with the best four counting neither has a thing to drop. Eight points is the whole gap, the difference between two wins and two second places. Charlie Hicklin took third on his first night in the class and Josh Strumillo fourth, and four cars is the biggest Mod 4wd field of the series so far.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Noah Hicklin	+100	200	200	2
2	Nick Gibson	+96	192	192	2
3	Joe Duffy	–	94	94	1
4	Charlie Hicklin	+94	94	94	1
5	Josh Strumillo	+92	92	92	1

Round 6 · Oct 3

Class not run

This class wasn’t on the program that night. It scores nothing, and a round it skips is one of the results the drop rule absorbs.

40+ 2wd Buggy

4 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Wayne Schroeder	200	200	2	2	1st	100	–	100	·	·	·
2	Dennis Keith	194	194	1	2	1st	94	100	–	·	·	·
3	Kevin Moyer	96	96	–	1	2nd	96	–	–	·	·	·
4	Steve Spears	96	96	–	1	2nd	–	96	–	·	·	·

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Round 1 · Apr 11

3 in the class

TQ: Wayne Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:07.575	15.058	16.188	91.52%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Kevin Moyer	19/5:11.783	15.550	16.410	95.21%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2, Q3 P3
3	Dennis Keith	18/5:15.167	15.750	17.509	88.08%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3, Q3 P2

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
2	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:07.575	15.058	16.188	91.52%	✓
3	Kevin Moyer	19/5:11.783	15.550	16.410	95.21%	✓
4	Dennis Keith	17/5:07.782	16.074	18.105	84.21%
Qualifier 2
1	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:08.220	15.352	16.222	92.49%
2	Kevin Moyer	19/5:17.277	15.763	16.699	92.02%
3	Dennis Keith	18/5:15.167	15.750	17.509	88.08%	✓
Qualifier 3
1	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:16.136	15.374	16.639	91.22%
2	Dennis Keith	17/5:05.623	16.116	17.978	89.86%
3	Kevin Moyer	13/3:35.035	15.430	16.541	94.13%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Wayne Schroeder	19/5:08.624	15.323	16.281	95.11%	+100
2	Kevin Moyer	19/5:12.222	15.739	16.430	96.94%	+96
3	Dennis Keith	18/5:12.954	15.907	17.246	89.97%	+94

1st
Wayne Schroeder 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.058 · 91.52% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.323 · 95.11% cons
Wayne Schroeder was TQ, had the quickest lap of qualifying at 15.058, and then led the A-main from flag to flag. Kevin Moyer made sure it was no stroll, sitting within two seconds of him for 7 of the 19 laps and finishing on the same lap, 3.598 seconds back. Wayne's reply was the hot lap of the race, a 15.323, inside a 95.11% main. He had the speed and the laps in the same five minutes, and I'll give him the night without a single caveat.
2nd
Kevin Moyer 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.550 · 95.21% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.739 · 96.94% cons
Kevin Moyer was the tidiest driver in the class, 95.21% in qualifying and a dialed 96.94% in the main. He ran with Wayne Schroeder for 7 of the 19 laps and finished on the same lap, 3.598 seconds back. The difference was the hot lap: his 15.739 was more than four tenths off Wayne's 15.323. Nobody in the class ran a cleaner main, and second with 96 points is the least that tidiness deserved.
3rd
Dennis Keith 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.750 · 88.08% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.907 · 89.97% cons
A lap down on 18 laps, Dennis Keith was the odd man out in a three-car class. His 15.907 best in the main was close enough to Kevin Moyer's 15.739, so the lap went missing in the run: 89.97% against Kevin's 96.94%. Qualifying said the same thing, the least consistent of the three at 89.86%. Ninety-four points for third, and most of the gap came from scatter rather than speed.

Championship after Round 1

Wayne Schroeder opened the 40+ 2wd Buggy season the way a TQ is supposed to, with the quickest lap in qualifying at 15.058 and every lap of the A-main led. Kevin Moyer made him earn it, running inside two seconds of him for 7 of the 19 laps and finishing 3.598 seconds back on the same lap with the cleanest main in the class at 96.94%. Dennis Keith was a lap down in third. After one round the standings are simply the result, Wayne with 100 points, Kevin with 96 points and Dennis with 94 points, and they prove nothing yet. What the race did prove is that Wayne's edge over Kevin was speed, because Kevin was the tidier of the two.

Through Round 1 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Wayne Schroeder	+100	100	100	1
2	Kevin Moyer	+96	96	96	1
3	Dennis Keith	+94	94	94	1

Round 2 · May 9

2 in the class

TQ: Dennis Keith

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Dennis Keith	18/5:05.094	15.896	16.950	91.50%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Steve Spears	16/5:00.307	16.991	18.769	87.86%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P2

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Dennis Keith	18/5:10.133	15.706	17.230	86.76%
2	Steve Spears	16/5:05.969	16.890	19.123	85.71%
Qualifier 2
1	Dennis Keith	18/5:18.147	15.762	17.675	86.10%
2	Steve Spears	16/5:01.014	17.081	18.813	91.64%
Qualifier 3
1	Dennis Keith	18/5:05.094	15.896	16.950	91.50%	✓
2	Steve Spears	16/5:00.307	16.991	18.769	87.86%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Dennis Keith	18/5:02.047	16.108	16.723	96.71%	+100
2	Steve Spears	16/5:02.944	17.003	18.958	87.41%	+96

1st
Dennis Keith 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.896 · 91.50% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.108 · 96.71% cons
Dennis Keith won all three qualifiers at 18 laps apiece, so the TQ was never in doubt, and then he led every lap of the A-main. Two laps clear of Steve Spears is a checked-out win, and the 96.71% main came from a driver who ran 89.97% last time out. His main average came down from 17.246 to 16.723. That's a dialed run whether there are two cars on the track or twenty, and it puts him top of the standings with 194 points.
2nd
Steve Spears 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.991 · 87.86% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.003 · 87.41% cons
Steve Spears made his first start in the class and ran into a buzzsaw. He did 16 laps in every qualifier and 16 more in the main, two laps behind Dennis Keith, and his 17.003 best was nearly nine tenths off the winner's. The 87.41% main was scrappier than the 91.64% he qualified with. Ninety-six points on debut is still a decent haul, and it puts him level with Kevin Moyer in the standings.

Championship after Round 2

Two cars turned up and Dennis Keith left nothing for the other one, winning every qualifier and leading every lap of the A-main to finish two laps clear of Steve Spears. That takes him top with 194 points. Wayne Schroeder won Round 1 and sat this one out, so the man who beat Dennis by a lap last time now has 100 points and trails him by 94. Kevin Moyer and Steve Spears are level with 96 points each. Two rounds in, the table rewards turning up, and Dennis is the only driver who has done it twice.

Through Round 2 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Dennis Keith	+100	194	194	2
2	Wayne Schroeder	–	100	100	1
3	Kevin Moyer	–	96	96	1
4	Steve Spears	+96	96	96	1

Round 3 · Jun 6

1 in the class

TQ: Wayne Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Wayne Schroeder	0/0.000	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Points
Ranked on qualifying
1	Wayne Schroeder	–	+100

1st
Wayne Schroeder 100 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P1
Wayne Schroeder was the only car in the class, so the TQ was his by default, and with one car there was no main to run: the track ranked the night on qualifying. The order pays him first, 100 points, and that puts him top of the standings with 200 points.

Championship after Round 3

The 40+ 2wd Buggy class was one car this round, and with one car there was no main to run, so the track ranked the night on qualifying. Wayne Schroeder qualified and collected the TQ by being the only name on the list, which in a one-car class is the easy part. The order pays him first, 100 points for a night with no main in it, and that lifts him to the top with 200 points, six clear of Dennis Keith, who didn't enter. Three rounds run means the best two count, and since nobody has more than two starts, nobody has dropped a thing. Kevin Moyer and Steve Spears stay level with 96 points each. It's a strange way to take a championship lead, and it counts exactly the same as any other.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Wayne Schroeder	+100	200	200	2
2	Dennis Keith	–	194	194	2
3	Kevin Moyer	–	96	96	1
4	Steve Spears	–	96	96	1

Round 4 · Jul 25

Class not run

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Round 5 · Aug 29

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Round 6 · Oct 3

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Novice

6 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Kayson Moran	492	492	3	5	1st	100	96	·	100	100	96
2	Jax Bredernitz	290	290	–	3	1st	96	100	·	–	–	94
3	Chris Kuhlmann	188	188	–	2	2nd	–	92	·	–	96	–
4	Bodhi Alberico	100	100	1	1	1st	–	–	·	–	–	100
5	Chuck Burns	94	94	1	1	3rd	–	94	·	–	–	–
6	Henry Kuhlmann	94	94	–	1	3rd	–	–	·	–	94	–

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Round 1 · Apr 11

2 in the class

TQ: Kayson Moran

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Kayson Moran	12/5:05.852	19.683	25.488	82.93%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Jax Bredernitz	11/5:07.477	23.868	27.952	92.03%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2, Q3 P2

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Jax Bredernitz	11/5:11.285	23.492	28.299	89.58%
2	Kayson Moran	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Kayson Moran	12/5:05.852	19.683	25.488	82.93%	✓
2	Jax Bredernitz	10/5:00.587	23.316	30.059	80.60%
Qualifier 3
1	Kayson Moran	12/5:15.278	20.348	26.273	90.64%
2	Jax Bredernitz	11/5:07.477	23.868	27.952	92.03%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Kayson Moran	13/5:21.023	20.107	24.881	74.09%	+100
2	Jax Bredernitz	8/5:24.136	25.268	–	13.91%	+96

1st
Kayson Moran 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 19.683 · 82.93% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 20.107 · 74.09% cons
Kayson Moran TQ'd and won the first Novice round of the series, and he did it the right way, leading every lap. Thirteen laps in the main with a 20.107 best, one more lap than either of his 12-lap qualifiers, so he saved his best run of the day for the race that counts. A winner's 100 points to open the season is a terrific start.
2nd
Jax Bredernitz 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 23.868 · 92.03% qual cons · 8 laps · fast 25.268 · 13.91% cons
Jax Bredernitz opens the season with 96 points, and the qualifying is where the good news is. He was the only driver in the class to run all three qualifiers, 11 laps, then 10, then 11, with a 23.316 best and 92.03% consistency, and every one of those runs went the full distance. The main was harder going at 8 laps. Three full qualifiers on the first night of the season is exactly the kind of start Novice is for.

Championship after Round 1

The Novice class opened the Sizzling Summer with two drivers, and Kayson Moran leads it with 100 points after a TQ and a flag-to-flag win. His 13 laps in the main against 8 settled the night. Jax Bredernitz is second with 96 points, and he was the one who ran all three qualifiers, 11, 10 and 11 laps. After one round the standings are simply the finishing order, and the best thing on the board is that both of them are on it.

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	Kayson Moran	+100	100	0	100	1
2	Jax Bredernitz	+96	96	0	96	1

Round 2 · May 9

4 in the class

TQ: Chuck Burns

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Chuck Burns	14/5:00.255	18.162	21.447	89.14%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P4
2	Chris Kuhlmann	13/5:27.095	20.635	25.161	86.84%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2, Q3 P1
3	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:02.305	21.726	25.192	89.93%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3, Q3 P3
4	Kayson Moran	11/5:00.338	22.988	27.303	88.51%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4, Q3 P2

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Chuck Burns	14/5:00.255	18.162	21.447	89.14%	✓
2	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:15.997	21.628	26.333	70.99%
3	Kayson Moran	8/4:04.657	21.684	30.582	77.73%
4	Chris Kuhlmann	-	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Chuck Burns	14/5:20.155	18.333	22.868	85.22%
2	Chris Kuhlmann	13/5:27.095	20.635	25.161	86.84%	✓
3	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:02.305	21.726	25.192	89.93%	✓
4	Kayson Moran	11/5:00.338	22.988	27.303	88.51%	✓
Qualifier 3
1	Chris Kuhlmann	11/5:00.338	20.811	30.034	73.43%
2	Kayson Moran	11/5:15.910	22.156	28.719	82.47%
3	Jax Bredernitz	6/5:01.099	23.772	50.183	20.37%
4	Chuck Burns	5/1:51.833	19.283	22.367	88.78%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Jax Bredernitz	1	13/5:14.404	21.559	23.962	89.16%	+100
2	Kayson Moran	2	5/2:26.757	24.340	30.639	74.99%	+96
Ranked on qualifying
3	Chuck Burns	3	–	–	–	–	+94
4	Chris Kuhlmann	4	–	–	–	–	+92

1st
Jax Bredernitz 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 21.726 · 89.93% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 21.559 · 89.16% cons
Eight laps at 13.91% in April. Thirteen laps at 89.16% and a win in May. Jax Bredernitz came in seeded third of four, Kayson Moran had the lead for the opening lap, and from lap 2 it belonged to Jax for the other 12. His 21.559 in the main was quicker than anything he'd turned in qualifying, which is exactly what a driver learning the job should be doing. That's a month of real progress, and it has him level on points at the top of the championship.
2nd
Kayson Moran 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 22.988 · 88.51% qual cons · 5 laps · fast 24.340 · 74.99% cons
Seeded last of four after an 8-lap Q1, and Kayson Moran still had the lead of the A-main at the end of lap 1. I loved that part. The rest of his main stopped at 5 laps and 2:26.757, so something went wrong out there, and the 30.639 average says the laps he did get weren't easy ones. Second place pays 96 points all the same, and the April winner goes home level with Jax Bredernitz on 196 points apiece.
Lower mains
3rd
Chuck Burns 94 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P1 · qual best lap 18.162 · 89.14% qual cons
Chuck Burns owned qualifying. He was TQ off 14 laps in both Q1 and Q2, and his 18.162 was 2.473 seconds quicker than any other Novice managed all day. The A-main then went off without him in it. Third place still pays 94 points, and speed like that deserves a main to show it off in.
4th
Chris Kuhlmann 92 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P2 · qual best lap 20.635 · 86.84% qual cons
No Q1 result for Chris Kuhlmann, and he still worked his way to second on the grid with 13 laps in Q2 and the top spot in Q3 on 11 laps. His 20.635 was the second-quickest lap of qualifying, too. He didn't take the start of the main, and fourth place puts 92 points next to his name on his first night in the series.

Championship after Round 2

Two rounds in, Jax Bredernitz and Kayson Moran are level on 196 points, each with a win and a second. Jax took this one from third on the grid, running 13 laps at 89.16% after Kayson led the opening lap and then saw his main stop at 5. Chuck Burns was TQ and the quickest Novice by more than two seconds, but he and Chris Kuhlmann didn't take the start, so a four-car class raced as a pair. The order still pays them their places, 94 and 92 points, and it's a shame the main never got to see Chuck's speed. Two results count after two rounds and nobody has more than two, so nothing comes off anybody yet.

Through Round 2 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Jax Bredernitz	+100	196	196	2
2	Kayson Moran	+96	196	196	2
3	Chuck Burns	+94	94	94	1
4	Chris Kuhlmann	+92	92	92	1

Round 3 · Jun 6

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Round 4 · Jul 25

1 in the class

TQ: Kayson Moran

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Kayson Moran	14/5:23.639	17.795	23.117	87.11%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4, Q3H2 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
4	Kayson Moran	12/5:11.637	19.395	25.970	65.44%
Qualifier 2
4	Kayson Moran	13/5:01.251	18.619	23.173	84.95%
Qualifier 3
4	Kayson Moran	14/5:23.639	17.795	23.117	87.11%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Kayson Moran	9/3:11.394	19.835	26.343	74.77%	+100

1st
Kayson Moran 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 17.795 · 87.11% qual cons · 9 laps · fast 19.835 · 74.77% cons
A Novice class of one, and Kayson Moran used the space to get a lot quicker. His qualifying went 12 laps, then 13, then 14, and the 17.795 he found is almost four seconds better than his best in May. Something cut the main short at 9 laps and 3:11.394, but the win pays 100 points either way. That makes 296 points and a 100-point lead over Jax Bredernitz, and I'm more impressed by the lap time than by the lead.

Championship after Round 4

Kayson Moran had the Novice class to himself in July and leaves with 296 points, 100 clear of Jax Bredernitz, who wasn't entered. The window now counts three results and Kayson has raced exactly three rounds, so all 296 of his points count and nothing comes off. His 17.795 in qualifying matters more to me than the lead: it's nearly four seconds quicker than he went in May. Chuck Burns stays third with 94 points and Chris Kuhlmann fourth with 92 points.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Kayson Moran	+100	296	296	3
2	Jax Bredernitz	–	196	196	2
3	Chuck Burns	–	94	94	1
4	Chris Kuhlmann	–	92	92	1

Round 5 · Aug 29

3 in the class

TQ: Kayson Moran

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Kayson Moran	14/5:06.404	18.411	21.886	87.74%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Chris Kuhlmann	13/5:08.141	20.171	23.703	90.64%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P2
3	Henry Kuhlmann	12/5:10.045	20.628	25.837	86.78%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3, Q3 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Kayson Moran	14/5:06.404	18.411	21.886	87.74%	✓
2	Chris Kuhlmann	12/5:10.885	21.052	25.907	89.04%
3	Henry Kuhlmann	12/5:18.086	21.308	26.507	83.64%
Qualifier 2
1	Kayson Moran	14/5:08.269	17.787	22.019	78.82%
2	Chris Kuhlmann	13/5:08.141	20.171	23.703	90.64%	✓
3	Henry Kuhlmann	12/5:24.631	21.524	27.053	80.00%
Qualifier 3
1	Kayson Moran	13/5:03.484	18.803	23.345	85.28%
2	Chris Kuhlmann	13/5:09.788	20.363	23.830	86.94%
3	Henry Kuhlmann	12/5:10.045	20.628	25.837	86.78%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Kayson Moran	1	13/5:06.685	17.755	24.942	76.96%	+100
Ranked on qualifying
2	Chris Kuhlmann	2	-	–	–	–	+96
3	Henry Kuhlmann	3	-	–	–	–	+94

1st
Kayson Moran 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 18.411 · 87.74% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 17.755 · 76.96% cons
Nobody else lined up for the A-main, so Kayson Moran raced it alone after topping all three qualifiers. His 17.755 in the main is the quickest lap he's turned in this series, a touch under the 17.787 he set in qualifying. The 24.942 average shows how far his typical lap still sits from his best one, and closing that gap is the next job. The 100 points take him to 396 points, a 200-point lead over Jax Bredernitz, and he's raced four rounds with all four counting.
Lower mains
2nd
Chris Kuhlmann 96 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P2 · qual best lap 20.171 · 90.64% qual cons
Chris Kuhlmann came back quicker than he left. His 20.171 is nearly half a second better than his best in May, and his 90.64% was the best consistency figure in qualifying. He didn't take the start of the main, but second still pays 96 points and lifts him to third in the championship with 188 points, eight behind Jax Bredernitz.
3rd
Henry Kuhlmann 94 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P3 · qual best lap 20.628 · 86.78% qual cons
Henry Kuhlmann ran 12 laps in all three qualifiers on his first night in the class, as steady a set of lap counts as anyone could ask for. His 20.628 best was within half a second of Chris Kuhlmann's 20.171, a good start by any measure. The main went off without him, and third pays 94 points, the same total Chuck Burns has from May.

Championship after Round 5

Kayson Moran leads with 396 points after five rounds, 200 clear of Jax Bredernitz, and he got this one by topping all three qualifiers and then running the A-main by himself. Chris Kuhlmann and Henry Kuhlmann qualified second and third and didn't take the start, and the order still pays them 96 and 94 points. That moves Chris Kuhlmann up to third in the championship with 188 points, eight behind Jax, who hasn't raced since May. The window counts four results now and Kayson has raced four rounds, so every one of his points stands, and nobody else has raced more than two.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Kayson Moran	+100	396	396	4
2	Jax Bredernitz	–	196	196	2
3	Chris Kuhlmann	+96	188	188	2
4	Chuck Burns	–	94	94	1
5	Henry Kuhlmann	+94	94	94	1

Round 6 · Oct 3

3 in the class

TQ: Bodhi Alberico

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Bodhi Alberico	14/5:14.882	19.307	22.492	84.83%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Kayson Moran	14/5:15.398	17.683	22.528	81.45%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:03.299	20.371	25.275	83.14%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Bodhi Alberico	14/5:14.882	19.307	22.492	84.83%	✓
2	Kayson Moran	14/5:15.398	17.683	22.528	81.45%	✓
3	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:03.299	20.371	25.275	83.14%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Bodhi Alberico	14/5:20.845	19.370	22.918	75.96%
2	Kayson Moran	12/5:05.133	18.755	25.428	74.92%
3	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:15.263	20.328	26.272	82.98%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Bodhi Alberico	16/5:19.855	18.514	21.020	92.66%	+100
2	Kayson Moran	15/5:01.551	17.515	21.205	86.51%	+96
3	Jax Bredernitz	14/5:05.554	19.340	23.016	89.00%	+94

1st
Bodhi Alberico 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 19.307 · 84.83% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 18.514 · 92.66% cons
Bodhi Alberico turned up for the last round of the season, TQ'd and led every lap of the A-main. He didn't have the quickest car: Kayson Moran's 17.515 was almost exactly a second better than his 18.514. It didn't matter, because Bodhi averaged 21.020 at 92.66%, the cleanest main any Novice ran in this series, and took the flag a lap clear. That's how to arrive.
2nd
Kayson Moran 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 17.683 · 81.45% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.515 · 86.51% cons
The title is Kayson Moran's, and he closed the year with the best drive of his season. The 17.515 he threw down in the main is the quickest Novice lap of the series, and his 86.51% was nearly ten points cleaner than any main he'd run in this series before. He still finished second, a lap down on Bodhi Alberico, and I can live with that. Three wins and two seconds add up to 492 points, 202 clear of Jax Bredernitz.
3rd
Jax Bredernitz 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 20.371 · 83.14% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 19.340 · 89.00% cons
Jax Bredernitz raced three rounds this year and still finishes second in the championship with 290 points. His 19.340 in the main was more than two seconds quicker than his best Novice lap anywhere before tonight, and 14 laps at 89.00% is a world away from the 8-lap, 13.91% main he opened the season with. Third on the night, and I'd argue nobody in this class improved more over the summer.

Championship after Round 6

Kayson Moran is the 2026 Sizzling Summer Novice champion with 492 points, 202 clear of Jax Bredernitz, and the only driver in the class who raced more than three rounds. He raced five, won three of them and keeps all five results, and his 17.515 in this main was the quickest Novice lap of the series. The finale wasn't his, though. Bodhi Alberico TQ'd on his first night in the class and won it flag to flag at 92.66%, a lap clear of the champion. Jax was third on the night and finishes second in the championship with 290 points, and with a best-five window and nobody racing six rounds, not one result in this class was thrown out all year.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Kayson Moran	+96	492	492	5
2	Jax Bredernitz	+94	290	290	3
3	Chris Kuhlmann	–	188	188	2
4	Bodhi Alberico	+100	100	100	1
5	Chuck Burns	–	94	94	1
6	Henry Kuhlmann	–	94	94	1

Stock Spec Slash

4 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 11	R2May 9	R3Jun 6	R4Jul 25	R5Aug 29	R6Oct 3
1	Jason Ruhnke	196	196	1	2	1st	100	·	96	·	·	·
2	Josh Strumillo	100	100	1	1	1st	–	·	100	·	·	·
3	Albert Bredernitz	96	96	–	1	2nd	96	·	–	·	·	·
4	Terry Gile	94	94	–	1	3rd	94	·	–	·	·	·

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Round 1 · Apr 11

3 in the class

TQ: Jason Ruhnke

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Jason Ruhnke	14/5:12.604	20.768	22.329	94.22%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P1
2	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:01.830	21.381	23.218	89.63%	Q1 P3, Q2 P1, Q3 P2
3	Terry Gile	13/5:07.535	21.896	23.657	92.52%	Q1 P1, Q2 P3, Q3 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Terry Gile	13/5:07.535	21.896	23.657	92.52%	✓
2	Jason Ruhnke	13/5:07.988	21.520	23.691	90.83%
3	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:15.004	21.185	24.231	90.41%
Qualifier 2
1	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:01.830	21.381	23.218	89.63%	✓
2	Jason Ruhnke	13/5:02.987	21.096	23.307	90.53%
3	Terry Gile	6/2:54.525	22.280	29.088	63.90%
Qualifier 3
1	Jason Ruhnke	14/5:12.604	20.768	22.329	94.22%	✓
2	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:05.369	21.630	23.490	93.30%
3	Terry Gile	-	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Jason Ruhnke	14/5:17.559	21.244	22.365	94.38%	+100
2	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:19.249	21.268	24.325	90.49%	+96
3	Terry Gile	12/5:12.228	21.125	25.973	92.11%	+94

1st
Jason Ruhnke 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 20.768 · 94.22% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 21.244 · 94.38% cons
Terry Gile had the lead for exactly one lap. Jason Ruhnke took it on lap 2 and ran the remaining 13 at 94.38%, the cleanest main in the class, to win by a lap. He was TQ off the only 14-lap qualifier anyone in Slash ran all day, and his 20.768 there was the quickest lap in the class. The three best laps in the main sat within 0.143 of each other, so this was won on repeating the lap, and nobody repeated it like Jason.
2nd
Albert Bredernitz 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 21.381 · 89.63% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 21.268 · 90.49% cons
Albert Bredernitz had the lap. His 21.268 in the main was 0.024 off Jason Ruhnke's best, which is nothing at all. The average was the problem: 24.325 against Jason's 22.365 is almost two seconds a lap, and over five minutes that adds up to the lap he finished down. He topped Q2 with 13 laps in 5:01.830, and second from the second seed is a fair night.
3rd
Terry Gile 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 21.896 · 92.52% qual cons · 12 laps · fast 21.125 · 92.11% cons
One lap in the lead and the quickest lap of the main, 21.125, and Terry Gile still finished two laps down in third. How does that happen? A 25.973 average over 12 laps, nearly five seconds a lap slower than his best. Qualifying went the same way: he topped Q1 with 13 laps, then managed 6 in Q2 and nothing in Q3. Over one lap he can run with anybody in this class. Over five minutes he isn't there yet.

Championship after Round 1

Each of the three Slash drivers topped one qualifier, and Jason Ruhnke's 14 laps in Q3 were what made him TQ. In the A-main Terry Gile led lap 1, Jason took over on lap 2 and won by a lap at 94.38%, with Albert Bredernitz second and Terry third. The best laps in that main sat within 0.143 of each other, so the race went to whoever could repeat his, and Jason was the only one who did it lap after lap. After one round the standings are just the finishing order, 100, 96 and 94 points, and they prove nothing yet.

Through Round 1 the drop rule has nothing to take away yet, so both columns match.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Jason Ruhnke	+100	100	100	1
2	Albert Bredernitz	+96	96	96	1
3	Terry Gile	+94	94	94	1

Round 2 · May 9

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Round 3 · Jun 6

2 in the class

TQ: Josh Strumillo

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Josh Strumillo	15/5:17.685	20.077	21.179	93.79%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1, Q3 P1
2	Jason Ruhnke	14/5:20.075	20.501	22.863	89.97%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2, Q3 P2

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Josh Strumillo	14/5:03.073	20.388	21.648	89.84%
2	Jason Ruhnke	13/5:01.383	21.114	23.183	89.34%
Qualifier 2
1	Josh Strumillo	14/5:05.667	20.662	21.833	89.48%
2	Jason Ruhnke	14/5:20.075	20.501	22.863	89.97%	✓
Qualifier 3
1	Josh Strumillo	15/5:17.685	20.077	21.179	93.79%	✓
2	Jason Ruhnke	13/5:02.595	20.956	23.277	89.68%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Josh Strumillo	15/5:18.634	20.202	21.120	93.79%	+100
2	Jason Ruhnke	14/5:21.004	21.173	22.938	92.87%	+96

1st
Josh Strumillo 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 20.077 · 93.79% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 20.202 · 93.79% cons
Josh Strumillo topped all three qualifiers on his first night in Slash, then won the main by a lap. Jason Ruhnke had the lead on lap 1 and Josh had it for the 14 after that. His 21.120 average was 1.818 a lap better than Jason's, and the 93.79% he ran in the main matches his qualifying figure to the hundredth. That's a debut with no weak spot anywhere.
2nd
Jason Ruhnke 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 20.501 · 89.97% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 21.173 · 92.87% cons
In April Jason Ruhnke took the lead on lap 2. In June he had it on lap 1 and lost it on lap 2, to a Josh Strumillo who averaged 1.818 a lap quicker. Jason did get faster himself, 20.501 in qualifying against 20.768 in April, and 92.87% in the main is a clean run by anyone's measure. Second keeps him top of the championship with 196 points, 96 clear of Josh, and he's the only Slash driver to have raced both rounds.

Championship after Round 3

Josh Strumillo swept qualifying and the main on his first Slash night, and he's still 96 points behind Jason Ruhnke, because Jason is the only driver who has raced both rounds. Jason leads with 196 points to Josh's 100 points, with Albert Bredernitz (96 points) and Terry Gile (94 points) behind them, neither of them entered in June. Two results count after three rounds and nobody has more than two, so nothing comes off anybody. For the second Slash round running the lead changed hands on lap 2, and this time Jason was on the wrong end of it.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Jason Ruhnke	+96	196	196	2
2	Josh Strumillo	+100	100	100	1
3	Albert Bredernitz	–	96	96	1
4	Terry Gile	–	94	94	1

Round 4 · Jul 25

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Round 5 · Aug 29

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Round 6 · Oct 3

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The calendar

Rd 1	Sat 11 Apr 2026	Complete
Rd 2	Sat 9 May 2026	Complete
Rd 3	Sat 6 Jun 2026	Complete
Rd 4	Sat 25 Jul 2026	Complete
Rd 5	Sat 29 Aug 2026	Complete
Rd 6	Sat 3 Oct 2026	Complete

How points work

First is 100, second is 96, then two points a place down the combined overall order — A‑main, then B, then C, as one continuous list. Everybody in the order scores their place, including a driver who qualified and did not start.

Six rounds, one drop: your best five count. The drop comes in one result at a time — one for every three rounds run — so until Round 3 nothing is discarded. Ties break on wins, then seconds, then thirds, then whoever’s latest race came first.

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