Fastlane Raceway · Blue Springs, MO

2026 Spring/Summer
Winning Wednesday

Indoor offroad on Wednesday evenings at 6:30, seven rounds with your best five counting. Two qualifiers and mains every night.

Round 7 of 7 scored Season complete 7 rounds · 2 drops

This series is finished. The standings below are final.

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26 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	Dropped	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 15	R2May 13	R3Jun 10	R4Jul 8	R5Aug 5	R6Sep 9	R7Oct 7
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	476	562	−86	2	6	1st	94	86	96	92	94	100	–
2	C4	464	554	−90	–	6	3rd	92	92	–	90	92	94	94
3	Mathew Schroeder	462	462	0	–	5	2nd	–	–	90	94	96	96	86
4	Mark Beach	456	616	−160	–	7	4th	90	90	92	78	82	92	92
5	Chris Camara	436	512	−76	–	6	5th	–	84	84	76	88	90	90
6	Albert Bredernitz	408	474	−66	–	6	6th	–	78	78	66	76	88	88
7	William Schroeder	396	396	0	4	4	1st	–	100	100	–	100	–	96
8	Henry Ballew	396	396	0	–	5	9th	82	82	80	72	80	–	–
9	Orlando Martinez	370	370	0	–	4	2nd	96	94	–	96	84	–	–
10	Brian Zimmerman	324	324	0	–	4	6th	88	88	–	74	74	–	–
11	Anthony Woodruff	290	290	0	1	3	1st	–	96	94	100	–	–	–
12	Vaughn Vance	174	174	0	–	2	5th	–	–	–	84	90	–	–
13	Jagger Vance	172	172	0	–	2	7th	–	–	–	86	86	–	–
14	Matt Leibman	168	168	0	–	2	7th	–	–	86	82	–	–	–
15	Jax Bredernitz	152	152	0	–	2	6th	–	–	88	64	–	–	–
16	Sam Bredernitz	150	150	0	–	2	10th	–	80	–	70	–	–	–
17	Russell Rima	146	146	0	–	2	11th	–	–	–	68	78	–	–
18	Paxton Gage	100	100	0	–	1	1st	100	–	–	–	–	–	–
19	Shane Alberico	100	100	0	–	1	1st	–	–	–	–	–	–	100
20	Teagan Cummings	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	–	88	–	–	–
21	Zac Mathews	86	86	0	–	1	7th	86	–	–	–	–	–	–
22	Adam Garrett	84	84	0	–	1	8th	84	–	–	–	–	–	–
23	Cale Turner	82	82	0	–	1	9th	–	–	82	–	–	–	–
24	David Sellars	80	80	0	–	1	10th	80	–	–	–	–	–	–
25	Bradley Sharp	80	80	0	–	1	10th	–	–	–	80	–	–	–
26	Jim Alexander	76	76	0	–	1	12th	–	76	–	–	–	–	–

Tap Points w/ drops or Total all rounds to re-sort. Seven 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 2 results 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.

Round-by-round commentary

Every driver in the A-main, plus everyone below it who scored — with the qualifiers, lap times, consistency and lead changes straight from race timing.

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Round 1 · Apr 15

10 in the class

TQ: Hendrick Westmoreland

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:06.448	15.376	16.129	92.47%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:09.366	15.088	16.282	87.07%	Q1 P3, Q2 P1
3	Paxton Gage	18/5:04.093	14.903	16.894	85.07%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3
4	Brian Zimmerman	18/5:12.394	16.293	17.355	95.02%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2
5	Adam Garrett	17/5:00.818	16.466	17.695	92.53%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P1
6	Mark Beach	17/5:01.277	15.918	17.722	87.19%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P3
7	C4	17/5:07.987	15.769	18.117	84.16%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4
8	Henry Ballew	16/4:55.724	16.468	18.483	92.73%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P4
9	Zac Mathews	16/5:05.052	17.301	19.066	86.38%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P5
10	David Sellars	16/5:19.110	17.638	19.944	90.62%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:06.448	15.376	16.129	92.47%	✓
2	Paxton Gage	18/5:04.093	14.903	16.894	85.07%	✓
3	Orlando Martinez	16/5:02.462	15.673	18.904	81.62%
4	C4	16/5:04.237	16.181	19.015	83.96%
5	David Sellars	15/5:14.207	18.318	20.947	88.14%
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Brian Zimmerman	18/5:12.394	16.293	17.355	95.02%	✓
2	Mark Beach	17/5:10.402	16.308	18.259	90.83%
3	Adam Garrett	17/5:14.089	16.318	18.476	88.76%
4	Zac Mathews	16/5:05.052	17.301	19.066	86.38%	✓
5	Henry Ballew	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:09.366	15.088	16.282	87.07%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:15.295	15.312	16.594	87.31%
3	Paxton Gage	17/5:01.839	14.902	17.755	84.27%
4	C4	17/5:07.987	15.769	18.117	84.16%	✓
5	David Sellars	16/5:19.110	17.638	19.944	90.62%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Adam Garrett	17/5:00.818	16.466	17.695	92.53%	✓
2	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:01.074	15.961	17.710	91.23%
3	Mark Beach	17/5:01.277	15.918	17.722	87.19%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	16/4:55.724	16.468	18.483	92.73%	✓
5	Zac Mathews	16/5:07.279	16.666	19.205	87.52%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Paxton Gage	1	19/5:08.595	14.997	16.243	93.67%	+100
2	Orlando Martinez	2	19/5:12.966	14.836	16.528	89.53%	+96
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	3	19/5:13.764	15.244	16.583	91.38%	+94
4	C4bumped up	4	18/5:04.136	15.495	16.815	94.34%	+92
5	Mark Beach	5	17/5:11.791	15.910	18.211	89.85%	+90
6	Brian Zimmerman	6	17/5:17.669	15.727	18.741	83.77%	+88
7	Zac Mathewsbumped up	7	16/5:07.831	16.782	19.223	86.41%	+86
8	Adam Garrett	8	16/5:12.547	16.162	19.453	84.64%	+84
B-main
1	C4	up to the A	17/5:02.924	15.907	17.624	87.80%	–
2	Zac Mathews	up to the A	17/5:09.994	16.423	18.181	87.92%	–
3	Henry Ballew	9	16/5:02.075	16.152	18.889	88.21%	+82
4	David Sellars	10	15/5:04.888	18.017	20.250	89.86%	+80

2 lead changes Hendrick Westmoreland → Orlando Martinez → Paxton Gage

1st
Paxton Gage 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.903 · 85.07% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.997 · 93.67% cons · led 3
Paxton Gage led three laps of a 19-lap main, and they were the last three. His 14.902 was the quickest lap anyone turned in qualifying, but his best run was 18 laps and he seeded third. The main fixed that: 93.67% after 85.07% in qualifying, 8 laps apiece inside two seconds of Orlando Martinez and Hendrick Westmoreland, then the lead on lap 17 and 4.371 seconds of daylight at the flag. That's a magnificent way to open a season.
2nd
Orlando Martinez 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.088 · 87.07% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.836 · 89.53% cons · led 14
How does a man lead 14 of 19 laps and finish second? Orlando Martinez had the hot lap of the A-main at 14.836, but he averaged 16.528 at 89.53%, and Paxton Gage, who ran with him for 8 laps, averaged 16.243. Gage took the lead on lap 17 and Martinez finished 4.371 seconds back, with Hendrick Westmoreland 0.798 seconds behind him on the same lap. That's the speed without the laps, and after leading from lap 3 to lap 16 I find it hard to forgive.
3rd
Hendrick Westmoreland 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.376 · 92.47% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.244 · 91.38% cons · led 2
The TQ belonged to Hendrick Westmoreland, with 19 laps in both qualifiers and the lowest qualifying average in the class, 16.129, and he led the first two laps of the main. After that he had company: Paxton Gage sat within two seconds of him for 8 laps and C4 for 7. He crossed 0.798 seconds behind Orlando Martinez on the same lap. Third from the TQ is a letdown, and the margin to Martinez makes it a sore one.
4th
C4 92 ptsbumped up
A-main P4 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.769 · 84.16% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.495 · 94.34% cons
Through the B and into the top four: that's C4's night. Charlie Kleinhagen seeded seventh off an 84.16% qualifying, and in the B Zac Mathews stayed with him for 6 of the 17 laps before C4 won it. In the A he was a different driver: 94.34%, the cleanest run of the eight, and 7 laps inside two seconds of Hendrick Westmoreland. Three of the six cars that qualified straight into the A finished behind him, and I'd take his night over any of theirs.
5th
Mark Beach 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.918 · 87.19% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.910 · 89.85% cons
Mark Beach seeded sixth and came home a place better, but 17 laps put him two down on Paxton Gage and one behind C4, a car that started the night in the B. The 18.211 average is what needs work, because his best lap of 15.910 was no slower than in qualifying. He did have Brian Zimmerman covered by 5.878 seconds on the same lap, and Zimmerman qualified two places ahead of him.
6th
Brian Zimmerman 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.293 · 95.02% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.727 · 83.77% cons
Nobody in the class qualified tidier than Brian Zimmerman, at 95.02%, and he seeded fourth. The main was another story: 83.77%, the scrappiest in the A, and an 18.741 average that left him sixth and two laps down. His 15.727 best lap was quicker than Mark Beach's and Beach still beat him by 5.878 seconds. From fourth seed to sixth with that kind of qualifying behind him is unacceptable.
7th
Zac Mathews 86 ptsbumped up
A-main P7 · bumped up from the B · qualified P9 · qual best lap 17.301 · 86.38% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.782 · 86.41% cons
Zac Mathews seeded ninth and finished seventh, and he got there the hard way. In the B he ran with C4 for 6 of the 17 laps and took the second transfer spot, then went 16 laps in the A at 86.41%. His 16.782 best lap was the slowest in the A-main, and he still finished 4.716 seconds ahead of Adam Garrett, who qualified straight in. A transfer car beating a direct qualifier is a job done.
8th
Adam Garrett 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.466 · 92.53% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.162 · 84.64% cons
Straight into the A from fifth in the order, with a heat win in the second qualifier behind him: that was Adam Garrett before the main. The main itself was last of the eight, behind both cars that came up from the B, with 16 laps at 84.64% and a 19.453 average, the slowest in the A-main. His 16.162 best lap was over half a second quicker than Zac Mathews managed, and Mathews still beat him by 4.716 seconds. Fifth seed to eighth is the collapse of the night.
Lower mains
9th
Henry Ballew 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 16.468 · 92.73% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.152 · 88.21% cons
No laps in the first qualifier is a rough way to start a season, and the rest of Henry Ballew's night was a recovery job. A 16-lap second run at 92.73% put him eighth in the order and into the B, where he finished third, a lap short of Zac Mathews in the last transfer spot. Ninth overall and 82 points from a night that opened with a zero is a decent salvage.
10th
David Sellars 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 17.638 · 90.62% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.017 · 89.86% cons
David Sellars qualified tenth of ten, and the 17.638 best lap, slowest in the class, is the number holding him back. The B went better: 15 laps in 5:04.888, over nine seconds quicker than the 15 he managed in the first qualifier. Fourth in the B, a lap behind Henry Ballew, makes it 80 points to start the season.

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 opens the season with the win, and he took it late: Hendrick Westmoreland led two laps from the TQ, Orlando Martinez led 14, and Gage only hit the front on lap 17 before winning by 4.371 seconds. Martinez had the quickest lap of the main, 14.836, and still lost the lead, then held second over Westmoreland by just 0.798 seconds on the same lap. The best drive behind them came out of the B, where C4, seeded seventh, won before running 94.34% in the A for fourth, ahead of three cars that qualified straight in. Adam Garrett and Brian Zimmerman went the other way, fifth and fourth seeds who finished eighth and sixth. One round in, the standings are just the finishing order at two points a place, so Gage's 100 points say he won a race and nothing more.

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	Orlando Martinez	+96	96	96	1
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	+94	94	94	1
4	C4	+92	92	92	1
5	Mark Beach	+90	90	90	1
6	Brian Zimmerman	+88	88	88	1
7	Zac Mathews	+86	86	86	1
8	Adam Garrett	+84	84	84	1

Round 2 · May 13

12 in the class

TQ: William Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	William Schroeder	19/5:03.109	14.943	15.953	92.12%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P1
2	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:10.381	15.177	16.336	93.05%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:12.891	15.103	16.468	87.72%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P3
4	Orlando Martinez	19/5:16.009	15.011	16.632	89.12%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P6
5	C4	18/5:06.283	15.149	17.016	85.21%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4
6	Brian Zimmerman	18/5:13.326	15.972	17.407	88.91%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1
7	Mark Beach	18/5:17.610	15.394	17.645	84.03%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2
8	Chris Camara	17/5:11.510	16.423	18.324	90.93%	Q1H2 P6, Q2H2 P5
9	Henry Ballew	16/5:15.986	17.414	19.749	88.19%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3
10	Jim Alexander	15/5:03.565	18.058	20.238	87.35%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4
11	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:10.085	17.733	20.672	87.79%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5
12	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:19.873	18.779	21.325	85.81%	Q1 P5, Q2 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Mark Beach	17/5:02.183	15.920	17.775	90.20%
2	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:06.740	16.916	18.044	94.35%
3	Jim Alexander	15/5:10.113	18.989	20.674	90.22%
4	Henry Ballew	15/5:19.160	17.895	21.277	87.27%
5	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:19.873	18.779	21.325	85.81%	✓
6	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:01.123	18.664	21.509	87.47%
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:10.418	15.215	16.338	91.11%
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:16.009	15.011	16.632	89.12%	✓
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	18/5:02.141	15.464	16.786	83.47%
4	C4	17/5:21.531	16.026	18.914	82.98%
5	William Schroeder	12/3:18.025	15.296	16.502	90.91%
6	Chris Camara	10/3:50.425	18.613	23.043	87.03%
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Brian Zimmerman	18/5:13.326	15.972	17.407	88.91%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:17.610	15.394	17.645	84.03%	✓
3	Henry Ballew	16/5:15.986	17.414	19.749	88.19%	✓
4	Jim Alexander	15/5:03.565	18.058	20.238	87.35%	✓
5	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:10.085	17.733	20.672	87.79%	✓
6	Sam Bredernitz	14/5:15.277	18.160	22.520	83.87%
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	William Schroeder	19/5:03.109	14.943	15.953	92.12%	✓
2	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:10.381	15.177	16.336	93.05%	✓
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:12.891	15.103	16.468	87.72%	✓
4	C4	18/5:06.283	15.149	17.016	85.21%	✓
5	Chris Camara	17/5:11.510	16.423	18.324	90.93%	✓
6	Orlando Martinez	0	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	William Schroeder	1	19/5:08.435	15.136	16.262	91.46%	+100
2	Anthony Woodruff	2	19/5:14.060	15.609	16.415	94.02%	+96
3	Orlando Martinez	3	18/5:08.761	14.926	17.173	84.68%	+94
4	C4	4	17/5:01.048	15.468	17.641	88.06%	+92
5	Mark Beachbumped up	5	17/5:05.984	16.144	17.771	93.42%	+90
6	Brian Zimmerman	6	16/5:11.587	16.452	19.396	82.33%	+88
7	Hendrick Westmoreland	7	6/1:37.980	15.091	15.952	95.66%	+86
8	Chris Camarabumped up	8	5/2:12.604	17.846	28.354	42.34%	+84
B-main
1	Chris Camara	up to the A	17/5:05.595	16.613	17.955	92.80%	–
2	Mark Beach	up to the A	17/5:12.767	15.796	18.194	86.86%	–
3	Henry Ballew	9	16/5:03.332	16.791	18.958	87.17%	+82
4	Sam Bredernitz	10	15/5:00.375	17.949	19.774	93.42%	+80
5	Albert Bredernitz	11	15/5:10.850	17.506	20.570	86.82%	+78
6	Jim Alexander	12	13/5:07.946	18.241	23.449	74.57%	+76

Flag to flag William Schroeder led every lap

1st
William Schroeder 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.943 · 92.12% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.136 · 91.46% cons · led every lap
First start of the series for William Schroeder, and he TQ'd, led every lap and won by 5.625 seconds. That TQ came off a single run. His opening qualifier stopped at 12 laps, and he answered with 19 laps in 5:03.109 and a 14.943, the quickest lap anyone turned in qualifying. In the main he didn't even need the quickest lap of the A-main (Orlando Martinez had that), just 19 laps at 91.46% and nobody within reach. Wire to wire on his first night out gets my vote for the drive of the season so far.
2nd
Anthony Woodruff 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.177 · 93.05% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.609 · 94.02% cons
Anthony Woodruff's season debut in this class ends on the podium, with the cleanest full main in the A: 94.02% over 19 laps. Second seed, second at the flag, on the lead lap with only William Schroeder ahead. What he gave away was top end, a 15.609 best lap that was the slowest of the top four, and he finished 5.625 seconds back. For a first night out, I'd sign for that.
3rd
Orlando Martinez 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.011 · 89.12% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 14.926 · 84.68% cons
Still no win, and Orlando Martinez leads the championship with 190 points. Round 2 was scrappy: no laps in the second qualifier, fourth in the order, then an 84.68% main that finished a lap down in third. The speed is there, because he threw down the hot lap of the A-main at 14.926. What put him on top is a podium both nights while Paxton Gage sat this one out and Hendrick Westmoreland's main stopped at 6 laps. Six points clear of C4 is a lead built on finishing, and it counts the same as any other.
4th
C4 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.149 · 85.21% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.468 · 88.06% cons
Off two fourth places, Charlie Kleinhagen sits second in the championship with 184 points, 6 behind Orlando Martinez. This time there was no B for him, straight into the A from fifth in the order. The main itself was ordinary: 17 laps at 88.06%, two down on William Schroeder, with a 17.641 average a long way off his 15.468 best. He's banking points, and I want to see the 94.34% he ran in the Round 1 A-main again.
5th
Mark Beach 90 ptsbumped up
A-main P5 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.394 · 84.03% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.144 · 93.42% cons
Mark Beach won his heat in the first qualifier and still seeded seventh, which meant the B. He transferred from second there and ran 93.42% in the A, behind only Anthony Woodruff among the full-distance runs, to finish fifth again. That has him level with Hendrick Westmoreland at 180 points, Westmoreland ahead on the countback with his Round 1 third. Two fifths aren't exciting, and they have him right in the hunt.
6th
Brian Zimmerman 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.972 · 88.91% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.452 · 82.33% cons
For the second round running, Brian Zimmerman qualified clean and raced scrappy. His 94.35% in qualifying was the tidiest in the class. The main was 82.33%, the lowest of anyone who went the distance, and 16 laps left him three down on William Schroeder. Round 1 went 95.02% and then 83.77%, so it's a pattern now, and it's the first thing I'd fix. He's fifth with 176 points, 4 behind the pair in third.
7th
Hendrick Westmoreland 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.103 · 87.72% qual cons · 6 laps · fast 15.091 · 95.66% cons
Six laps and 1:37.980: that's all Hendrick Westmoreland's main lasted, and a run cut off that early means something went wrong. It hurts more because of how those laps went: a 15.952 average at 95.66%, quicker than anyone else in the A-main averaged, from the third seed. Seventh still pays 86 points, which holds him third in the championship with 180 points, level with Mark Beach and ahead on the countback with his Round 1 third. That's a collapse with a soft landing, and he can thank the scoring for the landing.
8th
Chris Camara 84 ptsbumped up
A-main P8 · bumped up from the B · qualified P8 · qual best lap 16.423 · 90.93% qual cons · 5 laps · fast 17.846 · 42.34% cons
Chris Camara won the B-main, 17 laps in 5:05.595, and then his A-main stopped at 5 laps and 2:12.604, a 28.354 average at 42.34%. That's two of his four runs cut short, because his first qualifier ended at 10 laps as well. The order pays eighth 84 points in his first round of the year. Winning the B was the best thing he did all night, and he deserved a better A-main than that.
Lower mains
9th
Henry Ballew 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 17.414 · 88.19% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.791 · 87.17% cons
Two identical nights have Henry Ballew sixth in the championship with 164 points: ninth overall and 82 points each time. Round 2 even ran the same way, third in the B with 16 laps, one short of the last transfer. The worry is speed. His 17.414 best lap in qualifying was almost a second slower than the 16.468 he turned in Round 1.
10th
Sam Bredernitz 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P12 · qual best lap 18.779 · 85.81% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.949 · 93.42% cons
Last of twelve in qualifying, with the slowest best lap in the class at 18.160, and Sam Bredernitz finished tenth, ahead of Albert Bredernitz and Jim Alexander. He did it with the best run of his night: 15 laps in 5:00.375 in the B, against 15 in 5:19.873 and 14 in 5:15.277 in qualifying. Nearly twenty seconds found between the first qualifier and the main is the kind of improvement I want from every driver in the B.
11th
Albert Bredernitz 78 pts
B-main P5 · qualified P11 · qual best lap 17.733 · 87.79% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.506 · 86.82% cons
Albert Bredernitz had the quicker qualifying lap, 17.733 to Sam Bredernitz's 18.160, and seeded a place ahead of him, then finished a place behind. Both went 15 laps in the B, and Albert Bredernitz was 10.475 seconds back. He finished two laps clear of Jim Alexander, so eleventh in the order became eleventh overall and 78 points. Holding his seed is fine. Losing to a car he out-qualified is the part to fix.
12th
Jim Alexander 76 pts
B-main P6 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 18.058 · 87.35% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 18.241 · 74.57% cons
Jim Alexander qualified tenth with two 15-lap runs, the better of them 15 laps in 5:03.565, and then the B-main produced 13. Those took 5:07.946, and that's how tenth in the order became twelfth overall, behind Sam Bredernitz and Albert Bredernitz. Twelfth is worth 76 points. He qualified at 90.22% over 15 laps, so I'm treating the B as the outlier.

Championship after Round 2

William Schroeder won from the TQ, flag to flag, on his first night of the season, and it leaves him eighth in the championship with 100 points, level with Paxton Gage, who won Round 1 and missed this one. The standings belong to the drivers who've been there twice. Orlando Martinez leads with 190 points from a second and a third without a win, and C4 is 6 points back off two fourths. Hendrick Westmoreland and Mark Beach are level at 180 points, Westmoreland ahead on the countback with his Round 1 third even though his main stopped at 6 laps and seventh was worth 86 points to him. Nothing is dropped until Round 3, so for now every missed night costs a full round of points, and Martinez is the only man with a podium both nights.

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	Orlando Martinez	+94	190	190	2
2	C4	+92	184	184	2
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	+86	180	180	2
4	Mark Beach	+90	180	180	2
5	Brian Zimmerman	+88	176	176	2
6	Henry Ballew	+82	164	164	2
7	Paxton Gage	–	100	100	1
8	William Schroeder	+100	100	100	1

Round 3 · Jun 10

11 in the class

TQ: William Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	William Schroeder	20/5:11.060	15.062	15.553	95.36%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P1
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:12.135	15.427	16.428	92.37%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P2
3	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:09.937	15.686	17.219	90.74%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P3
4	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:10.728	15.650	17.263	88.27%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P4
5	Mark Beach	17/5:02.726	16.295	17.807	90.53%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
6	Chris Camara	17/5:05.429	15.759	17.966	87.94%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2
7	Matt Leibman	17/5:09.333	15.944	18.196	89.44%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P5
8	Cale Turner	16/5:00.879	16.769	18.805	89.54%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3
9	Henry Ballew	16/5:16.359	16.498	19.772	83.86%	Q1H2 P6, Q2H2 P6
10	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:13.341	17.983	20.889	90.02%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4
11	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:25.968	23.778	27.164	89.25%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Mark Beach	17/5:02.726	16.295	17.807	90.53%	✓
2	Cale Turner	16/5:06.715	17.552	19.170	94.07%
3	Chris Camara	16/5:18.523	16.801	19.908	85.16%
4	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:13.341	17.983	20.889	90.02%	✓
5	Jax Bredernitz	11/5:10.367	23.248	28.215	88.66%
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	William Schroeder	19/5:04.357	15.318	16.019	95.02%
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:12.135	15.427	16.428	92.37%	✓
3	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:11.070	15.593	17.282	88.15%
4	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:03.114	15.613	17.830	89.55%
5	Matt Leibman	15/5:02.711	17.040	20.181	90.01%
6	Henry Ballew	15/5:03.641	17.351	20.243	80.34%
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Mark Beach	17/5:03.404	16.015	17.847	93.01%
2	Chris Camara	17/5:05.429	15.759	17.966	87.94%	✓
3	Cale Turner	16/5:00.879	16.769	18.805	89.54%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:17.576	18.387	21.172	89.22%
5	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:25.968	23.778	27.164	89.25%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:11.060	15.062	15.553	95.36%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:21.253	15.435	16.908	88.88%
3	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:09.937	15.686	17.219	90.74%	✓
4	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:10.728	15.650	17.263	88.27%	✓
5	Matt Leibman	17/5:09.333	15.944	18.196	89.44%	✓
6	Henry Ballew	16/5:16.359	16.498	19.772	83.86%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	William Schroeder	1	19/5:04.912	14.916	16.064	91.30%	+100
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	2	18/5:03.147	15.525	16.865	90.51%	+96
3	Anthony Woodruff	3	18/5:03.901	15.543	16.734	93.50%	+94
4	Mark Beach	4	18/5:14.934	15.860	17.357	93.09%	+92
5	Mathew Schroeder	5	16/4:31.618	15.746	16.985	90.68%	+90
6	Jax Bredernitzbumped up	6	16/5:08.385	16.879	18.864	88.86%	+88
7	Matt Leibmanbumped up	7	16/5:10.993	16.137	19.379	85.39%	+86
8	Chris Camara	8	16/5:11.351	16.353	19.506	89.35%	+84
B-main
1	Matt Leibman	up to the A	18/5:16.294	16.171	17.584	91.09%	–
2	Jax Bredernitz	up to the A	17/5:08.615	16.751	18.146	93.56%	–
3	Cale Turner	9	17/5:16.535	16.623	18.676	88.66%	+82
4	Henry Ballew	10	16/5:10.932	16.462	20.752	67.48%	+80
5	Albert Bredernitz	11	13/5:08.224	17.144	23.813	56.36%	+78

Flag to flag William Schroeder led every lap

1st
William Schroeder 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.062 · 95.36% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.916 · 91.30% cons · led every lap
Two nights in this class, two wins, and the second was a beating. William Schroeder took TQ with the only 20-lap run in qualifying, then led every lap of the main and checked out, the lone car on 19 laps, a full lap clear of Hendrick Westmoreland. His 14.916 was the quickest lap of the A-main by more than six tenths. He wasn't even here for the opener, and he leads the championship with 200 points, ten clear of a three-way tie. I can't find a hole in any of it.
2nd
Hendrick Westmoreland 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.427 · 92.37% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.525 · 90.51% cons
His Round 2 main stopped after six laps, so this one mattered. Hendrick Westmoreland went neck and neck with Anthony Woodruff and Mark Beach for 7 of the 19 laps, then beat Woodruff to the line by 0.754 seconds on the same lap for second. With the best two results counting, that Round 2 score of 86 points is now the one he throws away. He's level with Woodruff and Orlando Martinez on 190 points, and the only one of the three carrying a discard, with 276 raw.
3rd
Anthony Woodruff 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.650 · 88.27% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.543 · 93.50% cons
The better average lap in the fight for second belonged to Anthony Woodruff, 16.734 against Hendrick Westmoreland's 16.865, and so did the cleaner run at 93.50%. He still lost it by 0.754 seconds on the same lap, after 7 laps in a three-car group with Westmoreland and Mark Beach, and I'd be annoyed about that one. Third from the fourth seed is a good night all the same. He's been on the podium both nights he's raced, and 190 points has him level with Westmoreland and Orlando Martinez, ten off the lead.
4th
Mark Beach 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.295 · 90.53% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.860 · 93.09% cons
Mark Beach won both of his qualifying heats, and since heats aren't seeded against each other, that bought him fifth on the order and no more: his 16.015 was seventh on pace. The main was a step up. For 7 laps he was in the fight with Hendrick Westmoreland and Anthony Woodruff, and though 11 seconds had opened up on Woodruff by the flag, fourth is his best finish of the series so far. The drop takes one of his two 90-point nights off the board and leaves him sixth with 182 points.
5th
Mathew Schroeder 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.686 · 90.74% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 15.746 · 90.68% cons
First night in the class for Mathew Schroeder, and he qualified third with a 15.613 that only three drivers went quicker than. The main didn't last. It ended at 16 laps and 4:31.618, about 28 seconds short of five minutes, and he still classified fifth because nobody behind him got past 16 laps. His 16.985 average was fourth-best in the A-main, a quarter of a second a lap off Anthony Woodruff in third. Third seed to fifth on a run that stopped early is a debut with an asterisk on it.
6th
Jax Bredernitz 88 ptsbumped up
A-main P6 · bumped up from the B · qualified P11 · qual best lap 23.778 · 89.25% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.879 · 88.86% cons
Seeded 11th of 11 off a qualifying average of 27.164, Jax Bredernitz went home sixth overall. He took second in the B, a lap up on Henry Ballew after 6 of the 18 laps inside two seconds of him, and that sent him up to the A. There he ran 16 laps with a 16.879 best, more than six seconds quicker than anything he turned in qualifying, and finished ahead of Matt Leibman and Chris Camara. Last seed to sixth is the upset of the round.
7th
Matt Leibman 86 ptsbumped up
A-main P7 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.944 · 89.44% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.137 · 85.39% cons
A B-main win, 18 laps of it, opened Matt Leibman's account in this class and earned the bump. What followed was a real scrap. He went at it with Chris Camara for 8 of the 19 laps and got to the flag 0.358 seconds ahead on the same lap, the closest finish anywhere in the A-main. At 85.39% it wasn't pretty, and I don't care: Camara was seeded a place above him and finished a place below.
8th
Chris Camara 84 pts
A-main P8 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.759 · 87.94% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.353 · 89.35% cons
On pace, Chris Camara was fifth in qualifying at 15.759, quicker than both drivers who came up from the B to beat him. He finished last of the eight in the A-main anyway. The fight with Matt Leibman lasted 8 laps and went against him by 0.358 seconds. Jax Bredernitz, seeded five places below him, finished two places ahead. That's eighth two rounds running, and this time the pace said he should have been well clear of it.
Lower mains
9th
Cale Turner 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 16.769 · 89.54% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.623 · 88.66% cons
The B handed out two tickets to the A and Cale Turner finished third in it. His qualifying ran at 94.07% consistency, behind only William Schroeder in the class, but the speed didn't match the tidiness: his 16.769 was ninth-best. In the B he got 17 laps in, the same as Jax Bredernitz in second, and ended 7.920 seconds behind him. Ninth overall and 82 points is a decent first night with nothing flashy in it.
10th
Henry Ballew 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 16.498 · 83.86% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.462 · 67.48% cons
Henry Ballew has run the B at all three rounds, and this was the one where it got away from him. He and Jax Bredernitz ran together for 6 of the 18 laps, and Bredernitz came away with a lap on him and the transfer. Ballew's 16.498 in qualifying was eighth-best, a place quicker than his seed, but an 83.86% figure says he couldn't put enough of those laps together. Tenth pays 80 points and the drop throws exactly those out, so his 164 points are right where they were after Round 2.
11th
Albert Bredernitz 78 pts
B-main P5 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 17.983 · 90.02% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 17.144 · 56.36% cons
Fifteen laps in both qualifiers and then 13 in the B is the wrong direction for a main, and it left Albert Bredernitz last of the five there. His 17.983 best in qualifying was second from the bottom of the class. Even so, it's 78 points for the second round running, and two starts have him tenth in the standings with 156 points. Turning up is doing a lot of the work, and I'd like to see the lap times join in.

Championship after Round 3

William Schroeder has raced this class twice and won it twice, the second time from TQ and a full lap clear, and he leads the championship with 200 points. This was the first night the drop applied, with the best two results counting, and 200 points is the most anyone can have under that rule, so missing the opener hasn't cost him a thing. Three drivers sit level on 190 points behind him: Orlando Martinez, who didn't race, Anthony Woodruff and Hendrick Westmoreland. Westmoreland is the only one of those three carrying a discard: his 86 points from Round 2 come off a raw 276. Mark Beach is in the same position with 272 raw and 182 points counting, while C4 and Brian Zimmerman sat this one out and slid to fifth and seventh. Of the four newcomers, Jax Bredernitz made the most noise, seeded last of 11 and sixth at the flag after a bump from the B.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	William Schroeder	+100	200	0	200	2
2	Orlando Martinez	–	190	0	190	2
3	Anthony Woodruff	+94	190	0	190	2
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	+96	276	−86	190	3
5	C4	–	184	0	184	2
6	Mark Beach	+92	272	−90	182	3
7	Brian Zimmerman	–	176	0	176	2
8	Chris Camara	+84	168	0	168	2

Round 4 · Jul 8

18 in the class

TQ: Anthony Woodruff

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Anthony Woodruff	20/5:12.553	15.253	15.628	98.28%	Q1 P4, Q2 P1
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:05.164	15.158	16.061	89.91%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Mathew Schroeder	19/5:06.827	14.842	16.149	91.88%	Q1 P1, Q2 P5
4	C4	19/5:09.636	15.249	16.297	91.19%	Q1 P5, Q2 P3
5	Orlando Martinez	19/5:12.944	15.327	16.471	90.20%	Q1H3 P1, Q2H3 P5
6	Teagan Cummings	19/5:13.120	15.426	16.480	92.97%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P1
7	Jagger Vance	18/5:00.762	15.733	16.709	93.90%	Q1H3 P2, Q2H3 P4
8	Vaughn Vance	18/5:01.933	15.184	16.774	90.10%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4
9	Mark Beach	18/5:12.686	15.948	17.371	89.30%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P2
10	Chris Camara	18/5:15.166	16.196	17.509	92.29%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P3
11	Brian Zimmerman	18/5:15.771	16.185	17.543	94.07%	Q1H3 P3, Q2H3 P1
12	Matt Leibman	17/5:01.747	16.086	17.750	91.33%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4
13	Henry Ballew	17/5:15.075	16.433	18.534	92.37%	Q1H3 P4, Q2H3 P2
14	Bradley Sharp	16/5:10.936	16.867	19.434	87.98%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P5
15	Russell Rima	15/5:03.976	17.255	20.265	89.73%	Q1H3 P5, Q2H3 P3
16	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:19.943	16.946	21.330	85.26%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6
17	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:21.036	17.740	21.402	84.80%	Q1H2 P6, Q2H2 P6
18	Jax Bredernitz	0/0.000	–	–	–

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 3
1	Mathew Schroeder	19/5:06.827	14.842	16.149	91.88%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:12.467	15.321	16.446	92.51%
3	Vaughn Vance	18/5:01.933	15.184	16.774	90.10%	✓
4	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:03.699	15.338	16.872	86.91%
5	C4	17/5:13.447	15.720	18.438	85.56%
6	Sam Bredernitz	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 3
1	Teagan Cummings	18/5:04.717	15.285	16.929	88.93%
2	Mark Beach	18/5:13.019	15.601	17.390	90.92%
3	Chris Camara	17/5:09.493	16.308	18.205	89.50%
4	Matt Leibman	17/5:11.967	16.280	18.351	88.83%
5	Bradley Sharp	16/5:14.238	16.770	19.640	86.50%
6	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:03.333	18.381	21.667	89.16%
Qualifier 1 · heat 3 of 3
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:12.944	15.327	16.471	90.20%	✓
2	Jagger Vance	18/5:00.762	15.733	16.709	93.90%	✓
3	Brian Zimmerman	18/5:15.942	16.186	17.552	92.69%
4	Henry Ballew	17/5:15.075	16.433	18.534	92.37%	✓
5	Russell Rima	15/5:18.168	17.717	21.211	87.15%
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 3
1	Anthony Woodruff	20/5:12.553	15.253	15.628	98.28%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:05.164	15.158	16.061	89.91%	✓
3	C4	19/5:09.636	15.249	16.297	91.19%	✓
4	Vaughn Vance	17/5:01.209	15.132	17.718	79.23%
5	Mathew Schroeder	15/4:12.258	14.746	16.817	88.38%
6	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:19.943	16.946	21.330	85.26%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 3
1	Teagan Cummings	19/5:13.120	15.426	16.480	92.97%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:12.686	15.948	17.371	89.30%	✓
3	Chris Camara	18/5:15.166	16.196	17.509	92.29%	✓
4	Matt Leibman	17/5:01.747	16.086	17.750	91.33%	✓
5	Bradley Sharp	16/5:10.936	16.867	19.434	87.98%	✓
6	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:21.036	17.740	21.402	84.80%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 3 of 3
1	Brian Zimmerman	18/5:15.771	16.185	17.543	94.07%	✓
2	Henry Ballew	16/5:06.507	16.422	19.157	89.55%
3	Russell Rima	15/5:03.976	17.255	20.265	89.73%	✓
4	Jagger Vance	11/5:11.415	16.131	28.310	-10.53%
5	Orlando Martinez	10/2:38.621	15.222	15.862	96.18%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Anthony Woodruff	1	20/5:15.842	15.148	15.803	96.06%	+100
2	Orlando Martinez	2	19/5:04.938	15.013	15.941	92.30%	+96
3	Mathew Schroeder	3	19/5:05.494	14.957	15.885	93.49%	+94
4	Hendrick Westmoreland	4	18/5:02.468	15.238	16.829	91.55%	+92
5	C4	5	18/5:14.249	15.695	17.413	89.34%	+90
6	Teagan Cummings	6	17/5:02.940	15.476	17.836	84.72%	+88
7	Jagger Vancebumped up	7	17/5:06.132	15.754	17.820	90.88%	+86
8	Vaughn Vancebumped up	8	17/5:09.380	15.473	17.947	87.21%	+84
B-main
1	Jagger Vance	up to the A	18/5:07.466	15.810	17.098	94.13%	–
2	Vaughn Vance	up to the A	18/5:14.551	15.536	17.391	87.31%	–
3	Matt Leibman	9	17/5:04.005	16.189	17.777	92.30%	+82
4	Bradley Sharpbumped up	10	17/5:05.098	16.539	17.777	94.89%	+80
5	Mark Beach	11	17/5:05.159	15.714	17.815	88.56%	+78
6	Chris Camara	12	17/5:11.855	16.265	18.401	88.46%	+76
7	Brian Zimmerman	13	15/4:38.951	15.982	18.401	87.60%	+74
8	Henry Ballewbumped up	14	7/2:15.329	17.170	19.134	90.50%	+72
C-main
1	Bradley Sharp	up to the B	17/5:11.043	16.344	18.090	91.63%	–
2	Henry Ballew	up to the B	17/5:11.780	15.676	18.268	86.84%	–
3	Sam Bredernitz	15	16/5:10.071	17.113	19.335	85.64%	+70
4	Russell Rima	16	15/5:06.666	17.697	20.249	90.82%	+68
5	Albert Bredernitz	17	2/38.924	17.981	17.981	–	+66
–	Jax Bredernitz	18	0/0.000	–	–	–	+64

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

Flag to flag Anthony Woodruff led every lap

1st
Anthony Woodruff 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.253 · 98.28% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 15.148 · 96.06% cons · led every lap
How does the sixth-quickest lap in qualifying end up a lap clear of everyone? Anthony Woodruff's 15.628 average and 98.28% consistency were the best in the class, and they built the only 20-lap qualifier and the TQ. The main went the same way, flag to flag at 96.06%, and he was the lone car on 20 laps when the next two had 19. Mathew Schroeder and Orlando Martinez both turned quicker laps than his 15.148, and both finished a lap behind him. That's his first win of the season, and he leads the championship with 290 points.
2nd
Orlando Martinez 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.327 · 90.20% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.013 · 92.30% cons
Orlando Martinez sat out Round 3 and came back into a fight. He and Mathew Schroeder were neck and neck for 13 of the 20 laps, the longest battle anywhere in the class tonight, and Martinez had 0.556 seconds in hand at the flag. His 15.013 was quicker than any lap the winner turned all night. Second from the fifth seed is a strong return, and with 286 points he's four behind Anthony Woodruff, which is exactly the gap between a win and second.
3rd
Mathew Schroeder 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.842 · 91.88% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.957 · 93.49% cons
The hot lap of qualifying was Mathew Schroeder's, a 14.746, and the quickest lap of the A-main was his as well, a 14.957, and he goes home third. He ran with Orlando Martinez for 13 of the 20 laps and came up 0.556 seconds short on the same lap, with Anthony Woodruff a lap up the road. A first podium on his second night in the class, four weeks after his debut main stopped at 16 laps, deserves the credit. The car with both of those laps finishing third still bugs me, though, and 93.49% against the winner's 96.06% is where it went.
4th
Hendrick Westmoreland 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.158 · 89.91% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.238 · 91.55% cons
Two 19-lap runs in qualifying put Hendrick Westmoreland second on the order, and then his main finished a lap down on the podium. His 16.829 average was nearly nine tenths a lap slower than Orlando Martinez's, and from the second seed that isn't good enough. The standings are kinder than the result. He has raced all four rounds, so the 86 points from Round 2 come off a raw 368, and that leaves him third with 282 points, eight behind Anthony Woodruff.
5th
C4 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.249 · 91.19% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.695 · 89.34% cons
C4 came back from a missed Round 3 and finished a place below where he qualified. Charlie Kleinhagen's 19-lap second qualifier was a proper run, and the main at 18 laps and 89.34% didn't match it: he was 11.781 seconds behind Hendrick Westmoreland on the same lap. He was fourth in both of his earlier starts and fifth tonight, which adds up to 274 points and fourth in the standings, 16 off the lead. Steady, and I'd like one night where it's more than that.
6th
Teagan Cummings 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.426 · 92.97% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.476 · 84.72% cons
On debut, Teagan Cummings topped his heat in both qualifiers, and a 19-lap second run was worth the sixth seed. The main didn't follow. He went from 92.97% in qualifying to 84.72% in the A, the lowest figure of the eight, and 17 laps left him a lap behind C4. Sixth from the sixth seed is holding station, and from a newcomer I'll take it, but that consistency number has to come back up.
7th
Jagger Vance 86 ptsbumped up
A-main P7 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.733 · 93.90% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.754 · 90.88% cons
Jagger Vance's second qualifier was a mess, 11 laps in 5:11.415, and it didn't matter, because his 18-lap first run had already made him the top seed in the B. He won that by 7.085 seconds over Vaughn Vance with both on 18 laps, and the bump came with it. The A-main was 17 laps at 90.88% and seventh place, one ahead of Vaughn Vance again. Winning a main and making the A on a first night in the class is about all a driver can ask for.
8th
Vaughn Vance 84 ptsbumped up
A-main P8 · bumped up from the B · qualified P8 · qual best lap 15.184 · 90.10% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.473 · 87.21% cons
Only Mathew Schroeder turned a quicker lap in qualifying than Vaughn Vance's 15.132, and Vance ended the night last of the eight in the A-main. The speed was there and the laps weren't. Seeded eighth, he went through the B, where he and Mark Beach ran together for 6 of the 18 laps, and took second there, a lap clear of Beach, to move up. In the A he ran 87.21% and finished at the back. I'd trade a tenth off that 15.132 for a few more percent of consistency any day.
Lower mains
9th
Matt Leibman 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P12 · qual best lap 16.086 · 91.33% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.189 · 92.30% cons
A round after winning the B, Matt Leibman finished third in it, one spot short of the transfer. From the 12th seed, ninth overall is still a gain of three places. He was in the three-car group with Bradley Sharp and Mark Beach for 6 of the 18 laps and came out of it 1.093 seconds clear of Sharp at the flag. Jagger Vance and Vaughn Vance had 18 laps to his 17, and that lap is the whole distance between Leibman and the A-main tonight.
10th
Bradley Sharp 80 ptsbumped up
B-main P4 · bumped up from the C · qualified P14 · qual best lap 16.867 · 87.98% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.539 · 94.89% cons
Bradley Sharp ran two mains in his first outing in the class and was in a fight in both. The C was 10 of 17 laps alongside Henry Ballew, and Sharp won it by 0.737 seconds. Bumped into the B, he spent 6 laps in a three-car scrap with Matt Leibman and Mark Beach and 6 more running with Brian Zimmerman. Then he beat Beach to the line by 0.061 seconds on the same lap, and nothing in the class finished closer tonight. From the 14th seed, tenth overall is the biggest climb in the field.
11th
Mark Beach 78 pts
B-main P5 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 15.948 · 89.30% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.714 · 88.56% cons
Last time out Mark Beach finished fourth in the A-main. Tonight he didn't make it, and in the B he lost fourth place by 0.061 seconds on the same lap to Bradley Sharp, who had come up from the C. He had company in that race, 6 laps with Vaughn Vance and 6 in the group with Matt Leibman and Sharp, and none of it turned into a transfer. Eleventh overall is his worst result of the season, which is the good news: these 78 points are the ones the drop takes away, and he's still fifth with 272 points.
12th
Chris Camara 76 pts
B-main P6 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 16.196 · 92.29% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.265 · 88.46% cons
Ten of the 18 laps in the B went by with Chris Camara and Brian Zimmerman inside two seconds of each other, the longest fight in that race, and Camara finished two laps up on him once Zimmerman's run ended at 15. That still made him only sixth in the B and 12th overall, two places below his seed. His qualifying was tidy at 92.29%, but a 16.196 best lap wasn't quick enough to make it count. He's level with Henry Ballew on 244 points, 28 behind Mark Beach in fifth.
13th
Brian Zimmerman 74 pts
B-main P7 · qualified P11 · qual best lap 16.185 · 94.07% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 15.982 · 87.60% cons
Brian Zimmerman's B was over at 4:38.951 with 15 laps done, about 21 seconds before the five minutes were up, and a main that ends that early costs places in a hurry. Before that he had company: 10 laps with Chris Camara and 6 with Bradley Sharp, and both of them finished two laps clear of him. It stings, because his qualifying ran at 94.07%, the third-best figure in the class. Thirteenth from the 11th seed is a rough way back from a missed Round 3, and his 250 points have him sixth in the standings.
14th
Henry Ballew 72 ptsbumped up
B-main P8 · bumped up from the C · qualified P13 · qual best lap 16.433 · 92.37% qual cons · 7 laps · fast 17.170 · 90.50% cons
The C-main was a good one for Henry Ballew: 10 of 17 laps with Bradley Sharp, beaten by 0.737 seconds on the same lap, and second was enough to move up. Then his B lasted 7 laps and 2:15.329, which is a short night by anyone's standard, and he finished 14th overall, a place below his seed. Those 72 points are his worst of the season, so they're the score the drop throws out, and he stays tied with Chris Camara on 244 points. His 92.37% in qualifying was his tidiest since the opener.
15th
Sam Bredernitz 70 pts
C-main P3 · qualified P16 · qual best lap 16.946 · 85.26% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.113 · 85.64% cons
A zero in the first qualifier and 15 laps in the second seeded Sam Bredernitz 16th, one behind Russell Rima, even though his best lap was quicker, 16.946 to 17.255. The C sorted that out. He ran 16 laps, a lap clear of Rima, and only the two cars that went on to the B finished ahead of him. Fifteenth overall is one up on his seed, and on that lap time there's more in him than that.
16th
Russell Rima 68 pts
C-main P4 · qualified P15 · qual best lap 17.255 · 89.73% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.697 · 90.82% cons
Two 15-lap qualifiers and a 15-lap C-main made up Russell Rima's debut in the class, so if nothing else, the man is repeatable. The quicker of those qualifiers, 5:03.976, seeded him 15th. In the C he was fourth, a lap behind Sam Bredernitz, and 16th overall, one down on the order. His 17.255 best lap was 16th of 17 in qualifying, and that's where the work is.
17th
Albert Bredernitz 66 pts
C-main P5 · qualified P17 · qual best lap 17.740 · 84.80% qual cons · 2 laps · fast 17.981
Albert Bredernitz's C-main stopped after two laps and 38.924 seconds, so something went wrong early. He'd done 14 and 15 laps in qualifying with a 17.740 best, the slowest best lap anyone turned, and 17th overall is exactly where he was seeded. The attendance keeps paying, though. Three starts and 222 points have him ninth in the championship, ahead of William Schroeder, who has won both nights he's raced.
18th
Jax Bredernitz 64 pts No laps
C-main · qualified P18 · 0 laps
No laps in qualifying and none in the C for Jax Bredernitz, and the track still listed him 18th and paid him 64 points for the slot. In Round 3 he went from last seed to sixth overall, so a blank night is a strange follow-up.

Championship after Round 4

Anthony Woodruff came into Round 4 in a three-way tie for second and leaves it leading the championship with 290 points, after a TQ and a flag-to-flag win a lap clear of an 18-car field, the biggest of the season so far. It's crowded behind him: Orlando Martinez is four back with 286 points, Hendrick Westmoreland eight back with 282 points, and C4 and Mark Beach are both within 18 points. With the best three of four counting, Woodruff and Martinez have each missed a night and have nothing to throw away, while Westmoreland has raced all four and turns a raw 368 into 282 points. Beach is in the same spot, and the 78 points he took from tonight's B are the result he discards. William Schroeder led the table four weeks ago after winning both nights he'd raced, sat this one out and is down to tenth with 200 points. Woodruff has been on the podium every night he's raced and now has the win to go with it, and that's a leader I believe in.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Anthony Woodruff	+100	290	0	290	3
2	Orlando Martinez	+96	286	0	286	3
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	+92	368	−86	282	4
4	C4	+90	274	0	274	3
5	Mark Beach	+78	350	−78	272	4
6	Brian Zimmerman	+74	250	0	250	3
7	Chris Camara	+76	244	0	244	3
8	Henry Ballew	+72	316	−72	244	4

Round 5 · Aug 5

13 in the class

TQ: William Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	William Schroeder	20/5:11.685	14.658	15.584	94.45%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:02.973	14.641	16.832	92.89%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Orlando Martinez	18/5:12.259	14.905	17.348	89.88%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P1
4	Vaughn Vance	18/5:14.694	15.279	17.483	90.18%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3
5	Hendrick Westmoreland	18/5:15.008	14.659	17.500	84.26%	Q1H2 P7, Q2H2 P2
6	Chris Camara	17/5:00.448	16.344	17.673	92.02%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P3
7	C4	17/5:06.876	16.007	18.052	88.73%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4
8	Mark Beach	17/5:11.340	16.134	18.314	89.95%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P4
9	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:12.063	16.824	18.357	90.66%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P5
10	Jagger Vance	16/5:07.812	16.094	19.238	84.89%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5
11	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:08.121	18.361	20.541	88.98%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P6
12	Henry Ballew	13/5:13.394	17.611	24.107	72.86%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6
13	Russell Rima	10/3:31.405	17.038	21.141	83.11%	Q1H2 P6, Q2H2 P7

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	William Schroeder	19/5:12.610	14.701	16.453	89.53%
2	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:02.973	14.641	16.832	92.89%	✓
3	Vaughn Vance	18/5:17.005	15.368	17.611	87.59%
4	C4	17/5:06.876	16.007	18.052	88.73%	✓
5	Jagger Vance	16/5:07.812	16.094	19.238	84.89%	✓
6	Henry Ballew	13/5:13.394	17.611	24.107	72.86%	✓
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	17/5:10.373	15.352	18.257	86.13%
2	Mark Beach	16/5:01.247	15.166	18.828	80.68%
3	Chris Camara	16/5:01.370	16.461	18.836	85.58%
4	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:08.024	16.892	19.252	90.37%
5	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:08.121	18.361	20.541	88.98%	✓
6	Russell Rima	10/3:31.405	17.038	21.141	83.11%	✓
7	Hendrick Westmoreland	1/15.855	15.855	15.855	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:11.685	14.658	15.584	94.45%	✓
2	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:03.351	14.921	16.853	83.98%
3	Vaughn Vance	18/5:14.694	15.279	17.483	90.18%	✓
4	C4	17/5:10.362	16.182	18.257	89.68%
5	Jagger Vance	15/5:00.942	16.224	20.063	85.99%
6	Henry Ballew	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	18/5:12.259	14.905	17.348	89.88%	✓
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	18/5:15.008	14.659	17.500	84.26%	✓
3	Chris Camara	17/5:00.448	16.344	17.673	92.02%	✓
4	Mark Beach	17/5:11.340	16.134	18.314	89.95%	✓
5	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:12.063	16.824	18.357	90.66%	✓
6	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:16.241	18.077	22.589	82.71%
7	Russell Rima	4/1:31.534	20.327	22.884	89.29%

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

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	William Schroeder	1	20/5:09.029	14.656	16.058	90.36%	+100
2	Mathew Schroeder	2	19/5:09.124	14.934	16.957	88.41%	+96
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	3	19/5:21.128	14.754	17.582	81.84%	+94
4	C4bumped up	4	18/5:01.696	15.406	17.436	89.37%	+92
5	Vaughn Vance	5	18/5:13.039	15.362	18.160	87.45%	+90
6	Chris Camara	6	17/5:04.723	16.576	18.732	87.89%	+88
7	Jagger Vancebumped up	7	16/5:17.537	16.556	20.794	85.48%	+86
8	Orlando Martinez	8	0/0.000	–	–	–	+84
B-main
1	C4	up to the A	18/5:06.270	15.891	17.773	88.61%	–
2	Jagger Vance	up to the A	18/5:13.977	17.115	18.161	93.03%	–
3	Mark Beach	9	18/5:15.851	15.854	18.281	89.27%	+82
4	Henry Ballew	10	15/5:11.253	17.477	21.792	83.94%	+80
5	Russell Rima	11	15/5:17.024	17.775	22.200	86.33%	+78
6	Albert Bredernitz	12	14/5:16.472	18.304	23.951	84.92%	+76
7	Brian Zimmerman	13	2/26.424	21.565	21.565	–	+74

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

Flag to flag William Schroeder led every lap

1st
William Schroeder 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.658 · 94.45% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.656 · 90.36% cons · led every lap
William Schroeder has entered three rounds this season and won all three, every one of them flag to flag. Here he TQ'd off the only 20-lap run of qualifying, turned the quickest lap of the A-main at 14.656 and checked out, a full lap clear of Mathew Schroeder at the flag. The one thing in this class that has beaten him is the calendar. Two missed rounds leave him eighth with 300 points, 76 behind the new leader, and every single one of those points came from a win.
2nd
Mathew Schroeder 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.641 · 92.89% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.934 · 88.41% cons
The hot lap of qualifying belonged to Mathew Schroeder: 14.641, 0.017 under William Schroeder's best. In the A-main he spent 8 laps inside two seconds of Hendrick Westmoreland and came out of it 12 seconds clear at the flag. That's fifth, third and now second in his three rounds this season, and an 88.41% main tells me there's still more in it. Frightening news for everyone except the man a lap up the road.
3rd
Hendrick Westmoreland 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 14.659 · 84.26% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.754 · 81.84% cons
Hendrick Westmoreland leads the championship, and he got there on a night when his first qualifier lasted one lap. Seeded fifth, he turned a 14.754 in the A-main that only William Schroeder beat, then spent the rest of it scrapping: 8 laps within two seconds of Mathew Schroeder, 7 within two of C4, and an 81.84% that was the scruffiest run in the A. Third paid 94 points. With Orlando Martinez on zero laps, that's enough to top the standings with 376 points, 6 clear. Untidy, and I'd sign for it every time.
4th
C4 92 ptsbumped up
A-main P4 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.007 · 88.73% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.406 · 89.37% cons
Seeded seventh and sent to the B, C4 was fourth in the A-main by the end of the night. He won the B with 18 laps, transferred, and finished ahead of Vaughn Vance and Chris Camara, who had both qualified straight in. His best lap came down from 16.007 in qualifying to 15.406 in the main, and he ran with Hendrick Westmoreland for 7 laps along the way. That's doing it the long way round, and it paid 92 points. Charlie Kleinhagen sits third in the championship with 366 points, 10 off the lead, with nothing discarded from his four starts.
5th
Vaughn Vance 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.279 · 90.18% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.362 · 87.45% cons
Vaughn Vance needed the B to reach the A-main last round. This time he qualified fourth outright off two 18-lap runs and finished fifth, a step up from 84 points to 90. His 15.362 was the fourth-quickest lap of the A-main, behind only the three cars that got into the 14s, so the pace is there. What kept him off the podium was an 87.45% main and 18 laps, two down on the winner and one down on third.
6th
Chris Camara 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.344 · 92.02% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.576 · 87.89% cons
From the B at Round 4 to sixth in the A-main here, and the standings noticed: Chris Camara is fifth with 332 points, up from seventh. Quick it wasn't. His 16.576 was the slowest best lap of anyone who turned a lap in the A, and 17 laps left him three down on the winner. Qualifying was the good part, 92.02% and a straight run into the main as the sixth seed, and 88 points off a night like that is a decent haul.
7th
Jagger Vance 86 ptsbumped up
A-main P7 · bumped up from the B · qualified P10 · qual best lap 16.094 · 84.89% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.556 · 85.48% cons
Jagger Vance came through the B and finished seventh for the second round running, and it paid 86 points both times. The transfer was the best part of his night: 18 laps in the B and second place by 1.874 seconds over Mark Beach. In the A-main he managed 16, and a 20.794 average against a 16.556 best is over four seconds a lap going missing somewhere. From the tenth seed, seventh is a fair return. I just liked his B better than his A.
8th
Orlando Martinez 84 pts No laps
A-main P8 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.905 · 89.88% qual cons · 0 laps
Zero laps in the A-main from the third seed. Orlando Martinez had qualified with a 14.905, fourth on pace, off runs of 17 and 18 laps. Eighth in the order still pays, so he banks 84 points and holds second in the championship with 370 points, 6 behind Hendrick Westmoreland. He has raced four rounds and all four results count, so that 84 sits in his total with nothing to discard it against, and a top-three seed is worth a lot more than that.
Lower mains
9th
Mark Beach 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 16.134 · 89.95% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.854 · 89.27% cons
Mark Beach turned the fifth-quickest lap of qualifying, a 15.166, and still seeded eighth off runs of 16 and 17 laps. Plenty of speed, not enough laps. The B then came down to 1.874 seconds on the same lap, and Jagger Vance took the last transfer spot ahead of him, so it's the B-main two rounds in a row. Fourth in the championship with 354 points, with his Round 4 result as the discard, is fine. A B3 from a car that quick is not.
10th
Henry Ballew 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P12 · qual best lap 17.611 · 72.86% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.477 · 83.94% cons
Thirteen laps in the first qualifier and none in the second, with a 72.86% that was the lowest consistency of anyone in qualifying. Henry Ballew's main was better: 15 laps for fourth in the B and 80 points. He's one of only three drivers to have raced all five rounds, along with Hendrick Westmoreland and Mark Beach, and that attendance has him level with Brian Zimmerman on 324 points, listed seventh, with his 72 from Round 4 as the discard.
11th
Russell Rima 78 pts
B-main P5 · qualified P13 · qual best lap 17.038 · 83.11% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.775 · 86.33% cons
Neither of Russell Rima's qualifiers went the distance: 10 laps in 3:31.405, then 4 laps in 1:31.534, and that is how a 17.038 best lap ends up seeded last of 13. The B was a full run, 15 laps in 5:17.024, worth 78 points against the 68 he took from the C at Round 4. Finishing ahead of Albert Bredernitz and Brian Zimmerman is more than his qualifying promised.
12th
Albert Bredernitz 76 pts
B-main P6 · qualified P11 · qual best lap 18.361 · 88.98% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 18.304 · 84.92% cons
Albert Bredernitz's 18.077 was the slowest best lap of qualifying, and the B-main didn't change the story much: 14 laps for sixth in the B, worth 76 points. The attendance is what's paying. Four rounds raced have him ninth in the championship with 298 points, two behind William Schroeder, a driver with three wins to his name.
13th
Brian Zimmerman 74 pts
B-main P7 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 16.824 · 90.66% qual cons · 2 laps · fast 21.565
Two laps and 26.424 seconds: that's where Brian Zimmerman's B-main ended, and it's the second round running his main has stopped short of the full five minutes. Something went wrong early. Qualifying had been fine, a 16.824 best and 90.66% for the ninth seed. Seventh in the B is worth 74 points, and he's sixth in the championship with 324 points, level with Henry Ballew. Two short mains in a row is a pattern I don't like.

Championship after Round 5

Hendrick Westmoreland is the new championship leader, and he got there with a third place on a night when his first qualifier lasted one lap. Westmoreland has 376 points, Orlando Martinez 370 points and C4 366 points, and the difference is that Westmoreland is already discarding an 86 (462 points raw from five starts) while the other two count every result they have. Martinez is the one I can't get past: seeded third, zero laps in the A-main, and the 84 for eighth now sits in his total. Anthony Woodruff led the standings coming in and didn't race, so he slides to tenth with 290 points. Up front, William Schroeder made it three wins in his three rounds, all flag to flag, and sits eighth with 300 points, because no record is perfect enough to cover two missed nights.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	+94	462	−86	376	5
2	Orlando Martinez	+84	370	0	370	4
3	C4	+92	366	0	366	4
4	Mark Beach	+82	432	−78	354	5
5	Chris Camara	+88	332	0	332	4
6	Brian Zimmerman	+74	324	0	324	4
7	Henry Ballew	+80	396	−72	324	5
8	William Schroeder	+100	300	0	300	3

Round 6 · Sep 9

6 in the class

TQ: Hendrick Westmoreland

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:23.806	14.963	17.042	83.44%	Q1 P6, Q2 P1
2	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:00.978	14.798	16.721	90.51%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2
3	C4	18/5:09.811	15.453	17.212	92.62%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3
4	Mark Beach	18/5:14.745	15.470	17.486	91.68%	Q1 P2, Q2 P4
5	Chris Camara	17/5:03.208	16.235	17.836	90.90%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5
6	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:17.118	18.483	21.141	90.82%	Q1 P3, Q2 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:10.343	16.529	18.255	90.06%
2	Mark Beach	16/5:12.757	17.510	19.547	93.00%
3	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:17.118	18.483	21.141	90.82%	✓
4	C4	14/4:19.397	16.456	18.528	90.04%
5	Chris Camara	7/2:31.065	18.903	21.581	89.20%
6	Hendrick Westmoreland	2/47.019	20.295	23.510	–
Qualifier 2
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:23.806	14.963	17.042	83.44%	✓
2	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:00.978	14.798	16.721	90.51%	✓
3	C4	18/5:09.811	15.453	17.212	92.62%	✓
4	Mark Beach	18/5:14.745	15.470	17.486	91.68%	✓
5	Chris Camara	17/5:03.208	16.235	17.836	90.90%	✓
6	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:01.725	18.212	23.210	85.69%

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	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:10.915	15.008	16.158	90.71%	+100
2	Mathew Schroeder	19/5:11.470	15.108	17.053	89.28%	+96
3	C4	18/5:02.029	15.681	17.471	89.19%	+94
4	Mark Beach	18/5:09.549	15.754	17.886	88.74%	+92
5	Chris Camara	18/5:15.963	16.597	18.257	88.64%	+90
6	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:22.617	17.726	22.626	86.31%	+88

1st
Hendrick Westmoreland 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.963 · 83.44% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 15.008 · 90.71% cons
Hendrick Westmoreland's first qualifier stopped early again, two laps this time, and he TQ'd anyway: the second run was 19 laps when nobody else managed more than 18. Then he went flag to flag, 20 laps, a lap clear of Mathew Schroeder, with the quickest lap of the main at 15.008. It's his first win of the season, at the sixth time of asking, and he's raced every round to get it. He still leads, now with 384 points. About time, and a 90.71% main says it was no fluke.
2nd
Mathew Schroeder 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.798 · 90.51% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.108 · 89.28% cons
For the second round running, Mathew Schroeder had the hot lap of qualifying, 14.798 this time, and finished second, a full lap behind Hendrick Westmoreland. From the quickest car in qualifying I wanted more than a 15.108 in the main that Westmoreland beat. The standings don't care. He's raced four rounds and every one of them counts, so he jumps from outside the top ten to second with 376 points, 8 off the lead, and nobody in the class moved further tonight.
3rd
C4 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.453 · 92.62% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.681 · 89.19% cons
Four rounds without a podium, and then this. C4 held his seed, ran 18 laps in the A-main and took third by 7.520 seconds over Mark Beach on the same lap, worth 94 points. That puts Charlie Kleinhagen level with Orlando Martinez on 370 points, and Martinez, who didn't race, keeps third in the standings on the countback with two second places to C4's none. Losing a tiebreak to a driver who sat the round out is harsh. I'd still rather have the podium.
4th
Mark Beach 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.470 · 91.68% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.754 · 88.74% cons
Back in the A-main after two rounds in the B, Mark Beach qualified his way there at 93.00% consistency, fourth on the order. The main was scruffier, 88.74% with a 15.754 best, and he ended it on the same lap as C4, 7.5 seconds short of a podium. That's 92 points, and with all six rounds raced he's fifth with 364 points, 20 off the lead. His 524 raw points are second only to Hendrick Westmoreland's 562.
5th
Chris Camara 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.235 · 90.90% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.597 · 88.64% cons
Chris Camara's first qualifier stopped at 7 laps, and the 17-lap second run still left him fifth on the order. The main was his best of the series: 18 laps, on the same lap as third-placed C4, and 6.414 seconds behind Mark Beach at the flag. Ninety points is his biggest haul of the year, and it lifts him to sixth in the championship with 346 points.
6th
Albert Bredernitz 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 18.483 · 90.82% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.726 · 86.31% cons
With six cars entered, everybody got an A-main, and Albert Bredernitz made the most of his: 88 points, the best score of his season by 10. He finished five laps down on 15 laps, and a 22.626 average says there were some long ones in there. His 17.726 in the main still went quicker than anything he turned in qualifying. Five rounds raced out of six has him ninth with 320 points.

Championship after Round 6

Hendrick Westmoreland won from TQ, flag to flag and a lap clear, and his total went up by just 8 points. That's the second drop arriving: with six rounds run everyone counts their best four, so his 100 replaced a 92 and he now carries 562 points raw, of which 384 count. Mathew Schroeder doesn't feel the rule at all, with four starts and all four counting, and he's second with 376 points. Orlando Martinez and C4 are level on 370 points, Martinez third on the countback with two second places, and Mark Beach is fifth with 364 points. That's five drivers inside 20 points with one round to go, and it came from a night when only six cars turned up.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	+100	562	−178	384	6
2	Mathew Schroeder	+96	376	0	376	4
3	Orlando Martinez	–	370	0	370	4
4	C4	+94	460	−90	370	5
5	Mark Beach	+92	524	−160	364	6
6	Chris Camara	+90	422	−76	346	5
7	Brian Zimmerman	–	324	0	324	4
8	Henry Ballew	–	396	−72	324	5

Round 7 · Oct 7

7 in the class

TQ: William Schroeder

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	William Schroeder	20/5:00.874	14.335	15.044	94.17%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Shane Alberico	19/5:11.419	14.892	16.390	91.76%	Q1 P2, Q2 P6
3	Mark Beach	18/5:08.089	15.926	17.116	93.65%	Q1 P5, Q2 P2
4	C4	18/5:11.086	15.066	17.283	87.22%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3
5	Chris Camara	17/5:02.527	16.290	17.796	90.60%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4
6	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:18.780	17.320	21.252	80.98%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5
7	Mathew Schroeder	6/2:00.220	15.570	20.037	86.01%	Q1 P7, Q2 P7

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	William Schroeder	20/5:14.115	15.144	15.706	96.06%
2	Shane Alberico	19/5:11.419	14.892	16.390	91.76%	✓
3	C4	18/5:11.086	15.066	17.283	87.22%	✓
4	Chris Camara	17/5:20.865	16.476	18.874	81.50%
5	Mark Beach	16/5:06.424	15.625	19.152	80.33%
6	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:00.014	17.658	21.430	88.18%
7	Mathew Schroeder	6/2:00.220	15.570	20.037	86.01%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	William Schroeder	20/5:00.874	14.335	15.044	94.17%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:08.089	15.926	17.116	93.65%	✓
3	C4	18/5:15.344	14.874	17.519	86.89%
4	Chris Camara	17/5:02.527	16.290	17.796	90.60%	✓
5	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:18.780	17.320	21.252	80.98%	✓
6	Shane Alberico	14/3:57.494	14.419	16.964	78.58%
7	Mathew Schroeder	0	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Shane Alberico	1	21/5:12.642	14.235	15.440	90.24%	+100
2	William Schroeder	2	20/5:07.890	14.345	16.021	85.14%	+96
3	C4	3	19/5:15.997	14.869	17.294	82.88%	+94
4	Mark Beach	4	18/5:14.974	15.868	18.277	88.80%	+92
5	Chris Camara	5	17/5:10.985	16.331	19.121	80.34%	+90
6	Albert Bredernitz	6	16/5:19.311	17.550	20.942	84.61%	+88
Ranked on qualifying
7	Mathew Schroeder	7	6/2:00.220	–	–	–	+86

1st
Shane Alberico 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.892 · 91.76% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 14.235 · 90.24% cons
His first round of the season, and Shane Alberico handed William Schroeder his first defeat of the year. Schroeder led the opening 3 laps. Alberico took over on the fourth, led the last 17 and took the flag a lap clear at 21 laps. His 14.235 in the main is the quickest lap anyone in this class turned in this series, and it came against a driver who had won every round he entered. A debut win built on a lap like that is magnificent.
2nd
William Schroeder 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.335 · 94.17% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.345 · 85.14% cons
Two 20-lap qualifiers, a 14.335 hot lap and 96.06% consistency: William Schroeder was dialed, and the TQ was never in doubt. He led the first 3 laps of the main before Shane Alberico took it away. How does a car that qualified like that lose by a lap? His average went from 15.044 in qualifying to 16.021 in the A-main and his consistency fell to 85.14%, while Alberico averaged 15.440. Three wins and a second from four rounds leave him seventh with 396 points, level with Henry Ballew and ahead on the countback, those three wins against none.
3rd
C4 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.066 · 87.22% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.869 · 82.88% cons
C4 found speed nobody had seen from him in this series: a 14.874 in qualifying and a 14.869 in the main, both quicker than anything he'd turned in it before. Third on the night, a lap behind William Schroeder, makes it two podiums in a row and 94 points. I'd argue with the 82.88% main, the scrappiest of his A-mains in this series. Charlie Kleinhagen ends the season second in the standings with 464 points, two clear of Mathew Schroeder.
4th
Mark Beach 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.926 · 93.65% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.868 · 88.80% cons
Only one driver in this class raced all seven rounds, and it's Mark Beach, whose raw total of 616 points is the biggest in the class. The drops take his two worst off and leave him fourth with 456 points. The finale ran true to form: seeded third after a 93.65% qualifier, then an 88.80% main and 18 laps, three down on the winner. His 15.868 best in the main was the best part of a second off C4's, and the podium ended up a full lap away.
5th
Chris Camara 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.290 · 90.60% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.331 · 80.34% cons
The messiest main in the A belonged to Chris Camara: 80.34% consistency and 17 laps, four down on Shane Alberico. Qualifying at 90.60% had been perfectly respectable, and fifth from the fifth seed is exactly par. He's raced every round from Round 2 on, six in all, and that's how a driver who never stood on a podium finishes the season fifth in the standings with 436 points, out of 26 who scored.
6th
Albert Bredernitz 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 17.320 · 80.98% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.550 · 84.61% cons
A 17.320 in qualifying was Albert Bredernitz's quickest lap of this series, and he backed it up with 16 laps in the main, one more than at Round 6. Sixth again and 88 points again: his two best scores of the year came in the last two rounds. That lifts him from ninth to sixth in the final standings with 408 points. A season that started in the B finishes with back-to-back A-mains, and I like the direction.
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7th
Mathew Schroeder 86 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.570 · 86.01% qual cons · 6 laps
Mathew Schroeder came into the finale second in the championship and left with 6 laps of qualifying to show for it: 2:00.220 in the first run, nothing in the second, and no start in the A-main. Seventh in the order still pays 86 points, and with five starts every one of his results counts. That's third in the final standings with 462 points, two behind C4. Two points, after a night with no main in it.

Championship after Round 7

Hendrick Westmoreland is the 17.5 Expert champion, and he won it without racing the finale: six starts, one win among them, give him 476 points once the two drops come off. C4 finishes second with 464 points after a third place on the night, and Mark Beach is fourth with 456 points despite the biggest raw total in the class, 616 points from the only perfect attendance. Between them sits the season's most expensive empty grid slot. Mathew Schroeder arrived second in the standings, managed a 6-lap qualifier, never took the start, and the 86 points the order paid him leave him third, two points short of C4. The race itself went to Shane Alberico on his first night of the series, a lap clear with a 14.235, and William Schroeder's run of wins ended in second.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	562	−86	476	6
2	C4	+94	554	−90	464	6
3	Mathew Schroeder	+86	462	0	462	5
4	Mark Beach	+92	616	−160	456	7
5	Chris Camara	+90	512	−76	436	6
6	Albert Bredernitz	+88	474	−66	408	6
7	William Schroeder	+96	396	0	396	4
8	Henry Ballew	–	396	0	396	5

21.5 Independent 2wd Buggy

11 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	Dropped	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 15	R2May 13	R3Jun 10	R4Jul 8	R5Aug 5	R6Sep 9	R7Oct 7
1	Mark Beach	500	688	−188	6	7	1st	100	100	100	92	100	100	96
2	Robert Summers	488	680	−192	1	7	1st	96	96	96	100	96	96	100
3	Chris Gross	462	552	−90	–	6	2nd	90	92	92	96	92	90	–
4	Brian Zimmerman	376	376	0	–	4	3rd	94	94	–	94	94	–	–
5	Chuck Burns	362	362	0	–	4	3rd	–	–	90	86	–	92	94
6	Josh Strumillo	186	186	0	–	2	3rd	92	–	94	–	–	–	–
7	Dustin Vance	180	180	0	–	2	5th	–	–	–	90	90	–	–
8	Mathew Schroeder	94	94	0	–	1	3rd	–	–	–	–	–	94	–
9	Jim Alexander	90	90	0	–	1	5th	–	90	–	–	–	–	–
10	Bradley Sharp	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	–	88	–	–	–
11	Keeron Ward	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	–	–	–	88	–

Round-by-round commentary

Every driver in the A-main, plus everyone below it who scored — with the qualifiers, lap times, consistency and lead changes straight from race timing.

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Round 1 · Apr 15

5 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	18/5:11.064	16.538	17.281	94.95%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1
2	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:00.032	16.970	17.649	95.77%	Q1 P1, Q2 P5
3	Josh Strumillo	17/5:00.738	16.880	17.690	94.68%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2
4	Robert Summers	17/5:04.644	16.583	17.920	92.16%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3
5	Chris Gross	17/5:17.455	16.403	18.674	88.16%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:00.032	16.970	17.649	95.77%	✓
2	Mark Beach	17/5:08.049	16.289	18.121	89.99%
3	Robert Summers	17/5:14.404	16.866	18.494	87.33%
4	Josh Strumillo	17/5:15.923	16.811	18.584	90.24%
5	Chris Gross	15/5:04.536	17.001	20.302	85.08%
Qualifier 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:11.064	16.538	17.281	94.95%	✓
2	Josh Strumillo	17/5:00.738	16.880	17.690	94.68%	✓
3	Robert Summers	17/5:04.644	16.583	17.920	92.16%	✓
4	Chris Gross	17/5:17.455	16.403	18.674	88.16%	✓
5	Brian Zimmerman	0	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Mark Beach	18/5:10.891	16.797	17.319	98.49%	+100
2	Robert Summers	17/5:04.654	17.195	17.897	95.31%	+96
3	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:08.071	17.135	18.126	92.59%	+94
4	Josh Strumillo	16/5:00.067	16.955	18.856	86.97%	+92
5	Chris Gross	15/5:02.459	16.907	20.257	87.67%	+90

Flag to flag Mark Beach led every lap

1st
Mark Beach 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.538 · 94.95% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.797 · 98.49% cons · led every lap
Opening night, and Mark Beach gave the rest of the class nothing. He TQ'd, turned the quickest lap of qualifying at 16.289, then went flag to flag in the A-main with 18 laps when nobody else got past 17. A 98.49% main is a car on rails for five minutes, and his 16.797 was still the quickest lap in it. Four other cars on the track, and not one of them finished on his lap.
2nd
Robert Summers 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.583 · 92.16% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.195 · 95.31% cons
The slowest best lap in the A-main belonged to Robert Summers, a 17.195, and he finished second. How? A 95.31% main and a 17.897 average, the best of anyone bar the winner, while the three cars behind him all had a quicker lap and a slower average. Seeded fourth of five, he took the flag 3.417 seconds clear of Brian Zimmerman on the same lap, and 96 points from that seed is a terrific way to open a season.
3rd
Brian Zimmerman 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.970 · 95.77% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.135 · 92.59% cons
One qualifier was all Brian Zimmerman needed. His first run was 17 laps in 5:00.032 at 95.77%, and that held up for second on the order with nothing in the second run. In the main he spent 7 of the 18 laps within two seconds of Josh Strumillo, and by the flag the gap was a full lap. The slowest best lap in qualifying, 16.970, and a podium anyway.
4th
Josh Strumillo 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.880 · 94.68% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.955 · 86.97% cons
Josh Strumillo qualified at 94.68% and lost the thread in the main. His 16.955 was quicker than anything Brian Zimmerman or Robert Summers turned in the A, yet he finished a lap behind both on an 86.97% main and an 18.856 average. The 7 laps he ran with Zimmerman were the best of it. I like the speed. I wanted the qualifying version of him in the main.
5th
Chris Gross 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.403 · 88.16% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 16.907 · 87.67% cons
Chris Gross had the second-quickest lap in qualifying, 16.403, and seeded last. Same story in the main: a 16.907 that only Mark Beach beat, then a 20.257 average that was the slowest of the five and 15 laps, three down on the winner. That's the speed and not the laps, in both sessions. Ninety points and last place is a poor return on a car that quick.

Championship after Round 1

Mark Beach opened the season by doing all of it: TQ, the quickest lap in qualifying and in the main, and a flag-to-flag win a lap clear at 98.49%. After one round the standings are just the finishing order, so his 100 points against Robert Summers's 96 points don't prove much yet. What I'd take from the night is how Summers got there, second with the slowest best lap in the A-main because nobody behind him could live with a 95.31% main. Chris Gross is the opposite case, second-quickest in qualifying and last at the flag on a 20.257 average. Brian Zimmerman and Josh Strumillo ran within two seconds of each other for 7 of the 18 laps, the only real scrap in a five-car field, and Zimmerman came out of it with the last podium spot.

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	Mark Beach	+100	100	100	1
2	Robert Summers	+96	96	96	1
3	Brian Zimmerman	+94	94	94	1
4	Josh Strumillo	+92	92	92	1
5	Chris Gross	+90	90	90	1

Round 2 · May 13

5 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	18/5:03.914	16.241	16.884	97.52%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:04.484	17.142	17.911	94.87%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Robert Summers	17/5:05.384	16.539	17.964	88.00%	Q1 P5, Q2 P3
4	Chris Gross	16/5:02.831	16.791	18.927	87.02%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4
5	Jim Alexander	16/5:17.637	18.612	19.852	95.72%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Mark Beach	17/5:00.069	16.739	17.651	92.25%
2	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:04.668	17.402	17.922	97.21%
3	Chris Gross	16/5:05.183	17.411	19.074	91.38%
4	Jim Alexander	16/5:17.637	18.612	19.852	95.72%	✓
5	Robert Summers	15/5:05.416	17.781	20.361	84.20%
Qualifier 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:03.914	16.241	16.884	97.52%	✓
2	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:04.484	17.142	17.911	94.87%	✓
3	Robert Summers	17/5:05.384	16.539	17.964	88.00%	✓
4	Chris Gross	16/5:02.831	16.791	18.927	87.02%	✓
5	Jim Alexander	15/5:10.196	19.013	20.680	89.61%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Mark Beach	18/5:07.843	16.543	17.112	96.68%	+100
2	Robert Summers	18/5:16.618	16.605	17.320	94.18%	+96
3	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:01.150	16.839	17.697	94.35%	+94
4	Chris Gross	17/5:12.266	16.388	18.077	89.98%	+92
5	Jim Alexander	15/5:05.380	18.454	20.354	90.71%	+90

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.

Flag to flag Mark Beach led every lap

1st
Mark Beach 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.241 · 97.52% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.543 · 96.68% cons · led every lap
Nobody else has led a lap of a 21.5 main in this series. Mark Beach won both qualifiers with a 16.241 hot lap in there, and his 16.884 qualifying average was more than a second better than anyone else's. The main went flag to flag again, 18 laps at 96.68%, and Summers was on the same lap but 8.775 seconds back at the flag. Two wins in two rounds and an eight-point lead. I've gone looking for a weakness in this and I can't find one.
2nd
Robert Summers 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.539 · 88.00% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.605 · 94.18% cons
A 15-lap Q1, last in that run, had Robert Summers starting third. The main looked like a different driver's: 18 laps, the same as the winner, at 94.18%, with a 16.605 best that only Gross and Beach beat in the race. That's how to rescue a night, and it keeps him second with 192 points, eight off the lead. The 88.00% he qualified at is what put him behind Zimmerman on the grid, and it's the part I'd fix first.
3rd
Brian Zimmerman 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 17.142 · 94.87% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.839 · 94.35% cons
Predictable is a compliment when the night looks like Brian Zimmerman's. Seventeen laps in each qualifier at 97.21%, a figure only Beach beat, put him second on the grid with only the fourth-best lap in the field. The main finished a lap down in third, the same as Round 1, and 188 points has him third in the standings. What stands between him and the top two is raw speed: his main averaged 17.697 and the winner's 17.112.
4th
Chris Gross 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.791 · 87.02% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.388 · 89.98% cons
Chris Gross owns the quickest lap of this main, a 16.388 nobody else in the race matched. Timing also credited him with a 14.535, a second and a half under anything this class has run, and that was a counting error the site has thrown out. The trouble is everything around that lap: five laps over 20 seconds and an 89.98% run. Still, 17 laps is two more than his Round 1 main managed, and I'll take that direction.
5th
Jim Alexander 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 18.612 · 95.72% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.454 · 90.71% cons
Clean first, quick later: that's how Jim Alexander's first 21.5 night reads. He qualified at 95.72%, tidier than Summers or Gross managed, but his 18.612 best sat almost a second and a half behind the next car's. Fifteen laps in the main and 90 points on the board. Tidy is the harder half of this to learn, and he's already got it.

Championship after Round 2

Two mains, two flag-to-flag wins for Mark Beach, and the 8.775 seconds he had on Summers this time is the size of the job facing everyone else. No two cars ran together for a third of this race, so it came down to pace, and Beach's 17.112 average was the best in the main by more than two tenths. The fight behind him is close: Summers has 192 points, Zimmerman 188 points and Gross 182 points, ten points covering second to fourth. Josh Strumillo sat this one out and falls to fifth with 92 points, two ahead of the debuting Jim Alexander. Nothing has been dropped yet, so every point anyone has scored still counts until the first result comes off at Round 3.

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	Mark Beach	+100	200	200	2
2	Robert Summers	+96	192	192	2
3	Brian Zimmerman	+94	188	188	2
4	Chris Gross	+92	182	182	2
5	Josh Strumillo	–	92	92	1
6	Jim Alexander	+90	90	90	1

Round 3 · Jun 10

5 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	18/5:11.956	16.723	17.331	97.87%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Josh Strumillo	17/5:01.884	16.676	17.758	91.36%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2
3	Robert Summers	17/5:04.457	16.586	17.909	89.76%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3
4	Chris Gross	17/5:17.514	16.893	18.677	90.10%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4
5	Chuck Burns	16/5:17.225	17.682	19.827	87.78%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Mark Beach	18/5:11.956	16.723	17.331	97.87%	✓
2	Robert Summers	17/5:11.568	16.968	18.328	93.08%
3	Chris Gross	17/5:17.514	16.893	18.677	90.10%	✓
4	Josh Strumillo	17/5:18.480	17.235	18.734	89.98%
5	Chuck Burns	15/5:05.413	17.834	20.361	91.53%
Qualifier 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:12.737	16.649	17.374	95.70%
2	Josh Strumillo	17/5:01.884	16.676	17.758	91.36%	✓
3	Robert Summers	17/5:04.457	16.586	17.909	89.76%	✓
4	Chris Gross	16/5:06.441	17.257	19.153	92.07%
5	Chuck Burns	16/5:17.225	17.682	19.827	87.78%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Mark Beach	18/5:10.561	16.613	17.171	97.77%	+100
2	Robert Summers	18/5:10.988	16.312	17.087	96.43%	+96
3	Josh Strumillo	18/5:15.862	16.435	17.515	91.93%	+94
4	Chris Gross	16/5:02.279	17.363	18.345	93.72%	+92
5	Chuck Burns	16/5:16.433	17.636	19.333	94.40%	+90

1 lead change Josh Strumillo → Mark Beach

1st
Mark Beach 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.723 · 97.87% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.613 · 97.77% cons · led 17
Three wins from three rounds, and this was the one that came closest to getting away from him. Strumillo led the opening lap and Beach had it from lap 2, but Summers and Strumillo spent 7 of the 18 laps within two seconds of him and Summers crossed the line just 0.427 behind. Beach's 16.613 was the slowest best lap of the front three. He won it from the TQ, after the only 18-lap qualifying runs in the class, and with the tidiest main of the three at 97.77%. Narrowest win of his season, and I'd call it his best, because somebody finally made him work.
2nd
Robert Summers 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.586 · 89.76% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.312 · 96.43% cons
Robert Summers had the quickest lap of the night twice over, 16.586 in qualifying and a 16.312 heater in the main, and lost by 0.427 of a second. That one stings. His main was on rails at 96.43%, he ran with Beach and Strumillo for seven laps, and his average lap was even quicker than the winner's, 17.087 to 17.171. If I'm picking where he lost it, it's qualifying: 17 laps in both runs put him third on the grid, behind a Strumillo he beat by nearly five seconds. Eight points back with 192 points.
3rd
Josh Strumillo 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.676 · 91.36% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.435 · 91.93% cons · led 1
Back after missing Round 2, Josh Strumillo led the first lap from the second grid slot, the first lap anyone other than Beach has led in this series. He ran with Beach and Summers for more than a third of the race, and his 16.435 was a lap only Summers beat all night. At 91.93% he was the scrappiest of the front three, 5.301 seconds off the win but on the lead lap. Sixteen laps in Round 1, 18 here: that's a real step, and it lifts him to fourth with 186 points.
4th
Chris Gross 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.893 · 90.10% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.363 · 93.72% cons
Chris Gross has raced all three rounds, and the first drop has just shoved him down to fifth. His 274 raw points are the third-best total in the class, but only his best two count now, 184 points, while Zimmerman and Strumillo each missed a night and lose nothing. The main was his tidiest run in this series yet at 93.72%, and still two laps down with a 17.363 best, more than a second off Summers. I want his Round 2 speed and this consistency in the same main.
5th
Chuck Burns 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.682 · 87.78% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.636 · 94.40% cons
First 21.5 night for Chuck Burns, and his main ran at 94.40%, cleaner than Gross or Strumillo managed in the same race. Speed is the gap. His 17.636 was the slowest best lap of the main, and 16 laps left him two down on the winner. Ninety points gets him on the board, level with Jim Alexander. The laps were tidy, and now they need to be a second quicker.

Championship after Round 3

This was the closest 21.5 main of the series: Beach, Summers and Strumillo within two seconds of one another for 7 of the 18 laps, Strumillo leading the first of them, and Summers 0.427 of a second short at the flag. Beach still made it three wins from three rounds, and with the first result now coming off he leads with 200 points, eight clear of Summers. The drop is where the standings turn strange. Brian Zimmerman sat the night out and is third with 188 points, Strumillo is fourth with 186 points, and Chris Gross, who has raced every round, is fifth with 184 points. On raw points Gross would be third with 274 points. Best two of three is the rule, though, and for now turning up every night is worth nothing extra.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Mark Beach	+100	300	−100	200	3
2	Robert Summers	+96	288	−96	192	3
3	Brian Zimmerman	–	188	0	188	2
4	Josh Strumillo	+94	186	0	186	2
5	Chris Gross	+92	274	−90	184	3
6	Jim Alexander	–	90	0	90	1
7	Chuck Burns	+90	90	0	90	1

Round 4 · Jul 8

7 in the class

TQ: Robert Summers

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Robert Summers	18/5:09.590	16.454	17.199	95.43%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Mark Beach	18/5:14.124	16.184	17.451	93.77%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3
3	Bradley Sharp	17/5:09.010	17.047	18.177	91.26%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2
4	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:12.005	17.025	18.353	91.78%	Q1 P3, Q2 P7
5	Chris Gross	16/5:06.009	17.133	19.126	91.71%	Q1 P6, Q2 P4
6	Chuck Burns	16/5:06.150	16.583	19.134	86.70%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5
7	Dustin Vance	16/5:12.624	17.615	19.539	88.89%	Q1 P7, Q2 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Robert Summers	18/5:09.590	16.454	17.199	95.43%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:14.124	16.184	17.451	93.77%	✓
3	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:12.005	17.025	18.353	91.78%	✓
4	Bradley Sharp	16/5:06.428	17.065	19.152	90.40%
5	Chuck Burns	16/5:07.367	16.938	19.210	88.52%
6	Chris Gross	16/5:11.407	17.179	19.463	90.20%
7	Dustin Vance	16/5:12.624	17.615	19.539	88.89%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Robert Summers	17/5:02.735	16.253	17.808	89.70%
2	Bradley Sharp	17/5:09.010	17.047	18.177	91.26%	✓
3	Mark Beach	17/5:13.381	16.371	18.434	89.37%
4	Chris Gross	16/5:06.009	17.133	19.126	91.71%	✓
5	Chuck Burns	16/5:06.150	16.583	19.134	86.70%	✓
6	Dustin Vance	15/5:06.564	16.794	20.438	86.68%
7	Brian Zimmerman	0	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Robert Summers	18/5:17.801	16.274	17.701	92.72%	+100
2	Chris Gross	17/5:14.244	17.028	18.181	90.92%	+96
3	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:16.835	16.907	18.539	90.76%	+94
4	Mark Beach	16/5:05.300	16.160	18.661	85.49%	+92
5	Dustin Vance	16/5:08.416	17.646	19.177	93.34%	+90
6	Bradley Sharp	16/5:11.112	17.000	19.266	89.48%	+88
7	Chuck Burns	8/2:43.287	16.303	20.338	84.07%	+86

Flag to flag Robert Summers led every lap

1st
Robert Summers 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.454 · 95.43% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.274 · 92.72% cons · led every lap
Finally, somebody beat Mark Beach, and Robert Summers did it properly. He won both qualifiers for the TQ, with the best average (17.199) and the best consistency (95.43%) in the class, then led every lap of the main and checked out by a full lap: 18 when nobody else managed more than 17. First win of his season, and the most complete night he's had. The cruel bit is the standings, where he's still exactly eight points behind.
2nd
Chris Gross 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.133 · 91.71% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.028 · 90.92% cons
Chris Gross qualified with the slowest best lap in the class, a 17.133, and finished second. How? The second-best average lap of the main, 18.181, nearly half a second a lap better than Beach managed. He started fifth, spent 10 of the 18 laps within two seconds of Zimmerman and came out 2.591 seconds in front of him. Best result of his season by two places, and the one I enjoyed most all night.
3rd
Brian Zimmerman 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.025 · 91.78% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.907 · 90.76% cons
Another zero in Q2 for Brian Zimmerman, his second of the season after Round 1, and again one 17-lap run was enough for fourth on the grid. The main turned into a 10-lap fight with Gross that he lost by 2.591 seconds, which cost him second place and two points. He has raced three rounds and finished third in all of them, and he's still third in the standings with 282 points. Gross is two points behind him, the closest gap anywhere in the championship.
4th
Mark Beach 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.184 · 93.77% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.160 · 85.49% cons
The quickest lap in the class all night belonged to Mark Beach, a 16.160 in the main, and he finished two laps behind the winner. After three mains between 96.68% and 98.49%, this one ran at 85.49% and managed 16 laps. From the car with the most speed in the field, that's unacceptable. His escape is the drop: best three of four count, this 92-point night is the one that comes off, and he still leads with 300 points.
5th
Dustin Vance 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 17.615 · 88.89% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.646 · 93.34% cons
Dustin Vance started his first 21.5 main from the back of the grid and came through to fifth, and the reason is 93.34%, the cleanest main anyone in the class ran. He went at it with Bradley Sharp for more than half the race and finished 2.696 seconds ahead of him. Qualifying was the opposite story, 88.89% and the slowest average in the field, even with a 16.794 best that was fourth-quickest. Put that main into qualifying and he starts a lot further up.
6th
Bradley Sharp 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.047 · 91.26% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.000 · 89.48% cons
Bradley Sharp put a 17-lap Q2 together on his 21.5 debut, good for third on the grid, and then went backwards. His main averaged 19.266, over a second slower than his own qualifying average of 18.177, and Vance, who started last, ran with him for 10 laps before finishing 2.696 seconds up the road. Three places lost from the third seed is the number I can't get past. He leaves with 88 points.
7th
Chuck Burns 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.583 · 86.70% qual cons · 8 laps · fast 16.303 · 84.07% cons
Something went wrong for Chuck Burns, because his main ended at 8 laps and 2:43.287. Before it did, he turned a 16.303, a lap only Beach and Summers beat all night and more than a second and a quarter quicker than anything he ran in Round 3. His 16.583 in qualifying was third-quickest in the class too. That's real speed. Seventh still pays 86 points, and he's sixth in the standings with 176 points.

Championship after Round 4

Summers won both qualifiers, led every lap and beat the field by a lap, and Beach finished fourth with 16 laps. So what did that do to the gap at the top? Nothing at all: best three of four now count, Beach's 92 is the result that comes off, and he still leads with 300 points, eight clear of Summers, the same margin they had after Rounds 2 and 3. Without the drop it would be 392 points to 388, so the rule is doing Beach a real favour tonight. Behind them, Zimmerman and Gross ran together for 10 laps and leave the night separated by two points, 282 points to 280. Seven starters made this the biggest 21.5 field of the year, with Dustin Vance and Bradley Sharp new to the class.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Mark Beach	+92	392	−92	300	4
2	Robert Summers	+100	388	−96	292	4
3	Brian Zimmerman	+94	282	0	282	3
4	Chris Gross	+96	370	−90	280	4
5	Josh Strumillo	–	186	0	186	2
6	Chuck Burns	+86	176	0	176	2
7	Jim Alexander	–	90	0	90	1
8	Dustin Vance	+90	90	0	90	1

Round 5 · Aug 5

5 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	17/5:00.304	16.696	17.665	94.04%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2
2	Robert Summers	17/5:00.649	16.723	17.685	93.76%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1
3	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:09.020	17.012	18.178	95.46%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4
4	Chris Gross	17/5:10.911	16.953	18.289	94.59%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5
5	Dustin Vance	16/5:10.809	17.288	19.426	93.06%	Q1 P5, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Mark Beach	17/5:00.304	16.696	17.665	94.04%	✓
2	Robert Summers	17/5:08.424	16.409	18.143	92.88%
3	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:09.020	17.012	18.178	95.46%	✓
4	Chris Gross	17/5:10.911	16.953	18.289	94.59%	✓
5	Dustin Vance	16/5:11.024	16.919	19.439	89.10%
Qualifier 2
1	Robert Summers	17/5:00.649	16.723	17.685	93.76%	✓
2	Mark Beach	17/5:04.224	16.516	17.896	91.20%
3	Dustin Vance	16/5:10.809	17.288	19.426	93.06%	✓
4	Brian Zimmerman	15/5:01.991	17.247	20.133	78.99%
5	Chris Gross	15/5:04.888	17.391	20.326	86.06%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Mark Beach	18/5:04.481	16.774	17.663	92.43%	+100
2	Robert Summers	18/5:07.351	16.431	17.795	89.16%	+96
3	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:03.184	17.429	18.554	93.48%	+94
4	Chris Gross	17/5:05.153	17.113	18.725	91.66%	+92
5	Dustin Vance	16/5:00.922	17.226	19.629	92.66%	+90

2 lead changes Chris Gross → Brian Zimmerman → Mark Beach

1st
Mark Beach 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.696 · 94.04% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.774 · 92.43% cons · led 13
Four racing laps in, Mark Beach hadn't led a lap: Gross had the first two and Zimmerman the next two. Beach took over on lap 5, kept it for the last 13 of the 17 racing laps and beat Summers by 2.870 seconds. Summers had the quicker lap, so this one came down to the TQ and the tidier run, 92.43% against 89.16%. That's four wins from five rounds, and he leads with 400 points, 12 points clear.
2nd
Robert Summers 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.723 · 93.76% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.431 · 89.16% cons
Robert Summers had the quickest lap in qualifying, 16.409, and the quickest in the main, 16.431, and still lost by 2.870 seconds. He couldn't string the laps together: 89.16% is his scrappiest main of the series by more than three points. For six racing laps he was within two seconds of Gross, a car that finished a lap down, and that's not company a car this quick should be keeping. Twelve points behind now, with 388 points.
3rd
Brian Zimmerman 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.012 · 95.46% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.429 · 93.48% cons · led 2
Slowest best lap in both sessions, cleanest run in both, and Brian Zimmerman turned that into two laps in the lead and another third place. His 95.46% in qualifying and 93.48% in the main were the best in the class, and laps 3 and 4 were the first he's led in a 21.5 main in this series. That's a third place in every round he's entered, four of them, and 376 points has him third in the standings, four clear of Gross.
4th
Chris Gross 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.953 · 94.59% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.113 · 91.66% cons · led 2
For two laps, Chris Gross led a 21.5 main, the first time he's done it in this series, and from the fourth grid slot. Summers then kept him company, within two seconds, for 6 of the 17 racing laps before Gross finished a lap down. His qualifying was the tidiest run he's had in this series, 94.59%, and the main slid back to 91.66%. Four points behind Zimmerman with 372 points, and I like him far more at the front of a race than buried in it.
5th
Dustin Vance 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.288 · 93.06% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.226 · 92.66% cons
Second night in the class for Dustin Vance and the same picture as the first. His 16.919 was the third-quickest lap in qualifying, but his 19.426 average was the slowest of the five, two and a half seconds off his own best. The main ran clean at 92.66% and finished two laps down. Closing that gap between best lap and average is the whole job, and he's sixth with 180 points while he works on it.

Championship after Round 5

Three different drivers led this main, Gross for two laps, Zimmerman for two and Beach for the last 13, and the race finished the way the championship reads. Beach has 400 points, four wins and a 12-point lead over Summers, who had the quickest lap in both sessions and an 89.16% main to go with it. On raw totals the gap is only eight points, 492 points to 484. The difference is what each of them throws away: Beach drops his fourth place from Round 4, Summers drops a second place, and that's four points the rule hands to the man who already leads. Behind them, Zimmerman has 376 points and Gross 372 points, and Zimmerman has finished third every time he's raced.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Mark Beach	+100	492	−92	400	5
2	Robert Summers	+96	484	−96	388	5
3	Brian Zimmerman	+94	376	0	376	4
4	Chris Gross	+92	462	−90	372	5
5	Josh Strumillo	–	186	0	186	2
6	Dustin Vance	+90	180	0	180	2
7	Chuck Burns	–	176	0	176	2
8	Jim Alexander	–	90	0	90	1

Round 6 · Sep 9

6 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	18/5:13.042	16.423	17.391	89.30%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:06.586	16.819	18.034	94.67%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Robert Summers	17/5:17.686	16.502	18.687	89.21%	Q1 P5, Q2 P3
4	Chris Gross	17/5:19.294	16.920	18.782	90.79%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4
5	Keeron Ward	16/5:01.527	17.863	18.845	94.57%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5
6	Chuck Burns	16/5:06.276	16.855	19.142	87.70%	Q1 P3, Q2 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Mark Beach	18/5:13.957	16.524	17.442	95.98%
2	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:13.511	17.635	18.442	96.42%
3	Chuck Burns	16/5:06.276	16.855	19.142	87.70%	✓
4	Chris Gross	16/5:14.546	17.581	19.659	87.65%
5	Robert Summers	15/5:07.159	16.806	20.477	83.74%
6	Keeron Ward	15/5:10.685	18.014	20.712	86.52%
Qualifier 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:13.042	16.423	17.391	89.30%	✓
2	Mathew Schroeder	17/5:06.586	16.819	18.034	94.67%	✓
3	Robert Summers	17/5:17.686	16.502	18.687	89.21%	✓
4	Chris Gross	17/5:19.294	16.920	18.782	90.79%	✓
5	Keeron Ward	16/5:01.527	17.863	18.845	94.57%	✓
6	Chuck Burns	16/5:13.849	17.481	19.616	89.74%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Mark Beach	18/5:02.010	16.339	17.508	90.41%	+100
2	Robert Summers	18/5:05.394	16.508	17.662	92.79%	+96
3	Mathew Schroeder	18/5:09.360	16.549	17.924	87.27%	+94
4	Chuck Burns	17/5:07.461	17.228	18.837	89.25%	+92
5	Chris Gross	16/5:03.029	17.096	19.847	81.83%	+90
6	Keeron Ward	1/5.798	–	–	–	+88

1st
Mark Beach 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.423 · 89.30% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.339 · 90.41% cons
Beach led lap 1, Schroeder laps 2 to 4, Beach was back in front on lap 5, Summers got to the front on lap 14, and Beach had it back a lap later and kept it to the flag. Four lead changes, three cars within two seconds of each other for 6 of the 17 racing laps, and Mark Beach still won by 3.384 seconds with the quickest lap in the class all night, a 16.339. At 90.41% it was the scrappiest of his five wins. I don't care. Losing the lead and taking it straight back is exactly what I want from the man at the top of the standings.
2nd
Robert Summers 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.502 · 89.21% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.508 · 92.79% cons
One lap. That's how long Robert Summers held the lead, on lap 14, before Beach had it back, and he finished 3.384 seconds behind after running with Beach and Schroeder for six racing laps. Five second places in six rounds now, and the gap in the standings hasn't moved: 12 points, 388 points to 400. Another 15-lap Q1 put him third on the grid behind a debutant, and that's the habit I'd break first.
3rd
Mathew Schroeder 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.819 · 94.67% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.549 · 87.27% cons
What a way to arrive. Mathew Schroeder qualified second on his first 21.5 night with the cleanest qualifying in the class, 96.42%, then led laps 2 to 4 and finished third on the lead lap, in close company with Beach and Summers for more than a third of the race. Six drivers have joined this class since Round 1, and none of the other five has finished higher than fifth. The main slipped to 87.27%, lowest of the three cars on the lead lap, and that's the only thing I'd take off him.
4th
Chuck Burns 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.855 · 87.70% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.228 · 89.25% cons
Chuck Burns started last of six and finished a lap clear of Chris Gross. Seventeen laps at 89.25% isn't pretty, but his main averaged 18.837, almost half a second a lap better than his Round 3 main, and this is the best result of his three 21.5 nights. He's fifth in the standings with 268 points, ahead of Strumillo, who hasn't raced since Round 3.
5th
Chris Gross 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.920 · 90.79% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.096 · 81.83% cons
An 81.83% main is the scrappiest anyone in this class has run in this series, and it belongs to Chris Gross. Seeded fourth, he finished two laps down, behind a car that started last. The pace was fine with a 17.096 best, but the average sat nearly three seconds slower at 19.847. He holds fourth with 372 points, four behind Zimmerman, who wasn't even here.
6th
Keeron Ward 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.863 · 94.57% qual cons · 1 laps
Keeron Ward's main was over almost before it started: one lap on the result and 5.798 seconds of running, which is the crossing off the grid and nothing more. A pity, because his first night in the class had a 16-lap Q2 and 94.57% across qualifying behind it. Sixth still pays 88 points.

Championship after Round 6

Three different drivers led this main and the lead changed hands four times, more than in any other 21.5 race this season, and the one who led most of it won again. Mathew Schroeder had it for laps 2 to 4 on his way to a podium on debut. At the front, Summers had the lead on lap 14 and Beach had it back on lap 15, which is Beach's season in one exchange: a fifth win, and 400 points to Summers' 388 points with both drops now in play. Zimmerman didn't race and still sits third with 376 points, four clear of Gross.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Mark Beach	+100	592	−192	400	6
2	Robert Summers	+96	580	−192	388	6
3	Brian Zimmerman	–	376	0	376	4
4	Chris Gross	+90	552	−180	372	6
5	Chuck Burns	+92	268	0	268	3
6	Josh Strumillo	–	186	0	186	2
7	Dustin Vance	–	180	0	180	2
8	Mathew Schroeder	+94	94	0	94	1

Round 7 · Oct 7

3 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	18/5:16.604	16.517	17.589	93.21%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Robert Summers	17/5:05.385	16.540	17.964	93.45%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Chuck Burns	17/5:09.294	16.941	18.194	93.52%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Mark Beach	18/5:16.604	16.517	17.589	93.21%	✓
2	Robert Summers	17/5:05.385	16.540	17.964	93.45%	✓
3	Chuck Burns	17/5:09.294	16.941	18.194	93.52%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Mark Beach	18/5:17.413	16.307	17.634	90.21%
2	Robert Summers	17/5:07.996	16.223	18.117	84.21%
3	Chuck Burns	17/5:09.867	16.415	18.227	92.99%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Robert Summers	18/5:01.027	16.259	17.438	93.84%	+100
2	Mark Beach	18/5:13.592	16.118	18.210	88.28%	+96
3	Chuck Burns	17/5:15.754	16.850	19.421	85.16%	+94

1st
Robert Summers 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.540 · 93.45% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.259 · 93.84% cons
Flag to flag in the finale, and Robert Summers checked out doing it. Beach had the TQ and the quickest lap of the race, and Summers led every lap anyway, ran 93.84% and crossed the line 12.565 seconds clear. No runner-up on the winner's lap has finished further back in this series. That's his second win of the year, both flag to flag, and he took this one off the man who'd finished ahead of him five times.
2nd
Mark Beach 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.517 · 93.21% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.118 · 88.28% cons
A 16.118 is the quickest lap anyone has turned in this series, and Mark Beach threw it down in a main he lost by 12.565 seconds. How does the TQ with that lap get beaten so clearly? His average was 18.210 to Summers' 17.438, nearly eight tenths every lap, and 88.28% is his scrappiest main of the series after Round 4. Eighteen laps in both qualifiers again, so the speed and the seeding were there. On a three-car night, giving away that much a lap hands the race to the tidier driver, and Summers was tidier by more than five points.
3rd
Chuck Burns 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.941 · 93.52% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.850 · 85.16% cons
First podium of the season for Chuck Burns, and he's earned the right to enjoy it before anyone mentions there were three cars. His qualifying was the tidiest of the three at 93.52%, with a 16.415 best that was more than a second and a quarter quicker than the 17.682 he qualified with in Round 3. The main was the weak spot, a lap down at 85.16%. Four 21.5 nights this year, 362 points, and the best result came last.

Championship after Round 7

Mark Beach is the 21.5 Winning Wednesday champion with 500 points, and he had it banked before the finale started. Five wins in the first six rounds meant five scores of 100, and with only the best five counting, 500 points is as high as the scoring goes. Summers did everything he could with the last round, flag to flag and 12.565 seconds clear of the new champion, and it took him to 488 points, the most he could reach. He deserves more than a footnote: two wins and five second places, and only eight points behind on raw totals, 680 points to 688. Chris Gross finishes third with 462 points without turning a wheel in the finale, because the fifth counting result lifted him past Zimmerman, whose four starts stop at 376 points, and Chuck Burns signs off fifth with 362 points and his first podium.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Mark Beach	+96	688	−188	500	7
2	Robert Summers	+100	680	−192	488	7
3	Chris Gross	–	552	−90	462	6
4	Brian Zimmerman	–	376	0	376	4
5	Chuck Burns	+94	362	0	362	4
6	Josh Strumillo	–	186	0	186	2
7	Dustin Vance	–	180	0	180	2
8	Mathew Schroeder	–	94	0	94	1

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21 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	Dropped	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 15	R2May 13	R3Jun 10	R4Jul 8	R5Aug 5	R6Sep 9	R7Oct 7
1	C4	470	470	0	–	5	2nd	92	–	–	92	96	94	96
2	Mark Beach	468	468	0	1	5	2nd	–	–	96	90	92	96	94
3	Ryan Johnson	454	536	−82	–	6	3rd	88	90	94	82	–	92	90
4	Chris Camara	454	538	−84	–	6	4th	–	92	90	84	90	90	92
5	Chris Gross	442	528	−86	–	6	4th	86	88	92	86	88	88	–
6	Hendrick Westmoreland	394	394	0	1	4	1st	100	94	–	–	100	100	–
7	Orlando Martinez	380	380	0	2	4	1st	96	100	–	100	84	–	–
8	Brian Zimmerman	342	342	0	–	4	5th	90	86	–	80	86	–	–
9	Anthony Woodruff	290	290	0	2	3	1st	–	96	100	94	–	–	–
10	Vaughn Vance	190	190	0	–	2	2nd	–	–	–	96	94	–	–
11	Dallas Boyd	100	100	0	1	1	1st	–	–	–	–	–	–	100
12	Josh Strumillo	94	94	0	–	1	3rd	94	–	–	–	–	–	–
13	Teagan Cummings	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	–	88	–	–	–
14	Adam Garrett	84	84	0	–	1	8th	84	–	–	–	–	–	–
15	Robert Summers	82	82	0	–	1	9th	82	–	–	–	–	–	–
16	Jarrett Lynn	82	82	0	–	1	9th	–	–	–	–	82	–	–
17	David Sellars	80	80	0	–	1	10th	80	–	–	–	–	–	–
18	Wyatt Lynn	80	80	0	–	1	10th	–	–	–	–	80	–	–
19	Charlie Hicklin	78	78	0	–	1	11th	–	–	–	78	–	–	–
20	Luke Lynn	78	78	0	–	1	11th	–	–	–	–	78	–	–
21	Jeremy Lynn	76	76	0	–	1	12th	–	–	–	–	76	–	–

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Every driver in the A-main, plus everyone below it who scored — with the qualifiers, lap times, consistency and lead changes straight from race timing.

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Round 1 · Apr 15

10 in the class

TQ: Orlando Martinez

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Orlando Martinez	20/5:08.670	14.550	15.434	93.02%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P1
2	C4	19/5:04.463	14.921	16.024	94.74%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2
3	Josh Strumillo	18/5:16.647	16.388	17.592	90.52%	Q1 P3, Q2 P1
4	Chris Gross	17/5:02.504	16.656	17.794	94.17%	Q1 P1, Q2 P3
5	Ryan Johnson	17/5:04.725	16.087	17.925	85.95%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
6	Adam Garrett	17/5:10.734	16.448	18.278	89.50%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P3
7	David Sellars	16/5:02.764	17.662	18.923	94.55%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P4
8	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:08.271	17.079	19.267	89.92%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5
9	Robert Summers	16/5:20.141	16.417	20.009	85.62%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4
10	Hendrick Westmoreland	4/1:06.569	15.348	16.642	89.77%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Chris Gross	17/5:02.504	16.656	17.794	94.17%	✓
2	Ryan Johnson	17/5:04.725	16.087	17.925	85.95%	✓
3	Josh Strumillo	16/5:01.269	16.749	18.829	90.68%
4	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:08.271	17.079	19.267	89.92%	✓
5	Robert Summers	16/5:32.408	17.462	20.776	80.31%
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	C4	19/5:04.463	14.921	16.024	94.74%	✓
2	Orlando Martinez	18/5:04.184	15.096	16.899	91.63%
3	David Sellars	16/5:02.764	17.662	18.923	94.55%	✓
4	Adam Garrett	6/4:36.160	18.540	46.027	6.32%
5	Hendrick Westmoreland	4/1:06.569	15.348	16.642	89.77%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Josh Strumillo	18/5:16.647	16.388	17.592	90.52%	✓
2	Ryan Johnson	17/5:08.370	15.566	18.139	83.89%
3	Chris Gross	17/5:12.253	16.314	18.368	89.76%
4	Robert Summers	16/5:20.141	16.417	20.009	85.62%	✓
5	Brian Zimmerman	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	20/5:08.670	14.550	15.434	93.02%	✓
2	C4	19/5:07.686	15.193	16.194	90.99%
3	Adam Garrett	17/5:10.734	16.448	18.278	89.50%	✓
4	David Sellars	16/5:06.482	17.309	19.155	91.63%
5	Hendrick Westmoreland	0	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Hendrick Westmorelandbumped up	1	20/5:13.041	14.672	15.504	91.36%	+100
2	Orlando Martinez	2	20/5:14.193	14.558	15.356	93.82%	+96
3	Josh Strumillo	3	18/5:12.145	16.161	17.364	93.48%	+94
4	C4	4	17/5:01.450	14.856	17.855	66.49%	+92
5	Brian Zimmermanbumped up	5	17/5:03.954	15.863	17.654	91.06%	+90
6	Ryan Johnson	6	17/5:06.053	15.575	17.938	84.33%	+88
7	Chris Gross	7	17/5:09.916	16.472	18.147	92.14%	+86
8	Adam Garrett	8	0/0.000	–	–	–	+84
B-main
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	up to the A	19/5:02.724	14.929	15.774	93.11%	–
2	Brian Zimmerman	up to the A	18/5:18.684	15.980	17.588	91.51%	–
3	Robert Summers	9	17/5:12.584	15.802	18.207	88.02%	+82
4	David Sellars	10	16/5:07.095	16.576	19.107	91.28%	+80

2 lead changes C4 → Josh Strumillo → Hendrick Westmoreland

1st
Hendrick Westmoreland 100 ptsbumped up
A-main P1 · bumped up from the B · qualified P10 · qual best lap 15.348 · 89.77% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.672 · 91.36% cons · led 16
Four laps. That's all Hendrick Westmoreland turned in qualifying, and it seeded him tenth of ten. He won the B with 19 laps in 5:02.724, transferred, and then beat TQ Orlando Martinez to the A-main flag by 1.152 seconds. How does the last seed win it? He took the lead on lap 5 and held it for 16 laps against a car with the quicker best lap and the quicker average. A magnificent night's work: 39 laps of mains, the last 16 of them out front.
2nd
Orlando Martinez 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.550 · 93.02% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.558 · 93.82% cons
TQ, the only 20-lap run of qualifying and the quickest lap of the A-main at 14.558: Orlando Martinez had every number a winner needs except laps led. Three different drivers had the front and he wasn't one of them. He had the best average in the main too, 15.356, and still finished 1.152 seconds behind a car that came up from the B. I'd be furious. Second and 96 points is a decent start to a season, and this one should have been a win.
3rd
Josh Strumillo 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.388 · 90.52% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.161 · 93.48% cons · led 3
Laps 2 to 4 belonged to Josh Strumillo, three more laps in the lead than Orlando Martinez got, and he wrapped a 93.48% main around them. The speed wasn't there: his 16.161 was the second-slowest best lap in the A, and 18 laps left him two down on the winner. None of that bothers me. He qualified third off an 18-lap Q2 with only the sixth-best lap of qualifying, and he turned that into a podium the same way, with laps.
4th
C4 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.921 · 94.74% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 14.856 · 66.49% cons · led 1
C4 led the opening lap and had the third-quickest lap of the A-main at 14.856. After that the numbers collapsed: 66.49% consistency, the lowest in the race by almost 18 percentage points, and 17 laps, three down on the winner. Something went wrong out there, and the proof is that this same Charlie Kleinhagen qualified at 94.74%, the best qualifying consistency in the class. He had the speed and not the laps, and fourth from the second seed with that kind of pace is unacceptable.
5th
Brian Zimmerman 90 ptsbumped up
A-main P5 · bumped up from the B · qualified P8 · qual best lap 17.079 · 89.92% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.863 · 91.06% cons
Somewhere between qualifying and the A-main, Brian Zimmerman found 1.216 seconds. His best qualifying lap was 17.079, ninth of ten on pace, and his Q2 was a zero. Then came 18 laps and second in the B, and a 15.863 once he got to the A. He finished 2.504 seconds behind C4 on the same lap, with two higher seeds, Ryan Johnson and Chris Gross, behind him. Eighth seed to fifth is the second-biggest climb in the class on the night, and I'd frame it.
6th
Ryan Johnson 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.087 · 85.95% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.575 · 84.33% cons
Speed wasn't Ryan Johnson's problem: his 15.575 was the fourth-quickest lap of the A-main. The other 16 laps were. An 84.33% main left more than two seconds between his best and his average, and Brian Zimmerman, up from the B, finished 2.099 seconds ahead of him. He did win his fight with Chris Gross, 7 laps inside two seconds of each other, and finished 3.863 clear. Sixth from the fifth seed is a poor return on a lap like that.
7th
Chris Gross 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.656 · 94.17% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.472 · 92.14% cons
Chris Gross qualified fourth at 94.17% and finished seventh. The consistency survived into the main at 92.14%, but the speed never arrived: 16.472 was the slowest best lap in the A-main, 1.914 off Orlando Martinez's, and 18.147 the slowest average. He ran with Ryan Johnson for 7 laps and came out of it 3.863 seconds behind, and Brian Zimmerman from the B finished ahead of both of them. Seventh is what that kind of deficit buys.
8th
Adam Garrett 84 pts No laps
A-main P8 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.448 · 89.50% qual cons · 0 laps
Six laps in Q1, then 17 in Q2: Adam Garrett rescued his qualifying and seeded sixth. The A-main ran 20 laps without a single one from him, and eighth in the order still pays 84 points.
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9th
Robert Summers 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 16.417 · 85.62% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.802 · 88.02% cons
Robert Summers turned a 16.417 in qualifying, quicker than three drivers seeded ahead of him, but his 20.009 was the slowest qualifying average in the class, and that's what left him ninth. The B went better: 17 laps, one more than either qualifier, and third behind the two drivers who transferred. That's 82 points, and a lap count heading the right way is the part I'd hold on to.
10th
David Sellars 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 17.662 · 94.55% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.576 · 91.28% cons
If consistency paid by itself, David Sellars would have had a better night. He qualified at 94.55%, second only to C4 in the class, but the slowest best lap of qualifying, 17.309, capped everything else. 16 laps in Q1, 16 in Q2 and 16 in the B, where he started as the top seed and finished last of the four. He takes 80 points, and the lap time is the thing to fix.

Championship after Round 1

The tenth seed won the A-main. Hendrick Westmoreland turned four laps in qualifying, won the B and led the last 16 laps of the A, and he goes top with 100 points to Orlando Martinez's 96. One round in, that gap is one place and nothing more, so the scandal is how Orlando Martinez lost the race: TQ, quickest lap of the main, best average of the main, and not a single lap in the lead. C4 led the opening lap and then fell to 66.49% consistency and fourth. Adam Garrett earned the sixth seed and turned no laps at all in the A, which still pays 84 points for eighth and is the only result of the night nobody can call inconsistent. Nothing is dropped until Round 3, when the first result comes off.

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	Orlando Martinez	+96	96	96	1
3	Josh Strumillo	+94	94	94	1
4	C4	+92	92	92	1
5	Brian Zimmerman	+90	90	90	1
6	Ryan Johnson	+88	88	88	1
7	Chris Gross	+86	86	86	1
8	Adam Garrett	+84	84	84	1

Round 2 · May 13

7 in the class

TQ: Orlando Martinez

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Orlando Martinez	20/5:10.361	14.366	15.518	88.99%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Anthony Woodruff	20/5:22.985	14.716	16.149	87.80%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:16.821	14.680	16.675	86.79%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3
4	Ryan Johnson	17/5:03.987	15.755	17.882	87.39%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4
5	Chris Camara	17/5:09.075	16.321	18.181	92.27%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5
6	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:19.590	16.273	18.799	86.54%	Q1 P4, Q2 P7
7	Chris Gross	1/16.806	16.806	16.806	–	Q1 P7, Q2 P6

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

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Orlando Martinez	20/5:14.651	14.461	15.733	90.61%
2	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:14.848	14.979	16.571	90.33%
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:16.821	14.680	16.675	86.79%	✓
4	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:19.590	16.273	18.799	86.54%	✓
5	Ryan Johnson	16/5:00.364	16.505	18.773	90.02%
6	Chris Camara	16/5:09.588	16.805	19.349	86.39%
7	Chris Gross	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Orlando Martinez	20/5:10.361	14.366	15.518	88.99%	✓
2	Anthony Woodruff	20/5:22.985	14.716	16.149	87.80%	✓
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	17/4:53.872	14.750	17.287	85.20%
4	Ryan Johnson	17/5:03.987	15.755	17.882	87.39%	✓
5	Chris Camara	17/5:09.075	16.321	18.181	92.27%	✓
6	Chris Gross	1/16.806	16.806	16.806	–	✓
7	Brian Zimmerman	0	–	–	–

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	Orlando Martinez	21/5:14.519	14.462	14.953	97.02%	+100
2	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:05.625	14.710	16.093	91.65%	+96
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	19/5:07.104	14.744	16.141	87.44%	+94
4	Chris Camara	18/5:14.288	16.361	17.444	93.19%	+92
5	Ryan Johnson	18/5:16.957	15.501	17.365	92.77%	+90
6	Chris Gross	17/5:07.452	16.010	17.972	91.94%	+88
7	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:12.039	16.282	19.380	85.83%	+86

2 lead changes Orlando Martinez → Anthony Woodruff → Orlando Martinez

1st
Orlando Martinez 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.366 · 88.99% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 14.462 · 97.02% cons · led 20
Round 1 was the TQ who never led a lap. Round 2 was Orlando Martinez winning both qualifiers with 20 laps apiece, then leading 20 of the 21 in the A-main and finishing two laps clear of second. A 14.953 average at 97.02% is the first average under 15 seconds in an A-main in this series, and that's on rails. Anthony Woodruff had the lead for lap 3 and Orlando took it straight back. He leads the championship with 196 points, two ahead of Hendrick Westmoreland, the man who beat him a month ago.
2nd
Anthony Woodruff 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.716 · 87.80% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.710 · 91.65% cons · led 1
First round in the class in this series for Anthony Woodruff, and he led a lap of the A-main: lap 3, the only one Orlando Martinez didn't lead. Hendrick Westmoreland spent 8 laps inside two seconds of him, and Woodruff finished 1.479 seconds clear on the better consistency, 91.65% to 87.44%. His 14.710 was second only to Orlando's in the main. Beating last month's winner in a straight fight on his first night in the class is how a driver announces himself, and it's worth 96 points.
3rd
Hendrick Westmoreland 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.680 · 86.79% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.744 · 87.44% cons
Hendrick Westmoreland is two points off the lead, and two points is exactly what separates second from third in this A-main. Anthony Woodruff took second by 1.479 seconds after the pair went at it for 8 laps. Westmoreland's 14.744 was within four hundredths of Woodruff's best, so the speed was there. His 87.44% was the second-lowest consistency in the race, and that's where the fight went. After winning Round 1 from the B, he's handed the standings lead to Orlando Martinez, 196 points to 194.
4th
Chris Camara 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.321 · 92.27% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.361 · 93.19% cons
Steadiest in qualifying at 92.27%, and Chris Camara raced the same way: 93.19% in the A-main, second only to Orlando Martinez. That carried the slowest best lap in the main, 16.361, all the way to fourth. Ryan Johnson had nearly nine tenths on him over one lap and still finished 2.669 seconds behind on the same lap. Fifth seed to fourth in his first round of the class, and 92 points level with C4: that's a debut I respect.
5th
Ryan Johnson 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.755 · 87.39% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.501 · 92.77% cons
Ryan Johnson found the consistency he was missing in Round 1, 92.77% against 84.33%, and an 18th lap with it. Then he lost fourth to the slowest best lap in the A-main, Chris Camara's 16.361 against his own 15.501, by 2.669 seconds at the flag. That one stings, and I'd be more annoyed about Camara than pleased with the improvement. He's third with 178 points, two clear of Brian Zimmerman and four clear of Chris Gross.
6th
Chris Gross 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 16.806 · 17 laps · fast 16.010 · 91.94% cons
One lap. That was Chris Gross's entire qualifying, a zero in Q1 and a single 16.806 in Q2, and it made him the seventh seed of seven. Two runs that short say something went wrong, and the main was a different story: 17 laps at 91.94%, with a 16.010 that beat anything he turned in Round 1. He's fifth in the standings with 174 points. From one lap of qualifying, I'll call that a rescue.
7th
Brian Zimmerman 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.273 · 86.54% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.282 · 85.83% cons
Another zero in Q2 for Brian Zimmerman, his second in two rounds, and this time there was no B-main to rebuild the night in. He finished last in the A on 16 laps with the slowest average in the race, 19.380, and the lowest consistency, 85.83%. Fourth in the championship with 176 points says more about turning up twice than about this main. He's two behind Ryan Johnson and two ahead of Chris Gross.

Championship after Round 2

Orlando Martinez went from never leading a lap to leading 20 of 21, and he takes the championship lead with 196 points to Hendrick Westmoreland's 194. The two points between them are the two points between second and third in this A-main, and Hendrick lost that fight to Anthony Woodruff by 1.479 seconds after 8 laps running together. Woodruff deserves his own headline: second in his first round in the class, and the only driver other than Orlando to lead a lap. Behind the top two it's a queue, Ryan Johnson with 178 points, Brian Zimmerman with 176 points and Chris Gross with 174 points, every one of them two rounds in. Nothing is dropped yet, and the first result comes off at Round 3.

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	Orlando Martinez	+100	196	196	2
2	Hendrick Westmoreland	+94	194	194	2
3	Ryan Johnson	+90	178	178	2
4	Brian Zimmerman	+86	176	176	2
5	Chris Gross	+88	174	174	2
6	Anthony Woodruff	+96	96	96	1
7	Josh Strumillo	–	94	94	1
8	C4	–	92	92	1

Round 3 · Jun 10

5 in the class

TQ: Anthony Woodruff

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:06.079	14.805	16.109	90.06%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Mark Beach	19/5:12.542	15.197	16.450	92.35%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2
3	Chris Camara	18/5:04.441	16.013	16.913	93.01%	Q1 P2, Q2 P5
4	Chris Gross	18/5:14.745	16.032	17.486	91.66%	Q1 P5, Q2 P3
5	Ryan Johnson	17/5:01.120	15.878	17.713	90.89%	Q1 P4, Q2 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:06.079	14.805	16.109	90.06%	✓
2	Chris Camara	18/5:04.441	16.013	16.913	93.01%	✓
3	Mark Beach	18/5:07.777	15.879	17.099	91.27%
4	Ryan Johnson	17/5:05.052	15.806	17.944	89.66%
5	Chris Gross	16/4:53.248	16.020	18.328	88.33%
Qualifier 2
1	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:08.062	14.918	16.214	92.65%
2	Mark Beach	19/5:12.542	15.197	16.450	92.35%	✓
3	Chris Gross	18/5:14.745	16.032	17.486	91.66%	✓
4	Ryan Johnson	17/5:01.120	15.878	17.713	90.89%	✓
5	Chris Camara	17/5:10.918	15.896	18.289	84.64%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Anthony Woodruff	20/5:14.113	14.924	15.687	95.15%	+100
2	Mark Beach	19/5:13.767	15.362	16.525	91.34%	+96
3	Ryan Johnson	17/5:05.363	16.115	17.957	86.10%	+94
4	Chris Gross	17/5:10.519	15.799	18.105	81.67%	+92
5	Chris Camara	10/2:46.514	15.567	16.556	94.10%	+90

Flag to flag Anthony Woodruff led every lap

1st
Anthony Woodruff 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.805 · 90.06% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.924 · 95.15% cons · led every lap
Anthony Woodruff TQ'd, won both qualifiers on 19 laps, and then led the A-main flag to flag to win by a lap from Mark Beach. That's checking out. His 14.924 and 95.15% were both the best in the race, and that consistency is the cleanest A-main in this series by anyone not named Orlando Martinez. Two rounds in the class, a second and a win, and the only driver to beat him is Orlando. Now they share the championship lead with 196 points each, and Orlando wasn't here.
2nd
Mark Beach 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.197 · 92.35% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.362 · 91.34% cons
A debut podium for Mark Beach, and a convincing one: second seed, second at the flag, 19 laps, one down on Anthony Woodruff and two clear of everyone else. His fight was with Chris Camara, the two of them running together for 7 laps before Camara's run ended at 10 laps. A 15.362 best was more than four tenths off Woodruff's, and 91.34% in the main was down on the 92.35% he qualified at, so the win was never on. 96 points from his first round in the class is a proper start.
3rd
Ryan Johnson 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.878 · 90.89% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.115 · 86.10% cons
How does the last seed, with the slowest best lap in the A-main, end up on the podium? By outlasting two quicker cars: Chris Camara's main stopped at 10 laps, and Chris Gross went at it with Ryan Johnson for 11 laps and still finished 5.156 seconds behind. A 16.115 best and 86.10% aren't podium numbers on most nights, and he took one anyway, his first of the series after a sixth and a fifth. For all that, he slid from third to fourth in the standings: 272 points from all three rounds, but with Round 1's 88 dropped he counts 184, behind three drivers who have raced two.
4th
Chris Gross 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.032 · 91.66% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.799 · 81.67% cons
Chris Gross had the quicker lap in his fight with Ryan Johnson, 15.799 to 16.115, and lost it by 5.156 seconds after 11 laps within two seconds of each other. The 81.67% is why, the scrappiest main in the A. That's twice now Johnson has won a long fight between them, after 7 laps of it in Round 1, and losing one with the quicker lap in hand would drive me up the wall. Seventh, sixth and now fourth is still the right direction, and with his Round 1 result dropped he's sixth with 180 points.
5th
Chris Camara 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.013 · 93.01% qual cons · 10 laps · fast 15.567 · 94.10% cons
Chris Camara's main ended at 10 laps and 2:46.514, and up to then it was going well. He'd been neck and neck with Mark Beach for 7 laps, at 94.10% with a 15.567 best that only Anthony Woodruff and Beach beat. Something went wrong at halfway, and it turned a car running with the eventual runner-up into the last one classified. Qualifying third at 93.01%, the steadiest in the class, makes it hurt more. The 90 points for fifth leave him fifth in the standings too, with 182 points.

Championship after Round 3

Anthony Woodruff TQ'd, led every lap and finished a lap clear, and he now shares the top of the table with Orlando Martinez, 196 points each, on a night Orlando didn't race. Hendrick Westmoreland sat it out as well and is still third with 194 points. This is the first round with a drop: every driver now counts his best 2 results, so Ryan Johnson's 272 points from all three rounds count as 184 and Chris Gross's 266 count as 180. That's the injustice of the moment, because Johnson came from the last seed to the podium and still lost a place in the standings, third to fourth, behind three drivers with a round fewer. Mark Beach took second in his first round of the class, and Chris Camara was running with him until Camara's main stopped at 10 laps.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Orlando Martinez	–	196	0	196	2
2	Anthony Woodruff	+100	196	0	196	2
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	194	0	194	2
4	Ryan Johnson	+94	272	−88	184	3
5	Chris Camara	+90	182	0	182	2
6	Chris Gross	+92	266	−86	180	3
7	Brian Zimmerman	–	176	0	176	2
8	Mark Beach	+96	96	0	96	1

Round 4 · Jul 8

11 in the class

TQ: Anthony Woodruff

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Anthony Woodruff	20/5:11.349	14.846	15.567	95.53%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P1
2	Orlando Martinez	20/5:13.037	14.690	15.652	90.30%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:02.030	14.844	15.896	93.55%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P2
4	Vaughn Vance	19/5:07.292	14.394	16.173	91.28%	Q1 P3, Q2 P1
5	C4	19/5:11.942	14.678	16.418	89.43%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P3
6	Charlie Hicklin	19/5:15.871	14.629	16.625	90.35%	Q1 P2, Q2 P6
7	Chris Gross	18/5:07.359	15.654	17.076	93.35%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3
8	Mark Beach	18/5:07.774	14.974	17.099	90.45%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4
9	Ryan Johnson	18/5:08.225	15.425	17.124	89.51%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P5
10	Chris Camara	18/5:19.269	15.552	17.737	87.87%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4
11	Brian Zimmerman	10/3:07.991	16.155	18.799	78.84%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	20/5:13.037	14.690	15.652	90.30%	✓
2	Charlie Hicklin	19/5:15.871	14.629	16.625	90.35%	✓
3	Vaughn Vance	18/5:08.439	14.479	17.136	81.63%
4	Chris Gross	16/5:00.975	16.137	18.811	87.78%
5	Chris Camara	16/5:04.474	16.261	19.030	82.42%
6	Brian Zimmerman	10/3:07.991	16.155	18.799	78.84%	✓
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Anthony Woodruff	20/5:11.349	14.846	15.567	95.53%	✓
2	Teagan Cummings	19/5:02.030	14.844	15.896	93.55%	✓
3	C4	19/5:11.942	14.678	16.418	89.43%	✓
4	Mark Beach	18/5:07.774	14.974	17.099	90.45%	✓
5	Ryan Johnson	18/5:08.225	15.425	17.124	89.51%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Vaughn Vance	19/5:07.292	14.394	16.173	91.28%	✓
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:19.995	14.419	16.842	87.19%
3	Chris Gross	18/5:07.359	15.654	17.076	93.35%	✓
4	Chris Camara	18/5:19.269	15.552	17.737	87.87%	✓
5	Brian Zimmerman	2/37.392	17.500	18.696	–
6	Charlie Hicklin	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:02.497	14.748	15.921	90.48%
2	Teagan Cummings	19/5:14.666	14.985	16.561	87.94%
3	C4	18/5:06.324	15.016	17.018	86.23%
4	Mark Beach	18/5:09.401	14.853	17.189	91.18%
5	Ryan Johnson	18/5:18.004	15.695	17.667	86.93%

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

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Orlando Martinez	1	20/5:11.242	14.538	15.517	93.38%	+100
2	Vaughn Vance	2	20/5:13.632	14.433	15.610	91.64%	+96
3	Anthony Woodruff	3	20/5:13.697	14.653	15.649	91.95%	+94
4	C4	4	18/5:01.017	14.744	16.720	85.27%	+92
5	Mark Beachbumped up	5	18/5:15.181	15.434	17.383	91.43%	+90
6	Teagan Cummings	6	18/5:15.456	15.198	17.454	86.44%	+88
7	Chris Gross	7	17/5:05.255	16.087	17.891	92.11%	+86
8	Chris Camarabumped up	8	9/2:47.713	16.319	17.961	91.10%	+84
B-main
1	Mark Beach	up to the A	19/5:16.651	15.358	16.578	94.33%	–
2	Chris Camara	up to the A	18/5:07.032	15.787	17.052	93.92%	–
3	Ryan Johnson	9	17/5:01.293	15.192	17.360	87.58%	+82
4	Brian Zimmerman	10	17/5:05.069	16.189	17.881	92.21%	+80
Ranked on qualifying
11	Charlie Hicklin	11	19/5:15.871	–	–	–	+78

5 lead changes Anthony Woodruff → Orlando Martinez → Vaughn Vance → Orlando Martinez → Vaughn Vance → Orlando Martinez

1st
Orlando Martinez 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.690 · 90.30% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.538 · 93.38% cons · led 5
Five lead changes, and Orlando Martinez held the one that counted. He led lap 4, saw Vaughn Vance lead laps 5 through 15, took it back on lap 16, lost it again a lap later and led the last three to the flag: five laps in front in total and a 2.390-second win. To my eye that beats any runaway. His 15.517 average was the best in the A-main and his 93.38% was cleaner than Vance or Anthony Woodruff managed, so nobody handed him this one. Back after missing Round 3, he leads the championship with 296 points.
2nd
Vaughn Vance 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 14.394 · 91.28% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.433 · 91.64% cons · led 12
Vaughn Vance turned up for his first round of the series and threw down the quickest lap in qualifying, 14.394, then the quickest of the A-main, 14.433. He led 12 laps, more than anyone. So how does he finish second? Orlando Martinez averaged 15.517 to his 15.610 and ran 93.38% to his 91.64%, and over 20 laps that was the race. Second nearly became third, too: he beat Anthony Woodruff to the flag by 0.065 seconds. A magnificent first night, and a win he let get away.
3rd
Anthony Woodruff 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.846 · 95.53% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.653 · 91.95% cons · led 3
The TQ didn't win, and Anthony Woodruff missed second by 0.065 seconds as well. He led the first three laps from the top seed, ran within two seconds of Orlando Martinez and C4 for nine laps and of Martinez and Vaughn Vance for seven, and came out of it third. His 95.53% in qualifying was the cleanest in the class. The main came in at 91.95%, and that slide is where this one went. Fresh off a flag-to-flag win at Round 3, he's second in the standings with 290 points, six back.
4th
C4 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 14.678 · 89.43% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 14.744 · 85.27% cons
For nine laps C4 ran with Orlando Martinez and Anthony Woodruff, all three of them inside two seconds of each other, and then the A-main got away from him: 18 laps at the flag to their 20. Charlie Kleinhagen had the speed, a 14.744 that was fourth quickest in the main, and not the laps, at 85.27% consistency. Fourth again, same as Round 1, when his main came in at 66.49%. That's progress, and it's still the number he has to fix.
5th
Mark Beach 90 ptsbumped up
A-main P5 · bumped up from the B · qualified P8 · qual best lap 14.974 · 90.45% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.434 · 91.43% cons
Mark Beach ran two mains and won one of them. The B went his way with 19 laps, the bump put him in the A from the eighth seed, and he came home fifth, 0.275 seconds ahead of Teagan Cummings on the same 18 laps. Eighth seed to fifth is the biggest climb in the class tonight, and he did it at 91.43% in his second race of the evening. That's exactly what I want from a driver who missed the A on qualifying.
6th
Teagan Cummings 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.844 · 93.55% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.198 · 86.44% cons
A top-three seed with 93.55% in qualifying, and Teagan Cummings finished sixth, behind a car that had to win the B just to get into the A-main. That's a collapse. His average went from 15.896 in qualifying to 17.454 in the main, his consistency fell to 86.44%, and Mark Beach beat him to the flag by 0.275 seconds on the same 18 laps. Qualifying third on his season debut is a real result. The main is one to forget.
7th
Chris Gross 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.654 · 93.35% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.087 · 92.11% cons
Chris Gross ran to his seed exactly: seventh in the order, seventh at the flag, 17 laps at 92.11%. Clean, and a lap short of the three cars directly ahead of him. He has raced all four rounds and scored 352 points, and with one result dropped he counts 266 points, level with Chris Camara, who has raced one round fewer. I want more than seventh from a main that clean, but turning up every round has him in the mix.
8th
Chris Camara 84 ptsbumped up
A-main P8 · bumped up from the B · qualified P10 · qual best lap 15.552 · 87.87% qual cons · 9 laps · fast 16.319 · 91.10% cons
The hard part went fine for Chris Camara: second in the B with 18 laps and a bump into the A-main. Then his A-main ended at 9 laps and 2:47.713. Something went wrong out there, because 91.10% over those nine laps was tidy running right up to the stop. Eighth still pays 84 points, and after three starts he's level with Chris Gross at 266 points. Gross has raced one more round than he has.
Lower mains
9th
Ryan Johnson 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 15.425 · 89.51% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.192 · 87.58% cons
Eighteen laps in each qualifier, and Ryan Johnson was still fifth of five in his heat both times, which says how deep that heat was. It put him ninth in the order and into the B, where 17 laps made him third behind the two cars that got bumped. The 82 points are the result the drop takes off. He's raced all four rounds, his 354 points are the most anyone has scored, and the 272 that count keep him third in the championship, a neat trick from a night in the B.
10th
Brian Zimmerman 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P11 · qual best lap 16.155 · 78.84% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.189 · 92.21% cons
Two short qualifiers, 10 laps and then 2, put Brian Zimmerman at the bottom of the order, and nobody qualifies well on 12 laps across two runs. The B went better: 17 laps and fourth, 3.776 seconds behind Ryan Johnson on the same lap count. Eighty points keeps him sixth in the championship with 256 points from three starts.
11th
Charlie Hicklin 78 pts
ranked on qualifying · qualified P6 · qual best lap 14.629 · 90.35% qual cons · 19 laps
Charlie Hicklin turned a 14.629 in qualifying, the third quickest lap in the class, and ran 19 laps in Q1 for the sixth seed. His Q2 was a zero and the A-main went off without him. He's paid 78 points for 11th, and on that lap time I want to see him in a main.

Championship after Round 4

Orlando Martinez leads the championship with 296 points to Anthony Woodruff's 290, and he earned it in an A-main where the lead changed hands five times. Vaughn Vance turned up for his first round of the series, set the quickest lap in qualifying and in the main, led 12 laps and went home with second, 0.065 seconds ahead of Woodruff. The drop is biting now that the best three of four rounds count: Ryan Johnson has scored 354 points, more than anybody, and 272 of them stand, while Chris Camara and Chris Gross sit level at 266 points, Camara from three starts and Gross from four. Spare a thought for the sixth grid slot, which Charlie Hicklin earned with the third quickest lap in qualifying and then left empty for the whole A-main. It still paid him 78 points, which is a lot of points for a grid slot that never moved.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Orlando Martinez	+100	296	0	296	3
2	Anthony Woodruff	+94	290	0	290	3
3	Ryan Johnson	+82	354	−82	272	4
4	Chris Camara	+84	266	0	266	3
5	Chris Gross	+86	352	−86	266	4
6	Brian Zimmerman	+80	256	0	256	3
7	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	194	0	194	2
8	Mark Beach	+90	186	0	186	2

Round 5 · Aug 5

12 in the class

TQ: Hendrick Westmoreland

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:05.723	14.265	15.286	90.23%	Q1H2 P6, Q2H2 P1
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.799	14.275	15.884	91.88%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P2
3	C4	19/5:06.691	14.880	16.142	92.35%	Q1 P6, Q2 P1
4	Vaughn Vance	18/5:00.899	15.558	16.717	93.08%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P3
5	Mark Beach	17/4:58.826	15.547	17.578	91.94%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P6
6	Chris Gross	17/5:13.005	16.519	18.412	91.16%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2
7	Chris Camara	16/5:01.238	15.987	18.827	80.00%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4
8	Jeremy Lynn	16/5:08.123	16.618	19.258	87.46%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3
9	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:13.539	16.549	19.596	81.63%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4
10	Luke Lynn	15/5:11.325	16.813	20.755	83.95%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P5
11	Wyatt Lynn	14/5:10.208	17.138	22.158	88.44%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5
12	Jarrett Lynn	8/2:57.470	15.940	22.184	40.82%	Q1 P5, Q2 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Chris Gross	16/5:02.852	16.716	18.928	92.27%
2	Jeremy Lynn	16/5:17.624	16.967	19.852	90.41%
3	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:20.631	16.842	20.039	89.38%
4	Wyatt Lynn	14/5:10.208	17.138	22.158	88.44%	✓
5	Jarrett Lynn	2/41.131	17.539	20.566	–
6	C4	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Orlando Martinez	19/5:07.157	15.190	16.166	93.16%
2	Vaughn Vance	18/5:01.612	14.956	16.756	93.12%
3	Mark Beach	17/4:58.826	15.547	17.578	91.94%	✓
4	Chris Camara	16/5:05.215	16.283	19.076	76.48%
5	Luke Lynn	15/5:11.325	16.813	20.755	83.95%	✓
6	Hendrick Westmoreland	9/2:20.280	14.609	15.587	91.75%
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	C4	19/5:06.691	14.880	16.142	92.35%	✓
2	Chris Gross	17/5:13.005	16.519	18.412	91.16%	✓
3	Jeremy Lynn	16/5:08.123	16.618	19.258	87.46%	✓
4	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:13.539	16.549	19.596	81.63%	✓
5	Wyatt Lynn	13/4:11.504	16.834	19.346	89.60%
6	Jarrett Lynn	8/2:57.470	15.940	22.184	40.82%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:05.723	14.265	15.286	90.23%	✓
2	Orlando Martinez	19/5:01.799	14.275	15.884	91.88%	✓
3	Vaughn Vance	18/5:00.899	15.558	16.717	93.08%	✓
4	Chris Camara	16/5:01.238	15.987	18.827	80.00%	✓
5	Luke Lynn	15/5:21.021	16.416	21.401	86.39%
6	Mark Beach	7/1:58.971	15.181	16.996	89.92%

A consistency figure needs at least four laps to mean anything, so 1 run here has 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	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	1	21/5:01.471	14.355	14.891	96.80%	+100
2	C4	2	20/5:10.538	14.727	16.127	89.22%	+96
3	Vaughn Vance	3	19/5:16.475	15.396	17.337	86.40%	+94
4	Mark Beach	4	18/5:07.535	16.296	17.815	89.64%	+92
5	Chris Camarabumped up	5	18/5:17.843	16.276	18.383	89.45%	+90
6	Chris Gross	6	17/5:01.192	15.957	18.477	88.66%	+88
7	Brian Zimmermanbumped up	7	17/5:09.985	16.672	18.997	87.25%	+86
8	Orlando Martinez	8	0/0.000	–	–	–	+84
B-main
1	Chris Camara	up to the A	19/5:15.251	16.074	17.347	93.88%	–
2	Brian Zimmerman	up to the A	18/5:14.921	16.827	18.245	92.43%	–
3	Jarrett Lynn	9	17/5:06.774	16.533	18.831	89.71%	+82
4	Wyatt Lynn	10	16/5:16.538	17.008	20.755	89.65%	+80
5	Luke Lynn	11	15/5:01.957	16.798	21.213	84.49%	+78
6	Jeremy Lynn	12	6/1:49.245	17.989	20.952	85.21%	+76

Flag to flag Hendrick Westmoreland led every lap

1st
Hendrick Westmoreland 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.265 · 90.23% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 14.355 · 96.80% cons · led every lap
Hendrick Westmoreland missed two rounds and came back to check out. TQ off a 20-lap Q2, the quickest lap in qualifying at 14.265, then flag to flag in the A-main and a full lap clear of C4 at the end. His 14.891 average is the best of any A-main in this class in this series, beating Orlando Martinez's 14.953 from Round 2, and he ran it at 96.80%. That's dialed. He's only sixth in the standings, with 294 points from three starts, because nobody gets paid for rounds they don't race.
2nd
C4 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.880 · 92.35% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.727 · 89.22% cons
A zero in Q1, and C4 still made the third seed, with 19 laps in Q2 doing all the work. Then came the best result of Charlie Kleinhagen's season: a lap down on Hendrick Westmoreland and a lap clear of everybody else, with a 14.727 that was the second quickest lap of the A-main. I like the result more than the 89.22% that produced it. He's eighth in the championship with 280 points from three starts.
3rd
Vaughn Vance 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.558 · 93.08% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.396 · 86.40% cons
Two rounds, two podiums for Vaughn Vance, and I'm still underwhelmed by this one. His best lap in the A-main was a 15.396, nearly a second off the 14.433 he threw down at Round 4, and his consistency slid to 86.40%. Nineteen laps left him two laps down on the winner. Third pays 94 points and puts him at 190 points from two starts, tenth in the standings.
4th
Mark Beach 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 15.547 · 91.94% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.296 · 89.64% cons
Only Brian Zimmerman had a slower best lap in the A-main than Mark Beach's 16.296, and Beach still finished fourth. That's smart racing. His 17.815 average beat every finisher behind him, and 18 laps put him 10.308 seconds clear of Chris Camara on the same count. His Q2 stopped at 7 laps and he still qualified fifth. Second, fifth and fourth in his three starts make 278 points, ninth in the standings.
5th
Chris Camara 90 ptsbumped up
A-main P5 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 15.987 · 80.00% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.276 · 89.45% cons
Chris Camara is second in the championship, and he hasn't been on a podium all season. He won the B with 19 laps, took the bump, and turned the scrappiest qualifying in the class (80.00%) into an 89.45% A-main and fifth. Four starts have paid 92, 90, 84 and 90 points, nothing spectacular and nothing wasted, and that's 356 points, 24 behind Orlando Martinez. Hendrick Westmoreland won tonight and sits sixth. Camara finished fifth and jumped from fourth to second.
6th
Chris Gross 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 16.519 · 91.16% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.957 · 88.66% cons
Nine racing laps within two seconds of Brian Zimmerman, and Chris Gross was the one who got clear, 8.793 seconds up at the flag on 17 laps apiece. He found speed in the main too, a 15.957 against 16.519 in qualifying. Gross is the only driver to race all five rounds and his 440 points are the most anyone has scored, but one result comes off and the 354 that count leave him level with Ryan Johnson, who didn't race tonight. Johnson's third place at Round 3 wins the countback. That's hard on the one man who hasn't missed a round.
7th
Brian Zimmerman 86 ptsbumped up
A-main P7 · bumped up from the B · qualified P9 · qual best lap 16.549 · 81.63% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.672 · 87.25% cons
Brian Zimmerman took second in the B and the bump that came with it, then hung with Chris Gross for nine racing laps before the gap opened. Seventh from the ninth seed is a fair return. His 16.672 was the slowest best lap in the A-main, 0.715 off Gross's, and that's the difference between running with him and beating him. He's fifth in the championship with 342 points from four starts.
8th
Orlando Martinez 84 pts No laps
A-main P8 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.275 · 91.88% qual cons · 0 laps
A 14.275 in qualifying, a hundredth off the quickest lap in the class, the second seed, and Orlando Martinez didn't complete a single lap of the A-main. From second in the order to eighth without a lap is about as total as a collapse gets. Something went wrong early, and the race went on without him. Eighth still pays 84 points, though, and that's enough to keep him top of the championship with 380 points, 24 clear of Chris Camara.
Lower mains
9th
Jarrett Lynn 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P12 · qual best lap 15.940 · 40.82% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.533 · 89.71% cons
Jarrett Lynn qualified on two short runs, 2 laps and then 8, and started from the bottom of a 12-car order. Seventeen laps in the B made him third in it, ninth overall and the best of the four Lynns, the other three all seeded ahead of him. His 15.940 came off that two-lap run and was the sixth quickest lap in qualifying, quicker than Chris Gross or Chris Camara managed. Last seed to ninth is a good night's work.
10th
Wyatt Lynn 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P11 · qual best lap 17.138 · 88.44% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.008 · 89.65% cons
Two more laps in the B than his best qualifier is the right direction, and Wyatt Lynn found them: 16 laps for fourth in the B after runs of 14 and 13. That 13-lap Q2 stopped at 4:11.504, so going the full distance was the first thing to fix, and he fixed it. From the 11th seed he finished tenth, one place up on Luke Lynn, for 80 points.
11th
Luke Lynn 78 pts
B-main P5 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 16.813 · 83.95% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 16.798 · 84.49% cons
Luke Lynn drew the heat with Hendrick Westmoreland, Orlando Martinez and Vaughn Vance in it, ran 15 laps both times and ended up tenth in the order. The B gave him 15 laps again, fifth in that race and 11th overall for 78 points. His 16.416 best was quicker than Chris Gross managed in qualifying, so the speed shows up in places. The 20.755 average, the slowest in qualifying, is the part that needs work.
12th
Jeremy Lynn 76 pts
B-main P6 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 16.618 · 87.46% qual cons · 6 laps · fast 17.989 · 85.21% cons
Of the Lynns, Jeremy Lynn qualified best, eighth in the order on two 16-lap runs at 90.41%, which made him the second seed in the B. Then his B ended at 6 laps and 1:49.245. Six laps is a race cut short for a driver who ran 16 twice in qualifying, and 76 points for 12th is the one result of the night that doesn't fit him.

Championship after Round 5

Hendrick Westmoreland came back from two rounds away and checked out, TQ and flag to flag and a lap clear of C4, and it only lifts him to sixth with 294 points from three starts. Orlando Martinez is still the leader with 380 points, after an A-main with no laps in it paid him 84 points for eighth, a fine rate for a race that ended before his first lap did. Chris Camara climbed from fourth to second with 356 points without a podium all season, on four results that all still count. Chris Gross is the only driver to race all five rounds and his 440 points are the most anyone has scored, but one result comes off, he counts 354 points, and Ryan Johnson, who didn't race tonight, sits level with him and ahead on his Round 3 podium. Best four of five rounds count now, and the one man paying for it is the one who hasn't missed a round.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Orlando Martinez	+84	380	0	380	4
2	Chris Camara	+90	356	0	356	4
3	Ryan Johnson	–	354	0	354	4
4	Chris Gross	+88	440	−86	354	5
5	Brian Zimmerman	+86	342	0	342	4
6	Hendrick Westmoreland	+100	294	0	294	3
7	Anthony Woodruff	–	290	0	290	3
8	C4	+96	280	0	280	3

Round 6 · Sep 9

6 in the class

TQ: Mark Beach

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Mark Beach	19/5:11.257	15.290	16.382	93.80%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1
2	Ryan Johnson	18/5:04.940	16.163	16.941	95.29%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2
3	Hendrick Westmoreland	17/4:27.494	14.419	15.735	91.71%	Q1 P1, Q2 P5
4	Chris Camara	17/5:01.678	15.871	17.746	90.58%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3
5	Chris Gross	16/5:06.248	17.031	19.141	90.04%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4
6	C4	9/2:27.783	15.086	16.420	90.32%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	17/4:27.494	14.419	15.735	91.71%	✓
2	Mark Beach	17/5:00.839	15.757	17.696	87.15%
3	Chris Camara	17/5:04.617	16.624	17.919	94.84%
4	Ryan Johnson	17/5:15.063	16.937	18.533	91.03%
5	Chris Gross	14/5:12.446	16.921	22.318	60.20%
6	C4	9/2:27.783	15.086	16.420	90.32%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Mark Beach	19/5:11.257	15.290	16.382	93.80%	✓
2	Ryan Johnson	18/5:04.940	16.163	16.941	95.29%	✓
3	Chris Camara	17/5:01.678	15.871	17.746	90.58%	✓
4	Chris Gross	16/5:06.248	17.031	19.141	90.04%	✓
5	Hendrick Westmoreland	3/1:08.517	15.291	22.839	–
6	C4	2/33.040	15.664	16.520	–

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

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	20/5:02.490	14.702	15.658	91.55%	+100
2	Mark Beach	19/5:01.246	15.237	16.500	94.50%	+96
3	C4	19/5:01.606	15.101	16.442	92.14%	+94
4	Ryan Johnson	18/5:10.692	16.090	18.010	89.44%	+92
5	Chris Camara	17/5:08.909	15.722	18.932	85.90%	+90
6	Chris Gross	17/5:16.990	16.337	19.501	86.23%	+88

1st
Hendrick Westmoreland 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.419 · 91.71% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.702 · 91.55% cons
Hendrick Westmoreland leads the championship. He has raced four rounds and won three of them, and his 394 points put him 14 clear of Orlando Martinez, who wasn't here. Qualifying was messy, a Q1 of 17 laps that stopped at 4:27.494 and 3 laps in Q2, so he qualified third. It made no difference. Mark Beach led the first three laps, Westmoreland had it from lap 4, and he finished a lap clear of the field with the quickest lap in qualifying (14.419) and in the A-main (14.702). Two wins in a row, both a lap up.
2nd
Mark Beach 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.290 · 93.80% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.237 · 94.50% cons
First TQ of the series for Mark Beach, off a 19-lap Q2, and he led the opening three laps before Hendrick Westmoreland took over and disappeared a lap up the road. Second came down to the flag: Beach got there 0.360 seconds ahead of C4, both on 19 laps, with the cleanest main in the field at 94.50%. That leaves the two of them level at 374 points, and Beach's two second places (Round 3 and tonight) against C4's one put him third on the countback. He's 20 points off the lead.
3rd
C4 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 15.086 · 90.32% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.101 · 92.14% cons
Last seed of six after qualifiers that stopped at 9 laps and then 2, and Charlie Kleinhagen came from the back to finish 0.360 seconds off second. How does a driver with no full qualifying run get that close? His 16.442 average in the main was quicker than Mark Beach's 16.500, and his 15.101 was the second quickest lap of the A-main. He also spent eight racing laps within two seconds of Ryan Johnson and finished a lap clear of him. He's level with Beach at 374 points and fourth on the countback, which I'd call harsh.
4th
Ryan Johnson 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.163 · 95.29% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.090 · 89.44% cons
Ryan Johnson qualified second on 95.29%, the most consistent qualifying in the class, and then ran 89.44% in the main. That gap is fourth place in a nutshell. He ran with C4 for eight racing laps and finished a lap behind him, 18 to 19. Ninety-two points and he still slid from third to fifth in the standings, with 364 points and the 82 from Round 4 dropped.
5th
Chris Camara 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.871 · 90.58% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 15.722 · 85.90% cons
The championship had Chris Camara second when the night began and sixth when it ended. He scored 90, but with the best four results counting it only replaced his 84 from Round 4, a gain of six points, to 362 points. The speed showed up, a 15.722 quicker than anything he ran in qualifying, and the laps didn't, with 85.90% after a 94.84% qualifier. He ran inside two seconds of Chris Gross for nine racing laps and got clear of him by 8.081 seconds.
6th
Chris Gross 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.031 · 90.04% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.337 · 86.23% cons
Chris Gross has raced every round and scored 528 points, 134 more than the man leading the championship. He's seventh. With two results off, both of his 86s, the count is 356 points, and nobody in the class has had more taken away by the drops. Tonight he shared nine racing laps with Chris Camara and finished 8.081 seconds behind him on 17 laps. His 16.337 was the slowest best lap of the A-main and his 16.921 the slowest in qualifying, and no amount of attendance makes up for that.

Championship after Round 6

Hendrick Westmoreland is top of the championship for the first time since Round 1, with 394 points from four starts, after winning a lap clear of the field for the second round running on a night Orlando Martinez (380 points) didn't race. Mark Beach and C4 finished 0.360 seconds apart tonight and now sit level on 374 points, Beach third on his two second places to C4's one, so four drivers are inside 20 points at the top. The drops are at full strength, best four of six, and they're brutal on Chris Gross: he's raced all six rounds and scored 528 points, more than anyone, and he's seventh with 356 points. Chris Camara scored 90 and still fell from second to sixth, because that 90 only replaced an 84. Ryan Johnson went the same way, third to fifth, on a night he finished fourth.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Hendrick Westmoreland	+100	394	0	394	4
2	Orlando Martinez	–	380	0	380	4
3	Mark Beach	+96	374	0	374	4
4	C4	+94	374	0	374	4
5	Ryan Johnson	+92	446	−82	364	5
6	Chris Camara	+90	446	−84	362	5
7	Chris Gross	+88	528	−172	356	6
8	Brian Zimmerman	–	342	0	342	4

Round 7 · Oct 7

5 in the class

TQ: Dallas Boyd

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Dallas Boyd	19/5:04.527	14.600	16.028	90.96%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Mark Beach	18/5:00.750	15.482	16.708	93.08%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2
3	C4	18/5:00.769	14.598	16.709	87.55%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3
4	Ryan Johnson	18/5:05.230	15.586	16.957	91.90%	Q1 P3, Q2 P4
5	Chris Camara	17/5:06.691	16.685	18.041	92.93%	Q1 P5, Q2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Dallas Boyd	19/5:14.464	15.362	16.551	91.16%
2	C4	18/5:07.198	15.122	17.067	87.02%
3	Ryan Johnson	18/5:11.336	16.021	17.296	90.58%
4	Mark Beach	17/5:02.693	16.210	17.805	90.47%
5	Chris Camara	17/5:06.691	16.685	18.041	92.93%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Dallas Boyd	19/5:04.527	14.600	16.028	90.96%	✓
2	Mark Beach	18/5:00.750	15.482	16.708	93.08%	✓
3	C4	18/5:00.769	14.598	16.709	87.55%	✓
4	Ryan Johnson	18/5:05.230	15.586	16.957	91.90%	✓
5	Chris Camara	17/5:14.405	16.402	18.494	91.23%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Dallas Boyd	21/5:12.916	14.421	15.496	95.01%	+100
2	C4	21/5:13.154	14.622	15.371	95.07%	+96
3	Mark Beach	19/5:03.190	15.300	16.603	91.17%	+94
4	Chris Camara	18/5:08.285	15.592	17.809	89.35%	+92
5	Ryan Johnson	18/5:10.854	15.853	17.969	89.23%	+90

1st
Dallas Boyd 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.600 · 90.96% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 14.421 · 95.01% cons
Dallas Boyd raced one round in this class all season, and he made it the finale. He TQ'd with 19 laps in both qualifiers, threw down the hot lap of the A-main at 14.421 and led every lap at 95.01%. Wire to wire, and still close: C4 crossed the line 0.238 seconds behind him on the same lap. Beating the new champion on his one start of the year is a magnificent way to spend a Wednesday.
2nd
C4 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.598 · 87.55% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 14.622 · 95.07% cons
Charlie Kleinhagen never won a round in this class all season, and he's the champion anyway. He came into the finale level with Mark Beach at 374 points, ran inside two seconds of him for 8 of the 20 racing laps, then finished two full laps clear. Second to Dallas Boyd by 0.238 seconds, at 95.07%, the cleanest run in the A-main, makes it 470 points to Beach's 468. His five starts read two runner-up finishes, a third and two fourths, every one of them counting. Beating the one man he had to beat, head to head in the finale, is how a title should be won.
3rd
Mark Beach 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 15.482 · 93.08% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.300 · 91.17% cons
Two points. Mark Beach out-qualified C4 in the finale, second in the order to his third, and the two of them ran together for 8 of the 20 racing laps with the title between them. Then it got away: C4 went 21 laps to his 19, and Beach's 16.603 average was 1.232 a lap slower than C4's. Swap them at the flag and he's the champion with 470 points. Instead he's second with 468 points, after a season in which he topped qualifying at Round 6 and finished runner-up twice, beaten by a single place in the last race of the year.
4th
Chris Camara 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 16.685 · 92.93% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.592 · 89.35% cons
Chris Camara scored 538 points this season, more than anyone in the class, and finishes fourth. He raced every round from Round 2 on, and with the worst of his six results thrown out he ends with 454 points, level with Ryan Johnson, who takes third on the countback with his Round 3 third. Camara never made a podium. The finale was one of his better nights: last in the order with a 16.402, then a 15.592 in the main and fourth place, 2.569 seconds ahead of Johnson on the same lap.
5th
Ryan Johnson 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 15.586 · 91.90% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.853 · 89.23% cons
The countback was kind to Ryan Johnson. He finished last of the five in the finale, fourth seed to fifth at 89.23% and 2.569 seconds behind Chris Camara, and that left the pair of them level at 454 points. His third place at Round 3 is the only podium either man managed all season, and it gives him third in the championship. A single result from June deciding a tie in October, for a driver who missed Round 5, and I love that the tiebreak has teeth.

Championship after Round 7

C4 is the 13.5 Expert 4wd Buggy champion with 470 points, and he won it without winning a round. Hendrick Westmoreland led after Round 6 with 394 points and Orlando Martinez was second with 380 points, and neither raced the finale, which left C4 and Mark Beach level at 374 points with whoever finished ahead taking the title. They went at it for 8 racing laps before C4 pulled two laps clear, and that's 470 points to 468. Dallas Boyd won the night from the TQ in his only start of the season, flag to flag, with C4 just 0.238 seconds behind. Ryan Johnson and Chris Camara are level at 454 points, Johnson third on the countback with his Round 3 third, while Camara's 538 raw points, the most in the class, come down to fourth once his worst night comes off. Westmoreland won three rounds and finishes sixth, which is what four starts are worth in a season where five count.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	C4	+96	470	0	470	5
2	Mark Beach	+94	468	0	468	5
3	Ryan Johnson	+90	536	−82	454	6
4	Chris Camara	+92	538	−84	454	6
5	Chris Gross	–	528	−86	442	6
6	Hendrick Westmoreland	–	394	0	394	4
7	Orlando Martinez	–	380	0	380	4
8	Brian Zimmerman	–	342	0	342	4

13.5 Stadium Truck

16 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	Dropped	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 15	R2May 13	R3Jun 10	R4Jul 8	R5Aug 5	R6Sep 9	R7Oct 7
1	Sam Bredernitz	478	564	−86	–	6	1st	–	92	86	94	96	100	96
2	Henry Ballew	462	462	0	–	5	2nd	94	90	92	96	90	–	–
3	Chris Gross	458	544	−86	–	6	2nd	96	88	90	92	86	92	–
4	Albert Bredernitz	454	534	−80	1	6	2nd	–	94	84	88	80	96	92
5	Brian Zimmerman	388	388	0	1	4	1st	100	96	–	100	92	–	–
6	Chuck Burns	360	360	0	–	4	3rd	–	–	88	84	–	94	94
7	Anthony Woodruff	286	286	0	3	3	1st	–	100	100	86	–	–	–
8	Josh Strumillo	188	188	0	–	2	2nd	92	–	96	–	–	–	–
9	Russell Rima	166	166	0	–	2	8th	–	–	–	82	84	–	–
10	Jax Bredernitz	162	162	0	–	2	9th	–	–	–	80	82	–	–
11	Jarrett Lynn	100	100	0	1	1	1st	–	–	–	–	100	–	–
12	Shane Alberico	100	100	0	1	1	1st	–	–	–	–	–	–	100
13	Cale Turner	94	94	0	–	1	3rd	–	–	94	–	–	–	–
14	Dallas Boyd	94	94	0	–	1	3rd	–	–	–	–	94	–	–
15	Dustin Vance	90	90	0	–	1	5th	–	–	–	90	–	–	–
16	Jagger Vance	88	88	0	–	1	6th	–	–	–	–	88	–	–

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Every driver in the A-main, plus everyone below it who scored — with the qualifiers, lap times, consistency and lead changes straight from race timing.

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Round 1 · Apr 15

4 in the class

TQ: Brian Zimmerman

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:18.751	16.896	18.750	90.61%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1
2	Henry Ballew	16/5:03.814	16.934	18.988	88.71%	Q1 P1, Q2 P2
3	Chris Gross	16/5:16.724	17.224	19.795	87.12%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3
4	Josh Strumillo	0/0.000	–	–	–	Q1 P4, Q2 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Henry Ballew	16/5:03.814	16.934	18.988	88.71%	✓
2	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:04.089	16.930	19.006	86.00%
3	Chris Gross	16/5:16.724	17.224	19.795	87.12%	✓
4	Josh Strumillo	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:18.751	16.896	18.750	90.61%	✓
2	Henry Ballew	16/5:13.694	16.780	19.606	89.19%
3	Chris Gross	15/5:05.875	17.407	20.392	86.75%
4	Josh Strumillo	0	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Brian Zimmerman	17/5:01.185	16.620	17.685	92.86%	+100
2	Chris Gross	15/5:09.120	17.025	20.742	85.83%	+96
3	Henry Ballew	14/5:03.458	17.575	21.784	87.92%	+94
4	Josh Strumillo	0/0.000	–	–	–	+92

Flag to flag Brian Zimmerman led every lap

1st
Brian Zimmerman 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 16.896 · 90.61% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.620 · 92.86% cons · led every lap
Henry Ballew had the quickest lap in qualifying, and Brian Zimmerman had the only 17-lap run, which is what a TQ is actually made of. The main went the same way, flag to flag at 92.86%, and his 16.620 was quicker than anything Ballew found all night. Nobody else got under 17 seconds in the main, and Zimmerman finished two laps clear of Chris Gross. That's a season opener with nothing to argue about, and I'm not about to try.
2nd
Chris Gross 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.224 · 87.12% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.025 · 85.83% cons
Seeded third and the slowest of the three runners in qualifying, Chris Gross still left Round 1 with second. His 15-lap main beat Henry Ballew by a lap, and the 17.025 he turned in it was two tenths quicker than his own best in qualifying. The 20.742 average is nothing to frame, but Ballew's was a second worse, and 96 points to start the season is a fine return.
3rd
Henry Ballew 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.934 · 88.71% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 17.575 · 87.92% cons
The quickest lap in qualifying belonged to Henry Ballew at 16.780, and he won Q1 from Brian Zimmerman by 0.275 seconds. Then the main gave him 14 laps, three fewer than Zimmerman, and a best of 17.575, eight tenths off his own qualifying pace. How does the quickest car in qualifying finish behind Chris Gross? A 21.784 average, more than a second a lap worse than Gross managed. He had the speed and not the laps, and for a driver seeded second that's a bad trade.
4th
Josh Strumillo 92 pts No laps
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · 0 laps
Josh Strumillo turned no laps in either qualifier or in the main, and the official order still lists him fourth, which pays 92 points. The timing system never heard from him, and the table has him on the board anyway.

Championship after Round 1

Brian Zimmerman opened the season the right way, with the TQ, every lap of the main and a two-lap margin, and the only number anyone took off him was Henry Ballew's 16.780 in qualifying. Ballew turned that pace into third, a lap behind Chris Gross, who was the slowest of the three runners in qualifying and still came away with second. Spare a thought for Josh Strumillo, who has 92 points from a grid slot and not a single lap in qualifying or the main, which makes him the most efficient points scorer in the class, since he's the only one dividing by zero. After one round the standings are the result with points beside it, Zimmerman's 100 points down to Strumillo's 92 points, and nothing comes off anybody until Round 3.

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	Brian Zimmerman	+100	100	100	1
2	Chris Gross	+96	96	96	1
3	Henry Ballew	+94	94	94	1
4	Josh Strumillo	+92	92	92	1

Round 2 · May 13

6 in the class

TQ: Anthony Woodruff

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:05.878	15.661	16.993	91.90%	Q1 P2, Q2 P1
2	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:04.233	16.421	17.896	91.14%	Q1 P1, Q2 P3
3	Henry Ballew	16/5:03.120	18.076	18.945	94.87%	Q1 P4, Q2 P2
4	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:14.803	16.972	19.675	82.47%	Q1 P3, Q2 P6
5	Chris Gross	15/5:01.389	17.877	20.093	93.11%	Q1 P5, Q2 P4
6	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:16.261	19.565	22.590	88.94%	Q1 P6, Q2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:04.233	16.421	17.896	91.14%	✓
2	Anthony Woodruff	17/5:05.644	16.303	17.979	88.65%
3	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:14.803	16.972	19.675	82.47%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	15/5:12.972	17.762	20.865	89.33%
5	Chris Gross	14/5:12.823	18.171	22.345	85.55%
6	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:16.261	19.565	22.590	88.94%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:05.878	15.661	16.993	91.90%	✓
2	Henry Ballew	16/5:03.120	18.076	18.945	94.87%	✓
3	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:07.832	16.774	19.240	89.59%
4	Chris Gross	15/5:01.389	17.877	20.093	93.11%	✓
5	Albert Bredernitz	3/1:08.147	20.204	22.716	–
6	Brian Zimmerman	0	–	–	–

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	Anthony Woodruff	19/5:14.076	15.431	16.536	94.82%	+100
2	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:02.760	16.961	18.765	89.32%	+96
3	Albert Bredernitz	16/5:17.641	17.256	19.531	87.96%	+94
4	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:19.002	16.620	19.462	86.71%	+92
5	Henry Ballew	14/5:08.760	18.515	21.533	88.08%	+90
6	Chris Gross	6/2:13.531	18.087	22.526	81.89%	+88

Flag to flag Anthony Woodruff led every lap

1st
Anthony Woodruff 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.661 · 91.90% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 15.431 · 94.82% cons · led every lap
Anthony Woodruff showed up for his first round of the series and made Round 1 look slow. His 15.431 in the main was 1.189 seconds quicker than the best lap anyone in this class turned in April, he led every lap, and he finished three laps clear of Brian Zimmerman. An 18-lap Q2 had already made him TQ. He checked out at 94.82%, and pace like that against this field is preposterous, which is the nicest thing I can say about anybody.
2nd
Brian Zimmerman 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.972 · 82.47% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.961 · 89.32% cons
With nothing on the board from Q2, Brian Zimmerman was seeded fourth off his Q1 run, and he still came out of the main as the best of the rest. His 16 laps finished nearly 15 seconds ahead of the next truck on the same lap, and 89.32% was a big step up from an 82.47% qualifying. Anthony Woodruff was three laps up the road, but the table runs on points, and 196 of them give Zimmerman a 12-point lead over Chris Gross and Henry Ballew. He got away with that empty Q2, and I don't think he deserved to.
3rd
Albert Bredernitz 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 19.565 · 88.94% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.256 · 87.96% cons
Last seed after a Q2 that lasted three laps, and Albert Bredernitz walked out of the main with a podium. Where did that come from? A 17.256 best, more than two seconds quicker than anything he turned in qualifying, across a 16-lap main at 87.96%. He finished 1.361 seconds ahead of Sam Bredernitz on the same lap, and Sam had qualified second. A podium in his first round of the season from the back of the grid is the upset of the night, and I love every bit of it.
4th
Sam Bredernitz 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.421 · 91.14% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.620 · 86.71% cons
Sam Bredernitz won Q1 ahead of Anthony Woodruff and qualified second, and then the main fell away from him. The 16.620 he turned in it was the second-quickest lap of the race, but a 19.462 average never came near it, and 16 laps put him fourth, 1.361 seconds behind Albert Bredernitz, who started last. He couldn't string the laps together. An 86.71% main from the second seed is unacceptable, and the slide to fourth is his to own.
5th
Henry Ballew 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 18.076 · 94.87% qual cons · 14 laps · fast 18.515 · 88.08% cons
Nobody was more consistent in qualifying than Henry Ballew at 94.87%, and very little of it came with him to the main. He ran 14 laps at 88.08%, two short of the 16-lap trio ahead of him, and his 18.515 best was nearly a second off his own Round 1 main. That leaves him with 184 points, level with Chris Gross and third on the countback, because Gross's second place at Round 1 outranks Ballew's third. Level on points with a man whose main lasted six laps is a result Ballew should be annoyed about.
6th
Chris Gross 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.877 · 93.11% qual cons · 6 laps · fast 18.087 · 81.89% cons
Chris Gross's main stopped after 6 laps and 2:13.531, well short of halfway, and something clearly went wrong out there. The order still pays sixth, 88 points, which keeps him second in the championship with 184 points, level with Henry Ballew and ahead on the countback thanks to his Round 1 second place. 12 points off the lead after a six-lap main. That's a very lucky bad night.

Championship after Round 2

Anthony Woodruff walked into his first round of the series and won it by three laps, TQ and flag to flag, with a 15.431 that's 1.189 seconds quicker than anything this class managed in April. He's still only fourth in the table with 100 points from one start, while Brian Zimmerman's second place from the fourth seed takes him to 196 points and a 12-point lead. Behind him, Chris Gross and Henry Ballew are level with 184 points, Gross in front on the countback with his Round 1 second, and he got there with a main that lasted six laps. Albert Bredernitz went from the last seed to the podium, 1.361 seconds ahead of Sam Bredernitz, who'd qualified second. Nothing comes off anybody's total until Round 3, so every point Zimmerman has banked from two podiums still counts.

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	Brian Zimmerman	+96	196	196	2
2	Chris Gross	+88	184	184	2
3	Henry Ballew	+90	184	184	2
4	Anthony Woodruff	+100	100	100	1
5	Albert Bredernitz	+94	94	94	1
6	Josh Strumillo	–	92	92	1
7	Sam Bredernitz	+92	92	92	1

Round 3 · Jun 10

8 in the class

TQ: Anthony Woodruff

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:01.374	15.475	16.743	95.65%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Josh Strumillo	17/5:07.622	16.822	18.095	93.45%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:02.721	17.330	18.920	89.27%	Q1 P5, Q2 P3
4	Henry Ballew	16/5:09.235	16.793	19.327	90.34%	Q1 P8, Q2 P4
5	Chris Gross	16/5:19.975	17.265	19.998	91.27%	Q1 P4, Q2 P5
6	Cale Turner	15/5:10.925	18.888	20.728	91.44%	Q1 P3, Q2 P8
7	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:15.884	17.684	21.059	83.11%	Q1 P6, Q2 P6
8	Chuck Burns	14/5:00.169	18.258	21.441	87.09%	Q1 P7, Q2 P7

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Anthony Woodruff	17/5:16.374	16.366	18.610	89.59%
2	Josh Strumillo	15/5:01.267	17.299	20.084	86.71%
3	Cale Turner	15/5:10.925	18.888	20.728	91.44%	✓
4	Chris Gross	15/5:14.046	18.522	20.936	88.46%
5	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:18.443	16.790	21.230	81.21%
6	Albert Bredernitz	14/4:50.931	17.953	20.781	88.40%
7	Chuck Burns	14/5:00.169	18.258	21.441	87.09%	✓
8	Henry Ballew	8/2:42.799	17.507	20.350	81.90%
Qualifier 2
1	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:01.374	15.475	16.743	95.65%	✓
2	Josh Strumillo	17/5:07.622	16.822	18.095	93.45%	✓
3	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:02.721	17.330	18.920	89.27%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	16/5:09.235	16.793	19.327	90.34%	✓
5	Chris Gross	16/5:19.975	17.265	19.998	91.27%	✓
6	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:15.884	17.684	21.059	83.11%	✓
7	Chuck Burns	14/5:03.056	18.738	21.647	89.00%
8	Cale Turner	11/4:15.789	18.688	23.254	81.78%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:07.541	15.615	17.128	93.49%	+100
2	Josh Strumillo	17/5:14.787	16.681	18.206	92.29%	+96
3	Cale Turner	16/5:11.065	17.489	19.364	88.46%	+94
4	Henry Ballew	15/5:01.761	16.605	19.792	84.92%	+92
5	Chris Gross	15/5:18.388	16.842	21.046	83.86%	+90
6	Chuck Burns	13/5:03.595	19.349	23.419	79.77%	+88
7	Sam Bredernitz	0/0.000	–	–	–	+86
8	Albert Bredernitz	0/0.000	–	–	–	+84

Flag to flag Anthony Woodruff led every lap

1st
Anthony Woodruff 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.475 · 95.65% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.615 · 93.49% cons · led every lap
Two rounds in the class, two TQs, two flag-to-flag wins, and Anthony Woodruff now leads the championship with 200 points from two starts. His qualifying was dialed: a 15.475 at 95.65%, and nobody else came within 1.3 seconds of that lap. The main was a shade scruffier at 93.49% and still finished a lap clear of Josh Strumillo. Brian Zimmerman sat this one out, and Woodruff took the lead off him by four points, which is what happens when the quickest truck in the class turns up two months running.
2nd
Josh Strumillo 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.822 · 93.45% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.681 · 92.29% cons
Josh Strumillo's Round 1 never produced a lap, so this was the first real look at him in a truck, and it was a good one. A 17-lap Q2 made him the second seed, and the main brought 17 laps at 92.29% for his first podium, a lap behind Anthony Woodruff and ahead of everybody else. That lifts him from sixth to third in the table with 188 points, 12 off the lead. It's the answer to Round 1 I wanted, and it came with a 16.681 best that only Woodruff and Henry Ballew beat in the main.
3rd
Cale Turner 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 18.888 · 91.44% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.489 · 88.46% cons
How does the slowest lap in qualifying end up on the podium? Cale Turner's best of 18.688 was the slowest of the eight, his Q2 stopped at 11 laps, and he was seeded sixth. The answer is a 19.364 average, the third best in the main, which was good for 16 laps while Henry Ballew and Chris Gross, both quicker over a lap, managed 15. A podium on debut from that seed is a real upset, and those are the best-earned 94 points of the night.
4th
Henry Ballew 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 16.793 · 90.34% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 16.605 · 84.92% cons
Henry Ballew had the second-quickest lap of the main at 16.605 and finished fourth with 15 laps, three behind Anthony Woodruff. An 84.92% main and an eight-lap Q1 that stopped at 2:42.799 point the same way: the pace was there and the laps weren't. The first drop has now come off, and his raw total of 276 points is the biggest in the class, but with his Round 2 fifth gone he has 186 points, level with Chris Gross and behind him on the countback, because Gross's Round 1 second outranks Ballew's third. Those two extra raw points do nothing for him.
5th
Chris Gross 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.265 · 91.27% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 16.842 · 83.86% cons
The first drop was made for Chris Gross. Out goes the six-lap main from Round 2, and his 186 points now sit level with Henry Ballew's, in front on the countback thanks to his Round 1 second place. Tonight was 15 laps from the fifth seed to fifth, at 83.86%, though his 16.842 best was the quickest lap he's turned in this series. 14 points off the lead, and I can't decide whether that's a driver in the hunt or a driver the arithmetic likes.
6th
Chuck Burns 88 pts
A-main P6 · qualified P8 · qual best lap 18.258 · 87.09% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 19.349 · 79.77% cons
Chuck Burns came in as the last of eight seeds and left sixth, which flatters him a little, since the two drivers behind him never took the start. He ran 13 laps at 79.77%, the scrappiest main of the six who ran, and his 19.349 best was more than a second off his own 18.258 in qualifying. Two laps down on Chris Gross is the honest measure of the night. It's still 88 points on debut, and his 89.00% in qualifying says the tidy version exists.
7th
Sam Bredernitz 86 pts No laps
A-main P7 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.330 · 89.27% qual cons · 0 laps
Seeded third off a 16-lap Q2, with the second-quickest lap in qualifying at 16.790 (three thousandths ahead of Henry Ballew), and then Sam Bredernitz never took the start. The order pays seventh, 86 points, which leaves him level with Albert Bredernitz with 178 points each and behind on the countback, because Albert has a Round 2 third and Sam has no podium yet.
8th
Albert Bredernitz 84 pts No laps
A-main P8 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 17.684 · 83.11% qual cons · 0 laps
Albert Bredernitz took almost two seconds off his best qualifying lap from Round 2, 17.684 against 19.565, and was seeded seventh. Then his grid slot sat empty, the same as Sam Bredernitz's. Eighth in the order pays 84 points, and that Round 2 podium is what keeps Albert ahead of Sam on the countback, both of them with 178 points.

Championship after Round 3

Anthony Woodruff has raced this class twice and now leads it, 200 points to Brian Zimmerman's 196 points, after another TQ, another flag-to-flag win and a qualifying lap nobody else came within 1.3 seconds of. Zimmerman sat this round out and lost the lead without turning a wheel. The first drop has landed, and only the two drivers who've raced all three rounds feel it: Chris Gross loses his six-lap Round 2 and Henry Ballew his Round 2 fifth, which leaves them level with 186 points, Gross in front on the countback with his Round 1 second even though Ballew's raw total is two points bigger. Josh Strumillo's first laps in a truck in this series came with second place and a jump to third in the table, and Cale Turner went from the slowest lap in qualifying to the podium on debut. Then there's the Bredernitz pair: Sam qualified third and Albert seventh, both grid slots sat empty when the A-main went off, and the order still paid the pair 170 points for not a single racing lap. They're level with 178 points each, and only Albert's Round 2 podium separates them, so two empty grid slots settled nothing.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Anthony Woodruff	+100	200	0	200	2
2	Brian Zimmerman	–	196	0	196	2
3	Josh Strumillo	+96	188	0	188	2
4	Chris Gross	+90	274	−88	186	3
5	Henry Ballew	+92	276	−90	186	3
6	Albert Bredernitz	+84	178	0	178	2
7	Sam Bredernitz	+86	178	0	178	2
8	Cale Turner	+94	94	0	94	1

Round 4 · Jul 8

10 in the class

TQ: Anthony Woodruff

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:03.187	15.639	16.844	92.96%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P5
2	Henry Ballew	17/5:07.768	16.443	18.104	94.19%	Q1 P4, Q2 P1
3	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:17.743	16.300	18.691	87.64%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P1
4	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:00.705	17.265	18.794	87.94%	Q1 P1, Q2 P5
5	Dustin Vance	16/5:09.383	17.488	19.336	91.21%	Q1 P5, Q2 P2
6	Chris Gross	16/5:11.129	17.314	19.446	91.00%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3
7	Chuck Burns	16/5:13.711	17.442	19.607	89.15%	Q1 P2, Q2 P4
8	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:00.833	18.274	21.488	88.59%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P2
9	Russell Rima	13/5:05.634	17.453	23.510	80.90%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P3
10	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:17.447	20.051	26.454	82.46%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P4

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:00.705	17.265	18.794	87.94%	✓
2	Chuck Burns	16/5:13.711	17.442	19.607	89.15%	✓
3	Chris Gross	14/4:42.987	17.294	20.213	89.36%
4	Henry Ballew	11/3:36.564	16.263	19.688	84.35%
5	Dustin Vance	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Anthony Woodruff	18/5:03.187	15.639	16.844	92.96%	✓
2	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:17.743	16.300	18.691	87.64%	✓
3	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:00.833	18.274	21.488	88.59%	✓
4	Jax Bredernitz	10/5:17.294	24.252	31.729	83.74%
5	Russell Rima	3/1:21.125	22.108	27.042	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Henry Ballew	17/5:07.768	16.443	18.104	94.19%	✓
2	Dustin Vance	16/5:09.383	17.488	19.336	91.21%	✓
3	Chris Gross	16/5:11.129	17.314	19.446	91.00%	✓
4	Chuck Burns	16/5:17.942	17.774	19.871	91.91%
5	Brian Zimmerman	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:05.124	16.813	19.070	87.63%
2	Albert Bredernitz	14/5:09.966	18.145	22.140	83.88%
3	Russell Rima	13/5:05.634	17.453	23.510	80.90%	✓
4	Jax Bredernitz	12/5:17.447	20.051	26.454	82.46%	✓
5	Anthony Woodruff	1/16.457	16.457	16.457	–

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	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Brian Zimmerman	1	17/5:12.835	16.448	18.211	92.51%	+100
2	Henry Ballew	2	16/5:05.209	16.213	18.731	88.79%	+96
3	Sam Bredernitz	3	16/5:14.430	17.379	19.734	88.58%	+94
4	Chris Gross	4	15/5:01.497	17.314	20.062	89.79%	+92
5	Dustin Vance	5	15/5:04.085	17.760	20.127	84.58%	+90
6	Albert Bredernitzbumped up	6	13/5:01.014	18.050	23.041	78.71%	+88
7	Anthony Woodruff	7	0/0.000	–	–	–	+86
B-main
1	Chuck Burns	8	15/5:05.586	17.630	19.898	84.28%	+84
2	Albert Bredernitz	up to the A	15/5:14.007	18.407	20.925	87.33%	–
3	Russell Rima	9	15/5:16.709	17.987	20.844	86.39%	+82
4	Jax Bredernitz	10	1/26.662	–	–	–	+80

1 lead change Sam Bredernitz → Brian Zimmerman

1st
Brian Zimmerman 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.265 · 87.94% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.448 · 92.51% cons · led 15
Zero laps in Q2, seeded fourth off a single run, and Brian Zimmerman still checked out. Sam Bredernitz led the first two laps before Zimmerman took over on lap 3 for the last 15, and nobody else in the class reached 17 laps. His 92.51% was the cleanest run in the A-main, which is how the fourth-quickest truck in qualifying wins by a lap. He missed June altogether and leaves July back on top of the championship with 296 points, which is about as good as a comeback gets.
2nd
Henry Ballew 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.443 · 94.19% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.213 · 88.79% cons
The quickest lap in the A-main belonged to Henry Ballew, a 16.213 that beat anything he turned in qualifying, and it came with his best finish of the series. Qualifying was a mixed bag: an 11-lap Q1 that stopped short, then a 17-lap Q2 that won his heat. The main settled at 88.79% and 16 laps, a lap down on Brian Zimmerman. Put that 16.213 inside a cleaner main and he's the one running 17.
3rd
Sam Bredernitz 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 16.300 · 87.64% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.379 · 88.58% cons · led 2
Last round Sam Bredernitz qualified third and never turned a lap in the main. This time he qualified third and led it for the first two laps, before Brian Zimmerman took over on lap 3. Sixteen laps at 88.58% were enough for third and his first podium of the series. The worry is pace. He went from a 16.300 in qualifying to a 17.379 best in the main, and a 17.379 was never going to live with Zimmerman's 16.448. Still, leading an A-main a month after a zero-lap main is a proper response.
4th
Chris Gross 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 17.314 · 91.00% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.314 · 89.79% cons
From sixth in the order, Chris Gross brought it home fourth, and his 17.314 best was quicker than anything Sam Bredernitz turned in the main. Fifteen laps at 89.79% is a solid night, and his finishes now read second, sixth, fifth, fourth. He's raced all four rounds, so the drop is already taking his 88 from May, and he sits fourth with 278 points. The podium was one lap away, because third place ran 16 laps.
5th
Dustin Vance 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.488 · 91.21% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.760 · 84.58% cons
A first night in the series for Dustin Vance, and Q1 went down as zero laps, which is a rough way to say hello. He fixed it with 16 laps in Q2, took fifth in the order and finished fifth, on the same lap as Chris Gross ahead of him. The 84.58% says the main had a few untidy laps in it. For a night that opened with nothing on the board, 90 points is a decent return.
6th
Albert Bredernitz 88 ptsbumped up
A-main P6 · bumped up from the B · qualified P8 · qual best lap 18.274 · 88.59% qual cons · 13 laps · fast 18.050 · 78.71% cons
Albert Bredernitz had to earn his A-main the long way. Seeded eighth, he ran neck and neck with Russell Rima for five laps of the B, came out of it second with 15 laps in 5:14.007, and the bump sent him up. Then the A got away from him: 13 laps at 78.71%, the lowest consistency in the A-main and two laps fewer than he had just run in the B. Sixth and 88 points from eighth in the order is a fair haul. The main that earned it is the part I can't defend.
7th
Anthony Woodruff 86 pts No laps
A-main P7 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 15.639 · 92.96% qual cons · 0 laps
Every round he has entered, Anthony Woodruff has TQ'd, and this time it came with 18 laps in Q1 and a 15.639, with Henry Ballew's 16.263 the next best lap in qualifying. Something went wrong after that, because Q2 stopped after a single lap and the A-main went off with his grid slot empty. The order still pays him seventh, 86 points, which leaves him second in the championship with 286 points. The quickest truck in qualifying never turned a lap in the main, and that is a brutal way to waste a TQ.
Lower mains
8th
Chuck Burns 84 pts
B-main P1 · qualified P7 · qual best lap 17.442 · 89.15% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.630 · 84.28% cons · led 5
Two 16-lap qualifiers and 91.91% consistency, beaten only by Henry Ballew's figure, and Chuck Burns still landed seventh in the order, the first truck left out of the A-main. Chris Gross also ran 16 laps and got in on time. So Burns won the B instead, 15 laps in 5:05.586, and took 84 points. On those two qualifiers he deserved a crack at the A, and a B-main win is the least he was owed.
9th
Russell Rima 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 17.453 · 80.90% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.987 · 86.39% cons
Russell Rima arrived with a 17.453 best lap, quicker than anything Dustin Vance or Albert Bredernitz turned in qualifying, and both of them raced the A-main. He didn't get there because Q1 lasted three laps and Q2 gave him 13, which left him ninth in the order. In the B he went at it with Albert Bredernitz for five of the 15 laps and came home third, 15 laps in 5:16.709, worth 82 points on debut. The speed belongs in the A. The qualifying runs have to catch up with it.
10th
Jax Bredernitz 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P10 · qual best lap 20.051 · 82.46% qual cons · 1 laps
Ten laps, then 12: Jax Bredernitz got both qualifiers in on his first night, with a 20.051 best, and the second run was the better one. The B-main ended after a single lap, 26.662, which made for a short evening, but tenth overall still pays 80 points. Two more laps from Q1 to Q2 is the bit worth building on.

Championship after Round 4

Brian Zimmerman sat out June and leads the championship again with 296 points, and he owes it to a 17-lap win and an empty slot at the front of the grid in roughly equal measure. That slot belonged to Anthony Woodruff, who TQ'd off an 18-lap Q1 with the quickest lap in qualifying and then left pole for the A-main empty, which has to be the most expensive way to collect 86 points. Woodruff is second with 286 points, 10 back. The drop is already biting the two drivers who have raced every round: Henry Ballew has the biggest raw total in the class, 372, and sits third with 282 points once a 90 comes off, and Chris Gross is fourth with 278 points from a raw 366. Sam Bredernitz and Albert Bredernitz round out six drivers within 30 points of the top, and neither of them has anything to throw away yet.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Brian Zimmerman	+100	296	0	296	3
2	Anthony Woodruff	+86	286	0	286	3
3	Henry Ballew	+96	372	−90	282	4
4	Chris Gross	+92	366	−88	278	4
5	Sam Bredernitz	+94	272	0	272	3
6	Albert Bredernitz	+88	266	0	266	3
7	Josh Strumillo	–	188	0	188	2
8	Chuck Burns	+84	172	0	172	2

Round 5 · Aug 5

10 in the class

TQ: Jarrett Lynn

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Jarrett Lynn	17/5:09.003	17.030	18.177	94.01%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Dallas Boyd	16/5:01.087	17.097	18.818	90.05%	Q1H2 P1, Q2H2 P5
3	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:03.616	17.063	18.976	89.63%	Q1H2 P2, Q2H2 P1
4	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:08.281	17.084	19.268	90.29%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2
5	Chris Gross	16/5:16.474	17.604	19.780	91.90%	Q1H2 P3, Q2H2 P3
6	Henry Ballew	16/5:17.332	18.133	19.833	92.12%	Q1H2 P4, Q2H2 P2
7	Jagger Vance	15/5:01.592	17.231	20.106	86.88%	Q1 P2, Q2 P4
8	Russell Rima	15/5:09.206	18.880	20.614	93.59%	Q1H2 P5, Q2H2 P4
9	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:17.325	18.229	21.155	89.79%	Q1 P4, Q2 P3
10	Jax Bredernitz	0/0.000	–	–	–	Q1 P5, Q2 P5

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1 · heat 1 of 2
1	Jarrett Lynn	16/5:02.955	17.390	18.935	88.82%
2	Jagger Vance	15/5:01.592	17.231	20.106	86.88%	✓
3	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:06.629	16.291	20.442	84.82%
4	Albert Bredernitz	13/5:11.949	19.199	23.996	86.73%
5	Jax Bredernitz	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 1 · heat 2 of 2
1	Dallas Boyd	16/5:01.087	17.097	18.818	90.05%	✓
2	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:04.164	16.803	19.010	88.96%
3	Chris Gross	16/5:16.474	17.604	19.780	91.90%	✓
4	Henry Ballew	16/5:17.332	18.133	19.833	92.12%	✓
5	Russell Rima	15/5:09.206	18.880	20.614	93.59%	✓
Qualifier 2 · heat 1 of 2
1	Jarrett Lynn	17/5:09.003	17.030	18.177	94.01%	✓
2	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:08.281	17.084	19.268	90.29%	✓
3	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:17.325	18.229	21.155	89.79%	✓
4	Jagger Vance	12/5:15.502	18.133	26.292	34.16%
5	Jax Bredernitz	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2 · heat 2 of 2
1	Brian Zimmerman	16/5:03.616	17.063	18.976	89.63%	✓
2	Henry Ballew	15/5:00.511	17.210	20.034	86.76%
3	Chris Gross	15/5:04.811	17.775	20.321	83.95%
4	Russell Rima	13/5:25.258	19.907	25.020	87.24%
5	Dallas Boyd	11/3:30.724	17.176	19.157	87.27%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Overall	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Jarrett Lynn	1	18/5:16.609	16.639	18.381	89.89%	+100
2	Sam Bredernitz	2	17/5:18.642	17.083	19.606	90.59%	+96
3	Dallas Boyd	3	16/5:04.031	17.345	19.986	84.70%	+94
4	Brian Zimmerman	4	16/5:06.470	17.017	20.116	83.42%	+92
5	Henry Ballew	5	16/5:11.168	17.027	20.366	88.64%	+90
6	Jagger Vancebumped up	6	15/5:08.255	17.508	21.582	83.18%	+88
7	Chris Gross	7	11/3:52.370	17.866	22.711	86.07%	+86
8	Russell Rimabumped up	8	4/1:16.363	21.830	23.138	94.30%	+84
B-main
1	Jagger Vance	up to the A	17/5:09.922	17.688	19.103	93.00%	–
2	Russell Rima	up to the A	15/5:03.262	18.181	21.088	88.65%	–
3	Jax Bredernitz	9	14/5:07.907	20.788	23.260	91.82%	+82
4	Albert Bredernitz	10	4/2:04.241	22.284	39.651	39.19%	+80

1 lead change Dallas Boyd → Jarrett Lynn

1st
Jarrett Lynn 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 17.030 · 94.01% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 16.639 · 89.89% cons · led 8
Jarrett Lynn showed up for the first time and TQ'd, with the only 17-lap qualifier of the night and the best consistency in qualifying at 94.01%. The main made him work. Dallas Boyd led the first nine laps before Lynn took over on lap 10, and from there he never gave it back, finishing 18 laps with the quickest lap of the A-main, a 16.639, and a full lap clear of Sam Bredernitz. Nine laps without the lead and still a lap clear at the end: that is a magnificent first night.
2nd
Sam Bredernitz 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.084 · 90.29% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 17.083 · 90.59% cons
The hot lap of qualifying was Sam Bredernitz's 16.291, and he still lined up fourth, because seeding goes on laps and time, not on one quick lap. He fixed that in the main. Seventeen laps at 90.59%, the cleanest full-distance run in the A-main, took him from fourth to second and onto the podium for a second round in a row. He's third in the championship with 368 points, 20 behind Brian Zimmerman. This is the version of him I've been waiting all season to see.
3rd
Dallas Boyd 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 17.097 · 90.05% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.345 · 84.70% cons · led 9
Dallas Boyd led the first nine laps of his first main in this series, and that deserves saying loudly. He'd earned second on the grid with a 16-lap Q1, and the A-main was his until Jarrett Lynn took over on lap 10. Something went wrong from there, because Lynn finished two laps clear of him. Sixteen laps at 84.70% still put Boyd on the podium on debut with 94 points. Those first nine laps are the best thing anybody did in this round without winning it.
4th
Brian Zimmerman 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.063 · 89.63% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.017 · 83.42% cons
His scrappiest main in this series, and Brian Zimmerman still leaves with the championship lead. He had the second-quickest lap in qualifying at 16.803 and started third, then ran 16 laps at 83.42%, a long way from the 92.51% that won him July. Fourth is worth 92 points and takes him to 388 points. What bothers me is the company: two drivers on debut and Sam Bredernitz, who trails him by 20, all finished ahead of him.
5th
Henry Ballew 90 pts
A-main P5 · qualified P6 · qual best lap 18.133 · 92.12% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.027 · 88.64% cons
Henry Ballew's 17.027 was the third-quickest lap of the A-main, and he turned it into fifth from sixth on the grid, 16 laps at 88.64%. Modest night, decent payoff: he climbs to second in the championship with 372 points, 16 behind Brian Zimmerman, with one of his two 90s coming off a raw 462. Fifth is no place for a title contender to make a habit of, but this time it moved him up a place.
6th
Jagger Vance 88 ptsbumped up
A-main P6 · bumped up from the B · qualified P7 · qual best lap 17.231 · 86.88% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.508 · 83.18% cons
Jagger Vance had to come through the B on his first night in the series, and he made the B look small: 17 laps in 5:09.922, a lap count only Jarrett Lynn beat in the A-main. The bump put him among the quicker trucks, where 15 laps at 83.18% left him sixth, one place better than he qualified. Eighty-eight points on debut is a good night. What I want to see is that B-main version of him in an A.
7th
Chris Gross 86 pts
A-main P7 · qualified P5 · qual best lap 17.604 · 91.90% qual cons · 11 laps · fast 17.866 · 86.07% cons
Something went wrong for Chris Gross, because his main stopped at 11 laps and 3:52.370. Until then he was running at a respectable 86.07%. Seventh is 86 points, and the consolation is that with one drop in force, that 86 is exactly the result that comes off. The night added nothing to his total, so he's fourth with 366 points from a raw 452, 22 behind the lead. That is what the drop is there for.
8th
Russell Rima 84 ptsbumped up
A-main P8 · bumped up from the B · qualified P8 · qual best lap 18.880 · 93.59% qual cons · 4 laps · fast 21.830 · 94.30% cons
Russell Rima did the hard part first, 15 laps in 5:03.262 for second in the B, and the bump took him to the A-main. That main stopped after four laps and 1:16.363. Eighth is still 84 points, two more than his first night, and his 93.59% in qualifying was second only to Jarrett Lynn's for consistency. A driver that clean over a full qualifier deserves a full A-main, and four laps is a frustrating way to spend one.
Lower mains
9th
Jax Bredernitz 82 pts
B-main P3 · qualified P10 · 14 laps · fast 20.788 · 91.82% cons
No laps in either qualifier left Jax Bredernitz at the bottom of the order, and he answered with 14 laps in the B. Last round his B-main ended after one lap, so that's a genuine step, and it's worth 82 points. Two nights in, he's 10th in the championship with 162 points.
10th
Albert Bredernitz 80 pts
B-main P4 · qualified P9 · qual best lap 18.229 · 89.79% qual cons · 4 laps · fast 22.284 · 39.19% cons
A rough one for Albert Bredernitz. Qualifying runs of 13 and 15 laps left him ninth in the order and in the B for a second round running, and his B-main stopped after four laps and 2:04.241. Eighty points is his lowest score of the year. With four starts he has nothing to drop, so the 80 counts in full, and he's fifth with 346 points, 42 off the lead.

Championship after Round 5

Two drivers who had never raced this series shared the lead of the A-main, Dallas Boyd for nine laps and Jarrett Lynn for the last eight, and Lynn TQ'd and won on debut. The regulars got shown up, and the championship barely noticed. Brian Zimmerman still leads with 388 points. Henry Ballew is 16 back with 372 points, Sam Bredernitz 20 back with 368 points and Chris Gross 22 back with 366 points. Ballew and Gross have raced all five rounds and each has a result in the bin, a 90 and an 86, while Zimmerman and Sam Bredernitz have four starts apiece and nothing to drop. Four drivers inside 22 points, and the leader's 83.42% was the scrappiest main any of the four ran.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Brian Zimmerman	+92	388	0	388	4
2	Henry Ballew	+90	462	−90	372	5
3	Sam Bredernitz	+96	368	0	368	4
4	Chris Gross	+86	452	−86	366	5
5	Albert Bredernitz	+80	346	0	346	4
6	Anthony Woodruff	–	286	0	286	3
7	Josh Strumillo	–	188	0	188	2
8	Chuck Burns	–	172	0	172	2

Round 6 · Sep 9

4 in the class

TQ: Albert Bredernitz

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Albert Bredernitz	17/5:15.157	17.374	26.272	24.71%	Q1 P4, Q2 P1
2	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:07.920	16.056	19.245	87.53%	Q1 P1, Q2 P4
3	Chris Gross	16/5:09.759	17.090	19.360	91.66%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
4	Chuck Burns	16/5:17.127	17.674	19.820	89.69%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:07.920	16.056	19.245	87.53%	✓
2	Chris Gross	15/5:01.176	17.969	20.078	90.62%
3	Chuck Burns	15/5:08.411	17.544	20.561	89.01%
4	Albert Bredernitz	10/5:07.947	18.531	38.493	61.86%
Qualifier 2
1	Albert Bredernitz	17/5:15.157	17.374	26.272	24.71%	✓
2	Chris Gross	16/5:09.759	17.090	19.360	91.66%	✓
3	Chuck Burns	16/5:17.127	17.674	19.820	89.69%	✓
4	Sam Bredernitz	15/5:00.986	17.098	20.066	87.23%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:04.794	16.950	19.990	88.39%	+100
2	Albert Bredernitz	16/5:06.648	18.298	27.487	47.30%	+96
3	Chuck Burns	16/5:12.692	17.842	20.454	87.18%	+94
4	Chris Gross	15/5:05.309	18.514	21.432	91.81%	+92

1st
Sam Bredernitz 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.056 · 87.53% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 16.950 · 88.39% cons
Sam Bredernitz has climbed a step a round since July, third and then second, and now there is nowhere left to climb. A 16.056 in qualifying was his quickest lap of the series. In the main his 16.950 was the quickest of the race, and 16 laps in 5:04.794 beat Albert Bredernitz, the TQ, by under two seconds on the same lap. The 88.39% isn't pretty and I don't care. He's second in the championship with 382 points, six behind Brian Zimmerman, who wasn't even here.
2nd
Albert Bredernitz 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 17.374 · 24.71% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 18.298 · 47.30% cons
Albert Bredernitz TQ'd for the first time in this series, and he did it with the only 17-lap run in qualifying after a 10-lap Q1 that went badly. Second in the main is his best finish of the year, worth 96 points. I'm ignoring the 47.30% and the 27.487 average: 16 laps in 5:06.648 can't produce an average lap that slow, and this main had a missed crossing in it. What I'll take seriously is the finish, on the same lap as Sam Bredernitz and less than two seconds behind, the first runner-up in this series to finish on the winner's lap.
3rd
Chuck Burns 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.674 · 89.69% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 17.842 · 87.18% cons
From the back of a four-truck grid to the podium, and on the winner's lap too: Chuck Burns has his first top three of the series. Chris Gross had out-qualified him on pace and on consistency, and Burns beat him by a full lap anyway, 16 laps at 87.18%. The 17.842 best won't frighten anybody. Laps pay, though, and 94 points lift him to 266 points from three starts. I'd have bet against this podium after qualifying, and I'd have lost.
4th
Chris Gross 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.090 · 91.66% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 18.514 · 91.81% cons
Clean and slow was Chris Gross's night. His 91.81% was the best consistency in the main and his 18.514 the slowest best lap of the four, so 15 laps left him a lap down on the other three. He's the only driver to have raced all six rounds, and with two results coming off, a raw 544 counts as 370 points, fourth in the championship and 18 behind Brian Zimmerman. I'd trade a little of that tidiness for a few tenths a lap.

Championship after Round 6

Only four trucks turned up in September, and Sam Bredernitz made the most of the room, winning to sit second with 382 points, six behind a Brian Zimmerman who did not race. Zimmerman's 388 points come from four starts with nothing thrown away, while Sam Bredernitz has five and is already dropping an 86. Henry Ballew also missed this one and is third with 372 points, Chris Gross is fourth with 370 points from a raw 544, and Albert Bredernitz is fifth with 362 points after the first TQ of his season. Both drops are in force now, everyone counts their best four, and five drivers sit within 26 points. Six points between first and second, with the leader absent, is the closest the championship lead has been since June.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Brian Zimmerman	–	388	0	388	4
2	Sam Bredernitz	+100	468	−86	382	5
3	Henry Ballew	–	462	−90	372	5
4	Chris Gross	+92	544	−174	370	6
5	Albert Bredernitz	+96	442	−80	362	5
6	Anthony Woodruff	–	286	0	286	3
7	Chuck Burns	+94	266	0	266	3
8	Josh Strumillo	–	188	0	188	2

Round 7 · Oct 7

4 in the class

TQ: Shane Alberico

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Shane Alberico	17/5:01.402	14.771	17.730	87.88%	Q1 P4, Q2 P1
2	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:02.444	16.465	17.791	90.48%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Albert Bredernitz	16/5:00.253	17.039	18.766	93.70%	Q1 P1, Q2 P4
4	Chuck Burns	16/5:04.918	17.852	19.057	91.85%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Albert Bredernitz	16/5:00.253	17.039	18.766	93.70%	✓
2	Sam Bredernitz	16/5:16.164	16.598	19.760	91.92%
3	Chuck Burns	14/5:18.853	18.026	22.775	64.20%
4	Shane Alberico	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Shane Alberico	17/5:01.402	14.771	17.730	87.88%	✓
2	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:02.444	16.465	17.791	90.48%	✓
3	Chuck Burns	16/5:04.918	17.852	19.057	91.85%	✓
4	Albert Bredernitz	16/5:12.845	16.709	19.553	85.53%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Shane Alberico	20/5:12.969	14.442	16.264	84.05%	+100
2	Sam Bredernitz	17/5:07.409	16.271	18.826	86.81%	+96
3	Chuck Burns	15/5:11.416	17.426	21.823	74.03%	+94
4	Albert Bredernitz	15/5:18.403	17.527	22.429	82.39%	+92

1st
Shane Alberico 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.771 · 87.88% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.442 · 84.05% cons
Shane Alberico turned zero laps in Q1 and still TQ'd on his first night in the series, because his 17-lap Q2 edged Sam Bredernitz's 17 on time. The main was a rout. He led flag to flag and ran 20 laps in 5:12.969, three clear of Sam Bredernitz. His 14.442 is the quickest lap anyone has turned in this class in this series, and before anybody calls it a timing glitch, his average lap of 16.264 was quicker than anyone else's best lap of the night. A debut does not come more complete than that.
2nd
Sam Bredernitz 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 16.465 · 90.48% qual cons · 17 laps · fast 16.271 · 86.81% cons
Nobody was catching Shane Alberico, so the race that mattered for Sam Bredernitz was the one behind, and he won it by two laps over Chuck Burns. Seventeen laps at 86.81%, with a 16.271 that was his quickest lap in any main in this series. That makes four podiums in a row to finish the season: third, second, first and second again. Against a truck that ran 20 laps, second and 96 points was the best result on offer, and he took it.
3rd
Chuck Burns 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P4 · qual best lap 17.852 · 91.85% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.426 · 74.03% cons
Seeded last of four again, and on the podium again. Chuck Burns got there with the untidiest main of the four, 74.03% after a 91.85% in qualifying, and 15 laps that finished ahead of Albert Bredernitz on the same lap count. Two straight thirds close his year with 360 points from four starts, sixth in the championship. Scrappy or not, back-to-back podiums from the last seed is a better end to a season than eighth in July suggested.
4th
Albert Bredernitz 92 pts
A-main P4 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 17.039 · 93.70% qual cons · 15 laps · fast 17.527 · 82.39% cons
Albert Bredernitz qualified with the best consistency in the class, 93.70%, then slipped to 82.39% in the main. Fifteen laps left him fourth, on the same lap as Chuck Burns and behind him, after starting a place ahead. That's the frustrating bit, because Burns ran 74.03% and still beat him. Ninety-two points closes his season fourth in the championship with 454 points, four behind Chris Gross, who didn't race.

Championship after Round 7

Sam Bredernitz is the 2026 Spring/Summer Winning Wednesday champion in 13.5 Stadium Truck with 478 points, 16 clear of Henry Ballew, and the plainest reason is that he kept turning up and kept scoring. He raced six of the seven rounds, and his raw 564 is a total nobody else in the class touched. The finale count rose to five results, which handed points back to drivers who weren't there: Ballew went to 462 points and Chris Gross to 458 points without turning a wheel, while Albert Bredernitz raced and ends fourth with 454 points. Brian Zimmerman led after five of the first six rounds and finishes fifth with 388 points, because four starts was all he had and five were counting. The night itself belonged to Shane Alberico, who TQ'd on debut and then led every lap of the main, three laps clear at the flag with a 14.442 in his pocket.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Dropped	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Sam Bredernitz	+96	564	−86	478	6
2	Henry Ballew	–	462	0	462	5
3	Chris Gross	–	544	−86	458	6
4	Albert Bredernitz	+92	534	−80	454	6
5	Brian Zimmerman	–	388	0	388	4
6	Chuck Burns	+94	360	0	360	4
7	Anthony Woodruff	–	286	0	286	3
8	Josh Strumillo	–	188	0	188	2

Mod 2wd Buggy

5 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 15	R2May 13	R3Jun 10	R4Jul 8	R5Aug 5	R6Sep 9	R7Oct 7
1	Jake Stoeltzing	292	292	1	3	1st	·	·	100	96	96	·	·
2	Joe Duffy	190	190	–	2	2nd	·	·	96	94	–	·	·
3	Teagan Cummings	188	188	–	2	3rd	·	·	94	–	94	·	·
4	Nick Gibson	100	100	1	1	1st	·	·	–	100	–	·	·
5	Noah Hicklin	100	100	1	1	1st	·	·	–	–	100	·	·

Round-by-round commentary

Every driver in the A-main, plus everyone below it who scored — with the qualifiers, lap times, consistency and lead changes straight from race timing.

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Round 1 · Apr 15

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Round 2 · May 13

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Round 3 · Jun 10

3 in the class

TQ: Jake Stoeltzing

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:03.801	14.527	15.190	96.96%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Joe Duffy	20/5:07.992	14.035	15.400	91.00%	Q1 P3, Q2 P2
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:12.982	15.078	16.473	92.69%	Q1 P2, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:14.494	14.487	15.725	92.79%
2	Teagan Cummings	19/5:18.105	15.270	16.742	93.86%
3	Joe Duffy	17/5:01.696	14.610	17.747	46.63%
Qualifier 2
1	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:03.801	14.527	15.190	96.96%	✓
2	Joe Duffy	20/5:07.992	14.035	15.400	91.00%	✓
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:12.982	15.078	16.473	92.69%	✓

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Jake Stoeltzing	19/5:02.488	14.396	15.979	90.32%	+100
2	Joe Duffy	16/5:13.318	14.237	19.865	10.13%	+96
3	Teagan Cummings	12/5:03.426	15.072	26.102	-7.85%	+94

4 lead changes Jake Stoeltzing → Joe Duffy → Jake Stoeltzing → Joe Duffy → Jake Stoeltzing

1st
Jake Stoeltzing 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 14.527 · 96.96% qual cons · 19 laps · fast 14.396 · 90.32% cons · led 13
Four lead changes in a three-car main, and Jake Stoeltzing was the one holding it when the clock ran out. He had laps 1 to 6, lost the lead to Joe Duffy, got it back for lap 9, lost it again, then took over on lap 14 and kept it to the flag with 19 laps. For 10 of those laps the pair were inside two seconds of each other. Duffy had the hot lap in both sessions. Stoeltzing had two 20-lap qualifiers at 96.96% for the TQ and the only main in the class that held together, and I'd build a season on that before I'd build one on a 14.035.
2nd
Joe Duffy 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.035 · 91.00% qual cons · 16 laps · fast 14.237 · 10.13% cons · led 6
Quickest lap of qualifying at 14.035, quickest lap of the main at 14.237, and in front after 13 laps. So how does Joe Duffy finish three laps behind the winner? Once Jake Stoeltzing took the lead back on lap 14, Duffy completed three more laps to his six, and a 10.13% consistency is the size of the hole that opened up. Something went badly wrong just as the race was there to be won. His best qualifier was 20 laps as well, 4.191 seconds slower than Stoeltzing's, so the faster car lost the TQ and the main on the same night.
3rd
Teagan Cummings 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 15.078 · 92.69% qual cons · 12 laps · fast 15.072 · -7.85% cons
Two 19-lap qualifiers at 93.86% made Teagan Cummings look like the safe pair of hands in this field. The main came back with 12 laps, a 26.102 average and a consistency of -7.85%, the figure a run produces when a lap or two dwarf everything around them. There was pace in it, too: 15.072 in the main, six thousandths quicker than anything Cummings managed in qualifying. That's a buggy with pace and a main with seven laps missing on the winner, and third of three is the bill.

Championship after Round 3

Mod 2wd Buggy didn't appear until Round 3, and its first main was worth the wait: four lead changes in a three-car field, with Jake Stoeltzing and Joe Duffy within two seconds of each other for 10 of the 19 laps. Duffy owned the stopwatch at 14.035 in qualifying and 14.237 in the main, led after 13 laps, and still finished three laps down. Stoeltzing's TQ came from two 20-lap runs rather than the quickest lap, the main went the same way, and I'm siding with the laps over the lap every time. After one round the table is just the finishing order, Stoeltzing with 100 points, Duffy 96 points and Teagan Cummings 94 points, and with one start each nobody has anything to drop.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Jake Stoeltzing	+100	100	100	1
2	Joe Duffy	+96	96	96	1
3	Teagan Cummings	+94	94	94	1

Round 4 · Jul 8

3 in the class

TQ: Nick Gibson

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Nick Gibson	22/5:13.002	13.668	14.227	93.89%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Jake Stoeltzing	21/5:09.303	13.810	14.729	93.13%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Joe Duffy	0/0.000	–	–	–	Q1 P3, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Nick Gibson	21/5:01.884	13.687	14.375	94.02%
2	Jake Stoeltzing	21/5:09.303	13.810	14.729	93.13%	✓
3	Joe Duffy	0	–	–	–
Qualifier 2
1	Nick Gibson	22/5:13.002	13.668	14.227	93.89%	✓
2	Jake Stoeltzing	17/4:17.732	14.045	15.161	89.46%
3	Joe Duffy	0	–	–	–

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Nick Gibson	22/5:12.504	13.704	14.220	96.19%	+100
2	Jake Stoeltzing	21/5:09.363	14.059	14.743	93.70%	+96
3	Joe Duffy	21/5:16.608	14.101	14.982	92.73%	+94

Flag to flag Nick Gibson led every lap

1st
Nick Gibson 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.668 · 93.89% qual cons · 22 laps · fast 13.704 · 96.19% cons · led every lap
Nick Gibson's first night in the class, and he made the other two look like they'd entered a different one. He won both qualifiers, 21 laps and then 22, and his 13.668 beat anything this class turned at Round 3 by more than a third of a second. The main went flag to flag at 96.19% with a 14.220 average, and he was a lap clear of both rivals at the end of it. Dialed is the word, and a main that clean on debut is magnificent. I have no notes.
2nd
Jake Stoeltzing 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 13.810 · 93.13% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 14.059 · 93.70% cons
Jake Stoeltzing found more than half a second since Round 3, 13.810 in qualifying against 14.487, and it bought him second behind a car that was simply better. His Q2 stopped at 17 laps and 4:17.732, so something went wrong second time out, but the 21-lap Q1 had already done the seeding. The main was a clean 93.70% over 21 laps. Second keeps him on top of the table with 196 points, six clear of Joe Duffy, and losing to that Gibson main is no disgrace at all.
3rd
Joe Duffy 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · 21 laps · fast 14.101 · 92.73% cons
Not one lap in either qualifier, and Joe Duffy still lined up for the main and ran 21 laps at 92.73%. After the 10.13% mess at Round 3 that's a proper answer, with a 14.982 average nearly five seconds a lap better than that night's. He finished on the same lap as Jake Stoeltzing, 7.245 seconds back, so the gap in the table grows to 196 points against his 190. Two empty qualifiers cost him nothing in a three-car field, and I still don't like them.

Championship after Round 4

Nick Gibson turned up for the first time and took Round 4 apart: the TQ, both qualifiers, every lap of the main, and a 13.668 nobody in this class had come near at Round 3. The championship still belongs to the two drivers who've raced both nights. Jake Stoeltzing leads with 196 points and Joe Duffy has 190 points, six back after finishing behind him in both mains, with Gibson's 100 points from one start in third and Teagan Cummings fourth with 94 points. Duffy took his third place the backwards way, with no laps in either qualifier and then 21 in the main. Nobody has three results yet, so the drop rule hasn't touched a single total, and right now the table rewards turning up twice over winning once by a lap.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Jake Stoeltzing	+96	196	196	2
2	Joe Duffy	+94	190	190	2
3	Nick Gibson	+100	100	100	1
4	Teagan Cummings	–	94	94	1

Round 5 · Aug 5

3 in the class

TQ: Noah Hicklin

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:13.441	13.513	14.247	95.47%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:15.889	14.406	15.794	91.44%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:19.341	14.965	16.807	89.45%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Noah Hicklin	20/5:02.577	13.803	15.129	89.90%
2	Jake Stoeltzing	19/5:13.307	14.356	16.490	86.19%
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:19.341	14.965	16.807	89.45%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:13.441	13.513	14.247	95.47%	✓
2	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:15.889	14.406	15.794	91.44%	✓
3	Teagan Cummings	18/5:05.591	14.702	16.977	89.05%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Noah Hicklin	21/5:07.791	13.704	14.500	88.95%	+100
2	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:03.454	14.372	14.978	95.49%	+96
3	Teagan Cummings	18/5:12.794	15.464	17.224	87.90%	+94

Flag to flag Noah Hicklin led every lap

1st
Noah Hicklin 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.513 · 95.47% qual cons · 21 laps · fast 13.704 · 88.95% cons · led every lap
Another round, another newcomer winning on debut, and Noah Hicklin went quicker than Nick Gibson did to do it. His 13.513 is the quickest lap this class has turned in this series, and he paired it with 95.47% and a 22-lap Q2, which made him TQ by two laps. Then he led every lap of the main and finished a lap clear. The main was the scrappy part at 88.95%, well under Jake Stoeltzing's 95.49%, and with a 13.704 best and a lap in hand that barely mattered.
2nd
Jake Stoeltzing 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 14.406 · 91.44% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.372 · 95.49% cons
Three rounds, three podiums, and Jake Stoeltzing is the only driver in the class who has raced all of them, which is the entire explanation for a 102-point lead: 292 points to Joe Duffy's 190. Tonight's 95.49% was his tidiest main of the series and the best of the three in this one. The pace has gone the other way, though, with a 14.356 in qualifying more than half a second off his own Round 4 lap, and Noah Hicklin finished a lap up on him. He hasn't won since Round 3 and the table hasn't noticed.
3rd
Teagan Cummings 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.965 · 89.45% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 15.464 · 87.90% cons
Back after missing Round 4, Teagan Cummings is now two points behind Joe Duffy for second in the championship, 188 points to 190, with Duffy absent this time. The main was 18 laps, six more than at Round 3, and 87.90% is a world away from that night's -7.85%. The 14.702 in qualifying came nearly four tenths quicker than last time out as well. Cummings still finished three laps behind Noah Hicklin, but a two-point gap to second place is a real fight.

Championship after Round 5

Three rounds, three different winners, and the man leading the championship hasn't won since the first of them. Jake Stoeltzing has 292 points because he's the only driver to start all three, which puts him 102 points clear of Joe Duffy, who sat this one out with 190 points. Teagan Cummings is two behind Duffy with 188 points, the real fight in this table. Nick Gibson and Noah Hicklin each won on debut and sit level with 100 points apiece, a win each and nothing else between them. Nobody has four results, so nothing comes off anybody's total. Speed has won the last two rounds, and turning up every time is winning the championship.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Jake Stoeltzing	+96	292	292	3
2	Joe Duffy	–	190	190	2
3	Teagan Cummings	+94	188	188	2
4	Nick Gibson	–	100	100	1
5	Noah Hicklin	+100	100	100	1

Round 6 · Sep 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 7 · Oct 7

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Mod 4wd Buggy

3 racers

#	Driver	Pointsw/ drops▼	Totalall rounds▼	TQ	Starts	Best	R1Apr 15	R2May 13	R3Jun 10	R4Jul 8	R5Aug 5	R6Sep 9	R7Oct 7
1	Noah Hicklin	100	100	1	1	1st	·	·	·	·	100	·	·
2	Jake Stoeltzing	96	96	–	1	2nd	·	·	·	·	96	·	·
3	Teagan Cummings	94	94	–	1	3rd	·	·	·	·	94	·	·

Round-by-round commentary

Every driver in the A-main, plus everyone below it who scored — with the qualifiers, lap times, consistency and lead changes straight from race timing.

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Round 1 · Apr 15

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Round 2 · May 13

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Round 3 · Jun 10

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Round 4 · Jul 8

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Round 5 · Aug 5

3 in the class

TQ: Noah Hicklin

Seeded position

Seed	Driver	Best run	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Heat results
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:09.992	13.254	14.091	94.54%	Q1 P1, Q2 P1
2	Jake Stoeltzing	21/5:05.707	13.903	14.557	94.92%	Q1 P2, Q2 P2
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:02.831	14.520	15.938	91.52%	Q1 P3, Q2 P3

Qualifiers

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Seeded
Qualifier 1
1	Noah Hicklin	21/5:03.411	13.492	14.448	90.04%
2	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:01.117	13.989	15.056	91.83%
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:02.831	14.520	15.938	91.52%	✓
Qualifier 2
1	Noah Hicklin	22/5:09.992	13.254	14.091	94.54%	✓
2	Jake Stoeltzing	21/5:05.707	13.903	14.557	94.92%	✓
3	Teagan Cummings	19/5:03.578	14.726	15.978	90.11%

Main results

Pos	Driver	Laps / time	Fast lap	Avg lap	Consistency	Points
A-main
1	Noah Hicklin	20/5:00.214	13.128	14.887	86.07%	+100
2	Jake Stoeltzing	20/5:12.568	14.185	15.178	91.75%	+96
3	Teagan Cummings	18/5:02.480	14.688	16.217	87.89%	+94

2 lead changes Noah Hicklin → Jake Stoeltzing → Noah Hicklin

1st
Noah Hicklin 100 pts
A-main P1 · qualified P1 · qual best lap 13.254 · 94.54% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 13.128 · 86.07% cons · led 19
Noah Hicklin TQ'd with a 13.254, then threw down a 13.128 heater in the main, and nobody else in the class got within half a second of either lap. He lost the lead for one lap, the fifth, to Jake Stoeltzing, had it back on lap 6 and finished 12.354 seconds clear on the same 20 laps. My one complaint is an 86.07% main after 94.54% in qualifying, and a 14.887 average says he left time out there. When the car is this much quicker, that's a complaint I can live with.
2nd
Jake Stoeltzing 96 pts
A-main P2 · qualified P2 · qual best lap 13.903 · 94.92% qual cons · 20 laps · fast 14.185 · 91.75% cons · led 1
Jake Stoeltzing led lap 5, the only lap anybody but Noah Hicklin led, and finished 12.354 seconds back on the same 20 laps. He was the tidiest qualifier in the class at 94.92% and ran the tidiest main of the three at 91.75%. Over one lap, though, he was 0.649 slower than Hicklin in qualifying and more than a second slower in the main, and no consistency figure closes a gap like that.
3rd
Teagan Cummings 94 pts
A-main P3 · qualified P3 · qual best lap 14.520 · 91.52% qual cons · 18 laps · fast 14.688 · 87.89% cons
Two 19-lap qualifiers, 0.747 seconds apart in total time, is about as repeatable as qualifying gets, and Teagan Cummings deserves credit for it. The main was messier at 87.89%, 18 laps against the 20 of the two ahead, and the 14.688 best never got back to the 14.520 from qualifying. An average more than a second a lap slower than Noah Hicklin's is how third of three happens.

Championship after Round 5

Mod 4wd Buggy got its first run of the series at Round 5, and Noah Hicklin owned it: the TQ, a 13.128 heater in the main and a 12.354-second win over Jake Stoeltzing on the same 20 laps. Stoeltzing's one lap in front, the fifth, is the only blemish on Hicklin's night. Over a lap Hicklin was 0.649 quicker than anyone in qualifying and 1.057 quicker in the main, and in a three-car class that gap is a different zip code. After one round the standings are the result with numbers attached, Hicklin 100 points, Stoeltzing 96 points and Teagan Cummings 94 points, and with one start each there's nothing to drop.

#	Driver	This round	Season pts	Pointsw/ drops	Starts
1	Noah Hicklin	+100	100	100	1
2	Jake Stoeltzing	+96	96	96	1
3	Teagan Cummings	+94	94	94	1

Round 6 · Sep 9

Class not run

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Round 7 · Oct 7

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The calendar

Rd 1	Wed 15 Apr 2026	Complete
Rd 2	Wed 13 May 2026	Complete
Rd 3	Wed 10 Jun 2026	Complete
Rd 4	Wed 8 Jul 2026	Complete
Rd 5	Wed 5 Aug 2026	Complete
Rd 6	Wed 9 Sep 2026	Complete
Rd 7	Wed 7 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.

Seven rounds, two drops: 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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Round 3 · Jun 10

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Round 5 · Aug 5

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Round 6 · Sep 9

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Round 7 · Oct 7

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Round 3 · Jun 10

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Round 4 · Jul 8

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Round 5 · Aug 5

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Round 6 · Sep 9

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Round 7 · Oct 7

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Round 2 · May 13

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Round 3 · Jun 10

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Round 4 · Jul 8

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Round 5 · Aug 5

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Round 6 · Sep 9

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Round 7 · Oct 7

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Round 2 · May 13

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Round 3 · Jun 10

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Round 4 · Jul 8

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Round 5 · Aug 5

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Round 6 · Sep 9

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Round 7 · Oct 7

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Round 4 · Jul 8

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Round 5 · Aug 5

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Round 6 · Sep 9

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