Track Day Report: Team Racing

We tried something different and it seemed like everyone enjoyed it.

Just three races were preceded by a qualifying session, which paired up the fastest drivers with the slowest drivers for a subsequent team race-off.

Qualifying

Name	Lap Time	Speed (Mph)	Place
Steve Stewart	5.173	631	1
Abe Maddox	5.322	614	2
Jerry Pearson	5.643	579	3
Shaylin Maddox	6.035	541	4
Eric Lane	6.646	491	5
Grace Maddox	11.299	289	6
Kevin Webster	DNS

Junior driver, Abe Maddox was amazingly focused on his qualifying run. His 2nd fastest lap time shows just how much. Jerry Pearson, with the third-fastest time, actually clicked off a blistering 4.9-second lap during qualifying.

Team Race Race-Off

So the event format was to pair the fastest qualifiers with the slower qualifiers and set up two-driver teams with the goal of making team racing more challenging and competitive. By the looks of the first team race, the format was very successful.

Second fastest qualifier, Abe Maddox and fifth-fastest qualifier, Eric Lane, were pitted against third-fastest qualifier, Jerry Pearson, and fourth-fastest qualifier Shaylin Maddox in the first team race:

Team Competition Points Summary
Track: SR3 Road Course Straight
Date: Sep-02-2023 11:30    Class: Viper V-SPEC SPEC RACER
Segment Length (laps): 10    Descr:
Team Name:	Cat People	Points
Team Members:	Jerry Pearson	75
	Shaylin Maddox(2)	64
	Total Team Points =	139
Team Name:	FastTrackers	Points
Team Members:	Abe Maddox(2)	76
	Eric Lane	67
	Total Team Points =	143

If the above results aren’t a good indicator of just how successful this racing format works, I’m not sure what is. Just 4-points decided the first team race, very close racing!

Team Race Finale

After successfully winning the first team race in the bracket, the Fastrackers team was pitted against the fastest qualifier and the slowest qualifier in the finale.

The finale should have been much closer but junior driver, Grace Maddox, drove a superb race, bagging a second-place and a third-place segment finish and 46 total laps, only 7 laps less than the second-fastest qualifier and her big brother, Abe Maddox– awesome!

Team Competition Points Summary
Track: SR3 Road Course Straight
Date: Sep-02-2023 12:07    Class: Viper V-SPEC SPEC RACER
Segment Length (laps): 10    Descr:
Team Name:	Fastrackers	Points
Team Members:	Abe Maddox(2)	66
	Eric Lane	62
	Total Team Points =	128
Team Name:	Silly Pickles	Points
Team Members:	Steve Stewart	96
	Grace Maddox(2)(2)	58
	Total Team Points =	154

Team Race #3

Not sure how we decided on the team structure for the last team race but we didn’t qualify. We only had four drivers after Team Maddox had to depart to tend to some other important things (picking up a couple of new kittens). We decided to change up the racing platform from Vipers to to MegaG+ F1 cars for the last race of the day.

This one was interesting with three drivers winning two segments each. However,  the “Donuts” team won four total. Eric Lane stepped up at the right time, winning two segments and sealing the deal with 74 of the team’s 156 total points.

Team Competition Points Summary
Track: SR3 Road Course Straight
Date: Sep-02-2023 12:54    Class: Mega-G+ 1.7 Support Class
Segment Length (laps): 15    Descr:
Team Name:	Dollars	Points
Team Members:	Jerry Pearson(2)	66
	Kevin Webster	60
	Total Team Points =	126
Team Name:	Donuts	Points
Team Members:	Steve Stewart	82
	Eric Lane	74
	Total Team Points =	156

So, what did the individual results look like on the day?

Place	Name	Laps	Points	Total Time
1	Eric Lane	183	203	1666.433
2	Steve Stewart	148	178	1159.493
3	Abe Maddox(2)	110	142	860.476
4	Jerry Pearson	57	75	449.013
5	Jerry Pearson(2)	82	66	812.677
6	Shaylin Maddox(2)	54	64	470.328
7	Kevin Webster	82	60	833.123
8	Grace Maddox(2)(2)	46	58	399.498

It pays to hang in there and run as many races as you can, way to go, Eric!

Something a little different and lots of fun. Thank you all for showing up and trying something new.

Okay, shut up and drive!