Okay, I finally updated the driver stats on the site. A few interesting metrics are available at the moment:
Driver average placing for both races and heats/segments, and driver’s total laps, for each track and layout.
Driver total race wins.
Driver total heat/segment wins.
I think I have a good system for doing this now so I should be able to keep this data updated going forward. Please let me know in the comments section below if you can think of any other interesting metrics to report. I’m no SQL guru but I love dinking around with this stuff.
So who’s the most prolific driver in our group? If you exclude our expert drivers, junior driver, Abe Maddox has the most race and segment wins.
The one race of the day podium: Jared Johnson, Abe Maddox, Madeline Johnson
For a holiday weekend, there sure wasn’t a shortage of racers available. Team Johnson showed up first and got in a bunch of laps before Team Maddox arrived to heat things even more.
Mostly hotlapping and practice with Madeline Johnson having the most laps in practice. As expected, the practice and hotlapping got a little boring and many wanted to do some actual racing. So we setup a race with all six drivers, full rotation, no fueling, and 20-lap heats.
With juniors and adults in this one, it was going to be a team race between Team Johnson and Team Maddox. Racing with juniors is always interesting, especially with this bunch. Team Johnson had two junior drivers, Team Maddox had two junior drivers. So, one adult driver and two junior drivers for each team.
To make it fairer, we set the max lane voltage to 12v instead of 15v. The juniors could decide what voltage they wanted to run. The younger juniors settled on 9 or 10v. It was an IROC race using Jag Hobbies Augoran TR-3 cars, only slightly modified cars but fast and stuck.
With only one marshal to support the whole track, we had quite a few yellow flag situations but it worked out pretty well and everybody finished!
Superstar Junior driver, Abe Maddox bursted into the lead early on, leading the race for the first two heats with Jared Johnson a very close second. In the third of six heats, Jared took over the lead in the race and kept it from then on. In the fifth heat, Abe seemed to have trouble and would lose six laps to Jared. After the first two heats it looked like the boys were going to dominate things with Abe, Jared, and Mathew Johnson comfortably in the top three spots.
Shaylin Maddox was having none of that and fought hard to get into third place through heats 3 and 5 and looked like she was certain to hang on to the final podium spot. In an amazing performance, Madeline Johnson would win the fifth and the final sixth heat, catapulting her ahead of Shaylin and bagging the final podium spot in a very hard-fought and chaotic race.
Wow! A very impressive performance by everyone. Very cool to see the junior drivers focus so well and take advantage of opportunities to improve their results.
In the end, even though he would finish the race with the hardest car and one of the hardest lanes (red), Jared remained focused on the task at hand and held onto his solid lead, taking the checkered flag ahead of hard-charging junior, Abe Maddox. Shaylin Maddox narrowly missed the podium by just one lap and one point.
Place
Name
Laps
Points
Total Time
1
Jared Johnson
115
85
1038.928
2
Abe Maddox
110
72
1049.459
3
Madeline Johnson
93
60
1055.91
4
Shaylin Maddox
92
59
1060.096
5
Matthew Johnson
61
38
1144.309
6
Grace Maddox
69
34
1073.986
Awesome track day! Thank you all for supporting Stewart Raceway, especially on a holiday weekend!
Next Saturday is round 4 of the 2023 50/50 Xtreme Series. Right now I don’t have enough confirmed RSVPs for round 5, so round 4 could be the finale, we’ll see what happens.
Since we have a new driver in the mix and we’ve changed the layout of SR3, I’ve updated the track records for both SR2 and SR3.
We also ran Round 5 of the last 50/50 series back in July on SR2, which resulted in several lap records being set or broken on the SR2 straight course layout.
When you’re testing and tuning, you can use this data to see where you are regarding lap times with a particular car or course layout. It’s a bit clunky but it works. Go to https://stewartraceway.org/track-records/ on your phone or other device and use the query bar to find a particular track record. Just type in “stewart raceway II (straight” for example to see lap records for SR2’s straight road course. I know, I need to work on the track naming to make this a lot easier.
The current Driver Statistics are also outdated. I’ll get those updated as soon as I can. I’m also working on a single table per track layout that lists the fastest laps on each lane.
If any of you are SQL query experts, please chime in, I’ll gladly let you have access to the databases to work on some other cool and helpful queries.
Below is a summary of the current points standings for all “official” racing to date for the 2023 racing season.
Who will take home the Season’s trophy?
Place
Name
Laps
Points
Total Time
1
Kevin Webster
2773
735
26066.3
2
Aaron Castro
1015
401
8840.121
3
Jordan Walker
1980
385
15915.75
4
Jerry Pearson
1511
336
14395.3
5
Eric Lane
1440
183
12701.97
6
Shaylin Maddox
637
173
4788.795
7
Abe Maddox
550
153
4541.577
8
Fred Ebert
189
79
1658.412
1
Steve Stewart*
3382
1202
26227.38
2
George Peters*
2753
705
18209.27
* Denotes Expert ranked drivers.
The trophies shown are not the actual 2023 trophies.
With just one or two more races possible this season, it looks like Sportsman points leader, Kevin Webster (Webster Motorsports), has a very good shot at the 2023 Season Championship trophy.
Based on his performance in Round 3 of the 50/50 Xtreme Series, Aaron Castro has a mathematical shot at the trophy. However, Kevin would have to miss at least one remaining round and Aaron would need another stellar day like he had in Round 3 to pull it off. I guess we’ll just have to see if we can complete one or two more rounds before the end of the year.
Jordan Walker, also a championship contender, is expected to miss at least the next round, which, unfortunately, will take him out of contention for the championship win.
Okay, shut up and drive!
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Driver average placing for both races and heats/segments, and driver’s total laps, for each track and layout.
Since we have a new driver in the mix and we’ve changed the layout of SR3, I’ve updated the 
Kathy and I wish all of you who participate in our racing program a very Happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful start to the Holiday Season!
Below is a summary of the current points standings for all “official” racing to date for the 2023 racing season.
