General announcements and notices.
Our 2024 IROC Champs have finally been enshrined on our Wall of Fame.
Eric Lane placed fourth overall in our one-day IROC championship held on November 2, 2024. He was the only Sportsman driver in the field that day and earned his honors with a fantastic placing against a nearly all-expert field.
Expert driver, Aaron Castro drove aggressively all day and secured enough points to hold off the 2022 IROC Expert Champion George Peters.
Congratulations to our 2024 IROC Champs!!
– November 2, 2024 –
The 2024 IROC Championships were held on one day with four different races, including qualifying.
No new records. Fastest lap is Steve Stewart with a 5.519 in the Blue lane.
Expert Category: Home Cook’n
Sportsman Category: Eric “Fast” Lane.
A video of Qualifying and all four races can be found on Rumble.com here. Sorry, didn’t have time to post separate videos for each event. Sadly, no background sound was recorded, just the RMS audio.
Well, it’s taken us into the Fall, but we’re one round away from completing this incredibly competitive series.
Here are the points standings after four rounds:
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | George Peters | 764 | 349 | 5127.071 |
| 2 | Aaron Castro | 651 | 289 | 3974.74 |
| 3 | Jerry Pearson* | 576 | 231 | 4063.124 |
| 4 | Jordan Walker | 302 | 133 | 2894.16 |
| 5 | Eric Lane* | 296 | 104 | 2939.946 |
| 6 | Kevin Webster | 174 | 89 | 996.869 |
| 7 | Steve Stewart | 793 | 403 | 5113.704 |
* Sportsman Driver
Remember, the rules are such that each driver is scored on their four best appearances, which means that if you missed a round, you’re not necessarily out of the hunt for the series win.
It’s a bit of work for the Race Director, but we’re taking the best points from the four best race results for each driver to calculate the series winner. And, yes, Sportsman and Experts are scored separately. There is a Sportsman series winner, an Expert series winner, and, of course, a Junior winner. Oh, and remember, Home Cook’n doesn’t get awards or trophies. If you somehow come in second to him, you’ve still won the series!
With our new racing format, you don’t earn points unless you make the main (Feature) event. So, if you don’t see your name above, you either missed the first couple of rounds or didn’t make the main in subsequent rounds. Junior driver points will be picked separately by combining Qualifier race and Last Chance Qualifier race points for up to four rounds attended.
The final round will be on the SR3 oval course. We’ll run our latest race format but longer segments since we’re on the oval. We’ll also run fuel allocation for the Last Chance Qualifier race and the Feature event. I think the LCQ race will have 30-lap segments, and the feature race will have 45-lap segments. Fuel allocation will be announced on race day.
The weather is expected to be ideal, so leave your expensive cooled driver suits at home. We’ll only need two marshals for each race event, but please invite guests to drive, marshal, or be the Race Director.
Stay tuned for more details, the invite, and the schedule. I think we’ll run MegaG+ “Lites” at 20V. Comments and suggestions are welcome, of course.
Many of you have suffered from the SlotTrak bug that can occur during a yellow flag situation. As power is cut to the lanes, the software does not detect or register that you have entered the pits. When the track goes green, your car doesn’t refuel. This is very frustrating, of course.
I haven’t fully tested the latest version of SlotTrak because the Fuel Management feature didn’t work with those versions. However, their update documentation indicates they may have fixed this problem in one of the latest versions. We tried to run the latest on SR2 and SR3 several times, but the software did not detect pit entries, rendering the feature useless.
We’re currently running version 16.24. I plan to upgrade both SR2 and SR3 to version 17.34, which is currently the latest version available.
Kevin and I figured out after the racing last Saturday that this issue was caused by the latest version install, which seems to corrupt the TrackConfig file by removing the Pit Detection setup. Once we realized this was happening, we updated the TrackConfig file, and Boom! All was good!
So, the bottom line is that we’ll test the fuel management features during a future racing event and see if the latest version solves that pesky refueling problem most of us have experienced in the past. Let’s hope so!
I didn’t realize this was causing people to stop using our site or become concerned that the site was somehow potentially harmful.
All this means is that keystroke data going to/from the site is not encrypted via SSL [SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and its successor, TLS (Transport Layer Security), are protocols for establishing secure links between networked computers.]
StewartRaceway.org is not an eCommerce site. To utilize it, you do not enter private or sensitive financial or other information anywhere on the site, and it does not collect or store that sort of information.
Unless you’re concerned about a remote possibility that somebody out there may be able to capture the keystrokes your computer sends to the site when leaving a comment on the site, for example, there is no threat to you or your computer/network. This is no different than any other site you use that doesn’t utilize expensive SSL/TLS technology.
StewartRaceway.org can conduct eCommerce activities, but we don’t sell or buy anything on the site today. No financial or personal/private information is collected. If that changes, of course we’d employ SSL/TLS technology to make sure those transactions and associated data was secure and protected.
So, please don’t fret about this message. I don’t think Russians, government agents, or other bad guys are snooping around StewartRaceway.org. And if they were, all they’d find out is that we’re having a lot of fun racing little cars for no money!
Okay, shut up and drive!
