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2024 Racing Season Ends Without Drama

Happy Holidays!

Our final “official” race day of the season ended with just three races but not the drama expected.

Team Maddox: Abe and new Junior driver, Arlo Roland.

With the Junior and Sportsman categories pretty much settled going into the final race, the only points contest still up in the air was the Expert category. Aaron Castro and George Peters were just eight (8) points apart going into the final day of racing.

Unfortunately, George would come down with a cold after a grueling and crowded week at work and would make the right call to skip the final race. Of course, that left the Expert points leader, Aaron Castro, with a much less stressful day.

Race 1: MegaG+ Modifieds

We had also expected a fierce battle between Team Maddox driver, Shaylin Maddox and Team Fast Lane’s, Eric Lane. That battle seemed to get off to a roaring start in the day’s first race. Shaylin bested Eric by just four points in the MegaG+ Modified class, 40 points to Eric’s 36 points. Abe Maddox would finish the race with three 3rd place segment finishes and a win in the final segment, just ahead of a hard-charging Expert driver, Jerry Pearson. With that success, Team Maddox decided to pack in for the day and would not continue. Details

Place Name Laps Points Total Time
1 Aaron Castro 80 61 607.119
2 Jerry Pearson 79 58 513.648
3 Steve Stewart 76 58 607.263
4 Abe Maddox 72 49 523.955
5 Kevin Webster 74 46 645.044
6 Shaylin Maddox 69 40 619.259
7 Eric Lane 61 36 530.198
8 Arlo Roland 58 28 534.319
Jerry, Kevin, Abe, Arlo, and Eric.

Abe Maddox had a fantastic race, winning the final segment and placing 4th overall! Abe’s good friend, Arlo Roland, showed up with Team Maddox and got in an hour or so of practice just before the day’s first race. Arlo took to the various cars and racing quite quickly. Unfortunately, due to the rotation mix, Arlo only got to race directly against Abe in the final segment. Abe came in for his final rotation on the White lane and Arlo finished his rotation in the Blue lane. Arlo’s fastest lap was a 6.129 in the Orange lane. Based on his ear-to-ear grin during and after the race, we expect him to return to Stewart Raceway soon.

Race 2: Viper Super 7 GT40’s Team Forza IROC Set

With Team Maddox accomplishing their team objectives and calling it a day, the rest of us continued the program and started Race 2.

With all the points chases settled, it was all about just having fun and enjoying the always competitive racing with pretty much out-of-the-box cars.

These particular cars are fascinating. They drive like an L4 Viper V-SPEC but have L10 traction magnets. Everything feels great until they release the rails and hit things very hard. You have to know your limits and not go too far over. The RaceMasters GT40 hardbodies are beautiful!

Eric Lane blew out of the starting grid, clicked off two 3rds and a 2nd place finish in this one, and was constantly in the rearview mirrors of all who led the race. Ultimately, the Experts were fortunate to stay ahead of the hard-charging Sportsman driver. Details

Place Name Laps Points Total Time
1 Steve Stewart 80 61 520.077
2 Aaron Castro 80 53 522.537
3 Jerry Pearson 77 51 521.222
4 Eric Lane 71 42 530.944
5 Kevin Webster 67 28 527.117
Race 3: Viper V-SPEC “SPECSTOCK” Lexan

The final race of the day! This one was quite the barnburner. Every driver moved into 2nd place during this one, and all set some very high-speed laps.

Home Cook’n clicked off the fastest lap of the race at 4.720 in the White lane, Aaron Castro clicked off the next fastest lap at 4.787 in the Blue lane, and speedster Jerry Pearson clicked off a 4.804 in the White lane. Amazingly, no new track records were set. I’m sure things would have been different if George Peters had been in the mix. Details

Place Name Laps Points Total Time
1 Steve Stewart 80 64 476.556
2 Aaron Castro 78 53 482.049
3 Jerry Pearson 76 48 490.225
4 Eric Lane 68 38 476.035
5 Kevin Webster 67 32 487.768

Eric Lane hung in there against the Experts, finishing just off the podium in 4th against some seriously fast competition. Eric and Expert driver Kevin Webster were duking it out in the final segment for the 4th place position. Eric’s fastest lap was 5.277 to Kevin’s 5.252 fastest lap. Unfortunately, Kevin ran out of fuel, and Eric got enough points and laps to drop Kevin to the bottom of the leaderboard. Eric looks to be the dominate Sportsman driver going into the 2025 racing season.

Overall, it was a great day of racing and just hanging out. Thanks to everyone who brought things to share, especially Fast Lane Racing. The leaded and unleaded egg nog was excellent!

That’s it for the official 2024 racing season at Stewart Raceway. To close out the 2024 season (or open the 2025 season), we hope to open the tracks soon for a casual track day, a Potluck, and an end-of-season awards presentation. Stay tuned for a quick survey on the best Saturday to do it.

2024 Final Points Standings

Place Name Laps Points Total Time
Junior
1 Abe Maddox 726 292 4941.803
2 Matthew Johnson 387 124 2051.404
3 Madeline Johnson 233 113 2139.46
4 Arlo Roland 58 28 534.319
Sportsman
1 Eric Lane 1795 625 11500.96
2 Shaylin Maddox 610 237 3756.218
3 Jared Johnson 440 136 2057.271
4 Olga Rossetta 328 107 2805.608
5 Dave Feber 107 45 808.723
6 William Mansfield 112 42 830.412
7 Pam Ebert 77 32 695.404
Expert
1 Aaron Castro 4109 1868 26048.36
2 George Peters 3345 1581 23406.74
3 Kevin Webster 2778 1184 21778.82
4 Jerry Pearson 2466 1052 15666.05
5 Jordan Walker 1242 415 8073.09
Steve Stewart 4384 2137 27791.13

As always, thank you for supporting our racing program and being such a great group to race with and hang out with.

If I don’t see you again in 2024, Happy Holidays and New Year!

Okay, shut up and drive!

2024 IROC Champions Placed On Stewart Raceway Wall of Fame

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!!

2024 IROC Championship Track Records Set, Champs Crowned, Video Posted

– November 2, 2024 –

The 2024 IROC Championships were held on one day with four different races, including qualifying.

Qualifying Lap Records (MegaG+ 1.7 “Modified” IROC Set)
    1. Steve Stewart with a 5.755 lap in the White lane.
    2. Kevin Webster with a 6.284 in the Green Lane.
Race 1: (Team Forza MG+ 1.7 Camaros Lexan IROC Set)
    1. Steve Stewart with a 4.524 in the White lane.
    2. George Peters with a 4.595 in the Green lane.
 Race 2: (Viper-Jets Can Am Lexan IROC Set “SPEC-JET”)
    1. Steve Stewart with a 6.256 in the White Lane.
    2. George Peters with a 6.415 in the Blue lane.
Race 3: (Retro Vipers “Maximum Leeway” Lexan IROC Set)
    1. Steve Stewart with a 8.875 in the White lane.
    2. Aaron Castro with a 9.514 in the Green lane.
Race 4: (Eric Lane’s MG+ 1.7 “Scooby Doo” Vans IROC Set)

No new records. Fastest lap is Steve Stewart with a 5.519 in the Blue lane.

IROC Champs

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.

2024 Summer Extreme Series, Round 5 Finale

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.