A shortened schedule, but some good fast racing.
Team Rowland debuted its new stable of MegaG+ 1.7 “F1/Indy” and Viper V-SPEC “Porche 917” cars in this series round. Judging by the smiles on their faces all day, they are enjoying their racing and eager to return to racing as soon as possible.
Race 1: Viper-Jet NAStruck Lexan (IROC)
Dave Rowland bagged the top Sportsman podium with a good run of 75 laps and 48 points. Team Maddox bagged the last two Sportsman podium spots, just one point and a few laps behind, despite both Abe and Shaylin each winning a segment outright. Unfortunately, an avoidable software glitch caused Expert’s George Peters and Aaron Castro to sit this race out. Details
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Steve Stewart* | 80 | 64 | 726.397 |
| 2 | Dave Rowland | 75 | 48 | 826.388 |
| 3 | Shaylin Maddox | 71 | 47 | 824.679 |
| 4 | Abe Maddox | 70 | 47 | 842.062 |
| 5 | Coe Rowland | 73 | 44 | 823.209 |
| 6 | Arlo Roland | 63 | 32 | 772.229 |
* Expert
Race 2: MegaG+ 1.7 Modified
A very close race in this class with Aaron winning a very close battle with George in the Expert ranks. Local Junior driver, Abe Maddox drove masterfully, taking 3rd overall and 1st in the Sportsman ranks. Dave Rowland just edged out Shaylin Maddox with a 1st in his final segment. A very close race in this one, as always. Details
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Aaron Castro* | 79 | 59 | 488.43 |
| 2 | George Peters* | 78 | 56 | 500.083 |
| 3 | Abe Maddox | 78 | 55 | 527.692 |
| 4 | Steve Stewart* | 79 | 53 | 531.205 |
| 5 | Dave Rowland | 74 | 45 | 548.616 |
| 6 | Shaylin Maddox | 75 | 38 | 546.348 |
| 7 | Arlo Roland | 62 | 38 | 517.27 |
| 8 | Coe Rowland | 68 | 32 | 568.431 |
* Expert
Race 3: Viper V-SPEC SPEC STOCK Lexan
It’s another always-close race. The Experts duked it out in this one, with George Peters bagging the top Expert podium with three segment wins. Abe Maddox had another great race, winning one segment outright and steadily placing well in each rotation, finishing 4th overall and 1st in the Sportsman class. Teammate Shaylin Maddox edged out hard-charging Dave Rowland for the second Sportsman podium spot. Details
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | George Peters* | 100 | 61 | 631.616 |
| 2 | Steve Stewart* | 99 | 59 | 579.94 |
| 3 | Aaron Castro* | 99 | 55 | 604.705 |
| 4 | Abe Maddox | 93 | 47 | 633.921 |
| 5 | Shaylin Maddox | 89 | 42 | 639.329 |
| 6 | Dave Rowland | 83 | 42 | 626.293 |
| 7 | Coe Rowland | 77 | 38 | 687.817 |
| 8 | Arlo Roland | 69 | 32 | 674.541 |
All in all, it was a good day of racing and a lot of fun. Thank you all for supporting our racing program and bringing some wonderful snacks to share with everyone. We’ll have to get Shaylin to bring some of her wonderful deviled eggs again, but this time, only share with Kathy if she does a race with us.
NOTE: In Race 1's Viper-Jet NAStruck race, a new lap record was set in the White lane by Shaylin Maddox, with a blistering 5.626 lap and 2nd overall in the segment. Junior driver Coe Rowland clicked off a new lap record for this car in the Green lane with a 7.374 lap.
Series Points Standings after Round 3:
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| Sportsman | ||||
| 3 | Abe Maddox | 443 | 325 | 1335.726 |
| 4 | Dave Rowland | 410 | 299 | NA |
| 5 | Coe Rowland | 465 | 297 | NA |
| 6 | Arlo Roland | 432 | 275 | NA |
| 8 | Shaylin Maddox | 347 | 221 | 751.357 |
| 9 | Jared Johnson | 169 | 142 | 1292.315 |
| 11 | Lucille Rowland | 76 | 47 | 544.134 |
| 12 | Matthew Johnson | 67 | 42 | 518.012 |
| 13 | Eric Lane | 66 | 40 | 498.861 |
| 14 | Cameron Bill | 50 | 32 | 411.714 |
| 15 | Madeline Johnson | 54 | 28 | 507.557 |
| Expert | ||||
| 1 | Steve Stewart | 427 | 366 | 1620.116 |
| 2 | George Peters | 416 | 349 | 2777.139 |
| 7 | Aaron Castro | 317 | 234 | 1961.979 |
| 10 | Jerry Pearson | 79 | 58 | 496.859 |
Hopefully, we can pull off Round 4 next weekend; we’ll see what happens. Round 5 will likely be an oval race on SR2 or SR3.
Okay, shut up and drive!
Round 2 of the 2025 50/50 Series was mainly a battle between Team Maddox and Team Rowland. We did three races (all IROC), and both teams duked it out with segment or race wins from almost every driver.
Local phenom Abe Maddox won three of his four segments to come from behind and win Race 1 by tying Home Cook’n on laps and points but with a total runtime of ~5 seconds faster. Team Rowland driver Dave Rowland had a strong showing in his second appearance at Stewart Raceway with a fourth-place finish just ahead of Team Maddox driver Shaylin Maddox in fifth-place. 
Team Maddox looked to be the dominant team early on in this one, leading the race through the first three segments. However, the two Experts in the mix had their own battle going on, and about halfway through the race, it became a battle for the last podium spot between Team Maddox and Team Rowland. In the end, Abe would win his final segment, putting Team Maddox on the podium in third place. The battle for the final podium spot was extremely close, with just two to three laps separating each driver. 
Okay, Round 2 of this series is in the books. We’ll see how next weekend shapes up and who’s available. Maybe we’ll do an oval day on SR2 or SR3; we’ll see.
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. 
With Team Maddox accomplishing their team objectives and calling it a day, the rest of us continued the program and started Race 2.
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.
With one more race day remaining in the 2024 season, the only contest appears to be in the Expert category. Aaron Castro (Team Forza) is just eight (8) points ahead of George Peters (GP Designs) for top 2024 honors.
Our 2024 IROC Champs have finally been