Yep, we video-recorded all four official races of Round 4. Could be a little boring since we didn’t have enough marshals to pull off a normal race, so there are a lot of yellow flags and other interruptions. However, you can fast forward, rewind, skip, whatever. The bottom line is you can learn a lot about reviewing how you did during a race.
The final race of the 50/50 Xtreme Series was decided by just one point and three laps. Our newest Sportsman driver in the mix, Aaron Castro, not only closed the deal on the series win today but also finished 2nd overall in Round 4, against two Expert drivers.
Short Story
Place
Name
Laps
Points
Total Time
1
Steve Stewart*
558
236
4327.801
2
Aaron Castro
544
182
4347.334
3
George Peters*
541
181
4459.477
4
Kevin Webster
507
149
4426.83
5
Jerry Pearson
273
98
2311.258
*Expert Driver
Race 1: Jag Hobbies NC-2 70′ Boss Mustang Hardbodies
Home Cook’n, George Peters, Aaron Castro
The Jag NC-2 chassis is a very serious racing platform. However, with these stock AutoWorld Super III bodies installed, they can be a bit unpredictable.
George Peters was on fire in Race 1 with three 2nd-place segment finishes and completing the race just eight seconds behind the race winner and on the same lap! Detailed Results
Place
Name
Laps
Points
Total Time
1
Steve Stewart
140
64
1352.88
2
George Peters
140
50
1423.44
3
Aaron Castro
136
47
1291.1
4
Jerry Pearson
134
46
1365.84
5
Kevin Webster
114
28
1384.37
Race 2: MegaG+ 1.7 “Modified”
Home Cook’n, Jerry Pearson, Kevin Webster
This car is the most competitive platform out there, by far. This race had three different segment winners, Jerry Pearson won two of the five segments!
In the end, Jerry Pearson finished on the same lap as the race winner and less than a fraction of a second behind. Way, way competitive racing! Detailed Results
Place
Name
Laps
Points
Total Time
1
Steve Stewart
139
53
945.131
2
Jerry Pearson
139
52
945.422
3
Kevin Webster
135
45
982.405
4
Aaron Castro
138
44
999.324
5
George Peters
134
41
976.465
Race 3: MegaG 1.7 Whelen/SK Modifieds (IROC)
Home Cook’n, Aaron Castro, George Peters
We just couldn’t get enough of the MG+ platform. This set was Box Stock 1.7 chassis’ with the new “paper” bodies. Again, very competitive. George Peters drove the wheels off his cars, winning two of the four segments and holding on to a 5-point lead over Aaron Castro going into the final segment. George was sitting in a very nice position going into the final segment, just one lap and one point behind the leader. In the end, George struggled with the Blue lane. At the same time, Kevin Webster came alive, besting George by only one lap but bagging the final podium spot and dropping George to a 4th-place finish, handing Aaron the points he needed to bag the 2nd-place podium spot. Again, way close racing with the MG+ platform. Detailed Results
Place
Name
Laps
Points
Total Time
1
Steve Stewart
139
55
1036.9
2
Aaron Castro
135
47
1042.257
3
George Peters
134
46
1039.166
4
Kevin Webster
128
40
1042.051
Race 4: Viper V-SPEC “SPEC STOCK” Lexan
The final race of the series, a very fast and very competitive class that is extremely competitive. This one was mostly a battle between Aaron Castro and George Peters, both bagging two 2nd-place segment finishes. In the end, George, after a couple of bad heats was five points behind Aaron going into the final segment. George needed a great segment and some luck. Aaron would finish fourth in the segment and George would finish in 2nd-place, three laps up on Aaron but tied in points. Aaron would take the 2nd-place podium spot with a 6-second better total run time. Detailed Results
Place
Name
Laps
Points
Total Time
1
Steve Stewart
140
64
992.894
2
Aaron Castro
135
44
1014.65
3
George Peters
133
44
1020.408
4
Kevin Webster
130
36
1018.002
So, there you have it. The 2023 50/50 Xtreme Series is in the books. Sportsman driver, Aaron Castro wins it over hard-charging Kevin Webster in the final round. Great driving by our newest member and congrats on the series win!
2023 50/50 Xtreme Series Final Overall Standings
Place
Name
Laps
Points
Total Time
1
Aaron Castro
1559
583
13187.46
2
Kevin Webster
1532
491
15719.91
3
Jerry Pearson
634
244
8530.101
4
Eric Lane
339
112
6219.998
5
Shaylin Maddox
214
76
1574.672
6
Grace Maddox
82
45
716.313
7
Abe Maddox
81
42
789.937
1
Steve Stewart*
1782
820
15347.45
2
George Peters*
1337
469
9458.514
3
Jordan Walker*
141
75
2213.675
*Expert
Okay, that’s it for now. Stay tuned for details on next Saturday’s Kid’s Race and 2023 Season Awards Presentations. We may do some team racing with qualifying and combining the fastest with the slowest on each team, we’ll see. Just a fun day at the track regardless.
Yeah, we thought we had enough to make it official but a couple of teams didn’t make the start. Nevertheless, four of us (and later three) made the best of the ready-to-go SR3 “Fast Esses” road course and clicked off seven “unofficial” races on the day!
I won’t bore you with the details but we stuck to magnet cars and had a blast racing until just after 7:00 PM.
Jag NC-2’s with AW Mustang bodies – Home Cook’n, Jerry Pearson, Aaron Castro (IROC)
MG+ 1.7 Modifieds – Home Cook’n, Aaron Castro, Jerry Pearson
Home Cook’n, Aaron Castro, Jerry Pearson – Viper V-SPEC “SPEC STOCK” Lexan
Wizzard Storm P3’s – Home Cook’n, Aaron Castro, Kevin Webster
Late Model Dirt Cars (440X2 wide-pans) – Home Cook’n, Aaron Castro, Kevin Webster
The venerable MG 1.5 with GT-40 hardbodies – Home Cook’n, Aaron Castro, Kevin Webster
Webster Motorsports MG+ 1.7 1970 Camaros – Home Cook’n, Aaron Castro, Kevin Webster
All of these cars were awesome to race and only Kevin had a bad heat because of car/controller issues. Racing was very close in all events and the two Sportsman drivers certainly gave Home Cook’n a run for his money all day.
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.
Driver average placing for both races and heats/segments, and driver’s total laps, for each track and layout.