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Week 30 Results
Week 30 recap of Season Championship and final race at Talladega
Congratulations to our season 3 champion NATE MARHEFKA! Nate collected 6 wins with an average finish of 5th for the season. He was pushed hard down the stretch by 9 race winner Kaz Grala and 2 race winner Jacob "sunshine" Wallace but Nate's consistency was tremendous down the stretch. Tje rest of the top 10 were 4 race winner Matty "Ice" Moermond in 4th, 2 race winner Tim Tokarsky in 5th, Brian Torrey in 6th, Paul Wallace in 7th, Chuck Fletcher in 8th, Brian Custer in 9th, and Lonnie Buttry in 10th. Other season 3 race winners were Chris Lawson, Chad Homan, Jon Marhefka, Mithc Marhefka (2 wins), Bryce Bailey and Todd Gilliland. That made 11 different winners in the 30 race season.
The Grand Finale. It's Talladega Baby!
Our final race of season 3 was the planned 94 lap, 250 mile superspeedway event that was extended by 2 G/W/C restarts to 102 laps. There were an unbelievable 43 lead changes amongst 13 different lap leaders but in the end Tim Tokarsky took the win ahead of Brian Custer by a scant 8 one hundreths of a second. Jacob Wallace, Paul Wallace and Kaz Grala rounded out the top 5, with Hunter Mottinger, Brian Torrey (who crossed the line first in a great move, but whose incident point count resulted in an iracing issued penalty), Mitch Marhefka, Nate Marhefka and Matt Moermond. What helped many of the racers in week 30 were the 2 available quick repairs which were afforded by the race length. What hurt many of these same competitors were their incident points and the resulting penalties. A race this this required patience, and a propensity to avoid contact. That certainly was the tale of the race.
Winner Tim Tokarsky
Pole Kaz Grala 50.398
Fast Lap Nate Marhefka 50.447
Lap Leaders: Tim Tokarsky (1), Jacob Wallace (3), Paul Wallace (7), Kaz Grala (32), Hunter Mottinger (2), Brian Torrey (9), Mitch Marhefka (11), Nate Marhefka (3), Matt Moermond (13), Luke Wiggins (14), Andrew Wiggins (4), Matt Ulmer (1), Jon Nichols (2),
The Naughty, Nice and All-Star List
Weekly Very Naughty List (15+ incident points in race)
2 Drivers
Kaz Grala 17
Matt Moermond 16
Weekly Naughty List (10-14 incident points in race)
9 Drivers
Hunter Mottinger 14
Brian Torrey 14
Mitch Marhefka 12
Jon Marhefka 10
Dick Penrod 12
Lonnie Buttry 14
Matt Ulmer 12
Jon Nichols 10
Mike Eden 14
Weekly Mostly Nice List (5-9 incident points in race)
7 Drivers
Tim Tokarsky 6
Brian Custer 5
Paul Wallace 5
Andrew Wiggins 8
Doug Henger 9
Lou Ansel 9
Evan Custer 5
Weekly Nice List (1-4 incident points in race)
2 Drivers
Jacob Wallace 2
Luke Wiggins 4
Weekly All-Star List (0 incident points in race)
0 Drivers
The Incident per Race Average (IPRA) for each truck by number (after week 30)
Truck Number I.P.R.A
1 8.25
2 6
4 8
5 8.
7 6.8
8 5
9 8.89
11 10.67
12 15
13 7.53
14 3.87
15 13.2
18 5.81
20 7.33
21 5
22 4.92
23 8.5
27 1.00
28 9.08
31 6.23
32 10.43
33 5.95
34 8.94
38 12
41 6.29
45 9.54
46 6.44
51 7.38
52 4.22
54 8
58 7.6
64 5.95
66 8.71
67 4.5
69 16
71 4.93
72 5.61
74 5.81
76 12
81 6.64
82 8.5
86 7.88
88 15
89 6
91 5.36
96
98 10
99 4.25
103 9.75
627 9.25
814 4.5
867 6.75
The Incident per Race Average (IPRA) Explained
The I.P.R.A. is calculated by adding up the number of incident points a driver earns during each race and divides it by the number of races they participate in separate from the road course races! This is the best indicator of a drivers ability to stay out of trouble.
What you need to know for the next race week
Summer Speedway Series Recruitment Races
Beginning June 2nd.
TBD
The iracing platform does a lot of things right, which makes for an awesome weekly race experience. However, it doesn't do everything right. One area that needs improvement relates to incident points, contact and damages. Once in a while, the most minor contact results in a "meatball", which in turn requires a visit to pit road. Also, we've all experienced the dreaded "net code". Netcode is when the iracing software incorrectly predicts a race vehicle's movement and creates contact with another vehicle or object. It happens, and we can't do anything about it. It's a rare glitch.
What we can do is not intentionally contact another vehicle in any area not completely straight. In other words, don't bump draft in the corners, do not bump draft thru the dog legs, and do not bump anyone out of the way, anywhere, ever. This will largely minimize accidents, minimize net codes, and minimize meatball events. DON'T BUMP AND RUN UNLESS YOU WANT IT RETURNED TO YOU. Pass them clean.
