ARMS iRacing League: Week 12 - Cadillac & McLaren Cup @ Charlotte Motor Speedway

Welcome to the final race night of the series, our only oval track, and first night race!

Race #1 will be run under day light, but race #2 will be at night under the lights. Should be interesting!

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

My favourite thing about Charlotte is ... if you're doing poorly you can pull into the infield, park in front of the big screen, roll a big fatty and watch the show. Who would have thought that iRacing would include a virtual drive-in, HA!
"I'm Rick James, ja?"

Ha ha! You're living up to your name (and sponsor).

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

The series final! Going into it, Weatherbee had the championship locked up, but 2nd & 3rd was still up in the air. In fact, after race 1 of the night, there was only a 2 point difference between 2nd & 3rd. The final race of the night / series was the deciding one.

Also noteworthy is that race 1 marked Stacy's first win of the series, and he podium'ed race 2 as well!

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After deductions were applied for incidents, here's the final Points Standings:

Congrats to Brian Weatherbee for the championship win!

Thank you to all 17 participants who joined in the series. Hope you'll all join us for our next two series which start on Feb 01. I also plan to host a Week 13 Fun Event this Friday, Jan 25. Details to follow.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

I wondered to myself, what would the points standings look like if we had not deduced points for incidents?

To learn the answer, I threw all the numbers into a spreadsheet and here's the result. Only two drivers would have improved their standings:

Pos w/o inc.	Pos w/ inc.	Member Name	Points
1	1	Brian Weatherbee	394
2	2	Scott McIntyre	314
3	3	Paul Machan	289
4	4	Brian Gay	283
5	9	Stacy Chapman	189
6	6	Ryan Quinn	156
7	7	Ed Filek	137
8	8	Richard James	100
9	5	Ken MacKay	97
10	13	Nate Perron	30
11	10	Rejean LeBlanc	29
12	11	Shawn Gayton	12
13	12	Jeff Johnson	12
14	14	Cole Butcher	7
15	15	Tyler McEwan	4
16	16	Jason Rowe	4
17	17	Alvin Jobe	1

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

Some more data for the series as a whole...

Here's a graph showing the number of competitors per race. We peaked at 10 and had a low of 5. There seemed to be an upward trend with an instant drop over the holidays. Then a recovery followed by a drop off at the end, with several people bailing on the last oval race.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR