Comments on: Professional Sim Racing (for non-Aliens)

By: Mark Royer

Mark Royer — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:29:01 +0000

We’re planning the next Short Track Thunder event to occur near the end of July or the beginning of August – depending on WRN broadcasting availability.

This time we’ll be driving late models at the newly released Thompson. So, keep your eyes peeled as I’ll be opening signups soon. This one is going to be awesome short track fun and we’ll have two STPC Heats (for STPC drivers) and two Open Heats that any iRacing subscriber is welcome to sign up for.

Can you make it into the feature???

-Mark R.

By: Mark Royer

Mark Royer — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:23:27 +0000

Thanks Ryan for a fun recap of your experiences that night. It was a heck of a time, in my opinion, and I think most drivers will agree. A little heavy on cautions at times, but I think mostly from hard driving and an unfortunate controversy at the end – but hey, what local short track doesn’t deal with those issues every week!

Full results here: http://www.danlisa.com/scoring/season_schedule.php?season_id=291

Here’s the post race recap I wrote:

Jeremy Davis takes Feature in Spring Short Track Internationals
May 31th, 2010 – Mark Royer

Last Sunday Short Track Pro Cup (STPC) hosted the first of a series of webcast, heat-feature styled events. The event, the Spring Short Track Internationals, was presented by O’Neil PC Systems. All iRacing subscribers were invited to participate. Fifty-six drivers took the green in four heats. From the heats and a last chance qualifier, twenty-five drivers transferred to the feature event. The feature and all heats, excepting the first from a technical/scheduling snafu, were webcast by WRN. Both individual and team competitions were held.

Four drivers qualified directly for the feature by having won an STPC sanctioned series in 2010-Season-1. Toby Jenkins won the Premier Pro Cup division and the Modifieds series. Andrew Hill for winning the Pro Cup B division, Jason Saltsman the Pro Cup C division and finally Jeremy Davis from the Late Model-East series.

Four drivers from each of the four heats transferred directly into the feature. The next six from each heat got one more shot at the feature in the last chance qualifier. Heat 1 of 11 cars was taken by Richard Shomer. Heat 2 started 13 cars and it was Blake Brown who took the checkers. Rockin’ for Madison Heat 3 saw Camaron Manis in victory lane in front of 13 other cars and in Heat 4 Tony Dugan got top honors in a 15 car field.

A mere 25-laps of the last chance qualifier presented by AAMCO of Ft. Walton Beach, separated 22 drivers from the feature with only five drivers escaping the clutches of elimination. Joshua Guiher took top honors and secured his place in the final event.

All drivers who failed to make the feature were invited to take part in a consolation race which saw 15 drivers take the green and Jacob Guiher (Joshua’s brother) receive the checkers.

The feature was a hard-fought, 150-lap battle among some of the best short track drivers on the internet. But, after 11 lead changes between 6 drivers, it was Jeremy Davis who snagged a controversial victory under caution. View all the excitement building to the dramatic conclusion on WRN.

Staple Web Design awarded the design of a new website to Jenkins Motorsports, the winning team of Toby Jenkins, Blake Brown, Darrell McKee and Camaron Manis.

-Mark Royer
stpcAdmin@comcast.net

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:39:33 +0000

Great article Ryan, the STPC event we ran was a lot of fun. When I read that you wrote “So I went from seventh to fifth with eight laps to go. Unfortunately, my tires were pretty much shot at that point and I needed a mistake from the driver ahead of me in order to transfer to the main event. Instead, the driver behind me made the mistake,”, I laughed, as it was me you were referring to. Hope to race against you again

Anyway, I’d like to add that we run more than the once-in-a-while Short Track Thunder races. We run the Pro Cup divisions (Premier, Div. B, Div. C), all late models, on Sundays that are based on your iRating, plus the Late Model East on Tuesdays, Triad Sk Modifieds on Wednesday, and we just added an Indy league that runs on either Thursdays or Fridays… I don’t remember. If you’re interested in joining the STPC, you can contact me on the iRacing boards or through the STPC site, or contact Mark Royer. http://www.stprocup.com. Registration is easy and you can run any combination of the divisions, personally I run all of the Late Model series and the Modifieds. It’s the most fun I have on iRacing.

Matt Menghi
Pro Cup Premier admin

By: Ryan Terpstra

Ryan Terpstra — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:11:52 +0000

Alex I will have to try that sometime. Matthew Voight is someone I talk to regularly and he said the same thing after reading the article. I’d be happy to try out your series and write an article about it.

By: alex ulleri

alex ulleri — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:44:07 +0000

Great article. I can vouch that Mark runs a great league at STPC. Best oval racing league out there. If your looking for road racing take a look at the SSCA. http://www.sscarace.com

Mixed class racing going on right now with other great series coming at the start of next season.

Can’t wait to see what iRacing has coming up the pipe for league admins.