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Latest Site News
Updated 12/8/2005
The non-championship race section has some more info added. Thanks
to one of the site's readers, Gerrit Stevens, for providing some help there.
The next project to be tackled is an adjustment of the data for 1920. This
is the year with the oddball disputed championship, where two different versions
have been used over the years. I believe there is enough evidence now to
show that the original five race season, with Gaston Chevrolet as champion, is
the true result, as opposed to the 10 race season where Tommy Milton was
named champ. As a result, the five extra events from 1920 will now be
considered non-championship events, and all data will be adjusted to reflect
this change. If you're interested you can follow the debate and the
evidence displayed
here.
Updated 12/4/2005
The stats by country section now has a new addition. There is a
link on each country's page leading to a table of national record holders.
It's basically a compilation of the blue numbers you see in the driver pages.
Going through and getting the numbers together in one place like that also let
me correct a number of errors that had crept into the driver pages regarding
national records.
Updated 11/28/2005
Another addition to the Record Book section. The Other Champions
link now has a section on the history of the Vanderbilt Cup.
Updated 11/23/2005
Small addition to the Record Book section today. I've added two
more sets of overall rankings. One is for purely Champ Car results.
It removes the NASCAR Speedway Division, USAC Gold Crown, 1905 AAA Championship
and IRL numbers and leaves only actual official Champ Car races. The other
is for modern era Champ Car results (1979-present). It's basically a
compilation of CART and CCWS numbers, since the media has a habit of throwing
those statistics together. They're in the Full Rankings column, under the
links Strictly Champ Car and Modern Era Champ Car.
Updated 11/15/2005
All done! All 2005 data is now posted.
With that now finished, it means that for the first time in years I don't have
any major project in the works. I've got a couple of smaller things I'm
working on that will be added to the site in the next month or so, but as of now
there are no more major sections to be added. (11/14) More and more pages are up. The remainder of
the 2005 data should be online within the next couple of days. (11/11) A note on the driver pages, which went up today.
The overall and national records (the red and blue numbers) on those pages are
not yet updated. I won't have that done until I have the records section
done. That should be finished within the next week. All other info,
including the 2005 stats, on the driver pages is accurate and up to date.
(11/9) A few more sections have been updated today.
(11/6) With the season ending this weekend, the 2005 data will start to
come online. The updates will start to appear as soon as
Sunday night. It
will take some time to get everything up, there's a lot of data from the season
and a lot of pages to be updated. Below is a checklist of all the items to
be updated, items will be crossed off here as they are put on the site.
2005 race pages
2005 season pages
Chassis data
Country pages
Engine data
Individual driver pages & extended driver stats
Records and rankings
State/province pages
This day in history
Track pages & extended track stats
Updated 10/29/2005
It took a while, but it's finally finished. The new, revamped
chassis and engine section is now online.
Updated 9/27/2005
You'll notice in the chassis & engine section that the "Years Active"
column has been removed. I'm in the process of revamping this section, and
in going through things I noticed a number of errors in that column for the
chassis manufacturers. Some made no sense at all, such as a chassis that
ran in 1911 being listed as running in 1983. Since the section is being
redone anyway, I've pulled that column for the time being. Not sure how
the errors crept in, but they'll be corrected when the revamped data goes
online.
Updated 9/22/2005
The non-championship race section has gone through a big update.
First, results for races at Milwaukee (1948), Williams Grove (1949) and
Arlington (1949 & 1950) are now online. Thanks to Dave Read for providing
these results. A pair of preliminary events run at Indianapolis before the
points paying fall race in 1916 have been added. And a pair of races have
been "downgraded" to non-championship status. Sounds odd, I know.
First is one of the Beverly Hills events from 1920. 1920 is a bit of a
garble anyway, with some races counting or not counting depending on which
version of the 1920 season you accept, the 5 race or the 11 race version.
This is one of the extra races making up the 11 race version. Odd thing
is, when the series was revised to 11 races, points still weren't awarded for
this event. Probably an oversight (and a good example of why results
shouldn't be tinkered with years afterward). Since the race didn't award
points for either version of the 1920 championship, it simply didn't make sense
to include it with the full points paying races. The other one, the second
San Carlos event from 1922, is much more cut and dried. It's inclusion has
always been suspect, and I've seen enough sources not include the event in the
1922 standings that I'm fully satisfied it's purely a non-points event.
Updated 9/3/2005
Points standings for the 1953 NASCAR Speedway Division are now posted.
Thanks to Geoff Untiedt for providing the info.
Updated 9/2/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with W, Y and Z. That's
all of them! Next up will be reformulating the data to put together the
new and improved chassis & engine section.
Updated 8/31/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with V.
Updated 8/30/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with U.
Updated 8/27/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with T.
Updated 8/24/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with S.
Updated 8/23/05
A handful of new bits of info has been added or updated throughout the
site. Thanks to a few readers - Don Capps, Gert Jansen and Simmo Iskül -
for the information.
Updated 8/22/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with R.
Updated 8/11/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with P or Q.
Updated 8/9/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with O. Also, I've finally
been able to confirm that the last season USAC included dirt races in the Gold
Crown series was 1983/84. After that the series consisted of Indianapolis
only.
Updated 8/5/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with M.
Updated 8/3/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with N.
Updated 8/1/2005
A new feature has been added to the season pages. At the bottom of
each page are columns marked Debuts and Farewells. Every driver who made
his first or last appearance that season will be listed. Please note it
does go by first or last appearance, not first or last start, DNQs are factored
in.
Updated 7/20/2005
Driver links
are now complete for all season pages.
Updated 7/19/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with L.
Updated 7/15/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with K.
Updated 7/8/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with J.
Updated 7/7/2005
Biographical details have been added and updated for nearly 60 drivers
today.
Updated 7/6/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with I. Massive update, I
know.
Updated 7/4/2005
Happy Birthday! ChampCarStats.com went live 1 year ago today!
Thanks to all the visitors who have enjoyed the site, I'm looking forward to
many more birthdays to come.
Updated 7/1/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with H. Also, driver links
on the season pages are complete for all years post-WWII (1946-2004).
Updated 6/22/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with G.
Updated 6/15/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with F.
Updated 6/3/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with D.
Updated 5/30/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with E.
Updated 5/20/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with C. Also here's a
progress report on some other ongoing projects. The task of linking
drivers off the season pages, which got shoved to the background for awhile, is
seeing some work again. 1979-2004 is now finished. A number of
biographical updates have been and are being added. And a slew of
non-qualifiers have been discovered. DNQ info seems to be spotty at best,
sometimes the non-qualifiers were reported in recaps or race stories, sometimes
they weren't, so new stuff pops up from time to time. In the past 3 months
or so I've uncovered around 25 non-qualifiers not previously listed. Add
in the drivers from the 1905 series recently added to the site and the rookies
from this season and the roster of drivers has grown by about 50 in the past few
months. For the record the count currently stands at 2077.
Updated 5/7/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with B.
Updated 4/23/2005
The extended driver pages have been updated with chassis and engine
stats for all drivers with a last name starting with A. Also, I've posted
this in the Page Keys section but I'll repost it here to help explain one part
of the tables:
In the chassis and engine sections
of the extended driver stats pages there is a situation similar to the main page
where the DNS/Q totals may not add up the same. This is because there are
instances where a driver has appeared at a race with two or more different
chassis or engines. Here is an example:
|
-- |
7/4/1951 |
Darlington |
PO |
AAA |
59 |
Granatelli Bardahl |
Kurtis 3000 |
Offy |
-- |
-- |
-- |
DNS, too slow |
|
--/ |
7/4/1951 |
Darlington |
PO |
AAA |
63 |
Ray Brady |
Schroeder |
Offy |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Did not qualify |
In this case, the driver missed the field in both
a Kurtis and a Schroeder chassis. Each chassis will be assigned a DNS/Q in
the extended stats, so it will add up to two misses on that table, even though
it was only one actual DNS/Q. In the engine table Offy has one DNS/Q
assigned to it, since it doesn't make sense to double count the same miss.
Here's another example:
| 175 |
4/27/2002 |
Motegi |
PO |
CART |
26 |
KOOL |
Lola |
Honda |
3 |
19 |
84 |
Mechanical |
|
| --/ |
4/27/2002 |
Motegi |
PO |
CART |
26 |
KOOL |
Reynard |
Honda |
-- |
-- |
-- |
Did
not qualify |
In this situation, Reynard is assigned a DNS/Q,
even though the driver did start the race, because he did not make the field in
the Reynard. Honda does not receive a DNS/Q for that miss because the
driver did start the race in another Honda powered entry.
Updated 4/16/2005
Chassis and driver breakdowns have been completed and added to the
extended driver stats pages for all active drivers, except of course new drivers
for 2005 since they have no race data. I'll probably put the updated pages
online in small groups instead of waiting for one big update at the end just to
get the information out there as quickly as possible.
Updated 4/12/2005
Another new item up today, I've added in the 1905 AAA National
Championship data. I debated a bit as to whether I should include it,
since technically it's not Champ Car. However it can be considered a
direct predecessor to the series, since Champ Car started out as the AAA
National Championship, or at least the Championship division in the early years
when they didn't actually assign points and determine a champion. Plus
I've already set precedent for including series that are closely related to
Champ Car such as the NASCAR Speedway Division, the USAC Gold Crown dirt races
and the IRL. So I've put it in. Also there are a batch of new DNQs
added in that I've recently turned up. Reporting on non-qualifiers has
always been a bit ragged, sometimes you get a full listing and sometimes there's
no mention, so the more I dig the more that keeps popping up.
Updated 4/8/2005
There is some new information posted in the non-championship section.
I've come across a bundle of non-points races from 1918-1941.
Unfortunately all I have for now are race winners, getting full results will be
difficult.
Updated 4/5/2005
Big update, finally finished the project I have been working on.
On each driver page you'll now see a link that says "Extended driver stats".
When you click it, you'll see results broken down track by track for every
driver. You'll be able to see how your favorite driver performed at each
track he appeared at. Once I got the driver by driver results done for
each track it was just a matter of reformatting the data to use for drivers.
You'll also see two separate headings underneath for chassis and engine.
That's the next big project. I'll be doing chassis and engine breakdowns
for each driver. After that is done I'll then take the data and do a
driver by driver breakdown for each chassis and each engine. The chassis
and engine section is really lagging behind the others as far as quality of
data, I want to get that caught up. This won't be finished anytime soon,
after all it took months to do the track data, but it's going to be the main
project for now.
Also, if you decide to sponsor a driver page, you will now
receive both the regular stats page and the extended stats page.
That's 2 pages for the price of 1!
Updated 3/13/2005
Big update posted today. A lot of the information for 1982, both
the CART and USAC seasons, has been updated. The dirt races, while not
complete, are covered much better than previously. There's mostly DNQ
information added for the other races in 1982. Also was able to add
biographical details for a whole batch of drivers.
Updated 3/2/2005
Nothing big here, just a progress report.
I'm a little behind on the current project I thought would be posted by now.
Partly it's because I've had to do some reformatting work, partly because I've
just been a little short on time. It will be up later this month.
Updated 1/20/2005
I've just finished a big update regarding the 1982-83 USAC Gold Crown
season. I've finally found the official standings, and have been able to
correct the information that was previously posted here. All of the data
throughout the web site has been corrected and updated. Also, I've found
that the concept of running dirt car races as part of the USAC National
Championship continued for at least another year. There was one dirt race
in 1983 that counted towards the 1983-84 Gold Crown. So now I'm trying to
find out just how long they kept doing that. I solve one mystery and
stumble into another! The 1983-84 Gold Crown info has now also been added
to the site.
Updated 1/3/2005
Biographical details have been updated for a good number of drivers today.
Special thanks to one of the site's readers, Simmo Iskül, for his help on this
one.
Updated 12/30/2004
I managed to get the latest project done ahead of schedule. The new
expanded track stats are now posted. Each track now has a link to driver
by driver statistics. These give the full driver rankings at each
track. You can see an example here.
The next phase of this project will be up as I said before in about a month or
two. I'm looking forward to getting that posted, it will be another big
add-on to the site.
For previous updates from 2004 click here.
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