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Latest Site News
Updated 11/20/2007
The 2007 Champ Car World Series data is now online.
That brings the site completely up to date for all of the various series covered
this year. The next project will involve the early years. I've been
going through the New York Times online archive, and have found a bunch of
information regarding nonqualifiers, relief drivers, biographical data and other
items from throughout the series' first dozen years or so. There won't be
one mass update, I'll just gradually update the info as I go.
Updated 10/28/2007
A major update has been posted today regarding the 1946
season. This one will need a little background info. The series went
on hiatus during 1942-1945 because of World War II. When racing resumed in
1946, the AAA was concerned that that there may not be enough available cars or
tracks to run a proper season, with everything having sat empty for four years.
The decision was made to include all AAA races, both Champ Car and sprint car,
in the National Championship. That way they could ensure having enough
cars and races for a proper season. As it turned out their fears were
unfounded, as there were six Champ Car races, and while fields were sometimes
slim there were enough cars. The sprint car series was extremely healthy,
with a whopping 72 races run. That meant the 1946 season consisted of 78
points paying races. Seeing there was obviously no need to combine the two
series into one championship, they were split back up for 1947.
For whatever reason the fact that the sprint car races
were a part of the 1946 championship was largely forgotten. In the future,
when people were reconstructing the 1946 season they assumed, reasonably, that
the season just consisted of the six Champ Car races. It's only been
recently that the actual facts of the 1946 season have reappeared. There
is some excellent reading
here
if you'd like to learn more about the season, and some results and items of
interest posted
here
as well.
This site has now been updated to include the sprint car
races from 1946, since they were a part of the National Championship. A
lot of the data is incomplete, there's still quite a bit of work to be done, but
at least it's a start. Because of the incomplete nature of it, it doesn't
fit very well into the tables. I've updated the
Page Keys section with
some information on how some of the data is displayed.
Updated 10/12/2007
Nothing big here, just a progress report. One thing I'm
finally taking care of is page formatting. Some of the driver pages have
some odd spacing and such, that's because of how they were originally put
together way back in the beginning of the site. I'm going through and
fixing things up so they'll look better. So far all of the season pages
have been fixed, and driver pages for drivers with last name starting in A-E.
I'll also fix the race pages as well. There's no timetable on this, you'll
just gradually see the pages appear. Also, I'm working on a big update for
the 1946 season. Hopefully that will be complete by mid-November. If
it isn't it won't go online until December at the earliest. The Champ Car
season ends November 11, and at that point full attention will go to getting the
2007 CCWS data online.
Updated 9/23/2007
The 2007 IRL data is now online.
Updated 9/14/2007
The 2007 Indy Pro Series data is now online.
Updated 8/19/2007
The 2007 Champ Car Atlantic data is now online.
Updated 7/4/2007
Happy Birthday! ChampCarStats.com turns 3 years old
today!
Updated 6/14/2007
The Super Vee section is now online.
Updated 5/28/2007
Thanks to Virginia Curulla for information on Charles Latta
and the Tacoma races, as well as Simmo Iskül for his recent contributions.
Updated 5/21/2007
Thanks to Rich, sorry don't have your last name, for his
contributions on the 1953 NASCAR season.
Updated 5/16/2007
First, thanks to the site's newest sponsor, Ingrid
Irby, for her sponsorship of
Katherine
Legge's page. Also, the basic pages for the early Atlantic series
years (1974-1990) are now online.
Updated 5/1/2007
The Atlantic section has been updated with C2 class results
now added.
Updated 4/21/2007
I've added a large batch of nonstarters and nonfinishers from
the Pikes Peak races.
Updated 4/3/2007
Big update today, as another section has been finished.
Just in time for the start of the season, the Champ Car Atlantic stats from
1991-2006 are now posted! You can find that section
here.
Now that I have that online, the next project is, well,
more work on that section. I'm going to go back through and sort out all
of the data for the C2 class from the years the series included it (1994-97, 99,
2004-05). I still have a lot of work to do in gathering data for the early
years of Atlantic from 1974-1990, so don't expect to see that anytime soon.
What I will do is put up a list of race winners and points standings from those
seasons to serve as a place holder until I can get the full data together, but I
have no idea when that will be. I'll do the same for the Super Vee
section, since I don't have full results there either, at least for the SCCA
series (1971-1990). I do have full results for the USAC Mini-Indy series,
USAC's version of Super Vee that ran from 1977-1980, so I can at least put that
all together. There's no timetable on any of this since there's no real
pressing need to finish it quickly, plus there are other things I'm working on
as well.
Updated 2/21/2007
The non-points section has been further updated today.
Updated 2/18/2007
I've added a slew of Indianapolis nonqualifiers from the '50s
and '60s over the past few days.
Updated 2/8/2007
I'd like to start with a few acknowledgements. Thanks
to Rick Kelly of The Motorsport Memorial,
www.motorsportmemorial.org, for
his contributions. Thanks to Bob Papworth for his help with the Atlantic
section. And thanks again to Dick Cole for more non-points race info.
About the Atlantic section, progress is coming quicker
than I expected. I still doubt I'll have it ready for the start of the
season, but I think I'll have it finished at some point during April after all,
so I'm planning on posting it as soon as it's finished instead of waiting until
after the season in August.
Updated 1/24/2007
I've got a number of things to go through today. First,
a big thanks again to Richard Cole. He's provided information on a whole
batch of non-points races from 1929-1946. I'd like to thank Gene Crucean,
who was kind enough to give this site a mention in his upcoming book about Champ
Cars. I'll have more details about its release later this year. And lastly a status report on
the Atlantic section. I hit a snag in trying to reconcile points tables.
I've got things worked out for the most part, but that delay, as well as taking
a break for the holidays, means that I have no chance of getting that section
finished before the start of this year's Atlantic season. It was a bit of
a long shot to have it done that quick anyway, but this clinches it. So
that section will in all likelihood not go online until the conclusion of this
upcoming season. It doesn't make much sense to post everything in July if
I'm going to have to redo part of it in August. So don't expect that
section to come online until late August or early September.
Updated 1/7/2007
Thanks to one of the site's readers, Richard Cole, for
helping expand the results of the non-points race at Milwaukee in 1938.
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