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Last month, EKN introduced a new monthly update from the pages of Super Kart Illustrated - the SKI Driver Rankings. This month shows a shake up in the ICC division with Kyle Wiegand taking over the #1 spot over Alex Speed with a sweep at the Jacksonville Stars event along with another victory at Shawano. In the ICA fight, Helmet Sanden continues to hold on to the top spot though many drivers are on deck to try and knock him down.
The SKI Driver Rankings package was carefully designed to take the many different variables into consideration in an effort to properly weigh each individual event based on field size, field strength and national importance. The following is an explanation of how the points are calculated:
The SKI Driver Rankings are calculated using a driver’s best finishes in major North American races. Assembled using events from the last 12 months, we use a driver’s top seven finishes in ICC to determine their overall current point total. The top five as used for ICA due to the lower number of available events. With each new month, results from the previous year are discarded. To deliver this current ranking list, we tabulated the results of all the WKA Manufacturer’s Cup (East and West) and the Snap-on Stars of Karting national events run over the last 12 months. We have also included the results for the major one-off events such as the Rock Island Grand Prix, SKUSA King of the Streets, Black Rock Summer Shootout and the SKUSA SuperNationals.
Each race was initially weighted based on the prestige and history of the event or series with a score of 10 being the highest attainable base ranking. For 2005, the Stars of Karting Race of the Americas and the SKUSA SuperNationals are the only events to receive a score of 10 in their initial weighting. The Stars of Karting national series events draw a base ranking of 9 while the WKA Manufacturer’s Cup races were given a base ranking of 8.
Added to these initial rankings are two variables that help confirm the true importance of an event to the ranking process – field size and field strength. A percentage of one weighting point is added for the size of the field while the number of existing top 50 drivers entered offers another fraction of a point. The sum of these numbers becomes the overall ranking for any race.
Following a race, drivers receive points based on their finishing positions with 100 points earned for a win. Each subsequent position drops by one point with 99 points given to the second place driver and so on throughout the field. These points are then multiplied by the overall ranking to produce a driver’s final point total from each event. Using a driver’s best seven races for ICC and the best five for ICA, we calculate each driver’s overall score and subsequent ranking.
ICC Driver Rankings – as of July 26, 2005
| Rank | Driver | Races | Score| 1. | Kyle Wiegand | 14 | 7411 | | 2. | Alex Speed | 11 | 7353 | | 3. | Jason Bowles | 11 | 7324 | | 4. | Wesley Boswell | 16 | 7109 | | 5. | Alan Rudolph | 13 | 7099 | | 6. | Jan Velez-Walter | 9 | 7047 | | 7. | Keith Spicer | 9 | 6971 | | 8. | Gary Carlton | 9 | 6953 | | 9. | Ron White | 8 | 6895 | | 10. | Josh Schreiber | 15 | 6891 | | 11. | Phillippe Gelinas | 9 | 6844 | | 12. | Tad Funakoshi | 7 | 6829 | | 13. | Ryan Yop | 9 | 6789 | | 14. | Logan Gomez | 14 | 6755 | | 15. | Troy Hottmann | 10 | 6733 | | 16. | Daniel Morad | 8 | 6698 | | 17. | Joe White | 10 | 6663 | | 18. | Collin Lynn | 8 | 6589 | | 19. | John Zartarian | 9 | 6547 | | 20. | Nick Maddison | 16 | 6469 | | 21. | Ryan Phinny | 7 | 6412 | | 22. | Sean Noonan | 10 | 6403 | | 23. | Juliana Chiovitti | 9 | 6397 | | 24. | Jake Thompson | 7 | 6365 | | 25. | Alexander Rose | 7 | 6319 | | 26. | Ryan Kinnear | 8 | 6317 | | 27. | Tom Cadieux | 8 | 6288 | | 28. | Lorenzo Mandarino | 7 | 6163 | | 29. | Nicholas Halen | 7 | 6068 | | 30. | Marc Elliott | 7 | 6058 | | 31. | Chris Kuenning | 11 | 6020 | | 32. | Rene Silva | 10 | 5800 | | 33. | Bobby Wilson | 6 | 5748 | | 34. | Ashley Betts | 7 | 5628 | | 35. | AJ Noud | 6 | 5600 | | 36. | Jonathan Vitolo | 8 | 5578 | | 37. | Adam Kretschmer | 7 | 5564 | | 38. | AJ Whisler | 6 | 5319 | | 39. | Jonathan Allen | 6 | 5296 | | 40. | Chris Jackson | 6 | 5253 | | 41. | Matt Jaskol | 5 | 5106 | | 42. | Shane Terrel | 7 | 5037 | | 43. | Colin Snyder | 6 | 4945 | | 44. | Christopher Miller | 6 | 4910 | | 45. | Richard Boake | 6 | 4901 | | 46. | Scott Rettich | 6 | 4898 | | 47. | Darren Elliott | 5 | 4836 | | 48. | Alan Sciuto | 5 | 4829 | | 49. | Chris Carmody | 5 | 4738 | | 50. | Sean Meier | 6 | 4630 | | 51. | David Jurca | 5 | 4612 | | 52. | Darin Marcus | 5 | 4454 | | 53. | Jonathan Wright | 5 | 4295 | | 54. | Jordy Vorrath | 4 | 4222 | | 55. | Adam Kaempfer | 5 | 4175 | | 56. | Matt Pritiko | 5 | 4170 | | 57. | Tim Hollowell | 5 | 3982 | | 58. | Alex Tollefson | 5 | 3888 | | 59. | Erik Leishman | 5 | 3848 | | 60. | Jeff Oleen | 5 | 3820 | | 61. | Dane Cameron | 4 | 3656 | | 62. | Kyle Ray | 4 | 3532 | | 63. | Joseph Barros | 4 | 3520 | | 64. | Jordan Dick | 4 | 3520 | | 65. | Mike Hill | 4 | 3438 | | 66. | Billy Scyphers | 4 | 3369 | | 67. | Neil McCoy | 4 | 3360 | | 68. | Aaron Peterson | 4 | 3352 | | 69. | Darren Peterson | 4 | 3344 | | 70. | Jeff Carter | 4 | 3300 | | 71. | Kyle Lawrence | 4 | 3190 | | 72. | Jonathan Branam | 3 | 2956 | | 73. | Chance Terrel | 4 | 2855 | | 74. | Terrick Mansur | 3 | 2818 | | 75. | Ron Joynt | 3 | 2737 | | 76. | Tom Dyer | 3 | 2721 | | 77. | Fritz Leesmann | 3 | 2697 | | 78. | Alan Adams | 3 | 2681 | | 79. | Don McGregor | 3 | 2650 | | 80. | Ray Robinson | 3 | 2604 | | 81. | Cole Mathewson | 3 | 2584 | | 82. | Patrick Winninger | 3 | 2578 | | 83. | Mark Vielgut | 3 | 2575 | | 84. | BJ Anderson | 3 | 2525 | | 85. | Ryan Stringfield | 3 | 2479 | | 86. | Kurt Mathewson | 3 | 2454 | | 87. | Gian Cavaciuti | 3 | 2446 | | 88. | Kris Martin | 3 | 2433 | | 89. | Marc Flood | 3 | 2366 | | 90. | Matthew Wihlen | 3 | 2363 | | 91. | Tim Hallowell | 3 | 2327 | | 92. | Ron Peterson | 3 | 2289 | | 93. | Mark Kitchen | 3 | 2276 | | 94. | Jonathan Koorson | 3 | 2253 | | 95. | Rory Jones | 3 | 2192 | | 96. | Bryan Driver | 3 | 2168 | | 97. | Stuart Marsell | 2 | 2044 | | 98. | James Mugge | 2 | 2004 | | 99. | Chris Mann | 2 | 1920 | | 100. | Brett Van Blankers | 2 | 1888 | |
ICA Driver Rankings – as of July 26, 2005
| Rank | Driver | Races | Score| 1. | Helmut Sanden | 8 | 5214 | | 2. | Chris Wehrheim | 10 | 5158 | | 3. | Johnny Johnson | 11 | 5152 | | 4. | Phil Giebler | 13 | 5129 | | 5. | Michael Giessen | 7 | 5088 | | 6. | Tyler Dueck | 11 | 5074 | | 7. | Joel Miller | 12 | 5065 | | 8. | David Jurca | 7 | 5053 | | 9. | Kevin Glover | 10 | 5032 | | 10. | Christopher Stage | 10 | 5002 | | 11. | Caleb Loniewski | 12 | 4983 | | 12. | Grant Hebner | 8 | 4950 | | 13. | Chris Keller | 8 | 4916 | | 14. | Steve Welk | 8 | 4850 | | 15. | Chris Larson | 8 | 4836 | | 16. | Matt Johnson | 5 | 4827 | | 17. | Cole Whitt | 6 | 4810 | | 18. | Joey King | 6 | 4792 | | 19. | Chris Chidgey | 10 | 4757 | | 20. | Devon Sandeen | 6 | 4755 | | 21. | Thomas Hartsenveld | 7 | 4752 | | 22. | Joshua Harris | 7 | 4726 | | 23. | Giacomo Patrono | 5 | 4723 | | 24. | Nicholas Tonkin | 6 | 4701 | | 25. | Camille Hamel | 8 | 4607 | | 26. | Sean MacDonnell | 5 | 4576 | | 27. | Mark Vielgut | 9 | 4546 | | 28. | Ariel Castro | 5 | 4528 | | 29. | Victor Pedrosa | 6 | 4474 | | 30. | Adam Johnson | 6 | 4457 | | 31. | Kevin Kopp | 6 | 4456 | | 32. | Christopher Livengood | 8 | 4446 | | 33. | Joseph Genest | 8 | 4439 | | 34. | Alfonso Perri | 5 | 4388 | | 35. | Jennifer Williams | 7 | 4381 | | 36. | Garrett Napier | 6 | 4377 | | 37. | Antoine Genest | 5 | 4332 | | 38. | Dominic Scheer | 5 | 4128 | | 39. | Casey Neal | 5 | 4086 | | 40. | Jordy Vorrath | 4 | 4048 | | 41. | Colby Jenn | 4 | 3844 | | 42. | Mathias Calderon | 4 | 3761 | | 43. | Nicholas Johnston | 4 | 3726 | | 44. | Clayton Beier | 4 | 3710 | | 45. | Richard Campollo | 4 | 3631 | | 46. | Chris Friel | 4 | 3621 | | 47. | Jonaton Jorge | 4 | 3581 | | 48. | Steve Krock | 4 | 3411 | | 49. | Michael Politis | 4 | 3372 | | 50. | Chris Carmody | 3 | 2989 | | 51. | Gary Willis | 3 | 2772 | | 52. | Chris Grektorp | 3 | 2681 | | 53. | Charlie Pastorio | 3 | 2311 | | 54. | Damiano Chiesa | 2 | 2053 | | 55. | Johan Lindbrant | 2 | 1991 | | 56. | Drew Cattell | 2 | 1933 | | 57. | Justin Anfinson | 2 | 1918 | | 58. | Nick Uytedehaag | 2 | 1915 | | 59. | Reed Stevens | 2 | 1891 | | 60. | Jake Rosenzweig | 2 | 1889 | | 61. | Cody Lindsay | 2 | 1867 | | 62. | Nick Maddison | 2 | 1863 | | 63. | Jess Peterson | 2 | 1861 | | 64. | Michael Ryall | 2 | 1857 | | 65. | Eric Bartolero | 2 | 1851 | | 66. | Tony Loniewski | 2 | 1804 | | 67. | Mark Dismore | 2 | 1795 | | 68. | Kevin Montoya | 2 | 1784 | | 69. | Jeevan Banwait | 2 | 1737 | | 70. | Corey Smith | 2 | 1707 | | 71. | Paul Harraka | 2 | 1702 | | 72. | Erik Molin | 2 | 1691 | | 73. | Thomas Belli | 2 | 1620 | | 74. | Kyle Hedin | 2 | 1579 | | 75. | Armando Arends | 2 | 1569 | |
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