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Super Kart Illustrated Driver Rankings – December
 


With the Stars of Karting National Finals behind, the two national champions left Austin with the titles and the prestige being atop the Super Kart Illustrated Driver Rankings. ICC National Champion Alex Speed moved up to the top spot in the ICC division with six victories and his third place finish at the Stars Finale, which helped clinch his second straight Stars ICC title. In the ICA standings, Phil Giebler used his Stars Finale victory to clinch the ICA National Championship and the #1 spot in the ICA rankings. Giebler’s point breakdown has four top five finishes, including the Iron Rock and Woodbine victories, and a 10th place at the Race of the Americas.

Two drivers who moved into the top ten in the ICC division were Josh Schreiber and Tad Funakoshi. Both drivers moved up five positions, Schreiber to sixth and Funakoshi to ninth. Schreiber had a turn around year after switching to the Kosmic/Vortex package in July, earning the Stars Eastern podiums and the WKA Manufacturer’s Cup ICC championship title. The Pennsylvania resident also notched a top five finish at the Stars of Karting Finale. For Funakoshi, it was an up and down year. After a victory at the Stars CARTBC round, he was dismissed at Mirage Motorsports. He then hooked up with Leading Edge Motorsports for the Stars National Finals, where he was quick all weekend, and finished second.

The battle for the 10th spot as turned into a battle between to ICC rookies – Keith Spicer and Ryan Phinny. The two have had stellar rookie seasons at the top division moving up straight from the Junior division. Though Spicer has record the only big victory between the two (Stars New Castle), Phinny has been the most consistent of the two. With Phinny scoring at podium at the SKUSA SuperNationals in November, Phinny will most likely move ahead of Spicer, who did not attend the event.

In ICA, Jake Rosenzweig made a huge jump in December - 32 positions - as he added a fifth event to his driver rankings points. The Boston, MA resident competed at only three ranked events, scoring all top ten finishes, including a victory at Woodbine and a fourth place finish at the Stars National Finals. The top rookie in the ICA rankings continues to be Cole Whitt. Sitting at eighth place in the competitive division with three victories to his credit is a huge statement for the young driver.

Next month could see some changes in top ten of ICC with the SKUSA SuperNationals making a huge impact on the driver’s scores where as the ICA division is at a stand still until after the WKA KartWeek in Daytona at the end of December, making an impact in the February rankings.

ICC Driver Rankings – as of October 17, 2005
RankDriverScore
1.Alex Speed7471
2.Kyle Wiegand7433
3.Wesley Boswell7358
4.Jason Bowles7291
5.Jan Velez-Walter7246
6.Josh Schreiber7205
7.Phillippe Gelinas7173
8.Alan Rudolph7148
9.Tad Funakoshi7052
10.Keith Spicer7031
11.Ryan Phinny6998
12.Troy Hottmann6976
13.Gary Carlton6949
14.Joe White6896
15.David Jurca6887
16.Collin Lynn6851
17.Daniel Morad6849
18.Ryan Yop6823
19.Logan Gomez6805
20.Nick Maddison6658
21.Ron White6642
22.Lorenzo Mandarino6614
23.Juliana Chiovitti6601
24.Ryan Kinnear6520
25.Chris Carmody6510
26.Sean Noonan6334
27.Alexander Rose6319
28.AJ Whisler6301
29.Tom Cadieux6259
30.Matt Pritiko6223
31.Marc Elliott6127
32.Adam Kretschmer6068
33.Jonathan Vitolo5959
34.Rene Silva5942
35.Christopher Miller5909
36.Matt Jaskol5905
37.Colin Snyder5815
38.Chris Kuenning5675
39.John Zartarian5616
40.Jeff Oleen5449
41.Jonathan Allen5421
42.Jake Thompson5281
43.Shane Terrel5273
44.Joseph Barros5249
45.Mike Hill5219
46.Chance Terrel5217
47.Nicholas Halen5154
48.Cole Mathewson5126
49.Marc Flood5114
50.Ashley Betts5002
51.Alex Tollefson4743
52.Fritz Leesmann4562
53.Jonathan Wright4295
54.Neil McCoy4251
55.Stuart Marsell4193
56.Adam Kaempfer4185
57.Darren Peterson4109
58.Jonathan Koorson4011
59.Bobby Wilson3915
60.Sean Meier3812
61.Darren Elliott3658
62.Kyle Ray3532
63.Jordan Dick3520
64.Dane Cameron3466
65.Richard Boake3457
66.Don McGregor3423
67.Jeff Carter3300
68.Marshall Vortriede3251
69.Scott Rettich3210
70.Paul Draper3008
71.Chris Jackson2636
72.Curtis Fox2551
73.BJ Anderson2525
74.Chris Jennings2493
75.Kurt Mathewson2454
76.Tim Hollowell2417
77.Erik Leishman2380
78.Matthew Wihlen2363
79.Tim Hallowell2327
80.Nick Johnson2241
81.Rory Jones2192
82.Bryan Driver2168
83.Adam Johnson1988
84.Jamie Sieracki1956
85.Phil Giebler1951
86.Scott Montoya1849
87.Simon Martin1840
88.Voytek Burdzy1809
89.Jesse Dunham1790
90.Craig Sender1756
91.Reed Froehlich1754
92.Matt Alcorn1719
93.Miguel Pajon1702
94.Tom Dyer1700
95.Aaron Peterson1695
96.Alexis Fenton1684
97.Billy Scyphers1680
98.Brandon West1667
99.Kyle Lawrence1661
100.Jordon Musser1661


ICA Driver Rankings – as of October 17, 2005
RankDriverScore
1.Phil Giebler5346
2.Chris Wehrheim5202
3.Kevin Glover5179
4.Johnny Johnson5170
5.Joel Miller5149
6.Steve Welk5125
7.Jake Rosenzweig5121
8.Cole Whitt5118
9.David Jurca5118
10.Grant Hebner5109
11.Christopher Stage5081
12.Tyler Dueck5030
13.Caleb Loniewski4983
14.Chris Larson4967
15.Thomas Hartsenveld4950
16.Helmut Sanden4940
17.Nicholas Tonkin4860
18.Matt Johnson4850
19.Joey King4826
20.Antoine Genest4746
21.Chris Chidgey4740
22.Dominic Scheer4732
23.Chris Keller4723
24.Giacomo Patrono4723
25.Joseph Genest4701
26.Sean MacDonnell4701
27.Garrett Napier4694
28.Richard Campollo4659
29.Nicholas Johnston4657
30.Christopher Livengood4654
31.Chris Friel4599
32.Jess Peterson4572
33.Camille Hamel4569
34.Alfonso Perri4567
35.Mark Vielgut4567
36.Joshua Harris4553
37.Kevin Kopp4366
38.Victor Pedrosa4363
39.Steve Krock4348
40.Reed Stevens3703
41.Ariel Castro3613
42.Eric Bartolero3553
43.Jennifer Williams3356
44.Colby Jenn2986
45.Michael Giessen2864
46.Devon Sandeen2820
47.Tony Loniewski2674
48.Casey Neal2545
49.Adam Johnson2458
50.Damiano Chiesa2053
51.Johan Lindbrant1991
52.Drew Cattell1933
53.Justin Anfinson1918
54.Chris Grektorp1900
55.Landon Yee1882
56.Clayton Beier1877
57.Cody Lindsay1867
58.Michael Ryall1857
59.Mathias Calderon1805
60.Mark Dismore1795
61.Jeevan Banwait1737
62.Keith Spicer1732
63.Randolph Ferguson1722
64.Jonaton Jorge1717
65.Corey Smith1707
66.Paul Harraka1702
67.Erik Molin1691
68.Thomas Belli1620
69.Armando Arends1569
70.Charlie Pastorio1507
71.Davide Fore1153
72.Marco DiLeo1072
73.Jordy Vorrath1037
74.Omar Bergo948
75.Sean Gilmartib934


SKI Driver Rankings Calculation Process
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.
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