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| Super Kart Illustrated Driver Rankings - August |
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Today, EKN brings you a special addition to the site, an exclusive program that many people already see every month inside the pages of Super Kart Illustrated - the SKI Driver Rankings. Since the first issue, the magazine’s ranking program have used the results of the sport’s biggest events to rank the top drivers from across North America in the top 125cc shifter division and, for many, it has become the official list of the sport’s finest competitors. When SKI expanded its coverage in September of 2004 to include all types of spring karting, the ICA rankings were introduced as the second headline class at the top level, joining the ICC listing.
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 June 15, 2005
ICA Driver Rankings – as of June 15, 2005 |
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