(2010) NCCBMWCCA Autocross Season Analysis (By Jim Newman)

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Intro: Due to the fact that I'm massively bored during the winter, I've decided to try to make heads or tails of this past season. It's no mystery that the classes are vague and with no overall raw printout each week and no PAX it makes things very muddled in terms of who did what each week, how good certain classes are, who stacks up to who, etc. My goal here is to clear things up and give a more comprehensive season review, week by week, and then a final "end of year" summary. I'll also be handing out EXTREMELY UNOFFICIAL SEASON AWARDS, which do not express the views of the NCCBMWCCA, they express the views of my numbers and I.

BTW, I'm hand jamming most of this data into a database and in order to make a lot of my digital logic work, I have to manipulate the data that contains cones or off courses. With that said, I HATE EVERYONE FOR WEEK 1, TO INCLUDE MYSELF! Week 1 took as long to hand jam as Week 2, 3 and 4 combined. It was a cone and off course fiesta!

Criteria: In order to get a real feel for how the season went, I need to weed out "anomalies". These anomalies are the irregular entrants, folks who were not around for the full season and would screw up the numbers. To accomplish this, I've devised a system I like to call 5X5, which works like this:
-You have to have attended at least 5 NCCBMWCCA events
-You have to have finished in at least the top 5 of your class

With this criteria set, I have my first EXTREMELY UNOFFICIAL SEASON AWARD to hand out.

EXTREMELY UNOFFICIAL 2010 HISPANIA RACING AWARD: JOHN NETZEL

Like Hispania just BARELY squeaked onto the grid in Bahrain for the 2010 F1 season opener, John Netzel just BARELY squeaked onto the full season rankings after he completed only 5 events AND ranked 5th in his class (fulfilling the criteria exactly). I also thought about naming this the AK47 award (after the guy who used to get 5x5's in the NBA rather easily), but figured I'll stick to the racing theme.

Ok, now that we finished with the intro and such, lets move on to week 1!