ISF GTP All-Time Wins as of March 2024

 

ISF GTP All-Time Stats as of March 2024 after season 25

ISF GT ALL TIME WINS as of 2024

 

ALL TIME GT WINS as of March 2024 at the end of 25th season

ISF F1 ALL-TIME WINS as of March 2024

 

ISF F1 ALL-TIME WINS as of March 2024 after ISF Season #25

2024 Unofficial Indyslotcar Rapids GP Video

Shot with iPhone media by fans

 

ISF All Time stats GTP category as of March 2023

 ISF All Time stats GTP category.

Stats are updated through the end of the 2023 season, the ISF's 24th season:

F1 All Time Stats as of April 2023

 After 24 seasons the ISF (International Sportscar Federation), has built up quite a few stats.

Here is a list of the leaders all time in F1 division.

LMP All-Time Stats Updated March 2023

 

 
The Mega G chassis and bodies were released in the early 2000's. ISF brought LMP back. Most of the field were in Peugot style bodies with Ev Kamikawa being the only consistent
Audi style body runner

The ISF has ran the LMP division under three different guises. The first was a separate division using the Tyco wide pan chassis and open top sportscar bodies. Drivers decided that concentrating on the GT and GTP divisions would be better for competition and for cost control. The ISF then decided to allow the Tyco LMP bodies and chassis into the GTP division to allow some more variety in the GTP body styles. Since GTP ran the AFX Super G+ chassis and bodies, the ISF decided that anyone running the Tyco chassis and body could use silver springs and motor brushes, ski style pick up shoes, and non slip Wizzard tyres to equal the performance advantage the Super G+ chassis cars. While many drivers tried the car in this configuration, only Mike Fitzlaff and Mark Walczak made multiple starts in it. Walczak being the most successful picking up one win with that combination. LMP disappeared for several seasons while ISF concentrated on just the GTP and F1 divisions. When Mega G chassis and bodies came out they were immediately popular for their looks and speed. Several exhibition races were held with the cars over several race tracks. The car performed well in those races and the decision was made to adopt the car as the new LMP car. After the first few races it became apparent that the chassis was not holding up to the rigors of the ISF tracks and schedules with several incidents of divers leading races only to have the car fail on them became too numerous for the drivers to stand. The Mega G cars were shelved after a couple of seasons. They were going to be brought back for a race during the 20th ISF anniversary season as a special event, however driver protests and a near boycott of the event they were going to brought back for sealed the fate of the Mega G car and there hasn't been an LMP race since 2019. 
Points were originally awarded down to 8th place for the first few seasons 

(10 for the winner, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
then the points were awarded to 10th place for the last few seasons

(15 for the winner, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)

 

Tony Perkins' LMP Tyco pan LMP car painted up to look like a Porsche Spyder from the American LeMans Series

ISF LMP Division ALL TIME Stats
as of March 2023

 

Peugot and Audi were the two dominant Mega G bodies at the time the ISF ran these cars in the LMP division. While good looking they didn't always handle the scenery well around the ISF race tracks at the time. They often got stuck under guard rails. The longer bodies also called for a change of the corner aprons as the cars would start to drift and hit the wall too fast under normal racing conditions, or slide too far over the track curbing and prematurely dropping the wheels off the track and causing spins and de-slots. 

Historic Tracks: Runaway Bay

Red Stripe Raceway at Runaway Bay Park. The name alone sounds like it was a good time. It was a good time! A good time had by all, drivers and fans alike. The first major road course built by longtime driver Mike Fitzlaff was a fitting track for drivers that featured great car control like his career is known for. It had twists and turns and short fast streets coming out of sweeping wide corners. This had the effect of the track being faster than what it originally would look like. A definite challenge for drivers to win the fabulous ceramic Ferrari trophy. 

The wide radius turns made the hairpins turns that you could take at higher speeds than most. This led to a lot of brave drivers breaking deep into the turn then hitting the gas, while others coasted slower into the turns and hitting the gas early coming out of the turn. Depending on the drivers style that made passing easier on one hand but more of a challenge on the other because it depended on which style the driver was using, and sometimes an elite late breaker would need to change and break early and become an accelerating early driver or vice versa in order to complete a pass.

Scenery was added in that could sometimes be quite treacherous. The track featured lots of large rocks and a couple of metal barricades that more than once a car that got thrown into them came out in more than one piece. Tall trees came next. While nothing hid the corners like the buildings at Rapids International Raceway, the scenery was just eye catching enough that it could sneak up on you and suddenly you lose your breaking point and off into the rocks you went. Fans loved looking in the rocks for car parts and other bits of interesting souvenirs. There was plenty of room for team transports and that could also block parts of the track.

The original version looked like more of a wider version of Bayside international with a very similar track layout, just with a wider infield section.

The track had very short and fast Esses section. It had the effect of throwing the drivers off balance. Drivers had to decide if they should try and go fast through this little section or slow down and take it easier and accelerate fast coming out. Basically it was dependent on whether the driver was a late breaker or an early accelerator from the turns. Either way it had the desired affect of slowing the drivers down just enough that it kept the racing close.

The beauty of the track was that it was a flowy circuit that was quick but not one that relied on strictly fast cars to win. A driver could have a medium or even a heavy downforce set up on the car and still have a chance to win because cars with lighter downforce often found that they would be too fast for the track. Red Stripe Raceway at Runaway Bay hosted many different drivers as winners in ISF, Indyslotcar, and ARA racing. While it’s unofficial, the easy bet is that this track had the most variety of winners on it during its time. That’s quite a nice legacy to have. Especially since this track was built on legacies. Especially that of Alan Kulwicki, whom Mike knew personally. 

It was a pleasure to be in the pits at this track...

Steve "The Wrench" Ratchett