Hi friends!
2025 looked a LOT different than years before for me but
some things will never change. Although I wasn’t in the pits this year, I was
still at every IMSA weekend except the two in California.
And, of course, I still studied the numbers to tell us a
story behind the story of the 2025 season!
52 drivers made their first WeatherTech start this year. We
had 23 first time winners and 23 newbies on pole. 23 drivers also stood on the podium for the
first time. Safe to say 23 was the number of the year!
273 drivers started a race this year, up significantly from
the year before.
Race distance wise, no records were broken, good or bad. Last
year we spent 388 laps behind the safety car, and this year was down to 361.
Although that might seem good, it’s still the second highest of series history,
up 5 laps over 2023. The car count wasn’t much greater than 2024, cumulatively
+4 cars over the course of the year…not per race. We raced 7,208 miles in Prototypes
this year, and what’s remarkable is that’s less than 2018 or 2020 with one more
endurance race! Tells you how clean those years were! Another remarkable number
is we raced 7,109 miles in GTD Pro and 7,101 in GTD. That’s three consecutive
years we’ve been within 100 miles of race distances accomplished for the top
class and the top GT class! I love this, especially since we have each of these
classes missing one race per season.
So how does all this work? Maybe you’re new here. Welcome!
Maybe you need a refresher. Well, what I do is a breakdown by each class to
examine who under-performed, exceeded expectations, rose above, did more with
less. I use the Fast Lap of each race from each driver and average them all
out. It’s much fairer to examine someone over a season instead of in just a
race. Everyone is allowed one bad race; it’s when they start to become more frequent
that I’m able to establish my favorite thing…a pattern!
I’ll give you a breakdown of GTP, LMP2, GTD Pro, and GTD,
and a special article dedicated to the performance of each GT3 car and its BoP.
While I’m telling the story, it’s the numbers that are really writing the
narrative. The numbers don’t give a full story, but they also help to show who
excelled! My main objective is not to make people look good or bad but rather to
lay out the numbers and let them say what they will. Stay tuned for stats,
charts, patterns, and the truth Behind the Numbers!
