2013 Core-Star Light Season

The 2013 Core-Star Light Season was the sixteenth season of the Core-Star Light Racing Series and the tenth time it will run under the "Core-Star Light racing season" name, which it got back in 2004.

The season was mainly dominated by 2 drivers. These two being Jonathan Simmons and Xavi Daniels. We will start of by summing up our winner of the 2013 Core-Star Light Season, Jonathan Simmons. Jonathan became the first American race car driver to win a world championship in the Core-Star Light Leauge, despite a large amount of other very good American drivers no one had won the title before Jonathan. This means that Jonathan is currently the best American driver in the series, if not one of the best in the Core-Star Light Seasons history. With wins at Sandstone Raceway and Pinehills Raceway he was able to clinch the title with only 8 points over New Zealander, Xavi Daniels. Xavi Enjoyed his best season to date after starting in the series in the 2007 season. With wins at Savolax Sandpit and the new formed Hillstreet Circuit, he was able to give Simmons an good fight for the championship, after it looked like Simmons was gonna win easily. But it all came down to 8 points. In 3rd place was Joshua Kolanowski who had actually a rather quiet season, since everyone was focusing on Simmons and Daniels. But Kolanowski actually won at Finncross Circuit but had pretty much else an queit, but very consistent season with quite a lot of good results, although he finished the season with 128 points which was 36(!) points from just Xavi Daniels. Behind Kolanowski, is the first and only rookie in the top 10, Erick Coles. (Infact the next closest rookie to Erick Coles is Matt Cunningham in 12th place) Coles would only compete in the later stages of the series, his debut came at the Madman Stadium Figure 8 race were he would finish 3rd after a crazy race. After that almost every race that he competed in, he was always in the top 5. Coles got a lot of attention for this, and people began to wonder what would have happened if he started from race 1. Maybe it could have been an rookie champion like we have only seen one time before with Felipe Miranda all the way back in 2000. Coles finished the season with 125 points, only 3 points away from Kolanowski!. In 5th you have the 2012 season runner up William Coverington, who won the last race of the season and the Dirt Devil Stadium. In 6th you got the guy who you know is always going to be there, Ryan Sorensen once again a very solid season by Sorensen who got 106 points and the last driver who got over 100 points this season. Next, in 7th place Wade Summerton, who finished 11th last year in 2012, finished 7th this year and improved once again. The rookie from last year, Jared Edwards finished in 8th place overall, and had a very good and solid season. He improved from 16th last year. In 9th, the Japnese driver, and 2009 rookie of the year, Takiyo Zamoto enjoyed a very nice season with a couple of good results as for example the race at Sandstone Raceway, were he finished 2nd, only behind the 2013 champion, Jonathan Simmons. In 10th Place is another rookie from last year, the Frenchman Théo Swiadek. Swiadek would win his first race in this season, his win came at Rosenheim Raceway. He would finish the season with 82 points total. Also an shout-out to Matt Fischer who finished in 11th place overall, and won the Vale Falls Cicuit race, and finished the season with 79 points, only 3 points away from Swiadek, but 13 points over 12th place rookie Matt Cunningham who had 66 points.

The Madman Stadium Figure 8 race saw a change to the point system this year. Instead of the 42 points that the race winner would get in the 2011 and 2012 season they would now get 32 points for the win. You can check out the point system lower down on this page. But while we are on the subject on the MSF8 race, we need to mention that a rookie won the race... and it was in his first race. Alfredo Espinoza was going into the Madman Stadium Figure 8 as his debut race, along with some other new drivers. But no one could even think that he would win. But he did, and he won over 2nd place David Nukan who had his first race in the same race the previous year. An absolute big wreck at the start of the race eliminated the competition, But Espinoza was able to escape unharmed with his car, and eventually would win the race. It was a bit lucky sure, but sometimes that's what you need, and also, he did not just cruise to victory. He actually had to fight with people such as David Nukan, the two rookies who had their debut in the same race, Erick Coles and Miguel Machado Tavares. But also this years runner-up in the championship Xavi Daniels. Safe to say that Alfredo Espinoza has got a lot of fans after this showing.

This is the season with the most amount of drivers in a single season, with exactly 100 drivers.

2012 > 2014

# Point System

1ST = 23 POINTS (ALL RACES EXCEPT MADMAN STADIUM FIGURE 8)

2ND = 22 POINTS

3RD = 21 POINTS

4TH = 20 POINTS

5TH = 19 POINTS

6TH = 18 POINTS

7TH = 17 POINTS

8TH = 16 POINTS

9TH = 15 POINTS

10TH = 14 POINTS

11TH = 13 POINTS

12TH = 12 POINTS

13TH = 11 POINTS

14TH = 10 POINTS

15TH = 9 POINTS

16TH = 8 POINTS

17TH = 7 POINTS

18TH = 6 POINTS

19TH = 5 POINTS

20TH = 4 POINTS

21TH = 3 POINTS

22TH = 2 POINTS

23TH = 1 POINT

DNF = NO POINTS

MADMAN STADIUM FIGURE 8 POINTS:

1ST = 32 POINTS

2ND = 31 POINTS

3RD = 30 POINTS

4TH = 29 POINTS

5TH = 28 POINTS (ETC)

DNF = NO POINTS

OUTSIDE TOP 32 = NO POINTS

### Races

1. Firwood Motocenter
2. Sandstone Raceway
3. Espedalen Raceway
4. Savolax Sandpit
5. Northfolk Ring (New Track!)
6. Vale Falls Circuit
7. Madman Stadium Figure 8
8. Rosenheim Raceway
9. Pinehills Raceway
10. Clayridge Circuit
11. Hillstreet Circuit (New Track!)
12. Finncross Circuit
13. Boulder Bank Circuit
14. Dirt Devil Stadium

# Cars And Drivers

### CARS USED

Boomer

Boomer RS

Bulldog

Dominator

El Matador

Firefly

Gatecrasher

Gremlin

Hammerhead

Hotshot

KillerBee

KillerBee S

MudDigger

Nexus RX

Panther RS

Rammer

Rammer RS

Razor

Roadcutter

Roadslayer

Roadslayer GT

Speedbird

Speedemon

Starbeast

Sunrise Super

Tristar

Warwagon

Wildking

### DRIVERS

 Luka Dominguez (R)
 Eddie Jones-Corbyn | Martin Kainz | Olivia Kasprowicz | Evan Kavanagh (R)
 Madeline Parkhouse (R)
 Jonathan Simmons | Yuriy Sirotov (R)
 Wade Summerton | Théo Swiadek | Sebastien Taoui (R)

# FINAL CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

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 **—** | Andy Montero (R)
 **—** | Henrik Erras (R)
 **—** | Gaby Coronel (R)