That series is still a blind spot for me and I actually haven't entered it on my master list, which is how I missed that. It seems a lot harder to research than even the IMCA and USAC Stock Car Series, which have also been swept under the rug. However, it seems like Bob Flock's best season there was 1947 and that season does seem to be much better-archived than the other ones (I have no idea how seriously to take Buddy Shuman at all, and I'm gonna have to throw my hands up in the air on that entry when I write that column; I've already started a "lightning round" column with the last 81 1 or 2 time Cup winners; I'm going to do it all in one column with one-sentence summaries for each driver, and then I'll do the same for all the IndyCar winners as well next week; I've already started going through them and I've already gone through all the Cup winners).
I mean obviously nothing is set in stone and I change lots of things. I talked myself giving Frankie Schneider a top five season and I lowered it to E, but he's still a lock. I lowered Ritomo Miyata who I rated 3rd in 2023 to fifth because I don't want to make him a lock yet since he's struggling in F2 so much and I raised Johan Kristoffersson and Alex Palou up one position accordingly. I also swapped Palou and Kelvin van der Linde for last year, raising Palou to E and dropping van der Linde to E-, and I've done some other minor tinkering with my previously posted 2021-2024 lists as well as a few other things. I was being very curmudgeonly leaving Palou out of my top 25 but I did have a reason for that. Having said that, his dominance has really made me reconsider some of his earlier seasons more than I previously did...
I'd personally rate Bob Flock for 1947 too. He was in the NCSCC title hunt until his injury, and he won a last-to-first race at Daytona Beach in July.
That series is still a blind spot for me and I actually haven't entered it on my master list, which is how I missed that. It seems a lot harder to research than even the IMCA and USAC Stock Car Series, which have also been swept under the rug. However, it seems like Bob Flock's best season there was 1947 and that season does seem to be much better-archived than the other ones (I have no idea how seriously to take Buddy Shuman at all, and I'm gonna have to throw my hands up in the air on that entry when I write that column; I've already started a "lightning round" column with the last 81 1 or 2 time Cup winners; I'm going to do it all in one column with one-sentence summaries for each driver, and then I'll do the same for all the IndyCar winners as well next week; I've already started going through them and I've already gone through all the Cup winners).
I mean obviously nothing is set in stone and I change lots of things. I talked myself giving Frankie Schneider a top five season and I lowered it to E, but he's still a lock. I lowered Ritomo Miyata who I rated 3rd in 2023 to fifth because I don't want to make him a lock yet since he's struggling in F2 so much and I raised Johan Kristoffersson and Alex Palou up one position accordingly. I also swapped Palou and Kelvin van der Linde for last year, raising Palou to E and dropping van der Linde to E-, and I've done some other minor tinkering with my previously posted 2021-2024 lists as well as a few other things. I was being very curmudgeonly leaving Palou out of my top 25 but I did have a reason for that. Having said that, his dominance has really made me reconsider some of his earlier seasons more than I previously did...