All-wheel-drive Winter Series 2024 final standings:
Championship spreadsheets
With a little extra delay it's time to announce the final results of AWS 2024 season. The 13th season was similar to previous season as once again each round featured different car. Cars ranged in weight between 600 kilograms and the tripple of that,while power had the biggest range in league's history as both lowest and highest values set new records. What did not set any records was attendance - 34 signups is 6 less than last year and lowest number in past 4 years. Also actual competitors count was 6 less than last year - 26,which is the lowest number in past 5 years,3 drivers missed the chance to get points this season. Average attendance also dropped - the 12.5 drivers per race is 1.8 less than last year,the highest attended was round 6 with 17 drivers,while season finale gathered up just 9 drivers.
AWS 2024 Drivers Champion: LLM.Sobis
Last season produced the 1st ever repeated AWS champion,this season repeated the same result with different driver - the 2019 AWS champion Sobis earned his 2nd title. The lithuanian won 3 of the 7 rounds this season,increasing his win count to 5 in total,finishing in top5 in another 2 rounds. His worst finishing position was 7th and he set fastest lap of the race in 2 rounds.
By scoring his 1st ever race win in round 6,Lorenzo made the decisive step towards securing 2nd place in championship,additionally keeping his main title hopes alive,but eventually italian had to settle for 2nd place in final standings,which is 2 positions better than his previous best achieved last season. Also his worst finishing position was 7th and in total he scored 5 top5 finishes,adding 2 pole positions to his stats. Vice champion of last season was around top of the table also this year - 2022 Rookie of the year finished 3rd in standings,which is his average position from both previous seasons. The best finn of the season did not win any races,however he finished on podium in 3 races in row with 2nd place finish in round 5 as his best result,scoring another 2 top5 finishes through the season. The defending champion A.Valta did not sign up this season,leaving the title up for grabs for others.
AWS 2024 Rookie of the Year: S. Martin
It is a bit weird to announce one of the most seasoned racers in various leagues as top rookie,but that's how it works - without previous AWS experience,S.Martin joined the league this season and scored most points between all newcomers of AWS. He finished 7th in overall standings,scoring 2 5th place finishes as best result while he also qualified 4th once. By missing 3 rounds,RD2 lost the season long back and forth shuffle for top rookie position and finished 2nd in standings. The 2023 VERL champion finished in top5 in 3 of his 4 attended rounds,finishing 2nd to his teammate in round 6. Last year's best rookie with backwards spelled name did not sign up for his 2nd try in AWS.
AWS 2024 Cross Challenge winner: LLM.Sobis
The overall champion did pick up also both minor awards - in Cross challenge he beat his main rival by 5 points in final standings,winning one race,finishing 3rd and 4th in other two. The main rival was Lorenzo,who scored his both pole positions and his only win during this competition,however had to settle for runner up position. Also here the defending champion was A.Valta,who did not join this season.
AWS 2024 Oval Trophy winner: LLM.Sobis
Allthough one of the wins was actually gifted,but in history Sobis won 2 of the 3 Oval trophy rounds,finishing strong 3rd in the other one - that secured him the award with 19 points gap over his countryman Trespasser,who finished 2nd in both rounds Sobis won. The defending award winner Thehemuli finished 4th this season,scoring a single podium finish.
AWS 2024 Teams Champions: Race Green Autosports
For the 2nd year in row and 7th overall the hosting team brought home the teams title,this year having the main points scorer in 2nd place in individual standings. Besides the win and 2 pole positions,RGA gathered up a total of 10 top5 finishes. World Class Lions have been around a lot in AWS and this season was a repeat of their best ever performance - 2nd place in teams championship,previously achieved 2016,where they lost out the title just by 5 points. This season they had to "settle" for 2nd place with much bigger gap - 57 points. Their best driver Arska finished 4th in overall standings and he was the one to score all team's 4 top5 finishes. The team of the main champion Last Lap Motorsports finished 3rd in standings due to sole performance of their only active driver.
AWS 2024 Nations Cup winners: Finland
With 41 points gap over main rival the Nations cup was secured by Finland for the 3rd season in row. Finns scored a total of 2 race wins,12 top5 finishes,2 pole positions and 2 fastest laps of the race. The 5-time champions Lithuania got stronger this season and clinched the vice champions title after 1 year of absense and that was achieved by only 2 drivers. Their total tally includes 3 race wins,8 top5 finishes,1 pole position and 4 fastest laps of the race. The last step on nations podium was taken by Italy,which was carried up by sole performance of the series vice-champion Lorenzo.
Race Green Events thanks all participants and wishes much success in all other leagues and events they are taking part. We hope you enjoyed racing in AWS and you all get much fun and valuable experience from the races.
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Currently there are no specific plans regarding the 2025 AWS season,but it's very likelly we'll shorten the season once again due to under average attendance of this season. Otherwise the format of each round featuring different car will be kept and return of Megawatt award is under question as there are still no proper quality AWD cars with electric propulsion.
In just over 2 weeks RGE will offer the chance to challenge our hardest single race event of the year - the annual Westschleife race this year will be extended to 400 kilometers once again. Full info and signups have been posted last weekend,another announcement regarding the event will follow. This year the event allows to apply other cars,also non competitive ones in spirit of famous Opel Manta,which has been around a certain real world event with similar spirit.