Getting Started

Originally Posted on 2/7/2007

Good morning internet!

I am LazioCenturion or as my friends call me Matt. I started this webpage a week or so ago to share all my racing stats with the world.

Growing up I always loved playing with cars and then I started to love keeping track of the pretend races I had. That soon turned into a hobby of keeping statistics for anything and everything.

Auto racing became my main statistical pursuit, and being from the United States, NASCAR was the natural fit. That was until 2001 when I discovered the World Rally Championship. Not only was it the most entertaining thing I had ever seen, but it also has a huge amount of stats associated with it.

After building up Excel spreadsheets for all 361 World Rallies dating back to 1979, I moved onto other things. There is an American series called Speed World Challenge. The GT portion of the series is similar to FIA GT in the type of cars. Currently, SWC GT has Cadillacs, Chevrolets, Dodges and Porsches as the main cars, but there are also Volvos, Aston Martins, and more. I quickly sucked up the stats for this series, dating back to 1999.

This past year, 2006, when there was down time from Speed World Challenge and between the last couple rallies of 2006, I was bored. So I decided to find another series and it was Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, aka German Touring Cars. I followed basically the same format as the SWC and put together results and stats dating back the inception of the "new DTM" in 2000.
Of course, when I saw the official release about the 2007 IRC, my interest was peaked, so I decided to collect the 2006 results from the "0 season" and bring along the 2007 results in the same fashion as the WRC.

It was this last piece that really spurred the website. Until then, I had been posting rally statistics and such on the motorsport forum. But in my research, I could not find any good sites for the IRC. This gave me an idea to put all my data out there for everyone to enjoy.
I originally was building it using Yahoo! Page Builder, but not exactly happy with the results, so I decided to use HTML. The only problem was I knew no HTML. But I found some good tutorials on the web and now I have some very simple pages with a few images, but mostly text and links.

I am still working on putting all the pages in the same format and updating all my links, so I apologize for any errors you receive. But I hope in the coming weeks to have everything in order and uploading lots of files for you to check out.

Have fun!