2026 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Championship Series | Preview | Finale at Homestead-Miami
October 12th, 2026 by Justin Melillo
The eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Championship Series comes down to this. One race, one champion, $100,000 on the line. Steven Wilson enters the reigning champion, already with two Dale Earnhardt Jr Cups at home, looking to add a third. Bobby Zalenski, Connor Yeroschak, and Wyatt Tinsley are all looking for their first. Whoever finishes the highest of the four will take the title.
100 laps are scheduled at the virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway, but these four will compete live in front of a crowd at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, on the heels of NASCAR’s final homecoming weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. What is in store for these four? Join us at the Hall or tune in to find out!
Coverage for the final round of the Championship Series season begins at 8 p.m. ET at eNASCAR.com/live and across iRacing social media channels. Tune in 30 minutes earlier to catch the Countdown to Green at 7:30 p.m. ET.
PREVIOUS RACE: CONNOR YEROSCHAK SCORES MAIDEN WIN AT KANSAS TO LOCK INTO TITLE FIGHT
In the last two races, the backend alliance of Nexxus eSports has been on a tear at the 1.5-mile venues. Back at Texas Motor Speedway, the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Qualifying Series champion, Quentin Warman, claimed his first-career win. In the most-recent event, it was Letarte eSports’ Connor Yeroschak finally breaking through for that win, and it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.
Similar to how Parker White did it two years ago at Phoenix, Yeroschak was not going to be denied at Kansas. He fought against the Deadzone alliance members—Zack Novak led a good chunk, but both Casey Kirwan and Vicente Salas were hoping to win their way into the Finale. Yeroschak didn’t necessarily need the win, he just needed Kirwan or Salas not to win. In eNASCAR Overtime, Yeroschak held on for that win.
Fellow Nexxus driver Wyatt Tinsley over at the Kansas City Pioneers was one of the two drivers to point their way into the championship fight, as was Altus driver for ERA eSports Team, Bobby Zalenski. Norse Force Racing’s Steven Wilson, the Spire Motorsports standout, already had his ticket punched from Michigan.
LAST TIME AT HOMESTEAD-MIAMI: WILSON DOMINATES TO SECOND TITLE
If there’s anything to know about any sport or esport, it’s that someone is the champion of said entity until someone takes it away from them. Steven Wilson has been the undisputed champion of the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Championship Series for well over a year. His 2026 campaign, while not as flashy as his record-setting 2025 season, was still worthy of being the top billing through the Regular Season and Postseason.
In that 2025 battle, nobody had anything for him… except maybe one of his competitors on Tuesday night this year, Bobby Zalenski. Wilson started on pole and led the lion’s share of the laps, but during the pit cycle, Zalenski had undercut to take the lead at one point. It didn’t pan out, as Wilson managed to get back by, but Zalenski wasn’t fighting for a title last year. This year, he will be, and that could play a factor.
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TRACK FACTS: HOMESTEAD-MIAMI SPEEDWAY
The old saying, “it’s an ill wind that blows no good,” could be appropriately applied to Homestead-Miami Speedway. In the wake of Hurricane Andrew in August, 1992, South Florida racing promoter Ralph Sanchez began organizing construction of the region’s first major-league motorsports facility as part of the reconstruction of the devastated Homestead community. Ground-breaking took place the following August and in November, 2005, the first event, a NASCAR Nationwide Series%26#8482; race, was won by Dale Jarrett.
Longtime host to NASCARs season finale for the top three series, the 1.5-mile variable-banked Homestead-Miami oval has also hosted Indycar and IMSA events. SCCA amateur races and CSS motorcycle races also take place on the road circuit. It returns to being Championship Weekend for the NASCAR ranks again in 2026.
With more than a thousand palm trees and a Caribbean color scheme, the facility projects a South Beach flavor that distinguishes Homestead-Miami from other major race tracks in America. It took a while longer to get the right combination for the racing surface. In its first iteration, the track had four separate low-banked corners – that configuration failed to promote good racing, and unfortunately also provided bad crash angles. Widening the aprons failed to correct either of these problems.
A major reconfiguration of the track during the summer of 1997 brought a more conventional layout – sweeping 180-degree corners at either end of the oval. Close, but still no cigar. But the most recent work on the track, during which the track assumed variable banking – up to 20 degrees in the corners, flattening to 3 degrees on the straightaways – has done the trick. Everyone agrees, at Homestead-Miami, the beauty is now more than skin deep.
WHERE TO WATCH:
Tune in at 7:30 p.m. ET for the Countdown to Green pre-race show over at eNASCAR.com/live or on iRacing’s social channels. The racing action begins at 8:00 p.m. ET live from the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Uptown Charlotte.
For more information on the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series, visit eNASCAR.com or iRacing.com/eNASCAR.
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