eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series | Power Rankings | Race 11 at Dover Motor Speedway

With 10 races down, five of them have been conquered by Spire Motorsports’ Steven Wilson. It wasn’t a given, however, as the 2025 iRacing Season 3 build switched up the way the current gen NASCAR Cup cars handled, and this season’s first test with these new settings was on another new entity, a rescanned and re-released Iowa Speedway.

For a while, it looked as though Wilson would have a solid day, but not a race winning day. That all changed with the first caution of the evening, which flipped the script in the middle of the pit cycle. ERA eSports’ Michael Cosey Jr was the dominant force, winning the pole, winning his Heat, and just before the caution, winning the race through the cycle, passing Kanaan Esports’ Vicente Salas for the cycle lead.

Still, the inevitable happened, and the 2023 series champion was able to find himself back in victory lane at his home track, in his first home track race away from home after moving to North Carolina, and thus he and his outlet continue to sit atop the standings and Power Rankings as the series heads to Dover on Tuesday night.

Hawkeye Steven Wilson claims second eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series win-in-a-row at Iowa

DOVER DRIVER POWER RANKINGS | Wilson re-cemented at top; Altus-backed drivers moving up order

Wilson’s reign started early in 2025, winning at Daytona, Interlagos, and Richmond. He might have had Las Vegas too if not for a faulty connection to the server that day. After the mid-section of the Regular Season felt like a drop off for Wilson, a case in which William Byron eSports’ Tucker Minter won at Rockingham, Charlotte, and Nashville, the former champion has rebounded with two more wins since Minter’s last—at Kansas and now Iowa—cementing his status at the top of everything.

One might call it luck, others might call it circumstances, but some will rightfully call it skill, and over the last three-and-a-half seasons, it’s been apparent who the top dog is in the series as Wilson has won more races than anyone else in that period—14 races since his first one at Echo Park Speedway, formerly Atlanta, 62 races ago. The next closest win total in that time span is half of that, with both ERA eSports’ Bobby Zalenski and Minter having seven apiece.

There are so many factors that go into Wilson’s ability to win so often. Channel 199 Sim Racing’s Zack Novak could have just as easily been the driver to get through the traffic first before Wilson, but instead he had to settle for another second place finish. Novak wants that win, desperately. He hasn’t won at the top level of the series since his championship season back in 2019, but he’s finished inside the top-five 21 times since then, eight of those results in second place.

The Altus-backed drivers had a stupendous day at the 7/8-mile in Newton, Iowa. While Cosey Jr led the majority of the way, fgrAccel’s Seth DeMerchant, BS+COMPETITION’s Jordy Lopez, and even Apex Racing Team’s Christopher Hill were enjoying competing at the front of the field. Unfortunately, both Zalenski and Minter missed the mark, having issues through their respective races.

All of the math still works in Minter’s favor, having won in two of the last four races, so therefore he stays second despite a 38th place run. Zalenski, on the other hand, no longer has a Talladega win to cite in his Power Ranking math, and drops down after two tough races at Kansas and Iowa.

Another backend team that showed promise at Iowa on the new build was the Team Conti group. Smaller than they’ve been in past years, but a force to be reckoned with in future races, perhaps? The Kevin Harvick Inc. duo of Jimmy Mullis and Matt Bussa both impressed with their ability to make moves through the field in the early stages. Mullis ran second while Bussa ran sixth at one point, both of which had to overcome not-so-great qualifying efforts to get there.

William Byron eSports’ Nick Ottinger, the other Team Conti driver in the field, did have a good qualifying effort, but after a checkup incident with Jim Beaver eSports’ Nate Stewart and Atlassian Williams Sim Racing’s Donovan Strauss in the opening Heat race, he was not able to get through the field like the other two. The chaos of the end shuffled the order to a point where earlier running position didn’t matter for the final results, unfortunately.

The focus with four races to go in the Regular Season is how to make the 2025 eNASCAR Playoffs. A win, combined with a position inside the top-20, is a guaranteed lock. Only one driver outside the top-10 currently—Jim Beaver eSports’ Kollin Keister in 11th—has a win and a place currently on the playoff grid. That comes at the expense of Hyak Motorsports’ Dylan Ault, who re-enters the conversation after another top-10 finish and rejoins the top-10 in the standings overall, but would be the first driver out if the playoffs began today.

There have been drivers close to wins—Novak multiple times, Salas at the tracks where he won the races before the race, Cosey Jr last week, fgrAccel’s Ryan Luza and Seth DeMerchant, Atlassian Williams’ Parker White, Kansas City’s Casey Kirwan—but because Wilson and Minter have eight of the 10 race wins on the season, it seems many of the playoff spots this year will belong to drivers with good points standing.

TOP 20 DRIVERS POWER RANKINGS (ENTERING DOVER)

1. Steven Wilson
2. Tucker Minter
3. Zack Novak (+3)
4. Parker White (-1)
5. Michael Cosey Jr (+6)
6. Vicente Salas (+1)
7. Seth DeMerchant (+5)
8. Bobby Zalenski (-4)
9. Casey Kirwan (-4)
10. Kollin Keister (+3)
11. Ryan Luza (-2)
12. Jordy Lopez (NEW)
13. Donovan Strauss (-5)
14. Graham Bowlin (+2)
15. Michael Guest (-1)
16. Garrett Lowe (+1)
17. Connor Yeroschak (NEW)
18. Blaze Crawford (+2)
19. Jimmy Mullis (NEW)
20. Dylan Ault (NEW)

Fell out: Malik Ray, Dylan Duval, Femi Olatunbosun, Daniel Faulkingham

DOVER TEAM POWER RANKINGS | Spire unable to pull away as ERA eSports climbs rankings

What makes a whole team rise to the top of the Power Rankings? Well, if both drivers are in the playoff picture, that would be a good start. This statement currently rings true for both ERA eSports and Atlassian Williams Sim Racing, although the latter is having a bit of a fall off in recent weeks.

ERA eSports, with Bobby Zalenski (a winner at Talladega) and Michael Cosey Jr (an almost-winner at Iowa), is the hottest two-man show by the numbers. Even that can’t overcome what Steven Wilson brings to Spire Motorsports almost all by himself. Femi Olatunbosun has been teetering these last few weeks. He’s fallen out of the Driver’s Power Rankings after a third finish outside the top-20 in the last five races. Olatunbosun began the year with three top-10s in the first four, so the fact he is still in the conversation in the playoffs, down in 14th and 21 points out, is a testament more to how close this field is this year.

The same conversation still exists for William Byron eSports, with Tucker Minter winning everything and Nick Ottinger having an off year in comparison to the other seasons that he’s competed in. Dover is up next, and if there’s any place Ottinger can turn his season around, it would be the venue where he’s won four times over his career, including as recently as 2023.

Together with the Channel 199 Sim Racing outlet of Zack Novak and Dylan Duval, these five teams have separated themselves from the rest of the field as a collective.

Both fgrAccel and BS+COMPETITION are rising up the order, but are still both playing catch-up to the teams that established themselves early on. The Kansas City Pioneers are also right on the cusp. Graham Bowlin continues to steadily rise through the rankings, and if he could potentially pull off what he did last season—winning his way into a playoff berth and surviving to the Championship 4—he’s put himself in a great position to do so.

So many things, and so many different factors could completely shake up the rankings. One thing seems to stay constant, however, and that is wherever Steven Wilson finds himself seems to be at, or at least near, the top of the mountain.

TOP 10 TEAMS POWER RANKINGS (ENTERING DOVER)

1. Spire Motorsports
2. ERA eSports (+3)
3. Channel 199 Sim Racing (+1)
4. Atlassian Williams Sim Racing (-2)
5. William Byron eSports (-2)
6. fgrAccel (+1)
7. Kansas City Pioneers (-1)
8. BS+COMPETITION (+2)
9. Vegas Inferno (-1)
10. Kanaan Esports (-1)

Fell out: None

Agree with these rankings? Disagree? Let me know on X (formerly Twitter) or BlueSky.

The quest for the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series championship, and the road to $500,000, continues on Tuesday night at 8:00 pm ET, live on eNASCAR.com/live. Tune in to the pre-race Countdown to Green starting at 7:30 pm ET.

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