eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series | Power Rankings | Race 13 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
July 18th, 2025 by Justin Melillo
The Vicente Salas section of the 2025 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series season is upon us. Now a back-to-back winner at Dover Motor Speedway and the Chicago Street Course, Salas (Kanaan Esports) is more than locked in for the Playoffs now.
Salas joins Steven Wilson (Spire Motorsports), Tucker Minter (William Byron eSports), and Bobby Zalenski (ERA eSports) in the locked-in category by virtue of winning races. Kollin Keister (Jim Beaver eSports) has a win and can lock in after Indianapolis. Zack Novak (Channel 199 Sim Racing) should mathematically lock in to the playoffs on points after the penultimate Regular Season event, while Casey Kirwan (Kansas City Pioneers) and Parker White (Atlassian Williams Sim Racing) could potentially lock in on points depending on how things play out.
There are still two potential wins on the table for the 40-best drivers in eNASCAR to grab, but with only four tickets confirmed, and two more tickets being held tightly, that leaves four potential spots up for grabs in the 2025 eNASCAR Playoffs. Does that mean we will see more drivers with wins add on to their total, like Salas, Wilson, or Minter? Or will we see two drivers on the fringe claim a place in the fight for the title similar to how Daniel Faulkingham (Six Karma) and Graham Bowlin (Kansas City Pioneers) did a season ago?
This far into the season, the eNASCAR Power Rankings have evolved to a point where the top drivers are established. Drivers like Wilson and Minter have been long established as the front runners. Salas has been a bit all over the board. There’s no denying, however, with two straight wins, that the Kanaan Esports competitor is on top, despite both Wilson and Minter having more wins through the whole season.
On the teams front, there’s a lot to ponder as we head into the final third of the season. Between Wilson’s team, Spire Motorsports, Minter’s team, William Byron eSports, and Salas’ team, Kanaan Esports, which one will have their teammate step up the most in these final weeks? On top of that, can the established two-car tandems of Zack Novak and Dylan Duval at Channel 199 Sim Racing, or Bobby Zalenski and Michael Cosey Jr at ERA eSports, or Atlassian Williams with Donovan Strauss and Parker White, assert one of their drivers as a championship threat to go against the big three of Wilson, Minter, and Salas?
INDIANAPOLIS DRIVER POWER RANKINGS | Back-to-back wins for Salas puts Driver 11 on top over Wilson
What more can be said about the incredible season that Steven Wilson has had to-date. With five wins in 12 races, plus a Segment 2 victory, Wilson is the easy favorite heading into the 2025 eNASCAR Playoffs with 30 bonus points secured already. Tucker Minter has the next closest amount, with his three wins earning him 15 playoff points for the 10-driver round. The projected third seed is currently Vicente Salas. He now has 10 playoff points secured, and is looking at adding another five with a potential Segment 3 title, dependent on how Indianapolis and Pocono go.
With all the recent success, added with his earlier flashes of brilliance at many of the tracks earlier in the season, the math works out to put Salas on top of this week’s Power Rankings. Indianapolis is a second home to his team owner, Tony Kanaan, so there may be even more fuel to that burning fire to succeed in the upcoming event, as Salas looks for a three-peat.
Granted, on the final lap at Chicago, everything could have been dramatically different if things bent and twisted differently in McDonald’s Alley 1. Wilson was in the lead, if only for a moment, and Zalenski almost took that from him, if only in a brief glimmer of the Hail Mary shot. Salas still wound up winning, leading every lap, and that’s what the scoreboard will read until the end of time.
Outside of the battle at the top, there wasn’t too much out of the ordinary. Both Casey Kirwan and Jordy Lopez (BS+COMPETITION) had the biggest gains this week. Kirwan earned the pole position and worked back up to finish in fourth. Lopez, meanwhile, has had a huge turnaround in the recent weeks, and now sits inside the playoff grid with two races to go as a result.
Ryan Luza’s drop isn’t really indicative of his performance at Chicago. The fgrAccel driver isn’t known for his road racing prowess, but he’s gotten to a point where he can safely put it in the top half of the field, and he did just that at Chicago, placing 15th. With the math of the spreadsheet, losing a second place at Nashville from recent starts and replacing it with a 15th just shows how close it can be among the top drivers, where the formula spits you out.
In the battle of the rookies, Connor Yeroschak (Letarte Esports) leads the way, and is one of two rookies currently ranked in the Power Rankings, the other being Apex Racing Team’s Christopher Hill. It was close for Quentin Warman (Hyak Motorsports), who finished 10th in his home race, to getting ranked by the math, but he sits just outside of the rankings for another week. New to the fold this week is Matt Bussa (Kevin Harvick Inc), with an 11th place finish at Chicago, and the other Apex Racing driver, Cody Byus, who ran a good chunk of the previous race inside the top-10.
TOP 20 DRIVERS POWER RANKINGS (ENTERING INDIANAPOLIS)
- Vicente Salas (+1)
- Steven Wilson (-1)
- Tucker Minter
- Casey Kirwan (+4)
- Jordy Lopez (+6)
- Bobby Zalenski (+1)
- Zack Novak (-3)
- Kollin Keister (-2)
- Parker White (+1)
- Ryan Luza (-5)
- Seth DeMerchant (-2)
- Michael Guest (+3)
- Michael Cosey Jr (-1)
- Dylan Ault (+3)
- Dylan Duval (-1)
- Connor Yeroschak (-3)
- Garrett Lowe (+2)
- Christopher Hill
- Matt Bussa (NEW)
- Cody Byus (NEW)
Fell out: Donovan Strauss, Jimmy Mullis
INDIANAPOLIS TEAM POWER RANKINGS | Spire leads, but Channel 199 only team with both drivers on current Playoff Grid
I feel like I say this every week, but there still isn’t a team that wants to win this Team Championship. That makes ranking these teams so hard in the Power Rankings.
On one hand, Channel 199 Sim Racing has both drivers inside the Playoffs as it stands, which makes sense as to why they are leading the points championship currently. However, Spire Motorsports has Steven Wilson and his five wins, and Femi Olatunbosun is doing just enough to keep the team in the conversation. The math says Spire stays atop for another week, and it’s hard to agree, but also hard to disagree.
William Byron eSports got a big jump this week due to Nick Ottinger collecting his best finish of the season at Chicago in 13th. Tucker Minter and his three wins on the season finished in eighth, so they were able to leap frog a bunch of solid teams this week. ERA eSports technically loses a spot, but it was close between them and William Byron eSports—perhaps a Bobby Zalenski win would have kept them ahead, or at the very least, a day where Michael Cosey Jr doesn’t end up in the tires, de-railing his chances early on.
Kanaan Esports has Vicente Salas and his two straight wins propping them up to the top-five. fgrAccel lost a race where both Ryan Luza and Seth DeMerchant had incredible finishes at Nashville off of their recent finishes in the equation, thus why they dropped so hard.
Atlassian Williams Sim Racing is seventh now. Parker White and Donovan Strauss won this title a year ago, and in the team rankings, sit fourth, behind Channel 199, Spire, and ERA eSports. Without any wins, it’s hard to place them ahead of Kanaan Esports or William Byron eSports, either. Also, the Kansas City Pioneers, with Casey Kirwan and Graham Bowlin, are pretty similar right now, but with Casey beating Parker this week, that was essentially the difference in the math to place KCP sixth over Atlassian Williams in seventh.
Besides Kanaan Esports, those six teams are still within 100 points from first to sixth. One really good race versus one really bad race in any camp could sway the numbers as we get closer to the end of the year.
TOP 10 TEAMS POWER RANKINGS (ENTERING INDIANAPOLIS)
- Spire Motorsports
- Channel 199 Sim Racing
- William Byron eSports (+3)
- ERA eSports (-1)
- Kanaan Esports (+2)
- Kansas City Pioneers (+2)
- Atlassian Williams Sim Racing (-2)
- BS+COMPETITION (+2)
- fgrAccel (-5)
- Jim Beaver 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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