eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series | Power Rankings | Race 8 at Nashville Superspeedway

If you didn’t already know, including this past Tuesday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series will be racing six times in seven weeks, sans one Tuesday night saved for Week 13 and the Season 3 iRacing build. Traditionally, the series races every two weeks. It wasn’t until 2013 that the series saw its first back-to-back-to-back points-paying race weeks. That didn’t happen again until the start of the 2017 season, and then in 2020, the series had four-straight races to close out the season. It hasn’t happened since.

The strain of having so many races in a short amount of time means that drivers and teams will have less time to prepare for each race, and it gets even tougher after the June 10th midway break—where the cars and many tracks are expected to receive updates for 2025 Season 3 and beyond.

The whole reason I mention this is because it could matter more than ever, if you’ve got the pace now, to strike and get wins, to lock in to the eNASCAR Playoffs, and to get all the points you can before this stretch of races goes too far deep.

Tucker Minter doubles up, earns eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series checkered flag in Coca-Cola 160

Tucker Minter (William Byron eSports) already had a win to his credit, back at Rockingham Speedway in April. Imagine that, the two longest races of the season, and they both belong to the same driver who was able to use the long run pace to his advantage. Minter is also the defending winner at Nashville Superspeedway, the next race on the schedule. Could Minter tie three-time winner Steven Wilson (Spire Motorsports) at the top of the Playoff rankings?

Right now, it’s Tucker Minter’s world, as he leads the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series points standings AND Power Rankings for the first time in 2025.

NASHVILLE DRIVER POWER RANKINGS | Momentum belongs to Minter; Wilson still lurking

It’s not about the whole body, it’s about current events in the eNASCAR Power Rankings. The simplicity of it all is that Steven Wilson’s last win came in the fourth race of the season. Tucker Minter has two wins since then, in races five and seven.

Minter had to beat the defending series champion in Double eNASCAR Overtime to do it, mind you. Yes, Parker White (Atlassian Williams Sim Racing) is trending upwards once again after two less-than-optimal races for the third year competitor. Minter and Wilson do still have a buffer to White in the form of Zack Novak (Channel 199 Sim Racing) who will not get talked about enough for his herculean efforts at Charlotte.

Seriously, the only driver to pit under green before the first caution flew on Lap 51, Novak had just over 100 laps to get from dead last to finish in eighth. If he didn’t have that early handicap, we might be talking about Novak’s first win since 2019 and his rise to the top of the eNASCAR Power Rankings instead!

Bobby Zalenski (ERA eSports Team) followed up his Talladega win with a solid day at Charlotte. Again, the what-ifs exist, where if Zalenski and Casey Kirwan (Kansas City Pioneers) didn’t collide on pit road during the second pit stops of the day, we might be talking about two-in-a-row for Mr. Championship 4.

The biggest mover was Kollin Keister (Jim Beaver eSports) this week, the Las Vegas winner moving back up to the sixth spot after a top-five run in the Coca-Cola 160, a race he’s won at a longer distance in the past. Malik Ray (Vegas Inferno) had a solid day mounting before he got caught up in the incident in the first eNASCAR Overtime attempt. He stays inside the eNASCAR Playoffs picture for now, but there are some challengers mounting behind him.

Graham Bowlin (Kansas City Pioneers) is finally starting to hit his stride. Three top-11 finishes in the last four races, including a fourth place run at Charlotte Motor Speedway has the two-time Championship 4 competitor inside the top-20 in points for the first time since the opening race at Daytona. Michael Cosey Jr (ERA eSports Team) re-joins the Power Rankings this week with a seventh place run. I’d be remiss not to acknowledge the two fgrAccel drivers, Ryan Luza and Seth DeMerchant, having seasons-best runs as well.

TOP 20 DRIVERS POWER RANKINGS (ENTERING NASHVILLE)

1. Tucker Minter (+2)
2. Steven Wilson (-1)
3. Zack Novak (-1)
4. Parker White (+1)
5. Bobby Zalenski (-1)
6. Kollin Keister (+6)
7. Malik Ray (-1)
8. Donovan Strauss (+3)
9. Casey Kirwan (+1)
10. Dylan Duval (-1)
11. Dylan Ault (-3)
12. Michael Guest (+1)
13. Graham Bowlin (NEW)
14. Vicente Salas (-7)
15. Collin Bowden (+3)
16. Femi Olatunbosun (-1)
17. Blaze Crawford (+3)
18. Michael Cosey Jr (NEW)
19. Seth DeMerchant (NEW)
20. Ryan Luza [tie] (NEW)
    Daniel Faulkingham [tie] (-6)

Fell out: Jimmy Mullis, Jordy Lopez, Quentin Warman

NASHVILLE TEAM POWER RANKINGS | Spire, Channel 199 in power struggle for top spot

Alan Cavanna and Ryan Vargas were both critical of my Power Ranking decisions during the Countdown to Green last week. The numbers and math don’t lie, though. Even if I made up the parameters of said numbers and math. Anyway, there is a literal tie at the top of the actual Team Standings, so for the Power Rankings, it was up to me to make the determination of who is actually top dog this week.

Steven Wilson leads Zack Novak by a single point. The other Channel 199 entry, Dylan Duval, leads the other Spire entry, Femi Olatunbosun, by a single point. The math does still extend far back enough to count Wilson’s last win at Richmond, but don’t forget, it was Novak who won the Segment. Segment wins don’t make Playoff berths, however, so the win holds just a tad more weight, putting Spire Motorsports back on top for another week.

Atlassian Williams had a solid day, getting both of their drivers out of the funk they were in, with Parker White second and Donovan Strauss in 12th. That’s not to say ERA eSports Team didn’t have a good day, and it’s almost unfair that they lost third AND fourth in the Power Rankings, but that’s the math sometimes.

Photo: Josh Chin / eNASCAR

William Byron eSports is a curious case, however. Nick Ottinger sits 34th in the standings after seven races. That is the lowest he’s ever been this deep into a season in his career, his previous worst being 26th after seven races in 2017. He’s not slow, mind you. He’s earned a pole, led laps, done the work to have solid cars in the field with his backend support at Team Conti, but the finishes just haven’t been there for the OttiBoss. Tucker Minter, on the other hand, is killing it, and if Ottinger was just a skosh higher, maybe the Logitech G-sponsored outfit might have a say in the conversation among Spire, Channel 199, and Atlassian Williams.

There weren’t many more changes through the top-10, but again, fgrAccel had a monster day at Charlotte that can not be denied. Ryan Luza was a top-five driver the entire day, until his race got crushed in a late-race four-wide scenario, with cars pinballing underneath, ultimately resulting in Luza finishing 15th.

Seth DeMerchant was a caution, perhaps a pit stop, or even a restart away from his first win in the series, on the same strategy as Minter. DeMerchant settled for his best finish of the year—third—and is definitely putting the rest of the field on notice, saying loudly that he can compete at this level.

TOP 10 TEAMS POWER RANKINGS (ENTERING NASHVILLE)

1. Spire Motorsports (+1)
2. Channel 199 Sim Racing (-1)
3. Atlassian Williams Sim Racing (+1)
4. William Byron eSports (+2)
5. ERA eSports Team (-2)
6. Vegas Inferno (-1)
7. Kansas City Pioneers (+1)
8. Jim Beaver eSports (+2)
9. HYAK Motorsports (-2)
10. fgrAccel (NEW)

Fell out: Kanaan Esports

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.

For more information on the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series, visit eNASCAR.com or iRacing.com/eNASCAR.
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