Lapcevich Closes Out eNASCAR International Series With Phoenix Victory, Day Secures Title

February 7th, 2022 by

Images via Justin Melillo

NASCAR Pinty’s Series driver Treyten Lapcevich dominated the final round of the DBOX eNASCAR International iRacing Series presented by Digital Motorsports season, scoring the checkered flag at Phoenix Raceway from the pole on Saturday morning. Lapcevich led all but one of the race’s 65 laps as it was extended for a green-white-checkered finish, posted the fastest lap of the race, and held off a closely packed field to close out the season with a deserved victory.

Lapcevich’s closest challenger at the finish was former NASCAR Whelen Euro Series champion Alon Day, who started second and ran within the top five all race. After sweeping all three road course race wins in the previous three weeks, Day overcame a lap-down finish in the opener from Homestead to hold the points lead coming into the Phoenix finale, and his second-place result was more than enough to retain the championship.

An impressive charge from the 21st starting spot saw NASCAR Xfinity Series and Drive for Diversity driver Rajah Caruth finish third at race’s end; it took the Homestead winner less than 10 laps to crack the top 10, and he made it into the top five for the first time on lap 20. Fellow series front-runners Tobias Dauenhauer and Alex de Alba completed the top five, with de Alba recovering from a pit road speeding penalty after having briefly taken the lead from Lapcevich under pit stops.

What had already been a close points battle received a further shuffle from the Phoenix finish as well. Lapcevich jumped to second in the final standings with his win, overtaking NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series driver Victor Barrales, who finished 10th. Caruth and de Alba were part of a three-way tie for fourth in the standings with Simon Pilate, who finished 13th, while Dauenhauer was just two points away from making it a four-way tie.

DBOX eNASCAR International iRacing Series presented by Digital Motorsports results from Phoenix Raceway were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Name

Manufacturer

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts
1 1 20 Treyten Lapcevich Chevrolet 65 64 27.722 40
2 2 21 Alon  Day Chevrolet 65 -0.564 0 27.813 35
3 21 13 Rajah Caruth Chevrolet 65 -0.624 0 27.755 34
4 4 50 Tobias Dauenhauer Ford 65 -1.167 0 27.906 33
5 3 14 Alex de Alba Ford 65 -1.845 1 27.835 32
6 9 19 Jaiden Reyna Chevrolet 65 -2.137 0 28.170 31
7 16 2 Abraham Calderon Chevrolet 65 -2.397 0 28.085 30
8 13 10 Ulysse Delsaux Chevrolet 65 -2.542 0 28.200 29
9 24 5 Aaron Cosio Ford 65 -2.591 0 28.279 28
10 7 39 Victor Barrales Ford 65 -3.029 0 28.056 27
11 11 46 Miguel Gomes Chevrolet 65 -3.815 0 28.213 26
12 10 81 Justin T Campbell Chevrolet 65 -4.098 0 28.233 25
13 8 8 Simon Pilate Chevrolet 65 -4.340 0 28.081 24
14 6 64 Paul Jouffreau Ford 65 -5.889 0 27.937 23
15 15 77 Jocelyn Fecteau Chevrolet 65 -5.901 0 28.365 22
16 12 51 Jake Cosio Ford 65 -12.284 0 28.157 21
17 19 48 Yevgen Sokolovskiy Chevrolet 64 -1 L 0 28.301 20
18 20 1 Vladimiros Tziortzis Ford 64 -1 L 0 28.522 19
19 18 88 Massimiliano Lanza Chevrolet 62 -3 L 0 28.339 18
20 23 69 Giorgio Maggi Ford 47 -18 L 0 27.842 17
21 5 3 Frederic Gabillon Ford 36 -29 L 0 27.992 16
22 14 148 Gordon  Barnes Chevrolet 23 -42 L 0 28.367 15
23 17 18 Alex Tagliani Chevrolet 10 -55 L 0 28.691 14
24 22 99 Naveh Talor Chevrolet 0 -65 L 0 13

 

Final DBOX eNASCAR International iRacing Series presented by Digital Motorsports points are as follows:

  1. Alon Day, 172
  2. Treyten Lapcevich, 165
  3. Victor Barrales, 159
  4. Rajah Caruth, 150
  5. Alex de Alba, 150
  6. Simon Pilate, 150
  7. Tobias Dauenhauer, 148
  8. Paul Jouffreau, 133
  9. Miguel Gomes, 131
  10. Justin Campbell, 129
  11. Ulysse Delsaux, 116
  12. Jake Cosio, 112
  13. Gordon Barnes, 104
  14. Giorgio Maggi, 99
  15. Aaron Cosio, 98
  16. Yevgen Sokolovskiy, 91
  17. Jocelyn Fecteau, 89
  18. Vladimiros Tziortzis, 89
  19. Massimiliano Lanza, 88
  20. Alex Tagliani, 80
  21. Diego Ortiz, 77
  22. Davide Dallara, 71
  23. Frederic Gabillon, 64
  24. Federico Gutierrez, 63
  25. Jaiden Reyna, 59
  26. Leo Colavita, 52
  27. Abraham Calderon, 49
  28. Andres Perez de Lara, 36
  29. Nick Sanchez, 29
  30. Alberto Panebianco, 12

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