Ottinger Scores Second Straight eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Win at Dover

April 27th, 2022 by

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The last time the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series visited Dover Motor Speedway, William Byron eSports driver Nick Ottinger scored the victory on the way to his first series title. After Tuesday night, 39 other drivers are hoping that isn’t an omen.

Ottinger scored his second straight win, both in the 2022 season and at “The Monster Mile,” with an impressive performance on Tuesday night. After surviving a flurry of late-race restarts, including a spectacular jump on Team Dillon Esports’ Corey Vincent going into eNASCAR Overtime, he continued a dominant early season that has either seen him start or finish first in all but one race in the first year of the Next Gen car.

Ottinger and fellow former series champion Michael Conti of JR Motorsports led a vast majority of the action, with each spending more than 50 laps up front, but Conti would be trapped a lap down briefly after a yellow flag came out just after he pit from the lead. Things wouldn’t work out much better in the long run for Joe Gibbs Racing’s Bobby Zalenski, who took it from him at that point; Zalenski would be the centerpiece of the final caution, dropping him from a certain top five to a disappointing 29th.

Instead, Stewart-Haas eSports’ Steven Wilson would jump to third at the finish, with Daytona winner Femi Olatunbosun of Clint Bowyer Racing in fourth and 2019 series champion Zack Novak of Rise eSports completing the top five. Despite eight cautions for 31 laps, amplified by Dover’s tight quarters that often sent wrecking drivers back up the track and into harm’s way, 25 of the 40 starters still managed to earn lead-lap finishes.

eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series results from Dover Motor Speedway were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Name

Team

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts
1 1 25 Nick Ottinger William Byron eSports 122 0 56 22.497 40
2 12 3 Corey Vincent Team Dillon Esports 122 -0.4 0 22.488 35
3 5 10 Steven Wilson Stewart Haas Racing 122 -0.524 0 22.507 34
4 10 79 Femi Olatunbosun Clint Bowyer Racing 122 -0.621 0 22.504 33
5 16 5 Zack Novak Rise eSports 122 -0.729 0 22.48 32
6 2 75 Matt Bussa Mode Motorsports 122 -1.13 0 22.651 31
7 7 41 Dylan Duval Stewart Haas Racing 122 -1.244 0 22.676 30
8 6 33 Taylor Hurst Team Dillon Esports 122 -1.255 0 22.727 29
9 22 95 Casey Kirwan XSET 122 -1.319 0 22.696 28
10 26 15 Blake Reynolds Jim Beaver eSports 122 -1.427 0 22.703 27
11 20 9 Michael Guest Jim Beaver eSports 122 -1.619 0 22.796 26
12 23 21 Garrett Lowe Wood Brothers Racing 122 -1.68 0 22.739 25
13 11 20 Donovan Strauss Williams eSports 122 -1.772 0 22.711 24
14 18 55 Allen Boes Space Station Gaming 122 -2.156 0 22.852 23
15 32 6 Parker Retzlaff Roush Fenway Keselowski 122 -2.321 0 22.818 22
16 34 42 Darik Bourdeau eRacr 122 -2.395 0 22.784 21
17 9 8 Michael Conti JR Motorsports 122 -2.475 53 22.598 20
18 31 36 Brian Mercurio Letarte Esports 122 -2.568 0 22.822 19
19 24 19 Vicente Salas Williams eSports 122 -2.792 0 22.782 18
20 40 17 Kaden Honeycutt Roush Fenway Keselowski 122 -2.871 0 22.769 17
21 27 31 Garrett Manes Elliot Sadler eSports 122 -3.08 0 22.751 16
22 19 7 Malik Ray iRacing Motorsports 122 -3.116 3 22.895 15
23 30 2 Liam Brotherton Elliot Sadler eSports 122 -3.12 0 22.813 14
24 36 48 Graham A. Bowlin Charlotte Phoenix 122 -4.791 0 22.745 13
25 17 51 Ray Alfalla Joe Gibbs Racing 122 -6.686 0 22.875 12
26 25 69 Collin Bowden eRacr 121 -1L 0 22.914 11
27 15 24 Cody Byus Mode Motorsports 120 Disqualified 0 22.921 10
28 35 45 Keegan Leahy 23XI 120 Disqualified 0 22.905 9
29 8 18 Bobby Zalenski Joe Gibbs Racing 120 Disqualified 10 22.543 8
30 29 16 Blade Whitt Wood Brothers Racing 117 -5L 0 22.801 7
31 13 23 Mitchell deJong 23XI 114 -8L 0 22.655 6
32 39 12 Derek Justis iRacing Motorsports 112 -10L 0 22.916 5
33 4 46 Jimmy Mullis Rise eSports 112 -10L 0 22.602 4
34 28 40 Dylan Ault Letarte Esports 110 -12L 0 22.94 3
35 14 88 Briar LaPradd JR Motorsports 106 -16L 0 22.811 2
36 21 4 Ryan Luza XSET 84 -38L 0 22.924 1
37 37 14 Nickolas Shelton Clint Bowyer Racing 28 DNF 0 22.88 1
38 33 43 Kollin Keister Charlotte Phoenix 22 -100L 0 22.899 1
39 3 97 Logan Clampitt William Byron eSports 21 DNF 0 22.865 1
40 38 54 Kyle Peddle Space Station Gaming 13 DNF 0 22.999 1

 

eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series points after six rounds are as follows:

  1. Nick Ottinger, 192
  2. Steven Wilson, 184
  3. Femi Olatunbosun, 168
  4. Matt Bussa, 158
  5. Graham Bowlin, 153
  6. Blake Reynolds, 153
  7. Casey Kirwan, 144
  8. Corey Vincent, 140
  9. Taylor Hurst, 138
  10. Michael Conti, 137

The eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series season continues in two weeks’ time at Kansas Speedway, the halfway point of the 14-race regular season. Broadcast coverage begins on Tuesday, May 10 at 8:30PM ET with Countdown to Green before the 9PM ET green flag, and can be seen at enascar.com/live.

For more information on the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series, visit www.enascar.com or www.iracing.com/enascar. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.

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