Smith Finally Scores First iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Win at Cedar Lake

January 10th, 2023 by

To anybody who’s been following along with the 2022-23 iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series season, watching a win by Timothy Smith at some point during the season seemed like an inevitability. After all, he led laps in multiple races during the first half of the season, and another podium finish at Fairbury Speedway last week finally allowed him to take the points lead by two over series legend Alex Bergeron.

On Monday night at Cedar Lake Speedway, the stars finally aligned. Smith led nearly the whole 35-lap feature, weathering a late-race challenge from Bergeron after the final restart, to score the breakthrough victory and narrowly extend his championship lead. Smith now holds a five-point advantage over Bergeron with three races remaining after the thrilling duel to the finish.

Smith and Bergeron were joined by Aiden Forster and Tyler Schell as heat winners on the night, while Aiden Bierlein and Kendal Tucker won the two last chance qualifiers. The first caution came out just past halfway as defending race winner Hayden Cardwell rode the Turn 2 wall and flipped after trying to chase down Forster for sixth. The second and final caution came out on Lap 27, when I-55 and Fairbury winner James Edens bounced off the wall and into Tucker.

Both restarts gave Bergeron an opportunity to get past Smith, and he’d finally throw a slider to lead his first lap of the night. But Smith would cross back over to retake the lead, and with pressure from Tanner Pettit for the second spot, Bergeron would have to settle for second as Smith finally took the checkered flag.

iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series results from Cedar Lake Speedway were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts.
1 1 86 Timothy S Smith 35 32 11.038 78
2 4 12 Alex A Bergeron 35 -0.625 1 11.125 75
3 6 24 Tanner Pettit 35 -1.070 0 11.172 71
4 3 85 Tyler Schell 35 -1.830 0 11.183 69
5 10 33 Evan Seay 35 -2.025 0 11.094 64
6 7 16 Blake Giglio 35 -2.207 0 11.213 62
7 2 20 Aiden Forster 35 -2.604 0 11.147 60
8 15 127 Blake Matjoulis 35 -2.872 0 11.491 54
9 12 5 Braden Eyler 35 -3.334 0 11.270 52
10 14 14 JD Brown 35 -3.928 0 11.302 48
11 16 52 James Edens 35 -4.103 0 11.404 46
12 19 1 Mason Hannagan 35 -4.441 0 11.427 42
13 17 13 Aiden Bierlein 35 -4.655 0 11.386 41
14 11 174 Loic Bernier 35 -5.298 0 11.567 41
15 9 17 Eric Witner 35 -6.248 0 11.192 39
16 18 00 Kendal Tucker 35 -6.406 0 11.485 35
17 13 11 Kenny Hoffman 35 -6.493 0 11.181 34
18 8 23 Kenny Miller 35 -6.674 0 11.504 34
19 5 07 Hayden Cardwell 19 -16 L 0 11.112 32
20 20 41 Logan Rumsey 12 -23 L 0 11.445 26

 

iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series points through seven rounds are as follows:

  1. Timothy Smith, 442
  2. Alex Bergeron, 437
  3. Tyler Schell, 409
  4. James Edens, 376
  5. Kendal Tucker, 369
  6. JD Brown, 350
  7. Braden Eyler, 322
  8. Kenny Miller, 318
  9. Hayden Cardwell, 312
  10. Mason Hannagan, 286

The iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series season continues next Monday at Knoxville Raceway, where Bergeron will hope to both defend last year’s victory and retake the championship lead. As always, the action streams live at 9PM ET on DIRTVision and across iRacing social media channels.

For more information on the iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series, visit www.iracing.com/woosc. For more information on the World of Outlaws, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.

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