World of Outlaws iRacing Pro Series | Race Preview | Race 7 at Cedar Lake Speedway

The World of Outlaws iRacing Pro Series returns on Monday night for the seventh race of the 2025-26 season, the second on the 2026 side of the calendar, and the second on the Super Late Model side—Segment 2—as well. This series contains a schedule of 10 tracks with two dirt oval disciplines—split among the 410 Sprint Car in the first half, and the Super Late Model in the second—and has an open qualifying series format to allow for anyone to take part in each round of the championship.

For races 1 through 4, and 6 through 9, the driver roster is set each week through the Pro Qualifying Series races that are open to all iRacing members with a Class A Dirt Oval license. These qualifying races will run on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET, and the top-40 point scorers will be invited to the iRacing World of Outlaws Pro Series league each week for the Monday night main event. After the Monday show, the league is cleared out, and the process begins again. Points will be tracked as normal across those 10 main events to crown the series champion. The top-60 eligible drivers by the end of the ninth race in the standings will be invited to the final round, the Dirt SLM Tournament.

For the seventh race of the season, the Pro Series field will take at Cedar Lake Speedway. The main event will include a 50-lap feature for 22 cars that qualify in through qualifying, heat races, and last chance qualifiers. The action starts at 8:00 p.m. ET and it will be live on DIRTVision and across all of iRacing’s social media channels.

CEDAR LAKE SPEEDWAY | DRIVER ROSTER

The following 40 drivers have qualified into Monday night’s event at Cedar Lake Speedway, utilizing the Dirt Super Late Model, by scoring the most points last week during the qualifying races:

• Blake Matjoulis
• Blake Steele
• Brandon Barnhart
• Cole Hastie
• Colton Jordan
• Conner New
• Coy Vlies
• Darrell Bass
• Dezmond Busby
• Drew Jonkman
• Dustin Price
• Dylan Yeager
• Ethan Johnson
• Ethan Stuckwisch
• Evan Seay
• Gabe Elkins
• Grady Ehrman
• Hayden Cardwell
• Hayden Tollison
• Jesse Enterkin
• Jesse Newsome
• Joey Lingron
• Jordan Casey
• Jordan McClain
• Kaden Honeycutt
• Knoxx Lumley
• Kory Roberts
• Logan Hickerson
• Logan Rumsey
• Lucas Ruark
• Matthew Selby
• Matthew Watts
• Mike Augustine
• Nathan Waddell
• Riley Hutchison
• Steven Gaines
• Tucker Elkins
• Tyler Orr
• Tyler Spradley
• Tylor Clemann

RACE FORMAT

These races feature qualifying and heat racing to determine the 22 drivers that will compete in the main race.

The top-eight qualifiers will immediately transfer to the feature. Pole winners score 25 points, second place scores 23 points, and points are paid out through the transfer spots to eighth, who will receive 17 points. When the feature begins, the top-eight will invert, with the pole sitter starting eighth and the eighth place qualifier starting on the pole.

For everyone else who does not qualify in, there will be four heat races of eight laps each, where the top-three finishers will advance forward through to the main event. Heat races also pay out points to all drivers, with the winner scoring 15 points and ninth place taking home seven points.

There will also be two 12-lap consolation races where only the winner in each will move on, but no additional points are scored.

Feature races will be 50 laps in the Dirt Super Late Model section of the schedule. The Feature winner will score 100 points, making the maximum number of points on any given night 125 for a pole and Feature win.

TRACK INFO

Home of The Masters and the USA Nationals, Cedar Lake Speedway is one of the premier circuits on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series schedule. “Wisconsin’s Fastest Piece of Real Estate” is a .375-mile clay oval based in New Richmond, Wisconsin, that broke ground in 1956 and opened the very next year. The track was conceived after farmer Elmer Cook remarked that the natural bowl in the swamp on his farm property would make a perfect racetrack, and after just three weeks of roughed out work, the track began to take shape.

Since then, Cedar Lake has come a long way from its humble beginnings, which saw 85 spectators watch 12 cars at its first event. Today, it’s home to marquee events like the World of Outlaws USA Nationals, The Masters, Legendary 100, and more. Whether sprint cars, late models, or modifieds are your preference, you’ll find Cedar Lake’s clay surface to be as fun as it gets to drive.

LAST RACE

In the sixth race of the 2025-26 World of Outlaws iRacing Pro Series, the Dirt Super Late Models took center stage for the first time, with more than half of the field joining the championship battle for the first time all season. In fact, only three of the top-10 drivers in the championship were able to qualify back through the Qualifying Series ranks. Conner New, making his debut on the season, qualified eighth and inverted to the pole position. A late race caution allowed Blake Matjoulis to get right to New’s back bumper on the final laps, but New held on to become the sixth different winner on the season.

LAST SEASON

Cedar Lake makes its return to top-level iRacing eSports for the first time since July of 2023, when the iRacing World of Outlaws Pro Series were separated into full-season Late Model and Sprint Car championships. In that race, it was the Dirt Super Late Models in action, and the two drivers in charge were the namesakes of Matjoulis-Seay Speedshop. The two put on a show, but it was Blake Matjoulis holding off Evan Seay for the victory.

For more details on the World of Outlaws iRacing Pro Series and the World of Outlaws iRacing Pro Qualifying Series, check out www.iRacing.com/WoO-Pro-Series/
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