World of Outlaws iRacing Pro Series | Race Preview | Race 8 at Eldora Speedway

The World of Outlaws iRacing Pro Series returns on Monday night for the eighth race of the 2025-26 season, the halfway point of the Super Late Model side—Segment 2—on the 2026 side of the calendar. 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 eighth race of the season, the Pro Series field will take on Eldora 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.

ELDORA SPEEDWAY | DRIVER ROSTER

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

• Blake Matjoulis
• Brady Thompson
• Brandon Bolton
• Brayden Carter
• Brycen Daffern
• Colton Jordan
• Conner New
• Coy Vlies
• Derek Drymon
• Dezmond Busby
• Drew Jonkman
• Dylan Yeager
• Ethan Johnson
• Ethan Stuckwisch
• Evan Seay
• Gabe Elkins
• Grady Ehrman
• Hayden Cardwell
• Hayden Tollison
• Hunter Rich
• Jaxson Reitzler
• JD Brown
• Jesse Newsome
• Joey Lingron
• Jordan Casey
• JP Shedd
• Justin White
• Keaton Holder
• Kory Roberts
• Logan Rumsey
• Lucas Ruark
• Matthew Selby
• Matthew Watts
• Mike Augustine
• Nathan Waddell
• Riley Hutchison
• Scott Fritz
• Tanner Pettit
• Tanner Tomasi
• Ty Lounsberry

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

Both by geography and history, Eldora Speedway stands at the epicenter of dirt track racing. Situated in what was once an Ohio cornfield near the Indiana state line, the half-mile clay oval lies in the very heart of the Midwest’s roaring racing scene.  And as host to some of the biggest events on the short track racing calendar annually – events that have attracted the top names in American racing for more than half a century – Eldora can rightly bill itself as “The World’s Greatest Dirt Track.”

Constructed by Earl Baltes in 1954, Eldora became a fixture on the United States Auto Club schedule in the 1960s, with sprint cars its featured attraction in events like the Eldora 500.  In 1971, Baltes staged the inaugural World 100, widely considered to be the birth of the modern “dirt late model” racing and became a staunch supporter of the World of Outlaws Sprint Car series upon its founding in 1978.  Eldora went on to become the home of “The King’s Royal,” “The Eldora Million” and “The Dirt Late Model Dream” offering unheard of sprint and late model purses, before Baltes sold the facility to USAC Triple Crown and NASCAR champion Tony Stewart in 2004.

LAST RACE

Race No. 7 in the 2025-26 World of Outlaws iRacing Pro Series saw a seventh different winner on the season in the Super Late Model’s first caution-free race of the season. This time, it was long-time series competitor and former champion Blake Matjoulis stealing the show, taking the lead on Lap 9, never looking back. Matjoulis started fourth, behind Hayden Tollison, Dezmong Busby, and Lucas Ruark. At times, the battle for the lead went three-wide with Tollison, Busby, and Matjoulis. Eventually, Busby fell out of the picture, which was enough for Matjoulis to wrestle it away from Tollison for the victory.

LAST SEASON

The last battle at Eldora Speedway in this series took place last season, but it was utilizing the 410 Sprint Car. That race was won by the eventual champion last year, Logan Rumsey. The last time the Dirt Super Late Models were on the virtual track for the series was two-and-a-half years ago, when the two halves of Sprint Car and Late Model competition were their own separate series. In that late August battle at “The World’s Greatest Dirt Track”, Kendall Tucker claimed his second win of the 2023 season by a nose over teammate Evan Seay.

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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