Mullis Muddles Playoff Picture With Third Straight eNASCAR Win in New Hampshire

He may drive for Richmond Raceway eSports, but there’s something about the Magic Mile that really agrees with Jimmy Mullis.

For the third straight time, an eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series event from New Hampshire Motor Speedway ended with Mullis taking the checkered flag on Tuesday night. He scored his first career victory from the track three years ago, dominated in his return in 2020 after the series skipped the year before, and survived a flurry of late-race restarts and overtime once again this year to hold off Mode Motorsports’ Jake Nichols and JR Motorsports’ Michael Conti. Matching the real-world NASCAR Cup Series total, Mullis is now the 11th different winner in the 2021 season so far, guaranteeing that at least one race winner won’t make it into the playoffs simply by virtue of scoring a victory.

At just over a mile but with flat corners, NHMS isn’t technically a short track, but most drivers agree that it tends to race like one. That’s why, for the second year in a row, there were quite a few cautions in the planned 151-lap race; while the field managed to get the total count down to 32 yellow flag laps from last year’s 53, thanks in part to lengthy green-flag stretches in the first half of the race, there were multiple wrecks that involved large portions of the field, including one coming to the checkered flag.

Many drivers in the playoffs, or on the cusp of a berth, took their share of lumps in those late-race wrecks. Among those impacted by the late-race carnage was Las Vegas winner Ryan Luza of XSET, who was involved in the biggest wreck of the night after trying to blend back into the field coming off of Turn 4. Top rookie Steven Wilson of Roush Fenway Racing, who is still looking for his breakthrough win to establish a playoff berth, also took damage from multiple incidents, while Atlanta winner Logan Clampitt of William Byron eSports was involved in the final yellow flag of the night to set up overtime.

Full results from eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series action at New Hampshire were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Name

Manufacturer

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts

11246Jimmy MullisToyota1525429.31240
21524Jake NicholsFord152-0.453029.52735
338Michael ContiChevrolet152-0.5282429.34734
4690Zack NovakToyota152-0.685029.36733
5810Graham A. BowlinFord152-0.709029.55532
61988Brad DaviesChevrolet152-0.873029.59231
71651Ray AlfallaToyota152-0.902029.47130
8249Michael GuestFord152-1.194029.65229
9183Corey VincentChevrolet152-1.203029.65128
102123Mitchell deJongToyota152-1.555029.70127
11232Keegan LeahyToyota152-1.705029.50026
123925Nick OttingerChevrolet152-1.892029.50825
132314Blade WhittFord152-1.942029.64824
143338Casey KirwanFord152-1.948029.71223
153844Anthony BurroughsChevrolet152-2.180029.80222
163215Caine CookFord152-2.234029.65021
173529Zack NicholsFord152-2.944029.73520
18433Taylor HurstChevrolet152-3.310029.60219
193677Bob BryantChevrolet152-3.390029.75018
201421Garrett LoweFord152-3.454029.68117
212737Derek JustisChevrolet152-3.479029.76316
221341Dylan DuvalFord152-3.510029.63615
23136Chris ShearburnChevrolet152-3.5255129.41914
243067Allen BoesChevrolet152-3.526329.72513
253718Femi OlatToyota152-3.560029.70112
261183Bobby ZalenskiChevrolet152-3.582029.69411
27102Garrett ManesToyota152-3.610029.46010
282217Steven WilsonFord152-3.679029.7089
294047Brian SchoenburgChevrolet152-4.068329.8358
303166Blake ReynoldsChevrolet152-4.224029.7057
31997Logan ClampittChevrolet152-5.626029.6616
32755Vicente SalasFord152-5.8431729.4195
3354Ryan Michael LuzaFord152-6.921029.5234
342575Matt BussaFord152-7.453029.6823
352852Jake MathesonFord143-9 L029.7442
36296Nathan LyonFord135-17 L029.3781
373416John GorlinskyFord93-59 L029.5481
381779Ryan DoucetteFord44-108 L029.8371
392611Malik RayFord43-109 L029.7821
40201Ashton CrowderToyota24-128 L029.9031

 

The eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series playoff grid after 12 races is as follows:

  1. Mitchell deJong, 2 wins, 272 points
  2. Keegan Leahy, 1 win, 297 points
  3. Bobby Zalenski, 1 win, 270 points
  4. Michael Conti, 1 win, 266 points
  5. Vicente Salas, 1 win, 247 points
  6. Bob Bryant, 1 win, 241 points
  7. Logan Clampitt, 1 win, 241 points
  8. Jimmy Mullis, 1 win, 229 points
  9. Ryan Luza, 1 win, 227 points
  10. Chris Shearburn, 1 win, 210 points

The eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series heads into its All-Star Race in two weeks’ time, visiting Nashville Superspeedway for a showdown in the NASCAR Next Gen cars on July 27. As always, coverage begins with iRacing Countdown to Green at 8:30PM ET, with the racing action picking up at 9PM ET on eNASCAR.com/live and iRacing’s social media channels. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iRacing.com.