Cardwell Avenges Last Year’s Loss, Wins iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Round at Eldora

Last winter, Hayden Cardwell’s shot at winning the iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series round at Eldora Speedway ended with a James Edens pass on the final lap. There was no such drama this time around, as Cardwell built a lead of more than a second and a half on Volusia winner Alex Bergeron to take the victory as the last 25 laps of the race ran caution-free.

Top qualifier Braden Eyler, Bergeron, Aiden Bierlein, and Tyler Schell won the four heat races, while Shawn English and Blake Giglio raced their way in through the B and C mains. Eyler would only hold the lead for a handful of laps off the start, as Bergeron quickly made his move after the restart for an early caution when Bierlein got the worst of a check-up ahead of him. Another yellow flag would fly just a few laps later, when Adam Elby clipped the wall and bounced back down into Edens, who went from the defending race winner to the only driver to finish off the lead lap in the feature.

But just as Bergeron got Eyler for the lead in the first few laps off the first restart, Cardwell would do the same to Bergeron off the second. After a handful of laps of trading the top spot in the corners, Cardwell would assert the spot for good on Lap 14 and continue building his lead from there as Bergeron and Eyler battled for second. Bergeron would make the decisive pass on Lap 22, and Eyler would hold third until both Kendal Tucker and JD Brown would get by him with two to go.

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

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts.

1507Hayden Cardwell352213.55477
2212Alex A Bergeron35-1.542913.42875
3600Kendal Tucker35-1.785013.64671
4914JD Brown35-2.068013.54467
515Braden Eyler35-2.574213.48066
61649Ryan Avila35-3.380013.55160
71074Adam Elby35-4.747013.55258
820127Blake Matjoulis35-5.560013.50952
91325Tyler Ducharme35-5.599013.57851
10485Tyler Schell35-6.078013.47151
111521John Helms35-6.179013.66546
121233Evan Seay35-7.399013.58145
13111Mason Hannagan35-7.435013.56743
141986Timothy S Smith35-7.482013.56537
151816Blake Giglio35-7.596013.67637
1679Tanner Miller335-8.404013.63938
171760Shawn English35-9.157013.55733
18841Logan Rumsey235-10.158013.62834
19313Aiden Bierlein35-10.475013.53633
201452James Edens14-21 L013.55228

 

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

  1. Alex Bergeron, 153
  2. Tyler Schell, 123
  3. JD Brown, 122
  4. Evan Seay, 112
  5. Adam Elby, 107
  6. Tyler Ducharme, 106
  7. Timothy Smith, 102
  8. James Edens, 102
  9. Kendal Tucker, 101
  10. Ryan Avila, 100

The iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series season continues next Monday with a visit to Williams Grove Speedway, where Eyler took his second career series win last season. As always, the action streams live at 9PM ET on DIRTVision and across iRacing social media channels.

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