Cardwell sweeps Outlaws @ Lernerville

Another exhilarating night of World of Outlaws running on iRacing saw Hayden Cardwell rise to the top. 

Ever since it dropped on iRacing last year, Lernerville Speedway has established itself as one of the toughest tracks to drive in any dirt oval car. Whether you’re just getting started in a street stock or one of the top 35 drivers in the world who makes it into the iRacing World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model World Championship, running 50 laps at a high level without jumping the cushion and sliding out into no man’s land is a challenge for even the best of the best.

Somebody clearly forgot to tell all that to Hayden Cardwell.

Cardwell became the first driver to score a repeat victory in iRacing’s premier dirt late model series for 2020 on Monday night, holding off former series champion Blake Matjoulis to sweep both of this year’s Lernerville events. It wasn’t the six-second throttling of the field from weeks before, as the first race went caution-free and a series of major incidents led to multiple cautions this time around, but it was still a comfortable victory of more than a second.

Top rookie Dylan Wilson qualified first, won his heat, and led 16 laps before outside front row starter Cardwell was finally able to wrestle the lead away—shortly after a massive frontstretch wreck ended Jacob Fields and Austin Carr’s nights early. Wilson would eventually fall to fourth, as Matjoulis got past shortly thereafter and fourth heat winner Kendal Tucker finally wrestled away the third spot in the final laps after a spirited battle.

Fellow top rookie Devon Morgan maintained the final spot in the top five, beating out championship front-runner and third heat winner Evan Seay. Dylan Houser and Davin Cardwell converted their transfer spots from the B main into seventh and eighth place, respectively, as the top position gainers on the night.

Full results from the iRacing World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model World Championship feature at Lernerville Speedway were as follows:

Fin.	St.	No.	Driver	Laps	Interval	Led	Best	Pts.
1	2	07	Hayden Cardwell	50		31	15.250	78
2	6	127	Blake Matjoulis	50	-0.822	0	15.347	74
3	4	00	Kendal Tucker	50	-2.550	0	15.296	72
4	1	80	Dylan Wilson	50	-2.776	16	15.271	69
5	5	112	Devon Morgan	50	-3.135	0	15.351	65
6	3	33	Evan Seay	50	-3.516	0	15.330	63
7	18	2	Dylan R. Houser	50	-3.971	0	15.369	56
8	20	70	Davin Cardwell	50	-6.659	0	15.334	52
9	10	25	Zack McSwain	50	-7.051	0	15.414	52
10	12	32	Steven Wilson3	50	-7.338	0	15.551	49
11	11	71	Cole V Cabre	50	-7.709	0	15.533	47
12	17	24	Zach Leonhardi	50	-8.059	0	15.476	43
13	14	44	Blake Cannon	50	-9.228	0	15.350	42
14	9	18	Daniel Cummings Jr	50	-9.694	0	15.354	41
15	16	23	Casey Kirwan	50	-12.172	0	15.498	38
16	8	52	James Edens	50	-12.936	0	15.398	38
17	13	14	JD Brown	49	-1 L	0	15.505	34
18	7	12	Alex A Bergeron	44	-6 L	1	15.401	34
19	15	007	Jacob Fields	16	-34 L	0	15.404	30
20	19	1	Austin M Carr	16	-34 L	0	15.442	26

 

iRacing World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model World Championship points through five rounds are as follows:

1. Hayden Cardwell, 341
2. Dylan Wilson, 334
3. Evan Seay, 333
4. Dylan Houser, 303
5. Kendal Tucker, 295
6. Devon Morgan, 293
7. Alex Bergeron, 251
8. Blake Cannon, 243
9. Zack McSwain, 232
10. Tyler Ducharme, 223

The second half of the iRacing World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model World Championship season kicks off next Monday at Kokomo Speedway. As always, the race will air live on the iRacing eSports Network on Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube at 9PM ET.