iRacing: Morgan’s Win Sets Up Four-Way Title Battle

Just one race remains in the chase for $25,000 in the iRacing World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model World Championship. After Monday night’s penultimate round at Williams Grove Speedway, who takes the largest share of that prize pool is anyone’s guess.

Series rookie Devon Morgan became the second first-time series winner in a row on Monday night, dominating a caution-free 50-lap feature to further close the gap to the championship lead after a consistent season. Morgan pulled a gap of more than two seconds at race’s end over Hayden Cardwell, who regained the points lead by just two over third-place finisher Dylan Wilson.

In a perfect demonstration of the cream rising to the top, the top five drivers in points coming into the night landed the top five starting spots, with Morgan, Cardwell, Evan Seay, and Wilson winning their four heats and Knoxville winner Kendal Tucker finishing second to Morgan to start fifth. On the longest track of the season, as was the case last year, experience didn’t work to top drivers’ advantage; Austin Carr and Alex Bergeron, the first two Williams Grove race winners, had to win their respective last chance qualifiers just to get to the final.

From there, the longest race of the year went caution-free, in spite of some big incidents in the preliminary rounds. Only Wilson and Seay flipped spots from within the top five, while defending series champion Blake Matjoulis was one of the night’s biggest gainers, jumping from 12th to sixth. Only Bergeron, who converted his 18th place starting spot to a ninth place finish, was able to pass more cars in the main event.

That sets up an intense championship battle at The Dirt Track at Charlotte in two weeks’ time, with Cardwell, Wilson, Tucker, and Morgan separated by just 28 points and Seay a mathematical possibility in the event of chaos among the other four. With just three points separating each position in the final, Tucker and Morgan will need Cardwell and Wilson to have Knoxville-like struggles once again to close the gap, but if not, the higher finisher between those two will likely walk away with a $10,000 champion’s prize.

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

Fin.	St.	No.	Driver	Laps	Interval	Led	Best	Pts.
1	1	112	Devon Morgan	50		50	20.538	78
2	2	07	Hayden Cardwell	50	-2.380	0	20.526	75
3	4	80	Dylan Wilson	50	-5.368	0	20.592	72
4	3	33	Evan Seay	50	-5.618	0	20.591	69
5	5	00	Kendal Tucker	50	-7.481	0	20.616	65
6	12	127	Blake Matjoulis	50	-7.605	0	20.704	61
7	10	14	JD Brown	50	-7.763	0	20.604	58
8	7	25	Zack McSwain	50	-8.107	0	20.650	56
9	18	12	Alex A Bergeron	50	-9.887	0	20.660	50
10	13	52	James Edens	50	-10.527	0	20.711	48
11	6	32	Steven Wilson	50	-11.837	0	20.657	48
12	9	74	Adam Elby	50	-13.508	0	20.727	45
13	11	46	Dillon Raffurty	50	-14.384	0	20.813	43
14	16	71	Cole V Cabre	50	-14.534	0	20.733	40
15	19	0	Kevin Dedmon	50	-14.823	0	20.813	36
16	8	3	Shane James	50	-17.491	0	20.726	38
17	20	70	Davin Cardwell	50	-20.804	0	20.815	33
18	17	1	Austin M Carr	42	-8 L	0	20.702	31
19	15	007	Jacob Fields	36	-14 L	0	20.685	30
20	14	49	Joel Berkley	19	-31 L	0	20.810	28

 

iRacing World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model World Championship points through nine races are as follows:

1. Hayden Cardwell, 587
2. Dylan Wilson, 585
3. Kendal Tucker, 563
4. Devon Morgan, 559
5. Evan Seay, 536
6. Alex Bergeron, 475
7. Zack McSwain, 471
8. James Edens, 432
9. JD Brown, 415
10. Blake Cannon, 378

The iRacing World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model World Championship season wraps up next Monday at 9PM ET at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway. As always, the race will stream live on iRacing’s Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube channels. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.