Edens Wins iRacing World of Outlaws Bristol Race

The iRacing world of outlaws inaugural event at Bristol speedway was next up for the sprint car series. Edens was on a mission to never back down.

The iRacing world of outlaws sprint car series is a great class of racing. Make no doubt about it, fast and furious is exactly what it is.

Swindell Speedlab Esports’ James Edens survived not only multiple restarts in the last few laps, but also heavy pressure from last year’s series runner-up Hayden Cardwell, as the iRacing World of Outlaws NOS Energy Sprint Car Series made its inaugural visit to Bristol Motor Speedway.

After two first-time winners in the first two rounds of the season, Edens finally scored one for the veterans of the series after winning his heat race and starting on the pole.

Edens held onto the lead early on, but faced heavy pressure from Timothy Smith that eventually enabled Smith to take the lead in the middle stages. After the first caution, which involved Edens’ teammate Adam Elby, Edens would return to the lead, while Smith would eventually falter and fail to finish all 35 laps of the race.

With two laps to go on the penultimate restart, the top two drivers in points and last week’s winner found themselves in trouble and caused the last caution of the night.

Three-time defending series champion and points leader Alex Bergeron and Kokomo winner Evan Seay made contact, which ended with Seay spinning and collecting second in points Cameron Merriman.

Bergeron and Merriman were lucky enough to keep their spots in the running order as they didn’t spin, and recovered to finish third and seventh respectively, but Seay would lose his position and fall to 16^th at race’s end.

The Bergeron-Seay-Merriman wreck opened up one last restart for Cardwell to try to make the winning move. The Knoxville native had a great run on the previous restart, but Edens held court on the one-lap dash to score the win.

Each of the Bristol podium finishers notched their second top three of the season, with Edens and Cardwell stringing together their second in a row after finishing third and second, respectively, at Kokomo.

iRacing World of Outlaws NOS Energy Sprint Car Series results from Bristol Motor Speedway were as follows:

Fin.	St.	No.	Driver	Laps	Interval	Led	Best	Pts.
1	1	52	James Edens	35		23	15.008	78
2	8	07	Hayden Cardwell	35	-0.395	0	15.059	74
3	11	12	Alex A Bergeron	35	-0.490	0	14.949	70
4	2	48	Dylan Yeager	35	-0.562	0	15.021	69
5	10	41	Logan Rumsey2	35	-0.655	0	15.029	64
6	9	127	Blake Matjoulis	35	-1.145	0	15.007	61
7	7	17	Cameron Merriman	35	-1.410	0	15.040	59
8	20	0	Justin Sherman3	35	-1.498	0	14.955	53
9	13	18	Austen Semmelmann2	35	-1.571	0	15.039	51
10	5	00	Kendal Tucker	35	-1.803	0	15.082	50
11	15	13	Aiden Bierlein	35	-1.929	0	15.047	46
12	19	4	Ross Keiser2	35	-2.578	0	14.975	43
13	14	85	Tyler Schell	35	-2.582	0	15.005	42
14	17	51	Clayton W Tilley	35	-2.793	0	15.013	38
15	18	5	Braden Eyler	35	-2.976	0	15.072	37
16	4	33	Evan Seay	35	-3.179	0	14.927	39
17	12	99	Gregory Lamey	34	-1 L	0	15.610	35
18	3	86	Timothy S Smith	32	-3 L	12	14.912	35
19	6	74	Adam Elby	24	-11 L	0	14.998	32
20	16	91	Ernie Williams Jr.	16	-19 L	0	15.748	28

iRacing World of Outlaws NOS Energy Sprint Car Series points through three rounds are as follows:

1. Alex Bergeron, 214
2. James Edens, 195
3. Cameron Merriman, 194
4. Blake Matjoulis, 190
5. Logan Rumsey, 188
6. Evan Seay, 168
7. Kendal Tucker, 155
8. Hayden Cardwell, 150
9. Dylan Yeager, 147
10. Austen Semmelmann, 138

The iRacing World of Outlaws NOS Energy Sprint Car Series season continues next week at Eldora Speedway, where Bergeron scored his second win of last season on the way to his third straight series title. The event will stream live on iRacing social media and DirtVision on Monday at 9PM ET/6PM PT.