Casey Kirwan Wins eNASCAR Season Championship iRacing

This is the moment that will remain forever as Casey Kirwan wins the eNASCAR Season Championship in iRacing.

Casey Kirwan wins a hefty wallet of $100,000 dollars and the eNASCAR Season Championship in iRacing. The series has produced some very exciting racing from a very talented pool of teams and drivers as we delve into a great race report and summary by Reuters.

Hometown favorite Casey Kirwan, competing in the playoffs for the first time, raced to the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series championship on Tuesday.

For the series’ 2022 finale, the final four contenders competed in person at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C. They ran on a virtual Phoenix Raceway along with the rest of the field, drivers who were competing virtually from home.

Kirwan, from Matthews, N.C., is the 10th driver to win the series title, the fourth straight driver to win it for the first time. Six different competitors won the past six championships.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. was on the scene to give the command of “Drivers, start your engines” to open the race, and he handed the championship trophy to Kirwan.

“I don’t even know what to say,” said Kirwan, who drives the No. 95 Chevrolet. “I’ve always joked with streaming (that) I need a nice trophy for the backdrop. I’ve won a lot of big races, but they never come with trophies. This (trophy) is even bigger than a stream backdrop. I may have to work on the camera angle to make sure it gets all in there.”

For the championship, Kirwan earned $100,000 from the prize pool of more than $300,000.

Asked what he would do with the money, Kirwan said, “I have some ideas, but I probably should probably be a little logical. There’s a lot you can do with it.”

Keegan Leahy of Halifax, Nova Scotia, not one of the Championship 4 competitors, wound up as the race winner in the No. 45 Toyota. Kirwan was second, just ahead of another Championship 4 racer, Bobby Zalenski of Fresno, Calif., in the No. 18 Toyota.

Logan Clampett and Ryan Luza, both not among the Championship 4, took fourth and fifth place, respectively.

The other two Championship 4 drivers were Graham Bowlin of Houston, who came in 18th place in the No. 48 Toyota, and Steven Wilson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who placed 33rd in the No. 10 Ford.

eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Championship Finale presented by the NASCAR Hall of Fame results were as follows:

Fin.	St.	No.	Name	Team	Laps	Interval	Led	Best	Pts
1	3	45	Keegan Leahy	23XI	110	0	57	27.327	40
2	7	95	Casey Kirwan	XSET	110	-1.239	0	27.151	35
3	2	18	Bobby Zalenski	Joe Gibbs Racing	110	-1.761	43	27.296	34
4	8	97	Logan Clampitt	William Byron eSports	110	-7.801	0	27.478	33
5	36	4	Ryan Luza	XSET	110	-7.938	0	27.479	32
6	11	15	Blake Reynolds	Jim Beaver eSports	110	-8.020	0	27.390	31
7	24	8	Michael Conti	JR Motorsports	110	-8.111	0	27.324	30
8	29	31	Garrett Manes	Elliot Sadler eSports	110	-8.264	0	27.695	29
9	5	41	Dylan Duval	Stewart Haas Racing	110	-8.544	0	27.509	28
10	17	79	Femi Olatunbosun	Clint Bowyer Racing	110	-8.548	0	27.579	27
11	22	3	Corey Vincent	Team Dillon Esports	110	-8.564	0	27.465	26
12	21	75	Matt Bussa	Mode Motorsports	110	-8.803	0	27.459	25
13	25	9	Michael Guest	Jim Beaver eSports	110	-8.855	0	27.506	24
14	30	23	Mitchell deJong	23XI	110	-9.456	0	27.545	23
15	31	16	Blade Whitt	Wood Brothers Racing	110	-10.086	0	27.403	22
16	35	42	Darik Bourdeau	eRacr	110	-11.708	0	27.543	21
17	15	43	Kollin Keister	Charlotte Phoenix	110	-12.038	0	27.490	20
18	1	48	Graham A. Bowlin	Charlotte Phoenix	110	-12.689	10	27.275	19
19	10	24	Cody Byus	Mode Motorsports	110	-12.730	0	27.588	18
20	23	51	Ray Alfalla	Joe Gibbs Racing	110	-13.589	0	27.573	17
21	34	40	Dylan Ault	Letarte Esports	110	-13.748	0	27.576	16
22	4	10	Steven Wilson	Stewart Haas Racing	110	-14.712	0	27.314	15
23	20	21	Garrett Lowe	Wood Brothers Racing	110	-14.863	0	27.340	14
24	16	5	Zack Novak	Rise eSports	110	-15.000	0	27.629	13
25	37	17	Kaden Honeycutt	Roush Fenway Keselowski	110	-15.976	0	27.600	12
26	26	36	Brian Mercurio	Letarte Esports	110	-17.157	0	27.576	11
27	32	2	Liam Brotherton	Elliot Sadler eSports	109	-1L	0	27.552	10
28	18	88	Briar LaPradd	JR Motorsports	109	DNF	0	27.624	9
29	14	33	Taylor Hurst	Team Dillon Esports	104	-6L	0	27.536	8
30	28	20	Donovan Strauss	Williams eSports	100	-10L	0	27.740	7
31	27	46	Jimmy Mullis	Rise eSports	93	-17L	0	27.690	6
32	6	25	Nick Ottinger	William Byron eSports	64	-46L	0	27.762	5
33	33	12	Derek Justis	iRacing Motorsports	63	-47L	0	27.773	4
34	12	6	Parker Retzlaff	Roush Fenway Keselowski	56	-54L	0	27.658	3
35	13	7	Malik Ray	iRacing Motorsports	56	DNF	0	27.788	2
36	9	55	Allen Boes	Space Station Gaming	4	DNF	0	59.870	1
37	19	69	Collin Bowden	eRacr	1	DNF	0	———	1
38	38	14	Nickolas Shelton	Clint Bowyer Racing	1	DNF	0	———	1

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