2024-25 World of Outlaws Pro Series | Race Preview | Race 3: Williams Grove

The third race of the 2024-25 World of Outlaws Pro Series season, powered by iRacing, takes to Williams Grove Speedway in the Super Late Models on Monday night.

This top-level eSports dirt racing series combines a schedule of 10 tracks with two dirt oval disciplines—the series utilizes both the 410 Sprint Car and the Super Late Model—and with an open qualifying series format to allow for anyone to take part in the championship, the new Pro Series has different look than what we’ve seen in past World of Outlaws eSports championships. With races in both disciplines in the books, Kendal Tucker currently leads the way by 13 points over Blake Matjoulis. Both will be looking for their first win of the season at the half-mile oval in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania on Monday night.

The driver roster is set each week through the Qualifying Series races that are open to all iRacing members with a Class A Dirt Oval license. These qualifying races will run on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET, and the top-35 point scorers will be invited to the iRacing World of Outlaws Pro Series league each week for the Monday night main event. After the Monday show, the league is cleared out, and the process begins again. Points will be tracked as normal across those 10 main events to crown the series champion.

The main event will include a 50-lap feature for 21 cars that qualify in through qualifying, heat races, and last chance qualifiers. The action starts at 8:00 p.m. ET and it will be live on DIRTVision and across all of iRacing’s social media channels.

Williams Grove Driver Roster:

The following 35 drivers have qualified into Monday night’s event at Weedsport Speedway, utilizing the Super Late Model, by scoring the most points last week during the qualifying races:

• Mike Augustine
• Ryan Avila
• Chase Barbara
• JD Brown
• Casey Brunson
• Robbie Buchanan Jr
• Brayden Carter
• Jordan Casey
• Bradley Cox
• Caleb Durgan
• James Edens
• Adam Elby
• Tucker Elkins
• Jesse Enterkin
• Aiden Forster
• Scott Fritz
• Steven Gaines
• Dylan Houser
• Ethan Johnson
• Joey Lingron
• Blake Matjoulis
• Trey Mills
• Austin Mistler
• Cody Nevin
• Conner New
• Jesse Newsome
• Tyler Orr
• Tanner Pettit
• Aiden Price
• Logan Rumsey
• Evan Seay
• Hayden Tollison
• Kendal Tucker
• Tanner Whitmire
• Dylan Yeager

Last Race: 

In the first 410 Sprint Car event of the season at Weedsport, Tanner Pettit came for redemption from a season ago. Losing out to Alex Bergeron in 2023’s race, Pettit qualified in sixth, bypassing the heat races, and inverting to third for the Feature. Pettit got to leading right away, and never looked back. There were three cautions, but on each restart, Pettit managed to pull back ahead towards a dominant maiden victory.

Last Season: 

In the Super Late Model battle at Williams Grove last year, Blake Matjoulis, Evan Seay, and Logan Rumsey were at the top of the field. The trio won their respective heats after qualifying 1-2-3. In the Feature, that’s how they stayed, with Matjoulis leading every lap for the victory.

Track Info:

Opened in 1939 and in constant operation ever since except for during World War II, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania’s Williams Grove Speedway is one of the most iconic dirt tracks in America. Known primarily for sprint car racing, including the $75,000-to-win National Open for World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars, the half-mile clay oval has also hosted plenty of major late model races in his day. Last August, World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing cover athlete Shane Clanton became the most recent World of Outlaws Case Construction Late Models winner at “The Grove.”

Race Format: 

These races feature qualifying and heat racing to determine the 21 drivers that will compete in the main race.

The top-eight qualifiers will immediately transfer to the feature. Pole winners score 25 points, second place scores 23 points, and points are paid out through the transfer spots to eighth, who will receive 17 points. When the feature begins, the top-eight will invert, with the pole sitter starting eighth and the eighth place qualifier starting on the pole.

For everyone else who does not qualify in, there will be three heat races of eight laps each, where the top-three finishers will advance forward through to the main event. Heat races also pay out points to all drivers, with the winner scoring 15 points and ninth place taking home seven points.

There will also be two 12-lap consolation races where the top two finishers in each will move on, but no additional points are scored.

Feature races will be 35 laps in the 410 Sprint Car, or 50 laps in the Super Late Model. The Feature winner will score 100 points, making the maximum amount of points on any given night 125 for a pole and Feature win.

Remaining 2024-25 Season Schedule:

3. Williams Grove Raceway | Nov 25, 2024 | SLM
4. Lincoln Speedway | Dec 02, 2024 | 410S
5. Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 | Dec 09, 2024 | SLM
6. Knoxville Raceway | Dec 16, 2024 | 410S
7. TO BE ANNOUNCED | Jan 06, 2025 | 410S
8. Fairbury Speedway | Jan 13, 2025 | SLM
9. Eldora Speedway | Jan 20, 2025 | 410S
10. The Dirt Track at Charlotte | Jan 27, 2025 | SLM

For more information on the series, visit www.iracing.com/woo-pro-series. For more information on the World of Outlaws, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.

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