eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series | Power Rankings | Race 1 at Daytona International Speedway

It was quite the offseason for the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series. After the final race of the 2024 season, a full round of the eNASCAR Contender iRacing Series, and subsequent Free Agency with the 20 teams for 2025, we have our 40 drivers that will contest for the championship over the next 18 races on the calendar.

For the 2025 season, every race will come previewed with the most current eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Power Rankings. What are Power Rankings? Simply put, it’s a way to give grades to drivers, and in this case, the teams of the series as well, by calculating their recent results, their overall standing, and some other arbitrary feelings about how everyone is performing based on what can be seen on the track. The points speak for themselves in many cases, but if a driver starts to get hot, or not, in the middle of the year, the Power Rankings can reflect on it.

This first week of Power Rankings, and likely the next two as well, will be tough to get the math right, as there are some drivers with little to no data. That’s in any sport, though, and so perhaps the numbers seem a little low for some of the incoming drivers. That’s ok, because we’ll get to either talk about that rise to the top in future weeks, or comment on how they haven’t yet. Without further explanation about the process, here are the 2025 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Driver and Team Power Rankings entering Daytona.

DAYTONA DRIVER POWER RANKINGS | Parker White already with many wins in 2025

Parker White stays winning. Remember the NASCAR Cup Series in the late 2000s and early 2010s when some dude named Jimmie Johnson couldn’t lose if he tried? That’s Parker White right now. After winning his first-career eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series race at Phoenix Raceway in September of 2024, it’s like he doesn’t know how to lose anymore. He won the championship, he won the Clash, he even won the highest oval Strength of Field (SoF) race on Monday night at Daytona in A-Open.

There hasn’t been a different name in eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series victory lane since Steven Wilson won at Texas in August 2024. In part, that places Wilson in second in the Power Rankings. I know he’ll be poised to change that immediately. On top of the world in 2023 and throughout the majority of 2024, Wilson was looking forward to becoming the second-ever multi-time champion in the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series in October. Now he’ll have to wait another nine months to have a chance again. He’s nearly won this Daytona race twice, by the way.

The other two Championship 4 competitors from 2024, Bobby Zalenski and Graham Bowlin, also sit in the top-four entering the season. It’s only right to put them there as the two other potential champions from a few months ago. It was tough not to rank Tucker Minter head of either of them, with how strong the end of his season was. I mean, Minter nearly spoiled the championship brigade by almost winning the Homestead-Miami finale while the four around him were throwing doors and sliders everywhere.

Rounding out the top-10 entering Daytona are many familiar names, including Daniel Faulkingham, Casey Kirwan, Vicente Salas, Garrett Lowe, and Donovan Strauss. Strauss makes the top-10 for his end of season gains that helped Williams Esports claim the Team Championship.

On the other side of the top-10, Malik Ray came on strong at the end of the 2024 season and proved his worth again in the Contender ranks. He was one early penalty away from competing in the Playoffs last season as well as staving off relegation, so if he can stay out of trouble with the stewards, I think this could be his best yet. The top-20 does end in a tie per the numbers calculated between Briar LaPradd and Michael Guest.

Just above them, the Contender Series champion, Eddie Kerner, is the only rookie on the list entering. Kerner won three races in Contender. The other multi-time Contender winner, Taylor Hurst, has been a mainstay in the series for multiple years, but just falls on the other side of the top-20 of the Power Rankings for the opening round.

TOP 20 DRIVERS POWER RANKINGS

1. Parker White
2. Steven Wilson
3. Bobby Zalenski
4. Graham Bowlin
5. Tucker Minter
6. Daniel Faulkingham
7. Casey Kirwan
8. Vicente Salas
9. Garrett Lowe
10. Donovan Strauss
11. Malik Ray
12. Zack Novak
13. Michael Cosey Jr
14. Femi Olatunbosun
15. Jordy Lopez
16. Nick Ottinger
17. Tyler Garey
18. Jimmy Mullis
19. Eddie Kerner (R)
20. Briar LaPradd (tie)
    Michael Guest (tie)

DAYTONA TEAM POWER RANKINGS | Williams Esports holds the crown, but KCP, Spire among those looking to take it

The thing with ranking teams is that both drivers need to be bringing the heat. While Parker White is far and above the favorite entering the season, that’s not to say his running mate, Donovan Strauss, isn’t. With this combination winning last year and returning in 2025, it was easy to put them where they left off—at the top.

Another two teams that decided to keep the status quo from a year ago are William Byron eSports and BS+COMPETITION. While their drivers saw a dip in performance from the season prior, both teams have winning lineups all around, and could be potential threats for the top spot by season’s end. Nick Ottinger is a champion, and Tucker Minter nearly was one in his rookie season. Conversely, Garrett Lowe is a perennial Playoff player, and Jordy Lopez was a couple of points from making the Championship 4 his first go around. They’re both stacked.

Two teams that made changes round out the podium. Spire Motorsports, coming into Daytona in third, completely cleaned house. They brought in two orphaned drivers who didn’t have teams to return to in 2025—Steven Wilson and Femi Olatunbosun. Starting with Femi, he was maybe one half of a lap at Pocono away from making the Playoffs instead of Graham Bowlin. That set his trajectory to get him back inside the top-20 by season’s end as one of the most improved drivers over the year. He’ll be paired with the 2023 champion, so that’s great for Spire.

Spire did have to let go of two top drivers, however. Casey Kirwan, the 2022 champion, was one of them, and now he finds himself riding with the Kansas City Pioneers in 2025 alongside Bowlin. While Kirwan failed to make the playoffs in 2024, his stats were impressive nonetheless, and that could lead to him striving to get back to the top again this season. The other driver Spire let go, Malik Ray, is teaming up with Michael Guest on one of the new teams, the Vegas Inferno, but I wouldn’t consider that duo the best new team on the block just yet.

That honor belongs to the new ERA eSports, who somehow managed to collect Michael Cosey Jr and Mr. Championship 4 himself, Bobby Zalenski. Both Cosey Jr and Zalenski were also left without a home to return to in 2025, which made their Free Agency periods a little more hectic than both probably anticipated. Regardless, those two could be early favorites in the new season as well.

TOP 10 TEAMS POWER RANKINGS

1. Williams Esports
2. Kansas City Pioneers
3. Spire Motorsports
4. William Byron eSports
5. ERA eSports Team
6. BS+COMPETITION
7. Vegas Inferno
8. SIX KARMA
9. Channel 199 Sim Racing
10. eRacr

2025 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series | Preview | Race 1 at Daytona International Speedway

Agree with these rankings? Disagree? Let me know on X (formerly Twitter) or BlueSky.

The quest for the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series championship, and the road to $500,000, starts tonight at 8:00 pm ET, live on eNASCAR.com/live. Tune in to the pre-race Countdown to Green to catch up on the off-season moves and storylines starting at 7:30 pm ET.

For more information on the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series, visit eNASCAR.com or iRacing.com/eNASCAR.
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