Day Goes Back-to-Back in eNASCAR International Action at Zolder

January 24th, 2022 by

Images via Justin Melillo

Three-time NASCAR Whelen Euro Series champion Alon Day scored his second straight DBOX eNASCAR International iRacing Series presented by Digital Motorsports victory in Saturday’s action from Circuit Zolder. Day, who swept both rounds when the track hosted its first Euro Series event in 2015 and won its most recent round last year, put forth another impressive drive to take the checkered flag by more than 24 seconds at the historic Belgian circuit.

Belgium’s own Simon Pilate, winner of the inaugural International Series race at Brands Hatch last summer, took advantage of an earlier pit stop to get ahead of Paul Jouffreau and Victor Barrales Jr. and hung on for second as the trio were separated by just over a second at the finish. Jouffreau completed an all-Euro podium in third, with Barrales and Jake Cosio completing the top five on behalf of the NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series.

Unlike last week’s race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, where some drivers elected not to pit at all because they had enough fuel to go the distance, everyone needed to pit in the 30-lap race at Zolder. That contributed to a big difference in how many drivers stayed on the lead lap; where 17 of the 25 drivers who started in Canada completed all 30 laps, just under half of the 27-car field, the largest in series history, could manage the same in Belgium.

Both Rajah Caruth, winner of the opening race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and last week’s runner-up Tobias Dauenhauer were among the group that couldn’t. Caruth took contact in multiple instances, the last of which came from Diego Ortiz in the closing laps, and fell to 24th; Dauenhauer led the first eight laps, but took contact of his own around midway and ended up a lap down himself in 16th. The resulting points shuffle yielded the championship lead to Barrales with two races remaining.

DBOX eNASCAR International iRacing Series presented by Digital Motorsports results from Circuit Zolder were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Name

Manufacturer

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts
1 3 21 Alon Day Chevrolet 30 22 1:36.730 40
2 2 8 Simon Pilate Chevrolet 30 -24.705 0 1:36.725 35
3 5 64 Paul Jouffreau Ford 30 -25.299 0 1:39.825 34
4 6 39 Victor Barrales Ford 30 -25.783 0 1:37.878 33
5 9 51 Jake Cosio Ford 30 -35.455 0 1:38.045 32
6 4 10 Ulysse Delsaux Chevrolet 30 -41.333 0 1:37.412 31
7 7 3 Frederic Gabillon Ford 30 -48.947 0 1:37.956 30
8 25 14 Alex de Alba Ford 30 -49.495 0 1:38.667 29
9 20 19 Jaiden Reyna Chevrolet 30 -1:17.086 0 1:39.424 28
10 12 20 Treyten Lapcevich Chevrolet 30 -1:32.898 0 1:38.833 27
11 14 148 Gordon Barnes Chevrolet 30 -1:33.776 0 1:38.851 26
12 22 81 Justin T Campbell Chevrolet 30 -1:54.657 0 1:39.777 25
13 11 6 Diego Ortiz Toyota 29 -1 L 0 1:38.559 24
14 18 88 Massimiliano Lanza Chevrolet 29 -1 L 0 1:43.568 23
15 15 46 Miguel Gomes Chevrolet 29 -1 L 0 1:39.046 22
16 1 50 Tobias Dauenhauer Ford 29 -1 L 8 1:36.731 21
17 16 69 Giorgio Maggi Ford 29 -1 L 0 1:39.713 20
18 23 2 Abraham Calderon Chevrolet 29 -1 L 0 1:40.044 19
19 19 18 Alex Tagliani Chevrolet 29 -1 L 0 1:41.220 18
20 17 1 Vladimiros Tziortzis Ford 28 -2 L 0 1:39.854 17
21 24 48 Yevgen Sokolovskiy Chevrolet 28 -2 L 0 1:40.825 16
22 27 77 Jocelyn Fecteau Chevrolet 28 -2 L 0 1:42.770 15
23 10 90 Davide Dallara Chevrolet 27 -3 L 0 1:38.761 14
24 8 13 Rajah Caruth Chevrolet 26 -4 L 0 1:37.986 13
25 26 89 Alberto Panebianco Chevrolet 26 -4 L 0 1:42.104 12
26 13 22 Andres Perez de Lara Ford 22 -8 L 0 1:40.421
27 21 5 Aaron Cosio Ford 15 -15 L 0 1:39.331

 

DBOX eNASCAR International iRacing Series presented by Digital Motorsports points through three rounds are as follows:

  1. Victor Barrales Jr., 102
  2. Alon Day, 97
  3. Treyten Lapcevich, 94
  4. Simon Pilate, 92
  5. Alex de Alba, 90
  6. Rajah Caruth, 84
  7. Tobias Dauenhauer, 82
  8. Miguel Gomes, 81
  9. Justin Campbell, 78
  10. Diego Ortiz, 77

The DBOX eNASCAR International iRacing Series presented by Digital Motorsports season continues on Saturday with a return to the Daytona International Speedway road course. Live coverage will kick off on Saturday at 12PM ET on eNASCAR.com/live and iRacing.com/live. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.

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