Edens Bounces Back to Win iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series Debut at I-55

December 27th, 2022 by

Last week, James Edens’ hopes of a podium finish in the inaugural iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series race at Lincoln Speedway ended abruptly when a three-way battle for second place ended with all three drivers wrecked on the final lap. This week, as the series visited Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55, Edens bounced back in a big way: he won the first heat over top qualifier Aiden Bierlein, led 13 laps of the race, and grabbed the lead for the last time with just a handful of laps to go to return to the winner’s circle for the first time this season.

Once again, it was Timothy Smith on the losing side of the battle in second. For the third time in five races so far this season, and the second week in a row, Smith spent a significant amount of time up front after grabbing the lead from Edens for the first time on Lap 9. But after the last caution flew on Lap 27 to bunch up the field, he would lose it shortly after the restart thanks to heavy pressure from Edens and Dylan Yeager, who finished third. It was nonetheless a strong recovery for Smith, who was a part of last week’s last-lap accident at Lincoln with Edens and points leader Alex Bergeron.

Fortunes flipped, meanwhile, for Lincoln winner Kenny Miller at I-55. While he was able to avoid last week’s accident for an uncontested first career series win, he was the victim of the final caution of the night after late-race contact with two-time race winner Hayden Cardwell. Miller joined Tanner Pettit, who failed to finish the feature for the second week in a row, as the only two drivers not to complete all 35 laps.

iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series results from Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts.
1 1 52 James Edens 35 13 10.670 78
2 3 86 Timothy S Smith 35 -0.381 19 10.684 75
3 7 48 Dylan Yeager 35 -0.916 0 10.929 71
4 2 20 Aiden Forster 35 -1.377 0 10.866 69
5 8 85 Tyler Schell 35 -1.754 0 10.841 65
6 11 49 Ryan Avila 35 -1.962 0 10.884 61
7 4 12 Alex A Bergeron 35 -2.281 0 10.829 60
8 5 13 Aiden Bierlein 35 -3.068 0 10.750 56
9 18 00 Kendal Tucker 35 -3.189 0 10.947 49
10 19 25 Tyler Ducharme 35 -3.349 0 11.045 45
11 16 39 Andrew Hoefler 35 -3.612 0 10.960 46
12 17 14 JD Brown 35 -3.832 0 11.041 42
13 12 07 Hayden Cardwell 35 -4.563 0 10.918 43
14 9 17 Eric Witner 35 -5.134 0 10.788 41
15 14 16 Blake Giglio 35 -5.464 0 10.881 38
16 10 18 Austen Semmelmann2 35 -5.933 0 10.880 37
17 6 5 Braden Eyler 35 -7.117 0 10.819 36
18 13 7 Johnny L Anderson 35 -8.123 0 10.993 32
19 15 23 Kenny Miller 27 -8 L 0 11.027 30
20 20 24 Tanner Pettit 13 -22 L 0 10.904 25

 

iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series points through five rounds are as follows:

  1. Alex Bergeron, 327
  2. Tyler Schell, 301
  3. Timothy Smith, 293
  4. Kendal Tucker, 282
  5. JD Brown, 268
  6. James Edens, 252
  7. Hayden Cardwell, 229
  8. Kenny Miller, 209
  9. Aiden Forster, 205
  10. Braden Eyler, 202

The iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series season continues next Monday with a trip to Fairbury Speedway, where Evan Seay will enter as defending winner in search of his first victory of the campaign. As always, the action streams live at 9PM ET on DIRTVision and across iRacing social media channels.

For more information on the iRacing World of Outlaws Carquest Sprint Car Series, visit www.iracing.com/woosc. 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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