Michael Conti added yet another season of multi-race wins with a dominating performance from the virtual Las Vegas Motor Speedway after Tuesday night’s eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series race. This win was the 15th for the 2014 series champion and it comes in his 200th start.
“What better way to go out than a win and now we’ve got two so it’s super, super cool,” Conti said after the race. With a strong performance from his Team Conti eSports setup alliance teammates Nick Ottinger and Jimmy Mullis, Conti is looking stronger than ever and brushed off any suggestion that he would possibly reconsider his pending retirement from the series.
“Any professional whether it’s eSports, professional sports, whatever it is, you always want to go out doing just as well as you did at the peak of your career,” Conti said. “For the longest time, I thought the peak was years ago, I thought I was done, I thought I was on the downward trend but this Next Gen car has really brought me back into the fold… but this is it.
“It’s going to be a great way to go out. We’re going to have a fantastic rest of the year, we’re playoff bound. This is the end but we still have a long way to go this year, a lot more to accomplish… a lot to look forward to,” Conti added.
The aforementioned Ottinger was second and Jordy Lopez Jr., who led the first quarter of the race, rounded out the top three. Lopez Jr.’s finish for Team Dillon eSports represents another strong outing for the trio of Altus eSports rookies as Tucker Minter and Michael Cosey Jr. added two more top tens with a fifth and seventh-place finish respectively.
Mullis added a second top-five of the season with his fourth-place finish.
TONIGHT’S ACTION
Keegan Leahy started the evening from the pole but his time out front was short-lived as Lopez Jr. used the outside line to slingshot ahead of Leahy along the backstretch.
Lopez Jr. led for the first quarter of the race before the Team Conti eSports alliance cars came alive with Conti and Ottinger both passing Lopez Jr. to move the Team Dillon eSports driver down to third.
Malik Ray cycled to the lead of the field briefly after opting to not pit during the race’s second caution. Ten laps, and two cautions later, Ray pitted and Conti inherited the race lead as the evening of action entered its second half.
The field settled down after four cautions in the first half of the race to complete the final 53 laps…
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