In the longest race of the 2024 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series season, it took a last lap pass to get the job done.
Garrett Lowe executed a bump-and-run in turn three of the white-flag lap to get alongside Jimmy Mullis and edge him at the line by one one-thousandth of a second for a victory in the Coca-Cola 160 at the virtual Charlotte Motor Speedway.
It was Lowe’s first win of the 2024 eNCCiS season and the fourth of his career. With the victory, Lowe also got a small dose of revenge, turning the tables on Mullis after he moved Lowe out of the way for a win at Nashville last season.
“To be honest, all I could think about was Nashville,” Lowe said on the Sunoco Post Race Report. “We had a great car tonight. We got bit by that one caution and cycled back on the green run. Yeah, [the finish] was probably a little dirty, but if you are going for a win in the Coke Series, what are you going to do?”
Mullis was disappointed to come so close to victory lane but also relieved to come away with a runner-up finish.
“I feel like I made all the right moves,” Mullis said in his postrace interview. “Can’t be too mad, obviously with the way Nashville went last year between me and [Lowe].”
Parker White came home in third place, Malik Ray finished fourth, and Zack Novak completed the top five.
TONIGHT’S ACTION
Tucker Minter led the field to green in his No. 97 Chevrolet. However, he did not hold the top spot for long as Steven Wilson passed him just before an early caution on lap 4 when Dylan Ault got into the back of Keegan Leahy, putting Leahy in the wall.
The race then settled into a long green-flag run, with Wilson leading the way. White hounded Wilson for a while before making the pass on lap 37 in his No. 53 Chevrolet. White’s Williams eSports teammate Donovan Strauss followed him past Wilson into second place.
Green flag pit stops began in earnest around lap 55, with several big names coming down for four tires and a full tank of fuel. Before the pit cycle could finish, a chain reaction led to Casey Kirwan spinning out on the front stretch to bring out the race’s second caution, shaking up the running order. All the drivers who had not pitted came down under caution for service, and almost half the field took the wave around to get back on the lead lap.
Lowe led the field back to green on lap 63, and he stayed out front until Wilson reassumed the point on lap 78 to lead at the halfway…
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