2021 eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series

2021 ePIiS season

eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series
Season
Races	5
Start date	March 24, 2021
End date	June 2, 2021
Season champion
James Davison

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← 2020

The 2021 eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series was the 3rd season of the eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series. Races were moved from weekends in 2020 to weekday nights in 2021, with the season starting at Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt on March 24, 2021, and concluding at the Chicago Street Course on June 2, 2021. Without qualifying races, a fan vote was added beginning with Round 2 at Talladega Superspeedway as a mechanism for fans to vote on an extra driver they wanted to see join the field on a race-by-race basis. Round 3 at Darlington Raceway debuted the Generation 7 NASCAR Cup Series cars, nicknamed the "Next Gen," which were only unveiled to the public earlier that day in a NASCAR press conference with manufacturers Chevrolet, Ford, and Toyota.

Teams and Drivers

Manufacturer	Team	Driver
		Number	Name	Starts
Chevrolet	B. J. McLeod Motorsports	87	Jesse Iwuji	4
	Chip Ganassi Racing	1	Kurt Busch	2
		42	Ross Chastain	5
	Hendrick Motorsports	5	Kyle Larson	5
		9	Chase Elliott	5
		24	William Byron	5
		48	Alex Bowman	5
	JR Motorsports	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	3
	Petty Ware Racing	51	Garrett Smithley	5
	Richard Childress Racing	3	Austin Dillon	4
		8	Tyler Reddick	5
	Richard Petty Motorsports	43	Erik Jones	4
	Rick Ware Racing	15	James Davison	5
		53	Joey Gase	4
	Spire Motorsports	7	Corey LaJoie	5
		77	Justin Haley	5
	StarCom Racing	00	Quin Houff	5
	Trackhouse Racing	99	Daniel Suárez	4
	JTG Daugherty Racing	4	Ryan Preece	1
		47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	4
Ford	Clint Bowyer Racing	79	Clint Bowyer	2
	Front Row Motorsports	34	Michael McDowell	4
		38	Anthony Alfredo	5
	Live Fast Motorsports	78	B. J. McLeod	3
			Kyle Tilley	1
	MBM Motorsports	66	Timmy Hill	1
	Rick Ware Racing	52	Josh Bilicki	4
		53	Joey Gase	1
	Roush Fenway Racing	6	Ryan Newman	4
		17	Chris Buescher	5
	Stewart-Haas Racing	4	Kevin Harvick	4
		10	Aric Almirola	4
		14	Chase Briscoe	4
		41	Cole Custer	4
		62	Keelan Harvick	1
	Team Penske	2	Timmy Hill	1
			Brad Keselowski	4
		12	Ryan Blaney	3
		22	Joey Logano	5
	Wood Brothers Racing	21	Matt DiBenedetto	5
Toyota	23XI Racing	23	Bubba Wallace	5
	Joe Gibbs Racing	11	Denny Hamlin	4
		18	Kyle Busch	4
			Ty Gibbs	1
		19	Martin Truex Jr.	4
		20	Christopher Bell	5
		25	Bobby Labonte	1
	MBM Motorsports	66	Timmy Hill	3

Schedule

The 2021 schedule was announced on January 26, 2021. Only Talladega Superspeedway returned from the 2020 schedule, with a handful of first-time road courses and the Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt race being added. Initially, the series was scheduled for 10 races, with Fox Sports covering the first 5 races and NBC Sports covering the series for the first time for the last 5 races. After the first 5 races of the season were complete, NASCAR and iRacing said that details about NBC Sports' half of the season would be released at a later date. On July 2, 2021, it was announced that the remaining 5 races would not be contested and that the season had concluded.

Round	Track	Length	Date
1	Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt H	70 Laps	March 24, 2021
2	Talladega Superspeedway	70 Laps	April 21, 2021
3	Darlington Raceway	120 Laps	May 5, 2021
4	Circuit of the Americas	32 Laps	May 19, 2021
5	Chicago Street Course	51 Laps	June 2, 2021

H – Heat races

Results and Standings

Race Results

Round	Track	Pole position	Most laps led	Race Winner		Broadcast
				Driver	Team
1	Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt H	James Davison R	William Byron	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports
2	Talladega Superspeedway	James Davison R	James Davison R	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske
3	Darlington Raceway	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Erik Jones	Richard Petty Motorsports
4	Circuit of the Americas	James Davison R	James Davison R	James Davison R	Rick Ware Racing
5	Chicago Street Course	James Davison R	James Davison R	James Davison R	Rick Ware Racing

H – Heat races

R – First time participating in the eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series

Scoring System

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Points	40	35	34	33	32	31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17
Position	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th	27th	28th	29th	30th	31st	32nd	33rd	34th	35th	36th	37th	38th	39th	40th
Points	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	1	1	1	1

Driver Standings

Pos. Driver BRI TAL DAR COT CSC Pts. 1 James Davison R 5 8* 7 1* 1* 171 2 Timmy Hill 8 4 11 6 6 150 3 Garrett Smithley 4 14 14 16 4 133 4 Tyler Reddick 2 29 4 4 17 129 5 Christopher Bell 3 2 16 20 26 118 6 Justin Haley R 15 11 27 14 3 115 7 Anthony Alfredo 19 30 2 2 25 107 8 William Byron 1* 32 35 3 23 105 9 Kyle Busch 12 3 23 12 98 10 Chris Buescher 13 16 36 5 19 96 11 Quin Houff R 11 26 22 22 9 95 12 Ross Chastain 9 31 39 9 8 92 13 Alex Bowman 6 5 28 23 20 91 14 Bubba Wallace 20 12 18 24 20 91 15 Dale Earnhardt Jr. DNQ 7 3* 11 90 16 Josh Bilicki R DNQ 27 21 8 2 90 17 Kyle Larson 7 17 26 11 35 89 18 Joey Gase 10 35 13 29 15 83 19 Brad Keselowski 1 8 38 27 80 20 Martin Truex Jr. DNQ 22 15 26 5 80 21 Joey Logano 14 37 19 27 10 79 22 Michael McDowell 18 6 37 10 78 23 Daniel Suárez DNQ 25 10 15 22 76 24 Jesse Iwuji R 19 9 33 12 75 25 Austin Dillon DNQ 10 29 19 16 74 26 Matt DiBenedetto 17 34 35 18 7 74 27 Cole Custer DNQ 9 33 21 13 72 28 Erik Jones DNQ 24 1 28 30 69 29 Denny Hamlin DNQ 21 38 7 18 66 30 Ryan Blaney DNQ 15 13 24 59 31 Kevin Harvick 13 20 31 28 56 32 Corey LaJoie 21 28 34 25 21 56 33 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. DNQ 23 12 36 31 46 34 Chase Elliott DNQ 33 5 39 37 38 35 Chase Briscoe DNQ 36 24 17 34 37 36 Kurt Busch DNQ 6 32 36 37 Ryan Newman R DNQ 18 32 35 29 34 38 B. J. McLeod R DNQ 39 31 14 30 39 Aric Almirola DNQ 40 17 37 36 23 40 Ryan Preece 16 21 41 Clint Bowyer DNQ 20 34 20 42 Bobby Labonte 30 7 43 Kyle Tilley R 30 7 44 Ty Gibbs R 33 4 45 Keelan Harvick R 38 1

Color Result Gold Winner Silver Top 5 Bronze Top 10 Green 11th – 20th place Light Blue 21st – 30th place Dark Blue 31st – 43rd place Purple Did not finish Blank DNS Black DSQ / EXCL In-line notation Bold Pole position * Lead most laps

R – First time participating in the eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series

Broadcasting

Fox Sports was the exclusive broadcast home of all races. While it was originally announced that NBC Sports would cover the last 5 races of the season, those races would never happen when the series was announced to be complete at the end of Round 5. All races were broadcast on FS1 and later uploaded to the NASCAR YouTube channel. Production work for the broadcasts was split between the iRacing broadcast studio in Chelmsford, MA, and NASCAR on Fox's Steve Byrnes Studio in Charlotte, NC.

Fox Sports
Booth Announcers	Driver Analysts
Mike Joy Jeff Gordon Larry McReynolds Clint Bowyer	Joey Logano Clint Bowyer

See Also

eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series
eNASCAR Contender iRacing Series
eNASCAR Qualifying iRacing Series