- Ray Alfalla (locked in)
- Keegan Leahy (locked in)
- Bobby Zalenski
- Ryan Luza
- Nickolas Shelton
- Michael Conti
- Nick Ottinger
- Matt Bussa
Updates from the Armchair: Bristol prep, PEAK Series playoffs, and throwback paint schemes
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NASCAR drivers spent a lot of time getting comfortable with road racing with iRacing the past few weeks, but even with a short track like Bristol Motor Speedway on the schedule, it hasn’t kept some drivers off the simulation in preparation.
Xfinity Series driver Josh Bilicki took fans around the half-mile short track for a virtual lap:
https://twitter.com/joshbilicki/status/1029422700664709125
Unfortunately for Bilicki, his time on iRacing couldn’t prepare his car for transmission issues that knocked his JP Motorsports Toyota out of Friday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Bristol after 102 laps.
On the other hand, Parker Kligerman’s time spent on iRacing paid off.
https://twitter.com/pkligerman/status/1030094310161756165
Kligerman finished in an impressive fourth place Thursday at Bristol in the Camping World Truck Series, showing speed all weekend driving for Henderson Motorsports.
Jeff Gluck featured iRacing driver (and, well, notable Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series rookie) William Byron on his weekly “12 Questions” segment. It’s hard to avoid the topic of iRacing when Byron's involved, but he's the one who brought it up in the interview this time.
NASCAR PEAK ANTIFREEZE iRACING SERIES UPDATE
The NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze iRacing Series makes its playoff grid final Tuesday at Texas Motor Speedway. While we’ve assembled our predictions for Tuesday’s race, the top eight drivers in points will compete for the $10,000 prize awarded to the champion after the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on October 23.
By series rules, the lowest-scoring race is dropped from the season’s first 13 races when calculating the championship field, meaning, heading into Texas, the playoff field consists of:
