DIRTcar eSports Tour
WINNER: Hayden Cardwell
Car Type – Big-Block Modifieds
Track – Lernerville Speedway
April 21st, 2021
ONE START, ONE WIN: Cardwell Nets First Season 3 Tour Victory in First Start
Tucker bags third runner-up finish and points lead, Matjoulis back-to-back podiums Until Wednesday night, he hadn’t made a start with the DIRTcar eSports Tour since the final race of Season 2 in January. Turns out, Hayden Cardwell didn’t even need it to take down an entire field of iRacing’s best with the Big Block Modifieds. Coming from eighth on the starting grid, Cardwell advanced his #07 seven positions in the first 15 laps around Lernerville Speedway to get his first taste at the lead, using the very bottom lane and sneaking underneath his opponents to get the spots. “There was a lot of grip on the bottom early on,” Cardwell told Chase Raudman in the DIRTVision post-race interview....
Official Results
Hoosier Racing Tire Feature (50 Laps) 1. 07-Hayden Cardwell [8]; 2. 00-Kendal Tucker [4]; 3. 127-Blake Matjoulis [6]; 4. 41-Logan Rumsey [2]; 5. 85-Tyler Schell [5]; 6. 44-John Ruggiero Jr. [16]; 7. 033-Richard Murtaugh Jr. [21]; 8. 33-Evan Seay [13]; 9. 48-Dylan Yeager [1]; 10. 80-Dylan Wilson [17]; 11. 000-Kevin Dedmon [7]; 12. 1-Jesse Enterkin [19]; 13. 2-Chance Carr [10]; 14. 71-Keven Hébert [11]; 15. 331-Dustin Hall [15]; 16. 12-Alex Bergeron [3]; 17. 717-Bobby Rafferty [14]; 18. 04-Michael Kaiser [12]; 19. 17-Brett Rowles [9]; 20. 9-Sean Krawcyk [22]; 21. 78-Justin Bishop [23]; 22. 126-Jeffrey Eddy [24]; 23. 06-Rylan Gray [18]; 24. 115-Boddie Parker [20]
Qualifying (2 laps) 1. 48-Dylan Yeager [15.503]; 2. 07-Hayden Cardwell [15.514]; 3. 12-Alex Bergeron [15.562]; 4. 00-Kendal Tucker [15.599]; 5. 41-Logan Rumsey [15.646]; 6. 127-Blake Matjoulis [15.681]; 7. 000-Kevin Dedmon [15.707]; 8. 37-Randall Carter [15.715]; 9. 033-Richard Murtaugh Jr. [15.729]; 10. 1-Jesse Enterkin [15.76]; 11. 06-Rylan Gray [15.777]; 12. 17-Brett Rowles [15.778]; 13. 2-Chance Carr [15.783]; 14. 85-Tyler Schell [15.793]; 15. 04-Michael Kaiser [15.807]; 16. 115-Boddie Parker [15.813]; 17. 331-Dustin Hall [15.813]; 18. 9-Sean Krawcyk [15.822]; 19. 44-John Ruggiero Jr. [15.84]; 20. 71-Keven Hébert [15.908]; 21. 80-Dylan Wilson [15.934]; 22. 717-Bobby Rafferty [15.95]; 23. 126-Jeffrey Eddy [15.959]; 24. 58-Ryder Sroufe [16.009]; 25. 42-John Smith III [16.04]; 26. 29-Billy Richardson [16.102]; 27. 19-Mark Lemay [16.122]; 28. 78-Justin Bishop [16.321]; 29. 82-Eric Schroeter [16.379]; 30. 46-Jonathan Nause [16.42]; 31. 33-Evan Seay [DNQ]
Heat Race 1 (10 laps, top-4 transfer) 1. 48-Dylan Yeager [1]; 2. 00-Kendal Tucker [2]; 3. 000-Kevin Dedmon [3]; 4. 2-Chance Carr [5]; 5. 33-Evan Seay [11]; 6. 717-Bobby Rafferty [8]; 7. 78-Justin Bishop [10]; 8. 115-Boddie Parker [6]; 9. 1-Jesse Enterkin [4]; 10. 44-John Ruggiero Jr. [7]; 11. 42-John Smith III [9]
Heat Race 2 (10 laps, top-4 transfer) 1. 41-Logan Rumsey [2]; 2. 85-Tyler Schell [5]; 3. 07-Hayden Cardwell [1]; 4. 71-Keven Hébert [7]; 5. 06-Rylan Gray [4]; 6. 331-Dustin Hall [6]; 7. 29-Billy Richardson [9]; 8. 37-Randall Carter [3]; 9. 126-Jeffrey Eddy [8]; 10. 82-Eric Schroeter [10]
Heat Race 3 (10 laps, top-4 transfer) 1. 12-Alex Bergeron [1]; 2. 127-Blake Matjoulis [2]; 3. 17-Brett Rowles [4]; 4. 04-Michael Kaiser [5]; 5. 80-Dylan Wilson [7]; 6. 9-Sean Krawcyk [6]; 7. 033-Richard Murtaugh Jr. [3]; 8. 19-Mark Lemay [9]; 9. 58-Ryder Sroufe [8]; 10. 46-Jonathan Nause [10]
Last Chance Showdown 1 (14 laps, top-6 transfer) 1. 717-Bobby Rafferty [2]; 2. 44-John Ruggiero Jr. [8]; 3. 06-Rylan Gray [1]; 4. 115-Boddie Parker [5]; 5. 9-Sean Krawcyk [3]; 6. 126-Jeffrey Eddy [7]; 7. 19-Mark Lemay [6]; 8. 29-Billy Richardson [4]; 9. 46-Jonathan Nause [9]; 10. 42-John Smith III [10]
Last Chance Showdown 2 (14 laps, top-6 transfer) 1. 33-Evan Seay [1]; 2. 331-Dustin Hall [3]; 3. 80-Dylan Wilson [2]; 4. 1-Jesse Enterkin [7]; 5. 033-Richard Murtaugh Jr. [5]; 6. 78-Justin Bishop [4]; 7. 37-Randall Carter [6]; 8. 58-Ryder Sroufe [8]; 9. 82-Eric Schroeter [9]