Carr Captures First Win at Volusia Speedway Park

by Randy Chenowth iRACING — July 30, 2018 — The sixth round of the iRacing World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Championship Series was another one for the record books. Hard racing all night ended with Austin Carr edging out points leader Howard Weaver for his first win in the Series. This week gave the competitors a little nudge with the official announcement of the Championship prize package. It includes a VIP trip to the World of Outlaws World Finals in early November and an invitation to attend and be acknowledged as Champion at the World of Outlaws Banquet. The Champion will walk away with a point fund check of $3,000 (plus his weekly purse winnings), an official World of Outlaws Championship trophy, a Craftsman Mechanics Tool Set, and an MPI steering wheel, as well as a one-on-one instructional session with Clint Bowyer in his two-seater Late Model. Bowyer will show techniques and lines and then turn the wheel over to the champ. It’s going to be a great week for whoever wins. Howard Weaver was back to form putting in Quick Time, the only driver to break the 16-second barrier doing a 15.975 and promptly running over the first heat race with Austin Carr, Matt McKinney and John Fidler rounding the transfer spots. The second Heat saw Jacob Fields put in a stellar performance to take down the second qualifying race, with Tyler Ducharme, Nick Cooper and Charles Cosper also going straight to the Feature. Issues hit Heat 3 immediately after green. Alex Bergeron got away clean from the pole, but drivers Zak Rounds, Dylan Houser and Phil Diaz got tangled coming past the start/finish line. That meant that all but one driver who started in a transfer spot had to run the Last Chance Showdown. Alex was the lucky number one, with Zach Leonhardi, Chase Raudman and Marc Molnar counting their blessings and their Feature starting spots. Heat 4 began to show how the track was changing. Drew Herchko checked out, but the rest of the field was really tight, with side-by-side racing being the norm. Herchko, Garrett Niebruegge, Jesse Carr and Virgil Graham all took the transfer spots. The Last Chance Qualifier, with only four spots up for grabs, showed some aggression. On lap 5, Josh Phillips had heavy contact which ended his night. It was the only big incident during the race. The track began to become very racy and a bottom groove was exponentially becoming faster. The mid-pack fell short and the top starters moving on included Adam Elby, James Edens, Phil Diaz, and Casey Kirwan. The Feature had Howard Weaver showing the way for the first 30 laps, going almost unchallenged running the slightly preferred top line. However, the yellows that allowed him to rack up laps out in front would soon be his demise. Austin Carr inched up to P2. Austin was unique in the field as he was finding speed on the bottom and he immediately went to work on Weaver. Carr was eventually able to take the lead with 20 laps to go off of turn 4. Howard tried to put the fight back on but simply did not have the pace and even with another field resetting caution had to settle for second place. Don’t miss the next World of Outlaw Sprint Car Championship Monday, August 6th at Knoxville Speedway. See it on iRacing.com/Live and Dirtvision.com. HIGHLIGHTS FROM VOLUSIA SPEEDWAY PARK RACE RESULTS FROM VOLUSIA SPEEDWAY PARK

Fin Pos	Name	Start Pos	Car #	Interval	Laps Led	Fastest Time	Fast Lap	Pts
1	Austin M Carr	5	1	0	20	16.264	50	70
2	Howard Weaver	1	7	-0.747	30	16.29	5	67
3	Alex A Bergeron	3	12	-1.334	0	16.342	14	64
4	Zach Leonhardi	7	24	-1.491	0	16.185	17	61
5	Tyler Ducharme	6	25	-1.605	0	16.29	32	58
6	Matthew McKinney	9	9	-2.374	0	16.378	34	55
7	Adam Elby	17	74	-2.557	0	16.447	14	52
8	Virgil Graham	16	42	-2.722	0	16.455	15	49
9	Casey Kirwan	20	14	-3.007	0	16.471	15	46
10	Drew Herchko	4	26	-3.209	0	16.318	17	43
11	Jesse Carr	12	11	-3.393	0	16.542	15	41
12	John Fidler	13	115	-3.618	0	16.265	15	39
13	Marc Molnar	15	97	-3.719	0	16.485	12	37
14	Nick Cooper	10	35	-4.296	0	16.423	20	35
15	James Edens	18	52	-4.674	0	16.457	40	33
16	Phillip Diaz	19	94	-4.923	0	16.382	50	31
17	Charles Cosper	14	33	-4.982	0	16.478	19	29
18	Jacob Fields	2	7	-5.267	0	16.37	12	27
19	Chase Raudman	11	2	-5.505	0	16.566	19	25
20	Garrett Niebruegge	8	19	-5.742	0	16.296	14	23

POINT STANDING AFTER VOLUSIA SPEEDWAY PARK, JULY 30

Position	Name	Points	Wins	Top 5	Starts	Laps led	Poles
1	Howard Weaver	436	1	5	6	104	2
2	Zach Leonhardi	410	1	5	6	86	1
3	Alex A Bergeron	399	2	4	6	87	1
4	Austin M Carr	320	1	2	6	35	0
5	Dylan R. Houser	318	0	3	6	8	0
6	Nick Cooper	316	0	1	6	51	1
7	Matthew McKinney	304	1	2	6	23	0
8	John Fidler	276	0	1	5	13	0
9	Tyler Ducharme	252	0	3	5	8	0
10	Drew Herchko	243	0	0	6	74	1
11	Austen Semmelmann	232	0	1	6	8	0
12	Casey Kirwan	212	0	0	6	0	0
13	Garrett Niebruegge	201	0	0	6	8	0
14	Mike McKinney	200	0	1	4	0	0
15	Jacob Leverstein	195	0	0	4	0	0
16	Phillip Diaz	194	0	0	6	0	0
17	Adam Elby	174	0	0	6	28	0
18	James Edens	161	0	1	5	0	0
19	David Heileman	149	0	1	4	0	0
20	Kevin Dedmon	148	0	0	6	8	0
21	Virgil Graham	135	0	0	5	0	0
22	Joshua Laughton	120	0	0	5	0	0
23	Marc Molnar	112	0	0	6	0	0
24	Jacob Fields	111	0	0	6	8	0
25	Zak Rounds	106	0	0	6	0	0
26	Randall Carter	91	0	0	5	0	0
27	Brandon Schmidt	84	0	0	6	0	0
28	Charles Cosper	78	0	0	5	0	0
29	Ricky Thornton	59	0	0	1	15	0
30	Jesse Carr	52	0	0	3	0	0
31	Chris Brenner	49	0	0	3	0	0
32	Justin Thomas	39	0	0	6	2	0
33	Chase Raudman	37	0	0	3	0	0
34	Josh Phillips	4	0	0	4	0	0
35	Kyle Johnson	2	0	0	1	0	0

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