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Pete Pistone’s fourth edition of the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Power Rankings following the Toyota Owners 150 at the virtual Richmond Raceway.
William Byron: The first two-time winner in the Pro Invitational Series Byron led twice for 96 laps at Richmond on his way to Victory Lane. He has led 320 of the 535 laps raced in 2020 (60%) and has led the most laps in all four races run so far in 2020.
Previous Ranking: 2nd
2. Timmy Hill: A second-place run at Richmond for Hill, who has compiled a 2.3 average finish in the Pro Invitational Series. Hill has yet to finish worse than third in the four races run.
Previous Ranking: 1st
3. Denny Hamlin: The driver that kicked off the Pro Invitational Series with a win at Homestead-Miami Speedway took the checkered flag sixth at Richmond. Hamlin has finished sixth or better in three of the four races this season.
Previous Ranking: 3rd
4. Parker Kligerman: Scored his best finish of the Pro Invitational Series season with a third-place Richmond effort. It was Kligerman’s second consecutive top-10 finish after coming home seventh in the previous race at Bristol.
Previous Ranking: 7th
5. Ryan Preece: Started from the pole and led 59 laps at Richmond. But had a run-in with Matt DiBendetto that resulted in the Wood Brothers Racing driver getting parked by race officials.
Previous Ranking: 5th
6. Dale Earnhardt Jr.: A sixth-place finish for Earnhardt Jr. continued his strong overall iRacing season, which also included a third-place IndyCar finish the week before at Michigan International Speedway.
Previous Ranking: 6th
7. Garrett Smithley: A bit of an off day for Smithley, who finished 17th to balloon his Pro Invitational Series average finish to 8.5 over the four races run.
Previous Ranking: 4th
8. Landon Cassill: Equaled his best finish of the season with a fourth-place run as he turned in at Texas. Cassill made his way into the main event by finishing second in the qualifying race. “Looking at my @realVRS data from Richmond prep this week, and my tire bill would have been north of $500,000. Made over 200 stints since Monday,” Cassill Tweeted.
Previous Ranking: NR
9. Kyle Busch: Started 27th and his fifth-place Richmond finish is his first top 10 in Busch’s young iRacing career. “It would be nice to figure out qualifying and start up front and see if we have a shot to race inside the top three all day and race for the win,” Busch said after the race.
Previous Ranking: NR
10. John Hunter Nemechek: He has an 8.7 average finish in the last three Pro Invitational Series races. But his 16th-place finish Sunday snapped a streak of two straight top-10 performances.
Previous Ranking: 10th
Dropped Out: Matt DiBenedetto, Alex Bowman
