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NASCAR Throwback Schemes Take Over the Virtual Racing World

Published 09/09/2020, 11:42 PM EDT

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NASCAR is celebrating the throwback week in the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series. The drivers lined up in the throwback liveries for the Round 14 of the series.

The race was held at the Darlington Raceway, popularly known as “The Lady in Black” and “The Track Too Tough to Tame”. However, the NASCAR race track is a unique egg-shaped circuit that offers different problems to the racers.

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There were some amazing throwback liveries on display. Blake Reynolds of the No. 3 car, donned the Coca-Cola livery of Dale Earnhardt. Graham Bowlin was running the Bobby Labonte 2003 livery.

Matt Bussa in the legendary livery of Williams FW18. However, it was a tribute to the Williams family as the family is leaving Formula One.

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Leahy won the virtual NASCAR race

Denny Hamlin eSports driver Keegan Leahy won the race at Darlington notching his third triumph of 2020.

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Front stretch reports, “Honestly I did not expect this win at all, this was my least-prepared for the race of the season,” Leahy said.

“The pass for the lead, I don’t think it was going to happen on the track as Michael Conti was incredibly fast all night. It took me until way past lap 30 in the run to even have some sort of an advantage against him, but he was right on my bumper the whole start of the run.

“That pass on pit road came as a surprise, I didn’t think I’d get a particularly great pit stop, but that’s just how it goes sometimes — they drop the jack a little bit quicker than the other guy and you get in first.”

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Leahy held the 1st position subsequent to passing the polesitter Michael Conti in the pit lane. He was able to hold him on the restart around Lap 33. Above all, even after a few cautions and pit stops, Leahy kept control throughout the race.

Leahy led 152 of the 184 laps to guarantee the triumph. He drove the No. 32 car in the iconic livery of Ricky Craven’s 2003 NASCAR race car.

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Abhay Aggarwal is sports analyst at EssentiallySports. Having joined ES in early 2020, he has over 300 NASCAR, Formula 1, and Tennis articles to his name. Abhay has been an avid motorsports fan for over a decade, and he even attended the inaugural Indian Grand Prix in 2011.
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