The 2026-27 season for the eNASCAR College iRacing Series presented by Logitech G continues on Wednesday night in the virtual Irish Hills of Michigan, the final battle of the Fall Semester at Michigan International Speedway. Titled the Great Lakes Gauntlet, 100 collegiate competitors are set to run the gauntlet, with the Quarterfinal and Semifinal rounds of the Tournament showcasing all 100 qualified students and their schools. Only 40 can advance on to Week 2 and the Final round.
From November 3rd to November 8th, over 180 eligible collegiate iRacers took to the official Time Attack in hopes of qualifying for the fourth eNASCAR College iRacing Series Tournament of the season, once again utilizing the NASCAR Craftsman Trucks.
Coverage starts on Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. ET at eNASCAR.com/live and across all of iRacing’s social media channels.
ENTRY LIST
The 100 qualified drivers are listed in the article below:
2026-27 eNASCAR College iRacing Series | Great Lakes Gauntlet at Michigan | Time Attack Results
LAST TOURNAMENT
Three Tournaments, three different winners, one for the first time in the Ford Mustang GT4 in partnership with IMSA. Daytona State’s Hector Collazo joined the series for the first time in the Big Apple Battle and was immediately a threat for the victory, finishing second to Sacramento State’s Dylan Ault in his Semifinal round. In the Finals, Collazo took the pole and led every lap, holding off the hungry Ault behind for his maiden win.
TRACK INFO
Designed by Charles Moneypenny, the same architect who created Daytona International Speedway, and located in the Irish Hills vacation-area of the south-central part of the state, Michigan International Speedway is best-known for the awesome speeds and competitive racing spawned by its broad racing surface and 73-foot-wide, 18-degree banked turns. Michigan’s width and steep banking ensure there’s always more than one racing groove, and the fact that MIS is a non-restrictor-plate track means NASCAR drivers have more than enough power to make a challenge out of the turns at both ends of the track.
Once upon a time, IndyCars frolicked on those high banks at breathtaking speeds, witness Paul Tracy’s record qualifying lap of 234.949 mph. Today, Michigan regularly vies with Daytona, Talladega and Texas as NASCAR’s fastest speedway. While the facility’s Stirling Moss-designed 3.1-mile road course and the Can-Am and Trans-Am races of days gone-by are now just fond memories, the track has a 1.9-mile interior road course that has challenged professional and amateur racers down through the years.
It’s no wonder some of stock car racing’s most legendary drivers have thrived on the banks of MIS since Cale Yarborough defeated Lee Roy Yarbrough in the inaugural NASCAR race there in 1969. Richard Petty and David Pearson, Bobby and Davey Allison, Dale Earnhardt Sr and Jr, Jeff Gordon, and Jimmie Johnson have all since added their names to the roll call of MIS winners, one that also includes names like Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, Rick Mears, Alex Zanardi, Tony Kanaan and Sam Hornish from the days when IndyCar raced in the Irish Hills, not to mention Trans-Am winners Parnelli Jones and Mark Donohue. Allison to Yarborough, Andretti to Zanardi, the world’s greatest race drivers have been coming to Michigan International Speedway to test their mettle for more than 40 years, and the fans have followed by the hundreds of thousands.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The eNASCAR College iRacing Series presented by Logitech G gives college students from the United States and Canada the opportunity to compete for their share of $60,000 in scholarships. Using the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series vehicles, 100 drivers qualify for each Tournament by registering and posting their fastest lap times in the Time Attack through the iRacing UI. With hundreds of colleges and universities represented in each Time Attack, drivers are competing not only against the greater iRacing community, but also their own classmates, for a spot on the newly-minted bracket.
Week 1 of the Great Lakes Gauntlet starts on Wednesday, November 11th, at 7:00 p.m. ET. Week 2 will take place one week later, on Wednesday, November 18th. The series will take a winter break before returning for the Spring Semester and the fifth Tournament of the season, the Monster Mash, at Dover Motor Speedway. The Time Attack for that starts on January 19th and ends January 24th, with Week 1 taking place on January 27th.
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