The Prediction: Week 1

Welcome to the world's worst iSCAR prediction show in which Ezeckiel Reyes attempts to guess and see what will happen for the week! This week kicks off at Daytona International Speedway at the 2.5 mile superspeedway. All four active series visits the world's center of racing, so therefore crashes are inevitable! Expect big sparks like what we saw the opening week provide on the open / shootout. Let's go ahead and dive deep into the mix.

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iSCAR's first points night kicks off on the Wednesday's ARCA event which saw Logan Clampitt go to victory lane last time we visited! We also saw a full field last time we kicked off the season as well! We saw 16/40 laps under yellow the last time we visited, and 19/40 laps the previous year. I still predict that we'll at least have 20% of the race ran under caution, but with the new cautions that iRacing has implimented, caution lap count may be lower than usual, allowing more racing. Only 3 cars survived to battle to win last year, and with the new damage model also kicking in tonight- I visualize a lot of damaged cars at the end of the event again. Ruben Caceres was a big upset in 4th place after starting 42nd, I'm interested to see who's going to be the underdog for it. All bets on Carson Poindexter who continues to impress me during preseason / opening week. As long as he doesn't get turned or involved in it, I see him as a contender at the end.

- Winner: Carson Poindexter

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The two duels setup the 250 on Saturday night, and looking at each duel, there is one duel in particular in which is stupidly stacked. It seems as though rather than teams splitting the difference with a better chance, teams have all elected into 1 duel. Last year's duel was a mess due to the fact that my dumbass enabled FAST REPAIRS, which made it nuts for the final transfer spot for 20th. The first duel saw Joseph Costello (who is banned) go to victory lane over Michael Meredith, and the second duel saw Dylan Schwallenburg over Arron Brown. Both duels saw final lap wrecks which scrambled the top 20. Last year saw 52 drivers enter for the duels, but this year is even more crazier with 93 drivers registered for the duels. I expect big teams to work with each other to make themselves known during the duels, so find former SPG and Proximity racing power to the front. Don't count out Nova SimRacing, who went to victory lane in the shootout event with Dylan Basen. Reverting to what I said about one specific stacked duel, Duel #2 has a lot of title runners in it. The fight for that top 20 is going to be INSANE. I feel a final lap wreck wiping out many contenders with Brody Garner (who was really strong in the shootout) come out on top.

- Duel #1 Winner: Dylan Basen

- Duel #2 Winner: Brody Garner

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With the new iSCAR lengths announced, the Truck event has been extended from a 50 lap event to a 60 lap event. Survival will be key for this event, as what we saw in the superspeedway events- you have to be in the top 5 to even have a remote chance at the win. Our latest event winners were Logan Clampitt, Connor Brannon, and Ryan Kendrick- 2/3 of those races decided in a last lap pass. Expect the same to behold here at Daytona. Teammates are going to be a real key to gathering strength in the trucks and controlling the pack. The man who's best at controlling the pack? Zoltan Herczeg (if he shows up). I expect him to outduel the rest of the field unless he doesn't show up / gets involved in a wreck. There's a small percentage of him showing up, so let's take an iSCAR regular into consideration. Mitch Hobbs- S2 Super Speedway Champion. He put himself into multiple positions to win (but has yet to pick up a victory). I'd say tonight is his night.

- Winner: Mitch Hobbs

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Saturday has two separate events going on. The LCQ and the 250 itself. I can't announce an accurate prediction because we have yet to see who is going to qualify themselves into the event. For now, we'll have to wait till that Thursday event completes. If I were to make a stupid guess though, going through previous superspeedway events- Our cup winners on the Superspeedway events: Frank DeAngelis, Anthony Burroughs, Paul Granata, Dylan Basen... We can already pluck off one name who has a viable shot of going to victory lane. Dylan Basen proved himself a threat through the shootout in the cup package. I expect Dylan to run out of Daytona with $120.

- Winner: Dylan Basen

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Sunday's event is for some reason always packed. It always seems as though the Sunday event fills the fastest. Let's go through our last winners at this event- Chris Nosowsky, Tre Shuttlesworth, William Schmitt, and Cody Webster. There is ONE corrilation between all those winners; NONE of those finishes were a final lap pass. Whoever is leading the final lap of the race WILL come out as the winner. Which means, track position means a ton! There's one person that comes to mind who somehow qualifies himself up front and manages to be there unless he's in a wreck looks to be the #41 of Christopher Weil. That (now iconic) pink green and blue machine seems to be upfront most of the time, and always seems to sneak himself a solid top 10 finish out of these super speedway events. Let's go over all his finishes on the world's center of racing! 2nd, 7th, 8th, 8th, 16th, 17th, 25th, 26th at Daytona. Average finish of 15th place, but if we outlie the times he wrecked... 8.5 average finishing position inside the top 10! That's pretty impressive. Expect that #41 to come out ontop.

- Winner: Christopher Weil

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Well, that just about summarizes who I think may come out as victor at Daytona! Of course, Daytona is always a lottery on when pulling a winner out. These predictions are for fun afterall- You can place your predictions on race-prediction channel on discord. We hope to see you on the track at Daytona for Week 1!