A younger sim racer is getting his probability to parlay his eNASCAR profession right into a profession as knowledgeable inventory automobile driver.
21 year-old Vincente Salas, who competes within the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing collection, in addition to in sure quick monitor occasions, is getting his probability on the nationwide stage.
Salas will drive the No. 20 Chevrolet Silverado for Younger’s Motorsports this weekend in Saturday’s XPEL 225. The Craftsman Truck Sequence race might be Salas’ first within the high three collection of NASCAR.
Salas, who earned his first victory on the quick monitor scene on the famed Hickory Speedway in March of 2023, received the iRacing NASCAR Contender Street to Professional Sequence championship in 2023, driving for Deadzone Racing.
“I’m past excited,” Salas mentioned. “To have the ability to make my first Truck Sequence begin feels surreal. Final yr, I needed to run some ARCA or Truck races, and somebody that has at all times been very extremely spoken of is Tyler Younger. I obtained his contact information and hit him up.”
Younger, a veteran of the Truck Sequence scene as a driver and present Workforce Principal of Younger Motorsports gave Salas his shot, proving to these within the trade that he believes in what the younger driver has to supply not simply within the digital world, however on the true racetrack as effectively.
In a yr the place William Byron, a sim-racer turned NASCAR star received the Daytona 500, something and the whole lot appears attainable for Salas, who has taken the same profession path up to now to this yr’s winner of the Nice American Race.
Friday’s observe session might be Salas’ solely shot to dial in his truck earlier than an all-important qualifying session which determines whether or not or not he’ll take the inexperienced flag in Saturday’s race. If he does make the race, he’ll have 42 laps on the three.426 mile highway course to show to the nation that he belongs with the massive canines of NASCAR.
They are saying that first likelihood is uncommon in NASCAR, and second probabilities rarer nonetheless. If that adage is true, Salas has the possibility of a lifetime at his fingertips — however numerous strain to carry out beneath the brilliant Texas stars.
