The Season 2 finale of the iRacing Champions League Gateway Nationals on December 4, 2025 was exactly the kind of chaos this series is known for. With cars over the track, six different leaders, and 13 official lead changes across 50 laps at the Tulsa Expo Center, the championship came down to who could survive the madness and make the most of the final night. When it was over, Aidan Strawberry delivered his strongest performance of the season, winning the feature and locking up the Gateway Nationals Season 2 championship in decisive fashion.

Strawberry started from pole and turned the finale into a statement drive. He led 36 of the 50 laps, set the fastest lap of the race at 10.855 seconds on lap 7, and earned the lone bonus point for the evening. Behind him, Kyle R Morris and Derrick Rucker both made their first Gateway Nationals starts of the season and immediately slotted into the front pack. Morris led 4 laps and came home second, while Rucker led 1 lap and finished third. The lead was shared between six drivers overall – Strawberry, Morris, Rucker, Lane Seratt, Brogan Roberts, and Aiden Snead – showcasing how volatile the front of the field was before Strawberry finally took control for good.

The mid-pack was a rolling battlefield with several standout drives. Seratt charged from 16th on the grid to finish fifth, leading 7 laps in the process and backing up his strong opening–round performance with another top five at just the right time in the season. Two of the biggest movers were Dennis Holley and Jacob Miner, who each gained 16 positions over the course of the feature. Holley climbed from 24th to eighth, while Miner stormed from 26th to 10th, making them co–hard chargers of the night. On the other side, several drivers endured brutal finales: Eric Rewertz (6th to 24th), Branden Schatz (7th to 25th), and Mason Vincent (11th to 29th, scored as DQ/Scoring Invalidated) each lost 18 positions from their starting spots, giving them some of the toughest statistical nights in the field.

From a championship perspective, the finale completely reshaped the top of the standings. The Gateway Nationals scoring format pays 12 points to the winner, 11 for second, 10 for third, and so on down the order, with 1 additional point for qualifying fast time. Strawberry entered the night trailing points leader Seth Gregory but left Tulsa with the title after banking the maximum 13 points (12 for the win plus the qualifying bonus). That haul pushed him to 34 points on the season and into the top spot in the final standings. Gregory, who did not start the finale, ended the campaign on 30 points after a consistent run of three straight top–five finishes earlier in the season. Brenden McGlothlin, a two–time winner in his pair of appearances, finished third overall with 24 points, giving the final podium a strong mix of consistency and outright dominance across the four–race stretch.

Behind the top three, several drivers used the finale to make major moves. Seratt’s fifth–place finish, combined with his earlier result, brought him up to 16 total points and fourth in the final table, a jump of seven positions from his previous ranking. The biggest mover in the standings was Dusty Fincher, whose sixth–place run in the finale marked his best finish of the season. With three starts completed and two top–ten points nights, Fincher climbed 16 positions to finish tied for sixth in the final standings with 11 points. That group at 11 also included early–season front-runner Karson Keeler and finale runner–up Morris, who immediately slotted into the top 10 in the points with a strong debut.

The rest of the top 20 in the final points tell the story of a short but intense Season 2. Just behind the top trio and the surging Seratt, opening–round winner Austin Weekley2 wrapped the season in fifth on 12 points, showing how valuable that first victory remained despite not adding to his total later on. The 10–point tier was crowded, with Tracen Glick, Robert Hentschel, Cullen Hutchison, and Rucker all tied after single strong outings. Treyton Gann2, Nicholas Molle, and Bryce Powers2 each landed on 9 points, while Caleb Branham, Brandon Dittmer, and Doug Welch finished with 8 points apiece. Rounding out the top 20 were Robert Eversole and Caleb Hall on 7 points. The mix of multi–start regulars and single–event standouts underlined the series’ character: tight points margins, heavy movement in the table from one race to the next, and no room for error across the four races that ultimately decided the Season 2 crown.

Results:

  1. Aidan Strawberry, 2) Kyle R Morris, 3) Derrick Rucker, 4) Nicholas Molle, 5) Lane Seratt, 6) Dusty Fincher, 7) Timothy Thurein, 8) Dennis Holley, 9) Brogan Roberts, 10) Jacob Miner, 11) Aiden Snead, 12) H J Bunting, 13) Sonny Glass, 14) Justin Towers3, 15) Daren Miller2, 16) Jeffery Hyatt, 17) Owen Grennan, 18) Bradon Moore, 19) Christian Taylor5, 20) Brandon Cranmer, 21) Jordan Gonder, 22) Chase Copeland, 23) Braxton James, 24) Eric Rewertz, 25) Branden Schatz, 26) Ricky Mendoza3, 27) Tylar Rutherford, 28) Chelsey Hill, 29) Mason Vincent

Final Standings (Top 20):

  1. Aidan Strawberry – 34 pts, 2) Seth Gregory – 30 pts, 3) Brenden McGlothlin – 24 pts, 4) Lane Seratt – 16 pts, 5) Austin Weekley2 – 12 pts, 6) Dusty Fincher – 11 pts, 7) Karson Keeler – 11 pts, 8) Kyle R Morris – 11 pts, 9) Tracen Glick – 10 pts, 10) Robert Hentschel – 10 pts, 11) Cullen Hutchison – 10 pts, 12) Derrick Rucker – 10 pts, 13) Treyton Gann2 – 9 pts, 14) Nicholas Molle – 9 pts, 15) Bryce Powers2 – 9 pts, 16) Caleb Branham – 8 pts, 17) Brandon Dittmer – 8 pts, 18) Doug Welch – 8 pts, 19) Robert Eversole – 7 pts, 20) Caleb Hall – 7 pts

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