After the success of the series, NASCAR decided to bring it back on a more permanent basis in 2021, although this time, the races, 10 in total, would be held on Wednesday nights at least once a month.
The series began on March 24 with a race at the virtual version of dirt Bristol Motor Speedway.
88 car for his team, JR Motorsports, and their color commentator, the retired driver Clint Bowyer, driving a No.
37 for JTG Daugherty Racing driven by Ryan Preece, a client of Harvick's sports management agency.
66 driven by Timmy Hill, an open team in real-life Cup Series competition, was not invited to participate, Austin Cindric, who was to drive the No.
2 for Team Penske in place of Brad Keselowski (who also declined to participate), decided to give up his seat to Hill.
Top ten finishers: After deciding not to participate in the Bristol Dirt iRacing event, Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick returned for this race.
Because Kurt Busch, Chase Briscoe and Christopher Bell were at Nashville Superspeedway that day for a test, it was announced when the entry list was posted that Busch and Briscoe would not be participating and that Bell would participate if he could make it home in time, but if not, he would be replaced in his No.
The final spot in the field was determined by a fan vote of drivers in the lower series of NASCAR who are experienced iRacers.
Part-time Xfinity and Truck Series driver Jesse Iwuji won the fan vote.
After Byron was involved in a late-race crash, Erik Jones passed Timmy Hill with two laps to go and held on to score the victory.
Top ten finishers: For the fourth round of the iRacing Pro Invitational Series, Iwuji won his second straight fan vote.
On the heels of making his Cup Series debut in the real race at COTA, road course ringer Kyle Tilley replaced B. J. McLeod in the No.
As this race ended up being the finale of the Invitational Series, it meant that James Davison would finish the championship in 1st place.