Richmond Raceway has become the first NASCAR Cup Series track to operate its own esports team for the 2018 NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series (NPAS), a league-sponsored iRacing competition that has existed since 2010.
The new entry, dubbed the Chaos Crew, will have six drivers on its team, including Michael Conti (who won the 2014 championship) and Logan Clampitt (who finished second in 2017). Conti won that 2014 title and its $10,000 purse as a 17-year-old; he has also claimed to have beaten real-life driving legend Dale Earnhardt Jr. — who is known to use iRacing as a training tool — in about half their simulated head-to-head competitions.