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2011 iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing Field Set

January 6th, 2011 by

The field for the 2011 iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing (iWCSRR) is now set.  Twenty of the leading drivers in the 2010 iRacing Pro Series Road (iPSR) will join the top 30 finishers from the inaugural iWCSRR – including champion Greger Huttu – in vying for the most prestigious title in online road racing. … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM @ VIR

January 5th, 2011 by

The legendary Virginia International Raceway was the venue for Round Nine of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the mixed-class online racing championship, open to PC owners and members of the iRacing service. With three rounds now remaining in the 12 week Championship, the season is drawing to a dramatic and hard fought conclusion … Read the Rest »

Sponsler Scores at Homestead-Miami

January 4th, 2011 by

Close, side-by-side racing is the trademark of south Florida’s 1.5 mile Homestead-Miami Speedway oval. Danica Patrick and Tony Kanaan showed in the IZOD IndyCar Series season finale how it can be done when they fought very hard for the second position in the last 15 laps. One of the keys behind the competitiveness surely is … Read the Rest »

Christmas Number One

January 3rd, 2011 by

Forget X Factor’s Matt Cardle’s hit single, the real attention for this year’s UK Christmas Number One was focused on who would win the iRacing England Club championship round in Christmas week. Would Blake Townend make it a remarkable six wins in a row or could the reigning champion Adam Miles take the top spot … Read the Rest »

Lime Rock Chicanery

December 30th, 2010 by

Thanks to a virtual meteorological quirk, sim racers competing at Lime Rock Park last week in the inRacingNews Challenge were greeted by blue skies and balmy temperatures in stark contrast to the all too real white-out conditions experienced by the rest of the Northeast.  Although this was the series second visit to Lime Rock, it … Read the Rest »

Sudden Impact

December 30th, 2010 by

Some questions about iRacing’s relevance to real world racing were answered last summer when Greger Huttu acquitted himself quite well in the Skip Barber Racing School and in a test of Andersen Racing’s Star Mazda at Road Atlanta.  An accomplished sim racer who dominated the iRacing World Championship Series Road Racing championship, Huttu had never … Read the Rest »

Berry Closes on Pro Title

December 29th, 2010 by

This week it was off to the high banks of Talladega, Alabama for the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series. It seems no matter the size of the track, Josh Berry finds a way to steamroll the competition. He once again found victory lane at Talladega Superspeedway, and once again got top points of the week. Berry … Read the Rest »

ISRA GP1 Championship Tussles Down Under

December 29th, 2010 by

Round Three of the ISRA GP1 Championship took the drivers down to the beautiful and glassy smooth Phillip Island Circuit to put the Williams-Toyota FW31 through its paces on this challenging layout best known for its V8 Supercar races.  Both David Williams and Shawn Purdy, winners of the first two rounds of the championship respectively, … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM at Barber Motorsports Park

December 29th, 2010 by

Barber Motorsports Park played host to round eight of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the online racing championship for the digital renditions of the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S. The mixed-class, 12 week Championship which is separated into ten divisions, offers daily online races to PC owners all over the … Read the Rest »

IndyCar Airport Racing

December 28th, 2010 by

Week Seven of the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series led the drivers to the Sebring International Raceway.  This time the full course was bypassed in favor of the shorter “Modified” track layout which takes a tight short cut after the first very fast left hand turn and the extended backstretch leads to a tighter version of … Read the Rest »