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2011 World Tour of iRacing Schedule Announced

December 27th, 2010 by

Popular Series Samples Global Motorsport Variety With Tributes to Major Real-World Races Conceived a year ago as a way for iRacing.com’s 20,000+ members to sample the world’s wide range of oval-track and road-racing cars and circuits, the 2010 World Tour of iRacing proved to be an extremely popular artistic success among the global group of … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM at the Glen

December 22nd, 2010 by

The iRacing GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series headed to the virtual Watkins Glen for its seventh round of mixed class racing. The highly competitive online-racing series, open to members of the iRacing.com service, brought the digital-replica Riley MKXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S to New York’s Finger Lakes region to race on the … Read the Rest »

Third Time’s a Charm

December 21st, 2010 by

The inRacingNews Challenge made its third visit to the West Virginia panhandle in 2010 Season Four, with a week’s worth of mixed class online racing competition between SpecRacer Fords and Pontiac Solstices at Summit Point Raceway’s Jefferson Circuit.  Reverse.  While some sim racers acted like they didn’t know if they were coming or going, the … Read the Rest »

Third Time's a Charm

December 21st, 2010 by

The inRacingNews Challenge made its third visit to the West Virginia panhandle in 2010 Season Four, with a week’s worth of mixed class online racing competition between SpecRacer Fords and Pontiac Solstices at Summit Point Raceway’s Jefferson Circuit.  Reverse.  While some sim racers acted like they didn’t know if they were coming or going, the … Read the Rest »

Lofing Snags $1000 in Landon Cassill Qualifying Challenge

December 20th, 2010 by

One Lap, $1000.  Can you handle the pressure?  Jason Lofing proved he can by turning the fastest lap in the feature session of the Landon Cassill Qualifying Challenge.   Landon Cassill posited the high-stakes scenario to oval sim-racers on iRacing.com.  “I want to give sim racers the opportunity to experience the pressure that real-life professional drivers … Read the Rest »

Fast Short Track IndyCar Action

December 18th, 2010 by

Week Six of the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series led the drivers back  to short oval racing and saw some great online races. The Milwaukee Mile with a length of a bit more than one mile is the oldest oval in operation – even older than the famous Indianpolis Motor Speedway!  Built in the 1800s as … Read the Rest »

It's Unanimous

December 18th, 2010 by

In racing it’s rare to find something a majority of drivers agree on. It seems to be even more rare when it’s something that everyone seems to enjoy. That was the case though this past week when the iRacing.com Skip Barber Race Series made its way to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for its second … Read the Rest »

It’s Unanimous

December 18th, 2010 by

In racing it’s rare to find something a majority of drivers agree on. It seems to be even more rare when it’s something that everyone seems to enjoy. That was the case though this past week when the iRacing.com Skip Barber Race Series made its way to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for its second … Read the Rest »

Three Stars and a Supporting Cast

December 17th, 2010 by

Talking about iRacing’s new Mazda MX-5, the inRacingNews article “Balancing Act” made the claim that “slower cars will always generate closer racing in the sim and in real life (than really fast cars)…” In support of that claim, I give you the 5pm split on Sunday, December 12th in the iRacing Mazda Cup at Mazda … Read the Rest »

Heartbreak for MacLean and Sirois

December 17th, 2010 by

The O’Neil PC Systems Grand Touring Championship (GTC) holds two endurance events every season.  The first of this season saw the ISRA field descend upon the ever popular Watkins Glen.  As one of iRacing’s most visited tracks all competitors have many laps in the books here and everyone was feeling quietly confident in the run-up … Read the Rest »