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iRacing to Bring Renault Single Seaters to Online Racing Game

July 16th, 2015 by

Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 3.5 Complete the Open Wheel Ladder on Award Winning Racing Game iRacing.com, the world’s premier online racing game, today announced a formal agreement with Renault to add two new single seat race cars, the Formula Renault 2.0 and the Formula Renault 3.5. These cars join the more than 40 … Read the Rest »

Loozenoord Gifts Kralj Silverstone Glory

July 15th, 2015 by

Silverstone was the track up next for competitors in the iRacing Grand Prix Series. The historic circuit in Northamptonshire, UK, began hosting Grand Prix races in 1948: although it would be two years later when the inaugural Formula One season headed there for the opening round of the newly created World Championship of Drivers or, … Read the Rest »

Vincent Saves Fuel, Wins Kentucky

July 15th, 2015 by

Performance Motorsports Group’s Corey Vincent captured his first career win in the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series Powered by iRacinglast night, coming out on top of a race decided by fuel mileage at Kentucky Speedway. Vincent, while quick, did not have the fastest car and looked to be battling for a top five finish before a … Read the Rest »

Kelley Wins Daytona Drafting Duel

July 14th, 2015 by

The high banks of Daytona International Speedway welcomed the ITSR Power Series last Sunday night, and their race under the lights delivered 300 miles of bumper-to-bumper, door-to-door sim racing action. Before the race began, the qualifying session saw several small packs of cars form, with each trying to time their runs on one other to … Read the Rest »

Get to Know: Kyle Birnie

July 13th, 2015 by

Born into a racing family, Californian Kyle Birnie has had his fair share of success since joining iRacing in August of 2011. He is a 53 time race winner across several different cars on nearly 20 different types of tracks, ranging from the shorts tracks such as Bristol Motor Speedway, to the twists and turns … Read the Rest »

Schartner Enters Blancpain Endurance Series; Wins at Montreal

July 10th, 2015 by

The iRacing.com Blancpain Endurance Series descended on the historic Circuit Gilles Villeneuve located in Montreal, Canada for Week 3 and it’s fair to say that the track was represented in the best possible way. For 112 laps around the hybrid circuit, teams and drivers navigated through the treacherous chicanes and sweeping turns as the three-hour … Read the Rest »

V8 Spa Treatment

July 10th, 2015 by

As Meatloaf once sang “two out of three ain’t bad.”  And so it was with Ethan Grigg-Gault as Round 3 of the official iRacing V8 Supercar Series returned to Belgium and the highly-anticipated challenges Circuit de Spa–Francorchamps. Qualifying Clear skies welcomed the drivers to qualifying and, with just the twelve minutes on the clock and … Read the Rest »

iRacing Signs Agreement with Le Mans

July 9th, 2015 by

iRacing.com announced today it has signed an agreement with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest to develop a digital version of the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit for its award-winning online motorsports simulation service.  iRacing’s team of nearly a dozen laser scanning technicians, photographers and artists recently completed their data-gathering work in France prior … Read the Rest »

Tour Modifieds Battle at the Paper Clip

July 9th, 2015 by

The third week of the NASCAR iRacing Tour Modified Series brings the virtual ground pounders to Martinsville Speedway. The venerable Virginia short track enables the true abilities of the Tour Modifieds to come life as its long straightaways allow the sim racers to put all of that 612 horsepower to use as the cars scream … Read the Rest »

Short Track Simulation: It’s here, and the best are doing it

July 8th, 2015 by

 (The following in an excerpt from a Circle Track magazine article on Ty Majeski and the role iRacing has played — and continues to play — in his career.  Click here to read the complete story – Ed) Aspiring superstar racers perked up when they heard the news of Denny Hamlin in 2006. Hamlin credited … Read the Rest »