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ATS Take Firm Grip on CTC title
August 30th, 2012 by DavidP
Struggles Continue for Ferrari and Williams The Classic Teams Championship competitors arrived at Canada’s iconic Mosport International Raceway with several new drivers in key seats as the pre-season favourites for the team title face an uphill battle. Ferrari signed F2 driver, Berker Barutcu, but a non-showing at Mosport meant Escuderia Prancing Horse remained with two … Read the Rest »
Two-fers Abound at Iowa
August 29th, 2012 by DavidP
After a crazy week at Stafford Motor Speedway, one would think a week at Iowa Speedway would be a vacation of sorts, especially for the iRacing.com Sprint Car Series. Iowa Speedway is one of America’s newest pavement tracks, operating since 2006. Measuring out to 7 / 8 of a mile, the track resembles a superspeedway … Read the Rest »
Brooks Wins at Bristol
August 29th, 2012 by In Racing News
Bristol Motor Speedway was the site of racing for Week Four of the season. Sim racers raced under the lights of the high banked half mile track located in Bristol, Tennessee. Drivers looked to net as many points as they can in an effort to knock off previous series champion Jared Crawford (Michigan). During the … Read the Rest »
Barber Trims SpecRacer Ford Attendance
August 28th, 2012 by DavidP
The 2.38 mile / 3.83 km Barber Motorsports Park complex near Birmingham, Alabama produced some outstanding on-track action for the SpecRacer Fords during Week 3 of the schedule. But despite the fact that, attendance numbers-ended up being down a bit, with only 260 SRFs showing-up to race. Barber appears less frequently than many other tracks … Read the Rest »
Get to Know Brian Tedeschi
August 27th, 2012 by DavidP
Darrell Wallace Jr, NASCAR Nationwide Series and K&N Pro Series East driver, and iRacer Brian Tedeschi have one thing in common: they both started racing in Legend cars. They have also raced in a variety of cars in their very young careers: champ karts to super cups, you name it, and Brian has probably raced … Read the Rest »
Giving Back
August 25th, 2012 by DavidP
Ryan Reed’s iRacing for Diabetes Slated for August 28 & September 4 Ryan Reed considers himself a lucky young man. That’s odd, considering he not only developed Type 1 diabetes (T1D) a couple of years ago but the condition threatened to derail his promising career as a race driver. A native of Bakersfield, CA Reed … Read the Rest »
iRacer Profile: Austin Ogonoski
August 25th, 2012 by DavidP
One would be well-advised not to attempt to pigeon-hole Austin Ogonoski. When it comes to his sim-racing preferences for ovals or road courses, it’s no contest. The Edmonton resident has nearly six times as many oval (581) as road racing (97) starts on his iRacing resume. It only follows then that his favorite iRacing track … Read the Rest »
Hamstead Back With Infineon Win
August 23rd, 2012 by DavidP
Round three of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by BigPond stayed in America featured a track which the V8 sim-racers haven’t visited for a while, namely Sonoma. The challenging 3.2km track would test the drivers in ways which really haven’t come into play much this season, including tire management over the course of the … Read the Rest »
ATS on Top as Ligier and Tyrrell Show Their Hand(s)
August 23rd, 2012 by DavidP
With 25% of the season gone the Classic Teams Championship (CTC) continues to be exciting and topsy turvy and, with the first round of major driver changes taking place, Ligier and Tyrrell showed good form as ATS raced to the top of the tables. As reported last week, Mark Bird was hotly tipped to take … Read the Rest »
iRacing.com Drivers World Championship Power Rankings
August 22nd, 2012 by In Racing News
A fellow iRacer named Brayden Whitaker has created a rather interesting ranking which he posts on iRacing forum after every iRacing.com Drivers World Championship race. Here is his ranking for Michigan and Road Atlanta: This week saw the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship hit the two-mile Michigan International Speedway, while the iRacing.com World Championship Grand … Read the Rest »