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PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series

January 30th, 2014 by

ATTENTION iRacers:   iRacing.com members have a chance to join an elite group of aspiring racers to compete under the guidance of Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) team drivers for a real world PEAK racing sponsorship. Simply race in Season One’s PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series.  The overall Season 1 champion will be awarded a reserved … Read the Rest »

Pocono Comeback

January 30th, 2014 by

Round 11 of the 2013-14 16th Street Racing League will go down as one of the greatest races in league history. Excitement, close battles, drama, and pure driver dedication abounded throughout the field, and for Matt Cooke, this was perhaps the most determined comeback drive of his iRacing Career. Down in P16 after a pit … Read the Rest »

iRacing Q&A

January 29th, 2014 by

Tony Gardner Talks About “Cheating” with iRacing News editor David Phillips In the coming weeks, iRacingNews will feature a series of conversations with key members of the iRacing team discussing topics of interest to the iRacing and sim-racing community.  To get the ball rolling, I sat down with iRacing president Tony Gardner and picked his … Read the Rest »

Street Stocks Thunder into Phoenix

January 29th, 2014 by

The iRacing.com Street Stocks C Class travelled to the Valley of the Sun and its one mile oval known as Phoenix International Raceway.  A total of a dozen drivers took to the track to contest the first official race of 2014 S1. This race saw no qualifiers, so the starting order was down to iRating, … Read the Rest »

Super Late Model is . . . Super

January 29th, 2014 by

On Monday, iRacing released a new build that included what is possibly the greatest car they have ever developed. The Super Late Model has been long anticipated and it seems to be so popular that the service had to go into maintenance mode multiple times over the past 36 hours. But enough about that . … Read the Rest »

When One Millisecond is Too Long

January 28th, 2014 by

It had been 13 weeks since the inaugural SpecRacer Ford Big Grid race. As a commentator for the Global SimRacing Channel, I had watched and participated in plenty of online races since then. However, once I heard of plans for a second rendition of the race at Road America, I instantly circled the day on … Read the Rest »

PRL: Precisely What a League Should Be

January 28th, 2014 by

At last count iRacing boasts an impressive 700+ leagues for sim-racers to join.  One such league is the Precision Racing League.  While PRL is on the smaller side compared to others, each member is a dedicated and clean online racer who wants only to taste the thrill of pure racing with like-minded individuals.  With almost … Read the Rest »

Road Warriors Off and Running at 2.4 Hours of Daytona

January 27th, 2014 by

The inaugural round of the iRacing.com Road Warrior Series was held at the Daytona International Speedway under the lights for a two hour and 24 minute endurance challenge. Across the four race time slots there were 67 splits with 2,024 drivers participating. Of those drivers 1445 scored their best points in the RUF RT-12 Track, … Read the Rest »

Get to Know: Chad Laughton

January 27th, 2014 by

North Carolina’s Chad Laughton may be a pro, literally, at getting around the tracks on iRacing, but he is still relatively new to the sim. He will celebrate his two year anniversary on April 17.  For nearly two years, Laughton has been tearing-up the virtual tracks of iRacing, scoring 138 wins in 372 starts on … Read the Rest »

Overland, Uusi-Jaakola Top Pro Series

January 27th, 2014 by

Chris Overland and Aleksi Uusi-Jaakola took somewhat different paths in the recently concluded iRacing Pro Series, but both arrived at their destinations: iRacing Pro Series champions trophies, $300 in iRacing credits . . . and berths in the 2014 iRacing World Drivers Championships. Overland was the soul of consistency in the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series, … Read the Rest »