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Conti Rides High with Dover Victory
June 4th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Michael Conti pulled-off a surprising victory in Round Seven of the 2014 NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series at Dover International Speedway Tuesday night, beating Chris Overland, PJ Stergios and Nick Ottinger on a restart with three laps to go. The win was Conti’s second triumph in the last three in the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series events. … Read the Rest »
Bordoy Does It Again for Week 5 GT3
June 3rd, 2014 by Jaime Baker
The iRacing.com GT3 Challenge wraps up an exciting week of racing at Autódromo José Carlos Pace in Sao Paulo, Brazil for Week 5 of the 2014 Season 2 series. With close to 1,900 different drivers entering this week, tensions flared as the 30 minute sprint race saw many sim-racers fighting not only to the finish, … Read the Rest »
Strategy Double-“Cross”-es Richmond
June 3rd, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Week Five of the 2014 Season 2 iRacing.com IndyCar Oval Series sent the series to Richmond International Raceway. Only 28 sim-racers participated in online races throughout the week, nearly matching a season low in participation. Handling and pit strategy would be the stories throughout the week of sim-racing with the new Dallara DW12. Christopher Demeritt … Read the Rest »
A Design Contest Story: From iRacing to Real Racing
June 2nd, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Last year, by the month of October, I was taking a look on the iRacing forums for paint requests. I’m a Brazilian graphic designer, living in Rio de Janeiro, and had decided to offer my services for the community – as many of you reading this right now already know. Before, I would only paint … Read the Rest »
Kelly Dominates in Ohio
June 2nd, 2014 by Jaime Baker
The iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series recently concluded Week 5 of 2014 Season 2 at the treacherous Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The competition was fierce as some of the best sim-racers in Australia made appearances at the weekly Strength-of-Field (SoF) race. With the performance bar set very high, it was Shaun Kelly who came out on … Read the Rest »
Doyle Prevails in Exhilarating XCAL Indianapolis 500
June 2nd, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Editor’s note: As most readers are aware, shortly after the introduction of its digital version of the Dallara DW12, web site problems forced iRacing.com to cancel its online Indianapolis 500. XCAL Racing, a first-year iRacing league, experienced the same disappointment as their fellow iRacers at the cancellation of one of the year’s most highly-anticipated sim-races. … Read the Rest »
You Can Go Home Again
June 2nd, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Former Champ/Pro Driver Buie Gets Back to his Roots, Takes Charlotte Victory As expected, iRacers came out in force for a chance to run their Chevrolet Impalas and Ford Mustangs around the ever popular Charlotte Motor Speedway. With 76 official races going off during Week 4 of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series, there were … Read the Rest »
Anreus Closes on Lanpheer
June 2nd, 2014 by Jaime Baker
A below par performance from defending champion, Tom Lanpheer, enabled Matthias Anreus to close in on the Radical Racing Challenge leader. Lanpheer nevertheless still maintains a substantial lead after four weeks as the series enters its second third. The new look Radical continues to be a popular car and Week 3 saw a strong field … Read the Rest »
Ray’s the Real Thing in Coke 600
May 30th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
After a two week gap, the Ford, Chevy and Toyota Gen-6 machines thundered around Charlotte Motor Speedway for Week 12 of the NASCAR iRacing Series in one of iRacing’s full length online races – The Coca Cola 600, simulating the real life NASCAR races with track, car and distance all virtually identical to their real … Read the Rest »
UK&I Skippies Return to Oulton Park
May 30th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Oulton Park in Cheshire is a track the UK&I Skip Barber League didn’t get to race last season because of the limited number of pit boxes, but this season an exception was made and the field broken into two groups. This article is about the top split of qualifiers, the top 27 of the league … Read the Rest »