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Buchberger Thrashes to Victory at Bristol

April 2nd, 2014 by

After an exciting, draft-filled week of sim-racing on the virtual plains of Kansas, the iRacing Silver Crown Cup traveled east to the last great (digital) colosseum: Bristol Motor Speedway. This half-mile re-creation of the historic speedway produced some classic sim-racing during Thursday night’s event. With drivers having such experience with this car/track combination, the yellow … Read the Rest »

Gernot Fritsche Wins at VIR, Expands Lotus 79 Championship Lead

April 2nd, 2014 by

The ninth week of the 2014 Season 1 Classic Lotus Grand Prix iRacing Series was held at the beautiful and terrifying Virginia International Raceway this past Sunday. Terrifying? Consider that only 23 drivers elected to take part (of whom 19 are regular CTC members), and that only four warm-up races were able to get adequate … Read the Rest »

Sobo Goes All “Survivor” On XCAL

April 1st, 2014 by

It was certainly an interesting week for XCAL. This time we were at South Boston, located in Virginia, just sixty miles east of that oval racing mecca: Martinsville. Taking the green flag for 250 laps was our pole sitter Aaron Hillibush, with a lot of competitive drivers, including Mark Arthur, Richard Hollyday and Brock Colson … Read the Rest »

Glacier Racing Get It Done At Suzuka

April 1st, 2014 by

The first two rounds of the 2014 iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series storyline had a multitude of threads: The classic battle between 3id Motorsports and Team Redline, fantastic, close racing, and, a rare DNF for three time champion Greger Huttu.  As well, one team were starting to make a solid impression in the series … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes – NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series – Auto Club Speedway

March 31st, 2014 by

Today is Saturday.  Earlier in the week, Tuesday if you’re interested, our team did something we honestly weren’t expecting on Monday night.  We showed up to a brand new track and cleaned house.  “Max points,” as they say.  I could sit here and say “we” all night, but the truth is that I wasn’t there … Read the Rest »

Kusheba Dominates at USA International

March 31st, 2014 by

The chase for the big prize in iRacing.com’s PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series has turned into a three horse race as the season heads into the home stretch.  Week 8 of the 12 weeks season saw Monroe, Connecticut’s Paul Kusheba power his way to four wins in as many starts — including one over … Read the Rest »

Spectacular Skippies at Spa

March 31st, 2014 by

There is only one Circuit de Spa Francorchamps.  Few tracks boast the kind of  history of Spa; even fewer can match the exhilaration of a fast lap through the Ardennes.  When the four dozen competitors from the UK&I Skip Barber league lined-up for the run down to La Source the excitement was palpable.  Blake Townend … Read the Rest »

Radicals Wide Open as Drop Weeks Approach

March 31st, 2014 by

n paper Tom Lanpheer is utterly dominating 2014 Season 1 of the iRacing.com Radical Challenge series; however dig a little deeper and his strong 158 point lead looks less secure. Maurice Dietzel is consistantly outscoring the championship leader, lies just three points off second and another 200 point haul will almost certainly halve the lead. … Read the Rest »

Driving with Both Eyes Part II

March 28th, 2014 by

This is the second in a series of articles about simulation driving in stereoscopy (or 3d).  The first provided an overview of the advantages of racing in 3d and of the various technologies available to sim-racers today.  This article focusses in on the NVidia 3d Vision solution, how it achieves stereoscopic sim-racing, and how to … Read the Rest »

Martinez’ Homestead Magic

March 28th, 2014 by

Week Eight of the 2014 Season 1 iRacing.com IndyCar Oval Series sent the series to Homestead-Miami Speedway. A grand total of 42 sim-racers participated in online races throughout the week. Drive-off of Turn 4, pit strategy, and restarts were the stories of the week. Matt A. Kingsbury (Connecticut) started in pole position with Randy Crossno … Read the Rest »