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V8 Championship Heats-Up in The States
October 15th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
Rounds Nine and 10 of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Championship went to two of the classic American tracks, Road Atlanta and Watkins Glen. With the championship heating up between the two team mates the battle for third is also well and truly alive. Round Nine at Road Atlanta saw Madison Down dominate from start to … Read the Rest »
UK&I Star but Brasil Tops World Cup of iRacing Qualifying
October 15th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
UK&I proved to be the most consistent club over the three main qualifiers for the 2013/14 clubs World Cups. At the third qualifier, which took place with the Riley MkXX DP at Daytona (road) and the Gen 6 Chevy SS and Ford Fusions at Charlotte, the European club took first place overall with 787 points. … Read the Rest »
Cooke Cooks at Pocono
October 15th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
Week 10 of the iRacing.com IndyCar Oval Series saw action at Pocono (aka The Tricky Triangle) as teams battled in a pivotal round for the championship. The triple crown event venue did not disappoint as 67 sim-racers took part in the week’s online racing. The 2878 strength of field event saw a field of 20 … Read the Rest »
Linnaluoto Wins But Fails to Close Gap
October 15th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
A quiet week for the Classsis Teams Championship saw just 54 sim-racers take their Lotus 79s to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This challenging circuit surprisingly lacked popularity despite being one of the basic content tracks, but half a dozen online races that went official and produced good racing.
Get to Know: Andre Trego
October 15th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
Andre Trego of Illinois has done a lot on iRacing since joining the service in October of 2010. He has earned 23 victories in 226 road course races, including victories at Okayama International Circuit and Summit Point Raceway. His first road course victory came at Oulton Park Circuit in 2012 Season 1 of the Mustang … Read the Rest »
Wheelin’ at The Rock
October 15th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
Week 11 of the NiCCF Series brought 1,200 plus sim racers to the high banks of Rockingham Speedway for 50 circuits around the 1.017-mile facility. Those 50 laps proved to be a struggle for some and a blessing for others. Since the series does a lot of racing on big, fast speedways, it was a … Read the Rest »
Red Sox Griebling 30 at Mid Ohio
October 11th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
It’s tough to call a sixth place start and a third place finish an off day, but for two-time, double-defending McLaren Turbo Challenge champion Brad Vincent, the standards are incredibly high. Climbing back from few setbacks that have seen him miss a race finish and have a pole position escape him, Vincent finds himself in … Read the Rest »
Jennifer King Wins at VIR
October 10th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
With her second consecutive win in the Champion Motorsports iRacing division, Jennifer King continues to showcase her speed and consistency behind the wheel. CMS kicked off its third mini-series, in the Riley Mk XX, at the magnificently constructed Virginia International Raceway. iRacing’s laser-scanned VIR likely has the most accurate virtual rendering of the circuit’s iconic … Read the Rest »
Prototype & GT Challenge Week 10: VIR
October 9th, 2013 by Jaime Baker
The tenth round of the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge series took the HPD ARX 01Cs, Corvette C6.Rs and Ford GTs to twisty Virginia International Raceway (VIR). The circuit was the host for the American Le Mans Series this past weekend, and was therefore a fitting venue for our second endurance round of 75 minutes. … Read the Rest »
iRacing by the Numbers
October 9th, 2013 by Kevin Bobbitt
Bedford, MA (October 9, 2013) It’s hard to say just how big 800,000,000 is. If you started counting at the rate of one number per second, it would take until the year 2038 to reach 800,000,000. Mileage-wise, 800,000,000 is a little less than the round trip distance between Jupiter and the Sun. On a less celestial … Read the Rest »