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iRacer Profile – Trent Brown

September 17th, 2011 by

There’s more to Trent Brown than Sprint Cars.  After all, he owns a fair number of iRacing vehicles and holds-down P26 in Division Three of the iRacing.com GRAND-AM Online Sports Car Series in Daytona Prototypes.  He’s currently finishing his mechanical engineering degree at the University of Michigan and, as an alumni of legendary Ilmor Engineering, … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com to create virtual McLaren MP4-12C GT3

September 14th, 2011 by

Bedford, MA (September 14, 2011) – iRacing.com and McLaren Automotive today announced plans to build a virtual version of the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 race car.  Based on the groundbreaking McLaren MP4-12C road car, the first production car wholly designed and built by McLaren since the McLaren F1 – the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 marries Formula 1™ … Read the Rest »

Alfalla Wins Texas, Closes in on Championship

September 14th, 2011 by

With only three races remaining in the 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship, (NiSWC) it is do or die time, especially for those still alive in the quest for the championship. Texas Motor Speedway played host to the sixteenth race of the season and saw one man rise above the rest. Championship leader Ray Alfalla … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com to Create Virtual McLaren MP4-12C GT3

September 14th, 2011 by

Bedford, MA (September 14, 2011) – iRacing.com and McLaren Automotive today announced plans to build a virtual version of the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 race car.  Based on the groundbreaking McLaren MP4-12C road car, the first production car wholly designed and built by McLaren since the McLaren F1 – the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 marries Formula 1™ … Read the Rest »

The Ottinger Show

September 13th, 2011 by

Last week saw the iRacing.com Street Stock Series make its way to Oxford Plains Speedway, a small 3/8th mile oval located in Oxford, Maine. Sim racers looked to tackle this tough little track, where you are never actually going straight, in the hopes of winning the championship. Nick Ottinger (Carolina) once again showed why he … Read the Rest »

Title Tension at Suzuka

September 13th, 2011 by

Week Six of the iRacing V8 Supercar series by Bigpond Sport headed north to iRacing’s new Suzuka Circuit for the first time. It meant starting from scratch with no existing setup data, here at the full 5.8 kilometres of the Suzuka GP track. At the halfway mark of the iRacing V8 Supercar Series, as expected, … Read the Rest »

Luis One Step Closer To World Title

September 12th, 2011 by

In an action packed 47 laps of the 4.048 mile virtual Road America, Hugo Luis held off a spirited attack in the closing minutes to seal his fourth win of the iRacing.com Nvidia Grand Prix Series and further increase his lead in the World Championship standings. As the green flag dropped, Luis made the jump … Read the Rest »

Team Spirit

September 10th, 2011 by

There’s no “I” in team. There may be plenty of “I’s” in Team Giddy-Up! and the names of Toshinobu Shigemitsu, Nobuhiro Fujitaka and Teruaki Kato.  And, obviously, there’s an “i” in iRacing.    But when it came to Round Three of the Okayama Challenge Cup, a two hour enduro at Okayama International Circuit in July, there … Read the Rest »

The Suzuka Master

September 9th, 2011 by

Fresh off a week of action at Okayama International Circuit, Week 5 in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge saw the sim racers remain in Japan for a second week of competition, this time at the nine turn, 1.394-mile Suzuka International Racing Course – East Course.  482 racers tried to solidify their spot as the top sim … Read the Rest »

"B-Dub" Does it at Chicagoland

September 8th, 2011 by

Williamson takes top split, Downs wins week. Racing, like many other sports can have luck run in streaks. Just ask Brandon Williamson. After two horrendous starts during Week Five of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS) at Chicagoland, Williamson (known in racing circles as “B-Dub”) got up on the wheel and took the top … Read the Rest »