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Like Father, Like Son

August 25th, 2011 by

This week the NASCAR iRacing Late Model Series made the long trip out west to Toyota Speedway in Irwindale, CA. The half mile asphalt track seats 15,000 fans and features a Bose sound system that was broadcasting the name Hubbell all week. When you hear the name Hubbell, you think of a telescope. In this … Read the Rest »

Tuomainen Takes Road America

August 24th, 2011 by

The Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge marked its quarter-season mark this past week as the racers tried to navigate the 14-turn, 4.048-mile venue known as Road America located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.  Over 500 sim racers made the virtual journey up to Wisconsin to see who could master the monster of course, but Finland’s Hannu Tuomainen earned … Read the Rest »

Decorps Delivers in Okayama

August 24th, 2011 by

Davy Decorps sent a statement to his fellow NVIDIA Cup drivers in Week Two that he is here to vie for the 2011 Season 3a championship. Decorps, who boasts a 3300+ road iRating took the overall win this week over 2300 fellow sim racers when the series visited the popular Okayama Short Course. Decorps scored … Read the Rest »

The Big One

August 23rd, 2011 by

The iRacing.com Street Stock Series, one of iRacing’s few fixed set-up series, made its way south to Charlotte Motor Speedway this past week. Top sim racers looked to tackle the 1.5 mile track which is known to create pack racing with these low horsepower cars, which also means “The Big One” was on everyone’s mind.  … Read the Rest »

New and Not-So New

August 23rd, 2011 by

Week 3 of Season 3 of the 2011 inRacingNews Challenge featured the series’ home track, Summit Point Raceway, and its Jefferson layout. Dominated last season by the two series champions, Marius Golombeck in the Pontiac Solstice and Gabriel Tobar in the Spec Racer Ford, this season offered other sim racers the opportunity to reach the … Read the Rest »

Sea of Green at the Glen

August 23rd, 2011 by

Week Three, Season Three of the iRacing V8 Supercar Series by Bigpond Sport saw the field arrive at Watkins Glen. Reality and its virtual counterpart were colliding in many meaningful ways. It was less than a week since Aussie Marcos Ambrose scored his maiden Sprint Cup win at the same (real world) venue. Meanwhile, iRacers … Read the Rest »

Ou Closes on IndyCar Premier Series Oval Title at NHMS

August 22nd, 2011 by

Yang Ou took another step towards securing the 2011 iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series Oval title at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last week.  Ou scored a dominant — if close – win over Tim Doyle in the top strength of field (2287) event to collect 143 points towards his championship.  Ou started from pole and … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Belgian Grand Prix Set for August 27

August 22nd, 2011 by

The iRacing.com Belgian Grand Prix is set for Spa-Francorchamps on August 27 as the latest round of the iRacing.com World Tour.   The event is free and open to all iRacers and will feature digital versions of the Williams-Toyota FW 31 cars beginning at 17:00 GMT (1 pm EDT). The 44 lap races will feature splits … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Andrea Disarò

August 20th, 2011 by

It should come as no surprise that Andrea Disarò is a big Ferrari fan.  After all, as a resident of the Rho, Italy, he’s almost a next door neighbor to Maranello.  Nor should it be surprising that Spa-Francorchamps is Disarò’s favorite track on the iRacing service.  After all, it would be tough to name another … Read the Rest »

The State of Sim Racing

August 19th, 2011 by

I was cleaning out my office a few days ago and under the mounds of paperwork an old memory was revived.  I found my collection of old racing games and simulators from years ago.  I flipped through the pages of some of the manuals and read the system requirements and kind of chuckled.  Back in … Read the Rest »