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Three's Company, 363 is a Crowd

August 29th, 2011 by

Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber and Jenson Button had plenty of company on the podium at Spa-Francorchamps over the weekend.  Less than 24 hours before 24 Formula One pilotes set off for the 2011 Shell Belgian Grand Prix, more than 363 iRacers took to the challenging 4.35 mile circuit in their virtual Williams-Toyota FW31s for the … Read the Rest »

Thompson Tops Bristol's Best

August 26th, 2011 by

Though the record books will show former NASCAR iRacing.com Class C (NiCCS) champion Tyler Hudson as the winner of the week at the Bristol Motor Speedway, it was Georgia sim racer Justin Thompson who stole the show with an impressive eight wins in eleven races at the half-mile. Thompson scored two wins higher than the … Read the Rest »

Third Win's a Charm

August 17th, 2011 by

Brad Davies passed JR Motorsports teammate John Gorlinsky for the lead with nine laps to go to win the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) race at Chicagoland Speedway. The 2010 NiSWC runner-up survived a run-in with Josh Parker on pit entry in the closing stages of the race to claim a series-best third win … Read the Rest »

Where There's a Will There's a Way

August 9th, 2011 by

A lot of people have built their own home-made racing simulators.  Technically, anyone who has fastened a steering wheel to a desk has already started to build their simulator, but many people stop building their simulator the day their first wheel arrives.  I am not one of those people. Let me give you a bit … Read the Rest »

Madison's opening account

August 9th, 2011 by

Mosport was the scene for opening hostilities in the iRacing V8 Supercars Series, presented by new sponsor Bigpond. Yet another feather in the cap of the world’s best motorsport simulation- to be named the official online series of the biggest motor racing category Down Under. Perhaps “hostilities” is a bit unfair. The camaraderie in this … Read the Rest »

Win Dale Earnhardt Jr's Car

August 5th, 2011 by

As everyone does (or should) know, Dale Earnhardt Jr is one of iRacing’s biggest fans and supporters.  And we like to return some of the love whenever we can, for example, by alerting inRacingNews readers of a chance to drive away in Dale Jr.’s 2011 Victory Red Camaro! The red beauty is being raffled-off to … Read the Rest »

Book 'em!

August 4th, 2011 by

Another season of the inRacingNews Challenge is in the books, and while the final results feature some new names atop the championship standings, others stay the same. Case in point: While the Pontiac Solstice class crowned a new champion in Marius Golombeck, replacing Chris Higgins (who still placed sixth overall despite only scoring points in … Read the Rest »

V8 Supercars to Sanction iRacing.com Series

August 1st, 2011 by

Bedford, MA (August 1, 2011) – iRacing.com and V8 Supercars announced an agreement today that will see the organizers of the successful V8 Supercar Championship officially sanction the popular online racing service’s V8 Supercar series, which will be known as the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by BigPond.  V8 Supercars thus joins NASCAR, INDYCAR and … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Announces Release of 2.0 World’s leading online racing game gets even better

July 29th, 2011 by

Bedford, MA (July 29, 2011) – iRacing.com today formally announced its most significant software release to date – Version 2.0. iRacing 2.0 features new race tracks, cars and enhancements across the board for the world’s leading  online, multi-player racing title. Version 2.0 comes out on the anniversary of iRacing’s initial launch three years ago.    “We … Read the Rest »

McLeod's Mojo returns at Mosport.

July 19th, 2011 by

Defending iRacing V8 Supercar Season One champ Mitchell McLeod will not go quietly, despite his Season Two not going to as much to plan as he would have liked. At Canada’s Mosport Park, he came out fighting and the McLeod magic returned. After a reasonable start to the online racing season including a win at … Read the Rest »