All News: Barber Motorsports Park

IndyCar Reality Check: Barber Motorsports Park

March 25th, 2015 by Jared DePouw

Welcome to the first in a series of articles designed to provide insight into the iRacing Dallara DW12 IndyCar from those who know the car best: actual Verizon IndyCar Series drivers and race engineers. My name is Jared DePouw, and I joined iRacing in the summer of 2013 after attending the Indy 500 and wanting … Read the Rest »

Barber Hosts Penultimate Round Again

March 18th, 2015 by

Barber Motorsports Park has produced some of the best races the UK&I Skip Barber League has seen in recent seasons, but has often suffered in attendance.  With a grid of over three dozen this season for the 15 lap race and with less than a quarter of a second between first and tenth in qualifying, … Read the Rest »

Quinn, Barnett & Allen Shine in the Rumble at Lime Rock

January 29th, 2015 by

Rumblestrip racing visited Lime Rock Park for its Star Mazda season opener this week and the first race of the customary six race mini-season.  While the league is normally known for its low contact sim racing, several expected this week’s short course action to more closely resemble close combat. W. Marc Ponick was first to … Read the Rest »

Barbers Battle at Barber

December 8th, 2014 by

With only two races remaining in the truncated Season 4 of 2014, the UK&I Skip Barber League made the short journey from Road America to Barber Motorsports Park for a 15 lap sprint.  Last time out Marc Mercer grabbed the championship by the horns and lept ahead of Dominic Brennan with 83 points to Brennan’s … Read the Rest »

16th Street Screams into Phoenix

October 27th, 2014 by

Week 3 of one of the most prestigious IndyCar leagues – the 16th Street Racing League — on iRacing was staged at a wide, flat, and smooth mile in the desert known as Phoenix International Raceway. Long host to some form of major American motorsports, this storied track is originally synonymous with open wheel racing. … Read the Rest »

Tight Grid, Runaway Race

September 17th, 2014 by

Two dozen sim racers lined up on the grid at Barber Motorsports Park for the sixth round of the Skip Barber 2K Cup with 25 laps between them and the halfway point of the Skip Barber 2K Cup’s inaugural season.  Sebastian Job took the win and the championship points lead last time out in Okayama, … Read the Rest »

A Close Shave at Barber

September 15th, 2014 by

Week Six of the UK&I Skip Barber League’s third season of 2014 descended on Barber Motorsports Park for a 15 lap race and a grid on the smaller side, with just under two dozen sim-racers participating.  In qualifying championship leader Sebastian Job took pole position, certainly eager to perform well after the disappointment of Okayama … Read the Rest »

Anreus Scorches into Big Radicals Lead

June 23rd, 2014 by

Anreus scorched into a 200 point lead in the iRacing.com Radical Racing Challenge after erstwhile leader, Tom Lanpheer, missed the last two weeks in the championship. Anreus  had two strong weeks of sim racing as the field first visited the classic Watkins Glen and then moved onto the slippery challenge that is Mid- Ohio. Watkins … Read the Rest »

Anreus Storms into Radicals Lead as Avery Stars

June 11th, 2014 by

Mattias Anreus stormed into the lead of the iRacing.com Radical Racing Challenge with a dominant performance at Barber Motorsports Park. The Scandinavian was the only driver to score more than 200 points during the week but he was hounded all the way by UK&I driver Richard Avery. The Pro-licensed sim racer netted 194 points and … Read the Rest »

Kerekes Tips the Barber

June 6th, 2014 by

After last week’s racing at Oran Park Raceway, the RUF Cup found its way to Barber Motorsports Park, which lies in the middle of a heavily forested area on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. While Oran Park has recently closed in the interest of a developing suburbia, Barber finds itself on the opposite side of … Read the Rest »