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The Sun that Never Set – Our Win in the 24 Hours of Daytona

February 5th, 2015 by

Look for the brake point… Downshift to 2nd… “That was a 1:48.5, need more of that.” Anyone leaving pit road?  Nope, set up here… Watch that dirt on the outside…Any HPDs behind? Nope… Oops, bad entry…slight understeer…watch the wheelspin… “2nd place hit a 1:48.2, at the line now” Man I hate this corner…tiptoe a little … Read the Rest »

iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona

January 23rd, 2015 by

The iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona is scheduled to get underway at 13:00 GMT (8am EST) on January 31.  The opening round of the 2015 Road Warrior Series, the race will utilize the driver swap/team feature that enables two or more sim racers to drive the same car and/or assume various roles such as spotter, … Read the Rest »

Pre-Season Testing Comes to iRacing

January 12th, 2015 by

iRacing’s First 24 Hour Race Set for January 17-18 Like their counterparts in the Tudor United SportsCar Series participating in last week’s “Roar Before the 24,” iRacers are invited to take part in a pre-season test on January 17-18 in preparation for the iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona, the opening round of the 2015 Road … Read the Rest »

Ibérica Racing Team Masters Suzuka 1000K

December 19th, 2014 by

Masters of Endurance traveled to Japan for Round 2 of the 2014/15 season, and once again had a capacity 60 car grid of GT3 cars. Teams of sim racers faced the prospect of 173 laps at the tight and challenging Suzuka circuit for this 1000 km race. A total of 87 teams took part in … Read the Rest »

My Personal Experience in Team GT3 Challenge, Week One

November 10th, 2014 by

Last Saturday I had the unique opportunity to participate in a new road series I’ll be writing about for Season 4 — the iRacing Team GT3 Challenge — as a crew chief for a pair of sim-racing buddies competing against over a dozen other sim-racers piloting seven GT3 cars around Silverstone’s International layout.  The hour-long … Read the Rest »

Road Warriors: Five Story Drops in the Lotus 49

August 20th, 2014 by

This weekend iRacing once again virtually paralleled a world class event, namely the Monterey Historic weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.  While the Monterey Historics see a wide variety of vintage classics, our virtual Monterey Historics used one of racing’s most iconic open wheel cars: the Lotus 49. Suffice to say competitors did their best … Read the Rest »

Road Warriors At Lime Rock

July 7th, 2014 by

The Road Warrior series returned to multi-class racing at Lime Rock Park for 50 laps in the Global Challenge. A total of 144 sim racers took the green flag in Connecticut this weekend across both cars. The Cadillac CTS-V R saw 105 iRacers score points, while the Kia Optima had 39 drivers for the weekend. … Read the Rest »

A New Season Starts for Brazilian Leagues

May 23rd, 2014 by

Two weeks ago, after a short break, Brazilian leagues started their new season of races for this year. Two of them are iRacing Brasil and Brasil Lemans Series, which I have been covering for iRacing News since the first season of this year. Both leagues follow the official iRacing calendar for their series and, this … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series

April 29th, 2014 by

New Build, New Challenges, New Toys I’ve been a member of the iRacing service since July of 2008, and not since the “2.0” build can I remember a time when the entire service was turned on its ear just because of a build release.  If you haven’t done so in a while, go check out … Read the Rest »

Osborne Dominates GT3 Challenge at Suzuka

April 8th, 2014 by

In a hat trick victory for Week 10 of the iRacing.com GT3 Challenge Series, it was Christopher Osborne who came out on top in dominating fashion at Suzuka. After starting from P3 in his RUF RT 12R, Osborne was able to slip past Aday Coba Lopez (who started and finished second) and go on to … Read the Rest »