All News: Bristol Motor Speedway

Hudson Reigns Supreme at Daytona

February 8th, 2011 by

Nearly 2200 Drivers Tackle the Florida High Banks The tenth season of NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS)competition kicked-off this past week at Daytona International Speedway. Loved by many for the three-wide, door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper, 200 mile per hour chess match type online racing and disliked by some for the unpredictability of super speedway racing that … Read the Rest »

Tour Modifieds Set to Roar in 2011 Season One

January 31st, 2011 by

Stops at Irwindale, Bristol and Dover Highlight Schedule With Week 13 drawing to a close on the iRacing simulation, the cars and stars of the NASCAR Tour Modified series are set to get back to business for their third season. During the 2010 Season Four campaign 438 sim racers took part in 143 races with … Read the Rest »

Towler Honored at NASCAR Sprint Cup Finale

November 25th, 2010 by

Richard Towler, inaugural winner of the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship, hoists the champion’s trophy for NASCAR’s first global championship, while iRacing.com’s Steve Myers and NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt, Jr. present the winner’s check for $10,000.  NASCAR managing director Blake Davidson looks on.  The presentation to NASCAR’s first virtual racing champion took place at the … Read the Rest »

World Tour Thunders Under the Lights

August 20th, 2010 by

The World Tour of iRacing swept into Thunder Valley last night for the iRacing.com Bristol 200 After Dark.  More than 350 iRacers of all experience levels from the USA to Australia, Europe, Scandinavia and South America took to Bristol Motor Speedway’s half-mile bullring in their Chevrolet Silverados for 200 laps of online racing under the … Read the Rest »

Bristol, Rennsport Style

August 19th, 2010 by

This week the Rennsport Racing League headed south, to Bristol Motor Speedway, a bit of a change for the predominantly road course online racing series. Practice started a full half hour earlier so the sim racers could get acclimated to the Nationwide car and only turning left. Unfortunately, not everyone took advantage of the extra … Read the Rest »

Martinsville Muscle

March 24th, 2010 by

Ray Alfalla  muscled past Richard Towler in the closing laps at Martinsville Speedway on Tuesday to score his first win in the NASCAR iRacing World Championship Series.   Towler had dominated the race from the outset, leading 153 of the first 236 laps.  But a late caution set-up a frantic restart that saw Alfalla and … Read the Rest »

Q&A with NiCWS Winner and Pro Road Racing Champion Richard Towler

March 11th, 2010 by

Over the past seven years Richard Towler has emerged as one of world’s top sim racers.  Based in Hull, England, the 26 year old Towler traveled a well-trodden online racing path from Gran Tourismo 2002 to NASCAR 2003 and has been a member of iRacing.com since June of 2008.  In that time he has won … Read the Rest »

Q&A with NiCWS Winner and Pro Road Racing Champion Richard Towler

March 11th, 2010 by

Over the past seven years Richard Towler has emerged as one of world’s top sim racers.  Based in Hull, England, the 26 year old Towler traveled a well-trodden online racing path from Gran Tourismo 2002 to NASCAR 2003 and has been a member of iRacing.com since June of 2008.  In that time he has won … Read the Rest »

Pick Your Poison

March 10th, 2010 by

No place to run, no place to hide. That is racing at Bristol Motor Speedway in a nutshell. Cramming 20 trucks on a high banked, 1/2 mile race track can turn out a lot like attempting to fly a fighter jet in a gymnasium — a whole lot of power and not a lot of … Read the Rest »

New Name, Same Game

February 10th, 2010 by

Season One of 2010 started off with a bang before any tires hit the pavement at Daytona International Speedway when the Chevy Silverado Championship (CSC) became an official NASCAR online racing series, earning the title of NASCAR iRacing Class C Series. It is very well known that the CSC is one of the most competitive … Read the Rest »