All News: Chris Hughson

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 »

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 »

All But a Lock

July 19th, 2011 by

Silverstone’s International circuit marked the penultimate round (of 12) for the inRacingNews Challenge, 2011 Season 2. Marius Golombeck and Gabriel Tobar have essentially locked-up the Pontiac Solstice and Spec Racer Ford championships, respectively, leaving their online racing opponents racing for second. With that in mind, the sight of two different sim racers atop each series’ … Read the Rest »

Silverstone Déjà Vu

July 5th, 2011 by

For sim racers who have competed in the inRacingNews Challenge more the past few seasons, Week Eight of 2011 Season 2, taking place on Silverstone’s Southern layout, must have felt just like déjà vu all over again. Just like the majority of 2011 Season One, Chris Hughson scored the most points in the Pontiac Solstice … Read the Rest »

Crunch Time

April 7th, 2011 by

Entering the ninth week of the inRacingNews Challenge, another round at Lime Rock Park, many of the series’ top drivers were either approaching or at the point where they could begin dropping their worst results of the 12-week season. This is crunch time for sim racers in both the Pontiac Solstice and Spec Racer Ford … Read the Rest »

Mixed Class, Mixed Bag

March 24th, 2011 by

Featuring the Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Ford, the inRacingNews Challenge is a textbook example of mixed class online racing.  And when it comes to the class championships, the 2011 Season One iRNC is a textbook example of a mixed bag of results.  On the one hand, Gabriel Tobar seems poised to lock-up the SRF championship … Read the Rest »

One and Only

March 17th, 2011 by

The inRacingNews Challenge is now halfway complete, as the Pontiac Solstices and Spec Racer Fords of the multi-class series spent last week competed at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the one and only time this online racing season. While Chris Hughson (in Solstice) and Gabriel Tobar (in SRF) both held substantial points leads going into the … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Chris Hughson

March 12th, 2011 by

It would be easy to characterize Chris Hughson as the king of the inRacingNews Challenge.  After all, in the inaugural season of the iRNC, Hughson came close to running the table, winning the Pontiac Solstice class and finishing third to Daniel López and Gaston Taberner in SpecRacer Ford . . . this after compiling a … Read the Rest »

In Quest of the Double

March 9th, 2011 by

Chris Hughson continues his quest for dual titles in the inRacingNewsChallenge, adding to his lead in the Pontiac Solstice class after five weeks of online racing but losing ground to Gabriel Tobar in the SpecRacer Fords. Week Five, which saw the iRNC take on Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, helped Hughson extend his points lead in … Read the Rest »

A Third of the Way Home

March 3rd, 2011 by

We’re now a third of the way through the inRacingNews Challenge season, this past week’s events taking place on the Silverstone National Circuit. The top stories remain the championship dominance of Gabriel Tobar in the SpecRacer Ford class and Chris Hughson in the Pontiac Solstice, as well as Hughson’s drive to win both online racing … Read the Rest »