All News: Circuit of the Americas

Krönke’s iRacing World Championship GP Series Double

October 13th, 2016 by Jonny Simon

Ninth Win of the Season Secures First World Championship A new world champion is born as VRS Coanda Simsport’s Martin Krönke wins the 2016 iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series and is now $10,000 richer, as the German also wins his first career series title. Team Redline’s Greger Huttu was left to lament a season … Read the Rest »

Krönke Captures iRacing World Championship GP Series Title in Style

October 10th, 2016 by David Phillips

Martin Krönke finished the 2016 iRacing World Championship GP Series in championship style at Circuit of the Americas, scoring his ninth victory of the season to clinch the series title.  Krönke thus joins Hugo Luis as the only sim racer not named Greger Huttu to win the world title and pocket the $10,000 awarded to … Read the Rest »

On Top of Their Game

September 14th, 2016 by Paul Kelly/IMSA.com

AUSTIN, Texas (Sept. 14, 2016) – Practice in the virtual world made perfect in the real world for Alegra Motorsports teammates Daniel Morad and Michael de Quesada on Wednesday at Circuit of the Americas. Morad and de Quesada never have raced on the challenging 20-turn, 3.4-mile circuit near Austin, Texas, but they turned the quickest … Read the Rest »

Odox Narrowly Edges TeamGT-RS for Blancpain Endurance Championship

March 9th, 2016 by Paul Slavonik

After 12 rounds of sim-racing in iRacing’s Blancpain Endurance Series, the championship battle came down to the final event at the Circuit of The Americas. With several teams in striking distance for the overall victory, the margin between first and second came down to just eight points. Odox Motorsport BES Despite a dismal performance at … Read the Rest »

The Lords of the ‘Ring

March 5th, 2016 by Paul Slavonik

As Season 1 of iRacing’s Blancpain Endurance Series winds down, the penultimate round of the series was also the debut performance of the Nürburgring for the category and it certainly lived up to its reputation. With sim-racers from all over wanting to be the first to take the win at the Nürburgring in the Blancpain … Read the Rest »

Bent Fenders and Damaged Egos in Blancpain Endurance

February 22nd, 2016 by Paul Slavonik

By now, it’s no secret that GT3 racing (real or otherwise) is intense, extremely competitive and sometimes, pure carnage. With teams and drivers alike all vying to gain any sort of edge they can get over their fellow competitors, things can oftentimes get messy at the beginning of races since the field is so compressed. … Read the Rest »

New Names Top the Battle of Austin

November 23rd, 2015 by Niel Hekkens

One month after the season opener at Sebring International Raceway, the paddock moved west to Austin, Texas, for round two of the NEO Endurance Series at Circuit of the Americas. On a sunny race day 41 teams used warm-up to make some final adjustments for the race. 6 hours of racing in partly cloudy conditions … Read the Rest »

Excitement in NES Season 2 Opener

October 26th, 2015 by

On Sunday, October 18th Season 2 of the NEO Endurance Series kicked-off at Sebring International Raceway with an 8 hour race. A lot has changed and/or improved during the off-season. The new tradition of starting the season in Florida has proven to be a great show with lots of hard and fair racing in both … Read the Rest »

Krönke Takes the Second; Huttu Takes the Fifth

October 5th, 2015 by

For the second time this season the 2015 iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series visited fabled Autódromo José Carlos Pace (aka Interlagos), Aleksi Uusi-Jaakkola having scored an impressive win in Round One back on the final day of February.  Seven months and 14 rounds later, the sinuous virtual circuit produced a different winner; make that … Read the Rest »

Back Down to Business at COTA

July 23rd, 2015 by

It was a great welcome back to two of the category’s finest drivers in multiple series champion Madison Down and the 2014 Premier Series Champion Richard Hamstead for Round 5 of the official iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series championship at the Circuit of the Americas – West circuit. Qualifying A hot clear day confronted the field … Read the Rest »