All News: Ian Lake

An Epic Journey to Show Sim Racing in a New Light

March 1st, 2011 by

If there was a “longest tow” award at Friday’s iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final in Hannover, Germany it would be a dead heat between Ian Lake and Mitchell McLeod.  The two Australians quite literally traveled from half a world away to participate in the Super Bowl of sim racing, which is scheduled to take … Read the Rest »

Road Atlanta Pro Road Racing: Towler Continues to Roll

December 29th, 2009 by

Road Atlanta is a favourite venue of many and good racing took place there both in Week Eight of the iRacing Pro Series Road Racing and now again in Week 21.  As a result, Richard Towler finds himself in the lead of the iPSRR in what has become a three horse race between himself, Luke … Read the Rest »

Something You Don't See Every Day

December 23rd, 2009 by

This week marks the beginning of drivers dropping their worst results from their season points score in the case they have run every iRacing Pro Series Road Racing event to date.  This means over the remaining five weeks of the iPSRR we could see quite a lot of movement in the top 50.  However, this … Read the Rest »

Something You Don’t See Every Day

December 23rd, 2009 by

This week marks the beginning of drivers dropping their worst results from their season points score in the case they have run every iRacing Pro Series Road Racing event to date.  This means over the remaining five weeks of the iPSRR we could see quite a lot of movement in the top 50.  However, this … Read the Rest »

Pro Road Racing at Sebring: The Fight for the Top 50 Intensifies

December 16th, 2009 by

This week saw the beginning of a run home that features purpose-built road courses exclusively and this was accompanied by an increase in driver numbers. Amongst the extra drivers were the likes of Greger Huttu and Bastien Bartsch, both of whom would star this week for various reasons. Mixed fortunes came for many of the … Read the Rest »

Pro Road Racing at Lowe's – The Last R-oval

December 1st, 2009 by

This week marks the end of r-ovals for the remainder of the season . . . much to the delight of many who have targeted them from the get-go as weeks to drop. However, the racing has been pretty good over this mid-season period with some of the drivers not minding these types of tracks … Read the Rest »

Pro Road Racing at Lowe’s – The Last R-oval

December 1st, 2009 by

This week marks the end of r-ovals for the remainder of the season . . . much to the delight of many who have targeted them from the get-go as weeks to drop. However, the racing has been pretty good over this mid-season period with some of the drivers not minding these types of tracks … Read the Rest »

Pro Road Racing at Daytona: 15 weeks on, little has changed

November 24th, 2009 by

The iRacing Pro Series Road Race kicked-off on the Daytona International Speedways road course back on August 4. In that first week the excitement factor was high, as was shown by the fact that eight official races were run by a total of 131 drivers.  Since then, participation has declined due to various reasons like … Read the Rest »

iRacing Pro Series Road Racing: More Fun at another “R-oval”

November 11th, 2009 by

The last few weeks have seen a bit of debate over the worth of what have become known as “R-ovals,” a track that is essentially an oval with some track laid within its infield. Love them or hate them, they have provided some good, close and intense racing. Drivers are also speaking about fatigue at … Read the Rest »

Laguna Seca Pro Road Racing: Some storming drives and some sand storms!

November 2nd, 2009 by

With the latest build for the iRacing software released just days before the commencement of this week’s racing, the addition of smoke, dust, sand, dirt, etc. was always going to add an interesting new element to the racing. Some claimed they saw Lawrence of Arabia sitting up on the sand dunes of Laguna Seca on … Read the Rest »