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One Down, Two to Go
March 4th, 2011 by DavidP
The past week of online racing at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca concluded the first NVIDIA Cup championship of the season, part one of three in 2011 Season One. The four weeks were full of close racing, constant back-and-forth, with over 2000 iRacers participating every week. A sincere congratulations goes out to Marcello Maio, for taking … Read the Rest »
Huttu Tops iRacing.com Intel GP Series World Final
March 4th, 2011 by DavidP
Finland’s Greger Huttu further solidified his unofficial title as the world’s greatest sim racer by winning this morning’s iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final, a thirty lap race in Star Mazdas at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. After qualifying second to Bastien Bartsch (France), Huttu grabbed the lead on the second lap and was never headed. … Read the Rest »
iRacing Intel® GP Finals at Hand
March 3rd, 2011 by DavidP
In less than 24 hours, the first champion of the inaugural iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final will be crowned. The champion could be any one of ten of the world’s top sim racers who have journeyed to Hannover, Germany from Australia, the United States and many parts of Europe for the Intel Extreme Masters … Read the Rest »
IndyCar Racing Returns to Road America
March 3rd, 2011 by DavidP
The road course edition of the IZOD IndyCar Series is now two races in the books, with this past week’s events at Road America now complete. The Wisconsin track, the first of three tracks not to appear on the real-life IndyCar schedule, has a long and storied history of real open-wheel racing nonetheless, making it … Read the Rest »
A Third of the Way Home
March 3rd, 2011 by DavidP
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 »
Alfalla Brings Big Mo to iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final
March 2nd, 2011 by DavidP
Given that the United States/Canada qualifying round for the iRacing Intel® GP Series was held in September, momentum wouldn’t figure to play much of a role in Friday’s iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final. Or that a sim racer from Florida would be able to pack some momentum in his carry-on for the flight to … Read the Rest »
An Epic Journey to Show Sim Racing in a New Light
March 1st, 2011 by DavidP
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 »
World’s Top Sim Racers in iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Finals
March 1st, 2011 by DavidP
It started last summer with more than 7,500 of the world’s top driving game enthusiasts and sim racers competing for starting spots in a sprint race that pits the very best of drivers in online racing against one another for bragging rights and substantial prize money. The shoot-out comes this Friday, March 4, when ten … Read the Rest »
Sim Racing’s Super Bowl Another Chance for Huttu to Shine
February 28th, 2011 by DavidP
Professional football has already had its Super Bowl this year, stock car racing its Daytona 500. Now sim racing takes the spotlight with the iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final on Friday, March 4 which will be broadcast live at 10:00 CET (4:00 am ET). Part of the Intel Extreme Masters Tournament at the CeBIT … Read the Rest »
Steady as She Goes
February 25th, 2011 by DavidP
The seven sweeping turns at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut really tested the skill and consistency of the iRacers last week. Consistency is definitely the right word to describe Marcello Maio and Artur Turcu. Both drivers have wheeled their Mazda MX-5s to top five finishes in every online race so far this season, and each … Read the Rest »