All News: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

Gooden Plenty II

July 18th, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Wyatt Gooden has enjoyed great success racing sedans in both the real and virtual worlds.  As winner of the iRacing.com VW Jetta TDi Cup series in 2008, the young Ohioan earned an iRacing.com-sponsored ride in the 2009 SCCA Pro Racing VW Jetta TDi Cup.  After a rough first outing,Gooden rebounded to score a … Read the Rest »

Kirby Earns Third Win Of Season

July 16th, 2011 by

Notching his third victory in only seven starts, Justin Kirby has turned a lot of heads in his first season with the Red Sox Racing League.  Kirby started off the league’s 2011 Season Two schedule with a victory at the technically challenging layout of Spa, and then followed it up with another win at the … Read the Rest »

Kiraly and Gelink Head Towards Titles

July 6th, 2011 by

The 2011 Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series brought the Daytona Riley Prototypes and Ford Mustang FR500S’ to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for Round Seven of the online-racing championship open to subscribers of the iRacing Motorsport Simulation service. With the series heading into its final acts, the battle for points intensifies as competitors vie … Read the Rest »

Gooden Sweeps Formula F Races at Mid-Ohio

July 5th, 2011 by

Wrapping-up a sensational professional open-wheel racing debut, former karting and iRacing.com star Wyatt Gooden came out on top of a race-long duel with young Australian Mitch Martin to win his second SCCA F1600 Formula F Championship series race of the weekend Saturday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The victory gave the 22-year-old from suburban … Read the Rest »

Gooden Wins Formula F Debut at Mid-Ohio

July 3rd, 2011 by

Friday saw a near-perfect debut for former karting and iRacing.com star Wyatt Gooden, as the 22-year-old from Cleveland started on the pole, set fastest race lap, and went on to win the SCCA F1600 Formula F Championship series race Friday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Driving for Quantum Racing Services with support from Chris … Read the Rest »

Wyatt Gooden to Make Formula F Debut at Mid-Ohio

June 27th, 2011 by

iRacing stand-out and 2010 SCCA VW Jetta TDi Cup rookie of the year Wyatt Gooden will make his Formula F debut at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course the weekend of July 1-2 in the SCCA F1600 Formula F Championship.   Gooden, who earned his ride in the SCCA VW series by winning the iRacing.com VW Jetta … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Shawn Maier

March 26th, 2011 by

Shawn Maier races just about anything he can get his hands on:  go karts, radio-controlled cars and for nearly a decade, virtual race cars of many shapes and sizes.  That should be no surprise, considering he hails from a state synonymous with auto racing:  Indiana.  Although he mainly sim races the VW Jetta TDI in … Read the Rest »

IndyCar Racing Returns to Road America

March 3rd, 2011 by

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 »

Down Downs the Giz

March 2nd, 2011 by

The real-world V8 aces again had to contend with the sim racing world’s best in Race Two of Monday night’s iRacing Supercar series at Mid-Ohio. Australian V8 Supercar Series standout Shane Van Gisbergen may have taken pole again with a lap of 1: 23.553, but sim racer Madison Down was breathing down his neck at … Read the Rest »

Van Gisbergen Gatecrashes Mid-Ohio

March 2nd, 2011 by

We all know the fiendishly accurate iRacing simulation replicates motorsport superbly, but the lines between simulation and reality were blurred even more for Race One, Split One of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar series on Monday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. After spending some time on the virtual ovals,  top level V8 Supercar star Shane … Read the Rest »