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Engelhart Sails to Stafford Win

March 7th, 2011 by

With only twelve races hitting official point paying status when it came to the NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series in Week Five, the cars and stars of the series had to make their finishes count or face a drop week when it comes to the online racing championship. When the pressure is on though, the … Read the Rest »

Coleman Claims Charlotte

March 1st, 2011 by

The short track stars of iRacing.com Street Stock Series rolled into the Charlotte Motor Speedway for a change of pace from the traditional short track atmosphere.  During Week Four the sim racers took to the high-banked 1.5-mile track usually reserved for the top drivers in NASCAR. Fittingly then, NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) rookie … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Steven van Helsdingen

February 26th, 2011 by

A member of iRacing.com since last May, Steven van Helsdingen likes his mixed class racing, witness the fact that he gets a lot of virtual seat time in the inRacingNews Challenge and the iRacing Grand Touring Cup, along with iRacing Street Stocks (Fixed).  A resident of Bossum, the Netherlands, van Helsdingen is currently fifth in … Read the Rest »

Trevor Bayne First Drove Daytona on iRacing.com

February 23rd, 2011 by

It was standing room only in the Daytona media center this past Sunday afternoon when Trevor Bayne walked in following his dramatic win in the Daytona 500.  But in the same room a year earlier, just a handful of people looked on as drove an iRacing.com-powered simulator while Michael Waltrip talked him around Daytona International … Read the Rest »

Lots of Daytona 500 Winners

February 21st, 2011 by

This past weekend produced a multitude of Daytona 500 winners.  Trevor Bayne won the opening round of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series on Sunday, of course, but Saturday saw 37 different iRacers take checkered flags in the iRacing.com Daytona 500, Round Two of the 2011 World Tour of iRacing.com. In reality, however, there were … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM and iRacing.com Announce Premier Online Sports Car Series

February 17th, 2011 by

10-Race, 26-Week Virtual Racing Series To Mirror Rolex Series Schedule When GRAND-AM and iRacing.com announced the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series last fall, driving game aficionados, sim racers and sports car racing fans responded enthusiastically.   The series, which runs 12-week seasons and features multi-class racing, quickly became one of the most popular among iRacing.com’s … Read the Rest »

Life at the Next Level

February 16th, 2011 by

The NASCAR iRacing Class A Series attacked the massive banking of Daytona International Speedway for Week Two of their twelve week season. The mighty track not only provided excellent online racing where it’s anyone’s race, it also gave drivers a chance for a substantial amount of points. With the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship race … Read the Rest »

Tonight's NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship Opener Broadcast Live

February 14th, 2011 by

Tonight’s 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship opener at Daytona International Speedway will be broadcast by PSRTV live on iRacing.com.  The veteran announcer Nim Cross will once again handle the play-by-play and color commentating duties. The race starts at 9 pm ET (Wednesday, February 16 at 0200 GMT) . . . but why wait? Tune … Read the Rest »

Tonight’s NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship Opener Broadcast Live

February 14th, 2011 by

Tonight’s 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship opener at Daytona International Speedway will be broadcast by PSRTV live on iRacing.com.  The veteran announcer Nim Cross will once again handle the play-by-play and color commentating duties. The race starts at 9 pm ET (Wednesday, February 16 at 0200 GMT) . . . but why wait? Tune … Read the Rest »

Don’t Just Watch The Daytona 500, Drive It!

February 11th, 2011 by

The Great American Sim-Race Is Open to Everyone Practice starts tomorrow (February 12) for the iRacing.com Daytona 500, a virtual version of NASCAR’s 2011 season-opening event that runs on February 19, the day before the real Daytona 500.  Unlike the NASCAR Sprint Cup race that more than 200,000 will view from the grandstands at Daytona … Read the Rest »