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GRAND-AM and iRacing.com in Sports Car Racing Partnership

October 22nd, 2010 by

iRacing.com’s newest partnership with a professional race sanctioning body will debut in 2010 Season 4 with the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series.  The multi-class series featuring the Riley Mk XX Daytona Prototype and the production-based Ford Mustang FR500S will be sanctioned by GRAND-AM, the road-racing arm of NASCAR, and organized by iRacing.com.  The announcement … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM and iRacing.com in Sports Car Racing Partnership

October 22nd, 2010 by

BEDFORD, MA (October 22, 2010) – Beginning next month sports car racing fans and racing game enthusiasts world-wide will be able to compete with one another in online, multi-class races sanctioned by GRAND-AM, the road-racing arm of NASCAR, and organized by iRacing.com, the world’s leader in internet-based motorsport competition. The announcement of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com … Read the Rest »

Monstrous News for iRacing.com

October 5th, 2010 by

iRacing.com has added Dover International Speedway to its ever growing catalogue of race tracks.  Known as The Monster Mile, Dover is a real beast of a race track, exactly one mile in length and featuring 24 degree banked turns – not to mention a 46 foot tall, muscle-bound, statue outside the gates named “Miles the Monster.”  One of only two tracks on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit paved with concrete, Dover has been a fixture on the NASCAR schedule since 1969 with a list of winners that reads like a Who’s Who of NASCAR including Bobby Allison and Richard Petty, who each won seven times at Dover. Dover is also unique in that the track is part of a larger sports and entertainment complex that includes a hotel, gaming casino and harness racing track.  But it’s the mechanical ponies – as in the 750+ horsepower NASCAR Sprint Cup machines and their sibling Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series racers – that grab the attention of motorsports fans twice a year.  Up to 135,000 people from the Mid-Atlantic and beyond flock to the track for two big NASCAR weekends in the Spring and Fall.  Now, thanks to iRacing’s three dimensional laser-scanning technology, its members can also enjoy racing on the Monster Mile

JWH Racing League Debuts

September 19th, 2010 by

Looking for that private league feel in an official iRacing series?  Would you like to see bigger splits in “regular” races?  Or maybe you’d just like a little something extra from your weekly races. If you answered yes to any of the above (and even if you didn’t), then iRacing’s newest mini-series – JWH Racing League – is for you.  From now until the end of Season 3, the league will bring together iRacers with all levels of experience and skill for spirited but friendly competition in the regularly-scheduled NASCAR iRacing Class C Series race (Thursdays at 8:45 pm ET) and the Skip Barber Series race (Sundays at 3:45 pm ET). As with any other regular iRacing event, each split matches sim racers with similar skills and experience.  The beauty of JWHRL is that you’ll also be competing with everyone in all the other splits – no matter the strength of field – for league points.   Otherwise the races will run exactly the same as always; nothing will be different apart from the fact that league points and standings will be calculated off-line and reported on the Member Site and inRacingNews.

Pagenaud a winner from South Boston to Spa

May 10th, 2010 by

Simon Pagenaud completed a unique double yesterday, becoming the first driver to ever win a Legends Cup race at South Boston Speedway and the Le Mans Series Spa 1000kms in the same season. Pagenaud, an iRacer since last August, scored his Legends Cup sim racing win at South Boston in February.  Yesterday, he teamed with … Read the Rest »

Online Racing a Featured Attraction at NASCAR Hall of Fame

May 5th, 2010 by

The 15 iRacing.com-powered NASCAR stock car simulators proved to be a popular attraction yesterday during a media preview of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.   More than 100 journalists took the opportunity to take some virtual laps of Charlotte Motor Speedway in one of the seven two-seat NASCAR stock car replicas, along with a 15th simulator in an ADA stock car.  In addition, journalists were able to run sample qualifying sessions with a separate group of more basic online racing simulators. Journalists line-up to sample the iRacing simulators at the NASCAR Hall of Fame

Real Online Racers Never Give Up

April 26th, 2010 by

Talladega Superspeedway has been my favorite place to watch a race since I first discovered NASCAR in 1994: I could not believe racing of this type existed and after watching a few seasons of Formula One that had bored me to tears or drove me to them with death and ram-happy Germans; I latched onto … Read the Rest »

Davies Dominates Talladega

April 21st, 2010 by

In typical Talladega fashion, the outcome of last night’s NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) race came down to a few last laps of frantic online racing action for just about everyone but Brad Davies.  As he was most of the race, Davies was in front of the field when a big crash erupted in … Read the Rest »

Who Needs Swahili in Sim Racing?

March 17th, 2010 by

Jesse Atchison, aka JA28, is one of iRacing’s top oval competitors.   Champion of 2009 Season One Legends Cup and Season 4 Impala SS B, the Maryland-basd sim racer was a leading contender in the inaugural iRacing Pro Series Oval (iPSO) competition earlier this year.  Atchison started online racing in 2002 and was the 2003 … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Sponsors Ben Kennedy’s Mark Martin Performance Super Late Model

March 12th, 2010 by

Great Grandson of NASCAR Founder Bill France Will Carry iRacing.com Flag in 2010; First Race Tonight His racing roots go back three generations, and now 18-year-old Ben Kennedy is making his own mark in the sport that’s virtually synonymous with his grandfather and great-grandfather’s name – France.  Kennedy, the great-grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France, … Read the Rest »