All News: Oran Park

Sulzer Back In Style

April 15th, 2013 by

Week 10 brought the iRacing.com Skip Barber Race Series to Road Atlanta, located in Braselton, GA, USA.  Using the tight club layout, drivers attacked 14 corners over 1.81 miles (2.91 km) of track.  Typically used for drifting competitions in real life, this layout was quite sketchy for racing throughout the week.  This showed as only … Read the Rest »

Fritsche Closes Gap; Lotus Falter

April 12th, 2013 by

Road Atlanta is a popular and challenging track, with the sweeps early in the lap being both exciting and testing in equal amounts. In all 100 Lotus 79 drivers took on the challenge over the course of 10 races during Week 10 of the Classic Teams Challenge in 2013 Season One. Gernot Fritsche took full … Read the Rest »

Sim-Racers Race to Reality

April 10th, 2013 by

Call it sim-racing’s version of Australian Idol or Australia’s Got Talent, Race to Reality will enable one very talented – and fortunate – sim-racer to secure a ride in a very real race car in an Aussie Racing Cars Series event.  Valued at $12,000 (Au), the prize includes flights, accommodation, driver training, track practice day, … Read the Rest »

Back to Australia

March 21st, 2013 by

The Late Model Road Racing World Series is back to Australia for its 6th round at the now gone Oran Park Raceway. The online race will be broadcast live on latemodelroad.com this Sunday at 22:30 GMT. The figure-eight shaped, anticlockwise circuit, which was put down in 2010 to make room for a housing development after … Read the Rest »

Hamstead Strikes Back At The Park

February 15th, 2013 by

Round Two of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Championship presented by Big Pond headed back into Australia, to one of iRacing’s newest tracks — Oran Park. As Madison Down took Round One with Richard Hamstead finishing in second it looked like it might go the same way in Round Two.  However, Hamstead’s win in the early … Read the Rest »

Williams Consolidate as Surtees Extend Lead

January 4th, 2013 by

As the season moves into its last quarter, championship positions are settling but, by no means, are they confirmed as many drivers still have plenty to fight for in the Classic Teams Championship. Ferrari have faded somewhat as their popular driver (and CTC photographer!) Kalle Ruokola has failed to score for three successive weeks, but … Read the Rest »

Vaughn Rocks Zolder

December 18th, 2012 by

Week Seven brought the iRacing.com Skip Barber Series to Circuit-Zolder.  Located in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, the ten turn 2.492 mile (4.011 km) circuit includes a few sweeping and fast turns broken apart by three tight chicanes and a hairpin. The layout is loved by some and hated by others but, the love/hate relationship resulted in 663 … Read the Rest »

Ehnström and Wedin Pile on the Pressure

December 17th, 2012 by

Surtees streak into Aurora lead A missed week for Henri Salminen, solid points for Gernot Frische and another excellent score for Aurora’s Jan Wedin were amongst the highlights of another exciting week’s racing in the Classic Teams Championship. The Dutch dunes of Zandvoort played host to the mid-point round of the championship and, as is … Read the Rest »

The New Build Is Here

October 31st, 2012 by

iRacing is excited to release yet another feature, function and content update to the service as it does every 90 days.   The constant updates are unique in the industry and we hope you enjoy the latest update as our standard Season 4 racing season is set to start. This build was a big one for … Read the Rest »

Lotus 49, Oran Park, Rockingham Available for Pre-Sale

September 26th, 2012 by

History is poised to come alive on iRacing with one of the Formula One’s most significant cars – the Lotus 49 — and two of the world’s most beloved race tracks – Rockingham Speedway and Oran Park – now available for pre-sale. iRacing’s introduction of the Lotus 49 is a milestone in the evolution of … Read the Rest »