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Mustang Intensity at Daytona

April 16th, 2013 by

Eleven weeks of close racing reached a new high point at Daytona as the iRacing.com Mustang Cup drivers battled for every possible point.  Something about racing at Daytona – the history, the high banking, the challenge of never quite mastering it – brings out the intensity in every sim-racer on the grid.  Combine that intensity … Read the Rest »

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 »

Oulton Park Thriller

April 9th, 2013 by

In Week 10 at Oulton Park, the top sim-racers in this season’s iRacing.com Mustang Cup turned-up the heat on current points leader and last season’s champion, Dariusz Bielawski, who responded with a thrilling .263s margin of victory over Todd Honczarenko.  Sunday’s race at 22:15 GMT opened with 18 Mustangs on the grid, with Bielawski out … Read the Rest »

Swirydowicz On Top in England

April 5th, 2013 by

Week Nine brought the iRacing.com Skip Barber Race Series to the grassy hills of Brands Hatch, located in Kent, England.  The “Indy” layout being used is 1.198 miles (1.928 km) and one of the shortest tracks on the schedule.  The pole was won by Nicolas Bihan (Texas) with a blazing fast time of 51.715.  There … Read the Rest »

Heated Points Battle Atop Mustang Cup

March 26th, 2013 by

With the Mustangs running at a series-favorite Mid-Ohio in Week 8, the points battle heated-up at the top of the standings.  Last season’s iRacing.com Mustang Cup champion, Dariusz Bielawski, has maintained the points the lead every week – with the exception of Week 3 when he temporarily surrendered the top spot to David L Brown.  … Read the Rest »

Ferrari Storm to Huge CTC Lead as Williams Falter

November 16th, 2012 by

Round Two of the Lotus 79 2012 Season 4 and the Classic Teams Championship represented a complete contrast to Round One as the wide spaces of the Suzuka Circuit were replaced by the exciting, but all together trickier Road Atlanta. With a track that puts more demands on setup than Suzuka and drivers still getting … Read the Rest »

Ferrari Take Early Lead in CTC Title Defence

November 9th, 2012 by

221 drivers, 23 races, 16 different race winners and some fantastic close action online racing at the virtual Suzuka Circuit marked the start of 2012 Series 4 Lotus 79 Classic Teams Championship. Once again a substantial number of those drivers entering the series have also entered the Frank Herfjord-arranged Classic Teams Championship with resulting field … Read the Rest »

Petit Le Mans World Tour

October 26th, 2012 by

Not long before the Rebellion, Level 5, Oreca, Extreme Speed, IMSA Matmut and Momo race teams sped to class wins (and the Delta Wing once again proved it is in a class of its own) in last weekend’s Petit Le Mans Powered by Mazda, some three dozen iRacers experienced the thrill of victory in the … Read the Rest »

Kerkhof Captivates Championship at Spa

September 6th, 2012 by

In an action-packed 44 laps around the virtual Spa-Francorchamps, Atze Kerkhof became only the third sim-racer to stand on the top step of the 2012 iRacing.com Grand Prix Series World Championship podium. The thirteenth round victory for the Dutchman sees the Team Redline sim-racer consolidate his fifth position in the championship standings, and edge closer … Read the Rest »