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iGPSWC Round 13 on iRacing Live Saturday!

August 31st, 2012 by

Round 13 of the iRacing.com Grand Prix Series World Championship will be broadcast live on iRacing Live this Saturday at 14:00 GMT (10 am Eastern).  The world’s finest online road racers will take on the daunting challenges of 44 laps around the historic 4.35 mile (7 km) Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in their Williams-Toyota FW31s. 2010 … Read the Rest »

Huttu’s Back in the Box Seat

August 7th, 2012 by

Just when it seemed current iRacing.com Grand Prix Series World Championship title holder Hugo Luis was mustering a comeback, Greger Huttu bagged his seventh win of the season at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, to assert his position atop the series standings. With five rounds of the championship remaining, the Finn can now afford to … Read the Rest »

Huttu's Back in the Box Seat

August 7th, 2012 by

Just when it seemed current iRacing.com Grand Prix Series World Championship title holder Hugo Luis was mustering a comeback, Greger Huttu bagged his seventh win of the season at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, to assert his position atop the series standings. With five rounds of the championship remaining, the Finn can now afford to … Read the Rest »

Down With Crown In Sight

July 20th, 2012 by

Round 11 of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by BigPond returned the States with a visit to 4km, 12 turn Road Atlanta.  A long back straight made it difficult to develop a setup which would be fast through the turns and fast on the back straight, but a lot of people traded straight line … Read the Rest »

Turning Point: Road Atlanta

June 29th, 2012 by

Classic Teams Championship: Round 8, Road Atlanta The drivers were all pleased to see the 2.54-mile sweeping layout of Road Atlanta back on the schedule and the venue for Round 8 of the Classic Teams Championship. This week there were 64 drivers, just 4 less than at the last round, and 14 official races over … Read the Rest »

Globe Trotters

April 27th, 2012 by

Weeks 9 and 10 took the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge outside of North America for the final time this season, to a pair of tracks 10,000 miles apart in opposite hemispheres. Their track layouts once again provided the globe-trotting sim racers with contrast from week-to-week as Silverstone’s wide, historic airfield layout in the English … Read the Rest »

New Names and Upsets

April 20th, 2012 by

Week Four of the iRacing.com Skip Barber Racing School Premier Series kicked-off in the small town of Braselton, Georgia, home of Road Atlanta.  The 12 turn, 2.54 mile road course proved to be an exciting and challenging configuration for the 84 sim racers who competed this week as some new names and upsets filled the … Read the Rest »

iRacing Addiction

April 9th, 2012 by

If the powers-that-be were to base iRacing’s catalogue of road racing cars on the driving history of one driver, they could do far worse than Bruno Junqueira.  Formula One and go-karts, Champ Car and F3000, IndyCar and F3, A1GP and GT . . .   Enter the words “Junqueira Formula Truck” on YouTube and you’ll even … Read the Rest »

The Flawless Floridian

April 6th, 2012 by

The iRacing.com Skip Barber Racing School Premier Series invaded Sonoma, California for the third week of the season at Infineon Raceway. Christian Aranha and David Williams were the center(s) of attention as they went into the week’s online racing action tied for first place on the leader board.  Aranha continued his undefeated sweep this week, … Read the Rest »

Jake Stakes Early GP Series Lead

February 6th, 2012 by

iRacing.com Grand Prix Series off to a exciting start with new faces and updates to Williams-Toyota FW31 The 2012 Season 1 iRacing.com Grand Prix Series (iGPS) kicked-off with some longed for updates as the Williams-Toyota FW-31 was added to the list of cars with the New Tire Model. In addition to the NTM, the car … Read the Rest »