All News: sim racers

Krönke & Pietilä Score VRS Coanda 1-2 at Spa

August 24th, 2016 by Jake Sparey

The iRacing.com Grand Prix World Championship Series turned into the home stretch of the schedule this weekend as the teams headed to Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The seven kilometre circuit traditionally has set the tone for the remainder of the season in previous years and, with just three rounds remaining after the weekend in the virtual … Read the Rest »

Gray Steals One from Wright at Brands Hatch

August 22nd, 2016 by Jason Galvin

In a race for the ages, Michael Gray did what was previously thought to be impossible, out-dueling Jake Wright on a road course to win the Ovarian Cancer Awareness 100 at Brands Hatch. It’s the first Lionheart IndyCar Series presented by First Medical Equipment road course event not won by the defending series champion this … Read the Rest »

Commodore’s Garage #4 – Aerodynamics 101

August 19th, 2016 by Matt Holden

Aerodynamics:  the one word that spawns happiness in engineers and dread in race fans.  In the past 50-or-so years, aerodynamics in motorsports have done nearly complete 180° turn, going from slippery, super-low-drag vehicles to high-downforce behemoths with the sole purpose of bullying air molecules into doing work that they really don’t want to do.  Want … Read the Rest »

Power Series Title-Contending Trio Fights for Pocono and Kansas Wins

August 17th, 2016 by Corey Davis

As the ITSR Power Series crossed the midway point of its twelfth season, victory lane remained something of an exclusive club. Unlike Season 11, which saw five winners in the first seven races, just three sim racers – Mike Kelley, Tim Johnston, and Corey Davis – visited the winner’s circle through the first eight events this … Read the Rest »

Lionheart IndyCar Series Travels Across the Pond

August 16th, 2016 by Patrick Taylor

The Lionheart Indycar Series Presented by First Medical Equipment will be making history this week as it holds it’s first-ever race on a European-based track. Located in Kent, England, Brands Hatch will be the fifth of seven road courses on the 2016 schedule. It will also be the first of back-to-back international road races, with … Read the Rest »

Blancpain GT: Victory for Radicals Online

August 15th, 2016 by Paul Slavonik

Officially past the halfway mark of its debut season, the Blancpain GT Series – iRacing’s premiere GT3 world championship series – arrived at Brands Hatch as the best sim racers in the world took to the technical European circuit for Round Four of the 2016 season. As qualifying got underway, it became clear that certain … Read the Rest »

Mid-Season Thoughts on the Battery Tender Global Mazda MX-5 Cup Series

August 11th, 2016 by Glenn McGee

Time flies when you’re flying on-track!  It’s insane to think, less than a year ago I was sitting (very much statically) on an old chair in my house, behind my computer fighting hard in a worldwide championship in iRacing’s MX-5 Cup Series and now I’m half-way through my first season racing at triple digits speeds … Read the Rest »

PJ Stergios Moves Conti, Wins Watkins Glen

August 10th, 2016 by Jason Lofing (French translation by Renaud LACROIX follows)

PJ Stergios (ineX Racing) came out on top at Watkins Glen in one of the most exciting NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series races in recent memory, passing both Michael Conti (Team Conti) and Nick Ottinger (Gale Force Racing) on the final lap to take his fourth win of the season. Stergios took the white flag in … Read the Rest »

Krönke Back on Top

August 10th, 2016 by Jonny Simon

Coanda Simsport’s Martin Krönke reclaimed the top step of the iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series podium at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a stellar drive from a dominant pole position, passing Team Redline’s Greger Huttu after his one and only pit stop to take his sixth win of the season. Privateer Patrik Holzmann finished … Read the Rest »

Kelley and Johnston Find Wins and Wrecks at Phoenix

August 4th, 2016 by Corey Davis

For the drivers of the ITSR Power Series, last Sunday brought a pair of races at the Phoenix International Raceway. The day-and-night doubleheader meant two chances for successful races, but with a slick track and some wild restarts, it also meant two chances to get things wrong, even for the frontrunners. The daytime half of … Read the Rest »