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Lindqvist Leads as Fritsche Falters

February 25th, 2013 by

Nicklas Lindqvist continued his great start to the season as he won the third round of the Classic Teams Championship with a stunning 248 point haul at Road America ahead of Tomasz Kozdron who bumped a faltering Gernot Fritsche to third overall. In all 143 drivers took their Lotus 79s to the long straights of … Read the Rest »

O’Keefe Back On Top Down Under

February 25th, 2013 by

Week Three of 2013 Season One brought the iRacing.com Skip Barber Race Series to the Phillip Island Circuit, located in Victoria, Australia.  Being a new venue for the Barber series, drivers hit the track with blind eyes, embracing the circuit’s extremely high speed sections along with its slippery surface.  Many sim-racers chose not to take … Read the Rest »

Taming the Tricky Triangle

February 15th, 2013 by

Week Two of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series headed to the “Tricky Triangle” in Long Pond, PA.  Drivers would have to tame Pocono Raceway’s three completely different corners to be successful and hope to find their way to Victory Lane following 50 laps of racing around the 2.5 mile tri-oval.  In total, 571 sim … Read the Rest »

Ward, Broekman Lead The Way

February 14th, 2013 by

Week Two brought the GRAND-AM Online Sports Car Series to Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI, where the famous 4.048 mile (6.515 km) circuit hosted 50 minute online races every other hour for sim-racers to enjoy.  The Riley Mk XX Daytona Prototype saw fewer entries this week, 572 entering a race, 265 placing a qualifying … Read the Rest »

Gomes Returns in Style

February 14th, 2013 by

Week Two brought the iRacing.com Skip Barber Series to Sebring International Raceway.  The “modified” 1.97 mile (3.17 km) layout produced many spectacular online races throughout the week.  The front and back straight aways which, together, make up almost half of the track’s distance gave following drivers massive “tow” effects from the draft. This made it … Read the Rest »

BRM Driver Streaks to CTC Lead

February 8th, 2013 by

Lotus makes the early running in new-look championship Pre-season, as with all series in 2013, S1, the CTC and its associate Lotus 79 championship moved to a 7 days a week schedule, but initial reaction to the published schedule was very negative. Eventually a revised schedule was published which met with approval of the drivers … Read the Rest »

New Season, New Hopes

February 7th, 2013 by

A new year means a new season for the stars and cars of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series.  With a new season comes new hope of a championship for every sim-racer that gets behind the wheel of the Chevrolet Impala Class B car.  While some new faces made the trip to the Homestead-Miami Speedway … Read the Rest »

Grand Touring Cup Season Debuts at Daytona

February 6th, 2013 by

Undoubtedly among the most prestigious race tracks in the world, let alone the United States, Daytona International Speedway hosted the first week of iRacing’s exhilarating Grand Touring Cup racing.  The vehicles in contention? The FWD, 170hp German Volkswagen Jetta TDI cup sedans, the classic Japanese 170hp Mazda MX-5 Cup cars and the popular 177hp American … Read the Rest »

Reinkort Starts With a Bang

February 5th, 2013 by

This week marked the start of a new year and a new season for the iRacing.com Skip Barber Series.  With the start of the new season we saw the departure of some well known faces, the return of some veterans, and the welcoming of new drivers.  Playing host to all of this action was Summit … Read the Rest »

History in the Making

February 4th, 2013 by

Brett Osborn edged Nathan Saxon in the closest points finish in the history of the NASCAR  iRacing.com Tour Modified Series in 2012 Season 4.  The final margin of victory was a mere two points in a season that saw the duo combine for 29 wins. Samuel Dick was 100 points behind and finished third overall, … Read the Rest »