All News: sim-racing

Lionheart Returns to Gateway

August 3rd, 2016 by Patrick Taylor

The Lionheart Indycar Series Presented by First Medical Equipment finds itself in unfamiliar territory this week as it arrives at the virtual Gateway Motorsports Park. While recent tracks like Texas, Michigan, Indianapolis and Sonoma are staples on the series’ schedule, Gateway is a different story. The league has visited the egg-shaped, 1.25-mile track only once … Read the Rest »

Duval Steals a Win at The Brickyard

July 27th, 2016 by Jason Lofing (French translation by Renaud LACROIX follows)

Dylan Duval (The TEAM) scored his first career victory in the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series by turning a pit mistake into the race lead and holding-off PJ Stergios (ineX Racing) and Ray Alfalla (Slip Angle Motorsports) on two late-race restarts to win at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Duval had run in the top ten for … Read the Rest »

Virtual Racing School: An Offer You Can’t Refuse

July 26th, 2016 by David Phillips

Ask most iRacers if they’d like to have access to the telemetry of some of the world’s top sim racers in a format that does not require a degree from MIT to understand and they’d probably say “Where do I sign up?” Tell them that they’d also be able to watch in-car replays of pro … Read the Rest »

Huttu’s Japanese Sweep

July 26th, 2016 by Jonny Simon

The Japanese double-header of the 2016 iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series was dominated by Team Redline’s Greger Huttu, who followed-up his victory at Twin Ring Motegi with his second successive victory at the Okayama International Circuit to close-in on the championship lead of Coanda Simsport’s Martin Krönke.  The Coanda sim racer failed to beat … Read the Rest »

The Commodore’s Garage #1 – Welcome to My Shop

July 22nd, 2016 by Matt Holden

Six years ago I began writing a setup guide.  There are tons of these things that exist around the internet for any racing sim you can imagine.  In the past, they were quite good for what they were to be used for, but when iRacing showed up in 2008 with a radically new approach to … Read the Rest »

Blancpain GT Series: The ineX Clinic at Spa

July 18th, 2016 by Paul Slavonik

After over a month of time off, the third round of the Blancpain GT Series – iRacing’s premiere GT3 world championship series – got underway at arguably one of the greatest motor racing circuits in the world. For six-hours, the best sim racers in the world attempted to tackle Circuit de Spa-Franchorchamps which is nestled … Read the Rest »

Fierce Battle Expected at Lionheart’s Indianapolis 500

July 15th, 2016 by Patrick Taylor

The Lionheart Indycar Series Presented by First Medical Equipment kicks off the second half of its 2016 season in style this weekend with the I Race for Gage Indianapolis 500. The full-length, 200-lap marathon serves as the second leg of the Lionheart Triple Crown, which offers each sim racer who takes the green flag a … Read the Rest »

Humpe Sprints to Third Win at Kentucky

July 13th, 2016 by Jason Lofing; French translation (below) by Anthony Drevet

Kenny Humpe (The TEAM) kept his hot streak going at Kentucky Speedway by winning his third NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series race of the 2016 season. The defending series champion led 50 of 167 laps, the most of any driver, in what turned out to be one of the most competitive events of the season thus … Read the Rest »

Huttu Back on Top at Twin Ring Motegi

July 12th, 2016 by Jonny Simon; French translation (below) by Renaud LACROIX)

Five time champion Greger Huttu returned to the top step of the podium for the first time since Round Six of the 2016 iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series Watkins Glen, taking his 55th career win in the series at Twin Ring Motegi. Coanda Simsport’s Martin Krönke saw his three race win streak come to … Read the Rest »

Flying on the Ground

July 7th, 2016 by David Phillips

Kamil Franczak is no stranger to speed or technology.  In his day job as a pilot in the Polish Air Force, Franczak employs technology to go plenty fast.  But these days he’s looking forward to flying on the ground, specifically racing a Global Mazda MX-5 Cup car at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway this fall. Franczak … Read the Rest »