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iRacer of the Year

December 16th, 2011 by

iRacing.com is excited to announce the first annual iRacers of the Year awards.  The iRacing.com 2011 Driver of the Year will be awarded to a member for his/her achievements in competition on the virtual race tracks of iRacing.com.  The iRacing.com 2011 Member of the Year will be awarded to a member for his/her contributions to … Read the Rest »

Scanning What’s in Store for iRacing with Tony Gardner

November 18th, 2011 by

One of the biggest selling points in iRacing for me is the laser-scanned tracks.  As a sim-racer I may not benefit from knowing each bump and nuance of the real-world track, but knowing what I am driving from my living room is accurate down to the millimeter to what I see drivers racing on TV … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com NVIDIA Series Announced

July 15th, 2011 by

iRacing.com announced today that NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies, will sponsor the iRacing.com NVIDIA Series.  Previously known as the iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing, the iRacing.com NVIDIA Series features the world’s top online racers competing in virtual replicas of the Williams-Toyota FW31 Formula One cars on precise, digital versions of many … Read the Rest »

iRacing, McLaren Electronic Systems Partner in Online Racing Data Analysis

May 5th, 2011 by

iRacing.com, the world’s leading online motorsports simulation service, announced today it is partnering with McLaren Electronic Systems to incorporate the ATLAS Express data analysis software into its system.  As a result, iRacing’s more than 25,000 members will now have access to similar data acquisition and telemetry software used on every car competing in the FIA … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Teams-up with JR Motorsports to Announce iRacing 2.0

May 3rd, 2011 by

The JR Motorsports  No.7 Chevrolet, driven by Josh Wise, will race under iRacing.com colors in two NASCAR Nationwide Series events this summer in support of the all-new iRacing 2.0,  the popular online racing service’s dramatic new software release.  This long awaited release will add many user enhancements and features to the popular online, multi-player racing … Read the Rest »

Berry Bumps to Martinsville Win

March 30th, 2011 by

Josh Berry emerged the winner at Martinsville Speedway after push came to shove in the final laps of last night’s NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship event.  With half a dozen laps remaining, Berry came to a restart behind series leader Ray Alfalla, Thomas Hazard and Josh Parker.  As Alfalla and Parker traded paint heading into … Read the Rest »

Power and Wilson Join iRacing.com for IZOD IndyCar Series

March 24th, 2011 by

At this weekend’s 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season-opening Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, check out the helmets worn by last year’s first and second-place finishers, Will Power and Justin Wilson.  Both are big fans of iRacing.com, the world’s most authentic driving game, and for 2011 each has revised his helmet design to prominently feature … Read the Rest »

Console Racing Gamers Turn To iRacing for New Challenges

March 10th, 2011 by

When you’ve reached the top of the heap in console driving games what comes next?  Increasingly, many top-tier driving game aficionados are turning to the super-high fidelity, internet-based simulation service from iRacing.com. The cars and tracks on iRacing.com’s simulation are so accurate that many real-world NASCAR, INDYCAR and GRAND-AM stars make regular use of the … Read the Rest »

Legends, Lost and Found

March 5th, 2011 by

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to be in Paris in the early 1920’s and by chance wind up at a party at 27 Rue De Fleurus suddenly in the company of Hemingway, Picasso, Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and the rest of the artists, writers, and poets who socialized together and … Read the Rest »

Trevor Bayne First Drove Daytona on iRacing.com

February 23rd, 2011 by

It was standing room only in the Daytona media center this past Sunday afternoon when Trevor Bayne walked in following his dramatic win in the Daytona 500.  But in the same room a year earlier, just a handful of people looked on as drove an iRacing.com-powered simulator while Michael Waltrip talked him around Daytona International … Read the Rest »