All News: Virginia International Raceway

GRAND-AM at Barber Motorsports Park

December 29th, 2010 by

Barber Motorsports Park played host to round eight of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the online racing championship for the digital renditions of the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S. The mixed-class, 12 week Championship which is separated into ten divisions, offers daily online races to PC owners all over the … Read the Rest »

Ehnström Off to Fast Start in Barber Series

November 17th, 2010 by

The iRacing.com Skip Barber Race Series kicked off Season Four of 2010 at a track synonymous with Skip Barber Racing: Lime Rock Park. With seven turns and plenty of bumps and elevation changes, rookies and veterans of sim racing found familiar footing as they made their way back on track after the Week 13 break. … Read the Rest »

Twelve Wins and Counting

November 9th, 2010 by

Continuing his seemingly unstoppable winning streak, Luca Masier claimed win Number 12 from as many starts in the iRacing Pro Road Racing Series at Virginia International Raceway last week; a run of form in the virtual Ford Falcon V8 Supercars that will see the Italian become a name challenging for next year’s Drivers World Championship. … Read the Rest »

Rundell tames VIR to earn first RSR victory

October 6th, 2010 by

The arrival of cool weather and vivid fall colors reminds race fans change is in the air.  September 30th, 2010 might just be remembered as the night change came to the Red Sox Racing League.  After watching Darren Kersey and Les Turner claim 19 of the 27 races in the first two seasons of the … Read the Rest »

FW31 Envy

September 17th, 2010 by

If you ever envy motoring journalists who get to drive exotic machinery before it becomes available to the wealthy businessman and footballers (let alone the fact that most of us won’t ever get to drive them), then at least we can console ourselves with the knowledge that a virtual Grand Prix car costs the same … Read the Rest »

SSCA North American GT Championship – Season Review

July 31st, 2010 by

Twenty three cars.  Over 120,00 hp.  Brands Hatch Racing Circuit in Kent, England.  What better combination to open the 2010 Simulated Sports Car Association (SSCA) North American GT Championship (NAGTC)?  Chosen for this championship were the pinnacle of Australian sedan racing, the Ford Falcon V8 Supercar; the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and the formidable Chevrolet … Read the Rest »

Rennsport Racing League – 7.7.10 Race Report

July 8th, 2010 by

The Rennsport Racing League is an iRacing.com private league hosted by Kevin Bobbitt, iRacing.com’s director of marketing. Participants are friends and colleagues from the office and even some guys who actually make a living racing. The RRL is not the fastest league on iRacing, but rather a casual league that hops from car to car … Read the Rest »

Tips from a Human Sim-Racer

July 1st, 2010 by

Welcome to tips from a human sim-racer.  Unlike the alien iRacers I only have two eyes, two hands and two feet.  I don’t have eyes in the back of my head and my reflexes are only slightly better than average.  This article is designed to help you increase your iRating and lower your lap times.  … Read the Rest »

iRacing Kicks off Multi-Class Sim-Racing Series

May 20th, 2010 by

The wait is finally over. Mixed class sim-racing made a grand entrance into iRacing.com’s official racing series with the combining of the Riley Mk XX Daytona Prototype and the Radical SR8 to form the iRacing.com Prototype Challenge (iPC). The wildly popular decision was welcomed by almost all members interested in online road racing. The overall … Read the Rest »

Good, Hard Lessons

April 28th, 2010 by

After a winter’s worth of preparation and anticipation, I headed to Virginia International Raceway last week for Rounds One and Two of the 2010 SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup.   As many of you know, I was fortunate enough to win the iRacing VW Jetta TDI Cup Series last year and with it – … Read the Rest »