Charlotte hosts NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series

May 31st, 2010 by

The NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series went to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the second race of the 2010 season. The high banked, mile and a half speedway provided excellent side-by-side online racing at upwards of 200mph. All of the 120 lap, 180 mile, races were exciting right down to the final laps. The top split of … Read the Rest »

24 Winners in iRacing.com Indy 12,000

May 30th, 2010 by

Two dozen iRacers shared the glory of winning Saturday’s inaugural iRacing.com Indy 500, aka Round Six of the World Tour of iRacing. The 24 sim racers completed 4800 virtual laps of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s venerable 2.5 mile oval, for a total of 12,000 virtual miles. More than 750 iRacers competed in the event, which … Read the Rest »

Ordinary Men Doing Extraordinary Things

May 28th, 2010 by

Alien. One who pushes the limits further than mere mortals when behind the wheel of a sim race car. One who can simply defy logic with pure speed on the race track. It is a word every online racer knows, but for every Greger Huttu, Richard Towler, and Luke McLean there are hundreds of simply “ordinary” … Read the Rest »

Wilson Notches Indy 25 win

May 28th, 2010 by

Thursday saw Justin Wilson capture the first of what he hopes will be two wins at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend.  Wilson bested a fast field (including Dreyer & Reinbold teammates Mike Conway and Tomas Scheckter)  to win a special ten lap sprint race – known as the Indy 25 — featuring Dallara Indy … Read the Rest »

Pros Take Flight at Road Atlanta

May 26th, 2010 by

As the iRacing Pro Series Road Racing circus rolls out of Road Atlanta, it’s Jeffrey Rietveld leading the online racing championship standings after the second event of the iPSRR season. The Benelux Club driver claimed two wins from as many starts to collect 258 points and the honour of sitting atop of the Ford Falcon … Read the Rest »

The Sticking Points in Modeling Tires

May 24th, 2010 by Dave Kaemmer

Tires are perhaps the least well understood parts of road-going vehicles, despite the fact that they are one of the most studied. Obviously, since they are typically the only part of a car in contact with the ground (if everything is working right), their behavior is critical in determining how a car handles, how well … 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 »

Towler's dominant double

May 19th, 2010 by

Week Eight of the NASCAR iRacing.com World Championship Series (NiWCS) brought us to Charlotte Motor Speedway in sunny Concord, North Carolina for 200 caution-plagued, yet exciting, laps of online racing.  With a win at Bristol to his credit, Richard Towler has been quite the force in the online racing series.  The Englishman arrived at CMS … Read the Rest »

Towler’s dominant double

May 19th, 2010 by

Week Eight of the NASCAR iRacing.com World Championship Series (NiWCS) brought us to Charlotte Motor Speedway in sunny Concord, North Carolina for 200 caution-plagued, yet exciting, laps of online racing.  With a win at Bristol to his credit, Richard Towler has been quite the force in the online racing series.  The Englishman arrived at CMS … Read the Rest »

Pro Oval Sim Racers off to Competitive Start

May 17th, 2010 by

The NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series got off to a fiercely competitive start last week with 166 iRacers competing in ten splits at Darlington Raceway.  After a week’s worth of racing, Patrick Fogel and Josh Parker emerged atop the championship leader board with 273 points apiece, thanks to wins on Wednesday and Saturday respectively. Fogel qualified … Read the Rest »