It’s the nature of the beast that racing competition is rarely (if ever) a matter of  comparing apples to apples.  In the case of race drivers, someone (or two or three) always has an advantage, or at least the potential for an advantage:  a better team, a bigger development budget, a stronger engine, a better [...]

Racer takes a look at iRacing’s appeal to everyone from sim gamers, casual race fans, and even professional drivers.
Racer – July 2010

iRacing.com Offers Online Racing Instruction for Racing Game Enthusiasts BEDFORD, MA – There are books on how to drive a racing car and schools in the physical world where aspiring drivers can get hands-on instruction.  Now drivers who race in the virtual world have the iRacing.com Driving School, a modular 16-unit online race-driving instructional package.  Nearly two years in the making, the school is available free to all members of the iRacing.com racing simulation service.  The school is now live on the iRacing.com member Web site .  The first module of the iRacing.com Driving School is currently available to non-members on www.iRacing.com . “For the past 50 years novice racing drivers have learned basic race-driving skills in both informal and organized driving schools,” said Dave Kaemmer, iRacing.com’s CEO and a veteran real-world racer.  “But in the virtual world for the most part beginners have just had to find their way by themselves.  Many do develop the skills they need, though perhaps not too quickly.  And many others, who have the native ability, have failed to learn the necessary skills, gotten discouraged and dropped out of the sport.  With appropriate interactive instruction available, drivers will master racing skills much more quickly and have more fun racing.” According to Kevin Bobbitt, iRacing.com’s director of marketing, “iRacing’s aim has always been to duplicate in the virtual world all the significant aspects of racing in the real one.

Christmas is coming early for iRacers, whether they’ve been naughty or nice. iRacing.com is adding a sleigh-load of free cars and tracks  to its base package of online racing in the weeks and months ahead.  You read that right — Free! Rookie or veteran, iRacers will be able to take advantage of the enhanced base package beginning in early July with the release of legendary Thompson International Speedway, the high-banked Connecticut bull ring that has been synonymous with New England motorsports for more than half a century. Of course, iRacers will want a shiny new car to race at Thompson

In November of 2009 iRacing.com introduced a feature that enables members to host their own races.  A session does cost $3 for the host, but he or she can have as many people join as they want for free as long as there is a stall for them on pit road.

Let us explore together the setting for all the fun we have at iRacing: the racetrack!  At iRacing.com, we painstakingly build a digital replica of each racetrack in our service so that our members have an opportunity to race on a certified and licensed version of the real place.  
What can’t our artists create yet?  The [...]

Sports Illustrated’s Mark Yost takes a look at iRacing. The article covers everything from its use as a training tool by professional drivers to giving fans a deeper understanding of the sport.
Sports Illustrated- May 24, 2010

A couple of months ago I was so persuaded by a trailer video of Battlefield 2: Bad Company that I simply had to go out and buy the game -  it was video a coworker forwarded to me following a discussion about running a video contest here at iRacing. I hadn’t played a FPS game [...]

Dale Jr. sets up four time Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson with iRacing to help him prepare for a trip to the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen. Johnson is driving the #99 Gainsco DP with Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney.
Racer Online- June 03, 2010

One subject that I read about quite often on the forum pages involves the protest system at iRacing.com. I frequently see comments questioning the effectiveness of the system, not to mention suggesting that we are often too soft in administering penalties for members who violate a sporting code rule. In fact, I was on the [...]