Back when sanctioned multiplayer online competition at iRacing was still just a plan brewing, we faced a difficult question:
How do we keep people from overdriving their virtual cars and wrecking everyone else (or at least minimize it), in order to make online racing more like real world on-track time?
Our answers to this question eventually resulted [...]

This fall’s trip to Australia has so far been one of the most enjoyable trips in my five year tenure as the Laser Scan Project Manager for iRacing.com. After getting over the six hour flight from Boston to San Francisco, followed by another fourteen hours to Melbourne and a two hour drive to Phillip Island, I ended-up at what has to be one of the most breath-taking racing facilities in the world. Phillip Island is just off the southern coast of Australia and connected to the mainland by a bridge. It is bordered by cliffs that drop of into the Bass Straight between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

It’s always very exciting to me, living in the Northeast, to hit February with the prospect of heading south for the NASCAR Super Bowl at Daytona International Speedway.  This year was no different, only I was greeted on my arrival with colder temperatures than what I left in Boston.  Thankfully, it was a somewhat cold [...]

I love cars. As long as I can remember, I’ve loved them. As a boy of 14 I purchased my first car, long before I had a driver’s license and I had my 2nd car, a 1971 Firebird, the very next year. Even though I never got to drive either of those cars, it instilled [...]

What makes a game a simulation or a simulation a game or are they the same thing? Is it all just marketing or is there a real difference?
To me there are a few distinct differences between a game and a simulation. First and most importantly to be a simulation the title must be replicating something [...]

Welcome to the iRacing blog. It’s a forum for those of us at iRacing to share our ideas and experiences with you and, we hope, stimulate some lively and thoughtful discussion.
It’s not quite spring, but this is surely a time of exciting growth and anticipation. In the racing world, of course, but in [...]