In the morning of 25th of August it was finally time to start the “adventure” which I had been looking forward to for quite some time. The first time I heard about the chance to try out a real race car was at the end of 2009 when Top Gear magazine contacted me and asked [...]

Is it really over? I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. My least favorite season – it’s fall here in New England, but past the time when foliage is up. It’s getting colder.  Leaves are covering my yard.  It’s too early for any real snow.  It’s dark when I leave the office in [...]

I entered the Dale Earnhardt Jr, Ride Along contest purely thinking that renewing my membership for $50 a year was a great deal. I never thought that I might actually win a ride with Dale Jr. at Charlotte Motor Speedway. iRacing has given me an inexpensive way to continue the adrenaline rush I used to [...]

Recently on our forums I read a topic where our users were wondering whether they should use the High Resolution Car Textures or the Uncompressed Car Textures selections in our graphics options menu. There seemed to be a lot of confusion over what those two selections did, and how they would affect the way the [...]

During a remarkable career that saw him win four Indianapolis 500s and six Indy 500 poles, Rick Mears deservedly earned the title of “ovalmeister.” As indomitable a force as he was on the race track, Mears was equally renowned for his uncomplicated and gracious manner outside the cockpit of his Penske race cars. Not for [...]

It’s pretty amazing to think that this small band of merry men and women has been hard at work on this product for over six years now and our doors have been open to the public for the past two! I think its remarkable how much we have accomplished over this time period, but I [...]

What a perfect real world sport to simulate utilizing the amazing power of the Internet – Motorsport Racing. I may be a slightly biased but, in my opinion, of all the sports out there racing is the best-suited for the transition to a simulation. Lucky for us sim racers, race gamers, real world racers and [...]

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 [...]

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?  [...]

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 [...]