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How to Make Your Indy 500 Last More Than 500 Meters
by Brent Pesel on May 21st, 2013
Note: Brent Pesel (Great Plains) has been writing an entertaining blog about iRacing for quite some time. Here’s a teaser of his latest offering on how to go the distance in this weekend’s iRacing.com Indy 500. Click here to read the complete blog . . . One of the most notable events of the iRacing service is upon us: the iRacing.com Indy 500. This is the reason that many people on the service purchase the Indycar in the first place. The goal people have in this race is to just finish the 500 miles. Here are some tips that will hopefully help you achieve that. It may not help you get the milk at the end of the race, but you can’t win the race if you don’t finish. Goals [...]
iRacing Indy 500 Set for May 24 & 25
May 15th, 2013
For the fourth consecutive year, iRacers the world over will be able to answer the call of Back Home Again in Indiana by competing in the iRacing.com Indy 500 on Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25. Open to iRacers of all levels, the iRacing.com Indy 500 races will feature two fields composed of Pro-C and D-Rookie licenses. The top split of the Pro-C race on Saturday at 18:00 GMT (2pm EDT) will be broadcast by PSRTV at www.iracing.com/live. Practice and qualifying for the iRacing.com Indy 500 start on Tuesday, May 21 at 00:00 GMT. In keeping with Indy 500 tradition, qualifying sessions will be four laps long with qualifying speeds based on the average speeds of the four lap sessions. Complete details of this World Tour of iRacing.com event [...]
iRacers Team-up for Alfalla’s Homestead Test
by David Phillips on May 23rd, 2013
Two time NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Champion Ray Alfalla is set to make his debut in a race car on Saturday, May 25 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, courtesy of fellow iRacer Ernie Francis Jr. The youngest driver in the SCCA Pirelli World Challenge, the 15 year old Francis is making his Breathless Performance Products Mazda Miata available to Alfalla for a test session on the Homestead-Miami Speedway road course. Francis, who uses iRacing primarily for testing purposes, leads the points in the Pirelli World Challenge TCB (Touring Car B) competition following a clean sweep of last weekend’s triple-header at Circuit of the Americas. Alfalla, age 24, has won nine races, two titles and $21,000 in NiSWC competition and is hoping this weekend’s test will prove to be the next step in [...]
Boldrin and Leonetti Conquer the Draft
by Joe Pisciotta Jr on May 23rd, 2013
The inRacing News Challenge multi-class series headed into NASCAR territory for some classic draft racing at Charlotte, North Carolina in Week Three. Charlotte Motor Speedway’s 2.25 mile road layout is the closest road racers will get to oval racing as running in packs is not only encouraged but required. Last week at Summit Point new names moved up the leader board as several iRNC regulars disappeared and this week is no different. In the Solstice series a new name took top honors while in Mazda there is a new overall leader. Pontiac Solstice Ilham Halabi (Asia) started the week off with a quick lap of 1:21.442 which was second best for the week. He raced five times at Charlotte winning three and averaged 138 points which is also second place [...]
High Rollers
by Matt Kingsbury on May 23rd, 2013
The iRacing.com IndyCar Oval series took to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for a high speed, high stakes game of poker at 220 miles per hour. Built in 1996, LVMS is a 1.5 mile D-shaped oval quite capable of providing side-by-side action, lap after lap. The high speeds at LVMS make for exciting and pulse-pounding online races that are almost sure to include a crash or two. The third week of IndyCar action saw some 1300 Dallara IndyCars take the grid at LVMS hoping to hold the winning hand and cash out a big winner. This week’s fixed strength of field race of 3200 saw 22 drivers challenge for the win over a 50 lap continuous battle as no yellow flags were thrown during the race. In the end there were [...]
Exceeding Expectations
by David Phillips on May 23rd, 2013
Round Two of the 2013 iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series at Interlagos produced a noteworthy “first” when Stephen Michaels disconnected from the event. While it’s not unusual for a driver running a lap down in P30 to withdraw from a race, the fact it was the first time Michaels failed to finish in the top ten of an iWCGPS event is remarkable. True, it’s not as if the 18 year old high schooler from Ballston Lake, NY has scores of iWCGPS races under this belt. On the other hand, from the moment he qualified for his first iWCGPS race at Mid-Ohio in the latter part of 2012, he has been a fixture at the sharp end of the field. How sharp? Michaels qualified and finished ninth in his iWCGPS [...]
My First Time… a Late Models Virgin
by Ray Kingsbury on May 22nd, 2013
Since I started covering the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Tour for inRacing News, I have found it difficult to get content from racers for my articles as many of the Late Model regulars were unaware the series is being covered (despite regular posts to that effect on the Late Model forum – Ed). So I decided it was about time I bought the Late Model content and gave it a try myself. My first experience would be New Hampshire Motor Speedway in a small, nine person race. Luckily for me, 2013 S1 Late Model champion Ty Majeski was there and willing to give me his race setup so that I could hit the ground running. At New Hampshire there isn’t much of a challenge to being at a decent pace, [...]
Circle Track School: Lessons From A Champion
by George Wood on May 22nd, 2013
The great thing about going to the local short track is that you’re never really sure who is going to show up, and especially so when it’s a special event. Here in Pennsylvania, my local track, Selinsgrove Speedway, hosted their annual 358/360 Sprint Car National Open last week, drawing several touring drivers as well as some from Canada, Michigan, and New York. However, the biggest surprise of all came from Indiana. Tony Stewart decided to fly up to the track from Martinsville, Virginia, to have some fun and race against the Pennsylvania sprint car drivers around a moderately banked and wide surface that is considered the fastest on the East Coast. With qualifying speeds expected to be around 17.5 seconds on a cold April night, everyone was excited about the [...]
Rhyne Romps at Rockingham
by Tom Moustakas on May 21st, 2013
After kissing walls last week at Darlington Raceway, the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series (fixed setup) traveled to Rockingham Speedway for Week 3 of the season. Races were set for 50 laps around the famed 1.017 mile oval. Located in North Carolina, NASCAR enthusiasts love Rockingham for its nostalgia; the track held Sprint Cup races from 1965 to 2004, and was known for providing good, hard racing. After an eight-year NASCAR hiatus, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series returned to “The Rock” in 2012, creating a buzz among fans who were excited to see racing back at Rockingham. Although racing in any higher NASCAR series may not be in its future, iRacers were able to relive the glory days of Rockingham by racing there this past week. Similar to Darlington, [...]
Keister & Laughton Claim Charlotte
by Jordan Hightower on May 21st, 2013
After a very tough week in Darlington, drivers of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Fixed Series were happy to get out of Darlington and head into North Carolina for a visit to Concord, North Carolina and the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The 1.5-mile speedway produces some of the best racing that the iRacing.com service has to offer. The Silverado mixed with the fast speeds that Charlotte Motor Speedway produces always provides a great race for everyone involved. Nearly 2,800 sim racers (wow!) watched the green flag fall for at least one racing during Week Three in the NiCCF. Kollin Keister (Atlantic) has been on a tear the past couple weeks, winning the Strength of Field event the past two weeks. Keister started from outside of the front row and led 13 [...]
Moreira Extends CTC Lead
by Katier Scott on May 20th, 2013
Nuno Moreira took full advantage of a faltering return to the series for ex-champion Gernot Fritsche to extend his lead at the Oulton Park circuit in England. A superb 221 point haul bolstered his advantage over Luca Zanetti to 52 points while several drivers found Turn One (Old Hall) of this classic race course to have race-ending tendencies. Fritsche wasn’t one of those, however as he waited until Knickerbrook to crash out after a misjudgement with an other driver. Kevin Law was another star of the walking moving up seven places to 4th overall with an excellent 187 point haul, while Michel Dudognon’s 167 gained him 10 places to move inside the top 10 to 8th overall. Ramon Sprecher was unfortunate to fall the other way, despite a solid 109 [...]
Velkov Takes Interlagos, Giang to Lead
by Matt Kingsbury on May 20th, 2013
In the second week of the iRacing.com IndyCar Road fixed series we visit the track between lakes, aka “Interlagos” aka Autódromo José Carlos Pace. The track consists of fifteen turns over a 2.676 mile river of asphalt draped over the grassy hills overlooking São Paulo, Brazil. The famous open wheel venue saw 143 drivers take the track in their Dallara Indy cars, each one hoping to take the week’s top score. One driver proved worthy of the task and managed to take the win of a 1848 strength of field race that saw 25 drivers take the grid and nine finish on the lead lap. Peter Velkov (C-E E) was that man, as he started in the first position and never looked back. Velkov lead all 27 laps of the [...]
Nilsson Dominates in Silverstone
by Kenneth O'Keefe on May 20th, 2013
Week Two brought the pilots of the iRacing.com Grand Prix Series to Silverstone Circuit, located in Towcester, Northamptonshire, UK. The 3.194 mile (5.14 km) Grand Prix circuit features 17 famous turns, some of which have been attacked by F1 cars since the late 1940s. As Silverstone is a fixture on the iGP Series schedule, many drivers have a good handle on the circuit. Yuho Abe (Asia) was the best of them with a blistering qualifying time of 1.20.778, followed by Martti Pietilä (Finland) and Ricardo Castro ledo (France). Despite their great qualifying times, none of these drivers could out-score Tommy Nilsson (Scandinavia) with 280 points. In his first appearance in the last three months, Nilsson started from the second position but moved into the lead quickly on the first lap. [...]
Homestead Sweet Homestead
by Matt Kingsbury on May 20th, 2013
In the second week of the iRacing.com IndyCar Series Oval series we visit Homestead Miami Speedway, a 1.5 mile oval consisting of four turns of 18 to 20 degree banking and lined with palm trees behind its ocean-colored walls. Throughout the week many drivers talked of a bump exiting the corners that made the car feel light and possibly ending a race. In total, over a thousand cars took to the track in both series to see who would be able to master the course and leap to a points lead. This week looked quite familiar at first with the faces of Tim Doyle (Atlantic) and Jonathan Goke (Mid-South) both leading out a series in the points. However this week in the iRacing.com IndyCar Open Oval Series it was Doyle [...]
Hamstead Stands Tall in Atlanta
by Dylan Sharman on May 20th, 2013
The iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series stayed in the States for Round Two as drivers and teams took to Road Atlanta. Last week’s record number of 135 drivers was backed up with another 128 sim-racers traveling to Georgia for Week 2. Qualifying was led by Richard Hamstead with a lap at 1:21.044 to grab the pole position with Madison Down just .029s behind. Justin Ruggier and Adrian Stratford would qualify on the second row with Mitchell McLeod and Josh Muggleton from the third row. John Emerson and Shaun Kelly started from the fourth row with Brad Ryan and Matthew Hill rounding-out the top 10 qualifiers. Hamstead led the field into Turn One for the first time and, with Down hung-out on the outside, Ruggier was able to sneak by and move [...]
Red Sox Belgium 30 at Spa GP
May 20th, 2013
Story by James Prostell Jr. SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, BELGIUM – Turn 1 at Indianapolis. Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca’s corkscrew. Monaco’s Nouvelle Chicane. All thousands of miles apart, all on very different racetracks, but share some distinct characteristics that highlight the essence of auto racing – risk versus reward.. Get these turns right and the driver can shave precious time off their lap or set up that critical pass. Get it wrong, and well, the team is going to be spending time fixing a vehicle that spiraled as it dropped a few stories or crashed hard into the wall. Add two words to that list of challenging turns – Eau Rouge. Only get it wrong here, and repairs will have to be made to a car that spiraled up a few stories and [...]
iRacer Profile: Matthias Witte
by David Phillips on May 18th, 2013
It’s getting better all the time for Matthias Witte. The iRacer from Soltau, Germany has steadily improved his sim-racing performance since joining the service in 2010 and, in the past few seasons, his name has become a fixture in the top ranks of the iRacing.com Radical Challenge. 2012 Season 3 saw him finish fifth in the overall points race and, the following season, Witte collected his first Radical wins – seven to be exact – en route to second place behind David Unger in the Division 2 standings and another P5 overall. Last season saw Witte winning at a .500 clip (fifteen victories in 30 starts) while finishing runner-up to Audrius Valantiejus both in the overall reckoning and Division One. So far in 2013 S2, Witte’s win rate is a [...]
Lampela Leads at Langley
by Scott Kelly on May 17th, 2013
After a week of high speeds at Phoenix International Raceway, it was time to dial it down for Week 2 of the iRacing.com Sprint Car Series (2013 S2). This week, the sprints would hit their first short track of the season – Langley Speedway. Just over 1/3 of a mile, Langley has been the host of many thrillers in the iSCS. With the low groove being the preferred lane by far, a game of patience is played out each event that is held at this track, and it’s no different with the sprint cars. With 7-time iSCS champion Alan Binder taking a break for the week, a new challenger would have to step up to the plate to make some ground on the King. Fred Lampela took that charge, etching [...]
View the GalleryLate Models Tap the Inner Irwindale
by Ray Kingsbury on May 17th, 2013
For Week Two the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Series headed to Irwindale Speedway’s “Inner” configuration. Irwindale is considered the home of short track racing in the Los Angeles area and surely the Late Model boys would not disappoint. The track is a four-turn oval with zero degrees of banking, just a third of a mile long but plenty long enough to ensure some action with sim-racers taking their tire-hungry Chevy Monte Carlos to the track. On this flat track, who could best keep their tires within a reasonable heat range, in both the front and the rear? The week’s 2874 strength of field race found Bill Tomer on the pole position followed by Jay Walker, Clay Jones, Raymond Emmons, and Simon Morrsion. Tomer would go on to lead 13 laps [...]
Earning Their Stripes
by Chris Owens on May 17th, 2013
With the restrictor plates gone, the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series headed east to “The Lady in Black,” aka Darlington Raceway in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina for the second week of the season. Darlington is known for its tight racing and tight corners. It’s not often that a driver walks away from a race at Darlington without a scratch on his car. This old racetrack will reach out and give even the best sim racers a “Darlington Stripe.” With that in mind, it’s no surprise that Darlington generally has the lowest turn-out of the season. Rather than risk a loss of Safety Rating, many drivers opt to sit the week out. While a majority of drivers were sitting on the sidelines, 164 sim-racers took to the 1.366 [...]
The Importance of Practice
by Jonathan Wimbush on May 17th, 2013
Week Three is well underway in the iRacing.com Global Challenge Series as racers battle for top honors at Mid-Ohio. Early excitement and frustrations arise as the first quarter of the inaugural season nears its completion. Many top division drivers are enjoying strong finishes while others can’t seem to get themselves away from on-track trouble. The switch to open setup and the multi-class racing format are added challenges to newcomers with limited time to practice, or those who have limited knowledge of setup tweaking. On the other hand, top division drivers have been waiting for a chance to race the Cadillac CTS-V with an open setup. Part of what makes the iRacing.com Global Challenge Series so exciting to run is the fact that Rookie 4.0 drivers can race on track with [...]















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