- iRacing.com Announces iRacing 2.012,968
- iRacing.com to create virtual McLaren MP4-12C GT39,215
- Scanning What’s in Store for iRacing with Tony Gardner7,354
- Dave Kaemmer Comes Clean on Dirt7,261
- The iRacing.com Protest System – May, 20126,399
- Improving the Sound of iRacing5,596
- iRacing 2.0 Debuts in 2011 Season 34,922
- Preview Shots of HPD ARX-01C, Ford GT & Suzuka4,882
- Two New Cars and Two New Tracks Coming to iRacing Soon4,764
- iRacing.com to Build Digital Honda for New Super GT Series4,224
- Towler, Wood Suspended from Upcoming iWCRR Events 66
- iRacing.com Announces iRacing 2.0 41
- Dave Kaemmer Comes Clean on Dirt 32
- The iRacing.com Protest System - May, 2012 29
- iRacing Announces Added Features, Lower Prices 24
- Scanning What’s in Store for iRacing with Tony Gardner 18
- iRacing Simulation Gives NASCAR Hall of Fame Guests Authentic Driving Experience 17
- iRacing, McLaren Electronic Systems Partner in Online Racing Data Analysis 16
- V-Sunk 15
- Tips from a Human Sim-Racer 12
- iRacing.com2328
- NASCAR 1885
- Motorcycles 1817
- Formula Cars 1700
- WRC 1426
- IndyCar 1286
- Touring Cars 867
- Sports Cars 307
- Other Racing 349
McLaughlin Takes Control At The Glen
by Dylan Sharman on May 16th, 2012
Round Two of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by BigPond took the teams and drivers to the famous Watkins Glen International which is a 4km in length. With race one controversy out of the way it was time to get ready for the main race. ANZ Motorsports Scott McLaughlin would take the pole with a blistering 1:10.816 getting his first pole position in the main event with Rens Broekman second, making these two sim-racers the only two into the eights. George Maris would take third with Richard Hamstead and Mitchell McLeod only .02 behind. When the lights went green, Broekman’s car was nowhere to be seen as Internet trouble saw his race over before it had even started. With Broekman a no show it was McLaughlin having a nice [...]
Alfalla Tames Lady in Black
by Jason Lofing on May 16th, 2012
Defending Champ Grabs Third Straight Victory for JRM Ray Alfalla continued his early season dominance of the 2012 NASACAR iRacing.com Series World Championship, picking-up his third win of the season at Darlington Raceway. It was also the third straight victory for JRMotorsports, with teammate Steve Sheehan winning two weeks ago at Richmond on the heels of Alfalla’s visit to victory lane at Texas. In fact, it was Sheehan who Alfalla had to hold-off on the final 44 lap dash for the checkers. Sheehan appeared to be slightly quicker than Alfalla during the last run. However, the Richmond winner got a little too aggressive with his grille tape, causing his car to overheat if he stayed tucked up behind Alfalla for more than a couple laps. Sheehan could attack and get [...]
View the GalleryContinental Endurance Sports Car Series Round 6
by Jason Bryfogle on May 16th, 2012
A 29 car field of sim racers took to the track on 21 April, 2012 for the sixth round of the Continental Endurance Sports Car Series (CESCS), a 90 minute contest at the picturesque Road America in Elkart Lake, Wisconsin. The multi-class online racing series features the Ford Mustang FR500S in the GS class and the Mazda MX-5 Cup in the ST class. Qualifying The GS and ST classes ran separate 15 minute qualifying sessions with Trace McRae continuing his dominance of the GS class posting a time of 2:28.567 for the pole; more than a second faster than his nearest competitor Oscar Sahlin (2:29.770). Steve Brown completed the top three in GS. ST championship leader, and undefeated this season, Aussie James Stevenson did not race opening the door for [...]
Nixon Wins, Ruokola Scores
by David Roberts on May 15th, 2012
Unchanged in layout since it opened back in 1955 Elkhart Lake features many elevation changes, along with a very high speed front stretch and the famous Kink in the middle of the back stretch. In other words, an ideal venue for the Classic Teams Championship contenders to stretch their legs. It was also the site for four new drivers to join the circus this week making a total of 75 point scoring competitors in the first two weeks. This week saw 17 races gain official status with Sunday again providing the main race of the week with 44 starters. Drivers spent the week searching for the perfect balance between speed and grip, most running a much lower downforce setup than they did last week at The Glen. Once again the [...]
A New Chapter
by Christopher Leone on May 15th, 2012
The start of another iRacing season means the start of another chapter in the inRacingNews Challenge. Entering its seventh season, the second with three classes, the iRNC will see three sim-racers attempt to defend championships: two-time champion Marius Golombeck in Pontiac Solstice, Mitch Weatherly in SpecRacer Ford, and Dylan Sharman in Mazda MX-5 Roadster. Coming-out of Week One, which took place at Okayama’s short course, three different drivers led series points. Two were familiar faces; Chris Hughson, winner of the first two Solstice championships, led that class with 158 points, while Niccolo Cedrati, one of the fastest drivers in SRF qualifying and time trials last year, paced his class with 177 points. The lone new face atop the standings was Mark Megens, whose seven-for-seven performance was good for 139 points [...]
Huttu Wins as Luis Rolls Out Of Championship Lead
by Chris Hall on May 14th, 2012
Putting his early exit at Okayama a fortnight ago in the annals of history, Greger Huttu claimed maximum points at Road America this week in Round Six of the iRacing.com Grand Prix World Championship Series. Avoiding a huge start line crash that saw pre-race championship leader Hugo Luis retire after barely crossing the start line, Huttu took a pole-to-flag victory in a strategic charge to the finish line. As the green flag dropped on the 47 lap race, Team Redline’s Luke McLean struggled to control his virtual Williams-Toyota FW31 as it wheel-spun off the line from second on the grid. After slewing from right to left, McLean finally regained control in front of My3id’s Luis as he got up to speed. The pair connected, sending Luis into the path of [...]
View the GalleryiRacer Profile – Marcus Dean
by David Phillips on May 12th, 2012
On the face of it, Marcus Dean is a bit of a contradiction. The Greenville, SC resident loves his short track racing, particularly at his “home” track, ½ mile Greenville-Pickens Speedway, a track awash in stock car racing history. Given that, you might expect Dean to be a regular in iRacing Street Stocks, Late Models and Class C. Instead, Dean’s sim-racing tastes run to open wheels, IndyCars, Sprint Cars and, most of all, Silver Crown. He’s currently in a familiar spot in the iRacing Silver Crown Cup – chasing perennial front runner Vinnie Sansone in the overall standings while vying for the Division 2 title. It’s a title he won in a Season 1 that also saw him place runner-up to Sansone in the overall rankings and one he’d very [...]
The iRacing.com Protest System – May, 2012
by Tony Gardner on May 11th, 2012
“Racing incidents happen.” — Nim Cross I must say that Nim’s statement is very accurate and profound. There have been literally thousands of forum strings, emails, video reviews, opinions and discussions over the years about how to deal with those cursed incidents and accidents on iRacing. Passionate discussions and ideas abound about the sporting code, safe driving, unsafe driving, intentional wrecking, blocking, sportsmanship, acceptable behavior, flaws in the protest system and ideas for more automation . . . to name a few. There have also been literally thousands of protests filed by concerned members regarding perceived violations of the iRacing sporting code by other members. In 2010, for example, there were 1,945 protests filed and 3,541 filed in 2011. Those numbers only include accepted protests in which we created a [...]
Austin’s Blog
by Austin Dyne on May 11th, 2012
Hello! My name is Austin Dyne and I’m racing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West this season for Sunrise Ford Racing. One of the first things my crew chief Roger Bracken told me after joining the team was to get join iRacing and start preparing for the season. Unfortunately my season started a bit late. As a series rookie, I wasn’t eligible to race in the first oval of the season at Phoenix International Raceway but I did run the second round, at Havasu Speedway where we started and finished ninth. Going into my second race at Miller Motorsports Park the weekend of April 28, I hadn’t been on a road course in over a year and a half. Naturally, I got online and started doing laps on iRacing [...]
Hamstead Nails Round 1
by Ben Rothberg and Dylan Sharman on May 11th, 2012
Season 2 of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by BigPond kicked off with the teams and drivers heading to Road America to tackle the challenging 6.5km road course. As new faces show their force and with former champions back in the game this is looking to be a good season. With George Maris taking control in the early race, he would qualify on pole for the main race which saw a near record strength of field (4228). Maris took the pole with a lap of 2:08.259, ahead of the defending champion Richard Hamstead, while ANZ Motorsport combo of Justin Ruggier and their new recruit who came off a Dunlop Series round win — Scott McLaughlin — rounding-out the second row of the grid. Simon Madden and three time V8 [...]
iRacing.com to Build Digital Honda for New Super GT Series
by David Phillips on May 10th, 2012
iRacing.com has bolstered its commitment to its Asian market with the announcement of new partnerships with Japan’s Super GT Series and the Honda Motor Company. Beginning in 2013, the Japanese Super GT Series will join NASCAR, GRAND-AM, IZOD IndyCar and the Australian V8 Supercar Championship in staging an officially sanctioned iRacing series: the iRacing.com Super GT Series. And thanks to a new agreement between iRacing and Honda, the featured car in that online racing series will be the Honda HSV-010. “We’re pleased, make that doubly pleased, to join our new partners in bringing all the excitement of the Super GT Series and the Honda HSV-010 GT to iRacing,” says Steve Myers, iRacing.com executive vice president and executive producer. “The Super GT Series offers some of the fastest, most innovative and [...]
Parker Makes DARE Stock Debut Friday at Stafford
by Tim Terry on May 10th, 2012
Josh Parker, one of the most prominent oval racers on the iRacing service, is set to make his real racing, stock car debut at the Stafford Motor Speedway this Friday night (May 11). Parker (Exeter, RI) will be driving a DARE Stock race car out of the Rent a Racecar New England stable on Friday at the Stafford Motor Speedway (CT) as a part of their Weekly Racing Series program. DARE Stock race cars are powered by V8 motors built on American fabricated chassis that resemble their street counterparts. Parker, who drives online in the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC), practiced a DARE Stock car during the Spring Sizzler weekend and was set to make his maiden race laps in the car one week ago but rain halted the [...]
Out of the Gate
by Jameson Spies on May 10th, 2012
A new season is upon us in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series (NiCAS), and there was no messing around as the series took to the high banks of Talladega Superspeedway right out of the gate. With the current iRacing.com build of the Chevrolet Impala SS, the drafting in the sim models itself much like the drafting we all see when the Sprint Cup Series takes to the restrictor plate tracks. With “Tandem Drafting” in play, as well as cars prone to overheating, it would prove to be a ballroom dance at speeds over 200mph. Coming into the week, much was in there air about what kind of racing we would see. Early in the week however, it was shown that the tandem drafting method would reign superior over pack [...]
Daley Tops Talladega
by Allen Krier on May 9th, 2012
Season 2 of the 2012 Nascar iRacing.com Class B Series started the season by traveling to one of the most popular tracks on the iRacing service, Talladega Super Speedway. Sim racers looked to start their season on a high note in route to winning the season championship. 1525 drivers attempted at least one race during the first week of the season while 591 drivers attempted at least one qualifying session. “I’ll have to say that was one of the best races I’ve been a part of on iRacing.” – Byron Daley For season two, the high Strength of Field (SoF) races were moved to Friday nights. Week One’s SoF race had 28 drivers and a SoF of 5060. When it was all said and done, NiSWC driver Byron Daley (New [...]
Putting the “Personal” in PC Gaming Computers
May 9th, 2012
iRacing is many things to many people. For most, it’s an enjoyable past-time offering very real insights into the world of motorsports; for some it’s a nearly full-time (some would say “addictive”) hobby offering very real rewards. For established race drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr, Justin Wilson, Alex Gurney and Shane van Gisbergen, it’s a fun way to stay on top of their game; for emerging racers like Jim Caudill Jr, Wyatt Gooden and Josh Wise, it’s a valuable tool for honing their skills in pursuit of their dreams. For Michael Main, iRacing was the catalyst to the start-up of Main Performance PC, the Arlington, VA-based builder/servicer of custom gaming computers and distributor for Obutto gaming cockpits and CXC motion simulators. As you’ll see, it’s a business he takes personally. [...]
New Players, New Stories
by Joshua Chin on May 9th, 2012
The opening week of Season 2 in the iRacing.com Star Mazda Championship looked quite similar to the way Season 1 ended, with perennial front-runner and defending overall champion Tony Repussard taking control of the standings after a week of online racing at Silverstone. However, several new challengers have emerged to bring the fight to the defending two-time series champion. The 2012 Season 1 Star Mazda champion ended the week with a 10 point lead on second place Michele Mancusi and 14 over third place Joao Rodrigues. Among these challengers was Petar Peic who won the first high strength of field (SOF) race for the week, Sunday 16:30 GMT with a 2981 SOF that awarded 186 points. Peic started in third position behind Michele Mancusi and Frederic Evers, but shot to [...]
De Ferran, Fernandez, Leo Confirmed as SAFEisFAST.com Online Instructors
May 8th, 2012
GRAND-AM Rolex Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Star Andy Lally Currently on Deck Some of the most respected names in the auto racing world are lending their support to help drivers around the globe at SAFEisFAST.com, a free online resource offering video tutorials on safety, fitness, mental skills, race craft, career development, sponsorship, marketing and more. In addition, the site’s ground-breaking Online Instructor initiative offers one-on-one advice from accomplished drivers and mentors in the sport to assist the careers of drivers in all forms of racing. Since its launch, visitors to the website have represented 115 countries. GRAND-AM Rolex Series and Continental Tire Series ace Andy Lally is currently in the instructor seat. One of the most versatile, successful and popular racers of his generation, Lally has made his [...]
Ruokola Rocks the Glen
by David Roberts on May 7th, 2012
Watkins Glen, the spiritual home of the United States Grand Prix, greeted the drivers for the first round of the Classic Teams Championship. The opening week turned out to be a very busy one with 68 of the 80 registered drivers competing in 19 ‘official’ races over four days of online racing. Saturday racing also proved itself an instant success with five races going official in this, its first week on the schedule. With all drivers eager to make a great start in the championship there was lots of talk about Watkins’ notorious Turn One, but in the end the quality of the drivers outshone the concerns. In fact the entire week saw very few accidents and proved that this series is truly a great place to race. With the [...]
Magic Number(s)
by David Phillips on May 7th, 2012
When it comes to IndyCar racing, 33 is a magic number. After all, 33 is the traditional number of starters in the Indianapolis 500 that sees 11 rows of three cars take the green flag every Memorial Day. So when Dallara Automobili decided to invite a select number of iRacing.com’s Club Italia members for a guided tour of its factory last year, it made perfect sense for that “select number” to be 33. But how to select those lucky 33 sim racers? Rather than the four lap qualifying runs that determine the starting field for The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, Club Italia opted to stage a sprint race in iRacing’s IndyCar Dallara at (where else?) the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The top 33 finishers would earn invites to the factory tour [...]
iRacer Profile – Bryan J Miller
May 5th, 2012
Bryan J Miller practices what he preaches, both when he says his favorite quote by a TV character come from Park and Recreation‘s Ron Swanson who says,“I learned a lesson. Never half-ass two things . . . whole-ass one thing” and when he says his own motto in iRacing is “I make the ‘SLOWstice’ go ‘FASTstice’! One look at the Season 1 inRacingNews Challenge results will attest to the validity of both those statements. One would certainly say Miller “whole-assed one thing” when he started 180 iRNC races in a single season. And the fact he won 160 of those starts pretty well confirms his claim that he makes the “‘SLOWstice’ go ‘FASTstice.’” It would be equally true to say that, at age 26, Miller has already lived an interesting [...]









David Phillips
Chris Hall
Jameson Spies
Jason Lofing
Ray Bryden
Patrick Atherton
Tim Terry
David Allen
Allen Krier

