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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 [...]
Hughson and Leonetti Shine at Jefferson Reverse
by Joe Pisciotta, Jr. on May 16th, 2013
The inRacing News Challenge Multi-Class series made the trip in Week 2 to West Virginia to conquer Summit Point Raceway’s tricky Jefferson road course in its “Reverse” configuration. This short track boasts two long drag racing type straights with hairpins at each end. Miss your braking points here and you’ll be so deep in trees the guys from TV Show “Ax-Men” won’t be able cut your car out. Last week we had a new name sitting on top in Solstice even as the reigning Mazda Champion continued his dominance. This week at Summit Jefferson some familiar names dropped in the standings and new drivers emerged. Pontiac Solstice Ilham Halabi (Asia), who had an impressive 252 point race win in Japan last week, remains the overall point leader in Solstice. Halabi [...]
Lambert Dances with “The Lady in Black”
by Tom Moustakas on May 16th, 2013
Week 2 of Season 2 found the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series (fixed setup) at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. Drivers piloted their Chevrolet SS and Ford Fusion Gen-6 machines around the tricky 1.366 mile egg-shaped oval in 50-lap online races. This track is incredibly line sensitive, as it requires technique and finesse to stay in the preferred groove. Drivers take Turn One off the throttle and let it roll up towards the wall, then drive it back down the hill off of Turn Two. Avoiding the wall is not exactly easy, as bumps near the wall in Turns One and Two enjoy tossing cars into the outside SAFER barrier. Drivers can take a few different approaches entering Turns Three and Four, although the top lane is preferred due to [...]
Self-inflicted Injury
by Michael Self on May 16th, 2013
There are always lessons to be learned in life. Day-by-day, event-after- event, whether it’s a competitive sport or just learning from an everyday experience, it seems there’s always something new we can teach ourselves. I’ve been racing for about 13 years now and I feel I’ve seen, experienced and learned almost every aspect or dynamic of the sport. But Saturday night at Stockton 99 Speedway, I proved myself wrong and showed myself that there is still plenty of room to learn. I came in to this 2013 race season with one goal: the 2013 NASCAR K&N West Series championship. This meant finishing in the top five consistently, and never finishing outside the top 10. The Golden Gate Racing Team and I started that run flawlessly with a third place at [...]
Champions Interview: Ty Majeski
by Ray Kingsbury on May 15th, 2013
Ty Majeski is a racer, both on the iRacing.com simulation as well as in real life. I had the opportunity to catch up with the young, yet decorated driver and talked to him about his career thus far. Though highly successful on the real tracks, Ty also has managed to capture the 2013 Season 1 NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Tour in dominating fashion, scoring 58 wins in 64 starts to outdistance Kollin Keister and Ron Hagolin in the points race. . That being said here is your opportunity to get to know a little bit more about him! Q; How did you get started in the sim-racing world? What is your biggest accomplishment? What are your plans for the future? A: I started my sim-world and iRacing.com career in February [...]
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 [...]
Ottinger Stays Hot, Wins Third Straight
by Jason Lofing on May 15th, 2013
It’s official: Nick Ottinger is on a roll. The second year NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship driver captured his third win in a row Tuesday night at Darlington Raceway with yet another dominating performance. He becomes the first driver in the four year history of the NiSWC to win three straight races. Ottinger started-off the night by capturing his second pole position of the season, then capped it off by leading 173 of 183 laps at what many consider the most demanding track on the circuit. “Three straight for the #05 Rheem Chevrolet! Can’t believe it!” said Ottinger. “After the third or fourth caution I barely scraped the wall off (Turn) Four and it hurt my right front toe, however I had such a lead I had to just fight [...]
View the GalleryHuttu Brings it at Sebring
by Chris Hall on May 14th, 2013
In an action-packed Round Six of the iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series, Greger Huttu claimed victory at Sebring International Raceway to further extend his lead at the top of the standings. Huttu’s fourth win of the year sees his bid to retain the world title move another step closer, with a third of the 2013 season remaining. Starting second on the grid, alongside pole-sitter Martin Krönke, Team Redline’s Huttu was able to avoid a start-line incident that embroiled several mid-field runners. Spinning his wheels at the start, Mogar Filho’s virtual Williams-Toyota FW31 headed right, bounced off the pit wall and turned perpendicular into traffic. This put the Brazilian in the paths of Teemu Iivonen, Jason Lovett, and Pierre Urbizu, who collided with the Radicals Racing car in spectacular fashion. [...]
View the GalleryKeister’s Hot Date
by Jordan Hightower on May 14th, 2013
The Lady in Black. The Track Too Tough to Tame. Whatever you call it, Darlington Raceway is certainly a very, very unique track on the NASCAR circuit. Its egg-shaped design provides the sim racers with a tough battle as they try to navigate around the 1.366-mile track in just over 28.5 seconds. Even with running one of the most difficult tracks on the iRacing.com service, an astounding 1,608 sim racers took the green flag for at least one event in Week Two of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Fixed Series. One person who didn’t shy away from the challenges of Darlington Raceway was Kollin Keister (Atlantic). He battled against some heavy hitters as he took the checkered flag in the week’s top Strength of Field event by 0.342 seconds over [...]
Red Sox Spring Fling at Sebring
May 13th, 2013
Story by James Prostell Jr. SEBRING, FL. – After a month-long hiatus, the cars and stars of the Red Sox Racing League’s McLaren Turbo Challenge kicked off season two of the fixed racing series Thursday night. Over the next three months the points battle will rage through famous tracks around the world including Spa, Laguna Seca, Twin Ring Motegi, and Daytona with the drivers competing in identical McLaren MP4-12C GT3 race cars. As daunting as the historical tracks may be, the McLaren is definitely up for the challenge. It’s V8 engine pushes out 550 horsepower (after being detuned to meet FIA regulations!), and mated with an aero package crafted in McLaren’s F1 simulator makes this one GT3 car to look out for. This week the competitors visit sunny Sebring, Florida [...]
Hockaday Tops at ‘Dega
by Chris Owens on May 13th, 2013
With Season One of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series in the books, drivers and teams took a week to get rested and ready for the second season of 2013. The biggest and baddest race track of them all lay ahead for everyone: Talladega Superspeedway in eastern Alabama. Talladega provides everyone with a chance to win, so it’s no surprise to see over 700 sim-racers compete in Week One. Randy Hockaday would lay claim to the biggest race of the week, the weekly Strength of Field race on Friday night. Hockaday took home 358 points for the win and the overall points lead following Talladega. inRacingNews’ own Tom Moustakas crossed the line just .052 second behind Hockaday, earning Moustakas 343 points for his runner-up finish. Carl Taylor finished third with [...]
Get to Know . . . Tyler Laughlin
by David Ifeguni on May 13th, 2013
I think many of you can relate to this statement: When you first started out sim racing, you really didn’t take it seriously, but then something in you made you realize that if you try, you could really accomplish a great deal. That is definitely the case for iRacer Tyler Laughlin from Knoxville, Tennessee. If you look at his career statistics, he had fairly good numbers since joining the service on December 25th in 2008, all the way up until 2011. During that stretch he averaged about a dozen oval wins and 49 top fives per year. Something changed for 2012: Laughlin got serious. In 323 oval starts in 2012, he won 101 and scored 202 top five finishes. So far in 2013, he has started 76 races and has [...]
Show ‘Em What You’ve Got
by David Phillips on May 13th, 2013
Heading to Darlington Raceway on Tuesday, the 2013 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship is off to a hectic start. Series leaders Tyler D Hudson and Brian Schoenburg are still looking for their first wins; likewise two-time defending champion Ray Alfalla, who has clawed his way back into the reckoning after opening the campaign with 42nd and 36th place finishes in two of the first three events. Meanwhile, Daytona winner Adam Gilliland finds himself P8 . . . three better than Phoenix winner (and 2012 championship runner-up) Michael Conti, who failed to qualify for the season opener. All the more remarkable, then, that just five races into the young season Nick Ottinger already has a pair of wins to his credit, with back-to-back triumphs at Texas Motor Speedway and Richmond International [...]
Terrell and Brandt Conquer the Cork
by Matt Kingsbury on May 12th, 2013
The first week of online racing in both the fixed and open Indy Car Road Series took place in sunny California with the sim-racers looking to tear-up Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway. The venue located at Monterey hosts 11 corners over a 2.238 mile river of bending tarmac. In Week One of the Road open setup series 33 drivers took to the track, while the fixed road series saw 236 drivers attempt to conquer the course and its biggest obstacle – “The Corkscrew” a blind downhill corner that can catch the best driver off-guard. One driver who stood out from the others when it came to conquering The Corkscrew was Courtney Terrell (Indiana) who won the Strength of Field race and took home the Week One points lead in the Indy [...]
Majeski Masters USA International
by Ray Kingsbury on May 12th, 2013
Sim-racers have a unique opportunity to race at USA International Speedway, a track with a short yet eventful history. In its one and a half decade of existence, USA International Speedway hosted various series and was once a popular testing ground for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Though the now defunct track simply remains as an open lot, like Australia’s Oran Park, it lives-on – virtually — thanks to iRacing.com. The .75 mile concrete oval with turns banked at 14 degrees is one of the few tracks that perfectly suited the opening week of the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Series. This week we decided to shift our focus away from the Strength of Field race and towards another Strength of Field race which had some of the most competitive driving [...]
iRacer Profile: Olli Pahkala
by David Phillips on May 11th, 2013
Olli Pahkala is not one to waste time. Since joining joining the iRacing service late last summer, his has been a fast and steady rise through the ranks to the upper echelon of online road racing. After spending the last weeks of 2012 S2 and most of S3 racing (relatively) low-powered cars, he found himself behind the wheel of a virtual Williams-Toyota FW31 in S4 and promptly won eight races in the iRacing.com Grand Prix Series. Not content with than, the Finn reloaded for 2013 S1 and dusted all comers, roaring to 15 wins and 26 tops fives in 38 starts, outdistancing Yuho Abe and Rocco Barone for the title. In addition, he teamed with Greger Huttu, Jukka Savolainen & Co to bring Club Finland its first World Cup of [...]















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