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Jake Stakes Early GP Series Lead
by Teemu Iivonen and Simon Cattell on February 6th, 2012
iRacing.com Grand Prix Series off to a exciting start with new faces and updates to Williams-Toyota FW31 The 2012 Season 1 iRacing.com Grand Prix Series (iGPS) kicked-off with some longed for updates as the Williams-Toyota FW-31 was added to the list of cars with the New Tire Model. In addition to the NTM, the car was given a sound update, subtle refinements to aerodynamic side forces, reduced temperature of the tire warmers and most important, an ending to the problem that has caused trouble at the starts during previous seasons – the random engine blow. The online racing itself started-off at the virtual Road Atlanta, a fast and flowing circuit located just north of Braselton, Georgia, USA. The circuit is not particularly suited to the Williams-Toyota FW31s taking to the [...]
GSRacing.net Late Model Championships Set for February 12th
by Tim Terry on February 6th, 2012
The crown jewel of short track sim racing returns to iRacing on Sunday, February 12th and a star studded field of drivers is set to duke it out for their spot in the 30 car starting field. The Fourth Annual Late Model Championships Presented by GSRacing.net at New Smyrna Speedway has already drawn over 110 entries and, when all is said and done, one of them will stand tall as the winner and take away the lion’s share of the purse which hovers around the $400 mark. Live flag-to-flag coverage of the main event of the weekend, the Late Model 250 Presented by GSRacing.net, can be watched live at 7:15pm Eastern on February 12th on WebRacingNetwork.com. The list of entries boasts a Who’s Who of iRacing’s best drivers. The 2010 [...]
Intel GT Series Shifts to Overdrive
by David Phillips on February 6th, 2012
The Intel GT Series shifts into overdrive this week, with online racing action involving both the South American and European regions. The South American Regional Series starts tomorrow (February 7) with a week of online racing action at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps featuring the HPD ARX01c. The week’s top 20 points-earners will qualify for the South America Regional Finals, slated for Friday, February 17. The top eight finishers from the South American Regional Finals will qualify for the Intel GT Series World Finals, to coincide with the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in March, 2012. Meanwhile, the European Regional Finals are slated for Friday, February 10 at 21:00 GMT. The field was set last week in a European Regional Series that saw 2011 iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing champion Benelux’ Atze [...]
Peters Principle
by Tim Doyle on February 6th, 2012
Week One of the 2012 Season 1 iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series visited the little track in the heart of America: Iowa Speedway. Due to inclement weather (technical difficulties) the online race was moved from the traditional Monday time slot to Wednesday. 44 drivers showed-up to do battle, splitting the event into fields of 22 sim racers each, and battle they did! Before the race, qualifying was intense seeing many starting positions change place minutes before the start. Earning the pole was 2011 Season 3 runner-up, Chris Cahoe, with a stellar lap of 17.652s, beating his previous time of 17.658s in 2011 Season 4. The 2011 Season 3 champion, Tim Doyle, moved-up several positions in the final qualifying session to slot in P2, just over two hundredths off the pace with [...]
Hazard Steals “The Show” at PIR
by Tim Terry on February 3rd, 2012
Thomas Hazard entered the JoeTheShoe 120 at Phoenix International Raceway leading the GSRacing.net Truck Series on Thursday night by a single point. At the end of the night, he not only left with his point lead intact but also with the checkered flag. Hazard captured his league-leading fourth victory of the season by taking the win in the penultimate online race of the 2011-12 campaign. 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Champion Ray Alfalla chased Hazard to the line at the finish, ending-up two tenths off Hazard at the completion of the 120-lap affair. Kevin King rebounded from an earlier accident to finish third, besting Jon Adams and Brandon Buchberger at the checkered silk. Brian Schoenburg started the JoeTheShow 120 from the pole position with a time of 27.442 seconds while [...]
Kile King of the Hill
by Jameson Spies on February 2nd, 2012
With another season of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series now in the books, parity has never been more evident, as the list of champions continues to expand. The 750+ horsepower Chevrolet Impala is the top oval racing stock car in the world, and is masterfully recreated in the iRacing.com software to give sim racers the rush of piloting the 3,450 pound, high powered tank around the track at speeds over 200mph. A dozen tracks over the course of the 12 week season challenged drivers and teams in every way imaginable. From short tracks to big, day to night, and asphalt to concrete, there is no place to hide when competing at the top level of online racing. iRacing.com offers ten divisions of competition, allowing drivers of all levels of [...]
Jake Stergios Takes GP Series Title
by Teemu Iivonen on January 31st, 2012
The fastest, most challenging, most exciting road racing series on the iRacing service, the iRacing.com Grand Prix Series features the Williams-Toyota FW31 on many of the world’s most fabled and demanding circuits. With its seven speed, semi-automatic, seamless-shift transmission, state-of-the-art aerodynamics honed by the AT&T Williams wind tunnel program and a 2.4 liter Toyota RV8 engine, the Williams-Toyota FW31 is the fastest and most technically advanced car in the iRacing stable of online racing cars. The Season 4 2011 Grand Prix Series would see 289 drivers start a race during the 12-week long season. After finishing second to Andre Boettcher in Season 3, Jake Stergios (New England) was back again to compete for the top step of the podium. The season finale would be held at the well-known Silverstone Circuit. [...]
No Shortage of 2011 Season 4 Champions
by David Phillips on January 30th, 2012
iRacers never like to give up a good thing, which goes a long way toward explaining why Season 4 of 2011 didn’t conclude until 23:59 GMT on January 23, 2012 . . . Not only can we look forward to the start of 2012 Season 1, we can take a final look in the rear view mirrors at the season just past and celebrate the achievements of iRacing’s most successful and prolific sim racers. Kalle Ruokola certainly qualifies on both counts. He bested Yoeri Gijsen and Rami Kaukola to capture the Time Trial (TT) honors in the Corvette Class of the iRacing Prototype and GT Challenge (Fixed), and collected no fewer than four runner-up finishes in everything from Classic Lotus Grand Prix TT (behind Mark Mullineaux and ahead of David [...]
Salvatore Seals Second Tour Mod Title
by Tim Terry on January 30th, 2012
Brandon Salvatore completed a feat in the 2011 Season Four that no other iRacer has done before. The Georgia sim racer became the first driver in the history of iRacing to go back-to-back as champion in the NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series (NiTMS), and the first to win two championships in the six season history of the series. Salvatore sealed the deal at Thompson International Speedway by topping 77 other sim racers who took the green flag on the Connecticut high banks. Salvatore went to victory lane during Thursday’s 3834 Strength of Field (SoF) race in his final start of the season, leading every one of the race’s 125 laps. Former series champion Herb Engelhart was second, followed by Kevin Walker, Ray Farlow and Samuel Dick. One caution slowed the [...]
Gary W Clark Memorial Race
by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on January 30th, 2012
Members of the Red Sox Racing League honored former league member Gary W. Clark during week three of the 2012 RSR multi-class racing schedule. League administrators dedicated the event, the “Gary W Clark Memorial 30 at Silverstone GP” in Clark’s honor after learning he had died in Knoxville, Tennessee on January 7th. Clark was only 53 years old at the time of his death. Competitors who knew him from past RSR seasons recalled Clark as an upbeat person who was a consummate gentleman on the track. “Clark was a classy guy who made sim racing fun”, said RSR members Jeff Thomas and Les Turner. The race was held at the Silverstone Grand Prix track in Towcester, Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. RSR drivers are very familiar with the track, having [...]
Hulbert Claims Radical Racing Challenge Crown
by Katier Scott on January 29th, 2012
VIR Grand East Tops 2012 Season 1 Schedule Following Successful 2011 Season 4 In a Radical Racing Challenges series that would seem to be appropriately named, the drivers of the Class C Radical sports car look forward to a schedule in 2012 Season 1 that includes circuits as diverse as Virginia International Raceway and the Charlotte Motor Speedway. And if the just completed 2011 Season 4 – which saw over 750 sim racers take part in the series – is any barometer, the fierce competition and exciting blend of tracks will draw even more drivers to this Class C road series. 2011 Season 4 saw Simon Hulbert bring home the overall honours with a dominant performance that placed him ahead Frank Winter and Xavier Busoms. Maurice Dietzel did a superb [...]
World Cup of iRacing in High Gear
January 27th, 2012
The third annual World Cup of iRacing shifts into high gear this weekend with Saturday’s Regional Annual Club Championship (RACC) Finals and the World Cup Final on Sunday. 25 of iRacing’s 38 geographical clubs qualified for the World Cup of iRacing tournament, which began on Tuesday with the RACC Runoffs consisting of road course competition at Spa-Francorchamps in Star Mazdas and oval track competition at Michigan International Speedway in Chevrolet Silverados. Although two-time World Cup of iRacing champions DE-AT-CH (Germany-Austria-Switzerland) must rate as the favorites, there are two dozen clubs – and hundreds of iRacers – who would like nothing better than to deny the club’s bid for a “three-peat” with a World Cup of their own. The weekend’s schedule is as follows: RACC Final – Saturday Jan 28 Oval: [...]
RSR Round 2 at Road America
by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on January 27th, 2012
Members of the Red Sox Racing League traveled to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin for the league’s second multi-class race of 2012, “The Kettle Moraine 30 at Road America”. Family, friends, and fans enjoyed the beautiful countryside and attractions near the challenging road course while twenty-four RSR drivers practiced for the race. The track has three long straight sections broken up by several tight turns and high speed corners along a 4.048 mile layout. The track first opened in 1955 and is one of the few road courses in the world which has not changed its original layout. Week one of the RSR multi-class experiment saw six drivers retire early from the Watkins Glen race as a result of damage. In what was probably the most incident filled race in RSR [...]
Paquette Dethrones Ottinger
by Allen Krier on January 26th, 2012
Week 12 of the iRacing.com Street Stock Series saw sim racers travel to Oxford Plains Speedway for the final week of the season and the crowning of the 2011 Season 4 champion. Many drivers started-off the season with the goal of dethroning three time series champion Nick Ottinger (Carolina) but only one driver was able to make it happen. Maxime Paquette (Eastern Canada) was the one who came out on top when all was said and done. Weekly Standings With a season championship within his reach, Paquette set fire to Oxford Plains. In two races, Paquette won both while leading 81 of 100 laps and netting the most points of the online racing week with 185. Cole Anderson (Midwest) finished the final week of the season by also winning both [...]
Double Vision – Again
January 26th, 2012
The final weeks of the 2011 Season 4 inRacingNews Challenge saw the mixed class (SpecRacer Fords and Pontiac Solstices) visit three very different circuits: the short course configuration at Summit Point Raceway, Charlotte Motor Speedway’s “r-oval” road course and Okayama International’s long course. Long or short, r-oval or pure road circuit, Michael Booth and Gabriel Tobar proved unbeatable as they swept to the Solstice and SRF titles, respectively . . . again (in Booth’s case, his second straight title, while Tobar took his third SRF crown in the past four seasons). Week 10 of the inRacingNews Challenge season headed to West Virginia and Summit Point Raceway, marking the fourth and final visit of the season to the series’ de facto home track, and one of precious few opportunities for the [...]
World Championship Fields Finalized
by David Phillips on January 26th, 2012
The fields for iRacing’s twin 2012 World Championships were finalized last week with the completion of the 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) and the 2011 iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing (iPSRR). The top 25 finishers in each of the Pro series secured berths in the upcoming NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) and iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series (iWCGPS). Beginning in February, they will join the top 25 finishers from last year’s NiSWC and iWCGPS in battling for the top prizes in online racing and the World Championship titles. The 2012 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship kicks-off on February 21 at Daytona International Speedway and will feature a 17 race schedule mirroring that of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup. Defending champion Ray Alfalla will lead a field of [...]
Warren Edges Buchberger for Truck Title
by Tim Terry on January 25th, 2012
2011 NiSWC champion Adds NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series Crown to His Trophy Case In the span of seven days, Alex Warren went from winning the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series championship to having to battle fellow Pro pilot Brandon Buchberger down to the wire in the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS). The duel was just that, close enough that it came down to the final laps of the season and when the points were tallied, it was Warren and his Core Pipe/GSRacing.net sponsored team who came out on top after the grueling twelve week season – by one point. Week Eleven saw the series convene at the Tricky Triangle, formally known as Pocono Raceway. Warren finished atop the standings for the week and gained 13 points on his nearest [...]
Spindel Takes Pro Series Finale at Suzuka
by Chris Hall on January 24th, 2012
In a breathtaking 53 laps around the virtual Suzuka International circuit, Emil Spindel held-off the advances of newly-crowned champion Atze Kerkhof to take his first victory in the iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing (iPSRR). As the lights went green on the twelfth and final race of the season, CST Ajira’s Spindel saw his pole-position advantage immediately evaporate, as Martin Krönke in the My3id Williams-Toyota FW31grabbed maximum traction off the line to lead the field into Turn One. Also making a good start was Kerkhof, who forced his Team Redline entry beneath Spindel as the pair entered the first corner. However, contact between the duo whilst heading to Turn Two sent the series champion sliding across the track and down to fifth position. With a clear track ahead, Krönke set about [...]
Burris Best at Bristol
by Tim Terry on January 23rd, 2012
Kevin Burris edged one step closer to the 2011 Season Four iRacing.com Late Model Tour (iLMT) title during Round 11 as he took the overall victory at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Over 700 sim racers took to the high banks in the popular short track car over the seven day span to test their luck and skill against the best on the iRacing service but, in the end, it was the point leader edging-out the weekly victory. Burris’ victory came during Thursday’s 2840 Strength of Field (SoF) race in which he led 18 laps from the pole position. He edged Trey Jarrell by under two tenths of a second for a victory with Alex Ciambrone, Aaron Easler and Gary Dawson completing the top five. Jarrell led 32 laps in the [...]
Multi-Class racing comes to RSR
by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on January 20th, 2012
After much discussion, multi-class racing has finally been embraced by the Red Sox Racing League (RSR). The change in format means that beginning in Season One of the RSR 2012 calendar, league members have the opportunity to participate in some of the most exciting online racing available. The decision to include fixed setup multi-class racing wasn’t an easy one as league administrators had to struggle with the challenge of designing competitive setups for two different vehicles while ensuring their league points system could handle the new format. RSR settled on two of the fastest cars in the iRacing stable for use in the multi-class events. First up was the Honda Performance Development (HPD) ARX-01C as the Class A vehicle. The Chevrolet Corvette C6R was chosen as the Class B [...]



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