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Hunting Down
by Patrick Atherton on October 25th, 2011
The iRacers converged on Road Atlanta for Season Three’s final round of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series by Bigpond Sport. Much like the Las Vegas IZOD IndyCar finale’s celebrations were horribly muted by the loss of Dan Wheldon, this end-of-term party was spoiled by yet another motorsport tragedy, this time the death of MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli. It was a dark week for world motorsport. As said last week, the whole motorsport community feels it heavily, and sim racers are no different. Still, the V8 iRacers got on with business and with Madison Down atop the series ladder with a margin of 68 points to Mitchell McLeod, a solid result would secure his second title. But this is sim racing, where real life tends to get in the way somewhat [...]
Nieminen Nails iNGPS Finale
by Chris Hall on October 24th, 2011
In the final round of the iRacing.com NVIDIA Grand Prix Series, Jesse Nieminen found his way to the top step of the podium for the fifth time this season after a dominating performance at the virtual Silverstone International Circuit. The My3id sim-racer, who was plagued with technical issues early in the season that effectively nullified his championship challenge, showed that with everything running in ship-shape and Bristol fashion the Finn will be a front-running contender for the 2012 title. Starting from pole-position with a time of 1:18.420, Nieminen moved his Williams-Toyota FW31 into a comfortable lead over Greger Huttu, with help from his team-mate and 2011 World Champion Hugo Luis, who snatched second position from the Team Redline pilot on the drop of the green flag. Whilst Huttu found his [...]
Salvatore Magic at New Hampshire
by Tim Terry on October 24th, 2011
Brandon Salvatore added 229 points to his historic season on Week Eleven of the NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series (NiTMS) by notching the overall win at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Nicknamed “the Magic Mile,” New Hampshire brought out 95 of the best sim racers to battle for the top spot but it was the point leader who struck gold with the most points in the penultimate round of the series. Salvatore’s win came during a 3657 sof race on Thursday. Salvatore led wire-to-wire from the pole in the caution-free affair and defeated last season’s champ Herb Engelhart by nearly four seconds at the completion of the 75-lap race. Third in the race belonged to Taylor Meyn while Jason Brown2 and Caleb Shelton completed the top five. Engelhart (206) and [...]
iRacer Profile: Ashley Miller
by David Phillips on October 22nd, 2011
Ashley Miller has racing in his blood. The great nephew of legendary Modified racer Junior Miller, Ashley has been a member of iRacing simsince 2009 and would love to transfer his sim racing skills to real world racing. Those skills are formidable. After finishing eighth in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series Division One standings in 2011 Season 2, Miller has amassed a dozen wins in 32 starts this season and headed into the final week of the 21011 Season 3 atop the NiCCS standings. The Lexington, NC resident is not just about Silverados, however. He’s started a couple of NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series races this season, winning a 2432 SoF race and more than holding his own against the likes of “high-ranked guys” Josh Berry, Kevin King, Richie [...]
2011 iNGPS Finale Broadcast Saturday!
by David Phillips on October 21st, 2011
The final round of the 2011 iRacing.com NVIDIA Grand Prix Series will be broadcast Saturday on iRacing.com beginning at 6 pm Eastern (22:00 GMT). The race will consist of 60 laps around the 17 turn, 3.194 mile Silverstone Grand Prix circuit and feature the Williams-Toyota FW31. Although Hugo Luis (Brazil) clinched the 2011 iNGPS title a fortnight ago at Suzuka, there is plenty to play for at Silverstone. Outgoing champion Greger Huttu (Finland) has a pretty secure hold on second place in the standings. But should he falter, fellow Finn Klaus Kivekäs (leader of the iNGPS points race for much of the season) could yet grab the runner-up spot with a strong finish on Saturday. Likewise the twenty-fifth spot (and final guaranteed place in the 2012 iNGPS) is still very [...]
Oh Brother!
by David Phillips on October 21st, 2011
IndyCar may have the brothers Bettenhausen and Unser, NASCAR may have the Bodines, Burtons, Buschs, Labontes and Woods (to name a few), but iRacing has the Stergios brothers. Jake and PJ Stergios (New England) demonstrated that fact in emphatic fashion last night, driving their Star Mazdas to a brotherly one-two finish ahead of Evan Maillard (France) in the iRacing.com Road Racing Tournament final at Watkins Glen International. While Jake started on pole and led the 20 lap race from start to finish, PJ had to work a little harder – make that a lot harder – for his spot on the podium. Fifth on the grid, he worked his way up to P2 by Lap Four only for Maillard to reclaim the spot on Lap 10. The two ran nose [...]
Kettelle Saves Fuel, Steals ‘Dega Win
by Tim Terry on October 21st, 2011
Brandon Kettelle (Cape Coral, FL), had enough gas left in the tank of his #80 Tide Chevrolet Thursday night to take his first career GSRacing.net Truck Series victory at the Talladega Superspeedway. Kettelle was in second place when leader Andrew Berger (Richland, PA) ran out of fuel under caution coming through the tri-oval on the last lap and held off a furious charge from drivers who had chosen to pit under green. Danny Hansen (Amherst, WI) brought his #32 JDR Graphics Chevrolet home in second followed by Tanner Stoops (Sioux Falls, SD), Jesse Atchison (Prince Frederick, MD) and Jon Adams (Hiram, GA). Four yellow flags slowed the 80 lap online race, which took one hour, thirty minutes to complete. The final caution flag of the evening flew with one lap [...]
Vincent Perfect at Laguna Seca
by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on October 20th, 2011
Brad Vincent was in perfect form as he became the first repeat winner of the Red Sox Racing League’s 2011 Season 3 schedule during the “Monterey F1 GP at Laguna Seca”. Coming off his worst performance of the season at last week’s event at Mosport, Vincent brushed aside rumors about dissension in the Amplified Motorsports garage. “We knew Mosport was the exception to the rule”, said Vincent after the race. “Other teams might doubt us, but I’ve got complete confidence in our ability to race for the win every week!” The win at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, coupled with a victory in the season opening race at Silverstone, gave Vincent four top-5 finishes in the first five races of the season and a thirty-one point lead over Turner in the [...]
Kusheba Grabs Street Stock Points Lead At Charlotte
by Allen Krier on October 19th, 2011
Charlotte Motor Speedway was once again the site of the iRacing.com Street Stock Series for Week 11 of the season, with sim racers tackling the 1/4 mile Legends track. Tempers would run high as drivers trade a lot of virtual paint during the 50 lap online races. Weekly High Strength of Field Week 10′s high Strength of Field (SoF) race ran on Thursday night and had an SoF of 2634. Starting on the pole and leading every lap was Michael Vaughn (West). Vaughn finished just over a second ahead of Lance Gomez Jr (New York) and received 165 points for the win while Gomez collected 146 points for second. Chris Hughson (New York) finished in the third position, nearly three seconds back and netted 128 points for his efforts while [...]
Hazard Takes Texas
by Tim Terry on October 18th, 2011
NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship driver Thomas Hazard took home the overall victory during Week Eleven action in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) at the Texas Motor Speedway. Hazard, point leader in the GSRacing.net Truck Series, grabbed the NiCCS victory by taking control of the top split online race of the week at the popular Texas oval. Hazard’s win in the 3809 Strength of Field race on October 17th didn’t come easilyy for the sim racing veteran as he started 13th in the 20 truck field. Hazard wasted no time climbing through the pack though, capturing the lead on Lap 13 and holding the position for 42 of the 90 total laps in the race. Second in the race belonged to Byron Daley with David Krikorian, Chris Overland [...]
Kline Upends Field at USA
by Tim Terry on October 18th, 2011
While Brandon Salvatore continued to add to his point total in the NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series (NiTMS) on Week Ten, it was veteran sim racer Shane Kline who showed the way in Round Ten. The Untamed Motorsports driver captured the top split race of the week at the USA International Speedway to take the overall win for the week. Kline took the win in Saturday’s 3476 Strength of Field affair by just over one second. Kevin Walker came home as the runner-up, edging-out Derrick Cormier2, Carl Sundberg and Mitch Miller. Kline led 90 laps en route to the win. The race featured just a single caution period and just two lead changes between Kline, who started on the pole, and Walker. Kline gained 217 points for the win. Though [...]
V8 iRacers farewell Dan
by Patrick Atherton on October 18th, 2011
Sim racers are just like any other motorsport enthusiast. When a real-world driver’s life is tragically cut short, all enthusiasts feel as though they have lost a colleague. The loss of IZOD Indycar driver and 2011 Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon was felt by all in the iRacing community. The V8 racers no less, as Wheldon was scheduled to drive at the Gold Coast V8 Supercar event. The Las Vegas tragedy took the edge off a normally charged-up and dynamic iRacing V8 Supercar Series by Bigpond Sport, when they arrived at Mid-Ohio for Week 11. This report will be equally subdued. The evening’s racing was as well-fought as usual, with plenty of spills. However the highlight of both timeslots was a silent tribute lap at the close of racing, organised [...]
Week 13 Classic Indy 500
October 17th, 2011
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500, two of iRacing’s most “niche” and dedicated communities are coming together for a friendly match in this specially hosted event in Week 13 featuring the Classic Lotus 79. Practice starts on Tuesday, September 18 with qualifying and the race scheduled for Saturday, October 30. Sign-up here and enjoy the fun! Tuesday, October 18 @ 15:00 UTC: 6 hours practice Tuesday, October 25 @ 15:00 UTC: 6 hours practice Saturday, October 29 @ 15:00 UTC: 6 hours practice Sunday, October 30@ 15:00 UTC: 2 hours practice Sunday, October 30 @ 17:00 UTC: qualifying (4 laps) Sunday, October 30 @ 17:10 UTC: race (200 laps) One fast tow; single file restarts.
Remarkable
October 15th, 2011
iRacing.com was part of a remarkable evening of racing last Saturday at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, IL. That’s when and where Shane Hmiel returned to Victory Lane on the anniversary of an accident that left him paralyzed. A year after a crash in a USAC Silver Crown race at Terre Haute ended his career as a racing driver, Hmiel won USAC’s Gold Crown Midget Nationals as the owner of RW56 Motorsports’s 3 Wide Life midget driven to victory by five time USAC national midget champion Levi Jones. “What a remarkable night,” Jones said. “To be able to win in just my second start for Shane and on the anniversary weekend of his wreck is just absolutely amazing. The weekend couldn’t have worked out any better for us. It was [...]
iRacer Profile: Maksym Yefanov
by David Phillips on October 15th, 2011
Should you find yourself in the middle of an iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge race with a Ford GT piloted by an iRacer in a blue and yellow helmet, chances are good that the Ford GT is being piloted by Maksym Yefanov. The long-time iRacer has proudly adopted the colors of his native Ukraine for his helmet paint scheme. Chances are also good that that Ford GT will be at or very near the front of the Ford GT class competition. After all, Yefanov currently stands P2 in the Ford GT class of the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge, trailing only Wyatt Foster in the points race thanks to a dozen wins and more than two dozen top five finishes in 27 starts. Q: How long have you been sim [...]
The iRacing.com Road Racing Tournament Set for October 18 & 19
by Kevin Bobbitt on October 14th, 2011
iRacing.com is hosting an online racing tournament featuring the Star Mazda at Watkins Glen International (Boot Configuration). We’ll be utilizing one of our newest features, tournament racing, to host this special two-night event. The tournament kicks off on Wednesday, October 19th at 8 pm EDT (October 20th 00:00 GMT) and concludes the following night. The format will be as follows: Wednesday – Qualifying and Rounds 1 & 2 · 8pm EDT (00:00 GMT) 20 minute open qualifying. This will be open to the first 420 racers to register for the hosted session. The top 360 people will move on to Round 1. (10 servers) · 8:30pm EDT (00:30) Immediately following the qualifying we will host Round 1. Roughly equal fields will be set using a snake split format for this [...]
Hazard’s GSR Truck Series 2-Fer
by Tim Terry on October 14th, 2011
Thomas Hazard (Rochester, MN) picked up where he left off one week ago by taking the victory in Thursday’s GSRacing.net 100 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Hazard, driving the #9 nVidia Chevrolet Silverado, started sixth in the 32 truck field and wasted no time getting to the front, working his way into the top three by Lap 17 and into the lead for the first time on Lap 48. Daniel Pope II (Smyrna, TN) finished in second place ahead of Brad Wright (High Point, NC) and Brandon Buchberger (Sugar Grove, IL), followed by Dylan Duval (Halifax, NS), who charged from eighth place with 13 laps remaining to take a top five spot. Adam Gilliland (Dallas, TX) started the night by winning the GSRacing.net Pole Award with a time of 30.552 [...]
Return to Suzuka
by Jordan Hightower on October 14th, 2011
For the second time this season, the drivers in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge headed to Japan for some action at the 3.609-mile, 17-turn Suzuka International Racing Course. A total of 367 sim racers attempted to be crowned the week’s best, but after seven days of online racing, Norbert Leitner (Central-Eastern Europe) was the driver who earned that title. Weekly High Strength of Field It was a battle of the Norbert’s for the victory in the week’s highest Strength of Field (SoF) event. Leitner was able to get the better of Sulzer (DE-AT-CH) during the high SoF, claiming the victory by almost 13 seconds. Luigi Nespolino (Italy) finished in the third position followed in fourth by Antti Karjakin (Finland). Rounding-out the top five is Ernesto Medina Nievas2 (Iberia). Weekly Standings With [...]
Saarinen Uncorks at Laguna
by Jordan Hightower on October 14th, 2011
Week 9 in the 2011 Season 3 Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge took the sim racers to the twists and turns of the 11-turn, 2.238-mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in the hills overlooking Monterey, California. Over 500 drivers tried to entictoryer their names into the record book as a winner at the famed California track, but after seven days of racing, Antti Saarinen3 (Finland) was able to finally carve his name into that book as the TMC’s top points-earner. Weekly High Strength of Field Oscar Sahlin (Scandinavia), a name now familiar in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge series, captured the victory during the week’s highest Strength of Field (SoF) event, cruising to an 11.326s margin of victory over runner-up Saarinen. The final podium position was earned by Texan Christopher Blocker, with Maik Peters [...]
The Certain Champion
by David Phillips on October 14th, 2011
Dario Franchitti or Will Power? Who will wear the mantle of 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series champion? We won’t know for sure until the conclusion of Sunday’s IZOD IndyCar World Championship at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but the identity of one 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series champion is already certain. That would be 22 year old Yang Ou, winner of both the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series Oval and Road Racing competition and, as such, iRacing’s overall IndyCar champion. And the spoils of his many online racing victories include a cash prize and a trip to Las Vegas for the 2011 IZOD Indy Car Series finale. And what a long, strange trip it’s been. A native of Wu Han, China, Ou currently resides in Copenhagen, Denmark where he is studying media technology. [...]



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