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Lewandowski Edges Alfalla at the Monster Mile
by Jason Lofing on August 31st, 2011
Everyone who drives in the NASCAR iRacing Series World Championship (NiSWC) will tell you Thomas Lewandowski knows how to find his way to victory lane. In fact, the New Yorker had visited the winner’s circle 167 times on the iRacing ovals before Tuesday night’s online race at Dover International Speedway. Still, while Lewandowski has run well in NiSWC and even finished third in the 2010 points race, none of those 167 wins had ever come in NiSWC competition. But win number 168 proved to be a classic. Lewandowski held-off both championship leader Ray Alfalla and John Gorlinsky over the final 54 laps of a rough and tumble race, to take the checkered flag by just 0.135 of a second. In a race filled with 11 cautions and constantly changing pit [...]
A Brand New Name in IndyCars
by David Phillips on August 30th, 2011
Monica Clara Brand’s name may not be quite as familiar to IndyCar fans as those of Sarah Fisher and Danica Patrick, but she has much in common with them. Like Fisher she has qualified on the pole for an IndyCar race . . . 30 by actual count. And, like Patrick, she has finished an IndyCar race in Victory Lane. In fact, Brand has more than 25 wins to her credit from MIS to Iowa to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. What distinguishes Brand’s racing career from those of Fisher and Patrick is that all of her IndyCar success has come in a digitized Dallara on the virtual race tracks of iRacing.com. In fact, the 34 year old resident of Bucharest, Romania has never even attended a “real world” IZOD IndyCar [...]
Király and Gelink – GRAND-AM Premier Series Champions
by Chris Hall on August 30th, 2011
In what turned out to be a victory parade for the pair, András Király and David Gelink secured the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series crowns in the respective Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S classes, to each walk away with $1000 in prize money, plus some impressive silverware for their efforts. The 10 week championship open to members of the iRacing motorsports simulation service has seen more than 600 sim racers enter the ultimate mixed-class virtual series in a bid for GRAND-AM glory. Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype Although Királywas wearing the biggest grin in the virtual Mid-Ohio paddock for the tenth and final round of the championship, it was Morgan Sowerby claiming the plaudits with the top points total of the weekend. The American secured his [...]
Kusheba Scores Big; Field Takes Over Lead
by Allen Krier on August 30th, 2011
The iRacing.com Street Stock Series made its way down south to Braselton, Georgia for Week Four. Top sim racers from all over the world would travel to Lanier National Speedway in their quest for the title. Weekly High Strength of Field This week’s top Stength of Field (SoF) race had a great points payout, awarding 222 points to the winner. Paul Kusheba (Connecticut) showed his dominance at Lanier by starting on the pole and leading every lap in the 40 lap race. Kusheba held-off Brandon Chretien (New York), who finished only seven tenths of a second behind. For his efforts, Chretien received 201 points. Cody Stickler (Florida) finished in third, almost eight seconds behind, and netted 181 points. Jarrid Boiros (Massachusetts) and Aaron Likens (Plains) rounded out the top five, [...]
Piropo Pilots MX-5 to the Top
by Tim Terry on August 30th, 2011
Kaique Piropo proved he is a force in the NVIDIA Cup once again this week as he took the overall victory in Week Three of the popular division at Lime Rock Park. The Brazilian sim racer took home 155 points and one win but ironically, both came in different starts for the week! Piropo’s 155 point total came in a second place run to Renaud Jouanny on Sunday’s 2745 sof race. Jouanny led the final 17 laps en route to the win and finished a half second ahead of Piropo. Nicholas Vandal, polesitter Antonie Higelin and Ian Davidson completed the top five in the event. Jouanny went on to start eight additional races, piloting his Mazda MX-5 to victory lane three times in those other starts. Second for the week [...]
Nfinity Survive Island Marathon
by Patrick Atherton on August 30th, 2011
WEEK 4 of the iRacing V8 Supercar Series by Bigpond Sport was the “Enduro”- a whopping 38 laps of the Aussie V8′s spiritual home, Phillip Island. The extra dimension of pitstops added some spice which was, if the forums and the corporate box buzz was anything to go by, a highly popular move. It would take a brave man to try on a no-stop strategy here at the tyre-shredding Island. It was an Nfinity 1-2-3- qualifying extravaganza with new boy Scott Andrews poling at 1 min 30.718 from Nfinity teammates Mitchell McLeod and Rens Broekman. There would have been a fourth Nfinity driver in the top ten but for Scott U’Ren being plagued with internet dramas pre-race. The consistent Mick Claridge was fourth from XSG Motorsport’s Michael McCabe. Trans Tasman [...]
Luis Elbows His Way to The Top
by Chris Hall on August 29th, 2011
In a dramatic 44 lap online race at the virtual Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Hugo Luis muscled his way to the front of the pack to collect his third victory of the iRacing.com NVIDIA Grand Prix Series (iNGPS) and move into the standings lead with just four championship races remaining. Starting from pole position for the championship’s second visit to Spa-Francorchamps this season with a time of 1:44.596, Greger Huttu made the perfect get away when the lights went green, to lead Luis, Klaus Kivekäs and Luke McLean into Turn Onne, aka the La Source hairpin. Keeping clear of some mid-pack chaos in the opening turn that sidelined Atze Kerkhof, Ray Alfalla and Brad Davies, Huttu led a train of Williams-Toyota FW31s for the opening laps, until the Finn was able [...]
Benelux Benefit
by David Phillips on August 29th, 2011
The Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series already has the longest title among the multitude of online racing series on the iRacing.com service. But in the wake of the series inaugural season, it may be time to insert two more words into that lengthy title: Benelux Club. That’s because Benelux Club’s Dave Gelink and András Király not only took home top honors in the mixed class (Ford Mustang FR500s and Riley MkXX) series, they won their titles going away. To say Gelink dominated the pony car class is an understatement. After all, the Dutchman took 10 wins in 14 starts and finished in the top five every time out, while notching 8 poles to boot. Although he didn’t lead all the way (Dylan Sharman, Norbert Rebelski and Dániel Sinka) [...]
Three’s Company, 363 is a Crowd
by David Phillips on August 29th, 2011
Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber and Jenson Button had plenty of company on the podium at Spa-Francorchamps over the weekend. Less than 24 hours before 24 Formula One pilotes set off for the 2011 Shell Belgian Grand Prix, more than 363 iRacers took to the challenging 4.35 mile circuit in their virtual Williams-Toyota FW31s for the iRacing.com Belgian Grand Prix as part of the 2011 World Tour of iRacing. The entry produced 14 splits of 26 iRacers with Atze Kerkhof leading 40 of 44 laps in the top strength of field (4304) event to best fellow Benelux Club member Rudy van Buren by 16.9s with Alberto Baraldi (Italy) coming home third. Other winners included Richard Crozier (Celtic), Marko Penttinen (Finland), Sam Hazim (Celtic), Philip Widdowson (England), Russell Kao (California), Andrew Hartley [...]
John Joins Season 3 Winners at Lanier
by Tim Terry on August 29th, 2011
NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series veteran Jerold John sent a powerful message to his online racing competitors on track during Week Three of the season by scoring the overall win at Lanier National Speedway. John, who has racked up multiple checkered flags a week in the past got the most important one of the week during a 3184 strength of field race on Saturday, which brought the Connecticut sim racer 199 points when he crossed the stripe first. The event featured just two yellow flags over 120 laps and saw 11 cars answer the call to the green flag. Troy Talman finished second with Paul Wisniewski coming home with the final podium spot. Brandon Salvatore led the most laps of the race (102) but had to settle for fourth, just [...]
iRacer Profile: PJ Stergios
by David Phillips on August 27th, 2011
If PJ Stergios’s name sounds familiar, there are plenty of reasons. First, PJ features regularly on inRacingNews’ accounts of a number of series from NASCAR Class A, Radicals, Silver Crown (where he won the 2009 Season 3 title) Sprint Cars (he is P5 in Division One as of this writing) to IndyCar (where he currently ranks P2 in the IZOD IndyCar Premier Series oval and P14 on the Premier road series). The fact that his brother Jake (a finalist in last year’s Intel® World Series and currently P11 in NASCAR Class A) also figures prominently in iRacing lore helps on the name recognition front as well. Then again, if you’ve spent time around the short tracks of the Northeast, you might have seen the Candia, NH resident racing Quarter and [...]
Family Affair
by David Phillips on August 27th, 2011
The family that sim races together stays together, even when one member of that family is in the military, stationed far from home. That’s certainly the case with iRacers Jeff Hubbell and his son Chad, a Master at Arms in the U.S. Navy. With Chad stationed at the joint Naval Support Facility Anacostia/Bolling Air Force Base near Washington, DC and his family living near Pittsburgh, obviously the distance could be greater . . . say the tens of thousands of miles from Western Pennsylvania to Okinawa or Diego Garcia. Still, the 250 miles or so from the ‘burgh to DC is plenty. But a few clicks of their computers’ mice — and a few twists of their steering wheels — brings Jeff and Chad Hubbell together again. “iRacing keeps us [...]
Thompson Tops Bristol’s Best
by Tim Terry on August 26th, 2011
Though the record books will show former NASCAR iRacing.com Class C (NiCCS) champion Tyler Hudson as the winner of the week at the Bristol Motor Speedway, it was Georgia sim racer Justin Thompson who stole the show with an impressive eight wins in eleven races at the half-mile. Thompson scored two wins higher than the 208 point total put-up by Hudson, but due to the point structure for the series (with the best finishes being averaged to determine a point total), Thompson finished the week with 187 points. The top split of the week saw Hudson obtain his 208 point total for the week. The race featured six cautions and saw Thompson lead 70 laps from the fourth place starting position en route to victory. Starting from pole, Hudson finished [...]
High Banks + High Speeds + Davies = High Points
by Jameson Spies on August 25th, 2011
Once again the high banks and high speeds of Michigan International Speedway provided some of the closest online racing of the season in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series. Speeds topped the 200mph mark as drivers sailed-off into the eighteen degree banking in the turns. Utilizing the high side of the track gave drivers a head of steam down the straightaways, and made passing very difficult. NASCAR iRacing World Championship driver Brad Davies once again led the way for the week, scoring a huge 335 points. Davies dominated the 5357 SoF, leading 38 laps en route to the 6.414 second victory over Kevin King. Fellow NiSWC competitors Josh Berry and Patrick Fogel came home third and fourth, while the top Class A driver on the week, Nick Ottinger, put in [...]
Like Father, Like Son
by Jeremy Hughes on August 25th, 2011
This week the NASCAR iRacing Late Model Series made the long trip out west to Toyota Speedway in Irwindale, CA. The half mile asphalt track seats 15,000 fans and features a Bose sound system that was broadcasting the name Hubbell all week. When you hear the name Hubbell, you think of a telescope. In this case it’s the father-son duo of Jeff and Chad Hubbell. Jeff, the “Old Man” as Chad calls him, took the top spot in the online racing competition for the series this week with 161 points. Chad, who is a police officer in the US Navy and stationed in the Washington D.C. area captured the second spot with 159. “It’s nice to jump on here and work on setups with the old man, it almost feels [...]
Tuomainen Takes Road America
by Jordan Hightower on August 24th, 2011
The Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge marked its quarter-season mark this past week as the racers tried to navigate the 14-turn, 4.048-mile venue known as Road America located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Over 500 sim racers made the virtual journey up to Wisconsin to see who could master the monster of course, but Finland’s Hannu Tuomainen earned the most championship points for the week. Weekly High Strength of Field While Tuomainen earned the most championship points for Week 3, Paulo Valente (Iberia) took home all the marbles in the week’s highest Strength of Field (SoF) event. The previously mentioned Tuomainen finished in the second postion, 2.173s behind Valente. Third was taken by George Kuyumji (DE-AT-CH) followed by Tamas Wagner (Central-Eastern Europe) and Sascha Thomaszik (DE-AT-CH). Weekly Standings The battle for the top [...]
Decorps Delivers in Okayama
by Tim Terry on August 24th, 2011
Davy Decorps sent a statement to his fellow NVIDIA Cup drivers in Week Two that he is here to vie for the 2011 Season 3a championship. Decorps, who boasts a 3300+ road iRating took the overall win this week over 2300 fellow sim racers when the series visited the popular Okayama Short Course. Decorps scored 157 points in his only start of the seven day span, one which ended in Victory Lane in Tuesday’s tilt. Eleven drivers began the 2518 sof race with Decorps leading every lap en route to the win over Alexander Ossadtchikh. Ivan Seco, Paul A. Taylor and Tony Galliani completed the top five in the race. With his runner-up finish and the 141 points that went with, Ossadtchikh was credited with fifth place overall for the [...]
The Big One
August 23rd, 2011
The iRacing.com Street Stock Series, one of iRacing’s few fixed set-up series, made its way south to Charlotte Motor Speedway this past week. Top sim racers looked to tackle the 1.5 mile track which is known to create pack racing with these low horsepower cars, which also means “The Big One” was on everyone’s mind. While there was plenty of bent, folded and mutilated virtual sheet metal to go around during the week, NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship driver Tyler Hudson (Mid-South) made his presence known in a big way. “I’ve been hearing how fun the street stock class was at the big Charlotte oval . . .” – Tyler Hudson Weekly High Strength of Field Hudson, who also races an iRacing.com-sponsored Super Truck at Hickory Motor Speedway, won the [...]
New and Not-So New
by Christopher Leone on August 23rd, 2011
Week 3 of Season 3 of the 2011 inRacingNews Challenge featured the series’ home track, Summit Point Raceway, and its Jefferson layout. Dominated last season by the two series champions, Marius Golombeck in the Pontiac Solstice and Gabriel Tobar in the Spec Racer Ford, this season offered other sim racers the opportunity to reach the top of the charts. So two different drivers – one a newcomer to the front, one not so new – seized the respective championship leads with strong performances. Michael Booth, whose Solstice performance has been stellar thus far in the early part of the season, won his lone race from the pole to score a class-best 143 points. In SRF, longtime class bridesmaid Chris Hughson is seeking to wrest the crown from Tobar; starting 27 [...]
Sea of Green at the Glen
by Patrick Atherton on August 23rd, 2011
Week Three, Season Three of the iRacing V8 Supercar Series by Bigpond Sport saw the field arrive at Watkins Glen. Reality and its virtual counterpart were colliding in many meaningful ways. It was less than a week since Aussie Marcos Ambrose scored his maiden Sprint Cup win at the same (real world) venue. Meanwhile, iRacers Shane Van Gisbergen and Scott McLaughlin had hit the podium at least once in the weekend just gone, at the Queensland Raceway V8 Supercar round. The rolling green hills of The Glen were made even greener by no less than four Nfinity Esports Falcons in Mitch McLeod, Rens Broekman, Scott Andrews (another real world V8 racer) and Scott U’Ren. Van Gisbergen was missing from this round, as was Peter Read. McLeod was on pole, scraping [...]



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