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Buchberger Back in Victory Lane in Chicagoland
December 12th, 2011
The NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) championship chase has turned into a battle between two of Illinois’ best sim racers. Alex Warren and Brandon Buchberger have been trading the top spot in recent weeks and with the series visiting their home state during Week Five, you knew they weren’t going to let up on their pursuit for the overall crown. When the checkered flag fell on seven days of intense tailgating action, it was a two point margin of victory for Buchberger over his Class C and NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) rival Warren. Over 1,300 drivers took to the track during Week Five but it was Buchberger’s 3748 Strength of Field (SoF) victory on Monday that tipped the scales in the favor of the Sugar Grove native. Buchberger [...]
iRacer Profile – Trenton Moriarity
by David Phillips on December 10th, 2011
Trenton Moriarity embodies much that is good about the sport of sim racing. Sure, he’s a fierce competitor. He currently enjoys a narrow lead over rivals Kevin Burris and David Ratler in the iRacing.com Late Model Series, thanks to taking six wins and five more top fives in a dozen starts so far this season. But beyond that — well beyond that — is the fact the Monroe, WA-based Moriarity has his sim racing in perspective, seeking to leverage whatever success he may enjoy to support young Piper Needham’s battle against leukemia. Then too, although he may live and breathe NASCAR, Moriarity counts the sim racing community’s tribute to IndyCar racing’s Dan Wheldon – The Dan Wheldon 77 – among his most memorable moments. All this is not to suggest [...]
Vincent Tops Podium at Suzuka
by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on December 9th, 2011
On week eleven the RSR teams traveled to Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan for the “Casino Triangle F1 GP at Suzuka”. Featuring seventeen corners along a 3.609 mile layout, Suzuka is one of few circuits in the world to have a “figure 8″ layout, with the back straight passing over the front section by means of an overpass. Suzuka is one of the oldest remaining tracks of the Formula One World Championship. It has a long history of races as the venue for the Japanese Grand Prix. Its traditional role as one of the last Grand Prix races of the season means numerous World Championships have been decided at the track. Brad Vincent, winner of five races coming into the final two weeks of the season, was eager to return to [...]
Jarrell, Paquette “Maine” Men at Oxford
December 8th, 2011
Though it was Trey Jarrell showing the way in the standings during Week Five of the iRacing.com Late Model Tour (iLMT) at the Oxford Plains Speedway, it was Maxime Paquette who put up a commanding performance, taking a total of 15 wins in 16 online racing starts over the seven day period at the tough and rugged Maine oval. The northeastern oval attracted 608 of the fastest Late Model sim racers on the iRacing service to attack the track in 65 lap, caution-free affairs on the home-track of the famous Oxford 250, held at the facility in July of each year. Taking the time to post about each of Paquette’s 15 wins would present us with a hefty chapter in a novel of what has been a pretty successful early [...]
Gilliland Grabs Georgia Victory
December 8th, 2011
Adam Gilliland was one of the busiest drivers during Week Four of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) at the Atlanta Motor Speedway . . . and also one of the successful, as he captured the top split of the week. Gilliland is a regular at GSRacing.net and is racing to capture the NiCCS title in 2011 Season Four. Gilliland’s big win will go down as a 4767 Strength of Field (SoF) of victory in which he led just a single lap in the online racing event. Gilliland got past Kevin King on the final circuit to take the victory. Chris Overland came home in third, followed by Allen Krier and Bryan Blackford. King led the most laps (27) of any of the nine leaders, who exchanged the lead [...]
Burns Tops the Field at USA
by Tim Terry on December 8th, 2011
Tommy Burns came out on top during Round Four of the iRacing.com Late Model Tour (iLMT) when the series visited Florida’s USA International Speedway. Burns, who hails from New York, bested 565 other sim racers from around the globe to take the victory in Week Four at the half-mile facility. Burns took home 179 points for his win on Wednesday, one of his two starts for the week. The race, rated at 2945 Strength of Field (SoF), saw Burns lead two thirds of the 45 laps en route to the win over Jeremy Hughes, Travis Powell, Tony Dugan and Todd Garren. Hughes led the first 15 laps of the race from the pole position before handing the lead over to Burns in the only lead change of the race. Burns [...]
Door-to-Door at Atlanta
by Jameson Spies on December 8th, 2011
The NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series made a trip southeast for a visit to the always interesting Atlanta Motor Speedway. The aging surface at Atlanta not only provides the drivers with an utter handful of a racecar to wrestle for 110 laps, it also provides spectators with a whole lot of door-to-door, high speed racing action. For the second week in a row, Class A drivers flocked to the front of the leader board, with many NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) competitors taking the week off. Brandon Schmidt did not mind one bit that most of the NiPS drivers stayed at the shop, as he took top honors on the week with 203 championship points. Schmidt dominated his one and only race, starting from the outside of the front row [...]
Improving the Sound of iRacing
by Tony Gardner on December 7th, 2011
Although iRacing.com is constantly adding new elements to our online racing service there are always many improvements we would like to make to our current features. One of those features is sound, which happens to be a very broad topic. When we think of sounds in a racing game, most of us think of the cars’ engine noises, and that certainly that is a focus of our work. We have some good ideas on how to improve those engine sounds and add more range. Of course, our objective is to be authentic when it comes to engine sounds — or any sound for that matter. That’s why we go to the track and record every car in iRacing, and also do things like taking sound meters to the tracks to [...]
Ottinger Class of the Field in Charlotte
by Jason Lofing on December 7th, 2011
Week Six of the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) featured the second straight night race of the season, this time with Charlotte Motor Speedway taking center stage. Nick Ottinger, fresh-off a disappointing twentieth place finish last week at Richmond, came to Charlotte with one goal in mind: dominate the race. He did just that, winning the pole and the race, leading 131 of the 175 laps. The two halves of the online race could almost be considered entirely different events. The first half was littered with wrecked cars, with seven caution flags flying in the first 75 laps of racing action. It was another case of cautions breeding cautions as the field was unable to get into a rhythm. The field did not even take the green flag before the [...]
Hudson Rolls
by Allen Krier on December 7th, 2011
Charlotte Motor Speedway hosted Week Five of the iRacing.com Street Stock Series. Some 600 sim racers showed up at the North Carolina track to participate in at least one race on the ¼ mile legends oval, with 225 of them turning a lap in qualifying. Weekly High Strength of Field Last week’s high Strength of Field race had an SoF of 2546, which was one of the lowest SoF’s of the season. Cole Anderson (Midwest) started on the pole for the 50 lap race and lead every lap in route to a nine second victory. For his efforts, Anderson collected 153 points for the win. Mike Springer (California) finished in the second position and received 136 points, while third belonged to CJ LaVair (New York), who finished 9.8 seconds behind [...]
Broekman Rising
by Patrick Atherton on December 6th, 2011
The real-world V8 Supercar series was run and won on the weekend past, but the online series is just hotting up. Not quite at the halfway point, and even long before that, the saga was developing into a slugfest between two former series winners- Trans Tasman Racing’s Madison Down and Tatts.com Racing’s Mitchell McLeod. But the heat is not confined to those two. Now a veteran of the predominantly Aussie series, The Hague’s Rens Broekman has taken the fight to Down and McLeod, relying on more than just a hiccup in his rivals’ game. He has now hauled himself into second place on the series’ ladder. The see-sawing fortunes between the two former series winners and these other top runners has been the stuff of fables. The colonials descended upon [...]
The Dutchman Flies at Philip Island
by Chris Hall on December 5th, 2011
Continuing his seemingly unstoppable charge towards the iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing title and entry into the 2012 iRacing.com NVIDIA Grand Prix Series, Atze Kerkhof put on another flawless display of online-racing at the digital rendition of Australia’s Philip Island on Saturday. With five victories from as many starts, the ‘Flying Dutchman’ has maximum points to his name, led 263 of the Championship’s 329 laps raced so far, and now holds a 107 digit advantage in the series standings table. A time of 1:06.141 in the two-lap qualifying session placed Team Redline’s Kerkhof at the front of the grid for the third time this season, a position he maintained at the drop of the green flag, despite a strong challenge from Martin Krönke through the opening corners. With a clear [...]
Salvatore Takes Iowa
by Tim Terry on December 5th, 2011
Brandon Salvatore continued his march to the 2011 Season Four NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series (NiTMS) title during Round Four of the series as he edged-out the weekly win at the Iowa Speedway. Salvatore’s win was good for just one more point than the race which was taken down by Jamie Collier when it came to looking at the strength of fields (sof), which locked-down the win for the Georgia sim racer. Salvatore’s win came on Thursday’s 3246 sof online race. The 100-lap race was slowed by four cautions and Salvatore led the most laps (71) of any of the three leaders. Herb Engelhart finished in Salvatore’s tire-tracks in second, followed by Jerold John, Kevin Walker and Derrick Cormier2. The win garnered Salvatore 202 points, which was tops on the [...]
Tillmann 2 for 2 at RSR
by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on December 4th, 2011
Christine Marie Tillmann is a perfect 2-0 in her first two weeks with the Red Sox Racing League. A late comer to the league’s 2011 F1 Season Three lineup, Tillman doubled up with her second win in a row at the “Elkhart Lake F1 GP at Road America”. The tenth race of the season was held at the fourteen turn, 4.08 mile road course in Elkhart, Wisconsin. Fifteen drivers made the trip to Road America in the hopes of improving their positions in the overall championship. Brad Vincent looked like the driver to beat during pre-race practice and qualifying. His qualifying effort of 1:37.007 was a full half second faster than his nearest competitor. Christine secured 2nd place on the grid with a lap time of 1:37.612. Tillmann and Vincent [...]
Blackford’s Brickyard Ballad
by Tim Terry on December 3rd, 2011
Bryan Blackford (Seminole, FL) outlasted an altercation on the final restart of the Mason Baker Designs 150 on Thursday night at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to take his first win of the GSRacing.net Truck Series season. The two time and defending Truck Series titlist and Jeremy Allen (Indinapolis, IN) slammed into each other on the final restart of the event, triggering a multi-truck wreck that ended the event under the race’s eighth caution flag. Josh Berry (Mooresville, NC) dodged the trucks to finish second in the event with Nick Ottinger (Claremont, NC), Patrick Fogel (Hughesville, PA) and Danny Hansen (Amherst, WI) rounding-out the top five. The 60-lap, 150 mile race took one hour, 35 minutes to complete. Eight lead changes between eight drivers set the pace for the race. A [...]
iRacer Profile: John Schweickart
by David Phillips on December 3rd, 2011
When it comes to iRacing, John Schweickart is on movin’ on up. Although the Dayton, Ohio-based Schweickurt has been sim racing for the best part of a decade, he is only now closing-in on completing his second full year of iRacing. And looking better and better all the time. After finishing a rather distant (at least from the top of the score sheets) 305th in the overall NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series standings in Season 3 (95th in Division 2), he finds himself knocking on the top ten of Division 2 and the top 30 overall. It’s all a matter of focus. Although Schweickart has run a few NASCAR iRacing.com Class C open and fixed setup events this season, he’s concentrating on the Class A series . . . with [...]
Dave Kaemmer Comes Clean on Dirt
by Nick Neben on December 2nd, 2011
Dirt: It’s that painfully slippery surface that causes most of us a 1x or a 2x at some point; a 4x if we are unlucky enough to really lose it. It’s something that will take a perfectly fine race car and send it 180 degrees backwards into a barrier or sand trap. For most road racers dirt is evil. Most oval racers don’t even worry about dirt while racing in their paved coliseums. But for one group dirt is for racing. Pavement? It’s just for getting there. From short, bullring dirt tracks to miles of rally stages, this group thrives on sim racing in the dirty stuff. Motorsports on dirt takes many forms across the world. It’s best known in America for dirt oval racing, while the rest of the [...]
Showing-up Big at Bristol
by Jameson Spies on December 1st, 2011
The NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series sim racers made their way to the always tough Bristol Motor Speedway for Week Four of their season. Bristol is the first track on the schedule that has not matched the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series schedule, which translates to a bye week for many top competitors. With that being said, one of the top drivers on the iRacing.com service showed-up . . . and showed-up big. That would be inaugural NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series champion Josh Parker, who decided he wanted to take part in the rough racing Bristol has to offer. This was bad news for anyone looking to steal top honors of the week with many of the top ranked drivers taking the week off. Parker started two races, winning one of [...]
Comfort Zone
by David Phillips on November 30th, 2011
Elliott Skeer’s idea of a comfort zone is traveling at 100+ mph, no matter whether the speed is real or virtual. Either way, he’s at the wheel of a race car, be it the real Mazda MX5 in which he clinched the 2011 Teen Mazda Championship (West) at Infineon Raceway or iRacing’s virtual MX5 he used to prepare for that event. The 17 year old’s uncomfortable zone? Presenting a sponsorship proposal to a panel of judges at the Mazda Shoot-Out with a prize valued at $75,000 — including the budget to race in the SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX5 Cup — on the line. There was more to the Mazda Shoot-Out than sponsorship proposals, of course; like wheeling a Mazda MX5 Cup car around Buttonwillow Raceway. But Skeer says [...]
Warren’s Richmond Surprise
by Jason Lofing on November 30th, 2011
The NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series went under the lights at Richmond International Raceway for Week Five and fireworks flew from start to finish with Alex Warren playing his strategy just right to come away with his first series win. The caution waved early and often with 15 yellows slowing the action for 75 of the 200 laps and, in the absence of long green flag runs, pit strategy and track position proved more important than ever. Joshua Laughton put down an impressive qualifying lap, taking his first pole position of the 2011 season with a run of 20.551s to best Michael Conti (20.608s). Some tough competition lined-up behind the front row-sitters including Nick Ottinger, who started third, and teammates Marcus Lindsey and Kevin King, who started fourth and fifth respectively. [...]



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