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- Dave Kaemmer Comes Clean on Dirt13,054
- iRacing.com to create virtual McLaren MP4-12C GT312,063
- Release Notes for 2012 Season 311,408
- Scanning What’s in Store for iRacing with Tony Gardner10,524
- The iRacing.com Protest System – May, 201210,320
- Building the iRacing System 1018,985
- Improving the Sound of iRacing7,615
- iRacing.com to Build Digital Honda for New Super GT Series7,371
- Two New Cars and Two New Tracks Coming to iRacing Soon6,750
- Towler, Wood Suspended from Upcoming iWCRR Events 67
- Dave Kaemmer Comes Clean on Dirt 44
- iRacing.com Announces iRacing 2.0 41
- The iRacing.com Protest System - May, 2012 33
- Bathurst Coming to iRacing! 30
- iRacing Announces Added Features, Lower Prices 24
- iRacing's Corvette: Good Enough is Not Good Enough 23
- Scanning What’s in Store for iRacing with Tony Gardner 22
- No Obstacles Here 18
- iRacing Simulation Gives NASCAR Hall of Fame Guests Authentic Driving Experience 17
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David Phillips
Editor and ChiefDavid Phillips is a long-time contributor to print and electronic publications in the U.S. and abroad, including Racer, Autosport, AutoWeek, Motor Sport and SPEEDtv.com, oversees the daily updating of news stories and assigns, edits and contributes feature material for inRacingNews.com.
Chris Hall
iRacing.com Series WriterChris Hall has been writing since the nineties and moved into motorsports reporting in 2005, covering series such as ALMS, British GT, FIA GT, Le Mans and 2CV racing for Full Throttle magazine, Motorsport.com, The-Paddock.net, GTGateway.com, L' Endurance and, of course, inRacingNews. During 2008 and 2009, he worked with the RSS Performance Porsche Carrera Cup Team (and former British GT(C) champions) as a data engineer for a variety of drivers and models of 997s.
Jameson Spies
Contributing Writer19 years old, Jameson Spies lives in Quartz Hill, California. He grew-up surrounded by racing. His mother raced late models throughout Southern California while his father built and setup the car. Not surprisingly, Jameson began racing go-karts at the age of 13, and is now racing Spec Trucks at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. He has a passion about all forms of racing and hopes to make a career out of it.
Jason Lofing
iRacing.com Series WriterJason is 21 years old and was born and raised in Elk Grove. California. A big time NASCAR fan, he hasn’t missed a race on Sunday in years. Lofing is also a huge San Fransisco Giants fan and tries to take in at least a couple games a year. Other than sim racing, his biggest (and far more expensive!) hobby is photography. Although he is rather new to sim racing, Lofing has already accomplished some pretty impressive results, qualifying for the 2011 iRacing Oval Pro Series in Season 1, 2011, winning the inaugural Landon Cassill Qualifying Challenge and finishing runner-up in the second one.
David Ifeguni
Contributing WriterI was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1988 and moved to Midland, Michigan when I was two years old. I stayed there until third grade when I moved to Farmington Hills, Michigan and now I currently live in Naperville, IL where I'm attending Metea Valley High School as a 9th grader. In the past, I have participated in soccer and this year I plan on joining swimming or water polo. My family includes my 15 year old sister, a 7 year old sister and my mom and dad. I have been writing since 6th grade and have participated in many writing contests in my school and have received several awards for writing.
My fascination for motorsports began when I was nine. The first NASCAR race I watched on TV was the 2009 Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway, won by Kasey Kahne. My favorite NASCAR drivers are Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and Jimmie Johnson. I have watched all the races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series since 2010. I currently have three wins on iRacing, two of them in the Nationwide car at Daytona and one in the Street stocks at Charlotte. My favorite car and type of track on iRacing is the Nationwide Series (B Class) car and superspeedways.
Katier Scott
Contributing WriterI am a veteran sim racer who first started racing way back in 1993 on the SPRTSIMS section of Compuserve with a league who can trace themselves all the way to the present. Within that league I act as Chief Steward and try to bring the unique viewpoint that this experience gives me into my articles.
I have a BA (Hons) in Journalism and Editorial design and have been writing for seven years and currently cover the Lotus 79 CTC and Radical series alongside my freelance work. Living in the UK, as well as motorsports I love Photography, Arts and Crafts and reading.
Dylan Sharman
Contributing WriterI was born in Adelaide and we moved-out for Angle Vale for a few years until I was about 7 years old, when we moved to the Barossa Valley where I live now. I'm 19 years old and currently traveling back and forth weekly as I'm studying for a Diploma of Furniture Design and Technology.
I've always had a love for racing as my close family did some racing and we were always out at the local dirt track. I joined iRacing back in 2010 and slowly but surely got the hang of it as this is my first experience with sim racing and am loving it each time I race. I've won two SK Modified titles (almost had three in a row but finished P2 in 2011 S4), an inRacingNews Challenge championship (2012 S1 Mazda) and was also an AustralAsian Intel GT Series Finalist.
Nathan Aljoe
Contributing WriterNathan's passion for motorsport first began in the late 1980s, captivated by the season in which Aryton Senna won his first F1 title with McLaren. Over the years his interest widened to include the British Touring Car Championship, World Rally Championship, NASCAR and various other forms of motorsport. Nathan began sim-racing in the mid 1990s using games developed by Papyrus. He later moved onto SimBim simulations such as GTR, GTR2 and GTR Evolution and has most recently joined the iRacing community.
When he's not working or sim racing, Nathan enjoys spending time and relaxing with his family. Other hobbies include going to festivals, tinkering with his car and doing up his house.
Austin Hartenfels
Contributing WriterBorn and raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia, I have always had a serious passion for cars and motorsports. Hoping one day to become an automotive journalist for a magazine, I constantly crave the exciting competition that comes along with racing and sim-racing. Having participated in a mere test session in a Legends car at Old Dominion Speedway, I have not been able to get into any real-life competition . . . yet.
As a sim racer, my interests date back to "GTR Evolution." My goal is to have fun and win some races. I made it to Oval Pro in 2010, but did not become very successful. I enjoy any mixed road racing competition and love racing the Silverados around almost any track.
Jordan Hightower
Contributing WriterJordan began sim-racing in 2005 with the NASCAR Racing 2003 Season sim and then joined the iRacing community in June of 2008. He hails from Fort Smith, Arkansas where he is currently enrolled at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith, after which he plans to attend the University of Arkansas to earn his MBA. Although he enjoys watching and playing basketball, most of Jordan's focus is on motorsports, particularly NASCAR: "Anything that burns gas and goes fast, I like."
Scott Kelly
Contributing WriterBorn and raised in the greater St. Louis, Missouri area, Scott Kelly has had a love for motorsports ever since his father did the right thing by introducing auto racing into his life. No longer able to quench his need for speed by spectating NASCAR races on TV and watching dirt track stars slide around local tracks, Kelly eventually picked-up sim racing in his teens, wheeling cars found in Ratbag Games' "Dirt Track Racing" and "World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars" while also becoming introduced into multiple Papyrus sim-racing series. Joining the iRacing ranks in late 2011, Kelly set his sights on the short track racing he was familiar with, focusing on the sprint car, while also driving the Legends and street stock in multiple iRacing.com leagues.
Kelly brings not just his enthusiasm for racing to the highest-rated motorsports simulation, but also his B.A. degree in English; he covers the action seen in the iRacing.com Sprint Car Series, while also placing the spotlight on various leagues within the service. Enjoying his start to a career in motorsports journalism, Kelly also doesn't mind visiting victory lane from time-to-time.
Kenneth O'Keefe
Contributing WriterKenneth was born in Smithville, Ontario on December 23, 1994. A major racing fan, he enjoys competitive kart racing in the Rotax Max category at Mosport International Karting. Kenneth also tunes into Formula One and NASCAR races on those Sundays when he is not at the kart track.
O'Keefe has been sim-racing since 2005, starting on the Live For Speed simulator. After moving to iRacing in 2008, he was able to qualify for the NASCAR iRacing Pro Series (NiPS) in both 2011 and 2012. He will continue to compete and write about the iRacing.com Skip Barber Series throughout the coming year before taking another run at the NiPS in late 2013.
Chris Owens
Contributing WriterI was born in Florence, South Carolina in 1989 and have lived here my entire life. I've been around racing since I was a young kid watching with my dad on Sundays. In 2009 and found my local track, Florence Motor Speedway and started working for them as a PR guy the same year. At the end of that season, I started writing for RACE22.com, a Late Model Stock Car news site. In 2010, I picked up my first DSLR camera and started shooting races. To this day, I've experienced some of the best races from behind the camera.
I've been with the iRacing service since its public beta in 2008, back when the top oval car was the Late Model. I've been in over 500 races on the service with 70+ wins on both oval and road. My favorite car on the service is the Chevrolet Silverado. Darlington Raceway and Concord Speedway are my favorite tracks simply because everybody hates them.
George Wood
Contributing WriterAfter beginning his racing career with go-karts at age seven, George then turned wrenches on street stocks until he could finally turn the wheel. Following the successes of his friends and family, George has since retired from real-world racing, where he is now a science and mathematics faculty member for several local community colleges. When George isn't grading laboratory reports or iRacing, he is performing at bluegrass festivals in the Northeast, making fishing lures, playing golf, and rooting for his beloved Baltimore Orioles.
INDYCAR and iRacing.com Announce Premier Virtual Racing Series
by Steve Potter on January 27th, 2011
Fans of IndyCar racing, the Indy 500 and driving game enthusiasts will now be able to take their passion for the sport to a new level by getting behind the wheel themselves in the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series. The 18-race, 36-week series begins February 19 and will utilize iRacing.com’s virtual version of the Dallara IC 09 IndyCar. Races will be hosted on many of the same tracks as the real-world 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series, including the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Barber Motorsports Park, Texas Motor Speedway, The Milwaukee Mile, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Infineon Raceway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway. (iRacing’s virtual Iowa Speedway and Japan’s Twin Ring Motegi are currently under construction and will be added to the series schedule as they become available.)
The announcement of the internet-based virtual-racing series was made jointly today by INDYCAR® and iRacing.com.
“Our current fans are passionate about the sport, and looking for ways to get closer to it,” said Randy Bernard, INDYCAR’s CEO. “The iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series is an opportunity for our dedicated fans to have an extremely active and relevant involvement with the sport, as well as a unique way to appreciate the skills of our athletes.”
Bernard also noted that the new racing series will contribute to the growth of INDYCAR’s international fan base by recruiting young driving game enthusiasts and fans of other types of motorsport.
“This series will be very popular with our existing members and we expect it will bring new members to iRacing,” said Tony Gardner, iRacing.com’s president. “About 40% of our current members are from outside North America. And the Dallara IndyCar and our current series have proven to be very popular in the U.S. and overseas. We’ve designed the schedule to make it easy for IndyCar fans here and everywhere on the planet to participate in this series.”
Like its real world counterpart, the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series features a mixture of ovals . . .
The agreement with INDYCAR and the creation of the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series represents the latest step toward iRacing’s goal of providing sim racers, gamers and motorsports fans with a whole virtual world of auto racing. iRacing.com currently organizes more than 1,500 internet-based races weekly and supports nearly 30 different series. The company’s partnerships with NASCAR and GRAND-AM have yielded stock car and sports car series for iRacers that feature authentic virtual counterparts to the real-world series those organizations sanction.
“No other racing series in the world has the combination of heritage and future growth potential of the IZOD IndyCarSeries, and we’re very excited about being able to be part of it,” Gardner said. “This is a great opportunity for our members who love open-wheel racing and it’s a chance for fans of other forms of motorsport to broaden their interests.”
and road courses. Oval, road course and overall champions will be crowned.
Like its real-world counterpart, the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series will crown oval and road titlists as well as an overall series champion. The oval and road champions will win cash awards. The overall series champion will also win a trip (with a guest) to the real-world IZOD IndyCar season finale, where he or she will receive the season trophy and be recognized during pre-race driver introductions.
“Now fans will have an opportunity to really feel what it’s like to drive an IndyCar at over 200 mph at the Speedway,” said IZOD IndyCar Series regular Justin Wilson, who tested iRacing’s virtual version of the Dallara IndyCar prior to its release in 2009 and now practices and races regularly on the iRacing service. Wilson grinned with satisfaction as he first pulled out of the pits. “Yeah, there’s the bump at the end of pit lane, just where it’s supposed to be.”
But it was the experience of lapping the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the Dallara at better than 220 miles per hour that really got Wilson’s attention. “The perspective is exactly the same, the sense of driving down that long tunnel into Turn One,” he said. “When you make a small mistake – get down too close to the apron in Turns Three and Four and feel the bumps, turn-in too late or too early – you feel yourself tensing up just as you do in the real car; that edgy sense of ‘am I gonna make it? I think I am, no I’m not, yes I am…’”
The iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series will receive regular event coverage, feature stories and blogs on the IndyCar Web site and inRacingNews, iRacing.com’s online motorsports news site. Wilson predicts that the series will become a successful part of the INDYCAR community. “Already a number of us who are IndyCar drivers or series workers participate in private leagues hosted on iRacing,” he said. “Now everyone can get in on it.”
leftydad
January 27th, 2011 at 10:13 pmIowa Speedway! Bout time!
Chuck Johnson
January 27th, 2011 at 10:16 pmThis is great news! Thanks to all involved.
Niles Anders
January 27th, 2011 at 11:02 pmYeah Baby, I take back all those things I said.
Manfred Dulle
January 27th, 2011 at 11:29 pmIt is great to be a part of this evolving series.. I think IRacing really brought it home with this move.. Great all the way around! Oh and thanks for rev lim lights too!
Ted Severns
January 28th, 2011 at 12:08 amThis is Great News!!!
Gary holbrook
January 28th, 2011 at 12:21 amseeing that there are oval race awards will us drivers who only elect to race oval and have an A license in oval only be allowed to race the oval events? Or will it stay as it has been for those with road license only? It seems that if your allowing for an oval champion in Indy then we who like to race ovals should be allowed to race for that portion of the championship. I purchased the Indy car last year just to race the Indy 500 and finished third oh thanks to someone being nice and sharing a good set of course. But was not allowed to race any of the other Indy car races because you are required to have a road racing license, not sure why if you plan to just race Oval tracks if it is to push us who don’t race road course races in that direction at least for this driver it not likely to happen. I hope that you allow us to race. Anyway Iracing you have the greatest show going thanks for continuing to improve it.
Andy Banfield
January 28th, 2011 at 3:18 amGreat News indeed! Can’t wait to get up to the Indy Car license levels. Looking forward to the new tracks as well.
Julio Chacon Jr
January 28th, 2011 at 5:30 pmAwesome! I had just mentioned in the iRacing forums a few weeks ago that an Indy Series complete with an Oval and Road championship, in addition to the overall, would be an addition to the service. Kudos to both iRacing and IndyCar for making this happen!!!
I hope as a result of this partnership that we eventually get ALL of the tracks run in the real series, although I know that the street circuits have been quite a challenge.
Julio Chacon Jr
January 28th, 2011 at 5:31 pmOops, I meant “an AMAZING addition…”
NaBUru38
January 28th, 2011 at 7:15 pmWhat about road courses like Long Beach, Toronto and Baltimore?