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- Dave Kaemmer Comes Clean on Dirt 32
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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.
Tim Terry
Contributing WriterTim Terry, aka the voice of Maritime stock car racing, fell in love with sim racing in 2004 after he joined the Sim Racing Network crew as a pit reporter. From October 2004 to SRNtv’s closure in June 2007, he’s covered prestigious races and leagues such as the Online 500, FLM Fall 400, Real Racing Online and the DMP Racing League – each as the lead broadcaster for the company. At the same time the wheels started to turn in another direction as he began announcing stock car racing locally. Terry became the assistant announcer at Scotia Speedworld in May 2007 and took over full duties in May 2009 when long-time voice Mike Kaplan retired from the track. Terry also became the series voice of the Parts For Trucks Pro Stock Tour in ’09 and continues to hold down both posts in 2011. He has also announced races for the Pro All Stars Series, Atlantic Open Wheel and Maritime League of Legends tours and has called races at six different Atlantic Canadian tracks. Terry can be heard online at WebRacingNetwork.com, RLMtv.com and OLRtv.com covering sim races. He also makes occasional appearances on PSRtv.com. In addition to inRacingNews, his articles and columns can be read on ScotiaSpeedworld.ca, MaritimeProStockTour.com and his own website at timterryonline.com.
David Allen
Contributing WriterNorth Carolina born and raised with over 15 years of computer/IT experience, I combine two of my biggest hobbies -- racing and technology -- here at inRacingNews. In my spare time I run a Nascar fan site and cure my own need for speed riding atvs. If it involves technology or racing I'll be there, but combine the two and I'll be looking a front row seat. Stop by and say hello anytime!
Allen Krier
Contributing WriterAllen was born in West Palm Beach, Florida but grew up in Atlanta and attended Georgia College and State University where he received a BS in Information Systems. Currently a resident of Albany, GA, he started sim racing in 2008 while in college when iRacing was first released to the public. Since then, Krier has been a two time iRacing Pro Series driver (2009 and 2010), picking up one Pro Series win at Daytona in ‘09. Besides sim racing, Allen’s other hobbies include RC Car racing as well as “attending and watching any sporting event that I can including going to the local dirt track.
Chris Cunningham
Contributing WriterChris is 20 years old, and recently moved to Charlotte, NC during his sophomore year in college to feed his need for speed. More than just an auto racing enthusiast, Cunningham has risen through the ranks of BMX Racing, Sailboat Racing, and Cycling. Cunningham recently took up go karting, and qualified as an alternate for the 2011 Red Bull Kart Fight at the PRI expo. Aside from racing, Cunningham has recently picked up the hobby of competitive eating (Ranked #7 Collegiate Eater in the country!), and competes all over the east coast in various contests. Chris also enjoys sim racing, writing, playing the drums, and enjoying college at UNC Charlotte.
Tim Doyle
Contributing WriterI've been a race fan since before I can remember, going to dirt tracks around the Washington, DC area since the early 70's with my parents. I got away from racing during my school years but in 1989 a friend and I went to a race in Hagerstown, MD and from there my life was all about racing. I currently live in Winchester, VA and while Dirt Late Models is my favorite form of racing, I also enjoy many other forms such as F1, IndyCar, 410 sprint cars on dirt and (probably more than anything) sim racing. My favorite driver is Ayrton Senna.
I was introduced to sim racing in 1989 when a friend turned me onto Indy 500 The Sim by Papyrus. It took me a few years to own my own PC but once I did, all I wanted to do was sim race. I tried to race my friends as much as possible via modem racing back in the 90's before joining TEN in 1998. From there I devoted a lot of time to online racing enjoying every minute of it. I was able to meet a lot of my competitors from all over the world at LAN events and races I went to. Being able to call some real world drivers friends as a result of sim racing is probably the neatest part of this whole deal!
David Roberts
Contributing WriterDavid lives in Brisbane and is a former Australian National Formula Ford Champion who now owns his own marketing and design company. After racing in Europe, David returned down under to swap a career behind the wheel for a career in the creative department. He now has three children, an ongoing love affair with the good ol’ days of motor racing, and just enough spare time left to enjoy a bit of sim-racing with a few of his old mates.
Ben Rothberg
Contributing WriterI was born and raised in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne where I still am situated. I am currently at University studying for a Certificate in Motorsport and hoping I will be able to achieve my top goal and become a part of a race team. In the sim-racing world, I won an rFactor V8 Supercar season and also was awarded with Best & Fairest award. I am now situated with the best simulation in the world (iRacing.com!) and love every minute of it. I currently race in the V8 Supercar Online Series and finished 16th overall in 2012 Season 1.
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.
iRacing 2.0 Debuts in 2011 Season 3
by David Phillips on July 29th, 2011
iRacing 2.0, the most significant new build in iRacing history, is here in time for 2011 Season 3. Brimming with new features and content, iRacing 2.0 truly represents the dawn of a new era for iRacing.
Topping the list, of course, is the new tire model. Years in the making, the NTM’s remarkably authentic performance is a watershed development in online race simulation, one that will revolutionize the sport of sim racing.
Of course, the first phase of the NTM has been available for some time on the new Class B Impala, and will be fully integrated into the iRacing service throughout Season 3. We’ve continued improving the NTM on the Class B Impala and our new virtual rubber will also be installed on the COT, Chevy Silverado and Skip Barber F2000.
But that’s just for starters. iRacing 2.0 features two new high performance sports cars, the iconic Ford GT and the incredible HPD ARX01 which, with the existing Corvette C6.R, will be part of our first three car, multiple class series. The Ford and the HPD cars will feature the new tire model (the Corvette will follow suit later this season), making six cars equipped with iRacing’s NTM right from the get-go of Season 3. The remaining cars on the service will be released with the NTM over the course of season just as soon as we are finished with them.
The sensational HPD ARX01C: just one element of the new content in iRacing 2.0.
iRacing 2.0 also boasts two exciting new tracks: Iowa Speedway and Suzuka Circuit. Iowa Speedway is America’s (and iRacing’s) newest speedway oval while Suzuka, our second track in Japan, is our first anywhere with an active cross-over feature.
Additional new features include tournament (aka “heat”) racing and web chat. The tournament feature is an extension of hosted racing that enables multiple hosted sessions to be linked together, with the results from any given session used to determine eligibility for subsequent rounds of the tournament. Web chat is a refinement of the member site myRacers feature, one that will enable members to chat online with mutually selected friends in real time.
The Ford GT will compete with the HPD ARX01C and Corvette C6.R in iRacing's first three car, mixed class series.
New tire model. Ford GT. Iowa Speedway. HPD ARX01. Web chat. Suzuka Circuit. Three car, multiple class racing. Tournament racing. All this and more make for the single most dramatic leap forward in history of iRacing. Make that iRacing 2.0.
Joshua Maddox
July 29th, 2011 at 5:12 pmWas going to renew my subscription but whats the point you have no NTM on any car I own. You guys are just so overpriced with you race tracks. You should of made tracks a little more affordable. My reason for racing online is because I’m to broke to race in real world, Now I can’t race real world because I am so broke from your simulated race tracks hahaha.
Gary Holbrook
July 30th, 2011 at 3:18 pmThank You To Everyone At Iracing,
Where to start first of all while nothing is perfect I’m real impressed with how well thought out things are here on Iracing and while maybe IR and SR are debatable they work well compared to anything I have thought of that might be better. I joined two years ago and can’t tell you how many hours of enjoyment I get here on Iracing. In those two years the service and racing has only improved real impressed.
While some of the things you improve or add to the service may not be things I personally will use or add to my enjoyment surely I can see that it will do just that for other’s here in Iracing. While I mess around a bit here and there with road racing oval is where I spend 98% of my time so road course stuff simply don’t excite me as much as oval. How ever those who like road racing I can see why they would enjoy it and those who enjoy or do a lot of both man they should be busy with new and improved all the time.
Anyway I have all the oval tracks and car’s and the cost now that I have them is good with my credits and promotional things Iracing puts out I’d say a year of racing cost me about $75 add $11.95 or $14.95 if a new track or car comes out that I want. Even factoring in the timely purchases of all oval cars and tracks, if you divide the hours or days into cost it simply is the cheapest most addicting hobby I have ever gotten into and I thank you all at Iracing for that as well.
I’m guessing I use the service more than the average Iracer but surely not as much as some. I’d say I get on the service 6 out of 7 days and my average time big guess about 2 to 4 hours, and likely could be higher as time simply fly s by when I’m on racing, reading, practice, or just hanging out talking with my team members on the radio.
But for those who think it is over priced lets say your first year you spend $300.00 total if you average just 1 hour 300 of the 365 days in that year you only paid $1. per hour total and you have the tracks and cars for the life of Iracing so the cost go down. I guess it all depends on your priority’s and if you enjoy it.
Iracing two of the most impressive parts of Iracing for me is how quickly you try to help us get issue fixed while not all are easy or end up being quick fixes your team keeps us on the track quite well, the second thing is Iracing never seems to stand pat not even for a few weeks your always trying to improve the service Thank You!
I have tried the Truck with NTM and my short time with it indicated that it is a good improvement feels better less slip and seems to have an improved (more real) tire wear. I have not tried it on the A or B car but hope it improved those as the A car before in my own personal opinion was not much fun at all. I did try the A car on a large track and it felt some what improved but I will wait to see what happen when I try it on those mile tracks where in the past it simply felt more like a tank and did not want to turn.
So to close Thank you for all the updates and improvements and please continue all is great here in Iracing.
Gary Holbrook
Untamed Motor Sports
ARG
August 1st, 2011 at 3:25 pmWell said Gary! Great job iRacing!
Mertol
August 2nd, 2011 at 10:23 amNTM is phony and iracing 2.0 has too many bugs to be called even a beta release. And iracing staff is staying silent so far.
Mark
August 2nd, 2011 at 1:28 pmThanks for the 2.0 update iRacing. The New Tyre Model makes the cars handle even more realistically than before, the best just got better, and the new cars and tracks are a great addition to the service. Looking forward to the new season of racing.
Mertol
August 2nd, 2011 at 4:34 pmYou are mistaken this is the crappiest build I’ve seen so far.
Doug Doster
August 2nd, 2011 at 10:09 pmI love iRacing. You’re doing a great job! Thanks for the upgraded tire model. I’m so glad to have the NTM on the road tracks. I like both new Road cars and Suzuka. I’m looking forward to having it on the F1. More road tracks please!
While I’d agree you aren’t the least expensive option, you’re creating a Sim that is second to none. Additionally, you have created an environment that prevents people from playing smash-up derby(beware of Week 13). iRacing also makes it easy to join races and become part of online racing. I found it difficult to become part of online racing, prior to iRacing, most people would only race with those they knew. I applaud the safety rating(I HATED IT when I started). Keep up the great work! Let the dissenters go to some arcade game, the rest of us will vote with our dollars. Keep up the silky smooth graphics and great online play!!!
Thomas Pomatico
August 3rd, 2011 at 12:40 amGreat! So in order for me to enjoy the NTM I have to buy 2 more cars, being that Nascar is not my thing. I was holding out with my renewal, wanting to hear about 2.0. I’ve already heard enough to continue to wait.
john s
August 3rd, 2011 at 9:57 amthey forgot to mention drivers aids available, which will make this sim available to a larger audience, psp compatible soon?
Edward
August 4th, 2011 at 3:05 amI raced nascar 3 for about 4 yrs. What has this got and how much does it cost. I don’t know much about this kind of racing. Would e-mail me on some of the things that goes on. I love racing online. And would love to get back into it.
DavidP
August 4th, 2011 at 2:57 pmEdward:
May I suggest you go to http://www.iracing.com Full of introductory information on the service.
Edward
August 4th, 2011 at 3:07 amAlso does this work on 64 bit system?
DavidP
August 4th, 2011 at 2:58 pmAlso, the iRacing application is currently a 32 bit application but we have people that run it on their 64 bit systems.