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Ottinger Marches to Milwaukee Win
by Tim Terry on November 4th, 2011
Current NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Champion Nick Ottinger made his move on fellow Pro driver Brandon Buchberger with 13 laps to go to take the victory in the C2C Racing Designs 120 at the Milwaukee Mile. Ottinger, who took two right side tires on his final stop at Lap 93 of the 120 lap event, led the final 12 circuits en route to his first career GSRacing.net Truck Series win. Josh Berry was positioned on Ottinger’s back bumper and poised to make a move on the #05 Gale Force Suspension Chevrolet when the final caution of the evening came-out with two laps to go. Berry was thus credited with second place ahead of Brandon Williamson, Thomas Hazard and Chad Coleman. Eleven yellow flags slowed an action-packed race, which took one [...]
iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing Opener Broadcast Saturday
by David Phillips on November 4th, 2011
PSRTV’s coverage of opening round of the iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing will be broadcast live on iRacing.com on Saturday, November 5 beginning at 6 pm Eastern (22:00 GMT). Featuring the Williams-Toyota FW31, the 44 lap race at challenging Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is the first step for some of the world’s top sim racers seeking to qualify for the 2012 iRacing.com NVIDIA Grand Prix Series. The race features the top twelve finishers in Seasons 1, 2 and 3 of the iRacing.com Grand Prix Series, together with the bottom 25 finishers in the recently concluded iRacing.com NVIDIA Grand Prix Series. The top 25 finishers in the 12 week-long iPSRR will then be eligible to race in the 2012 iNGPS. Catch all the action on www.iracing.com on Saturday beginning at 6 pm [...]
New Tracks, New Features Highlight Season 4 Release
by David Phillips on November 3rd, 2011
The addition of Oulton Park and Kentucky Speedway, together with a host of new features and infrastructure improvements, highlight iRacing.com’s 2011 Season 4 release. An integral part of the fabric of the British racing scene for more than half a century, Oulton Park boasts eight different configurations, including the 2.8 mile, 12 turn International Circuit, the 2.2 mile, seven turn Island Circuit and the 1.6 mile, six turn Fosters Circuit — each as challenging as it is picturesque. Long-time host of IZOD IndyCar, NASCAR Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series events, Kentucky is the latest track to join the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule. And if last summer’s overflow crowd for the 1.5 mile oval’s first Sprint Cup race is any barometer, Kentucky figures to be among the most popular new [...]
Lindsey Wins Texas to Open 2011 NiPS
by Jason Lofing on November 2nd, 2011
The 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) started with a bang Tuesday night and saw Marcus Lindsey come away with his first NiPS victory. With 25 spots in the 2012 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship up for grabs and 61 very talented drivers vying for those spots, everyone was predicting some intense online racing action. Texas Motor Speedway played host to the opening race, making it a race of track position as passing would prove to be extremely difficult. That is exactly what happened. Fast qualifier Kenneth O’Keefe led the field to the green flag and it only took half a lap for the fireworks to start flying when Mitchell Hunt spun off of Turn Two and slammed the inside wall. The hits kept on coming early in the race [...]
Meyn, Talman Top Thompson; Salvatore Takes Title
by Tim Terry on November 1st, 2011
While Brandon Salvatore virtually wrapped-up the 2011 Season 3 NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series (NiTMS) championship weeks ago, the cars and stars of the series rolled into Thompson International Speedway for Week Twelve to officially crown the champion and complete their season with one final round. When all the online racing was complete in the finale, it was Taylor Meyn who stood tall with the overall victory of the week, besting 62 other sim racers on the high banks of Thompson. Meyn wasn’t the only one with an impressive performance though as Troy Talman took away four wins in four starts in Round Twelve. One of those included a massive, 3862 Strength of Field (sof) race on the final day of the NiTMS week on Wednesday. Talman was in need [...]
inRacingNews Challenge Round-Up
by Christopher Leone on November 1st, 2011
The final three weeks of 2011 Season 3 were an exercise in globe-trotting for inRacingNews Challenge competitors, as the sim racers brought their Pontiac Solstices and SpecRacer Fords to three very different races tracks in three equally different locales: Summit Point Raceway’s tight, natural terrain “short” course in West Virginia; Charlotte Motor Speedway’s “roval” in North Carolina and the alternately flowing and technical natural terrain “full” Okayama International Circuit in Japan. No matter the state, country or venue, the on line racing action was typically hectic and, when the final checkered flags of the season had waved, two worthy overall champions emerged along with a host of divisional title winners. Week 10 Week 10 of the third season of the 2011 inRacingNews Challenge took place on the short configuration of [...]
Three for One; Suominen for Two
by Dennis Grebe on October 31st, 2011
Season 3 was the inaugural season of the reformed GT & Prototype Challenge, which for the first time in iRacing history saw three different classes on the track at the same time. With the start of the season, the newly released HPD ARX-01c (a Le Mans Prototype of the LMP2 class) and the Ford GT (of the GT2 class) joined the GT1 Corvette C6.R for online races with up to 36 drivers. As if that wasn’t special enough, there were two distinct series — one with open setups and longer races (45-60 minutes) as well as a series with fixed setups and shorter races (25-30 minutes) from which to choose. LMP2 The fastest car also proved to be the most popular, with a staggering 985 (open setup) and 890 drivers [...]
Wyatt Gooden Featured in “Sports Car”
by James Kearney on October 31st, 2011
The November, 2011 edition of Sports Car (the official publication of the Sports Car Club of America) contains a revealing article on iRacer Wyatt Gooden’s emergence as one of the top young drivers on the America racing scene. Here is an excerpt of James Kearney’s story in the First Gear column. Click here to read the article in its entirety. Mid-Ohio, July 1, 2011. The young, slender man stepped from his fluorescent orange Formula F 1600 in impound, as if emerging from a dream. A faint bemused smile played on his face as he stood beside the car. Wyatt Gooden simply couldn’t believe it. In his first formula car race ever he had bested a field that included numerous champions. He would repeat the feat the next day in the [...]
Vincent Storms Through Road Atlanta
by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on October 29th, 2011
Brad Vincent put on one of most dominating performances of the Red Sox Racing League’s 2011 Season Three schedule at Road Atlanta this week. When drivers showed up for the “Panoz F1 GP at Road Atlanta”, they knew Vincent would be riding a wave of momentum due to his victory at Laguna Seca the previous week. What they couldn’t have known however, was just how futile their hopes of knocking him off the top spot would be in Georgia. Vincent used the practice and qualifying sessions to serve notice that anyone hoping to earn a win at Road Atlanta would have to go through him. He was the only driver to post a sub-1:02 lap time in either session, and his qualifying lap time of 1:01.428 was a full second [...]
View the GalleryTim’s Corner Podcasts
by David Phillips on October 29th, 2011
Can’t get enough of Tim Terry’s entertaining and informed reportage on the NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modifieds, NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series and NVIDIA Cup? You’re in luck. The energetic Mr. Terry is launching a weekly podcast on his new website (TimsCorner.ca). With the “real” racing season on the verge of hibernation, Terry plans to include a lot of iRacing content in the coming months, beginning with interviews with Frosty St Clair and Brandon Kettelle in the debut episode. Terry plans to put up a new show each Wednesday. Not content with the podcasts, Terry is also backing Josh Connors in the upcoming NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series, as the Indiana Club sim racer will be sporting Tim’s Corner livery on his Impala. To listen to Tim’s Corner Unplugged, you can check [...]
iRacer Profile – Kimmo Suominen
by David Phillips on October 29th, 2011
For a guy whose favorite quote reads “all good things must come to an end. Preferably in a humongous explosion,” Kimmo Suominen enjoyed a particularly “un-volatile” 2011 Season 3. No surprise, really, given his safety rating of 4.80 and iRating of 6812. Given those impressive mumbers, it’s also no surprise the resident of Salo, Finland piloted his Corvette C6.R to not one but two racing series championships in Season 3 — the iRacing Prototype and GT Challenge titles in open and fixed set-ups. With 34 wins in 43 starts in the open series, and 21 wins in 32 tries in the fixed setup C6.R, that comes out to a sweet 73.3% winning percentage. Nor were these two titles anything new for Suominen, who claimed the Season 2 GT Championship (fixed [...]
Miller, Hazard Celebrate at Homestead
by Tim Terry on October 28th, 2011
While Thomas Hazard won his second consecutive round in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, it was Ashley Miller who celebrated as the series’ season champion. Miller had been in a season long battle with Thomas D Smith for the championship but it was Miller who was better over the final few weeks of the season to take charge of the series. Meanwhile, Hazard was perfect on the season, scoring his second overall victory in just his second start of the quarter. Over 1,200 sim racers took to the track in Week Twelve for the 2011 Season Three finale. Hazard, who finished third in the ’11 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship, recorded four starts at Homestead for the NiCCS and came home victorious in three [...]
Coomans Doubles his (NVIDIA Cup) Pleasure
by Tim Terry on October 27th, 2011
While Kelvin van der Linde scored his first overall victory of 2011 Season 3c at Okayama International Circuit, it was Jan Coomans who took away his second consecutive championship in the NVIDIA Cup. While this is Coomans’ second straight title, he has finished in the top two spots in the last four seasons, solidifying Coomans as one of, if not the top Mazda MX-5 sim racers on the service. What is not to be overlooked in all the championship celebration is van der Linde’s win. The 166 points he earned to best the other 1,800 drivers during Week Four were obtained during a 2651 Strength of Field (sof) race on Monday. The International Club driver led 21 of the 25 laps of the race after taking the lead from the [...]
Top Dogs at it in GRAND-AM
by Dennis Grebe on October 27th, 2011
The GRAND-AM Series saw a group of familiar top sim racers take a big chunk of the races in Season 3. In the Daytona Prototype class the races were dominated by Cesc Riu (Iberia), Sebastian Cron (DE-AT-CH), Scott McDonough (California) and eventual series champion Zach Rupcic (Midwest). All long-time series regulars, they combined for 54 race wins among them in Season 3. Similarly, in the Mustang class, series regulars Brian Strodtbeck (Ohio), Oscar Sahlin (Scandinavia), Paulo Valente (Iberia) and series champion Dennis Grebe did most of the winning. This is all the more surprising as the series had seen a shift in its schedule prior to the season with a bigger emphasis on the “rovals” that the Grand-Am Rolex Series runs (or used to run); five of the season’s 12 [...]
Ottinger’s Class A Title
by Jameson Spies on October 26th, 2011
With Week 12 at Talladega now in the books, Nick Ottinger can officially uncork the champagne bottle and celebrate his NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series Division One Championship. Ottinger averaged a stellar 314 points a week, dominating the competition in the overall standings. While Ottinger was getting dowsed with champagne, other sim racers were biting their nails to the very end of this extremely tight battle to qualify for the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series. With the top twelve Division One Class A drivers throughout the first three seasons moving into the NiPS for Season 4, the battle to make the final group of twelve was the closest yet. With big names like Jim Caudill, Kevin King, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. already clinched, Season 3 provided an opportunity for not as [...]
Ottinger’s Street Stock Three-peat
by Allen Krier on October 26th, 2011
The final week of 2011 Season 3 saw the iRacing.com Street Stock Series travel to Oxford Plains Speedway. Sim racers looked to conquer the small oval located in Maine in order to dethrone two-time defending series champ Nick Ottinger (Carolina). Many tried but none were successful as Ottinger once again claimed the points championship. Weekly High Strength of Field Week 12′s top Strength of Field (SoF) race would take place on Thursday and would feature a head-to-head face-off between two championship contenders. Coming into the final week, Paul Kusheba (Connecticut) had a 66 point lead over Ottinger. Ottinger dominated the SoF race, leading all 50 laps in route to a 8.4 second victory over Kusheba. Ottinger received 213 points for the win while Kusheba received 189 points for second. Alex [...]
Penzes Siezes Spa; Sahlin Secures TMC Title
by Jordan Hightower on October 26th, 2011
The final week (Week 12) for 2011 Season 3 in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge presented the sim racers with what most would call the biggest challenge of the season: racing at the 19-turn, 4.35-mile monster of Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. A tick over 300 racers attempted to say they were the one to conquer Spa, but after a week long battle, Balazs Penzes (Central-Eastern Europe) was finally able to claim that honor. Weekly High Strength of Field Giuseppe Curri (Italy) captured the week’s highest Strength of Field (SoF) event in dominating fashion, beating second place driver Michele Curina by 13.858 seconds. The final position on the podium was held down by Samuel Collins (Australia/NZ). Fourth place belonged to Reuben Bonnici (Italy) while Trevor Johnson (England) completed the top five. Weekly Standings [...]
Lisner Lights-up Sebring
by Jordan Hightower on October 26th, 2011
Week 11 in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge sent the sim racers down to Sebring, Florida for some online racing under the lights at the 3.7-mile, 17-turn Sebring International Raceway. 228 drivers attempted to conquer the Florida darkness, but after seven days of competition, Jason Lisner (Virginias) emerged the top point earner for the week. Weekly High Strength of Field Danis Richard (Central-Eastern Europe) captured the victory in the week’s highest Strength of Field (SoF) event after a tight battle with Oscar Sahlin (Scandinavia) who came home second. Marcel Wiemers (DE-AT-CH) rounded-out the final podium position. Fourth was held down by Finnish sim racer Samuli Vahonen, and completing the top five was Maik Peters (Benelux). Weekly Standings Although Jason Lisner didn’t compete in the week’s highest Strength of Field event, he [...]
Raileanu’s Jetta championship
by Dennis Grebe on October 25th, 2011
Moldovian Alexandru Raileanu has won the Season 3 Jetta class of the iRacing.com Grand Touring Cup. In a nearly perfect season the Central-Eastern Europe sim racer won 11 of his 12 starts, only having had to settle for fourth in his final race of the season after having closed the deal on the championship already. Raileanu did not compete in four weeks of the season and thus did not have the luxury of any drop weeks. Instead, he had to throw all his eight weeks into the fight to come up a mere 22 points ahead of second place Nicholas Sladeczek of Club Carolina. Sladeczek himself also had a nearly perfect season, piloting his VW Jetta TDi to 22 wins from 23 starts. A close championship at the top saw [...]
Up in the Air
by Jameson Spies on October 25th, 2011
Coming into Week Eleven of the Twelve Week NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series season, the battle to make it into the NASCAR iRacing.come Pro Series could not be more up in the air. The good news for bubble drivers was the week’s venue was the very familiar Charlotte Motor Speedway. The track has been a fixture in the NiCLAS since the COT’s introduction to iRacing. However, with all the sim racers being acclimated to CMS track position would be vital for anyone looking to come up big. One driver walking the tight rope at the edge of the cut-off point coming into Charlotte was Mitchell Hunt. With that being said, Hunt came to North Carolina to race, grabbing a dominating win and earning the most points on the week. With [...]









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