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Buchberger Best Overall at Homestead
by Tim Terry on November 28th, 2011
Over 1,400 sim racers brought their skills to the track for Round Three of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) in 2011 Season Four at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. When all the dust settled after thousands of laps had been completed and the motors were silenced, it was Sugar Grove, Illinois, Brandon Buchberger who stood tall as the driver who amassed the most points amongst his peers. The race in which Buchberger captured his 212 point total for the week was Thursday’s 3362 Strength of Field (SoF) affair. Buchberger led just the final eight circuits of the 90 completed and outlasted Byron Daley, Scott Speed, Tyler Hudson and Alex Warren to take the win. Speed led the most laps in the race (78) and was one of just three drivers [...]
Past and Present Pros
by Jameson Spies on November 28th, 2011
While “Smoke” was dethroning Jimmie Johnson at Homestead-Miami Speedway, iRacing.com members had races of their own taking place every two hours around the 1.5 mile track. Much like their physical world counterparts, NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series sim racers had to find the balance between a strong setup speed wise, all the while not eating-up those all important tires. With that being the case, it offered the chance for veterans to school the newcomers on how to balance their setup correctly, while driving it to perfection. However, some newcomers to the series did not stand idly by as the big boys drove to the front. NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship race winner Steve Sheehan started only one race on the week, but that one start was in a high enough [...]
iRacing, Intel Team for Intel GT Series
by David Phillips on November 26th, 2011
iRacing is again teaming with Intel to deliver the very best in global online racing competition with the Intel GT Series. A series of regional online competitions around the world from November through February will culminate in the online finals of the Intel GT Series in March, 2012, coinciding with the Intel® Extreme Masters World Championship professional eSport competition. In contrast to last year’s Intel GP Series, which saw finalists travel to Hannover, Germany for the Intel® Extreme Masters World Championship during the CeBIT Exhibition, competitors will be able to participate in the entire Intel GT tournament, including the finals, from their home. As was the case last year, however, the Intel GT Series finale features an impressive prize package valued at more than $5,500, including a custom Intel gaming [...]
Paint the Yellow Kicks-off November 28th
by James Howard on November 25th, 2011
Paint the Yellow is set to kick off Season One Monday, November 28th, 2011. With the first signup coming November 5th, registrations have soared to nearly 60 sign-ups in just over two weeks. Paint the Yellow, a superspeedway racing group, was formed by iRacers Jack Honeycutt and James Howard who have long raced superspeedways through leagues and hosted online racing. Chris Crosby and Gary Horsley are also founders of the group. Jim Eberstat (Skyraider Avaiation), Paul Covington (Omega Construction), and many others have stepped-up to sponsor and offer support as Paint the Yellow was formed. Jim Eberstat, Mark Richardson, Chris Crosby, Troy Eaton, and Robert Ziegler are all well known through the superspeedway racing community and are all supporters of what Paint the Yellow is doing to form a superspeedway [...]
Moriarty Puts Irwindale on Ice
by Tim Terry on November 25th, 2011
Van Winkle posts nine wins in eleven starts. While Trenton Moriarity was making a statement in the chase for the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Series championship during Round Three at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, Division Six sim racer Joshua Van Winkle was lightning the iLMT on fire. The Carolina Club driver started 11 online races over the week and took the checkered flag in nine, including the top split race of the week. The biggest win came on Wednesday when Van Winkle took the victory in a 3278 sof race. Van Winkle led 24 of the 75 laps in the event after having to rally from the eighth place spot in the ten car field to take the win. Moriarity took second place with Michael Luna, Brian Kemerait and Andrew [...]
Hazard Cruises at Charlotte
by Allen Krier on November 24th, 2011
Charlotte Motor Speedway was the location for Week Three of the iRacing.com Street Stock Series as top sim racers tried to draft their way to the front. For the first time, racers competed under the lights and the action was nothing short of amazing. Weekly High Strength of Field Last week’s high Strength of Field race had an SoF of 3289 and paid 201 points to win. NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship driver Thomas Hazard (Midwest) won the race over teamate Jeremy Allen (Indiana) by a 0.06 second margin. Allen received 182 points for his second place finish while Clint Monahan (Georgia) garnered 164 points for third. Cody Evanson (Northwest) finished in the fourth position and gained 146 points while Bill Martin (West) rounded-out the top five and claimed 127 [...]
iRacing’s Driver-Friendly 3-Fer
November 24th, 2011
iRacing.com will debut three new “driver-friendly” online racing series will debut next week: NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (fixed setup) together with IZOD INDYCAR Series – Oval (fixed setup) and IZOD INDYCAR – Road (fixed setup). All three will be Class C series and, in the case of the two IZOD INDYCAR series, driver aids will be allowed. All three series will mirror their “open setup” counterparts when it comes to weekly schedules. However, race distances will be half of the open setup events. The two new IZOD INDYCAR Series will run on alternate weeks, starting next week with the oval series.
iRacing Pro Race of Champions Set for December 14
by David Phillips on November 23rd, 2011
Real World Pros Meet in the Virtual World The inaugural iRacing.com Pro Race of Champions (iPRC), featuring top professional race drivers from America and around the world, is set for December 14 with nearly $2,000 going to the winners’ favorite charities. Among the drivers who have already committed to compete in the event are former NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Bobby Labonte, ALMS GT champion Joey Hand, perennial NHRA Funny Car standout Ron Capps, INDYCAR winner and former Formula One driver Justin Wilson, Australia V8 Supercar winner Shane van Gisbergen, and GRAND-AM winner Jordan Taylor. The online racing event will be broadcast on www.iRacing.com beginning at 8 pm EST and will consist of two segments. The first will see the stars racing their virtual Chevy Silverados for 20 laps under the [...]
Mahar Conquers Homestead
by Michael Conti on November 23rd, 2011
Homestead-Miami Speedway played host to all the action of Week 3 of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series (NICBS). Arguably one of the most fun tracks on the iRacing service, HMS offers some of the best in side-by-side online racing thanks to the variable banking of its corners. “Variable Banking” is a new style of track construction that has surfaced in the past decade where the bottom of the track is less banked than the top, which gives the top side a slight grip advantage over the bottom — an advantage offset by the fact that the top groove is the long way around any turn. Because of this, variably banked tracks see drivers using three to four grooves of the track to try to find the fastest way around. [...]
Van Buren Victorious in British Road Racing Tournament
by David Phillips on November 23rd, 2011
Rudy van Buren topped an international field of sim racers in iRacing’s first British Road Racing Tournament, held on November 21/22 and featuring the Radical SR8 at Oulton Park. Winner of one of last night’s four semi-finals, Van Buren started from pole position in the final and led all 15 laps to come home 1.662s ahead of Marius Golombeck who worked his way up from sixth on the grid, setting fastest lap of the race (1:25.110s) along the way. Pablo López, another semi-final winner, finished third ahead of a fierce battle for fourth that saw Dave Gelink, Evan Maillard and Davy Decorps finish within 1.3s of one another. V8 Supercar standout Shane van Gisbergen (Australia/NZ) came home seventh ahead of David Williams and Marcello Maio, with Marc Fangmann rounding-out the [...]
Davidowitz Aces Atlanta
by Tim Terry on November 23rd, 2011
NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series point leader Richie Davidowitz extended his advantage on Tuesday night by leading 24 laps en route to the win in Round Four of the online racing series at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Davidowitz, driving the #25 Davis Technologies Chevrolet, used a late race caution to parlay pit strategy into his first win of the season. Patrick Baldwin recovered from a spin through the infield on lap seven to finish second with Brandon Buchberger scoring his best finish of the season to date with a third place run. Joshua Laughton led 19 laps early in the race but had to settle for fourth while Justin Thompson finished fifth after he spun the tires on a late restart on Lap 149, which kicked the #79 from second place [...]
iRNC Three-Pack
by Chrisopher Leone on November 22nd, 2011
Christopher Leone wraps-up the first three round of the 2011 Season 4 inRacingNews Challenge with reports from Summit Point and Okayama International Circuit: Week One: Summit Point (full) The inRacingNews Challenge returned for the fourth and final season of 2011 with a round at its de facto home track, Summit Point Raceway. The first of four races on various Summit Point layouts, this week marks the only time where drivers would run on the full layout. In both the Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Ford classes, a familiar name won the week and thus led the point standings coming out of the gate. In Solstice, Kalle Ruokola went two-for-two and scored 178 points. In SRF, Season Two champion Gabriel Tobar returned with a vengeance in his lone race, scoring 271 points [...]
Engelhart Rocks Richmond
by Tim Terry on November 22nd, 2011
Herb Engelhart took another early step towards his second NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series (NiTMS) championship by taking the victory in Week Two of the series at the Richmond International Raceway. Engelhart, the 2011 Season Two series champion, has been involved in NiTMS series since its inception. Along with his teammates from Wide Open Racing, Engelhart paced the field in Round Two by capturing a 3487 Strength of Field (sof) race on Wednesday. Three cautions slowed the 100-lap event which saw three lead changes. Engelhart led just eight laps in the race, including the most important one, en route to topping Taylor Meyn (who led 86 laps in the race), Kevin Walker, Mitch Miller and Troy Talman. The top three in this race would end the week atop the standings [...]
Three In A Row For Kerkhof
by Chris Hall on November 22nd, 2011
In a strategic 73 lap race around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Grand Prix Circuit, Atze Kerkhof secured maximum points for the third consecutive week, tightening his stranglehold on the iRacing.com Pro Series Championship standings. With a quarter of the season now complete, Kerkhof has established himself as an early favourite for the title, and a likely front-runner in next year’s iRacing.com NVIDIA Grand Prix Series which will see an influx of the top 25 Pro division sim racers in 2012. For the second race in succession, Kerkhof was beaten to the front row of the grid by Sebastian Schmalenbach, who grabbed the pole position with a time of 1:05.734, and Samuel Libeert. Nevertheless, the Team Redline pilot was able to move into second spot by the first corner. Running a [...]
View the GalleryMcLeod’s Watkins Fightback
by Patrick Atherton on November 22nd, 2011
Week Three of the sensational iRacing V8 Supercar Series by Bigpond Sport went upstate New York to historic Watkins Glen. The first two rounds each appeared a Madison Down benefit, but series arch-rival Mitch McLeod has shown a wheel or two and has looked threatening. All punters, including myself, predicted an explosive fight for the series and those projections are looking accurate. The heavy hitting started with qualifying, and even with a very rapid Rens Broekman, McLeod was hooked up and flying. With the top three times faster than last season’s pole time, McLeod in the Tatts.com Racing Falcon nabbed it from the Nfinity car of Broekman by 3/1000ths of a second. Richard Hamstead was third and Down, rather surprisingly, was fourth. Scott McLaughlin was fifth from Scott U’Ren, Cal [...]
Carelli, Warren Win at MIS
by Tim Terry on November 21st, 2011
While NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series driver Alex Warren celebrated as the overall winner at the Michigan International Speedway during Round Two of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS), it was Dominic Carelli who made the big statement by winning the highest rated online race of the week. Carelli took home a win in the top split of the week – a 3765 Strength of Field (sof) race on Sunday. Carelli led just the final four laps of the race en route to the win over Kwame Adjei, Brandon Buchberger, Dylan Duval and Alan Jones. While Carelli (237) and Adjei (223) scored enough points that would have put them on top of the standings at the end of the week, they made additional starts which brought down their point totals [...]
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream . . . and Go Faster
by Chris Hall on November 19th, 2011
Looking for those extra tenths? Try sleeping on it. At its fundamental basics, racing is about being the fastest driver on the track on a given day. It sounds simple, but when you extrapolate that to the thousands of competitors on iRacing, it soon becomes apparent the battle isn’t just with fellow competitors, but with the track that rolls out ahead. Because to be at the top in virtual or real motorsport, means being the one to hustle their car around x miles of circuit the fastest. Whether it’s practice, qualifying or racing, time is one of the governing indicators of who will rise to the top of the pile. In the search for those few extra tenths of a second, sim-racers have been known to spend a small fortune [...]
Gooden, Quantum Look Towards 2012 After F2000 Test
November 19th, 2011
Quantum Racing Services invited their F1600 Championship Series star, Wyatt Gooden, to a private test last week at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit for his first run in the team’s race-winning Van Diemen F2000 chassis. It was an opportunity the Ohio native could not pass up, and he proved once again to be up for the challenge. Wyatt was a stellar four-for-four in F1600 competition this year, sweeping double-header race weekends at both Mid-Ohio and Watkins Glen in his only appearances in the new series. He also had three poles and three fastest race laps, all in his first year of open-wheel racing. His immediate success impressed his competitors, as well as the iRacing community, which Wyatt has used as a training ground throughout his brief career. The 1.8-mile Hallett circuit, [...]
iRacer Profile – Brandon Buchberger
by David Phillips on November 19th, 2011
Brandon Buchberger’s name may not quite be synonymous with the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series, but that’s not for wanting of trying – or a lack of results – on the part of the Sugar Grove, IL resident. Consider that, since first running the NiCCS seriously in 2009, Season 4, Buchberger has never finished worse than ninth in the overall standings; or that he’s amassed nearly 80 wins in that stretch. True, the NiCCS title has been elusive – so far – the 24 year old Buchberger wheeled his Silverado into the series points lead in the early going on the strength of three wins in six starts, to enjoy a narrow edge on rivals Alex Warren and Tyler D Hudson. A frontrunner in the GSRacing.net Truck Series league, Buchberger [...]
‘Round the Boot at The Glen
by Dennis Grebe on November 18th, 2011
After Season 4′s initial race at Sebring, the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge set forth along the East Coast to the state of New York, where it took to Round 2 at Watkins Glen Intenational. In keeping with the modern theme of the online racing series, the configuration chosen was the Full Course including the so-called “Boot.” LMP2: HPD ARX-01c After a very competitive start to the championship, Week 2 proved to be very high scoring once again, but this time produced a clear winner. David Williams (England) defended his lead in style with another weekly top score at an impressive 246 points in Saturday’s 8.00pm (UTC) race – against a field of worthy and competitive opponents with every one of the 15 drivers in his class having an iRating [...]









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