Partnering with the Best
One key ingredient that sets iRacing.com apart from other racing games and other sims is the absolute accuracy with which we model all of our content, both cars and tracks. That’s why all of our content is licensed. Without the enthusiastic participation of our partners, we couldn’t bring you authentic virtual versions of their physical-world cars, tracks and services.
In our vision, internet racing is not a peripheral and isolated activity that merely echoes motorsport in the physical world. Instead, we see internet racing as a legitimate, recognized branch of motorsport, one that will increasingly be fully integrated into the broad-based world of racing. We seek that same philosophical commitment in our partnerships with electronics and other simulation technology suppliers.
We’re proud to have built relationships only with partners who share our commitment to advancing the interests of the entire motorsports community. We’ve chosen to work with the best of the best, and bring to you – the members of the iRacing community – the finest cars, tracks, learning experiences and products.
NASCAR
The official online racing partner of NASCAR (National Association of Stock Car Racing), iRacing.com stages five different online racing series officially sanctioned by NASCAR: NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC), NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series and NASCAR iRacing.com Class A, Class B and Class C Series. NASCAR.com regularly covers NiSWC races and the series champion receives a cash prize of $10,500, along with an expense-paid trip to the NASCAR Sprint Cup race season-finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway where they are honored during the pre-race ceremonies.
NASCAR is the largest race sanctioning organization in the United States. NASCAR was founded in 1947 by Bill France in Daytona Beach in order to develop a unified set of rules and regulations for the many disparate forms of American stock car racing.
From those modest beginnings, NASCAR grew exponentially as huge, paved super-speedways were built in Darlington, Daytona and, later, Atlanta and Charlotte to accommodate the growing crowds and provide the stock cars with appropriate arenas in which to compete. The 1960s and ‘70s saw the emergence of legendary stock car heroes like Richard Petty and David Pearson, Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough as well as the beginning of NASCAR’s transition from a Southeastern-based sport to a national phenomenon with addition of events in California, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Under the direction of Bill France, Jr, NASCAR continued to expand its reach in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, adding road courses and the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway to the schedule of its premier series. Even as a new generation of star drivers including Darryl Waltrip, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt emerged, NASCAR continued nurturing future generations of stock car racers through its regional series together with the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series.
Today, President Mike Helton and CEO and Chairman Brian France oversee a NASCAR that sanctions more than 1500 races annually in the United States, Canada and Mexico. NASCAR races are broadcast in over 150 countries and the 38 race Sprint Cup Series attracts upwards of five million spectators annually.
As the official NASCAR sim racing partner, iRacing organizes and hosts a variety of NASCAR-sanctioned online racing series, including two different professional series, the Pro Series and World Championship Series. iRacing’s other NASCAR-sanctioned series feature modifieds, late models, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series trucks, NASCAR Nationwide and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cars and mirror the skill ladder that NASCAR athletes typically follow, beginning with short-track racing and proceeding through virtual versions of the three premier real-world NASCAR series. iRacing also stages the major NASCAR sim races open to all iRacers including the iRacing.com Daytona 500 that runs the night before the real world Daytona 500.
Indy Racing League
iRacing.com is the official online racing partner of the IZOD IndyCar Series. The iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series, the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series Road and the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series Oval are all jointly sanctioned by iRacing.com and INDYCAR and regularly covered by IndyCar.com. The champion of the IZOD IndyCar Premier Series wins an expense paid trip to the season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway where he/she receives a cash prize and is recognized during the pre-race ceremonies.
Although the Indy Racing League was founded in 1995, the roots of Indy car racing date back to the early 1900s when a group of lndiana businessmen built the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as a test facility for the automotive industry. The first 500 mile race at IMS in 1911 was won by Ray Harroun and what became known as the Indy 500 quickly established itself as the premier auto race in North America with the names of winning drivers like Wilbur Shaw, Bill Vukovich, A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Rick Mears and the Unsers permanently etched on the American sports landscape.
Today, the Indy Racing League sanctions the premier open wheel racing series in North America: the IZOD IndyCar Series and its “feeder” series — the Firestone Indy Lights Championship. In addition to the Indianapolis 500 – the world’s largest single day sporting event — the series features a unique mixture of speedways, short ovals, natural terrain road courses and street circuits throughout the United States and Canada with one race apiece in Japan and Brazil.
The IndyCar Dallara and FILC Dallara cars enable iRacers to compete on virtually the entire IndyCar Series and FILC schedules. In May, 2010, iRacers will be able to compete in the first official virtual Indy 500 as part of the iRacing World Tour, a series of online events that pays homage to many of the world’s iconic automobile races.
Williams F1
iRacing.com is proud to include the Williams-Toyota FW31 in its stable of virtual race cars. Developed by iRacing engineers working in cooperation with Williams F1, the Williams-Toyota FW31 offers the ultimate in online road racing performance and is used in the iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing, the world’s premier online road racing series.
Williams F1 is one of the world’s leading Formula One teams. Formed in 1977 by Frank Williams and Patrick Head, the company has secured 16 FIA Formula One World Championship titles in the past thirty years. Nine of these titles have been won in the Constructors’ Championship in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. The remaining seven titles are Drivers’ Championships, won with Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve.
Today Williams F1 employs around 520 personnel at a 100 acre technology campus based in the heart of the UK’s ‘Motorsport Valley’ in rural Oxfordshire. The company’s core competencies are the design and manufacture of Formula One race cars, and the deployment of this expertise in running the team’s entries into the Grands Prix each season.
Away from the race track, Williams F1 has grown into a significant international business over a quarter of a century. Its achievements have earned its founder, Frank Williams, a knighthood in the 1999 New Year’s Honours List to augment France’s highest decoration, the Legion d’Honneur. Corporately, Williams F1 has also been awarded two Queen’s Awards for Export Achievement, and is today recognised as one of the most enduring and successful brands in global sport.
The company’s business model is relatively unique. Williams F1 is one of the very few wholly independent Formula One teams that exist purely to race. As the result of an exclusive agreement with this singular organization, iRacing is working in partnership with the Williams F1 engineering staff to develop a virtual version of the Williams FW31 car for release in 2010. The resulting iRacing Williams FW31 will accurately and precisely mirror one of the fastest and most technologically-sophisticated race cars in the world.
McLaren Electronics
iRacing.com partners with McLaren Electronic Systems in providing the ATLAS Express telemetry system to all iRacers. ATLAS Express enables iRacers to utilize data acquisition and telemetry software similar to those used on every car competing in the FIA Formula One World Championship since 2008, the IZOD IndyCar Series and, beginning in 2012, the engine control unit (ECU) in NASCAR.
McLaren Electronics is part of the McLaren Group of companies that includes the Formula One constructor, McLaren Racing, and the MP4/12C sports car manufacturer, McLaren Automotive. It was was formed in January 1989 and develops, manufactures and deploys control and data systems for professional motor racing. The company introduced the first high-rate telemetry and real-time data systems into the sport in the early 90s at Le Mans and Formula One and has maintained its position at the leading edge of real-time data and simulation systems throughout its history. McLaren Electronic Systems provides the engine control units to all of Formula One, IndyCar and, from beginning of 2012, NASCAR.
GRAND-AM Road Racing
iRacing joins GRAND-AM Road Racing in sanctioning the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series and the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, which feature mixed-class online racing with the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and the Mustang FR500S. The top three finishers in the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series receive cash awards and trophies, with the Daytona Prototype and Mustang class winners honored at the GRAND-AM season finale.
GRAND-AM Road Racing, which operates and sanctions the Rolex Sports Car Series and the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, is the foremost sanctioning body of sports car racing in North America. The Rolex Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge deliver professional sports car racing to key markets throughout North America with televised distribution in the U.S. and Canada on SPEED and globally through ESPN International. In addition, MRN radio will broadcast nationally through their affiliates and Sirius NASCAR Radio XM – 128. GRAND-AM Road Racing showcases emerging and legendary drivers from around the globe and thoroughbred racing machines from the industry’s leading constructors and the world’s top automobile manufacturers.
Speedway Motorsports, Inc.
Headquartered in Concord, NC, at the company’s flagship Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) owns and manages speedways on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and other race series. The company’s heritage goes back to the original construction of Lowe’s Motor Speedway (then called Charlotte Motor Speedway) in 1960 under the auspices of Bruton Smith, today the chairman of SMI.
Today, the company owns six other NASCAR Sprint Cup venues, including Atlanta Motor Speedway; Bristol Motor Speedway, in southeastern Tennessee; Infineon Raceway (formerly Sears Point) road-racing circuit in Sonoma, CA; New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway, located between Fort Worth and Dallas.
iRacing’s relationship with SMI provides our members access to exact representations of some of the finest facilities in all of motorsports.
Other SMI holdings include the Performance Racing Network, which broadcasts races from SMI speedways, and U.S. Legends Cars International, the world’s largest manufacturer of racing cars, including the Legends cars featured on iRacing.
iRacing’s relationship with SMI provides our members access to exact representations of some of the finest facilities in all of motorsports.
International Speedway Corporation
International Speedway Corporation (ISC), a publicly traded company, is a leading promoter of motorsports activities, currently promoting more than 100 racing events annually as well as numerous other motorsports-related activities. The Company owns and/or operates some of the nation’s major motorsports entertainment facilities including:
- Auto Club Speedway (Fontana, CA)
- Chicagoland Speedway (Joliet, IL)
- Darlington Raceway (Darlington, SC)
- Daytona International Speedway (Daytona, FL)
- Homestead-Miami Speedway (Homestead, FL)
- Kansas Speedway (Kansas City, KS)
- Martinsville Speedway (Martinsville, VA)
- Michigan International Speedway (Brooklyn, MI)
- Phoenix International Raceway (Phoenix, AZ)
- Richmond International Raceway (Richmond, VA)
- Talladega Super Speedway (Talladega, AL)
- Watkins Glen International (Watkins Glen, NY)
iRacing.com is proud that exacting digital representations of every one of ISC’s major motorsports facilities is either already available or scheduled to become available to its members.
In addition to motorsports facilities, ISC also owns and operates MRN Radio, the nation’s largest independent sports radio network; Daytona 500 Experience, the “Ultimate Motorsports Attraction” in Daytona Beach, Florida and the official attraction of NASCAR; Americrown Service Corporation, a provider of catering services, food and beverage concessions, and merchandise sales; and Motorsports Authentics, a producer and marketer of motorsports-related merchandise licensed by certain competitors in NASCAR racing.
www.internationalspeedwaycorporation.com
nVidia
iRacing.com and NVIDIA enjoy a multi-faceted relationship, including sponsorship of the NVIDIA Cup online racing series featuring the Mazda MX5 sports car. iRacing is also proud to regularly award NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art gaming accessories to members as prizes in competitions and promotional programs.
NVIDIA awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999, and is the worldwide leader in 3D technology for personal computers. NVIDIA’s 3D Vision technology, which includes 3D Vision software and advanced active shutter glasses, delivers breathtaking stereoscopic 3D images for gamers, movie-lovers and photo enthusiasts when configured with NVIDIA GPUs and a 3D display or projector. 3D Vision supports the richest array of 3D content available, including 500 games, Blu-ray 3D movies, and 3D photos and video files.
Panoz Motor Sports Group
Recognized as an industry leader in all areas of motorsports, the Panoz Motorsports Group (PMSG) encompasses the American Le Mans Series, three race tracks (Sebring International Raceway, Road Atlanta and Mosport International Raceway), the International Motor Sports Association sanctioning body and Elan Technologies (comprised of Elan Composites, Elan Power Products, Elan Precision Engineering and Van Diemen). In total, the operation of the 10 PMSG companies enjoyed collective revenues of approximately $70 million.
Through our partnership with PMSG, iRacing features Sebring, Road Atlanta and Mosport among its inventory of world class road racing facilities. In 2011 iRacing enabled virtual night racing at Sebring, the first road racing circuit on the service to offer that feature.
Ford Motor Company
The iRacing.com service features a number of Ford race cars with a variety of performance levels. The SpecRacer Ford included in the basic subscription package is an ideal entry level sports racer, while the popular Mustang FR500S offers iRacers their first taste of online GT racing in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge as well as mixed class racing (with the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype) in the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series. And the Ford Falcon FG represents the ultimate in touring car performance embodied by the Australian V8 Supercar Championship.
The Ford Motor Company is the world’s fifth largest automaker based on worldwide sales of vehicles. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, the company was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated in 1903. As one of the largest family-controlled companies in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100 years.
Ford has a rich legacy in auto racing. Indeed, Henry Ford and a partner designed, built, and raced their twenty six horsepower “Sweepstakes” car in a race sponsored by the Detroit Racing Club in October 1901 and used the prize money to help found the Ford Motor Company later that same year. In the ensuing years, Ford cars and Ford-powered dragsters and stock, Indy, sports, rally and Formula One cars have raced and won from Le Mans to Indianapolis, Daytona to Monaco, Pomona to Pukekohe. Today, Ford continues to be very actively involved in a wide range of motorsports including NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series, Grand-Am/Koni Challenge, World Rally, NHRA, USAC, ARCA, Desert Series Off-Road Racing and Australia V8 Supercars as well as the FIA GT3 championship. Ford was instrumental in helping iRacing.com develop the Riley Technologies Daytona Prototype featured in the iRacing Pro Series Road Racing. Other Ford-powered iRacing cars include the Spec Racer Ford, the Legends Ford’34 Ford Coupe and the Lotus 79.
Volkswagen of America
With its front wheel drive and diesel power, the Volkswagen Jetta TDi is among the most popular cars on the iRacing.com service. The Jetta TDi is also a key component in the iRacing GT Cup, a mixed class racing series pitting the VW sedan against the Mazda MX5 sports car.
Founded in 1955, Volkswagen of America, Inc. is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. It is a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. Volkswagen is one of the world’s largest producers of passenger cars and Europe’s largest automaker. Volkswagen sells the Golf, New Beetle, New Beetle convertible, GTI, Jetta, Jetta Sportwagon, CC, Tiguan, Touareg, Touareg 2 and Routan through approximately 600 independent U.S. dealers.
Volkswagen is a leader in providing diesel-powered vehicles in the United States. In 30 years, the company has sold more than 850,000 diesels in the U.S., including the Jetta TDI that was introduced in late 2008.
2008 also marked the debut of the VW Jetta TDI Cup, sanctioned by SCCA Pro Racing. During the season, emerging drivers aged 16-26 compete in ten events on eight road courses around North America in identical factory-prepared clean diesel Jetta TDIs. Each driver competing in the series will earn a Pro Racing license from the SCCA at the conclusion of the season. In addition, the series champion will win $100,000. Beginning with the 2010 racing season, the winner of the highest placed, eligible driver in the iRacing VW Jetta TDI Cup will qualify for the official selection process of the SCCA Pro Racing VW Jetta TDI Cup.
www.vw.com/vwhype/motorsport/en/us/
Skip Barber Racing School
The Skip Barber Racing School has been one of iRacing.com’s key partners from the earliest days of the online racing service. In addition to utilizing the Skip Barber F2000 as its entry level open wheel road racing vehicle, iRacing worked closely with the Skip Barber Racing School in developing its unique iRacing.com Driving School.
The Skip Barber Racing School is the biggest and best known racing and driving school in the world. For more than 30 years, Skip Barber Racing has operated a fully integrated system of racing schools, driving schools, and racing championships across North America.
Since its founding in 1975, Skip Barber Racing has trained more motorsports winners and champions than any other organization of its kind. Skip Barber alumni race and win in every major championship, from NASCAR’s Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series to Formula One, the American Le Mans Series, and the Indy Racing League. Since 1983, the Racing School has trained over one-third of all Indy 500 competitors and one-quarter of the current NASCAR Sprint Cup field.
The same time-tested techniques that the Skip Barber Racing School has developed through more than three decades of teaching drivers in the physical world will also be available to members of the iRacing community.
U.S. Legends Cars International
US Legends Cars International has partnered with iRacing.com in making its Legends ’34 Coupe one of the key entry-level race cars on the service. A component of the basic subscription package, the Legends Coupe has been used by tens of thousands of iRacers to learn the fundamentals of short track racing in the popular Legends Cup series.
Located in Harrisburg, N.C., U.S Legends Cars International is the largest manufacturer of race cars in the world, and is the exclusive producer of the Legends Car and its cousins, the Bandolero and Thunder Roadster.
Races for these cars are internationally sanctioned by INEX, with the goal of providing fun and affordable racing in which anyone can compete. This series is an attempt to fight the high costs involved in racing, and the rules are strictly enforced to ensure fair competition and cost control.
With more than 3,500 members, INEX is the third largest short-track sanctioning body behind NASCAR Weekly Racing and International Motor Contest Association (IMCA). INEX annually sanctions more than 2,000 races at more than 200 different tracks throughout the North America, Europe and Asia.
As the oval-track car for iRacing’s Rookie and Advanced Rookie series, the Legends Ford ’34 Coupe is both an excellent learning tool and a lot of fun to drive. And INEX and other physical world racers – including SCCA racers who drive Legends and their similar cousins in road-racing competition – will be able to learn new tracks and practice for upcoming races.
The U.S Legends Cars International facility in Concord features a 100,000 square-foot manufacturing facility in Harrisburg, N.C., capable of producing as many as 40 cars a month. U.S Legends Cars International has manufactured more than 4,000 Legends Cars since 1992.
General Motors
Digital reproductions of General Motors sports cars and race cars are featured across the spectrum of iRacing.com competition. Not only has Pontiac Solstice has long been a superb entry-level sports car, it’s proven to be a very popular racer in the inRacingNews Challenge racing series. Likewise the ultra-high performance Corvette C6.R offers state-of-the-art GT performance in both the Corvette Series and, with the Radical SR8, the mixed class Prototype & GT Challenge. General Motors cars dominate the stock car front, from Street Stocks, the Monte Carlo Late Model and Silverado Class C, to the Impalas of the NASCAR Class A and B Series as well as the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship.
General Motors, one of the world’s largest automakers, traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 219,000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 140 countries. GM and its strategic partners produce cars and trucks in 34 countries, and sell and service these vehicles through the following brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling. GM’s largest national market is the United States, followed by China, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia and Germany.
MotorSport Vision Racing
MotorSport Vision Racing (MSVR) is a valued partner of iRacing.com in its continuing efforts to feature world class international race circuits on its service. Iconic Brands Hatch was among the first European circuits to become available on iRacing, while other MSVR circuits are targeted for future release
MotorSport Vision Racing (MSVR) is the racing division of MSV, owner and operator of four of the UK’s best racing circuits – Brands Hatch, Oulton Park, Snetterton and Cadwell Park. Having run its first meeting in March 2006, MSVR successfully organises prestigious international events such as A1GP, DTM and World Touring Cars in addition to a number of club-level events, and is still the fastest growing race meeting organiser in England. As the result of an agreement between MSVR and iRacing.com, the Brands Hatch and Oulton Park circuits will be added to the iRacing catalogue in 2010.
DALLARA AUTOMOBILI
iRacing.com and Dallara Automobili established a close working relationship during the creation of the virtual Dallara IR03/05. As a result of thus productive partnership, iRacing and Dallara are developing a digital version of the 2012 Dallara IndyCar that will be available to iRacing members in time for the 2011 IZOD IndyCar season finale.
Following a distinguished career in the automotive industry Gian Paolo Dallara founded Dallara Automobili in 1972 in Varano Melegari, near Parma, Italy. Today the company has an enviable record of success around the world, designing and manufacturing cars for a range of different major motor racing formulae including Formula 3, GP2, GP3 and the Indy Racing League’s Indy Car and Firestone Indy Lights Championship.
Dallara has also been active in sports cars, from the construction of the Lancia Group 6 prototype in the 1980s and collaborations with Ferrari, Toyota, Audi and Chrysler. More recently, Dallara debuted its first Daytona Protoype in partnership with Wayne Taylor Racing.
Radical Sportscars
iRacing.com and Radical Sportscars partnered in building an exacting digital version of the high performance Radical SR8 sports racer, as well as in ongoing promotional programs benefitting both organizations.
Radical Sportscars is an auto manufacturer and constructor of racing cars based in Peterborough, England. The company was founded in 1996 by amateur drivers and engineers Mick Hyde and Phil Abbott, who built open-cockpit sports cars which could be registered for road use and run on a track without modification. Although most of Radical’s sports cars are road legal, they also build purpose-built racing cars including the SR3 Clubsport, Supersport, and Tracksport models, and the SR8 Radical which is featured in the iRacing.com simulation. Based on the SR3, the SR8 is equipped with the 2600 cc Powertec RPA V8 constructed by combining elements of Suzuki inline-4s, and producing 363 hp. The SR8LM, increases the engine to 2800 cc and brings power output to 455 hp. In August 2009 Michael Vergers, driving an SR8LM, set a new lap record (6 minutes, 48 seconds) for road legal cars at the Nurburgring’s Nordschleife circuit. The previous record (6 minutes, 55 seconds) was also set by Vergers, in 2005 at the wheel of a Radical SR8.
More recently, Radical has partnered with Eco Racing to develop a bio-diesel-powered version of its SR9 chassis, which debuted at the Laguna Seca American Le Mans Series Race in 2008 and which continues to undergo development.
Classic Team Lotus
iRacing.com was proud to be selected by Classic Team Lotus to build the officially-licensed digital version of the Lotus 79, one of the most significant Formula One cars in history. iRacing engineers worked closely with their counterparts at Classic Team Lotus as well as 1978 World Champion Mario Andretti in developing this classic race car.
Team Lotus established Classic Team Lotus in 1992, as the Works historic motorsport activity. Classic Team Lotus continues to maintain and operate Lotus F1 cars for owners around the world, and it preserves the Team Lotus archive and Works Collection of cars, under the management of Colin Chapman’s son, Clive.
A comprehensive service for the restoration, maintenance and operation of historic Team Lotus Formula One cars is available at the original factory facility in Hethel, Norfolk, U.K. Classic Team Lotus provided invaluable assistance to iRacing.com in the development of the Lotus 79 featured in the Classic Lotus Grand Prix series.
SCCA
Since its founding in 1944, SCCA has pursued one mission: To bring motorsports to the masses of American men and women who are passionate about automobiles, speed and competition. From National Championships to regional events, whether professional or amateur, this member club exists to organize, support and develop auto racing at every level.
In the process of organizing and putting on amateur road-racing events for drivers, SCCA provides opportunities for its members to participate not just as drivers and crew, but also in race-operation areas including flagging and communications, marshaling, emergency services, scrutineering, participant registration and stewards.
In addition to its foundation in amateur racing, the club has a professional racing wing, which today organizes and sanctions the World Challenge GT and Touring series, the Mazda MX-5 Cup, VW Jetta TDI Cup and Formula 2000 Championship Series. SCCA Pro Racing’s history officially dates back more than 35 years with the creation of the United States Road Racing Championship in 1963, the prelude to the Can-Am Challenge, although the concept of SCCA Pro Racing started in the mid-1950s.
SCCA also owns SCCA Enterprises, the constructor of three affordable spec-racing vehicles. Most prominent among them is the Spec Racer Ford (SRF), an enclosed-wheel, open-cockpit, purpose-built race car. Powered by a Ford 1.9-liter, hemi-head, four-cylinder engine, the SRF, with over 800 cars delivered, constitutes the largest class of road-racing cars within the SCCA.
Members of the iRacing community will be able to drive the SRF as well as the Pontiac Solstice Z0K Club Sport, which runs in the club’s Showroom Stock B class. Meanwhile, SCCA drivers will be competing for the iRacing.com Cup, a season-long contingency program that will crown a single national champion from among the more than 5,000 licensed SCCA national racers across nine geographic divisions and 30 competition classes.
Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation
Founded in 1994 by Lyn St. James, the Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on worldwide activities and programs for driver development, advocacy, diversity and education, particularly for women who aspire to become race car drivers. The Foundation is dedicated to making a difference and reaching the point in time when “opportunity” and “diversity” are no longer concerns – they are taken for granted.
The Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation’s mission is to provide leadership, vision, resources and financial support to help create an environment of opportunity for women’s growth in the automotive and competitive motor sports fields.
iRacing is a supporter of the Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation, and is proud the organization recommends its online motorsports simulation to emerging women race drivers.
LIVESTRONG
Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong and based in Austin, Texas, LIVESTRONG fights for the 28 million people around the world living with cancer today. LIVESTRONG connects individuals to the support they need, leverages funding and resources to spur innovation and engages communities and leaders to drive social change. Known for the iconic yellow wristband, LIVESTRONG’s mission is to inspire and empower anyone affected by cancer.
iRacing.com has partnered with LIVESTRONG in a unique way which allows our members to contribute to this great organization by doing the thing they love to do most – RACE! By hosting a special event focused on fund-raising in July 2010, the iRacing.com Brickyard 400 Benefiting LIVESTRONG, members were encouraged to solicit sponsors with donations going straight to LIVESTRONG. iRacing also donated $.05 for every lap completed in the event by all 345 participating drivers. The total donation to LIVESTRONG was nearly $10,000.
