Crunch Time

April 7th, 2011 by

Entering the ninth week of the inRacingNews Challenge, another round at Lime Rock Park, many of the series’ top drivers were either approaching or at the point where they could begin dropping their worst results of the 12-week season. This is crunch time for sim racers in both the Pontiac Solstice and Spec Racer Ford … Read the Rest »

Commitment and Confidence in the Lone Star State

April 7th, 2011 by

Week Nine brought the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series to Texas Motor Speedway, where the Lone Star State provided some of the most intense, door to door, bumper to bumper, sim racing the series has seen all year. With speeds topping the 200mph mark into Turn One, commitment and confidence was key. Jim Caudill Jr … Read the Rest »

The Mother of Sim Racing

April 7th, 2011 by

When my iRacing colleague Otto Szebini e-mailed me a series of photos from the NVIDIA home office showing, among other things, a Jim Clark tribute Lotus/sim racing chassis, it triggered a complex series of memories . . . not least of which (thanks to a timely reminder from David Malsher at Racer magazine) are those … Read the Rest »

Rookies to Racers

April 5th, 2011 by

The Science Channel will air Rookies to Racers on Thursday, April 7 at 9 pm EDT.   Rookies to Racers chronicles the 2010 SCCA Pro Racing VW Jetta TDI Cup and features several prominent iRacers including Arie Ouimet and Wyatt Gooden.  Gooden, of course, earned a full season’s ride in the series by winning the 2009 … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – Nenad Matijevic

April 2nd, 2011 by

So far it’s been a pretty typical week for Nenad Matijevic, at least in terms of sim racing: two starts and two wins in the Mustang Challenge, eight starts and five wins in the Pontiac Solstice and one start and one win in the SpecRacer Ford in the inRacingNews Challenge.  OK, so Matijevic didn’t do … Read the Rest »