All News: GT Racing

iRacing Blancpain GT Series Planned for 2016

May 21st, 2015 by

iRacing.com and the SRO Motorsports Group are joining forces to establish the world’s first professional endurance sim racing series: the iRacing Blancpain GT Series. Scheduled to debut next spring, the iRacing Blancpain GT Series will feature the world’s elite endurance sim racing teams in GT3 cars competing for cash prizes and merchandise in races broadcast … Read the Rest »

Virtual and Real Race Control Meet

May 20th, 2015 by

NEO Endurance Series co-founder Niel Hekkens had the opportunity to talk with and observe race control of FIA WEC during the recent 6 Hours of Spa. Below you can read his experience in this blog post. After a great debut season of the NEO Endurance Series, we already started preparing for Season 2. Right now … Read the Rest »

Mivano’s STC Blue Cup Double

May 5th, 2015 by

Round 2: Montreal A great performance for Mivano Thrustmaster X Team saw them capture first and third place in the second round of the STC Blue Cup at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal.  The win came after a 30 second penalty was assessed to Aday Coba Lopez (Iberica Racing Team). With this added time Aday … Read the Rest »

Battles Until the End at Road Atlanta

April 27th, 2015 by

March 15th was the final day of the debut season of the NEO Endurance Series at Road-Atlanta. The championship was still open in all classes and it all came down to the final 6 hours of sim racing. This 4,09 km track is very short and narrow with not a lot of run-off areas. Road-Atlanta … Read the Rest »

IMSA, iRacing.com Announce IMSA iRacing.com Online Sports Car Championship

April 2nd, 2015 by

The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) and iRacing.com today announced the creation of the IMSA iRacing.com Online Sports Car Championship.   The online racing series features iRacing’s digital versions of Daytona Prototypes, LMP and GT cars competing on laser-scanned versions of Daytona International Speedway, Sebring International Raceway, Watkins Glen International and many other tracks on IMSA’s … Read the Rest »

Get to Know: Chuck Chambliss

March 31st, 2015 by

A solid sim racer in both disciplines, iRacer Chuck Chambliss is a threat on any type of racetrack, oval or road. The 43 year old out of Hueytown, Alabama, has nearly 3600 races to his credit since joining iRacing back in May, 2008. Chambliss is primarily a road racer, with over 60% of his starts … Read the Rest »

iRacing’s Dudes Abide

March 30th, 2015 by

Never let it be said that the folks at iRacing lack for hands-on sim racing experience.  Most recent case in point:  the iRacing 12 Hours of Sebring, where iRacing staffers experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of P16. The thrill of victory went to Chris Lerch (vehicle dynamic engineer), Kevin Bobbitt (marketing director), … Read the Rest »

New Chapter for SEKQLD GT Championship

March 27th, 2015 by

As new season starts, a new chapter begins in the SEKQLD  GT Championship. The series has gone from strength to strength over the past few years now and with continued support from SEKQLD.com the series now has the ability to attract even more. Also throwing their support in is Pagnian/Next Level Racing products (www.pagnianimports.com.au) who … Read the Rest »

STC – BLUE CUP 2015

March 25th, 2015 by

Thursday 26th March the STC start a new championship: the Sim Racing Team STC -Blue Cup:  11 teams, 22 drivers per race, four different GT3 cars, seven races . . . and one Team Champion! Will Iberica Racing Team be able to defend the Black Cup Title from the Mivano Thrustmaster X Team and TeamGT, … Read the Rest »

iRacing in Top Gear

March 23rd, 2015 by

Editor’s note:  The following story by Mike Channell appeared on the Top Gear website today.  Click here to read the full story (and see an image of Jeremy Clarkson). iRacing launches Blancpain GT3 series Geektastic race simulator to host online GT3 championship.  Who’s up for a real-time Spa 24-hour? Fancy going GT racing but don’t … Read the Rest »