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iRacing to Bring Renault Single Seaters to Online Racing Game

July 16th, 2015 by

Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 3.5 Complete the Open Wheel Ladder on Award Winning Racing Game iRacing.com, the world’s premier online racing game, today announced a formal agreement with Renault to add two new single seat race cars, the Formula Renault 2.0 and the Formula Renault 3.5. These cars join the more than 40 … Read the Rest »

Loozenoord Gifts Kralj Silverstone Glory

July 15th, 2015 by

Silverstone was the track up next for competitors in the iRacing Grand Prix Series. The historic circuit in Northamptonshire, UK, began hosting Grand Prix races in 1948: although it would be two years later when the inaugural Formula One season headed there for the opening round of the newly created World Championship of Drivers or, … Read the Rest »

Vincent Saves Fuel, Wins Kentucky

July 15th, 2015 by

Performance Motorsports Group’s Corey Vincent captured his first career win in the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series Powered by iRacinglast night, coming out on top of a race decided by fuel mileage at Kentucky Speedway. Vincent, while quick, did not have the fastest car and looked to be battling for a top five finish before a … Read the Rest »

Kelley Wins Daytona Drafting Duel

July 14th, 2015 by

The high banks of Daytona International Speedway welcomed the ITSR Power Series last Sunday night, and their race under the lights delivered 300 miles of bumper-to-bumper, door-to-door sim racing action. Before the race began, the qualifying session saw several small packs of cars form, with each trying to time their runs on one other to … Read the Rest »

Get to Know: Kyle Birnie

July 13th, 2015 by

Born into a racing family, Californian Kyle Birnie has had his fair share of success since joining iRacing in August of 2011. He is a 53 time race winner across several different cars on nearly 20 different types of tracks, ranging from the shorts tracks such as Bristol Motor Speedway, to the twists and turns … Read the Rest »

Tour Modifieds Battle at the Paper Clip

July 9th, 2015 by

The third week of the NASCAR iRacing Tour Modified Series brings the virtual ground pounders to Martinsville Speedway. The venerable Virginia short track enables the true abilities of the Tour Modifieds to come life as its long straightaways allow the sim racers to put all of that 612 horsepower to use as the cars scream … Read the Rest »

Short Track Simulation: It’s here, and the best are doing it

July 8th, 2015 by

 (The following in an excerpt from a Circle Track magazine article on Ty Majeski and the role iRacing has played — and continues to play — in his career.  Click here to read the complete story – Ed) Aspiring superstar racers perked up when they heard the news of Denny Hamlin in 2006. Hamlin credited … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – For the Alpha: the Omega, Part 2

July 8th, 2015 by

Before we dive back into this, let’s review:  We’re talking about how to be more efficient with your setup process, and spend less time trying 28 different setups every week that don’t work and spending more time in the fine-tuning stages.  In the last article, I discussed how to approach the initial setup build, as … Read the Rest »

Virtual Thoroughbreds Run Loose on Kentucky Speedway

July 8th, 2015 by

Week 16 of the NASCAR iRacing Class B Open Series took to the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway, and on Tuesday evening the top split was broadcast on iRacingLive and FANSCHOICE.tv for some live neck-and-neck sim-racing action! Despite the first half of the race looking like it would be a two-horse battle between Logan Clampitt and Ryan … Read the Rest »

Ford and Holden Win!

July 2nd, 2015 by

Ford and Holden win??..  How can this be so?? Ian Ford driving the Evolution Racing Australia HoldenCommodore scored his first win of the new season for Round 2 od the iRacing.com V* Supercar Series, at Oulton Park International Circuit. Qualifying Under cloudy skies with a track temperature that was condusive to fast lap times, qualifying … Read the Rest »