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iRacer Cassill Takes Over for Elliott

March 24th, 2011 by

iRacer and NASCAR driver Landon Cassill will take over driving duties for Phoenix Racing beginning at Auto Club Speedway this weekend.  Cassill, 21, replaces 1988 NASCAR Cup champion Bill Elliott, who started the first four races of the season in the No. 09 Chevrolet. “Hopefully, I can do good enough to keep the car in … Read the Rest »

Chicagoland Goes A Class

March 24th, 2011 by

The NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series blew its way into the Windy City for Week Seven of their thrilling online racing tour. Unlike the previous week at Bristol, drivers had a bit of room to maneuver their machines around the 1.5 mile speedway. The 18 degree banks also provided high speeds to go with the … Read the Rest »

Power and Wilson Join iRacing.com for IZOD IndyCar Series

March 24th, 2011 by

At this weekend’s 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season-opening Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, check out the helmets worn by last year’s first and second-place finishers, Will Power and Justin Wilson.  Both are big fans of iRacing.com, the world’s most authentic driving game, and for 2011 each has revised his helmet design to prominently feature … Read the Rest »

Mixed Class, Mixed Bag

March 24th, 2011 by

Featuring the Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Ford, the inRacingNews Challenge is a textbook example of mixed class online racing.  And when it comes to the class championships, the 2011 Season One iRNC is a textbook example of a mixed bag of results.  On the one hand, Gabriel Tobar seems poised to lock-up the SRF championship … Read the Rest »

Slammin’ at SoBo

March 23rd, 2011 by

Michael Wu (Virginias Club) wowed the competition during Week Seven in the iRacing.com Street Stock Series.  Wu earned the most points and won the highest Strength of Field (SoF) during the week of online racing at South Boston Speedway.  Wu’s win in the 2975 SoF earned him 186 points for the week placing him over … Read the Rest »

iWCSRR Zandvoort Broadcast Saturday

March 22nd, 2011 by

Round Three of the 2011 iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing will be broadcast live on iRacing.com this coming Saturday, March 26.   After journeying Down Under for its first visit to Phillip Island, the world’s top sim road racers head back to Europe and a date with historic Circuit Park Zandvoort. Although it’s fair to … Read the Rest »

Hazard Triumphs at Tricky Triangle

March 22nd, 2011 by

NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship driver Thomas Hazard had a pretty busy past week. The stretch started victoriously with the Midwest sim racing club driver driving his car to victory lane in the NiSWC event at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Five days later, he drove his NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) truck to the … Read the Rest »

Double Down

March 22nd, 2011 by

Can anyone stop Madison Down?  For the sim racers entered in Race Two of Week Seven in the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series at Summit Point Raceway, this was the question. After his Race One win, Down retained pole position, this time from the ever-present Shay Griffith. Troy Cox, joining Down in Trans Tasman Racing, was … Read the Rest »

Down At The Summit

March 22nd, 2011 by

The iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series headed  from the classic long, picturesque stretches of Spa Francorchamps to the short but exciting blast of Summit Point Raceway, for Week Seven of 2011 Season One. Quite a contrast, but this strip of tarmac in the West Virginian countryside was still popular with the virtual V8 field, especially with … Read the Rest »

Sandt Slips into USA Supremacy

March 22nd, 2011 by

Robert Sandt returned to the NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series in Week Seven of the season to once again rise to the top of his peers when it counted. Sandt, who represents the Pennsylvania Sim Racing Club, took home two wins in two online racing starts to record 186 points for his efforts at the … Read the Rest »