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iRacing Intel® GP Finals at Hand

March 3rd, 2011 by

In less than 24 hours, the first champion of the inaugural iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final will be crowned.  The champion could be any one of ten of the world’s top sim racers who have journeyed to Hannover, Germany from Australia, the United States and many parts of Europe for the Intel Extreme Masters … Read the Rest »

iRacer Gets His Shot at Real World Racing – With a Little Help from His Friends

March 3rd, 2011 by

Like a lot of people who would like to go racing, Tyler Hudson found that after he put all the money he had into buying an entry-level race car, he didn’t have anything left to run it.  So he turned to racing in the virtual world with iRacing.com and now his friends and competitors there … Read the Rest »

IndyCar Racing Returns to Road America

March 3rd, 2011 by

The road course edition of the IZOD IndyCar Series is now two races in the books, with this past week’s events at Road America now complete. The Wisconsin track, the first of three tracks not to appear on the real-life IndyCar schedule, has a long and storied history of real open-wheel racing nonetheless, making it … Read the Rest »

A Third of the Way Home

March 3rd, 2011 by

We’re now a third of the way through the inRacingNews Challenge season, this past week’s events taking place on the Silverstone National Circuit. The top stories remain the championship dominance of Gabriel Tobar in the SpecRacer Ford class and Chris Hughson in the Pontiac Solstice, as well as Hughson’s drive to win both online racing … Read the Rest »

Brandon Davis Stars in CMS Mustangs at Road Atlanta

March 3rd, 2011 by

One of the great things about iRacing.com is that it brings together simracers and professional and amateur racers of all types from around the world together in some very real competition in the virtual world.  Case in point, Tuesday night’s Champion Motorsports Mustang Challenge Series at Road Atlanta saw Speed World Challenge/ALMS regular Brandon Davis … Read the Rest »

Alfalla Brings Big Mo to iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final

March 2nd, 2011 by

Given that the United States/Canada qualifying round for the iRacing Intel® GP Series was held in September, momentum wouldn’t figure to play much of a role in Friday’s iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final.  Or that a sim racer from Florida would be able to pack some momentum in his carry-on for the flight to … Read the Rest »

Down Downs the Giz

March 2nd, 2011 by

The real-world V8 aces again had to contend with the sim racing world’s best in Race Two of Monday night’s iRacing Supercar series at Mid-Ohio. Australian V8 Supercar Series standout Shane Van Gisbergen may have taken pole again with a lap of 1: 23.553, but sim racer Madison Down was breathing down his neck at … Read the Rest »

Van Gisbergen Gatecrashes Mid-Ohio

March 2nd, 2011 by

We all know the fiendishly accurate iRacing simulation replicates motorsport superbly, but the lines between simulation and reality were blurred even more for Race One, Split One of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar series on Monday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. After spending some time on the virtual ovals,  top level V8 Supercar star Shane … Read the Rest »

Mallia and Sharman Premier Racers

March 2nd, 2011 by

This week witnessed the premier of the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, a 10 round championship spread across 26 weeks featuring the digital versions of the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and the Ford Mustang FR500S on millimeter-accurate virtual versions of most of the tracks on the GRAND-AM Rolex Series calendar.  The championship is … Read the Rest »

Davies Dominates Vegas

March 2nd, 2011 by

Brad Davies completely dominated Week Two of the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, leading 106 of 133 laps en route to the online racing victory. Davies put a bad run in the season opener at Daytona in the rear view mirror by starting on pole and never being challenged on … Read the Rest »