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Spa Treatment

December 19th, 2010 by

I’m living a motorsports fan’s dream:  Watching a race at Spa-Francorchamps from the window of my room at Auberge de la Source, the picturesque country inn overlooking the La Source hairpin which, of course, takes its name from the adjacent establishment. The amazing thing is that I’m actually nearly 4,000 miles west of Francorchamps, Belgium, … Read the Rest »

Fast Short Track IndyCar Action

December 18th, 2010 by

Week Six of the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series led the drivers back  to short oval racing and saw some great online races. The Milwaukee Mile with a length of a bit more than one mile is the oldest oval in operation – even older than the famous Indianpolis Motor Speedway!  Built in the 1800s as … Read the Rest »

It’s Unanimous

December 18th, 2010 by

In racing it’s rare to find something a majority of drivers agree on. It seems to be even more rare when it’s something that everyone seems to enjoy. That was the case though this past week when the iRacing.com Skip Barber Race Series made its way to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for its second … Read the Rest »

Three Stars and a Supporting Cast

December 17th, 2010 by

Talking about iRacing’s new Mazda MX-5, the inRacingNews article “Balancing Act” made the claim that “slower cars will always generate closer racing in the sim and in real life (than really fast cars)…” In support of that claim, I give you the 5pm split on Sunday, December 12th in the iRacing Mazda Cup at Mazda … Read the Rest »

Heartbreak for MacLean and Sirois

December 17th, 2010 by

The O’Neil PC Systems Grand Touring Championship (GTC) holds two endurance events every season.  The first of this season saw the ISRA field descend upon the ever popular Watkins Glen.  As one of iRacing’s most visited tracks all competitors have many laps in the books here and everyone was feeling quietly confident in the run-up … Read the Rest »

Tight Competition at the Glen

December 16th, 2010 by

The inRacingNews Challenge roared into upstate New York last week for its first encounter with Watkins Glen International.  The short Cup Circuit brought out the best in the sim racers in both the Pontiac Solstice and the SpecRacer Ford classes, witness the close battles for the week’s top points haul in both cars. Duncan Coppedge … Read the Rest »

Desperate in the Desert

December 15th, 2010 by

Week Sixteen of the NASCAR iRacing Pro Series took the drivers out west to Phoenix International Raceway for the first time this season. With only three weeks left until the end of the season, drivers on the bubble of qualifying for the 2011 NASCAR iRacing Series World Championship needed to keep their noses clean, while … Read the Rest »

A Week at the Beach

December 15th, 2010 by

The sixth round of the inaugural GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sport Car Series, the online mixed class championship open to PC owners with a subscription to the iRacing Motorsports Simulation service, headed to the Netherlands and the virtual shores of the North Sea as the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and the Ford Mustang FR500S took to … Read the Rest »

RSR Sebring: Rundell’s Race, Turner’s Title

December 15th, 2010 by

Florida’s Sebring International Raceway hosted the final RSR league race of the 2010 Season Three schedule.  As drivers and fans arrived for the “24 Laps of Sebring” event, all eyes were glued to the garages of Les Turner, Tommy Rhyne, and Terry McCuin.  With only 12 points separating the top three sim racers, everyone knew … Read the Rest »

Got Milk? Shaun Stroud Does.

December 14th, 2010 by

In a dramatic finish to the iamIndy500.de, Shaun Stroud took the win in front of an extremely fast John Paquin after 200 laps of online racing! Despite a last lap attack in his Dallara (sporting a lightly damaged front wing), Paquin wasn’t able to get by the Englishman. In the end both sim racers where … Read the Rest »