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Falcon V8 Online Racing an Absolute Hit

May 12th, 2010 by

The first race of the brand new iRacing Ford Falcon V8 Supercar series proved to be an absolute hit with just about everyone. A total of 803 drivers competed in an incredible 137 splits at Philip Island in the opening week of 2010 Season Two. That is nearly 300 drivers more than in one of … Read the Rest »

Falcons Fly in iRacing.com Pro Series

May 12th, 2010 by

With a new season in the iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing (iPSRR) underway featuring the brand-new Ford Falcon V8, three sim racers sit atop of the standings table following the opening week of online racing from Sebring International Raceway.  Jessie Nieminen, Klaus Kivekas and Max Dell’Orco each collected 259 points from their victories in the … Read the Rest »

Pagenaud a winner from South Boston to Spa

May 10th, 2010 by

Simon Pagenaud completed a unique double yesterday, becoming the first driver to ever win a Legends Cup race at South Boston Speedway and the Le Mans Series Spa 1000kms in the same season. Pagenaud, an iRacer since last August, scored his Legends Cup sim racing win at South Boston in February.  Yesterday, he teamed with … Read the Rest »

Time for NASCAR i.Racing Pro Series

May 7th, 2010 by

The time has finally come for the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) to get underway. The fight to get into the NiPS was brutal, but that’s just the beginning. As the feeder series to the Grand Daddy of them all – the NASCAR iRacing.com World Championship Series (NiWCS) – all the drivers will need to … Read the Rest »

Online Racing a Featured Attraction at NASCAR Hall of Fame

May 5th, 2010 by

The 15 iRacing.com-powered NASCAR stock car simulators proved to be a popular attraction yesterday during a media preview of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.   More than 100 journalists took the opportunity to take some virtual laps of Charlotte Motor Speedway in one of the seven two-seat NASCAR stock car replicas, along … Read the Rest »

Seven Qualifiers for Second Annual World Cup of iRacing

May 4th, 2010 by

It may seem like eons until next January and the Second Annual World Cup of iRacing tournament, but with Season One of 2010 in the books seven clubs have already clinched a spot in the online racing tourney’s Regional Annual Club Championships (RACC).  They did so by winning the first of four Regional Season Club … Read the Rest »

Redline Sweep Infineon in Online Racing War of Attrition

May 4th, 2010 by

As the iRacing Drivers World Championship Road Racing (iDWCRR) departs the Infineon Speedway following the sixth week of the online racing series, many of the World Championship drivers were left nursing virtual headaches after the toughest event of the season so far. In a race with no less than a half-dozen retirements, Greger Huttu continued … Read the Rest »

Good, Hard Lessons

April 28th, 2010 by

After a winter’s worth of preparation and anticipation, I headed to Virginia International Raceway last week for Rounds One and Two of the 2010 SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup.   As many of you know, I was fortunate enough to win the iRacing VW Jetta TDI Cup Series last year and with it – … Read the Rest »

Tim’s Talladega 499

April 28th, 2010 by

After the Talladega 312 on Friday evening, I had plenty of time to reflect on what I had done during the event and decided that there was probably nothing I could have done to avoid being caught up in an incident at one time or another. I figure the major penalty of staying at the … Read the Rest »

Real Online Racers Never Give Up

April 26th, 2010 by

Talladega Superspeedway has been my favorite place to watch a race since I first discovered NASCAR in 1994: I could not believe racing of this type existed and after watching a few seasons of Formula One that had bored me to tears or drove me to them with death and ram-happy Germans; I latched onto … Read the Rest »