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The 28th Vintage Racing Festival Formula 1 Reunion June 22 – 25, 2007

August 15th, 2010 by

Editor’s Note:  Divina Galica, iRacing.com’s Director of Partner Relations, has enjoyed a thoroughly remarkable sports career.  A two-time captain of the British Olympic Ski team, she competed in the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympic games and also set a world speed skiing record of 125 mph.  She later turned her competitive focus to race … Read the Rest »

Arie Ouimet on fast track to dream job

August 9th, 2010 by

iRacer Arie Ouimet is attracting lots of attention for his exploits in the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup.  Here’s a story by Boston Globe reporter Bill Griffith that recently appeared on boston.com: Arie Ouimet of Plymouth is going places — fast. At the midpoint of the season, the 19-year-old rookie driver in Volkswagen’s TDI Cup racing … Read the Rest »

Wyatt Gooden Wins Round Six,Takes Lead in 2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup

August 3rd, 2010 by

Ohio iRacer Scores Second Consecutive Victory Series rookie, Wyatt Gooden, earned his second consecutive Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup victory and the season-championship point lead on Sunday with a win at Autobahn Country Club, Round Six of the ten race SCCA Pro Series championship.  Two more rookies rounded out the top-three as Jarvis Gennari earned his … Read the Rest »

Indy's tough in real, virtual life

July 21st, 2010 by

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — My No. 64 Sprint Cup Car approaches the Yard of Bricks, that famous piece of real estate on the front straightaway at Indianapolis Motor Speedway that race car drivers yearn to kiss. I’m going 170 mph. “Stay on the gas,” says the voice in my ear. 180. “You ain’t going to get … Read the Rest »

Indy’s tough in real, virtual life

July 21st, 2010 by

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — My No. 64 Sprint Cup Car approaches the Yard of Bricks, that famous piece of real estate on the front straightaway at Indianapolis Motor Speedway that race car drivers yearn to kiss. I’m going 170 mph. “Stay on the gas,” says the voice in my ear. 180. “You ain’t going to get … Read the Rest »

The problem with sim racing is…

July 19th, 2010 by

The lack of excuses! When I look at the lap records for a given track, I am usually in the top quarter, quite often in the top ten percent. Yet the gap to the top drivers seems positively cavernous and, quite simply, unachievable, even if I sold the wife and kids and devoted the remainder … Read the Rest »

Gooden Continues to Make his Mark

July 13th, 2010 by

Wyatt Gooden continues to make his mark, online and on and off the race track.  Days after scoring his first win in the SCCA’s 2010 VW Jetta TDI Cup race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Gooden was the subject of this feature story in the “Cleveland Plain Dealer” Gooden starts to burn up the … Read the Rest »

A Rare Breed

July 2nd, 2010 by

You know what they say about NFL placekickers:  they’re a rare breed.  That’s understandable, given it’s a sport where anyone who checks-in under 6’2” and 250 lbs is considered petit and the fate of a team – and the hopes of millions of fans — often rests on one man’s ability to kick an ellipsoid … Read the Rest »

Role Reversal

June 25th, 2010 by

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and spotter TJ Majors stopped by the iRacing offices in Bedford, MA yesterday en route to New Hampshire Motor Speedway for this weekend’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race #17 on the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule.  Earnhardt and Majors took some time to do some roll reversal with Majors running some laps … Read the Rest »

Q&A With Byron Daley

June 24th, 2010 by

As 2010 Season Two enters the home stretch, Byron Daley finds himself leading the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series standings, while running in the top twenty in the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series in his rookie pro campaign.  Not bad for an 18 year old from the Bronx, a locale more commonly associated with the New … Read the Rest »