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Introducing AntiSpeed Competition

January 15th, 2010 by

Editor’s note:  inRacingNews is pleased to present the first installment of a regular blog by Austin Brauser and Charlie Anti, of AntiSpeed Competition.  Both iRacers, Anti will be driving a F2000 engineered by Brauser in this year’s US F2000 National Championship.  We think you’ll enjoy their unique perspective on the trials, tribulations and (we hope) … Read the Rest »

An Interesting Year, Part II

January 9th, 2010 by

There were two weeks between the 1978 Grand Prix in Argentina and the race in Brazil so directly after the Argentine race we flew to Rio de Janeiro. When I arrived in Rio, I found the modest little hotel near the docks where the team was to be housed for the week prior to the … Read the Rest »

iRacing’s Corvette: Good Enough is Not Good Enough

January 8th, 2010 by

We’ve gotten approval to build the Pratt & Miller Corvette C6.R GT1 car!  SWEEEEET!  OK, what’s first?  Hmmmm. Dyno sheets.  That’s the most important thing, right?  That beautiful sounding motor, deep and rumbling, with earth-moving torque and acceleration.  Now that sounds like fun! Getting the power to the ground is next, so what gearbox does … Read the Rest »

iRacing's Corvette: Good Enough is Not Good Enough

January 8th, 2010 by

We’ve gotten approval to build the Pratt & Miller Corvette C6.R GT1 car!  SWEEEEET!  OK, what’s first?  Hmmmm. Dyno sheets.  That’s the most important thing, right?  That beautiful sounding motor, deep and rumbling, with earth-moving torque and acceleration.  Now that sounds like fun! Getting the power to the ground is next, so what gearbox does … Read the Rest »

Taking the Plunge

January 7th, 2010 by

For many iRacers, the thrill of competing in the online world is sometimes the pinnacle of their motorsport careers, albeit in the virtual world (yet many treat it like real-life).  But for some sim-racers, the prospect of going into real world racing is too much to resist and so this year I decided to take … Read the Rest »

An Interesting Year, Part I

January 1st, 2010 by

1978 was an interesting year for me, as it was the year I was named to drive the Hesketh 308E in the FIA Formula One Championship. I would be on the tracks with the great drivers of that time, six of whom were or would become World Champions: Emerson Fittipaldi (1972 and ’74), Niki Lauda … Read the Rest »

A Day with the Chief Steward

December 11th, 2009 by

I’m sure there are a lot of you out there who wonder what it’s like in an average day of being Chief Steward for F.I.R.S.T. (Federation of Internet Racing and Sanctioning Trust).  I’ll try to explain what we do with protests, the process of investigating cases, and some of our philosophies behind some of the … Read the Rest »

BRDC International Trophy Silverstone

November 21st, 2009 by

It’s 1978 and I’m sitting in Hesketh Formula One car at Silverstone listening to Rene Arnoux’s team trying to fire his engine in the next door garage. My race is in his hands. If he fails to start I will get to race as I’m reserve driver for this event and Nikki Lauda already refused … Read the Rest »

Formula One for a Day

November 13th, 2009 by

Any racer, sim- or real-world, would give anything to be in Formula One.   A career to match that of Michael Schumacher would be nice but, heck, just the chance to drive a few laps in one of the world’s fastest and most technically advanced race cars is more than 99.99% of the F1- wannabes can … Read the Rest »

Coeur d’Alene to Woking

November 7th, 2009 by

It’s a long way from Couer d’Alene, Idaho to Brands Hatch and Silverstone; further still to Woking, Surrey.  Thanks to the efforts of Brett Smrz, England seems a little closer to the Potato State these days. Together with California’s Conor DePhillippi, Smrz recently flew the red, white and blue colors of the Team USA Scholarship … Read the Rest »