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Southern Flavor

July 21st, 2011 by

Week Eleven in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge took the sim racers to Braselton, Georgia for the twists and turns of one of the United States’ most famous road courses: 2.54-mile, 12-turn Road Atlanta.  During the week a total of 426 drivers attempted to conquer the monster of a track, but it was Laszlo Kotrocz (England) … Read the Rest »

Engelhart Tames The Monster

July 21st, 2011 by

Herbert Engelhart continues to pick-up steam as he heads towards a NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified championship in 2011 Season Two. Engelhart, a veteran sim racer from the MidSouth Club, scored the most points in Week Eleven at Dover International Speedway to take one step closer to the prestigious online racing championship. Engelhart scored 181 points … Read the Rest »

Davies Dominates The Brickyard

July 20th, 2011 by

Week Twelve of the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship brought the series to the fabled Indianapolis Motor Speedway. With the season’s end in sight it was anyone’s guess what might happen in the online race. The Brickyard is not known for intense stock car battles thanks to its flat corners and long straightaways, but the … Read the Rest »

Championship Horizons

July 19th, 2011 by

The virtual Daytona International played host to Round Eight of the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the online racing Championship that pitches the digital-replica’s of the Riley MKXX Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S in multi-class races. With the prize of an all expenses paid trip to the final round of the real-life GRAND-AM … Read the Rest »

Schneiders Strikes Back at Lime Rock

July 19th, 2011 by

After two weeks of sneaking into the top five in the NVIDIA Cup, Marco Schneiders showed the online racing competition at Lime Rock that he is not to be taken lightly in the championship hunt. Schneiders, who hails from Germany, took top honors in Week Three of 2011 Season 2c and moved himself within 14 … Read the Rest »

Gooden Plenty II

July 18th, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Wyatt Gooden has enjoyed great success racing sedans in both the real and virtual worlds.  As winner of the iRacing.com VW Jetta TDi Cup series in 2008, the young Ohioan earned an iRacing.com-sponsored ride in the 2009 SCCA Pro Racing VW Jetta TDi Cup.  After a rough first outing,Gooden rebounded to score a … Read the Rest »

Nieminen Hangs-on for Silverstone Win

July 18th, 2011 by

Although Round Eleven of sim-racing’s pinnacle road-racing championship at the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit announced a brand new sponsor and title name — the iRacing.com NVIDIA Series — it was an established favourite claiming the spoils of victory in the race.  Whilst on paper Jesse Nieminen’s pole-to-flag victory appears to be another story of an … Read the Rest »

Kirby Earns Third Win Of Season

July 16th, 2011 by

Notching his third victory in only seven starts, Justin Kirby has turned a lot of heads in his first season with the Red Sox Racing League.  Kirby started off the league’s 2011 Season Two schedule with a victory at the technically challenging layout of Spa, and then followed it up with another win at the … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Vinnie Sansone

July 16th, 2011 by

There are more parallels between the online racing of iRacing.com and the “real” racing of NASCAR than just precisely-modeled cars and tracks and well-organized sanctioning bodies.   Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart and a host of other NASCAR stars cut their racing teeth in the USAC ranks driving quarter midgets, midgets, sprint … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com NVIDIA Series Announced

July 15th, 2011 by

iRacing.com announced today that NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies, will sponsor the iRacing.com NVIDIA Series.  Previously known as the iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing, the iRacing.com NVIDIA Series features the world’s top online racers competing in virtual replicas of the Williams-Toyota FW31 Formula One cars on precise, digital versions of many … Read the Rest »