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In Name Only

April 30th, 2012 by

It’s misleading at best, grossly unfair at worst, to call Simon Pagenaud a rookie in the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series.  After all, the soft-spoken Frenchman raced the full Champ Car World Series as teammate to Will Power in ‘07.  He also impressed as a pinch-hitter in the IZOD IndyCar Series last year, stepping-in for the … Read the Rest »

The Fun Factory Returns

April 30th, 2012 by

With words such as “Boy did I have fun”, “The car feels awesome now”, “Always felt in Control” and most telling “Love the new Radical, feels FANTASTIC!” it’s clear that in a patch which listed absolutely no specific changes, the Radical has returned to its entertaining best, after a season where its edgyness and less … Read the Rest »

Back to the Future

April 30th, 2012 by

Classic Teams Championship Preview Season 2 2012 of the Lotus 79 based Classic Teams Championship (CTC) is just around the corner, and for the first time it will be based upon the 1979 F1 championship season. Team Surtees and Team Hesketh may have disappeared but their places have been taken by Autodelta Alfa Romeo and … Read the Rest »

Brooks Best in Class C

April 29th, 2012 by

The season long battle between Justin Brooks and Heath Hindman for the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS) crown came down the final two weeks of the season. Hundreds of sim racers came out to test their skills at the Darlington Raceway and Kentucky Speedway in the final two rounds, but when the final laps … Read the Rest »

Lambert Outlasts Late Model Field

April 28th, 2012 by

After 12 weeks of action and thousands of laps in the 2012 Season One iRacing Late Model Tour (iLMT) season, it was Mark Lambert who came out on top of over 3,100 drivers to become champion of the series. While he was relatively quiet in the last two weeks of his championship season, many others … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – Paulo Valente

April 27th, 2012 by

Paulo Valente is not perfect.  In 48 starts at the wheel of his virtual Mustang FR500S in 2012 Season 1 he only earned 47 top five finishes . . .   That glaring exception aside, the resident of Aveiro, Portugal was plenty good enough to take a pair of titles last season, namely the Mustang Class … Read the Rest »

Globe Trotters

April 27th, 2012 by

Weeks 9 and 10 took the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge outside of North America for the final time this season, to a pair of tracks 10,000 miles apart in opposite hemispheres. Their track layouts once again provided the globe-trotting sim racers with contrast from week-to-week as Silverstone’s wide, historic airfield layout in the English … Read the Rest »

iGPWCS Round 5 on iRacing Live Saturday

April 27th, 2012 by

Round 5 of the iRacing.com Grand Prix World Championship Series will be broadcast iRacing Live on Saturday, April 28 starting at 7 pm EDT (22:00 GMT).  On tap are 83 laps of the 11 turn, 2.314 mile Okayama International Circuit. After last season’s up and down defense of his 2010 championship, Greger Huttu has returned … Read the Rest »

It’s a Wrap

April 26th, 2012 by

With Kentucky Motor Speedway now in the books, the 2012 Season One NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series (NiCAS) season is a wrap. A season that saw outstanding participation in the top level oval car in the world of online racing, and reached new heights for weekly averages will certainly be one to remember for a … Read the Rest »

Urbizu takes the spoils, Stergios takes the glory

April 25th, 2012 by

The iRacing.com Grand Prix Series (iGPS) returned to the “Home of British Motor Racing” – Silverstone Circuit for the final race of the 12 week long iGPS Season 1. A historical track which hosted its first Britsh Grand Prix in 1948, Silverstone has been staged on the F1 calendar every year since 1987 and the … Read the Rest »