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Official NASCAR Online Racing Begins

January 21st, 2010 by

iRacing.com Is Home To Five NASCAR Series A vision that Bill France Jr. articulated more than fifteen years ago will become reality this season with the formation of the NASCAR iRacing.com Series, an official NASCAR racing series. On February 9th online racing competition commences with the first event of the inaugural 18-race, 39-week NASCAR iRacing … Read the Rest »

iRacing World Tour Kicks Off With Rolex 2.4 on January 30

January 20th, 2010 by

Virtual Version of Grand-Am Season Opener Features Riley XX Daytona Prototype on Digital Duplicate of Daytona Road Course As the green flag waves at 3:30 p.m. EDT to start the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway, hundreds of iRacing members will be just winding down from their own participation in a tribute 2.4-hour (144-minute) virtual … Read the Rest »

iRacing Pro Road Racers at Infineon Raceway

January 19th, 2010 by

Dark Clouds over Normally Sunny California And so the iRacing Pro Series Road Racing moved to Infineon Raceway this week and the top three of England’s Richard Towler, Australia’s Luke McLean and Canada’s Shawn Purdy knew that a poor performance of online driving would see them either drop out of contention for the title or … Read the Rest »

Two for One

January 18th, 2010 by

With only two weeks remaining in the inaugural iRacing Pro Series Oval season, the points battles for the championship and the top 50 (and a spot in the iRacing Drivers World Championship) are hot and heavy. Entering the week, Brad Davies enjoyed a useful — but vulnerable — 53 point lead over Josh Parker in … Read the Rest »

Second Shift

January 16th, 2010 by

Alright, I wouldn’t go so far as to call this a retraction, but let’s call it a little clarification of the last article I wrote on the optimum shift RPMs for the Skip Barber car. Based on the calculations of horsepower and RPMs, I put together a prescribed set of shift RPMs for each gear … Read the Rest »

iRacing at the Autosport International Show

January 16th, 2010 by

The second week of January always heralds the start of a ‘new racing season;’ whilst the first laps in anger are many weeks away, the Autosport International Show is traditionally seen as the opening event on the motorsport calendar. This year, the team from iRacing Motorsport Simulations have jetted across the Atlantic to make an … Read the Rest »

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 »

Williams F1 and iRacing Announce Virtual Version of AT&T Williams FW31

January 14th, 2010 by

Digital Duplicate of Current-Era Grand Prix Car Will Be Available in 2010 iRacing.com will build a virtual version of the 2009 AT&T Williams FW31 and make it available to members of its internet-based global motorsport simulation service.  The announcement at the Autosport International show in Birmingham, UK was made jointly by Williams F1 and iRacing.com … Read the Rest »

Online Pro Road Racers at Silverstone

January 12th, 2010 by

Towler Good, McLean Better, Purdy hanging on Silverstone GP is the home track of England’s Richard Towler and he fared well here in Round 23 of iRacing Pro Series Road Racing  competition this week.   But it was Australian Luke McLean who was able to go one better, thus keeping the series well and truly … Read the Rest »

iRacing Pros Tackle Michigan International Speedway

January 11th, 2010 by

The iRacing Pros tackled the high banks of Michigan International Speedway for Week 23 of the iRacing Pro Series Oval. Michigan provides excellent racing for online racing competitors. The preferred line around the two mile track is from the middle to the top, but those who could conquer the challenge of setting their car up … Read the Rest »