All News: iRacing News

It’s an Ill Wind that Blows No Good

December 14th, 2009 by

Week 19 of the iRacing Pro Series Oval blew the iRacing Pros to the Windy City of Chicago. The high banked, one and a half mile oval promised to be exciting for the competitors, but nobody could have expected what Wednesday night had in store for them. Wednesday night, which is usually the most popular … Read the Rest »

Berry Shines in Valley of the Sun

December 14th, 2009 by

Week Six of the Chevy Silverado Championship saw the drivers head out west to Phoenix International Raceway. There were several close battles to the finish throughout the week, as participants got their first taste of flat track racing in the CSC this season. The trip to PIR marked the second week in a row that … 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 »

Pro Road Racing at Homestead – Some new faces on top.

December 8th, 2009 by

Last week marked the end of r-ovals, sort of. This week’s iRacing Pro Series Road Racing action moved to Homestead-Miami Speedway’s Road A configuration, which uses only the straight sections of the oval proper. Some stayed away from this circuit, dismissing it as another r-oval, but those who did participate were pleasantly surprised at how … Read the Rest »

Oval Pros in the Desert

December 7th, 2009 by

Week 18 of the iRacing Pro Series Oval brought the pros to the Arizona desert, where Josh Berry continued his impressive form at Phoenix International Raceway.  Berry snagged the pole for his split on Wednesday with a time of 27.860s and never looked back, going on to lead 107 of the 130 laps and adding … Read the Rest »

Drag’n Slayer

December 5th, 2009 by

I was working on some acceleration tests at Indianapolis with various cars to determine their power curves and stumbled upon an interesting idea. I figured I could estimate the drag coefficient from the cars by capturing some telemetry data. I wanted to remove the aero drag and rolling resistance forces from the data in order … Read the Rest »

World Cup of iRacing – Anticipation Starting to Grow

December 4th, 2009 by

We have been a little busier than usual here at iRacing this Fall.    Along with the normal onging improvements to the service and spreading the word about iRacing, we have been readying ourselves for the World Cup of iRacing tournament, not to mention the iRacing Drivers World Championship, starting in February. More on the Drivers … Read the Rest »

On the Rebound

December 2nd, 2009 by

Brad Davies rebounded from a disappointing week of racing at Martinsville Speedway to score his fourteenth win of the iRacing Pro Series Road Racing campaign on Wednesday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway.  Davies started from pole and led 35 of 110 laps en route to a 15.9s win over Thomas Lewandowski who just managed to … Read the Rest »

Pro Road Racing at Lowe’s – The Last R-oval

December 1st, 2009 by

This week marks the end of r-ovals for the remainder of the season . . . much to the delight of many who have targeted them from the get-go as weeks to drop. However, the racing has been pretty good over this mid-season period with some of the drivers not minding these types of tracks … Read the Rest »

Martinsville Shut-Out

November 25th, 2009 by

iRacing Pro Series Oval championship leader Brad Davies was shut-out of the win column last week at Martinsville.  Indeed, in two races the man who has led the iPSO points race from the get-go managed to add a “mere” 115 points to his series-leading total after disconnecting in one race and coming home twelfth in … Read the Rest »