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Role Reversal

June 25th, 2010 by

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and spotter TJ Majors stopped by the iRacing offices in Bedford, MA yesterday en route to New Hampshire Motor Speedway for this weekend’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Race #17 on the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule.  Earnhardt and Majors took some time to do some roll reversal with Majors running some laps … Read the Rest »

School’s In for Summer!

June 25th, 2010 by

iRacing.com Offers Online Racing Instruction for Racing Game Enthusiasts There are books on how to drive a racing car and schools in the physical world where aspiring drivers can get hands-on instruction.  Now drivers who race in the virtual world have the iRacing.com Driving School, a modular 16-unit online race-driving instructional package.  Nearly two years … Read the Rest »

Q&A With Byron Daley

June 24th, 2010 by

As 2010 Season Two enters the home stretch, Byron Daley finds himself leading the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series standings, while running in the top twenty in the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series in his rookie pro campaign.  Not bad for an 18 year old from the Bronx, a locale more commonly associated with the New … Read the Rest »

Bringing Home the Brats

June 21st, 2010 by

Richard Crozier (Club Celtic) laid a bit of a whoopin’ on his fellow iRacers in the top-rated split of the World Tour of iRacing’s Road America 200 on Saturday.  The Scot brought his Chevrolet Impala SS B home more than a minute ahead of the similar car of neighbor Richard Towler (England) with New England’s … Read the Rest »

Professional Sim Racing (for non-Aliens)

June 18th, 2010 by

In November of 2009 iRacing.com introduced a feature that enables members to host their own races.  A session does cost $3 for the host, but he or she can have as many people join as they want for free as long as there is a stall for them on pit road. The most significant advantage … Read the Rest »

Berry Survives — and Wins — New Hampshire

June 16th, 2010 by

New Hampshire Motor Speedway was the site of the tenth online race of the NASCAR iRacing.com World Championship Series (NiWCS).  With points leader Richard Towler coming-off back-to-back wins at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Michigan International Raceway, the question was whether anyone could stop his wining streak.  That someone turned out to be Josh Berry, who … Read the Rest »

NiPS Storms Michigan International Speedway

June 15th, 2010 by

Denny Hamlin (NSCS) and Aric Almirola (NCWTS) were not the only drivers to win at Michigan International Speedway this week. The NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series stormed into MIS for some of the best online racing of the season. The high banked 2.0 mile oval provided for excellent side-by-side sim racing, and some surprise winners. Marc Wulf led … Read the Rest »

Numbers Game

June 15th, 2010 by

In one sense, Round Nine of the iRacing Drivers World Championship Road Racing can be summed-up by the online racing numbers.  As in the ninth win in as many tries for Greger Huttu, who led from green light to checkered flag at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Saturday.  That’s 50 more laps in the lead … Read the Rest »

McLean THE GP Master

June 14th, 2010 by

Move over Lewis Hamilton.  Sure, the 2008 World Champion may have won Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, but the night before Australia’s Luke McLean scored an impressive “Grand Prix” win of his own in the GP Masters Final sponsored by Grand Prix Tours, Dell and Intel.  The race pitted the top points-getters in the GP Master … Read the Rest »

iRacing: Music to Florian Godard’s Ears

June 9th, 2010 by

Florian Godard lives life in the allegro lane.  A world-class double bassist in the Orchestre d’Ile de France, Godard is one of just five sim racers regularly competing in both the NASCAR iRacing.com World Championship Series (NiWCS) and the iRacing Drivers World Championship Road Racing (iDWCRR).  But beautiful music and fast cars have long been vital … Read the Rest »