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Online Racing a Featured Attraction at NASCAR Hall of Fame

May 5th, 2010 by

The 15 iRacing.com-powered NASCAR stock car simulators proved to be a popular attraction yesterday during a media preview of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.   More than 100 journalists took the opportunity to take some virtual laps of Charlotte Motor Speedway in one of the seven two-seat NASCAR stock car replicas, along … Read the Rest »

Seven Qualifiers for Second Annual World Cup of iRacing

May 4th, 2010 by

It may seem like eons until next January and the Second Annual World Cup of iRacing tournament, but with Season One of 2010 in the books seven clubs have already clinched a spot in the online racing tourney’s Regional Annual Club Championships (RACC).  They did so by winning the first of four Regional Season Club … Read the Rest »

Redline Sweep Infineon in Online Racing War of Attrition

May 4th, 2010 by

As the iRacing Drivers World Championship Road Racing (iDWCRR) departs the Infineon Speedway following the sixth week of the online racing series, many of the World Championship drivers were left nursing virtual headaches after the toughest event of the season so far. In a race with no less than a half-dozen retirements, Greger Huttu continued … Read the Rest »

Good, Hard Lessons

April 28th, 2010 by

After a winter’s worth of preparation and anticipation, I headed to Virginia International Raceway last week for Rounds One and Two of the 2010 SCCA Pro Racing Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup.   As many of you know, I was fortunate enough to win the iRacing VW Jetta TDI Cup Series last year and with it – … Read the Rest »

Tim’s Talladega 499

April 28th, 2010 by

After the Talladega 312 on Friday evening, I had plenty of time to reflect on what I had done during the event and decided that there was probably nothing I could have done to avoid being caught up in an incident at one time or another. I figure the major penalty of staying at the … Read the Rest »

Real Online Racers Never Give Up

April 26th, 2010 by

Talladega Superspeedway has been my favorite place to watch a race since I first discovered NASCAR in 1994: I could not believe racing of this type existed and after watching a few seasons of Formula One that had bored me to tears or drove me to them with death and ram-happy Germans; I latched onto … Read the Rest »

Online Racing’s Talladega 811

April 26th, 2010 by

The World Tour of iRacing’s first doubleheader weekend produced 811 miles of action-packed online racing as Friday’s Talladega 312 for Impala SS Class B and Saturday’s Talladega 499 for Impala SS Class A (COT) saw more than 1,200 entries and nearly 6,000 laps of fierce sim racing competition. Every iRacer had a shot or two … Read the Rest »

Mixed Feelings for South African iRacer

April 21st, 2010 by

Last weekend saw Darryn Lobb, 2009 South African Shelby Can-Am champion head to Cape Town for Round Three of the 2010 South African Shelby Can-Am championship. Darryn is currently leading the points championship by 23 points after two wins in the first four heats. With added motivation after the blown motor in the Cape Town … Read the Rest »

Davies Dominates Talladega

April 21st, 2010 by

In typical Talladega fashion, the outcome of last night’s NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) race came down to a few last laps of frantic online racing action for just about everyone but Brad Davies.  As he was most of the race, Davies was in front of the field when a big crash erupted in … Read the Rest »

The Two Worlds of Josh Berry

April 20th, 2010 by

Entering tonight’s race at Talladega Superspeedway, Hendersonville, Tennessee’s Josh Berry finds himself in ninth spot in the inaugural NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) points race.   Although the veteran online racer has yet to find the form that garnered nearly a dozen wins and third spot in last year’s iRacing Pro Series Oval (iPSO) competition, … Read the Rest »