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Lionheart IndyCar Series Heads to AutoClub for Season Finale Tonight!

June 10th, 2015 by

On Wednesday night the Lionheart IndyCar Series presented by Overdrive Graphics and Sim Posters heads to the Auto Club Speedway for the Season Finale! Tonight’s race is broadcast at 9:35pm Central Time on the Global SimRacing Channel. With the championship already wrapped up for Jesse Vincent, and Big Joe Hassert sitting solidly in second, the … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – For the Alpha: the Omega, Part 1

June 10th, 2015 by

There’s no denying the fact that the garage system iRacing introduced to the sim racing world back in 2008 turned said world on its ear.  While it has yet to be adopted by other racing sims as of yet, it remains the most realistic environment for racecar setup work on a simulated platform.  In older … Read the Rest »

McMullen Victorious at Sonoma

June 5th, 2015 by

As Marlon McMullen wraps up a dominant win at Sonoma, the defending champion has his eyes on a fourth title. Week 11 of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Americas series brought drivers and fans alike to the technical and challenging Sonoma Raceway. The penultimate race of Season 2, tensions were high as V8 Supercars Americas defending … Read the Rest »

Testing on the Sim with Felipe Massa

June 5th, 2015 by

These days Formula One allows for very little on-track testing, so the teams have turned to simulators for much of their race car development. In the latest SAFEisFast video tutorial, Felipe Massa takes us inside the Williams F1 factory and shows how they do it. Bobby Rahal www.SAFEisFast.com

Humpe Back in Victory Lane at Dover

June 3rd, 2015 by

Kenny Humpe drove a nearly perfect race and returned to victory lane at Dover International Speedway for his fourth win in the 2015 NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series Powered by iRacing. Humpe held-off Justin Bolton on a green-white-checkered restart to secure the win. After starting second, Humpe overhauled polesitter and teammate Bolton 30 laps into the … Read the Rest »

Record-Setting 6th Annual iRacing Indianapolis 500

June 2nd, 2015 by

The Sixth iRacing Indianapolis 500 is in the record books, and oh what records!  With four time slots over the weekend of May 29-31 the Greatest Spectacle in Online Racing saw nearly 1400 iRacers take part in 62 splits featuring between 31 and 33 drivers.  With some sim racers competing in two, three and even … Read the Rest »

Madison Down…Enough Said

May 28th, 2015 by

Nine-time iRacing.com V8 Supercars champion, Madison Down, knows full well that it’s never too cloudy to have a good race. With 274 career road-racing wins from 551 starts, Down is no stranger to victory lane. Indeed, even the overcast and gloomy conditions combined with the twists and turns of Virginia International Raceway did little to … Read the Rest »

IndyCar Reality Check: Indianapolis 500

May 27th, 2015 by

Now that the 99th Indianapolis 500 is in the books — and Juan Pablo Montoya and Roger Penske are divying-up the $2,449,055 winner’s share of the purse —  iRacers can set their sights on this weekend’s iRacing Indy 500. And while getting Indy 500 setup advice from race engineers is nearly impossible, I was able … Read the Rest »

What Does the End of Week 12 Mean in the NASCAR iRacing Series?

May 27th, 2015 by

Short answer?  It means we have completed one third of the season, and run the Daytona 500 and the longest sim race of the season, the Coke 600. If my math holds up we have been scheduled to run 3,201 miles over 2,247 laps. Google Maps tells me that’s the number of miles covered by … Read the Rest »

So Near Yet So Far

May 26th, 2015 by

NASCAR iRacing Seres Open  – Week 12: 400 Laps at Charlotte Motor Speedway This is one of the races I look forward to more than most. The reasons are many, but the long green flag runs and pitting under green as well as the raw tactics of the long race always get me pumped. How … Read the Rest »