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iRacer Gets His Shot at Real World Racing – With a Little Help from His Friends

March 3rd, 2011 by

Like a lot of people who would like to go racing, Tyler Hudson found that after he put all the money he had into buying an entry-level race car, he didn’t have anything left to run it.  So he turned to racing in the virtual world with iRacing.com and now his friends and competitors there … Read the Rest »

IndyCar Racing Returns to Road America

March 3rd, 2011 by

The road course edition of the IZOD IndyCar Series is now two races in the books, with this past week’s events at Road America now complete. The Wisconsin track, the first of three tracks not to appear on the real-life IndyCar schedule, has a long and storied history of real open-wheel racing nonetheless, making it … Read the Rest »

Mallia and Sharman Premier Racers

March 2nd, 2011 by

This week witnessed the premier of the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, a 10 round championship spread across 26 weeks featuring the digital versions of the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and the Ford Mustang FR500S on millimeter-accurate virtual versions of most of the tracks on the GRAND-AM Rolex Series calendar.  The championship is … Read the Rest »

Davies Dominates Vegas

March 2nd, 2011 by

Brad Davies completely dominated Week Two of the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, leading 106 of 133 laps en route to the online racing victory. Davies put a bad run in the season opener at Daytona in the rear view mirror by starting on pole and never being challenged on … Read the Rest »

Laughton Lays It On 'Em at Dover

March 1st, 2011 by

The stars of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS) trucked into Delaware last week for seven days of online racing at the track nicknamed the “Monster Mile.” Dover International Raceway played host to Round Four on the schedule and proved popular with the drivers as 1112 of them came out to race in the … Read the Rest »

Laughton Lays It On ‘Em at Dover

March 1st, 2011 by

The stars of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS) trucked into Delaware last week for seven days of online racing at the track nicknamed the “Monster Mile.” Dover International Raceway played host to Round Four on the schedule and proved popular with the drivers as 1112 of them came out to race in the … Read the Rest »

Class A Ticket to Vegas

March 1st, 2011 by

The competitors of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series tried their luck in the city of sin last week, as the series rolled into Las Vegas for a visit to Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The races were packed all week, with the biggest names in online racing leading the way. Jim Caudill Jr. once again … Read the Rest »

Trevor Bayne First Drove Daytona on iRacing.com

February 23rd, 2011 by

It was standing room only in the Daytona media center this past Sunday afternoon when Trevor Bayne walked in following his dramatic win in the Daytona 500.  But in the same room a year earlier, just a handful of people looked on as drove an iRacing.com-powered simulator while Michael Waltrip talked him around Daytona International … Read the Rest »

IZOD IndyCar Premier Series Debuts at MIS

February 23rd, 2011 by

The new iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series (iIIPS) debuted last week at Michigan International Speedway.  As the series name suggests, the iIIPS is the world’s foremost online IndyCar race series.  Sanctioned by INDYCAR®, the iIIPS is a 16 race, 36 week series contested on ovals and road courses on alternating weekends.  Oval Premier and Road … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM and iRacing.com Announce Premier Online Sports Car Series

February 17th, 2011 by

10-Race, 26-Week Virtual Racing Series To Mirror Rolex Series Schedule When GRAND-AM and iRacing.com announced the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series last fall, driving game aficionados, sim racers and sports car racing fans responded enthusiastically.   The series, which runs 12-week seasons and features multi-class racing, quickly became one of the most popular among iRacing.com’s … Read the Rest »