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Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – The Best Laid Plans

March 23rd, 2016 by Matt Holden

Phoenix International Raceway has always presented some unique challenges.  True, Nick Ottinger did win in his first ever start in the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series at PIR back in 2012, but ever since then the little 1-mile oval in the desert has been a thorn in our side.  Last year, Nick managed to nearly overcome … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – The Reset Button

March 15th, 2016 by Matt Holden

“Momentum is huge.”  You hear it constantly on television, whether it relates to on-track battles or simply the good feeling teams have after performing well for a few races.  Top tens become top fives, top fives become wins, wins become a championship.  Not to put the cart before the horse, but for the first time … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – Speedweeks and Beyond

February 23rd, 2016 by Matt Holden

Today is the day.  The start of the 2016 NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series will be here in just a few hours.  For most of the iRacing community, the first two months of the year were spent racing, from the 24 Hours of Daytona last month to the new members starting out in their Legend Cars.  … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – Sliders to Systems

September 27th, 2015 by

Anybody remember this screen?  If you don’t, shame on you.  It’s the garage screen from Papyrus’ NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, probably one of the most viewed screens in sim-racing history.  You can think of this screenshot as the great-grandfather of what we have today on iRacing.  It represents a time when chassis setups were becoming … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – The Dawn of a New Era

September 19th, 2015 by

Who would have thought that, after three races in a row that were so strategy-heavy in the later stages of the race, the fourth in that series would be so unpredictable?  So much so that even those of us who were taking part in the race itself were struggling to get a hold on what … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – Captain Ponytail

September 12th, 2015 by

We got an unexpected week off from the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series this week since the new mega-awesome build was released on Tuesday.  We got three weeks off after Phoenix, meaning Darlington and Chicago will be back to back, so I decided to take the extra time to have a chat with my buddy Nick … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – The Science of Strategy

August 26th, 2015 by

The race was only 50 laps, we could run 27 laps on one tank of gas. But to make it complicated, so could everyone else.  There was no chance of any driver making two stops, no chance of the usual trickery that can play out during a 200-lap race to shuffle up the leader board … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – I Kissed the Bricks

August 7th, 2015 by

Nick Ottinger has 11 wins in the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series.  From our first ever NPAS race (and win) at Phoenix in 2012 to last night at Indianapolis, I’ve called the shots for 10 of them, the 11th being the 2013 race at Kentucky where Peter Fisher brought it home while I was at Charlotte … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series powered by iRacing.com – The Oval Office

July 28th, 2015 by

Being a participant in the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series comes with its own small amount of fame.  Nick Ottinger gets asked questions all the time like, “Who paints your car?”, “What wheel/pedals do you use?”, and “Do you really have a ponytail?”  Peter Fisher and I, however, see a much smaller range of inquiries.  Aside … 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 »