All News: Barber Motorsports Park

Barber Trims SpecRacer Ford Attendance

August 28th, 2012 by

The 2.38 mile / 3.83 km Barber Motorsports Park complex near Birmingham, Alabama produced some outstanding on-track action for the SpecRacer Fords during Week 3 of the schedule. But despite the fact that, attendance numbers-ended up being down a bit, with only 260 SRFs showing-up to race. Barber appears less frequently than many other tracks … Read the Rest »

Flying Finns Invade SRFord Challenge at Brands Hatch

August 17th, 2012 by

The SpecRacer Ford Challenge sailed across the pond to Kent, England, to visit the famous Brands Hatch GP course for Week 2.  This marked the first official visit to Brands for the series, and the track proved to be particularly well-suited for the SpecRacer Ford. Unlike Watkins Glen, though, Brands Hatch is one of those … Read the Rest »

SpecRacer Ford “Graduates” for Season 3

July 30th, 2012 by

The Season 3 iRacing schedule brings something old back into the fold again as the SpecRacer Ford Challenge series re-emerges as the newest and most affordable series at the D-Class license level. Long-time iRacers may remember the SpecRacer Ford Challenge as the Advanced Rookie series prior to the formation of the current inRacingNews Challenge.  The … Read the Rest »

Williams Surges, Ligier Fades as Frische Claims Title

July 19th, 2012 by

Williams continued their recent run of excellent form to surge into the lead of the Classic Team Championship constructors championship at Barber Motorsports Park even as a poor showing from Ligier’s Audrius Valanteijus gave Ferrari driver, Gernot Frische, the CTC drivers title with a race to run. Leading by 95 points, the Ligier driver would … Read the Rest »

Radicals Down to the Wire

July 13th, 2012 by

After several seasons where Club England have been prominent in iRacing.com’s Radical Racing Challenge, this year Club Italia have a vice-like grip on the majority of the major placings in the 2012 Season 2 Radical championship. During a season which, surprisingly, hasn’t completely recovered from the drop caused by the S1 release of the NTM, … Read the Rest »

Maillard and Gelink Top Barber Premier GRAND-AM

April 6th, 2012 by

The second round of the 2012 Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the online championship for digital replicas of the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S, headed to Barber Motorsports Park in pursuit of its 2012 sim-racing class champions. The GRAND-AM sanctioned series, closely mirrors its real-life counterpart, with visits to classic … Read the Rest »

Two Legs Up

March 30th, 2012 by

By any measure, Rubens Barrichello had a rough introduction to the IZOD IndyCar Series at St. Petersburg.  As if making his IndyCar debut on an unfamiliar street circuit wasn’t challenge enough, the Formula One veteran played catch-up most of the weekend after his Dallara-Chevrolet was sidelined by mechanical problems in the opening practice session.   Nevertheless, … Read the Rest »

McRae, Stevenson Cop Barber CESCS

March 8th, 2012 by

Thirty drivers took to the field for Round 2 of the Continental Endurance Sports Car Series (CESCS) at Barber Motorsports Park on February 25th, during the much-anticipated Daytona 500 weekend.  The mixed class online racing competition features the Ford Mustang FR500S in the GS Class and Mazda MX5 of the ST Class. Practice and Qualifying … Read the Rest »

Kiraly, Michaels Top GRAND-AM Premier Series Opener

March 6th, 2012 by

Last weekend saw the opening round of the 2012 Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, iRacing.com’s mixed class online racing championship for digital versions of the Riley Mk XX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500s. The 10 race series, visits millimetre precise renditions of their real life track counterparts, including Lime Rock Park, Mid-Ohio … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: PJ Stergios

August 27th, 2011 by

If PJ Stergios’s name sounds familiar, there are plenty of reasons.  First, PJ features regularly on inRacingNews’ accounts of a number of series from NASCAR Class A, Radicals, Silver Crown  (where he won the 2009 Season 3 title) Sprint Cars (he is P5 in Division One as of this writing) to IndyCar (where he currently … Read the Rest »