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PEAK Stock Car Dreams Challenge Airs Saturday on the Velocity Channel

July 31st, 2014 by

Earlier this year,  iRacing partnered with PEAK Antifreeze to sponsor the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series Powered by iRacing.com and the 2014 Season 1 PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series. As part of the agreement, the defending champion of the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series (Tyler Hudson) and the winner of the S1 PEAK Stock Car Dreams … Read the Rest »

iRacing News Exclusive With Parker Kligerman

June 20th, 2014 by

Parker Kligerman was a rookie in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series this year, but he is also an avid iRacer. One of the many who made a qualifying attempt for this year’s iRacing.com Indy 500 in the new DW-12, Kligerman showed his pace by placing himself inside the top 33 and guaranteed himself a spot … Read the Rest »

You Can Go Home Again

June 2nd, 2014 by

 Former Champ/Pro Driver Buie Gets Back to his Roots, Takes Charlotte Victory As expected, iRacers came out in force for a chance to run their Chevrolet Impalas and Ford Mustangs around the ever popular Charlotte Motor Speedway.  With 76 official races going off during Week 4 of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series, there were … Read the Rest »

Ray’s the Real Thing in Coke 600

May 30th, 2014 by

After a two week gap, the Ford, Chevy and Toyota Gen-6 machines thundered around Charlotte Motor Speedway for Week 12 of the NASCAR iRacing Series in one of iRacing’s full length online races – The Coca Cola 600, simulating the real life NASCAR races with track, car and distance all virtually identical to their real … Read the Rest »

Behind the Scenes: The NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series at Charlotte

May 27th, 2014 by

A Marathon of Madness Typically, Nick  Ottinger and I look forward to the Charlotte race every season.  In the Pro series, it was our “home track” and we went out and laid claim to the virtual Charlotte Motor Speedway, then showed that it wasn’t a fluke when we came back in the 2012 World Championship … Read the Rest »

Lights Shine on Laughton at Charlotte

May 22nd, 2014 by

The NASCAR iRacing Class C Fixed Series headed to Charlotte Motor Speedway for a home town throw-down in NASCAR’s backyard. While the race track hosts the longest event of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, the Coca-Cola 600, the Class C Fixed Series would pack all that excitement into 35 laps of sim-racing. Nicholas Goertzen … Read the Rest »

Hansen’s Charlotte Breakthrough

May 21st, 2014 by

Scores First NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series Win Danny Hansen survived a marathon race at Charlotte Motor Speedway last night and earned his first career victory in the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series Powered by iRacing. After running at the front for much of the evening, Hansen took advantage of slip-ups by other front runners and delivered … Read the Rest »

Gomez Gallops at Charlotte

May 20th, 2014 by

With two weeks under their belts, the drivers of the NASCAR iRacing Class A Fixed Series brought their Generation-6 Cup cars to the 24-degree banks of Charlotte Motor Speedway for 50 laps of action under the lights. With nearly 900 sim racers attempting at least one race during the week, there were plenty of eager … Read the Rest »

Hudson Peaks at Lucas Oil Raceway

May 16th, 2014 by

The second week of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Fixed Series headed to Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. Being removed from the NASCAR schedule after the 2011 season, the newly added .686-mile short track to the iRacing service gave its members a chance to relive the excitement of Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series races-past. … Read the Rest »

NiS Open Garage: Charlotte

May 15th, 2014 by

Headed into Charlotte Motor Speedway I am reminded of something I mentioned in a previous article about iRacing’s setups being tantamount to getting setup sheets from the previous owner when you purchase a race car. At times these setups may require large changes to adapt them to our own driving preferences. This leads us to … Read the Rest »