All News: Christopher Leone

Turning Point

January 6th, 2012 by

Week Eight of the inRacingNews Challenge season is a turning point in the standings for most drivers. With only eight of 12 race weeks counting in the standings, the rankings in both Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Ford are unlikely to change in the coming weeks unless drivers significantly improve their performance. With that in mind, … Read the Rest »

Janiak, Weatherly Tops at nosreffeJ

January 6th, 2012 by

After reaching the halfway mark of the inRacingNews Challenge season, the Pontiac Solstices and SpecRacer Fords visited West Virginia’s Summit Point Raceway once again in Week Seven. The third round (of four) at Summit Point this season featured the circuit’s Jefferson layout, but unlike the Week Three visit, the sim racers contested the circuit in … Read the Rest »

inRacingNews Challenge x 3

December 20th, 2011 by

Week Four of the final 2011 season of the inRacingNews Challenge saw the Pontiac Solstices and SpecRacer Fords tackle the tricky Lime Rock Park road course. Coming-off of its second round at Summit Point Raceway in the first three weeks, Lime Rock represented a different challenge for the series’ top sim racers. In Solstice, Michael … Read the Rest »

iRNC Three-Pack

November 22nd, 2011 by

Christopher Leone wraps-up the first three round of the 2011 Season 4 inRacingNews Challenge with reports from Summit Point and Okayama International Circuit: Week One: Summit Point (full) The inRacingNews Challenge returned for the fourth and final season of 2011 with a round at its de facto home track, Summit Point Raceway. The first of … Read the Rest »

inRacingNews Challenge Round-Up

November 1st, 2011 by

The final three weeks of 2011 Season 3 were an exercise in globe-trotting for inRacingNews Challenge competitors, as the sim racers brought their Pontiac Solstices and SpecRacer Fords to three very different races tracks in three equally different locales: Summit Point Raceway’s tight, natural terrain “short” course in West Virginia; Charlotte Motor Speedway’s “roval” in … Read the Rest »

Lime Rock with a Twist

October 13th, 2011 by

Season Three of the 2011 inRacingNews Challenge hit its three-quarters point with Week 9 at Connecticut’s historic Lime Rock Park.  However this was Lime Rock with a twist, rather a chicane, as the Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Ford sim racers used  the chicane layout during their week in the valley of the virtual Housatonic. In … Read the Rest »

Classic inRacingNews Challenge

October 13th, 2011 by

Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, one of America’s few truly classic road courses, provided the setting for Week Eight of the third season of the 2011 inRacingNews Challenge. With only eight of 12 weeks counting in the end of season standings, Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Ford drivers used the week to set their points benchmarks for … Read the Rest »

Schuett, Ruokola Pace iRNC at Summit Point

October 13th, 2011 by

The second half of the 2011 Season 3 inRacingNews Challenge opened just as the first half did: with a visit to the Summit Point Raceway. This time, though, instead of the full layout, the drivers would compete in their Pontiac Solstices and SpecRacer Fords on the Jefferson Reverse section of the course. Tim Schuett paced … Read the Rest »

Charlotte Shuffle

September 26th, 2011 by

The fifth week of the third season of the 2011 inRacingNews Challenge saw sim racers take-on the road course at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. With one third of the season in the books, the top championship contenders in both Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Ford have been well established, Once again, Michael Booth was the class … Read the Rest »

Big Weeks ‘R Us

September 26th, 2011 by

Big weeks from Kalle Ruokola in Pontiac Solstice and Tim Bone in SpecRacer Ford defined Week Four of the third season of the 2011 inRacingNews Challenge. The sim racers convened at Lime Rock Park for the first of two rounds this season, utilizing the circuit’s full layout. Previously, this event had taken place later in … Read the Rest »