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Towler’s dominant double

May 19th, 2010 by

Week Eight of the NASCAR iRacing.com World Championship Series (NiWCS) brought us to Charlotte Motor Speedway in sunny Concord, North Carolina for 200 caution-plagued, yet exciting, laps of online racing.  With a win at Bristol to his credit, Richard Towler has been quite the force in the online racing series.  The Englishman arrived at CMS … Read the Rest »

Pagenaud a winner from South Boston to Spa

May 10th, 2010 by

Simon Pagenaud completed a unique double yesterday, becoming the first driver to ever win a Legends Cup race at South Boston Speedway and the Le Mans Series Spa 1000kms in the same season. Pagenaud, an iRacer since last August, scored his Legends Cup sim racing win at South Boston in February.  Yesterday, he teamed with … Read the Rest »

The Two Worlds of Josh Berry

April 20th, 2010 by

Entering tonight’s race at Talladega Superspeedway, Hendersonville, Tennessee’s Josh Berry finds himself in ninth spot in the inaugural NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) points race.   Although the veteran online racer has yet to find the form that garnered nearly a dozen wins and third spot in last year’s iRacing Pro Series Oval (iPSO) competition, … Read the Rest »

Parker Scores First NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship Win at Phoenix International Raceway

April 7th, 2010 by

Josh Parker barged into the lead with ten laps remaining to score his first NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) victory at Phoenix International Raceway last night.  Parker out-muscled leader Josh Berry on a late restart, then cruised to the online racing victory from John Gorlinsky and Derek Wood when a multi-car crash resulted in … Read the Rest »

Martinsville Muscle

March 24th, 2010 by

Ray Alfalla  muscled past Richard Towler in the closing laps at Martinsville Speedway on Tuesday to score his first win in the NASCAR iRacing World Championship Series.   Towler had dominated the race from the outset, leading 153 of the first 236 laps.  But a late caution set-up a frantic restart that saw Alfalla and … Read the Rest »

Revolution Racing Academy-Style Development Embraces Technology, Hands-on Training

March 3rd, 2010 by

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (February 22, 2010) – Revolution Racing continues to evolve its driver development curriculum by combining technology with hands-on training in its academy-style development program. Strategic partnerships with iRacing and VisionRacer, along with contributions from Logitech, allow Revolution drivers to get behind the virtual wheel to prepare for the 2010 season. In addition to … Read the Rest »

Show Stealer

February 24th, 2010 by

Sandeep Banerjee absolutely stole the show in the second ever NASCAR iRacing World Championship race.  Fittingly, the “big roulette wheel” — aka  Las Vegas Motor Speedway — was the stage for what many are calling the biggest longshot story in online racing history.  While there may, (stress may) have been bigger upsets in sim racing … Read the Rest »

Game or simulation?

February 11th, 2010 by

What makes a game a simulation or a simulation a game or are they the same thing? Is it all just marketing or is there a real difference? To me there are a few distinct differences between a game and a simulation. First and most importantly to be a simulation the title must be replicating … Read the Rest »

An Online Racing Dream Come True

February 10th, 2010 by

The dream of one day having a top iRacing division, sanctioned by NASCAR, became a reality for iRacing co-founders John Henry and David Kaemmer. The NASCAR iRacing World Championship began Tuesday night at the famed Daytona International Speedway with, by far, the most important race in the history of iRacing to date. It began with … Read the Rest »

The Time is Come for the NASCAR iRacing World Championship

February 9th, 2010 by

The moment so many have anticipated for so long is nearly upon us.  People like  iRacing.com co-founders John Henry and Dave Kaemmer, who dreamed of the day when the world’s best sim-racing would be sanctioned by NASCAR.  And the late Bill France, Jr. who, as NASCAR chairman, spoke more than a decade ago of a … Read the Rest »