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Oh Brother!

October 21st, 2011 by

IndyCar may have the brothers Bettenhausen and Unser, NASCAR may have the  Bodines, Burtons, Buschs, Labontes and Woods (to name a few), but iRacing has the Stergios brothers.  Jake and PJ Stergios (New England) demonstrated that fact in emphatic fashion last night, driving their Star Mazdas to a brotherly one-two finish ahead of Evan Maillard … Read the Rest »

Remarkable

October 15th, 2011 by

iRacing.com was part of a remarkable evening of racing last Saturday at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, IL.  That’s when and where Shane Hmiel returned to Victory Lane on the anniversary of an accident that left him paralyzed.  A year after a crash in a USAC Silver Crown race at Terre Haute ended his career … Read the Rest »

The Certain Champion

October 14th, 2011 by

Dario Franchitti or Will Power?  Who will wear the mantle of 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series champion?  We won’t know for sure until the conclusion of Sunday’s IZOD IndyCar World Championship at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but the identity of one 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series champion is already certain.  That would be 22 year old Yang … Read the Rest »

2011 iRacing.com Japan Grand Prix

October 12th, 2011 by

Nearly 250 iRacers took advantage of last Saturday’s 2011 iRacing.com Japan Grand Prix at Suzuka International Circuit to see if they could “be like Jenson” — ie Jenson Button, who scored his third win of the 2011 World Drivers Championship at Suzuka on Sunday. Sebastian Schmalenbach (DE-AT-CH) topped the highest strength of field race of … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Christian Aranha

October 8th, 2011 by

Christian Aranha is not letting any grass grow beneath his feet when it comes to one of the newest cars on the iRacing service, the HPD ARX01.  The Floridian jumped into the sensational new LMP2 sports prototype, grabbed the lead in the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge and hasn’t looked back.  With 15 wins in … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Japan GP Slated for October 8

October 5th, 2011 by

Scene of some of the most exciting – and controversial — races in the history of the World Drivers Championship, Suzuka Circuit hosts the final event in the 2011 World Tour of iRacing on October 8, 2011: the iRacing.com Japan Grand Prix.    Slated to run the day before Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, Jenson Button, Fernando … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Petit Le Mans Presented by NVIDIA

October 3rd, 2011 by

Within hours of Franck Montagny, Stephane Sarrazin and Alexander Wurz driving their Peugeot 908 to victory in a 2011 Petit Le Mans that featured 52 cars in six classes, iRacers took part in a 2011 iRacing.com Petit Le Mans Presented by NVIDIA featuring more 320 cars in three classes: HPD ARX01, Corvette C6.R and Ford … Read the Rest »

Hudson Claims Late Model Invitational Tourney

September 30th, 2011 by

Tyler D Hudson scored an impressive victory in the inaugural iRacing.com Late Model Invitational tournament last night at Iowa Speedway. A winner in one of the evening’s four semi-final online races, Hudson started from the pole position, took the lead at the start and was never headed. Texan Charles Cosper, another semi-final winner, kept things … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Late Model Invitational Finale Tonight!

September 29th, 2011 by

120 of the world’s top Late Model sim racers have advanced to tonight’s semi-final round of the inaugural iRacing.com Late Model Invitational tournament at Iowa Speedway. The fast 120 emerged as the top finishers from last night’s rounds of qualifying and heat races. Of the more than 400 iRacers who posted qualifying times, 360 advanced … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – David Burnett

September 24th, 2011 by

When it comes to sim racing, Club England’s David Burnett is far from a one trick pony.  Although he is most active in the the Classic Lotus GP series, he owns a very, er, catholic collection of iRacing wheels, from his Lotus 79, Dallara IndyCar and Star Mazda to HPD ARX01, Chevrolet Impala Class B … Read the Rest »