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iRacer Profile: Greg Blouin

August 6th, 2011 by

When Greg Blouin says one of his favorite cars on the iRacing service is the Corvette C6.R he’s not kidding.  The resident of suburban Toronto (Etobicoke) has personal bests in the C6.R in qualifying, races and/or time  trials on a dozen iRacing tracks from A (as in Road America) to Z (as in Circuit Park … Read the Rest »

Win Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Car

August 5th, 2011 by

As everyone does (or should) know, Dale Earnhardt Jr is one of iRacing’s biggest fans and supporters.  And we like to return some of the love whenever we can, for example, by alerting inRacingNews readers of a chance to drive away in Dale Jr.’s 2011 Victory Red Camaro! The red beauty is being raffled-off to … Read the Rest »

Win Dale Earnhardt Jr's Car

August 5th, 2011 by

As everyone does (or should) know, Dale Earnhardt Jr is one of iRacing’s biggest fans and supporters.  And we like to return some of the love whenever we can, for example, by alerting inRacingNews readers of a chance to drive away in Dale Jr.’s 2011 Victory Red Camaro! The red beauty is being raffled-off to … Read the Rest »

Let the Tournaments Begin

August 4th, 2011 by

One of the most exciting aspects of iRacing 2.0 is the new Tournament Racing feature.  Now you can organize, host and stage your own sim racing tournament, with multiple heat races winnowing the field down to the crème de la crème in the final/feature. To learn more about staging your own tournament, check out this … Read the Rest »

iRacing 2.0 Debuts in 2011 Season 3

July 29th, 2011 by

iRacing 2.0, the most significant new build in iRacing history, is here in time for 2011 Season 3.   Brimming with new features and content, iRacing 2.0 truly represents the dawn of a new era for iRacing. Topping the list, of course, is the new tire model.  Years in the making, the NTM’s remarkably authentic performance … Read the Rest »

Prepare to Win

July 23rd, 2011 by

When iRacers talk about using the online racing service to familiarize themselves with new race tracks, it’s only natural to assume the majority are speaking about road courses.  After all, while you can be pretty sure the next turn on just about any oval is going to go left, that’s only the case about 50% … Read the Rest »

Sponsor Magnet

July 18th, 2011 by

It seems that iRacing.com is something of a sponsor magnet these days.  Hard on the heels of last week’s announcement of the iRacing.com NVIDIA Series comes news that two companies have signed-on in support of sim racer Nolan Scott in time for Round Twelve of the 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship, slated for Tuesday, … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Vinnie Sansone

July 16th, 2011 by

There are more parallels between the online racing of iRacing.com and the “real” racing of NASCAR than just precisely-modeled cars and tracks and well-organized sanctioning bodies.   Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart and a host of other NASCAR stars cut their racing teeth in the USAC ranks driving quarter midgets, midgets, sprint … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com NVIDIA Series Announced

July 15th, 2011 by

iRacing.com announced today that NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies, will sponsor the iRacing.com NVIDIA Series.  Previously known as the iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing, the iRacing.com NVIDIA Series features the world’s top online racers competing in virtual replicas of the Williams-Toyota FW31 Formula One cars on precise, digital versions of many … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Bill Brown

July 2nd, 2011 by

For a self-described “old, broke, washed-up, wanna-be racer,” Bill Brown isn’t doing too badly.  The 30-something Floridian holds-down top ten positions in Division One of both the iRacing.com Street Stock and SK Modified Series and, at the time of this writing, stands P15 in the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Series, again in Division One.  And … Read the Rest »