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Introducing SpeedFactor Brasil

July 1st, 2011 by

SpeedFactor Brasil debuted its sensational new website this week, one that does justice to this ambitious and well-organized league.  Although events are only open to Brazilian-based sim racers at the moment, SpeedFactor Brasil plans to open its virtual doors to all iRacers with the release of iRacing 2.0 in August . . . yet another … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Matthieu Fourtemberg

June 25th, 2011 by

Check the standings in a range of racing cars and series – Street Stock, Skip Barber, Mazda MX5 – and you’ll find Matthieu Fourtemberg’s name.  You’ll also see the icons of his cars are usually colored in the reds, whites and greys of the BAM Pro Racing team of which he is a proud member.  … Read the Rest »

A League of Your Own

June 20th, 2011 by

Check-out iRacing.com’s new public micro-site focusing on private leagues. We think you’ll agree, whether you want to be the czar of your own sim racing league or you just enjoy competing with a group of sim racing pals in a format of your collective choosing, iRacing has a league for you. Want to be sim … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Nick Ottinger

June 18th, 2011 by

OK, OK.  If you’re a regular (or even irregular) reader of inRacingNews, you’re already familiar with Nick Ottinger’s name.  After all, as a serial winner in the NASCAR iRacing.com Street Stock Series, he’s a staple of Jordan Hightower’s weekly reports.  The Carolina Club sim racer is also very active — and competitive — in Legends … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Video Contest Winners Announced

June 17th, 2011 by

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner in the iRacing.com Video Contest. Correct that, we have 15 winners in the iRacing.com Video Contest, headed by Christian Braun who received the lion’s share of the votes cast by his fellow iRacers. One of four grand finalists, Braun will receive $500 in iRacing credits and an opportunity … Read the Rest »

Carolina Nips Florida . . . on Average

June 16th, 2011 by

More than 85 sim racers from the Carolina and Florida Clubs did battle in half a dozen online races on Sunday and Tuesday in their first Club v Club tournament. The competition featured a trio of races on Sunday evening, followed by a day (and night) of rest on Monday before three more races on … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – Scott Green

June 11th, 2011 by

Not all iRacers belong to Generation X or Y.  There’s plenty of baby-boomer sim racers out there, and no small number are probably identify more with Geritol than Generation X, Y or Z. I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to guess Scott Green’s generational affiliation, but the fact the Albuquerquean lists his birth date as … Read the Rest »

Huttu Scores at the Glen

June 6th, 2011 by

Greger Huttu scored a convincing win in Saturday’s iRacing.com Championship Series Road Race event at Watkins Glen.  The defending iWCSRR champion started from pole and led 45 of 56 laps to take the checkered flag 6.2s clear of Hugo Luis with Luke McLean coming home in third. iWCSRR championship leader Klaus Kivekäs had a race … Read the Rest »

A Moving Experience

June 3rd, 2011 by

Whether you’re talking about concerts, plays, movies or any other kind of public performance, your experience with that performance is greatly influenced by the audience and the setting involved. I recall seeing Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines in a jam-packed cinema as a youth and, along with the rest of the audience, laughing … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – Joshua Laughton

May 28th, 2011 by

If you tend to think of the name “Tyler D Hudson” when you read the name “Joshua Laughton” there’s a reason.  The twosome battled for the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series title in two of the past three seasons.   And don’t look now, but Hudson and Laughton are a familiar one-two in the NASCAR Class … Read the Rest »