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iRacing.com Indy 500 Field Set

May 26th, 2011 by

The fastest field in the two year history of the iRacing.com Indy 500 is set, with 33 of the world’s best sim racers poised to take the green flag at 12 noon (ET) on Saturday, May 28 for the top split in “The Greatest Spectacle in Sim Racing.” The race will be broadcast on iRacing.com, … Read the Rest »

Mitchell McLeod – TV star

May 25th, 2011 by

You can call Mitchell McLeod a lot of things:  two-time Golden Power kart series champion; nitro-buggy racer; finalist in the Intel GP Masters online racing tournament; champion of the 2011 Season One iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series. Now you can add “television star” to the list.  Maybe that’s overdoing it just a tad, but the 20 … Read the Rest »

A Day at the Races

May 7th, 2011 by

Club Indiana took things to a different level in April with a day at the races at the FASTIMES Indoor Karting center on the north side of Indianapolis.   The event attracted a full field of 20 entrants  (including a couple of interlopers from Club Illinois and a pair of SCCA racers), many of whom got … Read the Rest »

iRacing for Japan in Connecticut

March 30th, 2011 by

More than 250 iRacers raced at two tracks in Connecticut last week in support of Red Cross relief efforts following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The  suggested minimum donation of $10 per race, together with $500 pledged by iRacing.com, puts the total amount pledged to the Red Cross from the event at over $3,000. … Read the Rest »

iWCSRR Round Two Broadcast Saturday

March 9th, 2011 by

Round Two of the 2011 iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing will be broadcast live on iRacing.com this coming Saturday, March 12. From the brooding pine forests of Spa-Francorchamps in Round One, the world’s best online road racers travel to the Phillip Island circuit on Australia’s sun-splashed southern coast for the second installment of the … Read the Rest »

Alfalla Brings Big Mo to iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final

March 2nd, 2011 by

Given that the United States/Canada qualifying round for the iRacing Intel® GP Series was held in September, momentum wouldn’t figure to play much of a role in Friday’s iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final.  Or that a sim racer from Florida would be able to pack some momentum in his carry-on for the flight to … Read the Rest »

An Epic Journey to Show Sim Racing in a New Light

March 1st, 2011 by

If there was a “longest tow” award at Friday’s iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final in Hannover, Germany it would be a dead heat between Ian Lake and Mitchell McLeod.  The two Australians quite literally traveled from half a world away to participate in the Super Bowl of sim racing, which is scheduled to take … Read the Rest »

Sim Racing’s Super Bowl Another Chance for Huttu to Shine

February 28th, 2011 by

Professional football has already had its Super Bowl this year, stock car racing its Daytona 500.   Now sim racing takes the spotlight with the iRacing.com Intel® GP Series World Final on Friday, March 4 which will be broadcast live at 10:00 CET (4:00 am ET).  Part of the Intel Extreme Masters Tournament at the CeBIT … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing Preview

February 24th, 2011 by

What The Pundits Say . . . This coming weekend witnesses the opening round of the second iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing (iWCSRR) from Spa-Francorchamps, with a 40-plus field of Williams-Toyota FW31s  scheduled to appear on the starting grid for Saturday’s race. The appearance of the likes of Greger Huttu, Richard Towler, Ilkka Haapala … Read the Rest »

Lots of Daytona 500 Winners

February 21st, 2011 by

This past weekend produced a multitude of Daytona 500 winners.  Trevor Bayne won the opening round of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series on Sunday, of course, but Saturday saw 37 different iRacers take checkered flags in the iRacing.com Daytona 500, Round Two of the 2011 World Tour of iRacing.com. In reality, however, there were … Read the Rest »