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Free Williams-Toyota FW31 Weekend at Auto Racing SimCentre

October 20th, 2010 by

Melbourne, Australia’s Race SimCentre is offering free rides in iRacing’s sensational new Williams-Toyota FW31 on the weekend of October 30-31.  Race Sim Centre’s Rex Hall invites anyone and everyone to stop by the facility at 127 Westall Road between Midday and Midnight next Saturday and Sunday for a free test drive of iRacing’s newest and … Read the Rest »

iRacing World Championship Road Racing Finale on iRacing.com Saturday

October 15th, 2010 by

The final round of the inaugural iRacing.com World Championship Road Racing is set for the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday, October 16 at 6:00 pm EST (22:00 GMT).   The race, which will be broadcast live on iRacing.com, will be preceded by a special 15-minute preview starting at 5:45 pm EST (21:45 GMT) with iRacing.com … Read the Rest »

Towler/Davies Race For All the Marbles Tonight on iRacing.com

October 5th, 2010 by

After seventeen weeks of fierce competition, Richard Towler and Brad Davies will decide the inaugural NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship title between themselves tonight at Charlotte Motor Speedway.  The race, which will be broadcast on iRacing.com, is set for 9 pm eastern time (01:00 GMT) and will be preceded by a special fifteen minute preview … Read the Rest »

Monstrous News for iRacing.com

October 5th, 2010 by

iRacing.com has added Dover International Speedway to its ever growing catalogue of race tracks.  Known as The Monster Mile, Dover is a real beast of a race track, exactly one mile in length and featuring 24 degree banked turns – not to mention a 46 foot tall, muscle-bound, statue outside the gates named “Miles the … Read the Rest »

The Williams-Toyota F31 – More (and Less) Than Meets the Eye

September 29th, 2010 by

On the face of it, designing and building a virtual version of the Williams-Toyota FW31 figured to be the most formidable challenge yet faced by iRacing.com.  After all, Formula One is the technological pinnacle of the motorsports world, and it takes a virtual army of engineers, technicians and mechanics just to start a modern Grand … Read the Rest »

The Williams-Toyota F31 – More (and Less) Than Meets the Eye

September 28th, 2010 by

On the face of it, designing and building a virtual version of the Williams-Toyota FW31 figured to be the most formidable challenge yet faced by iRacing.com.  After all, Formula One is the technological pinnacle of the motorsports world, and it takes a virtual army of engineers, technicians and mechanics just to start a modern Grand Prix car.

Thinking Big Down Under

September 25th, 2010 by

Rex Hall is a man who thinks big.  How big?  Consider the size of the sign he installed above the home of his RaceSimCentre in Melbourne, Australia: 14 metres by 3 metres (that’s roughly 50 x 10 feet to us in America). Hall has equally big plans for RaceSimCentre.  He opened his doors for business … Read the Rest »

JWH Racing League Debuts

September 19th, 2010 by

Looking for that private league feel in an official iRacing series?  Would you like to see bigger splits in “regular” races?  Or maybe you’d just like a little something extra from your weekly races. If you answered yes to any of the above (and even if you didn’t), then iRacing’s newest mini-series – JWH Racing League – is for you.  From now until the end of Season 3, the league will bring together iRacers with all levels of experience and skill for spirited but friendly competition in the regularly-scheduled NASCAR iRacing Class C Series race (Thursdays at 8:45 pm ET) and the Skip Barber Series race (Sundays at 3:45 pm ET). As with any other regular iRacing event, each split matches sim racers with similar skills and experience.  The beauty of JWHRL is that you’ll also be competing with everyone in all the other splits – no matter the strength of field – for league points.   Otherwise the races will run exactly the same as always; nothing will be different apart from the fact that league points and standings will be calculated off-line and reported on the Member Site and inRacingNews.

iRacing Continues Japanese Growth

September 17th, 2010 by

iRacing continued its Japanese expansion with today’s announcement that Twin Ring Motegi, Suzuka Circuit and Tsukuba Circuit will join Okayama International Circuit on its growing list of global racing facilities.  In addition, iRacing will also be augmenting its line-up of virtual race cars with the Mazda Roadster and MX-5 Cup racing cars.  The announcement was … Read the Rest »

iRacing Continues Japanese Growth

September 17th, 2010 by

iRacing continued its Japanese expansion with today’s announcement that Twin Ring Motegi, Suzuka Circuit and Tsukuba Circuit will join Okayama International Circuit on its growing list of global racing facilities.  In addition, iRacing will also be augmenting its line-up of virtual race cars with the Mazda Roadster and MX-5 Cup racing cars.  The announcement was made by iRacing president, Tony Gardner, in conjunction with this weekend’s running of the Japan 300 IZOD IndyCar Series race at Twin Ring Motegi. “When we announced last spring that Okayama was joining iRacing, we promised there would be more tracks and cars of particular interest to our Japanese members,” Gardner said.  “Now we’re pleased to announce that our members in Japan, and elsewhere in the world, will be able to compete themselves with other drivers in Japan and elsewhere in the world on exact virtual versions of the tracks that are home to Japan’s two most important races, this weekend’s Japan 300 and next month’s Japanese Grand Prix, in precise digital versions of the Dallara Indy car and AT&T Williams FW31 grand prix car.  Tsukuba Circuit is popular with Japanese drivers, who enjoy its demanding technical nature, and we believe our members world-wide will enjoy driving on our virtual version.” According to Gardner, the AT&T Williams FW31 and the Mazdas will be available to iRacing members later this fall, and the four Japanese tracks will be available during the course of the next year.  Laser scanning of all four tracks and related data gathering will begin in November. The four new race tracks cover the gamut of motorsports activities in Japan.  Twin Ring Motegi boasts a 1.5 mile, egg-shaped oval, together with a state-of-the-art road course facility including a 12 turn, 2.9 mile circuit as well as two smaller club tracks.  Suzuka Circuit features a unique cross-over design in its signature 17 turn 3.6 mile circuit and, like Twin Ring Motegi, several shorter configurations.  Tsukuba Circuit is a short, but testing road course packing everything from fast, sweeping turns to hairpins and medium speed corners into its 1.2 mile layout while Okayama International Circuit (which hosted two Pacific Grand Prix Formula One races in the 1990s) mixes a series of flowing corners and straightaways with a technical infield section over the course of 2.3 miles.