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NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series Broadcast Tonight!

February 25th, 2014 by

A new era in sim-racing starts tonight when the opening round of the 2014 NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series Powered by iRacing.com at Daytona International Speedway will be broadcast on iRacing.com/live.  The 100 lap race airs beginning at 9 PM EDT (01:00 GMT Wednesday). Defending champion Tyler Hudson will be looking to open his title defense … Read the Rest »

Virtual Daytona 500 Kicks-Off Full NASCAR Cup Series Schedule on iRacing

February 19th, 2014 by

Real world racers and sim-racers alike are preparing for the biggest stock car race of all: the Daytona 500.  This year 50,000 iRacers worldwide can compete in an online version of the full NASCAR Sprint Cup Season in the NASCAR iRacing Series (NiS), which kicks-off this week with iRacing’s version of the Daytona 500. From … Read the Rest »

Class A Status Quo

February 18th, 2014 by

Indianapolis is home to some of the world’s biggest auto racing events. From the Brickyard 400 to the Indy 500, this track has some of the most amazing history and stories that one could hope to find. As I sat down to prepare this article for iRacing News, I couldn’t help but applaud iRacing on … Read the Rest »

Riding Shotgun with Justin Boston

February 18th, 2014 by

This story is the first in a series that will follow 2013 ARCA Racing Series Rookie of the Year Justin Boston as he runs the 2014 ARCA Racing season from start to finish. Boston finished-up 2013 with eight top fives, 16 top tens and two poles (both coming at Salem Speedway in Indiana).  Driving for … Read the Rest »

Warren’s Magic Mile

February 18th, 2014 by

With visits to Pocono Raceway and Kentucky Speedway to start the season, the NASCAR iRacing Class C Fixed Series brings together over 1,700 sim-racers for 35 laps of action at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. New Hampshire is a 1.058-mile flat oval with banking ranging from two to seven degrees in the turns. Since opening its … Read the Rest »

A Team of One

February 17th, 2014 by

With the 2014 NASCAR iRacing Series set to get underway later this week, iRacingNews is introducing the first in a regular series of articles by Eric Isenbeck designed to help those many iRacers who are not part of multi-driver teams develop set-ups for the Gen 6 Chevy SSs and Ford Fusions they’ll be racing in … Read the Rest »

Daytona CTSC Diary

February 14th, 2014 by

I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to the iRacing community.  I’m Chris Lerch, and I’m the most recent hire here at iRacing.  I work in vehicle dynamics, and mostly define the multi-body physics models that give each of our cars the unique feel and handling characteristics that we strive to match as … Read the Rest »

NiSWC Speedweeks Kick-Off Tonight

February 4th, 2014 by

It’s that time of year again: the 2014 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship is right around the corner, kicking off in two weeks’ time. Tonight, however, the first unofficial gathering of the fifty best oval iRacers looks to set the tone for the upcoming season. Organized by Adam Gilliland, driver of the #8 Garry Mercer … Read the Rest »

Road Warriors Off and Running at 2.4 Hours of Daytona

January 27th, 2014 by

The inaugural round of the iRacing.com Road Warrior Series was held at the Daytona International Speedway under the lights for a two hour and 24 minute endurance challenge. Across the four race time slots there were 67 splits with 2,024 drivers participating. Of those drivers 1445 scored their best points in the RUF RT-12 Track, … Read the Rest »

Resurgent Mustang Challenge Features 12 Weeks of Most-Requested Tracks in Season 1

January 25th, 2014 by

After seeing significant growth in participation in the final season of 2013, the iRacing.com Mustang Challenge has released a Season 1 schedule for 2014 comprised of the tracks most requested by series participants.  Series regular John King polled drivers on the tracks they most wanted to see in the 2014 schedule and his efforts were … Read the Rest »