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2011 World Tour of iRacing Opens With Jan. 29 Running of iRacing GRAND-AM 2.4 Hours of Daytona

January 28th, 2011 by

Season Opener Features Multi-Class Sim Racing with Riley XX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR 500S on Daytona Road Course As the green flag waves at 3:30 p.m. EDT to start the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway, nearly two dozen iRacing.com members (among them Alex Gurney, Justin Wilson, AJ Allmendinger, Michael McDowell and Colin … Read the Rest »

Gooden, Michaels Take GRAND-AM Titles at Daytona

January 26th, 2011 by

The twelfth and final Round of the inaugural GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series headed to the Daytona International Speedway’s road course, where the overall and divisional champions of the virtual Riley MkXX Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S were crowned. The inaugural edition of this online racing series, open to subscribers of the iRacing.com Motorsport … Read the Rest »

Field Set for 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship

January 24th, 2011 by

The line-up for the 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship has been announced.  Heading the 50-driver roster for the 18-race, 36-week series are the defending champion Richard Towler of Hull, England and title runner-up Brad Davies of Wauchula, Florida.  The 2011 season kicks off on February 15, 9:00 p.m. ET (Feb. 16, 0200 GMT) at … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM Brand(s)

January 19th, 2011 by

The penultimate round of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series headed to British shores for a visit to the legendary Brands Hatch GP circuit. The mixed class racing series, open to members of the iRacing.com service, sees the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S racing for separate class honours on millimetre precise … Read the Rest »

2011 World Tour of iRacing Schedule Announced

December 27th, 2010 by

Popular Series Samples Global Motorsport Variety With Tributes to Major Real-World Races Conceived a year ago as a way for iRacing.com’s 20,000+ members to sample the world’s wide range of oval-track and road-racing cars and circuits, the 2010 World Tour of iRacing proved to be an extremely popular artistic success among the global group of … Read the Rest »

Gooden and Snabb Top GRAND-AM Week Two Standings

November 17th, 2010 by

A visit to the Daytona International Speedway road course was on tap for the virtual Ford Mustangs and Riley MkXX Prototypes in Week Two of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series; the GRAND-AM sanctioned, online racing championship, open to anyone with a PC, steering wheel/pedal set and a subscription to the iRacing.com service. With … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM Online Race Series Debuts at Watkins Glen

November 10th, 2010 by

Last week saw the opening round of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the exciting new online racing championship resulting from the partnership between GRAND-AM and iRacing.com Motorsports Simulations. In true GRAND-AM style, the multi-division championship sees the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S share the same track, whilst battling in their … Read the Rest »

The Fix is In . . . or Not

August 12th, 2010 by

Daytona International Speedway plays host to some of the most competitive online racing every season. Season Three figured to be no different, especially with the launch of a new type of racing: fixed setups.  The NASCAR iRacing Class B Fixed Series debuted last week at Daytona and, with every sim racer running identical equipment in … Read the Rest »

The Florida/Massachusetts Challenge

August 3rd, 2010 by

The Florida Club has been running a series of hosted online races several times a week for the past three seasons. This past season Florida started its own points series using the Chevy Silverado and Dan Wolf’s scoring database (www.danlisa.com/scoring). This series had 39 club members compete in 12 hosted events at tracks following iRacing.com’s … Read the Rest »

Dave Gelink, Vette Champion

August 2nd, 2010 by

Dave Gelink, who had just last week climbed to the top of the iRacing GT Championship Series standings, secured his first iRacing title during the final round at Daytona International Speedway. Again he was a tad faster than all of his competitors and won his only online race of the week by a margin of … Read the Rest »