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Stergios, Bernardi Top iRacing.com Grand Prix of Brazil

November 25th, 2013 by

Jake Stergios and Ariel Eduardo Bernardi came out on top of the more than 300 iRacers to participate in last weekend’s iRacing.com Grand Prix of Brazil.  The final event on the 2013 World Tour of iRacing, the Brazilian GP pitted iRacers of all license levels together in their Williams-Toyota FW31s for 71 laps on the … Read the Rest »

">Console Racers Help Fuel iRacing Growth

February 3rd, 2013 by

Bedford, MA (September 3)  An influx of former console-based sim-racers is helping to fuel the growth of iRacing.com.  Since opening its virtual doors for business in August of 2008, the online motorsports simulation service has seen its membership ranks steadily grow to the point where there are now nearly 50,000 iRacers around the world. While … Read the Rest »

Multi-Class Racin!

January 29th, 2013 by

After a week or so of battling with the snow, I thought it was about time to post another blog entry. It never ceases to amaze me how inept we – the United Kingdom – are at dealing with a dash of adverse weather. In the winter it rains – we get flooding. If it … Read the Rest »

Get to Know: Daltyn England

November 19th, 2012 by

This week’s featured iRacer may not even have time to read this, because he will probably be too busy celebrating his birthday. He certainly has a lot to celebrate. With a pretty successful iRacing career, a promising real world racing career, and on top of that, success on the soccer “pitches” in his Springfield, Illinois … Read the Rest »

The Falcon

October 26th, 2010 by

Once upon a basement dreary, between iRace stats I query Over many an impatient, frantic lap of Zandvoort dune While I plodded, quickly lapping, suddenly there came a tapping As of someone gently rapping, tapping out a silly tune ‘Tis some visitor I muttered, tapping like some crazy loon Pulling me from my cocoon. Presently … Read the Rest »

Computer Racing Games to Online Racing: A Harsh Reality?

April 3rd, 2010 by

The leap from computer racing games to a global internet racing series can prove to be a bit of a shock to the ego. You see, most computer racing games are designed to let you win. Race in F1 and you will be running with the Red Bulls rather than the Virgin, Lotus and HRT. … Read the Rest »

Drag’n Slayer

December 5th, 2009 by

I was working on some acceleration tests at Indianapolis with various cars to determine their power curves and stumbled upon an interesting idea. I figured I could estimate the drag coefficient from the cars by capturing some telemetry data. I wanted to remove the aero drag and rolling resistance forces from the data in order … Read the Rest »