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eSports Pioneer iRacing.com Celebrates Eighth Anniversary

July 19th, 2016 by

  iRacing.com is marking its eighth anniversary providing on-line racers with the world’s foremost online motorsports racing simulation.  iRacing launched in 2008 and was founded in 2004 by Boston Red Sox owner John Henry and award-winning racing game developer Dave Kaemmer as a true motorsport simulation. From the outset, the company developed iRacing as an … Read the Rest »

60 Minutes of Spa in the GPL Finale

October 31st, 2014 by

The final week of Grand Prix Legends had a special treat in store for the sim-racers of the series.  A full hour of Spa-Francorchamps and a grid of 22 Lotus 49s to battle it out for 25 laps . . . with  last season’s champion Mick Claridge sitting on pole position.  Behind Claridge came some … Read the Rest »

GPL Hits The Glen; The Glen Hits Back

October 30th, 2014 by

Whenever Watkins Glen hosts the Grand Prix Legends the entertainment level is high, so when the sim-racers and their Lotus 49s arrived in the Finger Lakes for a 15 lap race (with boot) we expected nothing less a spectacular race.  Victor Perelman took pole position ahead of Darwin Meints and Sandeep Banerjee, but a nearly … Read the Rest »

Monstrous Mosport for GPL

October 7th, 2014 by

With defending series champion Mick Claridge on pole position for the Grand Prix Legends race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, it appeared the only sim-racer to post a qualifying time in the 1:16s was in the perfect position to cruise to another victory.  Victor Perelman sat best of the rest in second position with a … Read the Rest »

GPL Carnage Report at Indy

September 26th, 2014 by

Last season Grand Prix Legends debut at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was  dominated by Finnish sim-racers in a thrilling race with dramatic overtakes at over 200mph and colossal crashes up and down the field.  The GPL’s return to The Brickyard in Season Three would be no different, well apart from the Flying Finns that is.  … Read the Rest »

Sensational Suzuka for GPL

August 25th, 2014 by

Over a dozen and a half Grand Prix Legends sim-racers attended the big Sunday race at Suzuka in the land of the rising sun for 13 laps of this classic Japanese F1 circuit.  Last season’s champion Mick Claridge sat on pole with a 2:01.172, over a second faster than Victor Perelman could manage in second … Read the Rest »

Lotus 49s at Mid-Ohio

August 19th, 2014 by

Week Two of the Grand Prix Legends series arrived at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for 18 laps of a track that some might say is too twisty for the Lotus 49.  The big Sunday race saw a dozen sim-racers line-up on the grid with Victor Perelman starting from pole position with a 1:21.561 qualifying … Read the Rest »

Grand Prix Legends Starts Again at Watkins Glen

August 8th, 2014 by

The Grand Prix Legends series started the third season of 2014 much like it started the second (although with more participants this time around) at Watkins Glen.  The race on Friday night was not the biggest race of the week, and it wasn’t the highest SOF race either, but it is the one I specifically … Read the Rest »

Summer of Love (for the Lotus 49)

May 8th, 2014 by

On October 1st 1967 at Watkins Glen it was the other Ford powered Lotus of Graham Hill that sat on pole position on a beautiful, sunny day in central New York State.  Jim Clark was starting from second place and even lost a position on the opening lap to American driver and race winner Dan … Read the Rest »