All News: Homestead-Miami Speedway

Mallia and Sharman Premier Racers

March 2nd, 2011 by

This week witnessed the premier of the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, a 10 round championship spread across 26 weeks featuring the digital versions of the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and the Ford Mustang FR500S on millimeter-accurate virtual versions of most of the tracks on the GRAND-AM Rolex Series calendar.  The championship is … Read the Rest »

More than Meets the Eye

January 22nd, 2011 by

Taking a quick glance as Spencer Pigot’s iRacing.com profile, you’d figure he’d tried the service a year awhile ago and, for whatever reason, found it not to his liking.   One oval and two road racing starts in 2009, highlighted by a sixth place finish in a Pontiac Solstice race?  Not exactly the stuff of Greger … Read the Rest »

Sponsler Scores at Homestead-Miami

January 4th, 2011 by

Close, side-by-side racing is the trademark of south Florida’s 1.5 mile Homestead-Miami Speedway oval. Danica Patrick and Tony Kanaan showed in the IZOD IndyCar Series season finale how it can be done when they fought very hard for the second position in the last 15 laps. One of the keys behind the competitiveness surely is … Read the Rest »

IndyCar Airport Racing

December 28th, 2010 by

Week Seven of the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series led the drivers to the Sebring International Raceway.  This time the full course was bypassed in favor of the shorter “Modified” track layout which takes a tight short cut after the first very fast left hand turn and the extended backstretch leads to a tighter version of … Read the Rest »

Winding Down and Heating Up

December 1st, 2010 by

The pro sim racers took to the track in Homestead Miami Speedway for Round Fifteen in the eighteen week NASCAR iRacing Pro Series. As the season winds down and the points heat up, the drivers are getting tense and it showed this week in Homestead. HMS is not a track usually associated with trading paint, … Read the Rest »

Towler Honored at NASCAR Sprint Cup Finale

November 25th, 2010 by

Richard Towler, inaugural winner of the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship, hoists the champion’s trophy for NASCAR’s first global championship, while iRacing.com’s Steve Myers and NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt, Jr. present the winner’s check for $10,000.  NASCAR managing director Blake Davidson looks on.  The presentation to NASCAR’s first virtual racing champion took place at the … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM Hits the (online) Road (America)

November 24th, 2010 by

The virtually-epic (or is it epic virtual?) Road America played host to Round Three of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the online racing series open to PC owners with a subscription to the iRacing.com motorsport simulation service. The GRAND-AM sanctioned 12 week championship pays visits to highly accurate reproductions of circuits on the … Read the Rest »

Bigger in Texas

November 16th, 2010 by

The NASCAR iRacing Pro Series made its way down south to Texas Motor Speedway for Week Fourteen of the season. The stereotype that “Everything is bigger in Texas” played true in a fittingly big way. Steve Sheehan took the largest points of the season in his Wednesday night win over championship leader Josh Berry. Sheehan … Read the Rest »

Towler to Be Honored for Online Racing Championship at NASCAR Finale

November 5th, 2010 by

Four Race Wins Highlight Briton’s Inaugural NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship While most of his neighbors are fending off Yorkshire’s late fall chill, on Sunday afternoon, November 21, at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Hull’s Richard Towler will be basking in Florida sunshine.  He’ll be honored in front of 100,000 fans as NASCAR’s first national series champion from … Read the Rest »

Turner Doubles-up at Homestead

October 27th, 2010 by

In a streak of extremely competitive online races which illustrated the depth of skill on display each week during the first five events of the 2010 Season 3 schedule, five different drivers in the Red Sox Racing League made their way to Victory Lane.  Further evidence of the hard fought battles being waged in RSR … Read the Rest »