All News: Indianapolis 500

Road Warrior 12 Hours of Sebring

March 31st, 2015 by

After a fiercely competitive iRacing Daytona 24 back in January the Road Warrior Endurance teams took to the track for the first ever iRaicng 12 Hours of Sebring. The race kicked off at 13:00 GMT on Saturday March 28th. At least two drivers had to get behind the wheel during the 12 hour event. For … Read the Rest »

Racespot TV Renews 2015 iRacing Partnership, Increases Event Coverage

January 9th, 2015 by

RaceSpot TV are proud to announce that they have renewed their partnership with iRacing.com Motorsports Simulations, to cover the iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series for the 2015 season. In addition, RaceSpot TV shall also provide coverage of the endurance rounds of the 2015 iRacing.com Road Warrior Series, and the 2015 iRacing.com Indianapolis 500. The … Read the Rest »

IndyCar Battle Between the Lakes

September 25th, 2014 by

Week 8 of the iRacing Indy Car Road series saw the drivers stop and battle for virtual glory at Autódromo José Carlos Pace (aka Interlagos). The classic circuit is located in Brazil, the nation that has seen the likes of Formula 1 legends named Senna, Piquet, Fittipaldi, modern day heroes like Massa and Barrichello, and … Read the Rest »

Is It Really Too Tough To Tame?

September 23rd, 2014 by

NASCAR’s first paved superspeedway has been called “The Track Too Tough To Tame.”  Known for its red and white walls that, once the green flag drops, “magically” become increasingly black — even as the right sides of the cars “magically” develop black stripes of their own – Darlington is also called “The Lady in Black.”  … Read the Rest »

Doyle Prevails in Exhilarating XCAL Indianapolis 500

June 2nd, 2014 by

Editor’s note:  As most readers are aware, shortly after the introduction of its digital version of the Dallara DW12, web site problems forced iRacing.com to cancel its online Indianapolis 500.  XCAL Racing, a first-year iRacing league, experienced the same disappointment as their fellow iRacers at the cancellation of one of the year’s most highly-anticipated sim-races. … Read the Rest »

iRacers at Indianapolis

May 24th, 2014 by David Phillips

Ed Carpenter, Will Power, Simon Pagenaud, Josef Newgarden, JR Hildebrand, Justin Wilson, Oriol Servia, James Davison, Martin Plowman and Sage Karam aren’t the only iRacers at the Indianapolis 500. Thursday evening found an enthusiastic collection of two dozen iRacers including Todd and Cary Bettenhausen – and iRacingNews contributor/karaoke king Wil Vincent – gathering for a … 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 »

Montoya + Penske . . . Lightning in a Bottle?

September 16th, 2013 by

Penske Racing’s announcement that Juan Pablo Montoya will drive a third IndyCar for the team in 2014 will send a jolt through the IZOD IndyCar Series. Where to begin? Let’s start with Penske Racing.  Paradoxically, while Helio Castroneves is closing-in on his first title after some two decades in CART and IndyCar, his has been … Read the Rest »

Ganassi and Montoya Part Ways in NASCAR

August 14th, 2013 by

Guess yesterday’s column was a day too soon.  No sooner did we chronicle the first of what figures to be several stanzas in racing’s  2013/2014  game of musical chairs, than Earnhardt/Ganassi Racing announced Juan Pablo Montoya will not be back in the team’s NASCAR Sprint Cup entry next season. The news hardly comes as a … Read the Rest »

NASCAR and NBC Change the Motorsports TV Landscape – Again

July 24th, 2013 by

Yesterday’s news of NASCAR’s ten year TV rights deal with the NBC Sports Group brings fundamental changes to the motorsports television landscape . . . again.   Some of us can recall the days when “motorsports” and “television” were all but mutually exclusive.  Apart from ABC’s Wide World of Sports’ highlight coverage of the Monaco Grand … Read the Rest »