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Kingsbury Wins in Homestead

June 22nd, 2014 by

Week Seven of the 2014 Season 2 iRacing.com IndyCar Oval Series sent the series to Homestead-Miami Speedway. Only 18 sim-racers participated in online races throughout the week. Drive-off of Turn 4, tight sim racing and restarts were the stories of the week. Matt A. Kingsbury (Connecticut) started on pole with Michael Armstong2 (Indiana) on his … Read the Rest »

“Cross”ing off Texas

June 16th, 2014 by

Week Six of the 2014 Season 2 iRacing.com IndyCar Oval Series sent the series to Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. A total 58 sim-racers took to the track this week. The stories of the week would handling and be the ability to keep up with the leaders. Brandon Trost (Pennsylvania) started on pole, … Read the Rest »

Strategy Double-“Cross”-es Richmond

June 3rd, 2014 by

Week Five of the 2014 Season 2 iRacing.com IndyCar Oval Series sent the series to Richmond International Raceway. Only 28 sim-racers participated in online races throughout the week, nearly matching a season low in participation. Handling  and pit strategy would be the stories throughout the week of sim-racing with the new Dallara DW12. Christopher Demeritt … Read the Rest »

A Design Contest Story: From iRacing to Real Racing

June 2nd, 2014 by

Last year, by the month of October, I was taking a look on the iRacing forums for paint requests. I’m a Brazilian graphic designer, living in Rio de Janeiro, and had decided to offer my services for the community – as many of you reading this right now already know. Before, I would only paint … Read the Rest »

Moreira wins in Lotus 79 Sonoma, Gernot Fritsche DNF!

May 27th, 2014 by

Week 4 of the Classic Lotus Grand Prix Series was held at the Sonoma Raceway in California, USA. Many regular drivers spent the week practicing for the iRacing Indy race and so were not ready to qualify and race with us. Despite that, 29 cars registered for the main Sunday race! Lotus driver Gernot Fritsche … Read the Rest »

A New Season Starts for Brazilian Leagues

May 23rd, 2014 by

Two weeks ago, after a short break, Brazilian leagues started their new season of races for this year. Two of them are iRacing Brasil and Brasil Lemans Series, which I have been covering for iRacing News since the first season of this year. Both leagues follow the official iRacing calendar for their series and, this … Read the Rest »

Laguna Seca + Power – Downforce = Win

May 22nd, 2014 by

Thirteen sim-racers lined up on the grid at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in their Lotus 49s for a 2834 SOF race.  The top three qualifiers (Michel Dudognon, Mick Claridge, and Jason Shadd) all posted times in the low 1:24s and were separated by less than a quarter of a second.  Behind them came another set … Read the Rest »

Something Old, Something New – I’m Excited, How About You?

May 19th, 2014 by

The Circuit of the Americas became available in iRacing just last month, and the Lotus 49 is among the, er, “oldest” cars available to sim-racers.  So how good could this combination really be?  Well the truth is the world discovered this magical combination over a year ago when Caterham F1 reserve driver, and only American … Read the Rest »

Norton Dominates Milwaukee

May 14th, 2014 by

Week Two of the 2014 Season 2 iRacing.com IndyCar Oval Series sent the series to The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin. A mere 25 sim-racers took to the track this week, an astonishingly record low in participation in a week where the stories would be handling and tire conservation. Ryan Norton (Florida) started in … 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 »