All News: Jeff Jacobs

iRacers Claim SCCA Runoffs Championships

October 14th, 2016 by Jeff Jacobs

Nearly a dozen iRacing.com members won their respective classes at the 53rd SCCA National Championship Runoffs presented by Garmin VIRB at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.  The culmination of SCCA club racing’s season took place September 23 – 25, 2016 and featured 581 drivers competing in 28 classes.  Several more iRacing.com members finished … Read the Rest »

Shifflett, Hartley Win Xtreme Road Series Championships

May 1st, 2016 by Jeff Jacobs

          A thrilling championship points battle came down to the final race at Road Atlanta, where Robert Hartley claimed the ST class championship in his Mazda MX-5 over defending champion John Allen in the XtremeMotorsports99.com road series on iRacing.com.  Ford Mustang FR500S sim-racer Travis Shifflett added a third-consecutive GS class championship to his trophy case … Read the Rest »

Mustang, MX-5 Titles Xtreme-ly Close in League Racing

April 2nd, 2016 by Jeff Jacobs

An amazing display of parity amongst MX-5 sim-racers has produced a thrilling championship points battle going into the final two weeks of the XtremeMotorsports99.com road series on iRacing.com.  The week 9 race at Donington gave Giuseppe Iannucci his first class win in the Mazda, while week 10 at VIR saw Travis Schwenke take his first … Read the Rest »

Xtreme League Takes on Long & Short of iRacing Tracks

March 20th, 2016 by Jeff Jacobs

The close confines of Lime Rock Park followed by the wide open spaces of Road America provided a study of contrasts between the short Connecticut track and the long Wisconsin road course in weeks seven and eight of the XtremeMotorsports99.com road series on iRacing.com.  The ST class Mazda MX-5 drivers continued to provide a thrillingly … Read the Rest »

Wootton, Shifflett Lead Classes at Xtreme League Midpoint

March 5th, 2016 by Jeff Jacobs

Six weeks of grids packed with Mustangs and MX-5s have produced amazing racing and two championship points battles much too close to declare a favorite at the season midpoint of the XtremeMotorsports99.com road series on iRacing.com.  Defending GS class champion Tyler Shifflett has two wins and four other podium finishes to lead the Mustang standings … Read the Rest »

Xtreme Road Excitement at Laguna, Monza

February 14th, 2016 by Jeff Jacobs

With grids packed full of Mustangs and MX-5s, the Laguna Seca and Monza GP road courses on iRacing.com provided two thrilling races and set up an exciting championship points race with one-third of the season complete. Week three in the XtremeMotorsports99.com Continental Tire series featured 60 minutes of sim-racing at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, with … Read the Rest »

Daytona, Sebring Host Extreme League Kickoff

February 5th, 2016 by Jeff Jacobs

The fourth season of road racing in the XtremeMotorsports99 Continental Tire series kicked off under the virtual Florida sun of iRacing.com’s Daytona and Sebring road courses with exciting sim races in both car classes.  Defending ST class champion John Allen returned to the grid in his Mazda MX-5 but dug himself an early hole with … Read the Rest »

Shifflett, Allen Repeat as Class Champions in Xtreme League Road Series

December 23rd, 2015 by Jeff Jacobs

As ten weeks of sim racing competition came to a close at Road Atlanta, Tyler Shifflett and John D Allen successfully defended their respective class championships in Season 3 of the XtremeMotorsports99.com Continental Tire Road Racing Series.  Despite coming into the final event trailing by seven points, Shifflett took the GS class championship in his … Read the Rest »

iRacing’s Grant Reeve Wins SCCA Solo Nationals

September 29th, 2015 by

By the narrowest of margins – think 0.004sec — in one of the most hotly contested classes, iRacing staffer Grant Reeve won the Super Street-R National Championship at the Sports Car Club of America TireRack Solo Nationals earlier this month.  A record-breaking 1228 SCCA members gathered in Lincoln, Nebraska from September 8th to 11th to … Read the Rest »

Zolder’s Chicanes Challenge GTC

January 15th, 2015 by

After a week of sim-racing on the sweeping turns at Mosport, the iRacing.com Grand Touring Cup featured a completely different challenge with the tricky chicanes of Belgium’s Circuit Zolder. Having been absent from the GTC schedule for two years, Zolder was new to most of the drivers and had to be re-learned by the others. … Read the Rest »