All News: John Bodin

Charlotte Challenges inRacing News Challenge

December 1st, 2010 by

Week Four of the inaugural inRacingNews Challenge found the Pontiac Solstices and SpecRacer Fords convening at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s challenging road course.  Although the 12 turn, 2.25 mile circuit may looks like a run-of-the-mill r-oval from afar, up close and personal it’s anything but an antiseptic circuit, what with a tricky “thread-the-needle” entry to Turn … Read the Rest »

Men in Blue

October 28th, 2010 by

Dear fellow simracers, Some of you may know that I back in week one posted a message in the (old) forum about the chance to win a small prize if driving with my company logo. There was also an article posted at inRacingNews back in August by John Bodin. Since then I have seen quite … Read the Rest »

A Good Start for SpecRacer Ford

August 10th, 2010 by

The 2010 Season Three spec Racer Ford series is off to a good start, with 470 active online racers at the end of Week One action at West Virginia’s scenic Summit Point Raceway.  The top three overall points leaders are all from Division One, with Piotr Wach on top with 149 points, followed by Gaston … Read the Rest »

iRacing Takes Realism To The Next Level

August 8th, 2010 by

With the 2010 Season 3 build, iRacing unveiled a new transmission model that introduces a much higher level of realism to the online racing mix in terms of shifting options.  Previously, clicking out of a gear or into another gear would instantly do just that – regardless of whether or not such a gear change … Read the Rest »

Fixed Setups — Creating A Level Playing Field?

August 7th, 2010 by

All of this talk about fixed setups got me to thinking, and when it comes down to it, I realized that I don’t really have a good idea of how fixed setups would impact me, personally.   So as an experiment I ran an online race in the Rookie Solstice last night, just to see what … Read the Rest »

Fixed Setups and iRacing: Empowering Your Inner Driver or Frustrating Your Inner Engineer?

August 4th, 2010 by

When iRacing unveiled the 2010 Season 3 schedule they also announced the addition of two new fixed-setup series — both of these fixed-setup series will be B-Class series, featuring the C6.R Corvette on the road course side, and the Impala SS Class B on the oval side.  These new fixed-setup series will run in addition … Read the Rest »