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iRacing 2022 Season 4 is HERE!

September 7th, 2022 by

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the iRacing 2022 Season 4 build! Check out multiple new tracks, our first-ever electric car, and a host of AI unlocks and improvements as a part of our latest release: Porsche Mission R: Porsche’s Mission R is a look into the future of customer racing with electric … Read the Rest »

Massive iRacing AI Unlocks for 2022 Season 4 Includes NASCAR Next Gen, GTE, Lotus 49, New Tracks, and More

September 7th, 2022 by

The NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, Ford Mustang, and Toyota Camry highlight an immense list of car and track unlocks for iRacing AI beginning with the 2022 Season 4 build. In total, nine cars across three classes and 13 configurations at six tracks will be enabled for AI play in both single-player … Read the Rest »

Aero Wars: The uphill battle NASCAR has gotten itself into

July 25th, 2015 by

The year is 1968.  The racing series:  Formula 1.  Colin Chapman bolts a small front wing and a rear spoiler onto Graham Hill’s Lotus 49.  The result is tremendous.  All Formula 1 teams follow suit in affixing their cars with some kind of aerofoil-shaped device on their cars.  Dubbed “guillotine” wings because….well never mind, let’s … Read the Rest »

60 Minutes of Spa in the GPL Finale

October 31st, 2014 by

The final week of Grand Prix Legends had a special treat in store for the sim-racers of the series.  A full hour of Spa-Francorchamps and a grid of 22 Lotus 49s to battle it out for 25 laps . . . with  last season’s champion Mick Claridge sitting on pole position.  Behind Claridge came some … Read the Rest »

GPL Hits The Glen; The Glen Hits Back

October 30th, 2014 by

Whenever Watkins Glen hosts the Grand Prix Legends the entertainment level is high, so when the sim-racers and their Lotus 49s arrived in the Finger Lakes for a 15 lap race (with boot) we expected nothing less a spectacular race.  Victor Perelman took pole position ahead of Darwin Meints and Sandeep Banerjee, but a nearly … Read the Rest »

Grand Prix Legends Prove Their Worth at Bathurst

October 8th, 2014 by

Mount Panorama Circuit is not known for being easy, and neither is the Lotus 49.  This combination of car and track is arguably among the most challenging you can encounter in iRacing.  To call the Grand Prix Legends visit to “The Mountain” a race of attrition would be the understatement of the young century.  With … Read the Rest »

Monstrous Mosport for GPL

October 7th, 2014 by

With defending series champion Mick Claridge on pole position for the Grand Prix Legends race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, it appeared the only sim-racer to post a qualifying time in the 1:16s was in the perfect position to cruise to another victory.  Victor Perelman sat best of the rest in second position with a … Read the Rest »

GPL Carnage Report at Indy

September 26th, 2014 by

Last season Grand Prix Legends debut at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was  dominated by Finnish sim-racers in a thrilling race with dramatic overtakes at over 200mph and colossal crashes up and down the field.  The GPL’s return to The Brickyard in Season Three would be no different, well apart from the Flying Finns that is.  … Read the Rest »

GPL Thrills in Sebring

September 22nd, 2014 by

When the 14 sim-racers of the Grand Prix Legends series lined up at Sebring International Raceway for a 12 lap sprint the expectations for a fiercely competitive race were running high given that the top four qualifiers all posted times in the 1:59s.  Victor Perelman took top honors ahead of Daniel Kane, Daniel Garrison Jr., … Read the Rest »

Legendary Loti at Laguna

September 8th, 2014 by

Week Four of this season’s Grand Prix Legends championship returned to the site of one of the most exciting races from last season, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.  There were 18 sim-racers on the grid for an 18 lap race up, down, and all around this hilly and twisty American classic.  Michel Dudognon took pole position … Read the Rest »