All News: Martti Pietilä


Krönke & Pietilä Score VRS Coanda 1-2 at Spa

August 24th, 2016 by Jake Sparey

The iRacing.com Grand Prix World Championship Series turned into the home stretch of the schedule this weekend as the teams headed to Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The seven kilometre circuit traditionally has set the tone for the remainder of the season in previous years and, with just three rounds remaining after the weekend in the virtual … Read the Rest »

Virtual Racing School: An Offer You Can’t Refuse

July 26th, 2016 by David Phillips

Ask most iRacers if they’d like to have access to the telemetry of some of the world’s top sim racers in a format that does not require a degree from MIT to understand and they’d probably say “Where do I sign up?” Tell them that they’d also be able to watch in-car replays of pro … Read the Rest »

Krönke Bolsters Championship Lead with Imola Win

June 21st, 2016 by Rachael Whiteford, Images by Hugo Luis

The iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series arrived at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Italy for Round Nine of the championship and the first race at the newest circuit on the iRacing service. Martin Krönke entered the weekend on 288 points as the championship leader over Greger Huttu in second on 275 points … Read the Rest »

Klaus Kivekäs Crowned Finnish Sim Racing Champion

December 21st, 2015 by Martti Pietilä

Last Sunday the final round of the Finnish Sim Racing Championship was held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Klaus Kivekäs had a solid lead in the championship, and only needed to finish in 25th position to secure the championship, in case Tommi Hahka, second in points, would win the race. Just as has been the … Read the Rest »

Fun Factor

December 23rd, 2014 by

After my previous blog about my loss of performance midway through the last WCS season I received a massive amount of questions (final amount: three) asking what actually was the thing that was causing the troubles I had. Well, in the end it was my brake pedal which wasn’t working too well. The degradation of … Read the Rest »

Martti’s Blog – Tough Luck?

October 27th, 2014 by

Coanda Simsport‘s Martti Pietilä endured a roller coaster of a 2014 iRacing World Championship Grand Prix season, one that started out with great promise only to gradually turn uncompetitive before a late season resurgence.  Martti takes us along for the ride with his blog . . . I guess I could say that I got … Read the Rest »

Coanda SimSport at SimRacing Expo 2014

September 26th, 2014 by

The successful new sim racing team — Coanda SimSport — descended on the Nürburgring last weekend for the SimRacing Expo 2014 . . . not to mention the iRacing Nürburgring 1000 round of the Blancpain Sprint Series. Organized by Marc Hennerici, from the ADAC Mittelrhein e.V., the Simracing Expo was the first of its kind, … Read the Rest »

Coanda Simsport Debuts in iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series

August 29th, 2014 by

Some of the most accomplished drivers in sim racing have joined forces to form the Coanda Simsport team.  The new team will make its official debut Saturday in Round 13 of the 2014 iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series at the virtual Interlagos circuit.  broadcast Saturday on iRacing.com/live beginning at 10 AM EDT (14:00 GMT). … Read the Rest »

Nilsson Dominates in Silverstone

May 20th, 2013 by

Week Two brought the pilots of the iRacing.com Grand Prix Series to Silverstone Circuit, located in Towcester, Northamptonshire, UK.  The 3.194 mile (5.14 km) Grand Prix circuit features 17 famous turns, some of which have been attacked by F1 cars since the late 1940s. As Silverstone is a fixture on the iGP Series schedule, many … Read the Rest »

Martti and Tero’s Excellent Adventure

April 22nd, 2013 by

On the morning of 19th April I jumped in my car, and headed towards Salo to pick-up Tero for our small road trip towards Kankaanpää, Finland. After few hours of driving, we finally arrived to the Foracer factory, and got to meet the people behind the motion simulators: Janika Vanhatalo, Jukka Leskinen and Joni Leskinen. … Read the Rest »