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Shields Earns First Victory at Road America

February 1st, 2011 by

Twenty-two members of the Red Sox Racing League traveled to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin for the seconnd event of the 2011 Season One schedule as Road America played host to the 18 lap “It’s Cool to be Cheesy” race.  Experienced sim racers knew the trick to success at the challenging 14 corner four mile track would … Read the Rest »

Townend Takes England Championship

January 31st, 2011 by

Blake Townend was crowned English champion in Season Four after an intense battle with reigning champion Adam Miles in the MX-5 series. Miles forced the issue to the final race after mixed fortunes for the two challengers in the double-header at Sebring the previous week. At Sebring modified, Miles languished in 24th whilst Townend finished … Read the Rest »

Tour Modifieds Set to Roar in 2011 Season One

January 31st, 2011 by

Stops at Irwindale, Bristol and Dover Highlight Schedule With Week 13 drawing to a close on the iRacing simulation, the cars and stars of the NASCAR Tour Modified series are set to get back to business for their third season. During the 2010 Season Four campaign 438 sim racers took part in 143 races with … Read the Rest »

New year – New Series – Fresh new car smell

January 28th, 2011 by

The new VW Jetta TDI and Mazda MX-5 mixed class series (officially known as the iRacing Grand Touring Cup) really does have that new car smell right now.  The response has been overwhelmingly positive to the announcement that the MX-5 will be paired with the VW Jetta TDI in a mixed class series starting with … Read the Rest »

The Sweet Science . . .

January 28th, 2011 by

Whether you’re a long-time sim racer or just got your steering wheel and pedals last night, you’re bound to enjoy Tony Johns’ reflections on his twenty years of sim racing in his alliteratively titled blog “The Sweet Science of Simulated Racing.” http://www.popoffvalve.com/2011/1/27/1960074/the-sweet-science-of-simulated-racing

2011 World Tour of iRacing Opens With Jan. 29 Running of iRacing GRAND-AM 2.4 Hours of Daytona

January 28th, 2011 by

Season Opener Features Multi-Class Sim Racing with Riley XX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR 500S on Daytona Road Course As the green flag waves at 3:30 p.m. EDT to start the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway, nearly two dozen iRacing.com members (among them Alex Gurney, Justin Wilson, AJ Allmendinger, Michael McDowell and Colin … Read the Rest »

inRacingNews v2 Coming Soon!

January 27th, 2011 by

Since inRacingNews launched on September 2nd, 2009, we have watched the site evolve from a simple motorsport racing news site to a growing online community of passionate iRacers. We gathered lots of feedback over the last year. Using that information as a foundation we have completely redesigned the site from the ground up, emphasizing and … Read the Rest »

Hughson, López & Wiggins Take inRacingNews Challenge

January 27th, 2011 by

Chris Hughson, Daniel López and Chris Wigggins put their names in the record books as the first three champions of the inRacingNews Challenge.   In fact López is in the books twice after finishing atop the SpecRacer Ford standings in both the online racing and time trials competition, while Hughson (racing) and Wiggins (time trials) split … Read the Rest »

Hughson, López & Wiggins Take inRacingNews Challenge

January 27th, 2011 by

Chris Hughson, Daniel López and Chris Wigggins put their names in the record books as the first three champions of the inRacingNews Challenge.   In fact López is in the books twice after finishing atop the SpecRacer Ford standings in both the online racing and time trials competition, while Hughson (racing) and Wiggins (time trials) split … Read the Rest »

Gooden, Michaels Take GRAND-AM Titles at Daytona

January 26th, 2011 by

The twelfth and final Round of the inaugural GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series headed to the Daytona International Speedway’s road course, where the overall and divisional champions of the virtual Riley MkXX Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S were crowned. The inaugural edition of this online racing series, open to subscribers of the iRacing.com Motorsport … Read the Rest »