All News: pontiac-solstice

Silverstone Déjà Vu

July 5th, 2011 by

For sim racers who have competed in the inRacingNews Challenge more the past few seasons, Week Eight of 2011 Season 2, taking place on Silverstone’s Southern layout, must have felt just like déjà vu all over again. Just like the majority of 2011 Season One, Chris Hughson scored the most points in the Pontiac Solstice … Read the Rest »

Crunch Time

April 7th, 2011 by

Entering the ninth week of the inRacingNews Challenge, another round at Lime Rock Park, many of the series’ top drivers were either approaching or at the point where they could begin dropping their worst results of the 12-week season. This is crunch time for sim racers in both the Pontiac Solstice and Spec Racer Ford … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – Nenad Matijevic

April 2nd, 2011 by

So far it’s been a pretty typical week for Nenad Matijevic, at least in terms of sim racing: two starts and two wins in the Mustang Challenge, eight starts and five wins in the Pontiac Solstice and one start and one win in the SpecRacer Ford in the inRacingNews Challenge.  OK, so Matijevic didn’t do … Read the Rest »

Mixed Class, Mixed Bag

March 24th, 2011 by

Featuring the Pontiac Solstice and SpecRacer Ford, the inRacingNews Challenge is a textbook example of mixed class online racing.  And when it comes to the class championships, the 2011 Season One iRNC is a textbook example of a mixed bag of results.  On the one hand, Gabriel Tobar seems poised to lock-up the SRF championship … Read the Rest »

One and Only

March 17th, 2011 by

The inRacingNews Challenge is now halfway complete, as the Pontiac Solstices and Spec Racer Fords of the multi-class series spent last week competed at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the one and only time this online racing season. While Chris Hughson (in Solstice) and Gabriel Tobar (in SRF) both held substantial points leads going into the … Read the Rest »

In Quest of the Double

March 9th, 2011 by

Chris Hughson continues his quest for dual titles in the inRacingNewsChallenge, adding to his lead in the Pontiac Solstice class after five weeks of online racing but losing ground to Gabriel Tobar in the SpecRacer Fords. Week Five, which saw the iRNC take on Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, helped Hughson extend his points lead in … Read the Rest »

A Third of the Way Home

March 3rd, 2011 by

We’re now a third of the way through the inRacingNews Challenge season, this past week’s events taking place on the Silverstone National Circuit. The top stories remain the championship dominance of Gabriel Tobar in the SpecRacer Ford class and Chris Hughson in the Pontiac Solstice, as well as Hughson’s drive to win both online racing … Read the Rest »

inRacingNews Challenge Gets the Boot at the Glen

January 21st, 2011 by

The penultimate round of the inaugural inRacingNews Challenge found the sim racers gathering in the Fingers Lakes region of New York to tackle a week’s worth of mixed class online racing on The Boot configuration of Watkins Glen International in their SpecRacer Fords and Pontiac Solstices.   Qualifying showed the SRFs to be about four seconds … Read the Rest »

Lime Rock Chicanery

December 30th, 2010 by

Thanks to a virtual meteorological quirk, sim racers competing at Lime Rock Park last week in the inRacingNews Challenge were greeted by blue skies and balmy temperatures in stark contrast to the all too real white-out conditions experienced by the rest of the Northeast.  Although this was the series second visit to Lime Rock, it … Read the Rest »

Third Time’s a Charm

December 21st, 2010 by

The inRacingNews Challenge made its third visit to the West Virginia panhandle in 2010 Season Four, with a week’s worth of mixed class online racing competition between SpecRacer Fords and Pontiac Solstices at Summit Point Raceway’s Jefferson Circuit.  Reverse.  While some sim racers acted like they didn’t know if they were coming or going, the … Read the Rest »