All News: Sebring International Raceway

Unconventional Wisdom

March 19th, 2012 by

Conventional wisdom has it that races are not won on the first corner, only lost.  Evidently Hugo Luis has never heard of conventional wisdom.  Round Two of the 2012 iRacing.com Grand Prix Series World Championship at Circuit Park Zandvoort saw the defending champion make a blinder of a start to grab the lead from pole-sitter … Read the Rest »

A Study in Contrasts

March 19th, 2012 by

Weeks 5 and 6 of the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge visited the longest and shortest tracks on the schedule – Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California – to round-out the first half of the season.  With a history of multiclass endurance racing, and featuring in the World Endurance Championship this year, … Read the Rest »

Hamstead Tops Again at Sebring

March 10th, 2012 by

Week 5 of Season 1, 2012, and the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by Big Pond, featured 19 lap races chock full of bumps and grinds at Sebring International Raceway’s notoriously rough airport track. The action began with the customary V8SC Americas events on Thursday and Friday nights (9:45 PM EST/02:45 GMT), along with European … Read the Rest »

Van Gisbergen edges Hamstead and Down at Phillip Island

March 1st, 2012 by

The iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by Big Pond returned home to Australia for Week 4 of 2012 Season 1, with a 38-lap event at the undulating, 2.762 mile Phillip Island circuit. At just a shade under 105 mile distance, the race was long enough that pit strategies would come into play. As usual, the … Read the Rest »

Night racing in Florida

February 29th, 2012 by

Members of the Red Sox Racing League traveled to warm, sunny Florida for the “Hendricks Field 30 at Night Sebring” on week seven of their 2012 Season One schedule.  The event was the first night race of the year for RSR drivers.  The fact that it was held on one of most challenging courses on … Read the Rest »

Schmalenbach Surges to Sebring Victory

January 17th, 2012 by

In a race of pit-stop tactics and survival, Sebastian Schmalenbach scored his first 2011 iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing (iPSRR) victory in the penultimate round of the championship with a masterful fuel-strategy over 52 laps of the virtual Sebring International Raceway. As the green flag dropped Pablo López tried to squeeze his Williams-Toyota FW31 between … Read the Rest »

2012 iRacing.com World Tour Schedule

December 22nd, 2011 by

From the virtual sands of Daytona and the digital bricks of Indianapolis to the simulated shores of Phillip Island, the 2012 iRacing.com World Tour will enable iRacers to compete in online versions of some of the world’s classic motorsports events.   Scheduled for the same weekends as their real-world counterparts, the World Tour events are open … Read the Rest »

A New Dawn at Sebring

November 11th, 2011 by

The venue for the start of the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge turned out to be rather fitting, with a night race at Sebring International Raceway. In the latest update all three cars of the series had their tire model significantly updated, the Corvette C6.R even getting the New Tire Model for the first time … Read the Rest »

Lisner Lights-up Sebring

October 26th, 2011 by

Week 11 in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge sent the sim racers down to Sebring, Florida for some online racing under the lights at the 3.7-mile, 17-turn Sebring International Raceway.  228 drivers attempted to conquer the Florida darkness, but after seven days of competition, Jason Lisner (Virginias) emerged the top point earner for the week. Weekly … Read the Rest »

Return to Suzuka

October 14th, 2011 by

For the second time this season, the drivers in the Thrustmaster Mustang Challenge headed to Japan for some action at the 3.609-mile, 17-turn Suzuka International Racing Course.  A total of 367 sim racers attempted to be crowned the week’s best, but after seven days of online racing, Norbert Leitner (Central-Eastern Europe) was the driver who … Read the Rest »