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iRacing Reaches Licensing Accord with Rockingham

April 28th, 2015 by

iRacing.com, the world’s leading online motorsports service, announced today it has secured a licensing agreement with England’s Rockingham Motor Speedway to create a digital version of the facility.  A team of laser scan technicians and photographers from iRacing traveled to England to conduct work at Rockingham last week. Opened in 2001, Rockingham ranks among the … Read the Rest »

Iberica Racing Wins Silverstone STC

April 13th, 2015 by

The first round of the STC started at Silverstone Historical. The famous UK circuit is the fastest configuration hosted by the STC. After dominating the practice and having covered a distance of 5.057km with a qualifying time of 1:38.567, Jesus Sicilia (Iberica) had to sweat to bring home the first victory against a fierce Ben … Read the Rest »

STC – BLUE CUP 2015

March 25th, 2015 by

Thursday 26th March the STC start a new championship: the Sim Racing Team STC -Blue Cup:  11 teams, 22 drivers per race, four different GT3 cars, seven races . . . and one Team Champion! Will Iberica Racing Team be able to defend the Black Cup Title from the Mivano Thrustmaster X Team and TeamGT, … Read the Rest »

Tanson’s Title, Carroll’s Race

March 10th, 2015 by

The last round of the season; and still the final points standings weren’t set in stone. Gregory Tanson had a comfortable lead heading in to Silverstone, but with a fantastic finish from Jan Schwitter the top of the standings could quite possibly change. The 2.023 mile circuit had many overtaking opportunities around its 17 corner … Read the Rest »

My Personal Experience in Team GT3 Challenge, Week One

November 10th, 2014 by

Last Saturday I had the unique opportunity to participate in a new road series I’ll be writing about for Season 4 — the iRacing Team GT3 Challenge — as a crew chief for a pair of sim-racing buddies competing against over a dozen other sim-racers piloting seven GT3 cars around Silverstone’s International layout.  The hour-long … Read the Rest »

Q&A With Steven Diem

October 16th, 2014 by

Hawaiian Steven Diem, a strong contender in the iRacing Mazda MX-5 Cup championship, is a very characteristic chap for the Aloha state. I had the pleasure of sitting down and asking Mr. Diem a few questions about his sim racing career and his approach to the iRacing.com Mazda MX-5 Cup . . . How did … Read the Rest »

Team USA Scholarship Names Six Candidates for Shootout

September 8th, 2014 by

Six young American drivers will converge on Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA today (September 8), for a shootout to determine who will represent the Team USA Scholarship in the traditional Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch and the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone, England, later in the fall. This will be 25th year the … Read the Rest »

Second Winner in Second Race of Skippy 2K Cup

August 22nd, 2014 by

The second round of the Skip Barber 2K Cup at Silverstone was another popular affair with nearly three dozen sim-racers in attendance for a 20 lap race on the Historical Grand Prix layout.  In qualifying Vinicius Rocha took pole position by 0.006s ahead of Sebastian Job with previous pole sitter Philippe Leybaert in third ahead … Read the Rest »

UK&I Skip Barber League Silverstone

August 15th, 2014 by

Round Two of the UK&I Skip Barber League’s third season of 2014 headed to Silverstone for 12 laps of the Historical Grand Prix layout.  Over 30 sim-racers participated as last week’s race winner and pole sitter Sebastian Job continued his winning ways with his second consecutive pole of the season putting in a 2:01.171, 0.130s … Read the Rest »

New Tires, New Contenders, Same Winners

August 11th, 2014 by

Portuguese translation below The third season of this year has come to iRacing and with it, many new features. The newest version of the NTM5 has come to the majority of the virtual vehicles and some of them had their physics redone to get ready for the new tire including the Lotus 79, which is … Read the Rest »