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VALLEY TOPS MODIFIEDS AT MARTINSVILLE

January 10th, 2011 by

Stergios takes three wins on “the Paperclip” Though he didn’t have a win to his credit during the week, Division One NASCAR Tour Modified driver Royce Valley stood tall as the big winner after leaving Martinsville Speedway on Saturday night. Valley rode his ground pounding Tour Modified car to a second place run in the … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM @ VIR

January 5th, 2011 by

The legendary Virginia International Raceway was the venue for Round Nine of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the mixed-class online racing championship, open to PC owners and members of the iRacing service. With three rounds now remaining in the 12 week Championship, the season is drawing to a dramatic and hard fought conclusion … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM at Barber Motorsports Park

December 29th, 2010 by

Barber Motorsports Park played host to round eight of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the online racing championship for the digital renditions of the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S. The mixed-class, 12 week Championship which is separated into ten divisions, offers daily online races to PC owners all over the … Read the Rest »

Three Stars and a Supporting Cast

December 17th, 2010 by

Talking about iRacing’s new Mazda MX-5, the inRacingNews article “Balancing Act” made the claim that “slower cars will always generate closer racing in the sim and in real life (than really fast cars)…” In support of that claim, I give you the 5pm split on Sunday, December 12th in the iRacing Mazda Cup at Mazda … Read the Rest »

IndyCars Down Under

December 10th, 2010 by

IndyCars Down Under and a German on top!  Marcus Jirak (Club DE-AT-CH) scored the most points over one week for the second time this season, in an impressive performance at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit.  On the other hand, the locals were very reserved (one could even say friendly)  hosts, witness the fact that … Read the Rest »

Winesette Wins Another

December 3rd, 2010 by

Galen Winesette dominated the JWHRL NASCAR iRacing Class B Fixed Series race for the second week in a row Tuesday night, leading 43 of 50 laps en route to an easy victory. Just like the week before at Phoenix, Winesette started on the pole and was never passed on the race track, winning in convincing … Read the Rest »

Charlotte Challenges inRacing News Challenge

December 1st, 2010 by

Week Four of the inaugural inRacingNews Challenge found the Pontiac Solstices and SpecRacer Fords convening at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s challenging road course.  Although the 12 turn, 2.25 mile circuit may looks like a run-of-the-mill r-oval from afar, up close and personal it’s anything but an antiseptic circuit, what with a tricky “thread-the-needle” entry to Turn … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM Hits the (online) Road (America)

November 24th, 2010 by

The virtually-epic (or is it epic virtual?) Road America played host to Round Three of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, the online racing series open to PC owners with a subscription to the iRacing.com motorsport simulation service. The GRAND-AM sanctioned 12 week championship pays visits to highly accurate reproductions of circuits on the … Read the Rest »

Twelve Wins and Counting

November 9th, 2010 by

Continuing his seemingly unstoppable winning streak, Luca Masier claimed win Number 12 from as many starts in the iRacing Pro Road Racing Series at Virginia International Raceway last week; a run of form in the virtual Ford Falcon V8 Supercars that will see the Italian become a name challenging for next year’s Drivers World Championship. … Read the Rest »

Haapala Takes Season Finale

October 18th, 2010 by

Illka Haapala capitalised on Richard Towler’s tyre woes at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to take his second victory in the iRacing World Championship Road Racing in the season finale. The win for the Finnish sim-racer secured him an overall finish of third in the iWCRR, together with the accompanying $1,000 prize. “After the start … Read the Rest »