All News: sim-racing

iRacer Profile – Rocco Barone

May 18th, 2012 by

Perhaps even more than the basic skills and techniques of motorsports, iRacing provides a window into the mental game of racing.  After all, it’s one thing to turn a fast lap or two in practice or qualifying, quite another to cope with the mental pressures of running lap after lap with another sim racer breathing … Read the Rest »

New Horizons

May 18th, 2012 by

iRacer Joey Hand Tackles the DTM and ALMS in 2012 If it’s good to be busy then it’s safe to say 2012 is already a good year for iRacer Joey Hand.  The 32 year old racer from Sacramento is marrying a full-time ride with BMW in the DTM (aka German Tour Car Series) with a … Read the Rest »

Season Two kicks off at Daytona

May 18th, 2012 by

The Red Sox Racing League began Season Two of 2012 at the Daytona International Speedway’s road course.  Despite giving considerable thought to using the recently released Cadillac as the Class B vehicle, league officials decided to stick with the Corvette C6R for this season.  “We may switch to the Cadillac for Season Three, or add … Read the Rest »

Crawford Dominates Darlington

May 16th, 2012 by

Week Two of the Nascar iRacing.com Class B Series (NiCBS) saw drivers travel to the “Lady in Black”, Darlington Raceway. Darlington is a 1.366 mile oval located in South Carolina and is known for hosting the famed Southern 500. During the week, 393 drivers attempted one race while 114 drivers turned at least one qualifying … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – Marcus Dean

May 12th, 2012 by

On the face of it, Marcus Dean is a bit of a contradiction.  The Greenville, SC resident loves his short track racing, particularly at his “home” track, ½ mile Greenville-Pickens Speedway, a track awash in stock car racing history.  Given that, you might expect Dean to be a regular in iRacing Street Stocks, Late Models … Read the Rest »

Out of the Gate

May 10th, 2012 by

A new season is upon us in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series (NiCAS), and there was no messing around as the series took to the high banks of Talladega Superspeedway right out of the gate. With the current iRacing.com build of the Chevrolet Impala SS, the drafting in the sim models itself much like … Read the Rest »

Putting the “Personal” in PC Gaming Computers

May 9th, 2012 by

iRacing is many things to many people.  For most, it’s an enjoyable past-time offering very real insights into the world of motorsports; for some it’s a nearly full-time (some would say “addictive”) hobby offering very real rewards.  For established race drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr, Justin Wilson, Alex Gurney and Shane van Gisbergen, it’s a … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – Bryan J Miller

May 5th, 2012 by

Bryan J Miller practices what he preaches, both when he says his favorite quote by a TV character come from Park and Recreation‘s  Ron Swanson who says,“I learned a lesson. Never half-ass two things . . . whole-ass one thing” and when he says his own motto in iRacing is “I make the ‘SLOWstice’ go … Read the Rest »

Brooks Best in Class C

April 29th, 2012 by

The season long battle between Justin Brooks and Heath Hindman for the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS) crown came down the final two weeks of the season. Hundreds of sim racers came out to test their skills at the Darlington Raceway and Kentucky Speedway in the final two rounds, but when the final laps … Read the Rest »

Lambert Outlasts Late Model Field

April 28th, 2012 by

After 12 weeks of action and thousands of laps in the 2012 Season One iRacing Late Model Tour (iLMT) season, it was Mark Lambert who came out on top of over 3,100 drivers to become champion of the series. While he was relatively quiet in the last two weeks of his championship season, many others … Read the Rest »