All News: Skip Barber F2000
iRacing Staff Member Profile: Senior Software Engineer David Tucker
August 22nd, 2024 by Justin Melillo
For this week of the iRacing Staff Member highlight series, we’ve got another long-time component behind the scenes of many facets around iRacing. A lot of the different systems that make iRacing work, from how the spotter relays information to how any sim racing wheel base ultimately feels in-hand, David Tucker has likely had his … Read the Rest »
Rundell, Hoffman Highlight Season
May 8th, 2015 by Jaime Baker
It was only months ago that the stars of the Red Sox Racing League spent the better part of 2014 battling in some of the latest GT3 equipment – complete with McLaren MP4-12Cs, BMW Z4s, and RUF Rt-12s each vying for victories. As the competitors worked to complete a third straight season of mixed GT … Read the Rest »
Road Warrior Recap
December 12th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
The dust has settled and the points have been tallied. 3,185 drivers competed in this year’s iRacing Road Warrior series. A huge congratulations to the iRacing Road Warrior Series overall points top 10 . . . and to everyone who battled it out, hunting for this year’s Road Warrior crown, from Phillip Island to Circuit … Read the Rest »
End of the Road
December 10th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
After 20 exciting rounds in a wildly diverse collection of digital race cars on some of the world’s great road courses, the inaugural season of the iRacing Road Warrior Series crossed the proverbial finish line in Austin, Texas. The Road Warriors’ weapon for the final weekend? The Skip Barber F2000 car. The Skip Barber car … Read the Rest »
Road Warrior Brazilian Grand Prix
November 26th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
The penultimate round of the inaugural iRacing Road Warrior Series was held “between the lakes” aka Interlagos, aka Autódromo José Carlos Pace. The famed Brazilian Grand Prix Circuit flows up and down the side of a hill the “interlagos” neighborhood of Sao Paulo, so called because it is situated between two large artificial lakes, Guarapiranga … Read the Rest »
Road Warriors Feast at Brands Hatch
October 31st, 2014 by Jaime Baker
With the inaugural iRacing Road Warrior Series heading to the checkered flag, competitors assembled at the virtual Brand Hatch for the Formula Festival in honor of the legendary Formula Ford Festival. iRacing’s Formula Festival had three classes for the 45 minute sim races: Star Mazda, Skip Barber F2000 or the SCCA Spec Racer Ford. As … Read the Rest »
Crash Test Programmer
May 16th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Oh the lengths iRacing goes to in the quest for authenticity; up to and including risking life, limb . . . and ego. Days after submitting to a rigorous grilling for a Q&A for iRacingNews, senior programmer Richard Jobling – together with fellow programmer Ike Adams – journeyed to Lime Rock Park for a one … Read the Rest »
Plenty to Play for in Penultimate Race
April 16th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
With the championship already in Marc Mercer’s pocket the UK&I Skippies headed to Sonoma Raceway for the penultimate round of the first 2014 season. Following Blake Townend’s DNF last time out, the battle for “best of the rest” was still very much in play, with only eight points separating Townend from Wojciech Swirydowicz (in Woj’s … Read the Rest »
One… Two…. Three… Fun !!
February 20th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
A new challenge just started for the iGPFun League: racing the Skip Barber F2000 for first time after three enjoyable and competitive seasons with the SpecRacer Ford. Leaving that little car that always provided exciting races was not an easy choice for the organizers, but the first race at Silverstone International made the community quite … Read the Rest »
Townend’s Suspenseful Silverstone Success
February 11th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Over 50 Skip Barber F2000s arrived at the international circuit configuration of Silverstone, one of the home tracks of the UK&I Skip Barber League, for a highly anticipated 16 lap race. After a respectful yet exciting 2014 season opener in West Virginia it was Marc Mercer with the early championship lead over Paul F. Grillo … Read the Rest »