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iRacing Announces Licensing Agreement with Mercedes-Benz

May 29th, 2015 by

Virtual Mercedes AMG GT3 in Production iRacing.com announced today it has reached a licensing agreement with Mercedes-Benz Accessories to build a digital version of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 to race in online competition.  The Mercedes-AMG GT3 will join more than forty precisely-modeled race cars available on iRacing, the world’s leading online motorsport simulations service. “We’re thrilled … Read the Rest »

IMSA, iRacing.com Announce IMSA iRacing.com Online Sports Car Championship

April 2nd, 2015 by

The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) and iRacing.com today announced the creation of the IMSA iRacing.com Online Sports Car Championship.   The online racing series features iRacing’s digital versions of Daytona Prototypes, LMP and GT cars competing on laser-scanned versions of Daytona International Speedway, Sebring International Raceway, Watkins Glen International and many other tracks on IMSA’s … Read the Rest »

SRO, iRacing.com Announce Blancpain GT Sim Racing Series

March 16th, 2015 by

SRO Motorsports Group and iRacing.com today announced the creation of two online racing series for virtual sports cars that are based on the Blancpain Sprint Series and Blancpain Endurance Series.   The two series will feature iRacing’s digital GT3 cars, including the BMW Z4, Ford GT and McLaren MP4-12C (with Aston Martin and another major manufacturer … Read the Rest »

McLaren, iRacing to Build Virtual McLaren-Honda MP4-30

March 2nd, 2015 by

McLaren Racing and iRacing.com today announced plans to create a digital version of the 2015 McLaren Formula One car for iRacing’s popular online motorsports game.   iRacing’s version of the McLaren-Honda MP4-30, featuring virtual Kinetic Energy Recovery and Drag Reduction System, will join the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 and more than 50 other virtual race cars available … Read the Rest »

Pre-Season Testing Comes to iRacing

January 12th, 2015 by

iRacing’s First 24 Hour Race Set for January 17-18 Like their counterparts in the Tudor United SportsCar Series participating in last week’s “Roar Before the 24,” iRacers are invited to take part in a pre-season test on January 17-18 in preparation for the iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona, the opening round of the 2015 Road … Read the Rest »

iRacing’s Driver Swap: A New Era in Sim Racing

October 22nd, 2014 by

iRacing ushered-in a new era in sim racing and racing games today with the release of its Driver Swap team racing feature. The first of its kind feature allows the 50,000+ iRacers around the world to team-up with multiple numbers of fellow iRacers to share driving duties and a myriad of other roles on a … Read the Rest »

Coanda SimSport at SimRacing Expo 2014

September 26th, 2014 by

The successful new sim racing team — Coanda SimSport — descended on the Nürburgring last weekend for the SimRacing Expo 2014 . . . not to mention the iRacing Nürburgring 1000 round of the Blancpain Sprint Series. Organized by Marc Hennerici, from the ADAC Mittelrhein e.V., the Simracing Expo was the first of its kind, … Read the Rest »

The Nürburgring is Coming to iRacing!

September 19th, 2014 by

Racing.com Motorsport Simulations, the world’s most realistic racing game, announced it will add the fabled Nürburgring to iRacing.com’s catalogue of over 65 laser-scanned race tracks.  The news comes in the wake of iRacing’s licensing agreement with Aston Martin Racing cars and the revelation that iRacers recently eclipsed the one billion lap milestone. Today’s announcement at … Read the Rest »

iRacing Q&A: Dan Garrison

July 18th, 2014 by

The next time an email or PM arrives from iRacingNews asking you to answer some questions for a story . . . you might want to keep Dan Garrison in mind.   Away back in August of 2012, Dan took time to supply some “A’s” to our “Q’s” for an iRacer Profile.  Fast forward to June, … Read the Rest »

Finding Big Foot, Nessie and Grant Reeve

June 30th, 2014 by

Let’s just get the bad news out of the way right away.  Driver swaps WILL NOT be in the Season 3 build.  Take a minute to go file a protest, punch a wall, crush a six pack or whatever else you might need to do to get that frustration out of your system.  Then come … Read the Rest »