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V8 Supercars to Sanction iRacing.com Series

August 2nd, 2011 by

iRacing.com and V8 Supercars announced an agreement today that will see the organizers of the successful V8 Supercar Championship officially sanction the popular online racing service’s V8 Supercar series, which will be known as the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by BigPond.  V8 Supercars thus joins NASCAR, INDYCAR and GRAND-AM as partners in sanctioning competition … Read the Rest »

iRacing, McLaren Electronic Systems Partner in Online Racing Data Analysis

May 5th, 2011 by

iRacing.com, the world’s leading online motorsports simulation service, announced today it is partnering with McLaren Electronic Systems to incorporate the ATLAS Express data analysis software into its system.  As a result, iRacing’s more than 25,000 members will now have access to similar data acquisition and telemetry software used on every car competing in the FIA … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com Teams-up with JR Motorsports to Announce iRacing 2.0

May 3rd, 2011 by

The JR Motorsports  No.7 Chevrolet, driven by Josh Wise, will race under iRacing.com colors in two NASCAR Nationwide Series events this summer in support of the all-new iRacing 2.0,  the popular online racing service’s dramatic new software release.  This long awaited release will add many user enhancements and features to the popular online, multi-player racing … Read the Rest »

Legends, Lost and Found

March 5th, 2011 by

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to be in Paris in the early 1920’s and by chance wind up at a party at 27 Rue De Fleurus suddenly in the company of Hemingway, Picasso, Matisse, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and the rest of the artists, writers, and poets who socialized together and … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing Preview

February 24th, 2011 by

What The Pundits Say . . . This coming weekend witnesses the opening round of the second iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing (iWCSRR) from Spa-Francorchamps, with a 40-plus field of Williams-Toyota FW31s  scheduled to appear on the starting grid for Saturday’s race. The appearance of the likes of Greger Huttu, Richard Towler, Ilkka Haapala … Read the Rest »

New year – New Series – Fresh new car smell

January 28th, 2011 by

The new VW Jetta TDI and Mazda MX-5 mixed class series (officially known as the iRacing Grand Touring Cup) really does have that new car smell right now.  The response has been overwhelmingly positive to the announcement that the MX-5 will be paired with the VW Jetta TDI in a mixed class series starting with … Read the Rest »

Towler Honored at NASCAR Sprint Cup Finale

November 25th, 2010 by

Richard Towler, inaugural winner of the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship, hoists the champion’s trophy for NASCAR’s first global championship, while iRacing.com’s Steve Myers and NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt, Jr. present the winner’s check for $10,000.  NASCAR managing director Blake Davidson looks on.  The presentation to NASCAR’s first virtual racing champion took place at the … Read the Rest »

iRacing World Championship Road Racing Finale on iRacing.com Saturday

October 15th, 2010 by

The final round of the inaugural iRacing.com World Championship Road Racing is set for the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday, October 16 at 6:00 pm EST (22:00 GMT).   The race, which will be broadcast live on iRacing.com, will be preceded by a special 15-minute preview starting at 5:45 pm EST (21:45 GMT) with iRacing.com … Read the Rest »

Online Racing a Featured Attraction at NASCAR Hall of Fame

May 5th, 2010 by

The 15 iRacing.com-powered NASCAR stock car simulators proved to be a popular attraction yesterday during a media preview of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.   More than 100 journalists took the opportunity to take some virtual laps of Charlotte Motor Speedway in one of the seven two-seat NASCAR stock car replicas, along … Read the Rest »

Wyatt Gooden Confirmed for 2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI® Cup

February 18th, 2010 by

iRacing.com’s Virtual Jetta TDI Cup Champ Earns Ride in Real-World Series Last fall Wyatt Gooden bested 1,163 competitors to win the iRacing.com Volkswagen Jetta TDI® Cup online racing series, and earn his way into the selection process for the 2010 real-world version.  Earlier this month, the 21-year-old computer information systems student turned in a standout … Read the Rest »