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Three’s a Charm

May 2nd, 2012 by

Season One of the 2012 inRacingNews Challenge is in the books, and for the first time in its history, three champions have been crowned. After five seasons of multi-class competition between the SpecRacer Fords and Pontiac Solstices, the series added the Mazda MX-5 Roadster for 2012, and the online racing competition has been just as … Read the Rest »

Silverstone Déjà Vu

July 5th, 2011 by

For sim racers who have competed in the inRacingNews Challenge more the past few seasons, Week Eight of 2011 Season 2, taking place on Silverstone’s Southern layout, must have felt just like déjà vu all over again. Just like the majority of 2011 Season One, Chris Hughson scored the most points in the Pontiac Solstice … 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 »

Hughson, López & Wiggins Take inRacingNews Challenge

January 27th, 2011 by

Chris Hughson, Daniel López and Chris Wigggins put their names in the record books as the first three champions of the inRacingNews Challenge.   In fact López is in the books twice after finishing atop the SpecRacer Ford standings in both the online racing and time trials competition, while Hughson (racing) and Wiggins (time trials) split … Read the Rest »

Hughson, López & Wiggins Take inRacingNews Challenge

January 27th, 2011 by

Chris Hughson, Daniel López and Chris Wigggins put their names in the record books as the first three champions of the inRacingNews Challenge.   In fact López is in the books twice after finishing atop the SpecRacer Ford standings in both the online racing and time trials competition, while Hughson (racing) and Wiggins (time trials) split … Read the Rest »

inRacingNews Challenge Gets the Boot at the Glen

January 21st, 2011 by

The penultimate round of the inaugural inRacingNews Challenge found the sim racers gathering in the Fingers Lakes region of New York to tackle a week’s worth of mixed class online racing on The Boot configuration of Watkins Glen International in their SpecRacer Fords and Pontiac Solstices.   Qualifying showed the SRFs to be about four seconds … Read the Rest »

Club England's Mazda MX-5 Championship

November 19th, 2010 by

Demand for the Club England Mazda MX-5 championship gave race organizers a headache at the opening double header event at Summit Point when 48 sim racers turned up with only 28 pit stalls. Fortunately in online racing we can create another Summit Point and two races ran simultaneously! As drivers set off in practice the … Read the Rest »

Club England’s Mazda MX-5 Championship

November 19th, 2010 by

Demand for the Club England Mazda MX-5 championship gave race organizers a headache at the opening double header event at Summit Point when 48 sim racers turned up with only 28 pit stalls. Fortunately in online racing we can create another Summit Point and two races ran simultaneously! As drivers set off in practice the … Read the Rest »

FW31 Envy

September 17th, 2010 by

If you ever envy motoring journalists who get to drive exotic machinery before it becomes available to the wealthy businessman and footballers (let alone the fact that most of us won’t ever get to drive them), then at least we can console ourselves with the knowledge that a virtual Grand Prix car costs the same … Read the Rest »

Pro Road Racing at Summit Point: A Short Track Long on Great Corners.

November 17th, 2009 by

As stated last week, there has been a little controversy over some of the tracks on the Pro schedule this year. This is normally a simple matter of taste and opinion and it is this writer’s opinion that a few drivers are just fatigued at this point of the season and looking for reasons to … Read the Rest »