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Whitten Wins at ‘Dega

September 29th, 2011 by

Week Eight of the NASCAR iRacing.com  Class C Series (NiCCS) brought the tailgaters to the unpredictable Talladega SuperSpeedway. Over 2,500 sim racers would take to the track during the week in an attempt to be crowned a super speedway king, but in the end it was Matt Whitten who stood tall over his sim racing … Read the Rest »

Humpe Heads to the Top at Iowa

September 26th, 2011 by

A new stop on the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series was just what the doctor ordered for Kenny Humpe. The former Landon Cassill Qualifying Challenge champion fought his way to the front from his eighth place starting position in the top split of the week to take the overall victory at Iowa Speedway to keep … Read the Rest »

The State of Sim Racing

August 19th, 2011 by

I was cleaning out my office a few days ago and under the mounds of paperwork an old memory was revived.  I found my collection of old racing games and simulators from years ago.  I flipped through the pages of some of the manuals and read the system requirements and kind of chuckled.  Back in … Read the Rest »

Chad Coleman wins Trading Paints Grand National Series at Talladega

August 15th, 2011 by

Sunday saw the Trading Paints Grand National Series travel to Alabama and the famed Talladega Superspeedway. Chad Coleman came into this week’s online race first in points and was looking to extend his lead. Jon Adams won the DoorstopNation.com Pole Award, turning a lap at 53.810s. Adams started on the pole but was shuffled out … Read the Rest »

Carolina Nips Florida . . . on Average

June 16th, 2011 by

More than 85 sim racers from the Carolina and Florida Clubs did battle in half a dozen online races on Sunday and Tuesday in their first Club v Club tournament. The competition featured a trio of races on Sunday evening, followed by a day (and night) of rest on Monday before three more races on … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: James Kirkham

April 16th, 2011 by

James Kirkham is fortunate to have what many fellow iRacers would consider a dream job: working in the motorsports arena.  Not long after relocating to Charlotte from Oregon Kirkham landed a job with Motorsports Management International which represents many of NASCAR’s  top drivers including Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Jamie McMurray and Tony Stewart — to … Read the Rest »

Bump, Run and Win

April 13th, 2011 by

Jeremy R Allen became the newest NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) race winner on Tuesday night, taking the victory at Talladega Superspeedway.  The Indianapolis sim racer led only five of the 90 laps, but they were the most important five of the whole race.  Late race contact with Theo Olson ended-up with Olson spinning … Read the Rest »

Commitment and Confidence in the Lone Star State

April 7th, 2011 by

Week Nine brought the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series to Texas Motor Speedway, where the Lone Star State provided some of the most intense, door to door, bumper to bumper, sim racing the series has seen all year. With speeds topping the 200mph mark into Turn One, commitment and confidence was key. Jim Caudill Jr … Read the Rest »

Berry Bumps to Martinsville Win

March 30th, 2011 by

Josh Berry emerged the winner at Martinsville Speedway after push came to shove in the final laps of last night’s NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship event.  With half a dozen laps remaining, Berry came to a restart behind series leader Ray Alfalla, Thomas Hazard and Josh Parker.  As Alfalla and Parker traded paint heading into … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Michael Keeton

February 19th, 2011 by

One of the new features we’ll be including in inRacingNews V2 are brief profiles on your fellow iRacers, some of whose names will be familiar to you, others a little less so.  Chosen (almost) entirely at random, we’ll lead off with a quick introduction to Michael Keeton.  Not the star of Batman (who spells his … Read the Rest »