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Power and Wilson Join iRacing.com for IZOD IndyCar Series

March 24th, 2011 by

At this weekend’s 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season-opening Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, check out the helmets worn by last year’s first and second-place finishers, Will Power and Justin Wilson.  Both are big fans of iRacing.com, the world’s most authentic driving game, and for 2011 each has revised his helmet design to prominently feature … Read the Rest »

Console Racing Gamers Turn To iRacing for New Challenges

March 10th, 2011 by

When you’ve reached the top of the heap in console driving games what comes next?  Increasingly, many top-tier driving game aficionados are turning to the super-high fidelity, internet-based simulation service from iRacing.com. The cars and tracks on iRacing.com’s simulation are so accurate that many real-world NASCAR, INDYCAR and GRAND-AM stars make regular use of the … 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 »

Trevor Bayne First Drove Daytona on iRacing.com

February 23rd, 2011 by

It was standing room only in the Daytona media center this past Sunday afternoon when Trevor Bayne walked in following his dramatic win in the Daytona 500.  But in the same room a year earlier, just a handful of people looked on as drove an iRacing.com-powered simulator while Michael Waltrip talked him around Daytona International … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM and iRacing.com Announce Premier Online Sports Car Series

February 17th, 2011 by

10-Race, 26-Week Virtual Racing Series To Mirror Rolex Series Schedule When GRAND-AM and iRacing.com announced the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series last fall, driving game aficionados, sim racers and sports car racing fans responded enthusiastically.   The series, which runs 12-week seasons and features multi-class racing, quickly became one of the most popular among iRacing.com’s … Read the Rest »

INDYCAR and iRacing.com Announce Premier Virtual Racing Series

January 27th, 2011 by

Fans of IndyCar racing, the Indy 500 and driving game enthusiasts will now be able to take their passion for the sport to a new level by getting behind the wheel themselves in the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Premier Series.  The 18-race, 36-week series begins February 19 and will utilize iRacing.com’s virtual version of the Dallara … Read the Rest »

Field Set for 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship

January 24th, 2011 by

The line-up for the 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship has been announced.  Heading the 50-driver roster for the 18-race, 36-week series are the defending champion Richard Towler of Hull, England and title runner-up Brad Davies of Wauchula, Florida.  The 2011 season kicks off on February 15, 9:00 p.m. ET (Feb. 16, 0200 GMT) at … Read the Rest »

2011 iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing Field Set

January 6th, 2011 by

The field for the 2011 iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing (iWCSRR) is now set.  Twenty of the leading drivers in the 2010 iRacing Pro Series Road (iPSR) will join the top 30 finishers from the inaugural iWCSRR – including champion Greger Huttu – in vying for the most prestigious title in online road racing. … Read the Rest »

2011 World Tour of iRacing Schedule Announced

December 27th, 2010 by

Popular Series Samples Global Motorsport Variety With Tributes to Major Real-World Races Conceived a year ago as a way for iRacing.com’s 20,000+ members to sample the world’s wide range of oval-track and road-racing cars and circuits, the 2010 World Tour of iRacing proved to be an extremely popular artistic success among the global group of … Read the Rest »

iRacing.com and the AT&T Williams Team Announce Arrival of Virtual Version of Williams-Toyota FW31

October 28th, 2010 by

World’s Premier Racing Game Launches Inaugural Grand Prix Series With today’ launch of the Williams-Toyota FW31 at iRacing.com anyone anywhere in the world with a PC, a broadband internet connection and an inexpensive driving game steering-wheel-and-pedal set can experience the thrill of driving a contemporary grand prix car.  The announcement, which has been highly anticipated … Read the Rest »