All News: Watkins Glen International

Uusi-Jaakkola Takes 2013 Road Pro Series Opener

November 6th, 2013 by

Aleksi Uusi-Jaakola chalked-up an impressive victory at Circuit Spa-Francorchamps, becoming the first sim-racer to etch his name in the winners column in the 10 round iRacing.com Road Pro Series championship. The Williams-Toyota FW31-based series will decide who will gain entry into next year’s iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series, and a chance to fight it … Read the Rest »

Mustang Season Sizzling – 3 Leaders in 3 Weeks

August 20th, 2013 by

The top spot in the iRacing.com Mustang Challenge season points changed for the third time in three weeks, with Missouri sim-racer Dan Rasch having a 6-point lead over Season 2 Champion Todd Honczarenko.  Just 15 points further back is Season 1 Champion Dariusz Bielawski, followed by Kimmo Suominen who led the overall standings after Week … Read the Rest »

Conti’s Excellent Road Trip

August 12th, 2013 by

The NASCAR iRacing Series made its 20th stop of the season at Watkins Glen International for the final road race on the calendars. Tyler D Hudson was the points leader coming into the weekend with second place Landon Harrison 920 points back. Lance Gomez Jr was the first guy to grab a pole this week … Read the Rest »

Honczarenko Earns First iRacing Championship in Mustang Cup

July 24th, 2013 by

Todd Honczarenko was crowned the 2013 Season 2 Overall Champion of the iRacing.com Mustang Cup when none of the other top drivers were able to turn Week 12 victories at Spa into enough points to catch the overall leader.  This is Honczarenko’s first ever championship in a series on iRacing.com.  The New Jersey sim-racer parlayed … Read the Rest »

NiS Daytona Tune-Up

July 2nd, 2013 by

The NASCAR iRacing Series heads to the beaches of Daytona on this holiday weekend as the series gears-up for Week 16 of the season. Daytona generally attracts one of the biggest fields of the season as the track is among sim-racing’s most popular tracks. I put together some fast facts and history about the famed … Read the Rest »

Red Sox Finger Lakes 30 at Watkins

July 1st, 2013 by

For the fifth time, Brad Vincent took the top spot with a qualifying time of 1:46.545, with Marty Sponsler .281 behind to form the front row. Eager to prove last week’s win was no fluke, Troy Harder took nearly three tenths off his practice time for a third place starting position, alongside Dean Moll starting … Read the Rest »

Mustang Points Race Tightens at Summit Point

June 12th, 2013 by

The season overall points standing grew even closer in Week 6 of the iRacing.com Mustang Cup, with several sim-racers taking advantage of crucial mid-season wins to reel-in leader Vedran Broz.  This week featured 16 official racesat Summit Point’s short course – a first run on that configuration for the Mustangs.  While the number of online … Read the Rest »

Get to Know: Jörn Jens

October 15th, 2012 by

When we think of iRacers in the Brazil, Benelux, Italia or Finland clubs of iRacing, we typically think of them as road racers. Drivers like Hugo Luis, Atze Kerkhof, Matthias Egger and 2012 iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series champion Greger Huttu all originate from these regions. The driver I interviewed for this week article, … Read the Rest »

Second iRacing Pro Race of Champions Set for December 12

October 9th, 2012 by

Real World Pros Meet in the Virtual World for a Rematch An impressive line-up of the world’s top professional race drivers will square-off in the second annual iRacing.com Pro Race of Champions on Wednesday, December 12.  Drivers who are expected to compete in the online racing event include NASCAR Sprint Cup stars Dale Earnhardt, Jr, … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile – Samuel Doughty

July 21st, 2012 by

It comes as no surprise that an iRacer who lists Big Bang Theory as his favorite television show should drive for SkullGeek Racing.  It’s a name only Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hoftstadter  — and Samuel Doughty and a few thousand iRacers – could love.   On the other hand, what are the chances that an iRacer who … Read the Rest »