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Over the past seven years Richard Towler has emerged as one of world’s top sim racers.  Based in Hull, England, the 26 year old Towler traveled a well-trodden online racing path from Gran Tourismo 2002 to NASCAR 2003 and has been a member of iRacing.com since June of 2008.  In that time he has won [...]

Jack Roush Jr. and Billy Johnson won their second GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Grand Sport race together, the Homestead 200, in the No. 61 ROUSH Performance Products Ford Mustang GT.  The win was also Jack Roush Sr.’s 400th as a car owner.  In nearly 40 years as an owner, Roush Sr. has also [...]

We have all seen those scenes of exhausted drivers after a long race. The heat, the physical exertion, the g-forces and the sheer concentration  takes its toll in a 90 minute GP, let alone a 500 mile stock car or Indy car race, 12 or 24 hour sports car race.  Drivers have to train extensively [...]

Andretti Autosport announced it has signed 15-year-old Sage Karam to drive for the team in the 2010 USF2000 National Championship.
Karam, a native of Nazareth, Pa., is an avid online racer with 76 wins in more than 350 races in iRacing’s Skip Barber Series, Star Mazda and Legends competition.  Karam has also spent the last few [...]

Editors note: Darryn Lobb is a two-time champion of the South Africa Shelby CanAm Championship and an avid online racer, having joined iRacing.com last year.  After winning the 2007 Shelby CanAm title, Lobb raced a Nissan 350Z in the South African Production Car Championship before returning to Shelby CanAm last year and winning another title.  [...]

Sandeep Banerjee absolutely stole the show in the second ever NASCAR iRacing World Championship race.  Fittingly, the “big roulette wheel” — aka  Las Vegas Motor Speedway — was the stage for what many are calling the biggest longshot story in online racing history.  While there may, (stress may) have been bigger upsets in sim racing [...]

Or A Tale of What Might Have Been
The evening before the iRacing Daytona 500, I changed my PC’s motherboard in preparation for a graphics card upgrade.  Unfortunately, although I reinstalled Windows 7, reinstalled a bunch of programs, got iRacing working, etc, I forgot to do something terribly important…
On Saturday 13th February, 2010 I was unable [...]

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 performance [...]

I’m sitting here thinking back to six months ago after the announcement of iRacing’s virtual Jetta TDI Cup, and how I could have never envisioned it would bring me out here to Las Vegas for probably the most unforgettable experience I’ve ever had!
Things began to get hectic before the trip had even started. Flight cancellations [...]

Season One of 2010 started off with a bang before any tires hit the pavement at Daytona International Speedway when the Chevy Silverado Championship (CSC) became an official NASCAR online racing series, earning the title of NASCAR iRacing Class C Series. It is very well known that the CSC is one of the most competitive [...]

What a weekend for iRacing! The RACC runoffs, the Rolex 2.4 and our involvement in the Rolex 24. Sean Siff and  I were in Daytona this past weekend supporting our teams and many drivers who were competing for the coveted Rolex watch.
Our weekend in Daytona started-off a bit ominously as it appeared the iRacing curse [...]

I’ve been around simracing for quite some time and I can safely say that I’ve only felt the way I did during Saturday’s iRacing Rolex 2.4 at Daytona once before: It was back in 2003 when I tasked myself with re-installing Grand Prix Legends (one of the iRacing development team’s previous creations) and running a [...]

iRacers came up big last weekend in the first major races on the 2010 motorsports calendar.  iRacer Joao Barbosa teamed with Ryan Dalziel (another iRacing member), Mike Rockenfeller and Terry Borcheller to win the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway in the Action Express Porsche-powered Riley.  Another iRacer, Justin Wilson, was part of a team [...]

Long time iRacer Justin Wilson is running a strong second in the Chip Ganassi BMW powered Riley Daytona Prototype. Before the start of the race Justin was very pleased with the car and it appears to still be running in top form.

Andrew Caddell, co-driver of the #59 iRacing Mustang, is competing this weekend in the Fresh From Florida 200 at Daytona International Speedway. He will be providing updates from the track via inRacingNews.com.Andrew is an avid iRacer and an accomplished racer in the real world as well, having won the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge Series two [...]

Most iRacers know Dave Moulthrop as the person responsible for the laser scans of race tracks across America and around the world that serve as the foundation for iRacing.com’s millimeter-accurate versions of those same tracks.  Long before his first laser scan, however, Moulthrop (aka “Mope”) was widely recognized as one of America’s leading motorsports photographers.
It’s [...]

Danny Hannigan first encountered Justin Brown on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway last year.   Funny thing is, neither Hannigan nor Brown was in the Sunshine State, let alone at Daytona.   Rather, the two iRacers were practicing for an upcoming Chevy Silverado Championship race from their homes in Alabama and Georgia, hundreds of miles [...]

While our first possible race is March 27th, nine weeks away, there is still tons of stuff to do. I have spent the last week settling into my apartment in NYC and getting back into the routine of going to class, doing homework and trying to work out. Oh and trying not to go to [...]

The second week of January always heralds the start of a ‘new racing season;’ whilst the first laps in anger are many weeks away, the Autosport International Show is traditionally seen as the opening event on the motorsport calendar. This year, the team from iRacing Motorsport Simulations have jetted across the Atlantic to make an [...]

Editor’s note:  inRacingNews is pleased to present the first installment of a regular blog by Austin Brauser and Charlie Anti, of AntiSpeed Competition.  Both iRacers, Anti will be driving a F2000 engineered by Brauser in this year’s US F2000 National Championship.  We think you’ll enjoy their unique perspective on the trials, tribulations and (we hope) [...]