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Jim Glickenhaus Upsets Sim Racers

August 4, 2021 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

Jim Glickenhaus Upsets Sim Racers

It's not just professional drivers who can upset the virtual motorsport community with an ill-considered comment, as Jim Glickenhaus upsets sim racers with a slightly odd Twitter post. The owner of Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, car-collecting millionaire, former film director and producer, and investor later claimed the comment was aimed at rival hypercar builders. But the … [Read more...]

WRC 9 To Include The FIA Rally Star Talent Search

August 15, 2020 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

WRC 9 To Include The FIA Rally Star Talent Search

Young drivers will have a chance to progress from virtual motorsport to the real thing with WRC 9 to include the FIA Rally Star talent search. The scheme to encourage new drivers into rally has run for a while, and will be coming to WRC 9 as specific DLC content in December 2020 for PC and consoles (although we wonder if the Switch version will also be eligible). All players … [Read more...]

rFactor 2 Supports Rudy van Buren’s Racing Career

April 23, 2020 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

rFactor 2 Supports Rudy van Buren's Racing Career in the Porsche Carerra Cup Deutschland

There's yet another example of the close relationship between sim racing and real motorsport as rFactor 2 supports Rudy van Buren's racing career for a season in the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland. The Dutch driver competed in karting as a child with top 3 finishes in the Dutch and Belgian 60cc Kart Championships before the cost of racing led him to switch to virtual … [Read more...]

BMW Driver Phillip Eng Talks Sim Racing

March 27, 2020 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

BMW driver Phillip Eng talks sim racing

It's always interesting when professional drivers discuss virtual motorsport. And when BMW driver Phillip Eng talks sim racing, he's got plenty of experience in both disciplines. In the real world, the Austrain BMW Motorsports workd driver has been successful winning the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, Porsche Supercup, and FIA Formula Two races. He's also competed in DTM, and … [Read more...]

10 BMW Drivers Sim Racing This Weekend

March 20, 2020 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

10 BMW drivers sim racing this weekend

It's not just drivers who are embracing sim racing during the break in real world motorsport. Car manufacturers are also getting behind it, with 10 BMW drivers sim racing this weekend in major events. It's part of the BMW Motorsport SIM Racing programme and involves drivers at all levels from customer drivers to Formula E racer Maximilian Gunther, and former F1 star Felipe … [Read more...]

GT Sport Champ Igor Fraga Gets Great Toyota Racing Series Start

January 27, 2020 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

GT Sport Champ Igor Fraga gets great Toyota Racing Series start

Brazilian GT Sport world champion Igor Fraga has got off to a great start in the real world Toyota Racing Series after the first two rounds in New Zealand. The five round championship has always been a popular proving ground for new drivers during a quiet period in race schedules in the rest of the world. So you get a mix of top drivers from New Zealand and nearby countries … [Read more...]

FIA Motorsport Games 2020 Announced Including Digital Cup

January 27, 2020 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

FIA Motorsport Games 2020 Announced Including Digital Cup

The FIA Motorsport Games 2020 has been announced, once again including the Digital Cup esports event in the Olympics-style mixed-motorsport competition. The mixture of motorsports disciplines will include the core events of the GT Cup, Touring Car Cup, F4 Cup, Drifting Cup, Karting Slalom Cup and Digital Cup. And more categories will be announced as we apporach the 2020 … [Read more...]

NASCAR Driver Doug Coby Blasts eSport Race Teams

January 15, 2020 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

NASCAR driver Doug Coy blasts eSport race teams on social media

Sim racing has been recognised as an eSport for some time now, but the recent growth in official teams and opportunities appears to have irked at some professional racers. Especially when NASCAR driver Doug Coby blasts eSport race teams on Twitter. Coby is a six-time NASCAR Whelan Modified Tour winner, and appears to have been triggered by an iRacing holding a media day to … [Read more...]

FIA Keen To Increase Online Racing Involvement

July 29, 2019 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

FIA Keen To Increase Online Racing Involvement

Expect more legitimacy for virtual motorsport, with the FIA keen to increase online racing involvement. The governing body has pubished a new article covering their commitment to sim racing, with Deputy President for Sport, Graham Stoker, keen to underline how important it is. “The simulated games involving driving and motor sport are now so accurate that it starts to have … [Read more...]

Check out the epic finish for the 2019 iRacing Indy 500

May 29, 2019 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

The 2019 iRacing Indy 500 saw an epic finish

The 2019 iRacing Indy 500 took place on May 18th, and like the real race at Indianaplis, it's a big event. The real world event has been running since 1911, and took place a week later on May 26th, 2019. Now the iRacing version is rapidly building up a similar heritage. And ironically, both events saw close finishes. In the Indianpolis 500, Simon Pagenaud won from Alexander … [Read more...]

Top iRacer Makes NASCAR Debut At Iowa

June 20, 2017 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

Ty Majeski NASCAR Xfinity Series Ford Mustang in Real Life

In another example of how closely virtual and realy-world racing have become, top iRacer Ty Majeski will debut in the NASCAR XFINITY Series at Iowa Speedway in the American Ethanol E15 250 Presented by Enogen event. Majeski will be driving the No 60 iRacing Ford Mustang, run by Roush Fenway Racing. And he's well prepared. In addition to being the top rated oval driver on … [Read more...]

iRacing sponsors Nurburgring 1000 endurance race

August 4, 2014 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

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iRacing is sponsoring round 5 of the Blancpain Endurance Season, the Nurburgring 1000, which takes place on September 19-21, 2014. The race will feature the world's top GT cars and teams. Meanwhile fans will be able to sample iRacing throughout the weekend at the SimRacingExpo 2014, which is held in the exposition centre adjacent to the circuit. So you'll be able to take a … [Read more...]

iRacing partner with Mazda for MX-5 scholarship

March 18, 2014 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

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The best iRacing drivers in North America will have the chance to race an actual Mazda MX-5 Cup car with a Mazda Motorsports scholarship for 2015. The partnership between iRacing and Mazda Motorsport means that competitors in the 2014 iRacing MX-5 Cup will be eligible to compete in the annual Mazda Club Racing Shootout held each autumn. The season begins on April 29th, … [Read more...]

Rising stars in NASCAR include 8 iRacing drivers

July 3, 2013 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

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NASCAR Next is an initiative which highlights rising racing drivers, and an impressive eight of those named for 2013 are currently also iRacing drivers. Along with competing in various NASCAR series, the 13 drivers named to the program also take part in various media and promotional activity throughout the year. The eight iRacing competitors named have raced in NASCAR … [Read more...]

ORD learns how to drift – for real!

October 15, 2012 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

Having rediscovered the photos, we can finally share what happened when ORD's Dan Thornton had the chance to sample a day of drifting in the real world and see if all the hours on Forza and other games had paid off. It was an example of one of a range of driving experiences available to buy online (click here), and proved to be a great way to sample it without having to invest … [Read more...]

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