The iRacing co-sponsored Riley DP
The iRacing co-sponsored Riley DP makes a miraculous return to the track after yesterday’s accident.
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iRacing World Tour – Rolex 2.4 Hours at Daytona (30 Jan 2010)
It’s almost time for the first iRacing World Tour, the Rolex 2.4 Hours at Daytona (30 Jan 2010).
I’m really looking forward to the race although it’s significantly longer than anything I’ve ever driven in before.
Getting up to speed in the Riley hasn’t been easy as I haven’t driven it for some time but I’m hoping I can last the distance.
Getting custom skins in iRacing is a great addition to the serrvice, this is the scheme I’ll be running tomorrow;
Riley Daytona Prototype
Buy 1 month, get 2 free offer
NEW MEMBERS ONLY….
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Use promo code: PR-Holiday-09
Don’t wait! We all know great deals like this dont last long.
Good for new member activation only.
Here’s the link;
http://www.iracing.com/promotions/buy-one-get-two-free/
Oran Park Raceway and Circuit Zolder To Join iRacing
Pair of 47-Year-Old Tracks Half A World Apart To Be Available to Global Racing Audience
BEDFORD, MA (December 1, 2009) – When the checkered flag fell over a field of motorcycles at Australia’s Oran Park Raceway earlier this month it marked the final competitive motorcycle event in the 47-year history of this suburban Sydney motorsport facility. Following an all-comers car race at the end of January, 2010, Oran Park Raceway is slated to become a housing development.
But that won’t be the end of racing competition for Oran Park. In future years, while suburbanites sleep peacefully where Aussie V8s and Formula 5000 cars once thundered, racing enthusiasts from all around the world will be competing with one another in the virtual world on an exact digital duplicate of this historic venue, including its unique-for-Australia over-and-under figure-eight set of turns.
“Oran Park Raceway has played an important role in the history of Australian motorsport,” noted Divina Galica, director of partner relations for iRacing.com. “Too many great race tracks have been lost forever; I’m pleased that we’re able to preserve this digital version of Oran Park and make it available to racers all over the world.”
Galica also announced that iRacing and the management of Circuit Zolder have signed an agreement that will see the sometime host of the Belgian Grand Prix join Silverstone, Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and Zandvoort as initial European venues in the iRacing service.
“Zolder is our second track on the continent of Europe, after Zandvoort,” Galica said. “In the fullness of time we’ll have quite a few more, but it’s exciting to have two such challenging driver’s circuits to begin with.” Galica said she expected that Circuit Zolder would join the iRacing inventory in the latter half of 2010.
Capturing Oran Park
Last month a surveying crew from iRacing.com made a series of millimeter-accurate scans of the 1.65-mile Oran Park facility, including all three of the track’s existing configurations and further documenting it with thousands of digital photographs. Over the course of the next several months, the data gathered by the iRacing surveyors will be transformed into a virtual version of the track that will join Philip Island as the first two Australian iRacing circuits.
Oran Park opened its gates in 1963 and regularly hosted rounds of the Australian Touring Car Championship, V8 Supercar Championship Series, Australian Drivers’ Championship and Australian Sports Sedan Championship.
The Australian Grand Prix (not then a Formula One race, it featured F5000 cars) was held at Oran Park in 1974 and 1977. In the 1970’s the circuit attracted large crowds for touring cars and sports sedans. The Rothmans 500 for touring cars was staged in 1977 and 1978, and touring car endurance races continued through the running of the 1989 Pepsi 300. The final running of the contemporary V8 Supercar series Oran Park event was held in 2008. Oran Park was also home over its long history to club road-racing events, so it’s fitting that the final competitive race meet held January 23-24, 2010 is an all-comers amateur race.
Circuit Zolder
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Like Oran Park, half a world away, Circuit Zolder opened in 1963. It hosted ten Belgian Grands Prix during the 1970s and 1980s. Mario Andretti drove a Lotus 79 to victory there on his way to the 1978 Formula One World Championship, but the death of Gilles Villeneuve in practice for the 1982 race signaled the beginning of the end of Formula One competition at the 10-turn, 2.492-mile circuit.
Following a series of safety-related upgrades in 2006, Zolder was host to a European round of the North American-based ChampCar series. The overall lap record was established by Sebastian Bourdais on his way to victory in that one-off event. Today Circuit Zolder is host to the FIA Formula 2, FIA WTCC Race of Belgium and the GT Belcar championship, including the 24 Hours of Zolder.
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Inside Sim Racing: Episode 52 [video]
http://www.insidesimracing.tv presents Episode 52 featuring a tour of iRacing.com headquarters where Jessica Lopez sits down with Dave Kaemmer and Tony Gardner.
Some interesting news of future plans, custom car skins and sponsor logo’s are predicted for the next build. That’s great news, can’t wait to get started on some skins.
Other news and features include;
- Fixed setup racing
- Multi-class racing
- Teams for Endurance racing (I assume this means drivers swaps)
- a Virtual Daytona 500 in Febuary
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iRacing Dallara Indycar @ Watkins Glen (Boot) [video]
Testing for week 4;
Dallara IndyCar @ Texas Motor Speedway [video]
Sweet, iRacing driver Robin Clarke put this video together of the race I was in last week.
Robin finishes 3rd in a wild finish on the last lap.
Week 3 – Dallara Indycar at Texas Motor Speedway
Dallara Indycar
After a pretty decent 8th place finish at Indianapolis last week and a chunk of experience on an oval in the Indycar I was looking forward to Texas with excitement and trepidation in equal measures!
Looking at the real Indycar race last time at Texas, I knew there would be minimal overtaking opportunities despite very close racing, this is a drafting track, much more so than Indy.
A good qualifying time would be paramount, keeping a decent spot after the start should be easily defendable. The plan was to hang on and let everyone fight it out behind and see what happens as the race progressed.
Qualifying went like a dream. I knew I had a fast set-up but I nailed a great lap to go 13th overall, easily my best ever qualifying position.
As the entries grew for the race, it was fingers very firmly crossed that I wouldn’t have too many of the really fast guys ahead of me.
Entering the race I found myself in 4th of 21 (ranked #10), nicely near the front but lining up on the outside never goes too well for me and the outside line at Texas is at a considerable disadvantage so getting to the inside as quickly and safely as possible would be the aim.
I didn’t get a great start and lost a few places as cars steamed through on my inside but, somewhat fortunately, a big gap appeared after the 6th place car so I was able to slot in and hang onto the back of the pack. Almost immediately I was up to 6th after heavy contact with the wall meant one of the guys in front had to slow considerably.
As the race progressed I was able to comfortably stay 6th, holding onto the pack in front while a couple of yellows meant the chasing cars were beginning to thin out a little.
On lap 42 I had an amazing escape as the 2 cars right in front touched wheels in the tri-oval section and slammed into the wall. Luckily, they bounced either side of me and I was completely unscathed but the adrenaline was certainly pumping! As we formed behind the pace car on the pace lap I was still a bit dazed and completely missed the 3 cars ahead pitting. That left me in the lead but still requiring a pit-stop. As we rounded into the back straight I realised I’d been completely stupid. A stop now would mean no more pit-stops would be required for the rest of the race! DOH!
So I had to decide whether to pit on the next lap and end up at the back of the field or risk losing a HUGE chuck of time if we went green for the remainder of the race and probably ending up at the rear anyway if I pitted under yellow. I came in on the next lap and re-started in 12th.
With only 12 cars remaining, we had a very long run under green, I made one pass, one other guy had to pit which put me to 10th when the last yellow came out to put me in 9th. The car was feeling good but I was stuck behind the 3 guys in front, unable to make a pass, as I’d seen in real life, it’s incredibly difficult at this track.
As the laps ticked down I stopped pushing and decided that after 97 laps I wasn’t going to risk anything. As we came into T4 on the last lap though we saw a cloud of smoke and a brace of Dallara’s going airbourne. The 3rd, 4th & 5th drivers had managed to take each other out on the very last turn. Once again, luck was with me as our pack of 4 made it through the carnage to pick up 3rd, 4th, 5th and me finishing in 6th. Sometimes luck does favour the timid!
I finished with just one incident so I ended up with +0.13 SR (4.73), +51 iRating (1785) and a satisfying 92 points!
That was my highest ever finish in an ‘A’ class race 
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Showdown at Silverstone
http://www.simtrophy.com/ have opened the sign-up’s for the special event on the 5th & 6th of December.
Race will be run on the Silverstone GP Circuit.
Who and how many drivers transfer to the main events will be dependant on the number of entries. If the race fills up (100) entries, the following would be an example of how the system will work:
4 Heat races1s to 5th in each heat go to the A-Main
6th to 10th in each heat go to the B-Main
11th-15th in each heat go to C-Main
All remaining drivers go to the D-Main
Each Main event will use the ‘bump-up system’. As I know you can count, 5*4=20. All the heat races will have a max field of 25 drivers. Sunday will start off the day with the D-Main and the top 5 finishers from the D-Main will be able to compete in the C-Main. This will also be true all the way up to the A-Main event. This system does a couple of things, it #1 ensures everyone who signs up gets at least 2 races, 1 heat race and 1 main event. #2 if you are a badass, and we all know you are, but just had some bad luck in your heat race this gives you a second chance to show your stuff big boy!
Showdown at Silverstone
Week 2 – Dallara Indycar at Indianapolis Oval
- Dallara Indycar
Having missed week 1 at Barber I was keen to get my first race in the Dallara under my belt.
I’m not sure 75 laps of Indianapolis Oval would be my first choice for my rookie race but having done a few races at the track in the Lotus in week 13 I at least knew what to expect.
With a bit of expert help with my set-up I knew I had reasonable pace but couldn’t quite get it together in qualifying and was a little off my PB.
I think grid position at Indy is pretty important to try to avoid any problems in the first few laps, it’s a dangerous track.
I was fully prepared to start from the pits but there were 54 registered for the race so I ended up in the lower split, 12th on the grid as the #10 ranked driver.
The first 25 laps of the race was very slow going with (what felt like) almost constant yellow flags. I was managing to keep out of trouble though and stayed pretty much on pace in the top 10 so it felt like I could manage a decent finish if I could keep out of trouble.
Because of the constant yellows, my pit strategy never really came into play. We ended up doing 26 of the 75 laps under yellow so there was plently of opportunity to keep the tyres fresh and the fuel topped up.
On lap 42 and under yellow, much of the field pitted. Only half the field remained on the lead lap and I found myself leading, thinking we’d all have to stop again. We managed a short run to lap 50 when we went yellow again so I pitted, knowing I’d be OK to the end of the race and still thinking everyone else would have to stop again.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case, I was back down in 12th and made a horrible restart, dropping back considerably fron the pack. Unluckly, this was the longest green spell of the race. Only a couple of drivers had to pit so I was back up to 9th, steadily catching the 2 drivers in front.
I was right on the tail when yet another crash brough the yellows out through to the end of the race so I had no further opportunity to improve my position and ended in a slightly frustrating 8th place.
Finishing at Indy with zero incidents is no mean feat though so I ended up with +0.15 SR (4.62), +36 iRating (1734) but only 70 points which seemed scant reward for a gruelling race of 1h 45mins!
