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A look to the future iRacing Pro Series….

Monday, March 9th, 2009

iRacing have published the early details of their top tier racing series, the Pro series and the Drivers World Championship.

All this stuff is a bit confusing at first but after a few attempts it all makes sense.

Basically there are going to be two tiers at the very top, the first tier (the “Pro” series) will be open to the top 250 racers in iRacing, and the tier above that (the “Drivers World Championship”) will feature only the top 50. Only the Drivers World Championship will feature the single race event every fortnight (a true ‘one and done’ series).

It seems like it’ll be a really interesting development to the iRacing competition structure and hopefully they’ll get some live broadcasting technology implemented sooner rather than later (they’re aiming for 2010 but I hope they can have something in place for the start of the Pro series in August 2009).

As it stands today I have a reasonable chance at making the Pro series for the road discipline, as I am ranked around ~160. I’ll never get into the World Championship series but I’ll be delighted to make the Pro.

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Riley Prototype hits iRacing

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Friday the 13th saw the delayed Riley Daytona Prototype join iRacing as the top tier class A road licence car.

I’ve had a few laps with it and it’s another good quality car with an excellent model, detailed cockpit and great sound. The car has a wealth of setup parameters (most of which are completely unique in nature to the car, wicker tape adjustment for one!) so tuning the car for ultimate pace and drivability is going to be even harder than before.

The car drives well, but doesn’t really seem to be the huge challenge that I expected from the class A road car. There’s a lot of grip and the car seems quite stable to drive. This is a good thing for close racing, but I expect when we get a class A open wheeler we will have a ‘true’ top tier road licence race car in iRacing.

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A Bag of New Content, including Watkins Glen

Thursday, November 27th, 2008
My Helmet Design

Watkins Glen arrived last night and of course, it was a must buy track. I was pretty amazed by how good it actually is really – previous attempts at this track have nothing on this new version. There is a massive amount of camber on the majority of the corners (which is the biggest difference I’ve noticed) and the elevation changes are so much fun to drive.

I’m really looking forward to racing here on Saturday with the Radicals, in the new 24 Heures Du Fun series.

At the same time I bought some remaining cars and tracks that I had been holding off for a while. Now I have the SK Modified and Silver Crown cars (love them both; the SK moreso) and some remaining tracks (Atlanta, Richmond amongst others)

For the rest of the week I was going to practice the Mazda at Infineon Long, but now I think I might just spend some time with the Radical @ The Glen to prepare for the fun races at the weekend!

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