More than a thousand iRacing gamers are expected to take part in the 2010 iRacing World Tour race tomorrow, July 24th, which will raise money for Lance Armstrong's LIVESTRONG organisation. It begins at 8.30pm ET, and racers will contribute five cents for every one of the 160 scheduled laps - friends and family are being encouraged to donate to support the drivers taking … [Read more...]
Grand Plans for Gran Turismo
The fifth in the Gran Turismo series is late. The game is so delayed in fact, that many fans have stopped caring about it’s release and have moved on to other activities such as raising families, learning to speak backwards and teaching monkeys to ride motorbikes. Gran Turismo 5 at GamesCom on Flickr by Sergey Galyonkin (CC Licence) However, their ears may prick up once … [Read more...]
Real World Racing Round-Up: Peugeot win at Sebring
Peugeot have won the ALMS Sebring Twelve Hours race for the first time with a 1-2 victory headed by the #7 Peugeot 908 HDi of Alexander Wurz, Marc Gene and Anthony Davidson. Second was the #8 car of Sebastien Bourdais, Nic Minassian, and Pedro Lamy. Third went to the Lola-Aston Martin of Adrian Fernandez, Harold Primat and Stefan Mucke. Image by tripplej93 on Flickr, used … [Read more...]
NASCAR season gets underway – both real and virtual
As former NASCAR champion and now broadcaster Daryl Waltrip is famous for saying at the start of every race. “Boogity, boogity, boogity! Let’s go racin boys!” Finally, the season is upon us, both simulation league racing, and real racing for 2010. Anticipation to competitively race Forza3 has never been higher; every IFCA event is at or near their 100 driver limit for the … [Read more...]