With half of my Summer Road Trip behind me, I finally left the friendly confines of a GT cockpit for a collection of open-wheeled and prototype cars in which I have much less experience. The first car on my list — the Skip Barber Formula 2000 — is one that I should theoretically be familiar Read more about Summer Road Trip, Week 7: Back to Fundamentals[…]
The numbers don’t lie. Among iRacing’s GT cars, the GT3s are the kings of participation. Last season, nearly 1400 drivers per week raced in the Blancpain Sprint Series, the officially sanctioned virtual version of the real-world GT3 championship. Even outside of that headliner series, the GT3 participation dwarfs that of many other series. The GT3 Read more about Summer Road Trip, Week 6: A Turnaround in 24[…]
In the age of laser scanning and data acquisition, one of the biggest shortcomings of sim racing titles in recent years has been struggling to keep up with the ever-changing world of sports car racing. When I first joined iRacing, there was just one GT car in the service: the GT1 Corvette C6R. It took Read more about Summer Road Trip, Week 5: The New Two[…]
When I surveyed the Summer Road Trip schedule to start the season, my most highly anticipated week was my rendezvous with the V8 Supercars. It wasn’t because I’d been successful in those cars before. In fact, the opposite was true. I’d barely driven them at all, but I sensed great potential. After all, no other Read more about Summer Road Trip, Week 4: Snakebit[…]
As the unpredictable year of 2016 was just hours from its conclusion, there was one more surprise in store, at least for the iRacing community. A new license had been signed with Porsche — a feat once unthinkable since the German automaker for years had exclusivity with a different game company. Instantly, the anticipation kicked Read more about Summer Road Trip, Week 3: A Friendly Face Off[…]