Thanks to the fast-spreading COVID-19 virus, racing is on hold for a while. The fast cars will be back, but it’s a difficult and strange time for fans, trying to navigate a new world of grocery shortages and job uncertainty to go along with the health scare. The best thing we can all do right …
When the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series heads to Homestead-Miami Speedway, there’s a pretty good chance Ryan Luza will finish in the top five something he’s done every time he’s raced there. Sometimes he does even better, and Tuesday was one of those times. Luza made the night’s most important pass on lap 105, diving his …
Although NASCAR fans will be without on-track activity for nearly two months, iRacing is stepping in to fill that void — and its upcoming event has 300 entries. With the official postponement of the 2020 NASCAR season until at least Martinsville Speedway in May due to the coronavirus outbreak, everyone in the racing community was …
What Now? NASCAR made it official on Monday: No more real-life racing until Mother’s Day weekend. It’s a huge blow for a lot of people in all facets of the industry, but ultimately the correct move. The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) suggested to all event organizers to not hold events with 50 …
A new exhibition esports series, the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series, has been formed, NASCAR and iRacing announced Tuesday evening (March 17). The simulation-style series will have competitors from the top three NASCAR national touring series as well as former drivers. Some of these include Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Clint Bowyer, Kyle …
NASCAR Cup Series spotter Josh Williams crushed the virtual competition in Sunday afternoon’s iRacing Replacements 100, a race at Atlanta Motor Speedway hosted by the sim racing company and Podium eSports. Williams, the spotter for Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney in NASCAR’s premier series, led most of the race en route to running away with the victory …
The NASCAR world is paused for the moment, but a number of drivers and crew members are using iRacing to keep racing going in some form for the time being. Earlier this week, the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak forced the sport of stock car racing into an unprecedented state of suspended animation, with NASCAR postponing the …
On Tuesday night, amid the blocking and bumping at the virtual Auto Club Speedway, it looked like Logan Clampitt would be the driver to beat — until he got caught up in a wreck, not of his own making. Fortunately for Burton Kligerman eSports, the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series has two-car teams, and Ashton Crowder …
The first points-paying races of the 2020 NASCAR season won’t take place until this weekend, but for the top eNASCAR racers, the events that matter are very much underway. It’s already produced some thrills too, as the opening event of the 2020 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series ended in a photo finish while much of the …
What’s it take to win at Daytona? The formula for victory varies from year to year and series to series, but working well in the draft with others, executing perfect pit strategy and having nerves of steel is always a pretty good combination. For Keegan Leahy of Denny Hamlin Racing, it proved just to ticket …
On the eve of the opening event of the 2020 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series season, the full schedule has been revealed. Coke is aboard as the new title sponsor and a whopping $300,000 in total prize money is up for grabs this year, but the 40 sim racers competing for it now know they’ll have …
When the eNASCAR iRacing series drops the flag on its 2020 season on Feb. 11, it will do it with a prominent new title sponsor with deep racing roots and more money at stake than ever before. NASCAR and iRacing announced that Coca-Cola has signed a “multi-year entitlement partnership” to lend its name to what …
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