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iRacing Insiders Night, Dave Kaemmer answered members questions ina chatroom format and some more detail came to light regarding private leagues;

What will be the league structure and how will it affect the service?

The idea is currently that anyone will be able to administer a league, and the admin will be charged a nominal fee, to keep the numbers reasonable. The membership will be limited to 30 or so drivers, so sessions can run for the most part without splits. Also, the track schedule will have to follow one of the Official Series schedules, but any car can be chosen by the admin. And one more thing, no iRating, or SR effects during league races. Drivers will only be able to participate in one league race a week, although in any league that they have been invited to.

Join Dave Kaemmer and the rest of the iRacing staff for a special event this Thursday evening. First, there will be an open chat hosted by none other than Dave Kaemmer. This will be followed by a race where you will find many of the iRacing staff joining the members for some wheel-to-wheel competition.

Dave will be hosting a chat room opening at 7:30 EDT where iRacing members are welcome to ask Dave anything. What’s new on the service? Any changes to driving physics planned? Will Dave be doing any real world racing this year? This is your opportunity to ask Dave whatever is on your mind.

After the chat join the iRacing staff in the 8:15 EDT race in the Skip Barber Race Series. Dave and many other staff members will be joining this race session so you’ll have a good chance of running on track with some of the people who have created iRacing. Remember, this is an official race so drive like you normally would. As always, the sporting code is in effect.

Unfortuanatly for me I was working late that night:(

Mustang FR500S and Ford GT First to be Added

BEDFORD, MA (April 14, 2009) –iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations, LLC announced today that it is developing digital versions of a series of Ford competition cars for use in the iRacing simulation service.

The first two vehicles announced as part of this new digital line-up of Ford race cars are emblematic of Ford’s storied racing history, the Mustang and the Ford GT. iRacing engineers have begun the process of gathering the data necessary to produce digital duplicates of the Mustang FR500S and the Doran Ford GT-R

It’s really great that Iracing will be using Paypal, I use it so much for everything else like ebay auctons, which saves me having to worry about giving too many Financial details out to websites.

The Spec Racer looks an awesome car!

Real Vs Iracing Skip Barber

Great Video here of Tim Wheatley trying out the Skip Barber 2000 at Lime Rock Park – Now in High Definition.

Found this program called “Greasemonkey”

http://www.irstats.com/members/index.php

What it does is everytime you open you stats page and look at Practice/race/qualifying/tt results, it captures the stats of that session and puts it on irstats website members section!
Awesome little program!, displays race graphs for SR, irating all sorts of little things.

Im not quite sure how it will capture rest of my race history.

Since I was now over 4SR in roads, I could try out the Riley DP again, but this time it was at Silverstone.

Started some practice sessions and started doing 1:50s which is about 10secs off aliens and about 8secs off decent drivers.

So I set about getting some decent setups, as the defaults were just rubbish lol.

Downloaded A Shawn Purdy setup and straight away i was doing 1:46s, it felt so much better!

My personal best so far is 1:45.811