Category: iRacing

25th March 2018

The Great Heusinkveld CORE Exodus Has Arrived!

Heusinkveld CORE Motorsports announced today on twitter that six of their seven drivers have departed from their team. Kay Kaschube, Alexander Vos, Nils Koch, Laurin Heinrich, Andre Boettcher and Moritz Lohner have left Angelo Michel as the only driver left at the team. To say this move came out of left field would be a complete understatement as just two...

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17th March 2018

Sim Racing Observer Announces Hall of Fame!

We here at the Sim Racing Observer have decided to announce today the creation of the Sim Racing Observer Hall of Fame. At current, we shall have the hall of fame open to iRacing at this time due to our lack of knowledge in other areas however if and when we get the personnel to competently cover those areas, we...

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14th March 2018

IWCGPS Chaos: Ostgaard to Coanda, Huis and Carroll MIA and Jensen Leaves Apex

The merry go round of simracing in the last week has taken a thoroughly dramatic turn as late moves before the start of the 2018 iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series ravage the headlines. VRS Coanda Simsport have picked up Tommy Ostgaard from Positive Simracing while Apex Racing UK’s Marcus Jensen has signed with an undisclosed team for 2018. This...

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11th March 2018

iRacing 12 Hours of Sebring Falls Behind Closed Doors: No iRanking Points

For the third time in fourteen months, an iRacing World Tour event has failed to see through the entirety of a broadcast, falling behind closed doors for the finish of the event last night. In light of the news breaking, the Sim Racing Observer has elected not to offer any iRanking points for the event in fairness to all of...

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10th March 2018

iRacing Week 13 Writeup Part 5: The Community

Happy Friday everyone! The end of the work week is here and the end of week 13 is coming here shortly, and that means we have reached the final part of our series. And the last piece of the puzzle, that makes or breaks whether or not the sim can function as an esport is the community. It is a...

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8th March 2018

iRacing Week 13 Writeup Part 4: Marketing

Welcome to Thursday everyone. Hope everyone has enjoyed the new content as much as I have. The new dirt tracks are interesting, cushion update a little controversial, the LMP1s are awesome, and the Sonoma GRC track greatly surprised me. We have been talking about a lot of controversial subjects this week. Some have rustled some feathers, others not so much,...

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7th March 2018

iRacing Week 13 Writeup Part 3: The Traditional Mistakes

Hello everyone and happy hump day! By now just about everyone should have gotten a chance to drive the new content and I hope you guys are enjoying the build. In the last couple articles we have talked heavily about accessibility and marketability. We are going to take a slight step back from that and look at a slightly more...

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7th March 2018

Profile: Why Joshua Rogers is Australia’s Next Star

One of the most enthralling, likable and watchable drivers in simracing today, it would shock you to think that Joshua Rogers is just eighteen years of age. His burst onto the international stage in mid 2017 only served to prove how strong of a driver Rogers was and will be, made all the more important by his latest success with...

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6th March 2018

iRacing Week 13 Write Up Part 2: The Not so Fork in the Road

Hello and happy Tuesday! Or with this being part two should it be Twosday? In all honesty it likely does not matter because all most people are thinking about is the slew of new content that has been released on iRacing this morning. And to be honest, same fam. In part 1 we explored iRacing pricing model and the difficulties...

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5th March 2018

iRacing Week 13 Write up Part 1: The Money Issue

Happy Monday, and welcome to part one of my Week 13 Write up! To start out I thought it would likely be fitting to tackle the most complex, and surely highly contested, point of them all, the money issue. We all know it. We somewhat shrug it off, say it is a good investment as a hobby, that it’s cheaper...

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