Lots of Daytona 500 Winners

This past weekend produced a multitude of Daytona 500 winners.  Trevor Bayne won the opening round of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series on Sunday, of course, but Saturday saw 37 different iRacers take checkered flags in the iRacing.com Daytona 500, Round Two of the 2011 World Tour of iRacing.com. In reality, however, there were more than 1800 winners in the iRacing.com Daytona 500 as every sim racer who registered for either one of Saturday?s sessions earned $5 in iRacing.com credits.  Gabriel Solis of Texas won the top-rated split, coming home just .084s ahead of an even closer battle for second between Salvatore Rossi (NY), Michael Conti (NJ) and David Rattler (PA).  That was hardly Saturday?s only close finish.  No fewer than a dozen splits were decided by less than [...]

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Bahrain withdraws opening race

Bahrain Grand Prix organisers have announced that the event will not host the opening round of the 2011 Formula 1 season, after days of uncertainty following unrest in the country. The decision was finally confirmed by the track organisers on Monday afternoon

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/bahrain-withdraws-opening-race/

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Kanaan loses de Ferran drive

Tony Kanaan says he is back on the market for the 2011 IndyCar Series season after failing to secure the sponsorship to go ahead with his deal with De Ferran Dragon Racing. Gil de Ferran's squad had announced Andretti Autosport refugee Kanaan as its 2011 driver last December, but Kanaan now says this plan has fallen through

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/indycar-news/indycar/kanaan-loses-de-ferran-drive/

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Drivers surprised by durability of inters

The durability of Pirelli's intermediate tyre impressed drivers during the first hours of today's Barcelona test. The track was damp at the beginning of the day, allowing teams to run both the wet and intermediate tyre before it dried out

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/formula-one-news/f1-formula-one-news/drivers-surprised-by-durability-of-inters/

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