For the third instalment of the Winter Heat Series on NASCAR Heat 5, the PlayStation and Xbox competitors headed to the unique Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course on Sunday, 24th January 2021 for the New Year Resolution 70. The newest track to be added to NASCAR Heat 5, this marked the first official esport competition on the 2.439-mile…Continue reading “Castro and Buttafuoco keep their resolutions”»
The world-renowned esports team, Coanda Simsport, took victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona on iRacing this weekend. Their team consisted of a trio of some of the iRacing service’s very best road course drivers: Joshua Rogers, Mitchell deJong and Mack Bakkum. In some respects, it was a dominant victory for the #8 Coanda Simsport…Continue reading “Coanda Simsport take the win in Daytona 24 top-split”»
Following server issues earlier in the day, the special event has finally started. The top-split race started at approximately 18:24 UTC – over 5 hours later than the initially scheduled race time and almost 1 and a half hours later than the revised schedule offered by iRacing. It has also been alleged that iRacing admins…Continue reading “iRacing’s Daytona 24 Hour FINALLY gets underway”»
UPDATE: iRacing have confirmed that they are going to attempt a 5 pm UTC restart (4-hour delay) and offer all affected drivers $5 in credit. Once again, iRacing has been having registration problems with a special event. After frustrated racers being initially stuck in limbo over not being able to join a session, iRacing has…Continue reading “Daytona 24 on iRacing hits big problems”»
GT World Challenge Europe’s Pro and Silver drivers can now earn their race teams points if they perform well in on-site esports races.
Esports star Yuri Kasdorp has split from the R8G team today in somewhat of a dramatic exit. Both parties tweeted their separate statements just after 11am UTC. The rFactor 2 and iRacing expert alleges that there were flaws in his contract that meant that he was being “exploited” by Romain Grosjean’s team. Kasdorp joined the…Continue reading “Kasdorp alleges legal injustice as he and Romain Grosjean’s R8G esports team part ways”»
A brand new vaccine delivery in-game event has made its way to both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and it’s American counterpart. The task is to make 7 (or more) deliveries of the COVID-19 vaccine in either of the aforementioned games. In return, you’ll receive a “World of Trucks” achievement and the “Hope Trucker Insignia” to…Continue reading “Euro/American Truck Simulator 2’s vaccine event causes anti-vax confusion”»
Sim racing peripherals manufacturer Fanatec have announced the release of a brand new product, the CSL Universal Hub, aimed at bringing more customisation and options to the masses. The CSL Universal Hub takes many of the features that are present in the ClubSport Hub and makes them a lot more affordable. It allows you to…Continue reading “More affordable universal hub released by Fanatec”»
Since the last build update, the developers behind Studio 397 have been releasing a number of hotfixes to the game in order to attempt to resolve a number of issues with the most recent builds. These updates are small in size but they have been attempting to resolve on-going problems for users that have been…Continue reading “Graphics glitches for rFactor 2 get resolved”»
Ahead of the first broadcast event of the new Formula E Accelerate esports series, rFactor 2 has dropped a fairly major overhaul to the cars that will open up more strategic options to drivers in the series. The good news is, that you can do the same with this free update to the DLC. However,…Continue reading “Formula E 2021 update, includes “Attack Zone” for rFactor 2″»
