iRacing Pro Invitational

The eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series was a welcome sight at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other live sports and entertainment, real racing became indefinitely suspended. Many were trying to figure out ways to keep occupied as the world tried to work out a way to eradicate the novel coronavirus.  As things start to turn…Continue reading “Retrospective: What was, what could have been with the eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series”»

For the first time anywhere, the streets of Chicago were deafened by the roar of engines near the Buckingham Fountain and around Hutchinson Field. It was, however, virtual engines near the virtual landmarks. This was all done in virtual reality, but maybe it paves the way for this to happen in actual reality later down…Continue reading “James Davison goes back-to-back, wins virtual Chicago Street Course”»

The final of five eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series races on FOX Sports wraps up with a fantasy feature that could lead to a real race date in the future. Future cars, future track, and the future of stock car racing may all be on display later today. With the area scanned in the middle of the…Continue reading “eNPIS: NASCAR stars to race fictional Chicago streets on iRacing Wednesday”»

For James Davison, Wednesday night couldn’t have gone more perfectly, except for the time when Clint Bowyer tried to pit extremely late in front of him, but even after the contact between the two, Davison was able to control his destiny and score the victory.  Leading 30 of the 32 laps around the virtual Circuit…Continue reading “eNPIS: James Davison scores first NASCAR victory virtually at COTA”»

The COTA hype continues Wednesday night with the real professional drivers getting a virtual crack at the new venue ahead of this weekend’s race.  iRacing’s virtual Circuit of the Americas will play host to the NASCAR Cup Series stars for round four of the eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series, the first virtual road course race in series history. This weekend…Continue reading “eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series will give real drivers a virtual glimpse of COTA”»

Only hours after unveiling the NASCAR NEXT Gen in the real world, the virtual world got a glance at how the new cars would race against each other in the eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series on iRacing.  The brand-new Toyota TRD Camry, Ford Mustang and the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 took to the virtual Darlington Raceway on Wednesday…Continue reading “eNPIS: Erik Jones steals NASCAR NEXT Gen victory at Darlington”»

The brand-new NASCAR Next Gen cars were dropped in the real world at 3:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and race fans won’t have to wait long to see what they look like in a race setting.  That being a virtual race setting.  The eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series returns for its third race on the 2021…Continue reading “eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series Darlington NEXT GEN Preview”»

Following last year’s successful sim racing events, NASCAR has once again joined forces with iRacing to recreate the Pro Invitational Series. Last year’s events took place during the coronavirus pandemic’s halt on sporting events. Many series, including Formula One, IndyCar and Le Mans also held their own virtual events as there was a wait for…Continue reading “NASCAR announce return of the eNASCAR Pro Invitational Series”»