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In 2019, Broadbent took part in the annual iRacing 24 Hours of Le Mans in the iRacing video game, with teammates Adam David Hodgkinson and Nate Lupson with the 2016 Audi R18 LMP1 prototype sports car, and won their race overall. [13] On May 16, 2020, Broadbent won his split in the annual iRacing Indy 500.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ford CEO Jim Farley has a mantra: “No more boring cars.” ... We put about 20,000 people through all of our driving schools around the world. We have Bronco off-road rodeos ...
iRacing is a subscription-based online sim racing video game developed and published by iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations in 2008. All in-game sessions are hosted on the publisher's servers. All in-game sessions are hosted on the publisher's servers.
Herbert James Russell (28 May 1920 – 30 March 2019), better known as Jim Russell, was an English racing driver, garage owner and founder of the Jim Russell Racing Driver School. [1] He died on 30 March 2019, shortly after undergoing an operation for a hip replacement.
The series was founded in 2010, in a partnership with iRacing, with the first race taking place on February 9, 2010. [1] [2] The 2023 champion is Steven Wilson. [3]A regular season consists of 14 rounds, and one exhibition, that begins in mid-February, at Daytona International Speedway, and ends in August.
In 2011, the track was bought by Jim and Kathy Stout, and re-branded as "Pittsburgh International Race Complex." A three-stage renovation of the facility began soon after. The South Track addition, which added 1.200 mi (1.931 km) of track, was the largest update to the facility and was completed in 2015.
Prior to the division between arcade-style racing and sim racing, the earliest attempts at providing driving simulation experiences were arcade racing video games, dating back to Pole Position, [25] a 1982 arcade game developed by Namco, which the game's publisher Atari publicized for its "unbelievable driving realism" in providing a Formula 1 experience behind a racing wheel at the time.
The facility is utilized for a wide variety of events, including professional and amateur sports car and motorcycle races, racing and driving schools, corporate programs and testing for motorsports teams. The track has 12 turns, including the famous "esses" between turns three and five; and Turn 12, a downhill, diving turn.