rec.autos.simulators

From jayski.com:  John Henry Involved in Development of
Racing Simulator: One after another, young drivers from
every imaginable racing series punched up their favorite
racetracks and turned laps in the heart of the Orange
County Convention Center. No helmets or firesuits
required for these races at the Performance Racing
Industry trade show. The high-speed runs were on two
advanced racing simulators set up by iRacing.com. These
are not video games but technically sophisticated
computer equipment that are powered by state-of-the-art
software. Up until now, this kind of high-tech racing
simulation has been restricted to big dollar Formula One
teams, such as McLaren Racing and Ferrari. While
iRacing.com's software is not cheap, it is affordable
compared to say hauling a stock car several hundred
miles to test a rookie driver for a couple of days. The
company was co-founded in 2004 by programmer Dave
Kaemmer and John Henry, who owns the Boston Red Sox.
Henry bought half of Roush Racing this year. Now that
the software has been perfected, iRacing.com is
beginning the hard sell in the motorsports community.
All levels of racing have been targeted, from Late Model
racers all the way up to Sprint Cup. Among those who
tried their hand at the PRI simulator Friday was David
Gilliland, who drives the # 38 Yates Racing Ford. The
company is negotiating with several Cup level teams
right now. Once accepted into stock car racing,
iRacing.com hopes its software will become standard
equipment at all NASCAR race shops.(Daytona Beach News-
Journal)(12-9-2007)

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Read the FAQ................

Some more recent news is in the following quote from Tony Gardner (CFO
and now President of iRacing):

Gardner joined iRacing.com in June of this year, from Houghton Mifflin,
where he was senior vice president and business manager. He has also
held senior executive positions at The Learning Company and Achievement
Technologies.

"Bringing a start-up to launch is always a challenge, but a satisfying
one," Gardner said. "I'm pleased to be part of a great team, and I look
forward to working with my colleagues on what promises to be a very
successful launch this spring."

So spring it is...

Cheers
Tony

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Don

This has been answered about a hundred times, including a mention of
simracers in the latest item (mentioned previously in this thread).

The sim racers equivalent to "are we there yet?"!

Welcome back ;)
Tony

I guess I am not good at reading between the lines then.

We'll see.

Thanks,

--
Don

  Iracing is fast becoming "Return of the West Brothers".........all talk,
nothing to show for it.

Except a video. And investors.

And customers.

Cheers!

Remco

The "home pc crowd" is pretty well serviced by rFactor. iRacing is
targetting a different revenue stream. The audience will be much more
critical and knowledgeable, and will have correspondingly deeper pockets.

Exactly, which is why it's fairly obvious what he said is not correct.
It's very true that racing teams are being targetted though.

I'm with you.. I still don't really have a sense if this is ever going
to be a mainstream product. I am thinking it will cost less then a
real racecar, but that is a pretty wide target.
Maybe it will still be the massively multi player racing sim that we
can all love.

btgoss