New sim coming out??

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://iracing.com/index.htm Read the FAQ................

[email hidden] wrote: > 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. <snip> Somewhat old news, iracing has been in development for over a couple of years. 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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> [email hidden] wrote: >> 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. <snip> > > Somewhat old news, iracing has been in development for over a couple of > years. > > 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... >

Just curious, as I really can't seem to tell - are these guys actually going to produce a racing sim, for the home pc crowd? -- Don

> Just curious, as I really can't seem to tell - are these guys actually going > to produce a racing sim, for the home pc crowd? > > -- > Don This has been answered about a hundred times, including a mention of simracers in the latest item (mentioned previously in this thread).

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>> Just curious, as I really can't seem to tell - are these guys actually going >> to produce a racing sim, for the home pc crowd? >> >> -- >> Don > > This has been answered about a hundred times, including a mention of > simracers in the latest item (mentioned previously in this thread).

It is a RAS conspiracy to try to annoy you enough to break your silence here, Tim :) The sim racers equivalent to "are we there yet?"! Welcome back ;) Tony

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>> Just curious, as I really can't seem to tell - are these guys actually >> going >> to produce a racing sim, for the home pc crowd? >> >> -- >> Don > > This has been answered about a hundred times, including a mention of > simracers in the latest item (mentioned previously in this thread).

I guess I am not good at reading between the lines then. We'll see. Thanks, -- Don

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> > 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://iracing.com/index.htm > > Read the FAQ................

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

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

Except a video. And investors. And customers.

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:19:10 -0000, "cowoffunk" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >"JP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:xP%6j.428$[email hidden]... >> >> >> >> Iracing is fast becoming "Return of the West Brothers".........all talk, >> nothing to show for it. >> >> > >Except a video. And investors. > >And customers.

The West Brothers did have multiple videos. And investors (BRD). And customers. Don't tell me you didn't buy a teddy bear. Cheers! Remco

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> > > > > > "Tim Wheatley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... >>> Just curious, as I really can't seem to tell - are these guys actually >>> going >>> to produce a racing sim, for the home pc crowd? >>> >>> -- >>> Don >> >> This has been answered about a hundred times, including a mention of >> simracers in the latest item (mentioned previously in this thread). > > > > I guess I am not good at reading between the lines then.

Don, to paraphrase: their intent is to make it available (or maybe just attainable) to everyone seriously interested in simracing. Don't bother with the FAQ. It's a study in non-answers. Cost questions are deflected with statements pointing to return on investmest. (A clear hint to sit on and guard your rear orifice with a cupped hand.) 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.

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> Don, to paraphrase: their intent is to make it available (or maybe just > attainable) to everyone seriously interested in simracing. Don't bother > with the FAQ. It's a study in non-answers. Cost questions are deflected > with statements pointing to return on investmest. (A clear hint to sit on > and guard your rear orifice with a cupped hand.) > > 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. >

I hope they have very deep pockets. Professional racing teams aren't that numerous. The systems will have to be very expensive if they don't have a large volume of customers.

On Dec 10, 9:33 pm, "Bob Loblaw" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> > Don, to paraphrase: their intent is to make it available (or maybe just > > attainable) to everyone seriously interested in simracing. Don't bother > > with the FAQ. It's a study in non-answers. Cost questions are deflected > > with statements pointing to return on investmest. (A clear hint to sit on > > and guard your rear orifice with a cupped hand.) > > > The "home pc crowd" is pretty well serviced by rFactor.iRacingis > > targetting a different revenue stream. The audience will be much more > > critical and knowledgeable, and will have correspondingly deeper pockets. > > I hope they have very deep pockets. Professional racing teams aren't that > numerous. The systems will have to be very expensive if they don't have a > large volume of customers.

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.

> Just curious, as I really can't seem to tell - are these guys actually going > to produce a racing sim, for the home pc crowd? > > -- > Don 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