iRacing Crowns Champions For 1st Official Season

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FIRST, the sanctioning body for all competition in the iRacing.com internet racing service, on July 25th concluded its first official 12-week season since the service's public launch. Overall champions for racing and time-trial competition have been recognized in four series, as well as ten divisional champions in each of those series. Additionally, in the geographically-based FIRST Club competition, the Southeast U.S. has been named champion.

"This is a milestone in the growing sport of internet racing," said John Henry, chairman of the board of FIRST and co-founder with Dave Kaemmer of iRacing.com. "We're very pleased to honor this first group of champions. It's a moment that Dave and I both envisioned more than four years ago when we embarked on this project.

"And while this initial season of FIRST-sanctioned competition represents the achievement of an important goal for our organization, what is really exciting to all of us at iRacing is the notion of establishing a community, where individuals can not only have fun racing, but also establish meaningful friendships with like-minded people."

Kaemmer, who is iRacing's chief executive officer and leader of its development team, noted that while the service's simulation software represents new levels of accuracy and authenticity, development of the software will continue. "We've gotten great feedback from our members," Kaemmer said. "They appreciate what our team has done in building the sim. But one of the advantages of being internet-based is that we are able to continually improve the software and the service, introducing new features and content as our development team completes them. In the meantime, it's great to see our thousands of members enjoying great on-track competition."

Legendary simracer Greger Huttu took three titles, winning the Skip Barber Championships in both Race and Time Trial, as well as picking up an oval crown in the Advanced Legends Cup Time Trial competition. Chris Shearburn, also a well-known simracer, won both Race and Time Trial titles on the Late Model Tour.

Tony LaGrene took the Advanced Legends Cup Race crown by the thinnest of margins - two points - over Dustin McGrew, while Frosty St. Clair won the Advanced Solstice Race title by 47.5 points over Josh Carr, and then was runner-up behind Ilkka Haapala in the Advanced Solstice Time Trial competition.

In the hard-fought Club Championship, Southeast U.S. bested International by a relatively narrow margin with Mid-Atlantic U.S. third.

Club Champions: Team Southeast US

Place Club Points

1st Southeast US 25246.32

2nd International 24786.87

3rd Mid-Atlantic US 23396.35

4th West Europe 22911.13

5th Northeast US 22561.94

Advanced Solstice Race - Overall Champion: Frosty St. Clair

Place Name Points

1st Frosty St. Clair 1219.50

2nd Josh Carr 1172.00

3rd Dion Vergers 1070.00

4th Joseph Jordan 1022.16

5th Adam Haufrect 1015.00

Advanced Solstice - Time Trial Overall Champion: IIIkka Haapala

Place Name Points

1st Ilkka Haapala 793.28

2nd Frosty StClair 776.72

3rd Marcus Jirak 767.18

4th Josh Carr 765.69

5th Joseph Jordan 765.43

Advanced Legends Cup - Overall Champion: Tony LaGrene

Place Names Points

1st Tony LaGrene 1109.00

2nd Dustin McGrew 1107.16

3rd Greger Huttu 1090.00

4th Dale Earnhardt Jr 1014.50

5th Josh Carr 1012.50

Advanced Legends Cup - Time Trial Overall Champion: Greger Huttu

Place Name Points

1st Greger Huttu 800.00

2nd Jeff Dukehart 775.50

3rd Dustin McGrew 770.97

4th Pat Dotson 768.76

5th Josh Carr 766.18

Skip Barber Race Series - Overall Champion: Greger Huttu

Place Names Points

1st Greger Huttu 1274.00

2nd Artur Turcu 1150.00

3rd Josh Carr 1136.00

4th Frosty St. Clair 1135.50

5th Darren Marsh 1130.50

Skip Barber Racing Series - Time Trial Overall Champion: Greger Huttu

Place Name Points

1st Greger Huttu 800.00

2nd Artur Turcu 787.18

3rd Leandro Schmidt 786.20

4th Artur Mlodzinski 756.39

5th Darren Marsh 754.28

Late Model Tour - Overall Champion: Chris Shearburn

Place Names Points

1st Chris Shearburn 1318.15

2nd Brad Davies 1219.00

3rd Steve Sheehan 1150.46

4th Darrin Stevens 1116.25

5th Dale Earnhardt Jr 1081.16

Late Model Tour - Time Trial Overall Champion: Chris Shearburn

Place Name Points

1st Chris Shearburn 799.50

2nd Rusty Greer 795.22

3rd Brad Davies 786.43

4th Darrin Stevens 773.80

5th Thomas Lewandowski 770.01