As you may have noticed during the past week, VirtualR is operational again, run by myself, Montoya, the site’s original founder and, for most of the past 13 years, sole editor. I encountered a serious...
Providing virtual racing news for 10 years running, VirtualR is back with a major overhaul.
Veteran Indycar racer Justin Wilson has passed away following a crash at Sunday's Indycar race at Pocono.
After the most recent design change in July, there hasn’t been much innovation around here. This changes now as I??m happy to introduce a new feature: The VirtualR Community Zone. I??m constantly receiving requests...
I usually can restrain myself from posting any personal and non-sim racing related stuff here but since today was pretty much a no news day and I??m very much ecstatic right now, I??ll make an exception you??ll hopefully...
This is not exactly sim-related news but very worth mentioning as the future of one of the world’s finest race tracks is in jeopardy. Local residents are threatening the existence of Spa-Francorchamps...
As you may have noticed, VirtualR had a short outage last afternoon. The problem wasn’t some glitch with the server but a complete overload of traffic, caused by hotlinked images from the Forza Motorsport 3 car...
Apologies to all of you who tried to access VirtualR earlier this evening and got nothing but a blank page or an error. The server was in a bit of a kerffufle while I was away and it took me a while to figure out what...
It’ somewhat hard to believe but VirtualR is already starting its third year of existence today. It almost feels like yesterday that I started playing around with the blogging software, starting the site with no...
And neither will I as the 77th running of the Le Mans 24 Hour race is just about to start. I??ll be crossing fingers for the Peugeot Sport squad in their epic battle against Audi in what should be one of the best...
After almost 4000 RSS subscribers and over 140 followers on Twitter, I’s time to add another web 2.0 craze feature to VirtualR – A Facebook community. The VirtualR facebook community is the place for...
With the site back up running in a stable manner, I figured it’s time to introduce some new features to make writing comments on VirtualR a little more pleasant. From now on, you??ll be able to quote other...
Quite often, I get mails from sim racers asking me to spread the word on their league events on VirtualR. Even though I hate to turn people’s request down, I had no real idea where to put these announcements. This...
Time for the final status update on the server situation as the site’s home has been successfully pimped, bringing some speed back into the system. Everything should now be running like it did a week ago. I??ve...
Geez, what a day it was. The move to the new server did not work as planned at all as the site kept on maxing out the chosen machine. After plenty of phone calls to the hoster and about eight hours of work on my side...
If you visited the site in the past 24 hours, you??ve probably noticed very slow speeds and lots of error messages. The reason for that is simple: The recent releases of rFactor 2 previews have simply caused the server...
VirtualR joins one of the internet’s biggest revolutions these days by joining the Twitter-craze. Twitter is a service that lets users communicate by short 140 character messages called tweets. What started as a...
