In conjunction with Australian Racing Technologies and Marulan Driver Training Centre (MDTC), an Observed Licence Test day has been organised for Saturday 1 Feb 2014, at the MDTC facility.

A fun, social day for us all to get together early in the new year, show off our cars, and get everyone's iRace competition licenses sorted on one easy date so that you're all ready to race at the start of the 2014 season!!

More details are available here. Or contact Daniel Pirozzi for more information or to book your spot.

This is the perfect opportunity for newcomers to get sorted to compete with iRace in the 2014 season!

Not made by us, but certainly resonates with us! Video by Antti Kalhola, link passed to us by Dan Pirozzi. Enjoy!

iRace TV Round 1 Part 3 - POST-RACE from Sam Dale on Vimeo.

iRace TV Round 1 Part 2 - THE RACE from Sam Dale on Vimeo.

Enter Round 1 of the 2013 Independent Race Series

Sydney Motorsport Park, GP South, 1 Feb 13

iRace 2013 Teaser from Sam Dale on Vimeo.

Rod Dale Interview - iRace from Sam Dale on Vimeo.

iRace Round 6 - Alan Walls Interview from Sam Dale on Vimeo.

iRace Round 6 - David Ius Interview from Sam Dale on Vimeo.

iRace Round 6 - Madi Jess Interview from Sam Dale on Vimeo.

Round Three is fast approaching. If you'd like to be a part of it you can get your entry in here.

If you don't have a racecar ready, the Oz Truck guys have the awesome #85 car ready to go and available for lease, more details available here. If you're keen to lease something else, get in touch with Rod Dale, and he will point you in the right direction!

Round Three will be held at Morgan Park, 16-17 June, with practice available on Friday 15 June.

The one night package for two at the "Comet Inn" was won by Mitch Lennard from Race Control at Round 5.  A huge thank you to all the officials who helped make the event happen - in the rain and cold! Thank you also to Rod Gurney Racing and Comet Inn.

Our volunteer officials help make iRace the great series it is. We have an awesome group of people who are always ready to lend a hand, and make our race meetings possible.

We work hard to give something back to the officials, and a team who have helped us do that over and over again are Rod Gurney Racing. The Gurney family have helped us say thank you to the officials on many occasions.

And they've done it again. This time, a one night package for two at the historic "Comet Inn" at Hartley Vale in the Blue Mountains is on offer.

The "Comet Inn" was built in 1879 and has been lovingly restored by it's owners Greg and Kathy Knoble. You can find more information on the Comet Inn here.

The prize includes meals and accommodation for 2 and is valued at over $300.

A huge thank you to our awesome officials, and thank you to Comet Inn and the Gurneys.

Volunteer official Les Robards, affectionately known as "Bloke", passed away yesterday morning after a battle with cancer.

Bloke was a long-time volunteer official, and one of the hard core who make motorsport possible. Bloke was exceedingly popular, and will be missed by his motorsport family. Bloke also helped out on the race team of Richard Mork from time to time, and Richard posted the photo below to Facebook yesterday.

Farewell, and rest in peace to a fellow racer. Bloke.

iRace competitors are getting ready for the season ahead, with some sporting revamped cars, and some with brand new machines.

Acuform Muscle Division regular, Matt Veal, has updated his awesome Volvo 242 GT-T with a terrific period livery.

And another Acuform Muscle Division regular, volunteer scrutineer, and unofficial iRace representative, Stuart Inwood has ramped up his commitment, with the acquisition of an AU Falcon V8 Supercar to race in the Touring Car Challenge.

We can't wait to see these, and all the other new and updated cars on track in 2011!

The first round of the Independent Race Series for 2011 will be held at Queensland Raceway, 5-6 March. You can learn more about the event here, and entries can be submitted by clicking here.

UPDATE: Another great looking new car for the series from Troy Harrison, an awesome VT Commodore for Production Racing Cars.

If you have a new car or livery and would like to let everyone know, click here to send in the details.

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Acuform have signed on as naming-rights sponsors for Muscle Division for the 2011 Independent Race Series.

Acuform is an ACT-based business specialising in sheet-metal work and fabrication. They are experts in laser cutting, CNC folding, precision fabrication, MIG & TIG welding, design & development work, as well as powder coating.

Acuform are no strangers to motorsport either, with operator Matt Veal a regular competitor in the Independent Race Series in his immaculate Volvo 242 GT-T. Acuform offer a wide range of services perfectly suited to motorsport applications, and their highly trained staff, and state-of-the-art machinery mean that you can be certain the job will be of the highest quality, precise and constructed to last.

If you have a project you need done right, get in touch with Acuform on 02 6260 2533 or info@acuform.com.au Tell your friends too, and get behind another great company that is supporting our series.

The Independent Race Series has recently upgraded email newsletter providers. We are really looking forward to communicating with all of you in 2011, and keeping in touch with timely and informative updates.

We'll also be announcing some information exclusively on the newsletter. If you are a competitor or a potential competitor, now is the time to make sure you are signed up to the mailing list.

If you received our Merry Christmas message you're already on the list. If you didn't receive that message you should sign up.

To make it easy for everyone to sign up, you have a number of options:

1) Click here to visit the regular sign up form, or

2) Use the "Email Signup" tab on our Facebook page, or

3) Fill in your details below and click "Subscribe"

We will never provide your details to anyone else, and will do our very best to only send you quality iRace updates.

The 2010 Independent Race Series End of Season Presentation was held on Saturday at the Marulan Driver Training Centre. All the category prize winners were awarded their trophies at the event, and there were some additional prizes presented to recognise some special contributions to the series during the year.

Click here to view the category champions. Additional prize winners were as follows:

• Corey Gurney - Sportsman of the Year


• Maria Mare - Never Give Up Award


• Phil Andrew - Encouragement Award


• Kylie Willmington - Media Personality of the Year

A selection of lucky door prizes were also presented on the night, with the major prize, a brush cutter thanks to R&A Mowers, went to Natalie Willmington.

The 2011 iRace calendar is now available. The events are as follows:

• Round 1 - Queensland Raceway - 5-6 March
• Round 2 - Eastern Creek - 29 April
• Round 3 - Lakeside - 18-19 June
• Round 4 - Morgan Park - 23-24 July
• Round 5 - Eastern Creek - 19 August
• Round 6 - Eastern Creek - 23 September

Click here to download a PDF poster of the 2011 calendar.
Click here to download a Mac iCal compatible calendar file.
Click here to access as a Google calendar.

The final round of the Independent Race Series for 2010 was held at Eastern Creek on the weekend, and the drivers weren't the only ones to do some winning. As part of our ongoing recognition of the awesome work our volunteer officials do, iRace was able to reward three lucky officials from the meeting.

Stu Inwood, our very dedicated scrutineer, won a Fastrack V8 Super Drive and Ride. Experience V8 Racing / Driving at its best, with the best, you and a professional race car driver behind the wheel of a V8 Race Car You Drive for 6 (NSW-SA) or 8 (VIC-WA) heart-racing laps. Then be taken for 3 thrilling Hot Laps as a passenger with your pro race car driver.

The Gurney Racing team, in conjunction with R&A Mowers, provided two fantastic lawnmowers, which were won by: Paul Brissington, Turn 2 Flag Marshall, and Mick Harvey, Fire Marshall.

With the cold and windy conditions experienced at Eastern Creek, every single official was deserving of our recognition, and we're very grateful to Fastrack and R&A Mowers to be able to offer these prizes as part of that recognition.

If you'd like to find out more about becoming a volunteer official with the Independent Race Series, click here.

At iRace we love our officials. At every trophy presentation drivers extend their thanks to the volunteers who stand in the sun, rain or wind all day to make our racing possible - we couldn't do it without these guys. And when we can, we try to give something back. At our most recent round at Eastern Creek, every official went into a draw with a chance to win one of two great prizes. The winners from that round were as follows:

Judy Ellacott from Race Control won a weekend for two at the Blue Hills Farm Retreat, with thanks to the Gurney family. Situated in the heart of historic Hartley Vale, Blue Hills Farm Retreat offers relaxing country charm for both couples and families providing an ambient, romantic and cosy place to unwind and relax. Surrounded by native Australian bushlands with wild life a plenty, breathtaking mountain escarpments and glorious sunsets, this is a special place.

Rodney Gard from Recovery won a V8 Super Drive and Ride thanks to the guys at Fastrack. Experience V8 Racing / Driving at its best, with the best, you and a professional race car driver behind the wheel of a V8 Race Car You Drive for 6 (NSW-SA) or 8 (VIC-WA) heart-racing laps. Then be taken for 3 thrilling Hot Laps as a passenger with your pro race car driver.

Similar rewards will be offered at our final round for 2010, again at Eastern Creek, in October. If you would like to learn more about becoming an official, or getting involved with iRace, click here.

We'd also like to extend a huge thank you to Prolific Systems who provided two safety cars at the round. Prolific Systems offer quality, affordable emergency vehicle lights and siren amplifiers, as well as a range of other equipment for emergency and industrial vehicles.

iRace is a great community of racers, but we couldn't go racing without the fantastic volunteer officials. These guys spend their spare time standing out in all sorts of weather to help make our racing possible. We like to show our thanks whenever we can, and not a trophy presentation goes by without the officials being thanked in a number of speeches. And as we have done in the past, we are now able to offer a little more recognition to our officials.

Thanks to the Gurney family, and Blue Hills Farm Retreat, one randomly selected official will win a fantastic weekend for two at the Blue Hills Farm Retreat, located in the Blue Mountains, near Lithgow.

Situated in the heart of historic Hartley Vale, Blue Hills Farm Retreat offers relaxing country charm for both couples and families providing an ambient, romantic and cosy place to unwind and relax. Surrounded by native Australian bushlands with wild life a plenty, breathtaking mountain escarpments and glorious sunsets, this is a special place.

And thanks to Fastrack, another randomly selected official will win a V8 Super Drive and Ride.

Experience V8 Racing / Driving at its best, with the best, you and a professional race car driver behind the wheel of a V8 Race Car You Drive for 6 (NSW-SA) or 8 (VIC-WA) heart-racing laps. Then be taken for 3 thrilling Hot Laps as a passenger with your pro race car driver.

A huge thank you to our fantastic supporters for helping us recognise the efforts of our volunteer officials! We will have similar rewards on offer for our final round for 2010 at Eastern Creek in October, check out the details closer to the event.

If you are interested in being an official at one of our events, please check out the info and get in touch.

Every iRace meeting (every race meeting in general) can only happen thanks to the support and effort of our awesome volunteer officials. We are grateful to each and every one, and at our most recent round we were lucky enough to be able to express this gratitude in a unique way.

Thanks to Fastrack Racing, we randomly selected one of our officials to receive a gift certificate for 3 Hot Laps around Eastern Creek with Fastrack. The prize was won by Flaggie Ross King, from Wyong.

A big thank you to Fastrack and all our awesome supporters, and to the great bunch of volunteer officials who help make our racing possible.

The next round of the Independent Race Series will be held at Lakeside, 12-13 June. For more information, click here. We'll be working to offer more prizes to our officials at future events.

To learn more about Fastrack Racing, click here.

And to find out how to get involved in the Independent Race Series as an official, click here.

The Independent Race Series is all about having a great community of racers. We strive to have a relaxed atmosphere at our events, and encourage everyone involved in the series to look after each other. So it was a great honour last week when one of our competitors, Stuart Inwood, requested a digital version of our logo so he could have some signs made for his racecar (you can get the logos yourself by clicking here). Stuart will be competing in some supersprint events in the coming weeks, and wants to encourage his fellow supersprint competitors to join iRace.



Stuart did this at his own expense, and on his own initiative, and it's a great example of someone really getting behind our great series, and understanding that he can help to make it even better.

If you see Stuart at an event in the future, give him a pat on the back for his efforts.

So, what can each of us do? There are a few simple things that can help our series grow, and make it better for all of us:

• You can tell your friends and acquaintances about the series
• If they need more information you could print them a copy of this flyer
• You can put the official iRace sticker (as has been distributed at the rounds this year) on your racecar, tow car, road car (request a sticker here, or ask for one at sign-on at the next round)
• You can join us on Facebook, and share some of our posts with your friends
• You can request some iRace mini cards to hand out to people you think may be interested in joining us
• You could even add a link on your website to www.irace.net.au

Most important of all though, keep doing what you're doing - competing at our great events, and helping maintain the relaxed atmosphere and mate-against-mate racing. The entry form for the next round is available here.

Many of our competitors and supporters already know the answer to the question: What is iRace? But sometimes it can be challenging to pinpoint exactly what it is about the Independent Race Series that sets it apart from other forms of racing. Sometimes it's worthwhile being reminded exactly what it is that makes our series great.

Ultimately, what defines us is the things we care about. For iRace, it's a simple list:

• We care about safety.
• We care about each other.
• We care about driver development.
• We care about diversity.
• We care about affordability.
• We care about our supporters.

Read on for a short explanation of each point.

We care about safety.

We strive hard to make our racing as safe as possible. Our marshalls and officials have excellent training, and safety is their number one priority. Our regulations focus on ensuring that racecars are as safe as possible, and we conduct regular checks for compliance.

We care about each other.

Our series is all about mate-against-mate. We encourage hard racing, but insist that drivers put themselves in the other guys shoes, and treat their fellow competitors the way they would like to be treated. We also help each other out if there is work to be done to get a car back on track.

We care about driver development.

Often racing can become a procession. Not in our series. We employ a variety of different race formats (handicap, reverse grid, rolling starts) to ensure that drivers in our series learn as much about racecraft as possible, and practice a variety of techniques that give them a headstart over other drivers.

We care about diversity.

We have many different kinds of cars and drivers in our series. There is a place for all of them. We have carefully designed our categories to cater for as many different cars as possible, and to offer something for the casual racer, and for the driver who has their sights set on the top.

We care about affordability.

Racing costs money. But with the right strategy, the amount of money can be kept to a minimum. Our series has evolved to offer the lowest cost possible. We’ve thought outside the box, and scheduled some of our events on a Friday. All in the interests of keeping our entry fees fixed at $395.

We care about our supporters.

Our supporters help make our series happen. We work hard to make sure series, category and individual team sponsors get as much exposure as possible. Prosperity for our supporters means prosperity for our series. What’s good for them is good for us!

To download a PDF poster of this information, please click here. Please feel free to pass it on to your friends and competitors!

Independent Race Series fields have doubled in size since the series made a humble start to 2009, back in March at the wonderful Morgan Park circuit.

Round Two is nearly upon us, and for this round the series heads to Sydney's Oran Park. Bumper fields in Production Racing Cars and RocketSports are expected, plus the fantastic SuperTrucks, and a strong lineup including Touring Car Challenge, Muscle Division, Formula Tasman and LeMans Sports.

The flowing Oran Park South Circuit will play host to some fantastic action, with Practice and Qualifying on Friday (15 May), a couple of races on Friday afternoon, and the bulk of racing on Saturday 16 May.

As always, the Independent Race Series features a relaxed, friendly atmosphere, where fans can get an up close look at the cars, meet the drivers, and generally get amongst it. For drivers, it is an affordable, mate-against-mate platform to enjoy motorsport.

To view the schedule for Round Two, please click here.

If you would like to compete at the event, it's not too late! Check out the online entry form here, and get in touch with our Competitor Liaison via email, or on 0412 785 486, to secure your entry.

If you can't make it to Oran Park for the event, you can keep an eye on the official website: www.irace.net.au for updates during the event.

So, do you want to go motor racing?

We can help get you in a car for the upcoming round at Sydney's Oran Park!

There are affordable drives available in a variety of lease cars. Check out Mal Rose's brilliant Mitsubishi Mirages, or the awesome Reynard 91D Formula Tasman, the brilliant Minetti and Lincspeed Le Mans Sports cars, and there are many more great cars available for lease in just about every category - contact our Competitor Liaison, Rod Dale, for all the details - click here, or call 0412 785 486.

If you don't have a racing licence yet, no problem. Our friends at the Marulan Driver Training Centre can help you out with driver training, and a licence evaluation for the fantastic value iRace licence. Head over to www.mdtc.com.au for all the details on the Marulan Driver Training Centre.

For more information on the licencing requirements for iRace, check out the Getting Involved page for Drivers.

So, the round is just under a month away, but with the Independent Race Series, anything is possible, and we really can get you into a car at Oran Park.

Round Two, Oran Park, 15-16 May 2009. Be there.