Chevy's Top Stock Car Joins iRacing Fleet

Chevrolet Impala SS Is Built to Latest Stock Car Racing Specifications

BEDFORD, MA. January 30, 2009: Chevrolet’s top racing stock car, the Impala SS, joins the inventory of iRacing.com today, giving subscribers to the motorsport simulation and internet racing service access to the latest in stock car racing technology.

“Our members have been waiting for this moment for some time now,” said Steve Myers, iRacing’s executive producer. “The Chevrolet Impala SS is an exact digital duplicate of the Chevy racing car that competes at the highest level of the sport. Our members, both those who race these cars in the physical world and those who compete in the virtual one, will find that the iRacing version of the Impala performs exactly as its real-world counterpart does.”

Myers noted that company co-founder and chief technical officer Dave Kaemmer and the iRacing engineering team had devoted countless hours to the development of the virtual Impala, and gave a special callout to Dale Earnhardt, Jr., whose input was critical in fine-tuning the virtual car’s behavior and ensuring that it responded to both mechanical and aerodynamic adjustments. Accurately modeling the aerodynamic behavior of the car in nose-to-tail packs on tracks like Daytona International Speedway was a particular challenge.

“Dale races this car in the physical world every weekend, so he was able to give our engineers the feedback they required to get the Impala’s behavior just right,” Myers said. “Our members, whether they are using the service to prepare for real-world events at tracks like Watkins Glen International and Infineon Raceway or are competing against other iRacers in our professionally sanctioned Impala SS Cup internet race series, will know that the cars they are driving mirror precisely the performance of the real-world car.”