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Great start to 2025 Porsche Cup iRTES Support Series at Road America Jesse Lyon takes win

November 4th, 2024 - Congratulations to Jesse Lyon for winning the first race of the 2025 Porsche Cup iRTES Support series at Road America.  The series kicked off it's first race of a six race season for the 5th consecutive season with a chilly fall day at the Iconic Road America circuit in Elkhart Lake, WI. A twenty four car field would grid up for the race, with Afonso Souto taking pole position.  Souto, after winning a race last season looked to build upon success in prior races and would look strong throughout the race.  He would lead 12 of the 14 laps before having a DQ for exceeding incident limits late in the race while battling with hard pressure from Jesse Lyon for the win.  The two cars separated by less than a second for most of the race. Michael Parker, 2023 series Champion would finish in P2 > more

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Paquin Design Joins Champion Motorsports as Sponsor for iRTES 2025

Champion Motorsports is extremely excited to announce that Nik Paquin Design has come onboard as a sponsor for the iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES) for the 2025 season. Nik is a graphic designer who specializes in posters, branding/logos and social media graphics in the sim racing world. He also does liveries and in-game photography. Nik Paquin Design will be making the winner of each class a custom poster to commemorate their championship, using pictures taken during their championship clinching race! These posters will be print ready and in large format for anyone who wants to get it printed and framed for their sim room! more information coming soon and please follow Nik Paquin Designs on socials, and consider commissioning them for some high quality art needs. https://www.instagram.com/nikpaquin/ https://twitter.com/flybynightt

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Moradness Joins Champion Motorsports as new iRTES 2025 Sponsor

Champion Motorsports is extremely excited to announce a new sponsorship / partnership with one of the most progressive lifestyle motorsports brands Moradness.  Founded by Daniel Morad, acclaimed Sportscar driver and Simracer.  As part of our new partnership, Moradness will sponsor the 2025 iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES) with awards and prizes for our hard chargers in each of the LMDh, LMP2, and GT3 categories, with amazing incentives from their catalog. Champion Motorsports will partner closely with Moradness to grow their brand, and exposure to the simracing community within our own member base and throughout our broad simracing reach.  More details on this developing partnership will come soon. A quote from Champion Motorsports owner David Anderson -- "I could not be more excited to have Daniel and the Moradness brand join us for iRTES 2025.  Daniel's story and the emergence of his company and brand are inspiring and the products > more

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MasterWerks Fuels the Thrill: Renowned Creative Agency Joins Champion Motorsports’ iRacing Team!


Champion Motorsports is thrilled to rev its engines alongside MasterWerks, LLP (www.masterwerks.agency), a visionary creative powerhouse, as a new sponsor for the iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES) Championship. MasterWerks isn't just about crafting captivating films and videos; they're storytellers who ignite emotions. Their artistry and cutting-edge tech fuel immersive experiences that resonate with audiences worldwide. As a champion of pushing boundaries, MasterWerks recognizes the electrifying world of eSports and its passionate communities. Their partnership with Champion Motorsports for the 2025 iRTES season promises to be a high-octane collaboration. To mark its inclusion as a series sponsor, MasterWerks will be awarding three, limited edition 1:18 scale diecast models for the driver in each class who completes the total number of fair share laps run over the course of the season in each class with the least number of incident points. While winning is the ultimate goal, MasterWerks admires Champion Motorsports' > more

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Penguin r/c Simulation Announces Prize Package for 2025 iRTES Championship

We are very excited to announce that for the 5th consecutive year, Penguin r/c Simulation will return as a title sponsor for our iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES) Championship.  They have been a staple in the series and have provided tremendous support and prizes for our series teams and drivers over the years.  For 2025 they will be offering a prize package valued at over $1500 USD as detailed below. The Penguin r/c Simulation Endurance Racing team will also field two entries in the iRTES Championship via sponsor exemption for fun and bragging rights along with their marketing efforts of their brand. 2024/25 Penguin r/c - CMS irTES Endurance Series Sponsorship PUBLIC INFORMATION: ———————————————————————————————————————————— ***  Penguin r/c Sponsorship for the irTES Series - Per Class: Prizes per Class Overall (LMDh Pro, LMP2 Am, GT3 Pro, GT3 Am) - (Total package Value $1500.00) 1st Place Championship - $200.00  Credit toward > more

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CMS Endurance Team Announces 2025 iRTES lineup

The Champion Motorsports endurance iRacing team is excited to announce our 2 entries into the 2025 iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES).  Our two cars will be competing in the GT3-AM Championships, and will mark the return of us looking to defend our season ending podium position from last season. The first car will be driven by returning drivers Kevin Ayers and Zach Stermhagen and they will be joined by CMS Endurance team newcomer Connor Webb.  The team will pilot the GT3 Corvette. The second car will be a new team together for the first time, anchored by CMS endurance team veterans Brian Blanchette and David Nelson.  They will be joined by Maximillian Putrfaki and KC O'Brien who joins the team after being with another entry last season. Liveries of both cars for the season opener at Road America are unveiled here for review:

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Julian Cecot wins CMS 25th Anniversary GT4 Rennsport Open Beta Championship

Congratulations to Julian Cecot for winning the Champion Motorsports, 25th anniversary , Rennsport Open Beta celebration league. As part of 25 great years of simracing we have been hosting various special events and series across the community and thanks to the Rennsport team they were able to setup a really fun series for us with GT4 cars both Audi and BMW at four great tracks for us to experience the new sim in development and have something special to offer our new and existing members. The winners of each race were as follows, with Cecot separating himself from the others with two wins at Fuji and Nürburgring. Gael Valero - Hockenheim Julian Cecot - Fuji Ali Zaher - Monza Julian Cecot - Nürburgring GP For his accomplishment he received the following trophy in memory of the 25th anniversary league Championship. Final standings of the series top 10 Some fun > more

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CMS announces Rennsport Open Beta League for our 25th Anniversary Celebration

Champion Motorsports, one of the largest simracing communities in the world, with nearly 4000 members, is celebrating our 25th anniversary this year. We are excited to offer a four race season to celebrate with the new Open Beta of Rennsport. We will be racing the GT4 cars at four iconic tracks and will crown a Champion. CMS will award a trophy to the winner that participates in the Championship and is also a member of the CMS discord. The season will begin with the first race at Hockenheim on August 25th at 18:00 CEST and will conclude on September 15th at Nürburgring. We hope that many of you will join us and celebrate this great new sim and our community's 25th year. For more information we will post updates here and also have a landing page on our website soon at https://cmsracing.com and on our discord at https://discord.gg/cmsracing ... > more

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Champion Motorsports and MasterWerks Agency Partner at PCA Lemans 24 Hours in Support of American Cancer Society

June 26th, 2024 We are very excited to announce that the CMS endurance iRacing team is racing this weekend in the Porsche Club of America in a very special event for 24 hours. We will have two Porsche GT3 cars entered. We'd like to encourage all of our members to check in and view the broadcast on Race Spot TV and also consider making a small donation to our chosen charity American Cancer Society. I am also super excited to announce our sponsorship with my dear friend Mike Tyler and his organization who is the CEO of MasterWerks Agency for an amazing event and cause. Check out all the links and come watch us MasterWerks Agency Press Release Click here to Donate!!!! Broadcast Links from Race Spot TV https://youtube.com/live/8EInp2yklpY?feature=share https://youtube.com/live/oGu7LxOvWNY?feature=share https://youtube.com/live/ENJGHKrJTio?feature=share https://youtube.com/live/SnZb2L-hqlo?feature=share

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Afonso Souto Takes the Feature Win in 2024 Porsche Cup Season Opener at Spa

Story by Afonso Souto Images by David Anderson January 30th, 2024 - The first round of the 2024 CMS iRTES Cup Series is done and we had a fun and fiesty one at Spa-Francorchamps. This year's championship brought a new format with a random grid order for the first race of the day. This contributed to an action packed first race. With a car missing the start, we had chaos down into the first corner. Paul Darling took advantage of the confusion and rocketed into the lead, where he stayed the rest of the race. That meant the the 56 Porsche got pole position for the longer 45 minute race. This time around, the grid got through La Source cleanly but that doesn't mean that there was no action. The fight for the lead was on, Paul Darling, Chad Henson and Afonso Souto, all battling. A mistake from the > more

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iRTES Puts on a Fast and Furious show at Jerez in 2024 RD 2

Story by Afonso Souto Images by David Anderson January 18th, 2024 - And just like that another round of the iRTES is done and dusted. It was a crazy one, a lot of overtaking, lapping, incidents, crashes, all of that producing a great spectacle for everyone watching. In the LMDh Pro once again it's the #65 Satellite Racing Teal car who took honors in this class after a dominant performance once again winning by almost 42s over their sister car. After the second dominant performance of the season they come closer to the overall title at the end of the season. Satellite Racing Teals grabs the win at Jerez in LMDh Pro (above) LMDh AM produced some great action as always and through the chaos it was the #116 Acura who came out on top and after this result Sim Republic have moved up to third place in the > more

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iRTES Round 2, Jerez Race Preview

Story by Alonso Souto and David Anderson Image by Michael Huper January 4th, 2024 iRTES Jerez Preview For the second round of the iRTES the grid heads to the south of Spain. Near Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera is a 4.4km (2.75 miles) long FIA grade 1 track with 15 corners and two straights, which constitute the best overtaking chances on this layout. Founded in 1985 the spanish track has a great history, hosting F1 racing from 1986 to 1990 and two extra races in 1994 and 1997 with the fastest circuit lap being set in this last year by Heinz-Harald Fretzen (Williams-Renault) a 1:23.135. In recent years plays host to MotoGP and it's a regular on the calendar. It is a very technical track with tricky sections and it will be a difficult challenge for the drivers. The nature of the track will require the best of every > more

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Champion Motorsports iRTES 2024 Series Hosts Record Field at Daytona to kick off 2024 Season

Story and Images by David Anderson December 12th, 2023 - The 2024 Champion Motorsports iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES) is underway for our fourth consecutive season and we could not have gotten off to a more exciting and big start with 57 cars gridded at Daytona International Raceway for race 1 of the 6 race Championship. A thrilling race at Daytona broadcast by Apex Simracing TV and sponsored by Penguin r/c Simulation and simrace247.com did not disappoint with great on track action throughout. Taking top honors in the race overall was the Satellite Racing Teal team.  This season Satellite is back in the series full-time after a break in 2023.  They will be fielding 2 cars and look to reclaim their position on top of the Championship. Having won the 2021 and 2022 Championships in the top class the team picked up right where they left on in seasons > more

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Penguin r/c Simulation returns at iRTES Title Sponsor for 2024 season

We are extremely excited to announce $1500 of prizes in sponsorship from Penguin r/c Simulation for the 2024 CMS iRTES Series. We are even more excited that this marks the 4th consecutive season with Penguin r/c Simulation as our title sponsor for the series. Note, all entries in iRTES are REQUIRED to run the sponsor windshield banners and number plates as provided in your liveries. That is the number 1 way we help our amazing sponsor get exposure on our broadcast and events. If you have any issues or questions with how to apply the decal set to your paint please let us know well before the first race of the season on 12/10/2023. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Penguin r/c Sponsorship for the irTES Series - Per Class: Prizes per Class Overall (LMDh Pro, LMDh Am, GT3 Pro, GT3 Am) - (Total package Value $1500.00) 1st Place Championship - $200.00 Credit toward > more

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Champion Motorsports Endurance Team Wins VSCA GT3 Championship in 2023

Story and Images by David Anderson October 9th, 2023 - Congratulations to the Champion Motorsports iRacing Endurance team and our GT3 entry driven by David Anderson, Marc Johnson, Brett Stephens, JT Tami, Marc Nistor, and Brian Blanchette for their amazing accomplishment as the 2023 Champions in the iRacing VSCA Series.  A Top notch esports series and our team had an amazing and consistent year from beginning to end. Championship Graphic from VSCA Credit Benjamin Fisher (above) Also a special congratulations to Marc Johnson on the team for winning the overall Drivers Championship as well and earning rights as the MVP for our team this year!  Great job Marc! The team also won the Sprint Cup Championship as well which is a sub championship to overall for the season.  In addition to these accomplishments our Pro Team in LMDh category of Michael Parker, JT Tami, Cameron Barker, and Thomas Fisher > more

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Miguel Colon and David Anderson iRacing Truck Series Season 1 Champions

Story by David Anderson Images by David Anderson and Mike Tyler October 9th, 2023 - Champion Motorsports would like to congratulate Miguel Colon and David Anderson as our Series Champions for the 2023 iRacing Summer / Fall Truck Series!  CMS returned to it's roots with a very fun and successful Friday night Truck Series in the trucks and these two drivers had amazing seasons to take down the hardware! First up Miguel, our overall Champion with Three wins on the season and a slew of top five finishes put him on top!  Miguel drove hard and fast every round and showed that he is a Champion on any discipline of racing, backing up his earlier Porsche Cup Championship at CMS with the new Truck Hardware. Miguel Colon above on his Championship Drive at Pocono in the series For his accomplishments Miguel received this amazing trophy: Next up David Anderson.  > more

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Kyle Smith Wins CMS Truck Series Opener at Texas Motor Speedway

Story and Images by David Anderson July 1st, 2023 - Congratulations to Kyle Smith for this great win at the 1st race of the 2023 Summer iRacing Truck Series sponsored by Champion Motorsports.  Kyle had a great truck all night in the Texas Summer Heat to hold off strong competition from Scott Kennedy, Josue Ramirez, Thomas Fisher and others in what was a thrilling race. Kyle Smith (above) takes the checkers in our first race of the season at TMS The race featured a very long green flag run with green flag pit stops to start the race, as well as a 2nd set of green flag pitstops that ensued.  Doug Betts qualified on the pole, but had some issues on the start of the race that race control had to clear, which allowed Thomas Fisher, Ramirez, and Smith to battle along with Scott Kennedy and Stephen Knight as > more

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CMS iRTES Series lights up Twin Ring Motegi with another Great Race!

Story and Images by David Anderson June 27th, 2023 - The Champion Motorsports iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES) raced at Twin Ring Motegi for the first time in our three year history this past weekend and the track and event did not disappoint as we had a great race and some excellent challenges thrown at the field from the hidden gem of  circuit in the Asia Pacific Region. Thirty-one cars to the grid for this contest as we have officially entered the 2nd half of our season and it's time to make strides for key positions and championship runs in all the classes. In the Prototype LMDh category RD Simsport takes their first win of the season and the fourth different winner in as many races in the class. We learned from the season opener at Daytona that this particular class would be hotly contested all season and that > more

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Michael Parker Takes 3rd win of 2023 iRTES Porsche Cup Series

Story and Images by David Anderson June 11th, 2023 The iRacing Team Endurance Series Porsche Cup Series brought to you by Champion Motorsports and Penguin r/c Simulation took to the Twin Ring Motegi today for a great race for round 5 of the 8 race championship. A field of 15 drivers came into the race, with an exciting points battle up top with Michael Parker narrowly leading Tristan Martz and Brian Szabelski through 4 rounds. Parker would benefit from Miguel Colon having trouble early in the race to take the lead away from Miguel and polesitter Shane Hunter and he would never look back leading all the laps. However it was not without serious stress towards the end of the race as for the 2nd race this season he had big pressure from behind from a charging Blake Reynolds. It looked as if Blake would chase down Parker as > more

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Penguin, Tempest and RD all Winners at iRTES Lemans

Story and Images by David Anderson June 11th, 2023 - The latest round of the iRacing Team Endurance Series (iRTES) hosted by Penguin R/C simulation and Champion Motorsports, visited Lemans for an iconic race at the halfway point of the season. This circuit and track (especially this time of year) is looked forward to around the world by many fans, drivers, and teams, and our series was certainly no exception as everyone had this one marked on the calendar with Excitement. A clean race throughout saw the Penguin r/c sponsored Pro team take the overall win in the LMDh category their first win of the season and 2nd podium in three races, putting them squarely in the Championship battle now moving into the halfway point of the season with three round remaining. pictured above the LMDh Penguin r/c simulation team taking a victory lap after the overall win next > more

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