FBR Motorsports is pleased to announce the running of the twin 125’s at Daytona on Friday February 12th for our VHR 2010 COT premier league drivers. The drivers will be split into two groups commencing at 06:30 pm EST with the first group of drivers, practice will be fifteen minutes each followed by qualifying brief drivers meeting and the race. FBR admins are encouraging our drivers to attend this event and it will not effect your starting position for the opening race on Saturday. This is a fun event and team speak rules will be waived for this run. There will be a post in our league forum entitled VHR COT Twin 125 indicating which race you will run in. If you are assigned to run in the second race we encourage you to join as a spectator so you may watch the race and like wise for the second. If you have signed up and do not see your name on the list it will be added as your application process is completed. Standard rules will apply for the race. Mark the calendar and clear the schedule so you won’t miss this one as this reporter is excited to see the action and strategies that these type of races produce. As always drivers be sure to check the forums for updates and announcements for the upcoming 2010 season.

If you are new this season to FBR Motorsports and haven't talked to Wally about your car number you need to see him before Daytona. Even if another admin assigned you a number you must talk to Wally to make sure you are properly entered into our scoring system. This also goes for drivers who want or have new car numbers. Make sure Wally has the info on that or any profile name changes in VHR. These are critical for scoring.

Another exciting change for this year is Teamspeak 3. We are now using this voice chat program. The sound is clear and sharp. The new features are numerous. Please get it before we go racing if you haven't already done so. We still have the old Teamspeak if you need help setting up Teamspeak3. By the way, no registration is required on your part anymore! The IP address for TS3 is 207.179.246.207:9987. You can also enter through the webpage.

We have scheduled all 36 races this season to follow the Sprint Cup schedule as closely as possible. Most are on Saturday. Due to Saturday evening conflicts with NASCAR races and holidays, we are not always able to run the same track they do that week. There are three Friday nights and one Sunday scheduled. They are tentative and could be changed as these dates arrive. The holidays are free and there are four off weekends.

Drivers are allowed four personal skins. This does NOT include those already in the mod. The first skin pack will be released sometime this weekend, with another to follow the following weekend. A final update to the pack will be made available the day before our Daytona event. Get those skins in ASAP!!

Blast from the past: After digging through the FBR archives I stumbled across a video from many moons ago featuring one of our drivers here at FBR, this was a video created by our own Larry Edmission featuring Butch Davis in a very special paint scheme with the sim that started it all NASCAR Racing 2003.

Click here to view and enjoy.

As always this is your FBR Motorsports reporter Mark Page reminding you to Drive fast and keep it off the wall.

FBR Motorsports 2010 VHR COT premier series action kicks off Saturday February thirteenth at the high banks of Daytona. The action starts with practice commencing at 06:30 pm est. so mark you calendar and clear the schedule drivers as the FBR Motorsports Admins have been hard at work finalizing the 2010 season.

FBR Motorsports has been aggressively recruiting drivers with our recruiter server open for prospective drivers so come on out and join us our team speak is available no password required and our admins will be happy to assist in any way they can. Speaking of drivers our 2010 league is shaping up and our roster can be found by clicking here. You may recognize some of those names as we have many returning drivers from our 2009 season. Our signup can be found by clicking apply here at the top of the page.

Our FBR admins have been hard at work with the 2010 series and is pleased to announce the following for the VHR 2010 COT premier league:

Practice 06:30 pm est.

Race starts 7:45 pm with a 15 min grace period.

Full 36 race schedule

40% distance

2X – fuel

40% damage

1X – tire wear

Full flags

Fixed setup with some changes to the ability to tweak the setup such as gears, down force front & rear and tape along with the adjustments that were allowed last season.Four skins will be allowed per driver.Points scoring will be different this year and we will use points that take your best 27 races and your last nine as replacements for your worst nine races. This will be posted in the forum and explained at our first driver meeting. FBR Motorsports admins encourage all league drivers to frequent the league forums for announcements and updates and our admins can be reached by private message or on team speak for any questions our drivers may have. FBR looks forward to our upcoming season and welcome back our returning drivers and our new drivers.

FBR admins are also working on a separate project for a possible other series which is yet to be determined so stop by for upcoming news on this exciting new project. Our paint department is also hard at work to bring you the finest in skins for VHR and N2K3, visit our download section as they become available.

As the season approaches our admins and drivers are busy testing setups and the VHR mod to bring you the finest in sim racing and FBR would also like to thank Corvette Dave Schnare and all the behind the scenes people that made VHR possible, their hard work and dedication to the sim community is appreciated and FBR is also proud to have Dave as a regular driver in our series. This is your FBR Motorsports reporter Mark Page reminding you to Drive fast and keep it off the wall. 

This week FBR Motorsports is showcasing some of the talented work our painters are producing here at FBR. All of our skins are available in our download section and unlike some websites you do not need to be a member to download. Our painters are hard at work bringing you outstanding work within the sim community. Highlighted below are renders from the likes of DaleJrFan, Ron Fox, Neil Messer and Zman. We also regret the loss of Jon who produced some awesome late models for the N2K3 and has developed his own web site and his work can now be found here: http://stconnection.ucoz.com/ at the short track connection, we wish Jon well with his site and encourage you to visit his web site for some great skins.

             86 Five guys Dodge by DaleJrFan

           9 Casey Elliott late model by Ron Fox

           24 Megatron Chevrolet by Zman

            29 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet by Neil Messr

FBR Motorsports is continuing to develop its league for the 2010 season and some announcements are expected next week. FBR will continue hosting fun runs on Saturday evenings at 06:30 pm EST and hope you will join us as we try and relieve some of the cabin fever that goes along with winter.

As we anticipate the release of VHR 2010 FBR will be testing and developing for the 2010 season so watch the forums for planned test sessions in the weeks to come.

Need a place to race in a league? Tired of the open servers where you know your race will end in a wreak? Then look no further our drivers are professionals with many years of racing experience FBR is always excepting qualified league drivers and is excepting applicants for our 2010 VHR COT premier series, sign up today by clicking the apply here link at the top of the page.

The press box has learned that there is a rumor spreading that FBR may be hosting a rookie league for 2010 but we will have to wait and see in the coming weeks. Our admins are hard at work getting things ready and this reporter is keeping a close eye on the news as it becomes available, so stay tuned visit often and by all means become a member of the fastest growing league in the sim community. This is your FBR Motorsports reporter Mark Page reminding you to Drive fast and keep it off the wall.

                      Larry Gavel 96 Academy Sports Ford

 FBR Motorsports invaded Lowe’s Motor Speedway for the final race of the season and the crowning of our VHR COT series champion. Larry Gavel driving the 96 Academy Sports Ford took the checkers while FBR’s own Butch Davis took the crown of champion for the 2009 season. Ron (The Sly) Fox in the 31 Zerox Chevrolet was second with Mark Page piloting the 17 R&L Carriers Ford finished a close third, Wally Wanderpoole 33 Coast Guard Chevrolet was fourth and Halford Moore in the 9 Budweiser Dodge rounded out the top 5. Once again the hard charger award goes to all drivers for making the final race exciting for the fans.

Our champion Butch Davis took the pole with a time of 29.9 and Wally Wanderpoole made up the front row.

Thirteen FBR league drivers took the green flag for 160 laps of fast side by side racing at Lowe’s and when the green flag fell it was Butch Davis with the lead with Wally Wanderpoole, 1Bad, Wrenn (Redneck) Jones respectively but soon shapes up as a three way fight for the top spot between Davis, Wanderpoole and 1Bad. Caution one lap 4 as Halford Moore, Michael Born and Ron (The Sly) Fox get together coming out of turn two. First round of pit stops saw 1Bad out first followed by Wanderpoole, Jones, Larry Gavel and Butch Davis rounded out the top five. At the restart it was 1Bad, Wanderpoole, Jones, Born and Gavel for the top spot as Davis slips back on the restart but it soon became a race between 1Bad, Wanderpoole, Jones and Davis. Lap nineteen caution two after our Champ is involved in a spin coming out of turn one which bought the field in for a second round of pit stops with Michael Born winning the race off pit road followed by Jones, Davis, Gavel and Halford Moore. On the restart it wasn’t long before Wally Wanderpoole took the lead from Born but lap 28 saw caution three when Steve Fawley spun on the back stretch and another round of pit stops ensued but Michael Born takes the gamble and stays out for the lead as Wanderpoole, 1Bad, Moore and Page make up the top five. The gamble didn’t payoff for Born as 1Bad takes the lead with Wanderpoole and Jones close behind. Lap 41 caution three as Page and Born get together coming out of turn four but on the restart our champion Butch Davis looses the engine and is forced to retire with a tenth place finish this bought out the fourth and final caution of the race. Fast forward lap 96 after leading many laps and making it look like a Sunday drive our leader Wally Wanderpoole goes a lap down to Larry Gavel which setup the win for Gavel with a 24.67 margin of victory. The battle for second became the race at the end between Ron (The Sly) Fox and Mark Page as the two battled for several laps as Fox out foxed Page trying a pass in the grass on the final lap.

               Butch Davis 43 Valvoline Dodge

FBR Motorsports congratulates our Champion Butch Davis and our top ten point’s drivers for an outstanding season. Butch Davis had an awesome season with eight wins, 570 laps lead, eleven top fives and twelve top tens. Second place goes to Halford Moore with one win 278 laps lead, nine top fives and twelve top tens. Wally Wanderpoole moved up two to take third place with no wins, 106 laps lead, six top fives and nine top tens. Forth through tenth are: Michael Born, Ron Fox, Mike Norris, Larry Gavel, Mark Mattingly, Neil Messer and Sydney Thomas.

FBR Motorsports would like to thank all our drivers for making 2009 season a success but a special thank you goes out to Wally Wanderpoole, Wrenn (Redneck) Jones, Neil Messer, Larry Edmission, Butch Davis, Ron (The Sly) Fox and Michael Born for the hard work and dedication to the sport of sim racing and the community.

FBR Motorsports family would also like to wish our drivers, admins, painters and their family’s a very Merry Christmas this holiday season.

As silly season is now upon us don’t believe for a minute that the admins here at FBR are resting as the anticipated 2010 version of VHR is due to be released in January we will be actively testing throughout the off season in order to make the racing here at FBR the best in the sim community. Watch the forums closely for upcoming announcements on next year’s season and some special events, plus setup testing sessions. Rumor has it in the garage that there may be some number swaps for next year and the press box will be keeping a close eye on that story. So my friends this is FBR Motorsports reporter Mark Page reminding you to drive fast and keep it off the wall.

                                                #39 Transformers Chevrolet by ZMAN

Check out the latest FBR Motorsports VHR custom paint by ZMAN now available for downloading in our download section along with other great paints by Butch Davis, Neil Messer and Ron Fox.