The latest iRacing news, service updates, and official announcements. This section covers new content releases, patch notes, schedule changes, and anything published by iRacing or the community that iRacing players need to know.
The 120 Minutes of Thunder at WGI presented by Inside Sim Racing TV is back! The event is coming right up so take a look at the details below: Event Date: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 Race Start Time: 22:00 UTC US Server Time Zone Conversions: Saturday – 3:00PM US PDT – 6:00 PM US EDT –…
Conti charged past early leader Alfalla en route to another win on The Magic Mile. by Jason Lofing on August 7th, 2013 Michael Conti scored his second victory of the 2013 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship season, taking the checkered flag at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the site of his first career victory in the series…
Here’s a look at the upcoming Ruf RT12 R currently in production by iRacing. iRacing’s Greg Hill says that great progress has been made on the car. The graphics are pretty much done and iRacing is working hard to finalize the physics. No word when we will see this car released, could be in Season…
This video is a test of iRacing using Oculus Rift VR. HDTanel is testing the Cadillac CTS-V at Silverstone while using the headset. The video is in Estonian, but the video is fantastic itself. iRacing added peliminary support for the Oculus Rift VR Headset Development Kit in the most resent software update on July 27th….
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has officially completed its first ever race on dirt. And that race was a major success. Fans are still talking about Eldora and how great of a race it really was from start to finish. Race fans everywhere wonder if NASCAR will bring its Nationwide Series or even it’s…
Written by Tony Gardener Here are some of the bigger things currently in development without timing or priorities. Our priorities can change at any time. This is simply a list to give members a rough idea what is currently in the works. The Steve Myers car herder blog discussed much of these things below. This…
iRacerstuff.com will host the 2013 iRacerstuff.com Daytona 300 on Thursday, February 21st beginning at 8:00pm ET. The race is set for 120 laps using the Chevrolet Impala (Class B) at Daytona International Speedway. Qualifying will be a standard best of two green flag laps and will run for three days prior to the race, Monday…
iRacerstuff.com will host the 2013 iRacerstuff.com Daytona 250 on Saturday, February 23rd beginning at 8:00pm ET. The race is set for 100 laps using the Chevrolet Silverado at Daytona International Speedway (Night). Qualifying will be a standard best of two green flag laps and will run for three days prior to the race, Sunday through…
Description of Series: This iRacing official series to follow the weekly Sprint Cup Track Schedule racing the new Gen-6 cars for the entire Sprint Cup season. Objective: A new, special event style official series aimed at providing fun and competitive NASCAR racing for every license level except the rookie license level. This series also intended to have…
iRacing will host the 2013 iRacing.com Daytona 500 on Friday, February 22nd and Saturday, February 23rd. This year’s race is set for 200 laps using the Chevrolet Impala (Class A) at Daytona International Speedway. Changes to qualifying procedures this year as there will be only one qualifying session, it will begin 15-minutes prior to race…
Written by Steve Myers, iRacing.com. Monday morning after the Super Bowl is always an interesting day. I always kind of feel like I fought someone and I didn’t come out the winner. All the crappy food I ate all night comes back to haunt me like 12 rounds of solid body shots from a heavy…
iRacing is busy working with the new Sprint Cup Series car that is coming to NASCAR in 2013. The car is so new, iRacing is building them in lock-step as the data becomes available to real-world teams for testing. The current goal is to have the car available starting March 5th, which is 4 weeks…
Single Car Qualifying: Kevin Bobbitt posted, “We are aware of the multi-class drafting complaints and are working on adjusting how the 0X and 2X contacts affect qualifying laps. Nothing will be done in time for the season rollover tonight (and the start of qualifying for this event) however. Because something could possibly change after qualifying…
ADDED: Printable one-page version of the 2013 Season 1 Schedules. Both versions were put together very fast, please use the feedback section at the bottom of this page if you find any errors. • 2013 Season 1 OVAL Schedule – Updated 1/21 – 1:49pm ET • 2013 Season 1 ROAD Schedule – Updated 1/21 – 4:41pm ET 2013 Season 1…
Week 13 is upon us once again, beginning Monday at 8:00pm EST. Much like previous seasons, iRacing will hold two official series and several fun series to run during the week. iRacing runs official series racing as 12 week segments. Following the 12th week of racing, iRacing takes one week “off”, to allow for major…
iRacing has confirmed that Interlagos will finally be released, included in the new build coming sometime next week. iRacing finally secured a license to scan the track, then scheduled to scan this track back in the spring, but the scanning equipment was confiscated by Brazillian customs for months at the airport. After a lot of…
A huge step forward with paint schemes will arrive in next week’s new iRacing build that will change the way we download paint schemes forever. Trading Paints is a service that allows iRacing members to upload and download paint schemes for iRacing. Drivers can upload all of their different paint schemes for any/all of their…
We’re nearing that time again, just a few weeks left until Week 13. That means iRacing will release the next “major” build, probably sometime next week. Here’s a look at some of the things I think we will and will not see in the next build. It seems iRacing is slowly working toward more animation…
iRacerstuff.com has completed a major overhaul in design and content for 2012. This is the first major change for iRacerstuff.com since it’s initial launch back in July of 2009. The new version of the website has been completely rebuilt from the ground up, using a new system. Many new pages and areas for new content…
The new build for iRacing is just around the corner. Unofficially, the new build is slated for next week during week 13. Sources say iRacing plans to release the build as early as Tuesday of next week, or on Wednesday. There aren’t a lot of confirmed details so far, but this is what we do…