iRacing.com has just completed the deployment of a new version of the new iRacing.com UI preview and Time Attack application.
This deployment included a host of new features, bug fixes, and other updates to the new iRacing.com UI preview application.
Remember, you can access the new iRacing.com UI, including the Time Attack race mode, by clicking on the “Time Attack” page on the membersite, and then clicking on the blue “Launch Time Attack Now!” button.
Thank you all very much for the feedback you have been providing, as it helps make the experience better for everyone. Please continue to use the new iRacing.com UI, and continue to send us your feedback!
NEW IRACING.COM UI PREVIEW & TIME ATTACK CHANGE LOG:
General
– The lowest license class for the “Minimum License Requirement” option is now a “Class C 4.0” license.
– Lap Count has been added as a label to Sessions.
– The Race Results banner that appears at the bottom of the UI shortly after a session has been removed. Instead, a new icon for Recent Race Results will now appear in the UI header when new Race Results are available.
– Using the new iRacing.com UI on a 5:4 monitor should now scale the content of the UI to fit better.
– When using a VR device, background images are now opaque, making it easier to look at UI elements.
– With a VR scale value greater than 1x, the Register button should no longer be off the screen.
– Withdrawing from sessions and joining sessions has been made smarter.
– Fixed an issue with double-clicking on the “Withdraw” button.
– When using the 24-hour clock format, AM and PM should no longer appear.
– When using Group view, re-sizing the window should no longer break the columns of events.
– Fixed an issue that could be caused by changing which license type you choose to display at the top of the screen.
– Whatever is selected for updating in the new iRacing.com UI content update window will now be selected for updating when the Classic Membersite updater appears, instead of everything always being selected.
– Fixed an issue with the Withdraw pop-up window re-appearing after Withdrawing was complete.
– The clock now correctly displays when the time-zone is set to GMT.
– The “Send Us Feedback” tab menu should now appear over all pop-up menus.
Test Drive
– When creating a Test Drive Session, users can now switch to the card-view in car selection and track selection.
– When creating a Test Drive Session, cars and track with multiple configurations should no longer cause buggy behavior when they are selected.
– The Reset button in Test Drive will successfully reset choices.
– When creating a Test Drive Session, using the “Reset Weather Conditions” button now resets both the adjustable scrub bar and the number value; previously, only the scrub bar was reset.
Series Racing
– For Official Series, additional tags have been added including: HOT, NASCAR, IndyCar, and IMSA.
– For Official Series, Practice Sessions will now display the time since the session started, instead of how long is remaining, in the List view format.
– When viewing a Series Schedule, race length can now be seen in both laps and minutes.
– A Test Drive button has been added to the Series Session modal menu that will launch a Test Drive Session using the car and track from the Series Session.
– Fixed an issue with MPR filtering for Official Sessions where it was incorrectly filtering out sessions that are equal to your MPR in addition to sessions that are above your MPR.
– This build version includes new Series Racing Results code in a state of mild flux, which may be unstable. Rest assured, your race results are still being recorded correctly, and can be viewed using the Classic Membersite without issue.
Hosted Racing
– When creating a Hosted Session, users can now switch to the card-view in car selection and track selection.
– When a Hosted Session you had joined via list-view is completed, you should now come back to the new iRacing.com UI on the Hosted Sessions page.
– When creating a Hosted Session with a time value beyond 23:59, the value should now be able to exceed 24:00, instead of looping back to 00:00.
– When creating a Hosted Session, using the “Reset Weather Conditions” button now resets both the adjustable scrub bar and the number value; previously, only the scrub bar was reset.
– When creating a Hosted Session, cars and track with multiple configurations should no longer cause buggy behavior when they are selected.
– When viewing multiple pages of available Hosted Sessions, the page navigation arrow buttons should now work properly.
– This build version includes new Hosted Racing Results code in a state of mild flux, which may be unstable. Rest assured, your race results are still being recorded correctly, and can be viewed using the Classic Membersite without issue.
Time Attack
– The Time Attack results modal will now always show a Back button for active competitions, which will return the user to the available Sessions for currently active competitions.
– The filter icon for Time Attack is now a filter icon, not a gear.
– Time Attack results display has been improved.
– When viewing Time Attack standings, the “My Relative Standings” dropdown menu should now work properly with repeated use.
– Fixed an issue where the Relative Times menu in Time Attack would show a lap recorded at an incorrect date.
– In TA Ranking screen, the highlights and tooltips for the navigation arrow buttons should now only appear when the mouse is hovering over the button, and disappear when it is no longer hovering over the button.
– All times in the Time Attack section of the UI being displayed are now actively updated based on which global time zone preference and clock format (ie: GMT or EST, etc. and 12hr or 24hr clock) you have selected from the clock in the new iRacing.com UI header.
– When viewing Time Attack Results, and hovering the mouse over the “REF” car icon for a player on any page other than the first page, the tooltip should now correctly display that driver’s name, instead of the driver’s names in that same table row from page 1.
– Time Attack card-view should now use the proper “track/tracks” English.
