Anyone that has been simracing for a while will have either played around with tuning options, or found somewhere to provide them. And one of the most popular options will be ending their service soon, as Craig's Setup Shop will close in December 2024. Founder Craig A Williams announced that operations will end when iRacing Season 4, 2024 comes to a conclusion. It marks the … [Read more...]
The iRacing Black Friday 2024 Sale Is Live Until December
The annual opportunity to save on subscriptions has arrived, as the iRacing Black Friday 2024 Sale is live until December 2nd. You can save on new memberships, reactivating an expired account, or extending your current access. If you're currently an active iRacing member, you can buy 12 or 24 months now, and the time will be added onto your current subscription. So it's a … [Read more...]
ExoCross Update 2024.8.28.0 Released
There are a small list of tweaks and changes now available in-game with ExoCross Update 2024.8.28.0 released for the futuristic off-road PC racing game. It's the second update to arrive, following 2024.7.30.0 which arrived back in July shortly after the game was initially launched. The most notable improvements inclde fixing track boundary exploits and the AI to player car … [Read more...]
ExoCross Launches On PC and Consoles
The futuristic off-road arcade racing game published by iRacing has officially arrived as ExoCross launches on PC and consoles. Although Xbox owners will have to wait a few days due to the submission process being held up by the global CrowdStrike IT outage last week. And the PC version has already been available for some time in Early Access under the former title of DRAG … [Read more...]
iRacing Arcade Announced With Circuit Superstars Devs
The rapid expansion of the iRacing game portolio continues, with iRacing Arcade announced as part of a new partnership with Circuit Superstars and Karting Superstars developers Original Fire Games. We've regularly featured the work of the family-led dev studio since Circuit Superstars was first announced as part of Square Enix indie publishing efforts. And now they'll be … [Read more...]
iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 4 Hotfix 1 Released
A global bug causing phantom collisions (often referred to as netcode contacts by sim racers) will hopefully be fixed with iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 4 Hotfix 1 released. Netcode refers to an issue with all online games, where the time it takes for your PC or console to communicate with the servers can mean your position or that of other cars is different to what's on your … [Read more...]
iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 4 Released
The art and textures of the NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen cars has been updated to match the new season with iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 4 released. Not only does the real world Cup Series kicking off on Sunday 4th February at the LA Memorial Coliseum for the pre-season exhibition race, but the revamped eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series starts on January 30th, 2024 at Daytona … [Read more...]
2024 iRacing Daytona 24 Winners and Statistics
It's one of the biggest endurance events in sim racing, and the 2024 iRacing Daytona 24 winners and statistics demonstrate an impressive start to the year. In the top split, the GTP victory went to Atte Kaupinen, Moreno Sirica, INDYCAR driver Agustin Canapine and Carl E Jansson in the #6 Williams Esports Playseat, winning by 6.375 seconds after 24 hours of racing. The #69 … [Read more...]
iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 3 Released
Ahead of the special events season kicking off this weekend with the ROAR, we've seen 2024 Season 1 Patch 3 released, which includes updates to the Daytona International Speedway. It's a relatively small update in total, with 269MB for the entire download if you select everything The Daytona Road Course gets adjustments to checkpoints for penalties, along with tyre stacks … [Read more...]
iRacing Cuts Connection To The Member Site on Jan 16 2024
Sim racers will need to use the new User Interface for more of their admin and race hosting as iRacing cuts connection to the Member Site on Jan 16 2024. While the 'Legacy Membersite' will still be available, and usable for account management, the iRacing Store and Gift Cards, Stats and Race Results, the connection to the actual Simulator is being ended. It was originally … [Read more...]
iRacing and Indycar Sign A Multiyear Licensing Agreement
Things finally go back to normal, as iRacing and Indycar sign a multiyear licensing agreement which goes into effect immediately. This means the return of the iRacing Indianapolis 500, Indycar branding and events, and an extension to the license for the Indianpolis Motor Speedway. The two brands had worked together for more than a dozen years, and the Indy 500 was one of … [Read more...]
An ExoCross Progress Update For December 2023
Even if you're not familiar with the futuristic off-road game, there's an interesting nugget for all sim racing fans in the ExoCross progress update for December 2023. The PC and console title is heading towards release after the original indie developers Orontes were acquired by iRacing, and the name was changed from the original DRAG Outer Zones. It was planned for Autumn … [Read more...]
The 2023 iRacing Stats Show Some Impressive Numbers
With a total of 501,657,697 laps completed over the last 12 months, and 1,565,866 total events, the 2023 iRacing stats show some impressive numbers. Posted with a couple of days left in the year, there are some interesting insights from the figures shared by iRacing, including the number of unique drivers, and the proportion of ranked events versus those hosted by … [Read more...]
iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 2 Released
Christmas offers a chance for many of us to indulge our sim racing during some time off, and there are some new tweaks and improvements to download with iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 2 released. It's a fairly small update, coming in around 364MB, with the most notable changces being a tuning pass for the New Damage Model across the GTP, LMP2 and LMP3 classes. And some slightly … [Read more...]
The iRacing 2024 Season 1 Update Is Now Available
After a slight delay, the iRacing 2024 Season1 update is now available, with an 11.52GB download if you choose everything available. It adds the new Audi R8 LMS EVO II Gt3, Mugello, Slinger Speedway, a rework of Okayama, and the new damage model for 16 new car models, including the Audi. Mugello was originally opened in 1974 to replace road races in the area, and is mostly … [Read more...]