![]() All but 3 tracks of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will be in the service by the end of the month (Kansas, California, and Kentucky are not in yet). With these cars new tracks will also be coming out. Later this year iRacing will replace the Advanced Legend with a Street Stock (will be free) that Dale Jr. The new Williams F1 will be great, along with that we are getting a right and left hand drive Mazda MX-5 Miata (will be free) which will replace the Solstice as the rookie car on the road side. Īlong with all of these cool little things, iRacing has kept improving the service, and membership has grown to over 9000 active drivers a month, and over 20000 total members. These are also recorded and can be seen here, along with some World Tour Events, and the Intel GP Series. Broadcasts of the top series, known to members as the DWC (Driver World Championships) have also been great to watch and see the drama unfold live. Both offer race reports and series reports through the seasons. IRacingTV and are a few new media sites iRacing has added to give members and people outside the service news and updates about the service. Even though I didnt finish in the top 3 of the Mustangs within my race, it still felt good to finish all 2 hours without a spin or any contact from another car. By the end of the race, the endurance part started to kick in, at least for me, my focus was lost and started making slight mistakes with braking zones. The Vettes wouldnt force any issues, and the Mustangs would hold their lines to be more predictable for the faster cars. This was just an amazing event with the Vettes running 20 secs faster than the Mustang, all the Mustangs were racing against each other while watching the mirrors for Vettes who seemed to find you at all the wrong spots, but it was clean and very smart driving. A two hour event placing the Corvette and Mustang in a mixed class race. The final WT event I ran was the Petit Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, which took place yesterday. The nerves just somehow got to me knowing a brush with the wall would end my attempt and I would have to wait 2 more hours until the next session. Working hours and hours trying to find the speed over a 4 lap average run was a lot of fun, and a lot of work, and it never failed that when I would go into an official Q, I never could back up my fastest practice time. Everyone outside of the top 33 still got to race the Indy 500 but the top (fastest) split was broadcast and where all the glory was. The second WT event I did was the Indy 500, I didnt actually race due to computer issues, but for a week I qualified trying to make the top 33 to get into the “main event”. They also did the Daytona 500 and other NASCAR events through the year, but I did not take part in those. ![]() The race was a lot of fun, and the first single driver endurance race in iRacing. The first one I ran was the 2.4 hours of Daytona, racing the Riley Daytona Prototype. ![]() The World Tour events have been great fun. Not only does the content keep expanding, but the cool little things like the World Tour, iRacingTV,, along with the broadcasts of the top series for both road and oval. The constant growth of iRacing is what has kept me around this long, and will continue to do so over the next however many years. Im sure other OS'ers who are members can also add their thoughts. If you have any questions feel free to ask, I really cant review every aspect of the sim off the top of my head, so this is just an overview of some new things that have come about. The biggest expansion has been the Williams 2009 F1 car, which will be coming out in a few weeks and should offer some crazy races for all of the members through the next few years. (338 oval, 140 road) So far over the last two years iRacing has continued to grow and expand its racing, and is now reaching out around the world bringing us some of the best tracks outside of North America. I have been a member of iRacing for a little over two years now, with 478 official races under my belt.
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