The BMW M SIM Cup pits iRacers from around the world against one another on legendary racetracks, competing behind the wheel of the BMW M Hybrid V8 GTP or BMW M4 GT3. This Sunday’s BMW M SIM Cup event sends racers to the famed Sebring International Raceway. Team up with another driver in this series of 120-minute, multi-class team races, and see if you have what it takes to stand on top of the podium! The BMW M SIM Cup is open to the entire iRacing community, with extra prizes available to those who qualify for the top split. Top…
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Want to push your car to the absolute limits on fuel at the end of any given race? iRacing’s all-new Auto Fuel option is your new best friend. Auto Fuel is a new tool for 2023 Season 2, enabled on many of iRacing’s most popular cars that regularly face pit stops, that takes data from your previous laps to estimate how much fuel you’ll need to make it to the finish based on your fuel consumption. When Auto Fuel is enabled, it’ll use a combination of car, track, race, and user data to determine how much fuel you need at…
It’s the moment you all wait for every quarter: the release of the latest iRacing build! 2023 Season 2 is here, and it comes with three new cars, a new track, tons of new AI unlocks new features, and much more. Here’s a quick look at some of what to expect from the new build: Late Model Stock: Used in the CARS Late Model Stock Tour, iRacing’s newest stock car comes straight from the championship-winning stable at JR Motorsports. Renault Clio R.S. V: Used around the world in the Renault Clio Cup, this fun, agile FWD machine carries the heritage of decades…
The Mercedes-AMG W13 E Performance will join all three of iRacing’s newest cars—the Ray FF1600, Renault Clio R.S. V, and Late Model Stock—and dozens of track configurations as AI-enabled content beginning with iRacing 2023 Season 2. Additional unlocks include the all-new Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto, remaining configurations for multiple Grand Prix tracks, and multiple NASCAR Cup Series venues. Just in time for the new Grand Prix season, the Mercedes-AMG W13 joins iRacing AI along with many current and former Grand Prix venues. Alongside Jerez, Circuit Park Zandvoort and Circuit Zolder will debut on AI with all of their configurations. In…
The past couple years of Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup competition haven’t always been kind to Oracle Red Bull Racing Esports driver Sebastian Job. After winning the 2020 series championship, Job’s luck has been a lot more up and down the past two years, with more than a dozen combined sprint and feature wins but enough DNFs to keep him from repeating. Saturday, though, was another positive, as he scored his first feature win of the young campaign by leading all 26 laps on the streets of Long Beach. It was anything but an easy win, though. By his own…
Looking forward to getting behind the wheel of our newest cars and tracks? The latest edition of iRacing Week 13 has you covered with all sorts of fun new weeklong championships! For our newest racers, iRacing Week 13 is our week between the four quarterly iRacing seasons where we debut new content, give our most serious racers a week to recharge between championships, and have some fun with a handful of out-of-the-box ideas. Here’s the full list of what to expect: New Content and Features Series* (*all start after build) 13th Week Shiny New Shakedown: Late Model Stock Car 13th…
Last year, Diogo Pinto earned one of the biggest prizes in sim racing when he took home the 2022 Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup championship in just his second year in the series. He leads the standings in that series through two rounds right now, but after Thursday night’s Skip Barber Formula iRacing Series finale at Road America, his year just got a whole lot busier. Entering the night with a single-point advantage over Harley Haughton, Pinto beat Haughton to the checkered flag in the first of two races on the night, qualifying first and leading five out of the…
The Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup season crosses the Atlantic Ocean for the first time this year on Saturday, with the streets of Long Beach having been chosen by fan vote to host the third round of the 2023 campaign. Live streaming of the iRacing series for top esports pros will kick off on Saturday at 19:00 GMT (2PM ET) via Porsche’s channels on YouTube and Twitch, while the All-Star series will directly precede it at 18:00 GMT (1PM ET). Last Race: PESC’s title favorites showed why they’re championship material throughout the action two weeks ago at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, making the…
Michael Conti has been a staple of the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series for more than a decade, scoring the 2014 championship and earning plenty of race wins along the way. When he announced earlier this year that the 2023 season would be his last, it didn’t just give him one more shot at that second title—it also left him with only one shot to score an eNASCAR win at a handful of tracks making their series debut for this year. The first of those was the Milwaukee Mile for Tuesday night’s DBOX 100, and the JR Motorsports driver wasted no…
Joining a flurry of popular cars due in the 2023 Season 2 build, iRacing will release an all-new Late Model Stock car in time for the new season in March. The car will be used in-sim in the iRacing CARS Late Model Stock Tour, the result of a new partnership agreement that will also make iRacing the Official Racing Game of the CARS Tour. iRacing’s updated Late Model Stock is based on JR Motorsports’ CARS Late Model Stock Tour entry, which won both the driver and owner championships last year with Carson Kvapil. Weighing in at 3100 pounds, the Late…