iRacing Improvement Replace February 2026

Greg Hill, Senior VP and Government Producer at iRacing, shared the February 2026 growth replace, taking us behind the scenes, testing the brand new content material and options which are within the works for the net racing service.

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Howdy iRacers,

The primary few months of the 12 months are an unbelievable time to be a motorsport fan. With real-world collection deep into preseason testing or waving their first inexperienced flags, we get that first have a look at the brand new automobiles, applied sciences, and rules that may outline the season. As sim racers, we’re shaking off the winter rust and diving into among the most enjoyable occasions on the calendar—with the Daytona 24, Daytona 500, and Bathurst 12 already below our belts.

Mixed with the power of the Winter Olympics in Italy, the spirit of competitors is at an all-time excessive. Whether or not it’s on snow, ice, asphalt, or filth, 2026 is shaping as much as be a landmark 12 months throughout the sporting panorama, and there’s no higher place to harness that spirit of competitors than proper right here with our international neighborhood of sim racers.

Particular Occasions Recap

Earlier than we dive into the construct preview, I wish to contact on the Particular Occasions I discussed. It’s unbelievable to take part in races with you all at this scale, and to tug it off, we make investments an incredible quantity of assets into the expertise that powers the classes and the devoted operations groups that run them.

Annually, the size grows—and 2026 is not any exception. Our latest Daytona 24 reached all-time highs for all of sim racing:

• 104 Complete Splits
• 6,000+ Registered Groups
• 3.5 Million+ Laps Accomplished
• 26TB of Information Transmitted
• 40+ Years of complete connection time

The most important racing occasions on the planet occur completely on iRacing. For individuals who participated, we all know these races require an enormous funding of your time and power—we actually respect your help. For individuals who haven’t jumped in but, we hope to see you on the grid for the following one! You possibly can try the total 2026 schedule right here.

Whereas we’re discussing particular occasions and racing operations, I wish to pull again the curtain barely on our Protest course of. I gained’t get too far into the main points, however know that we make investments closely in a devoted, full-time group of staff charged with one mission: maintaining the iRacing expertise clear and truthful.

Whereas our methods—like iRating, security ranking, incident limits, race management, and anti-cheat—deal with the rapid regulation, sure conditions require a human contact. This can be a important operational funding for us, however we view it as essential to supporting the very best racing neighborhood on the planet. To offer you an concept of the size this group manages, practically 300,000 protests had been processed throughout 2025, and through peak season, this group processed upwards of 1,000 protests each single day. These protests typically end in coachable suggestions, the place our group works with the motive force to assist them perceive why they had been protested. Protests additionally end in race disqualifications and generally suspensions.

They’re actually the hardest-working group at iRacing, grinding across the clock to make sure that whenever you take the inexperienced flag, you’re racing in an expert surroundings. Our funding at this scale is exclusive within the racing house.

Season 2, 2026

Now, again to the rationale a lot of you might be eagerly working your method by means of this replace: Season 2 is correct across the nook. Let’s set the desk for our upcoming launch after which contact on a number of longer-term initiatives debuting later in 2026 and past. 

This construct is packed, we’re delivering improbable new automobiles and tracks, seeing a number of continued investments in automobile physics developments hit the observe, and launching a brand new suite of options for the Sim UI alongside thrilling AI developments.

Word – that is going to be prolonged, so please be happy to scan forward; you gained’t harm my emotions in the event you skip some. Additionally, the YouTube response movies are at all times enjoyable – I definitely watch and revel in them! Sustain the nice work, guys, and hold that suggestions flowing…

Tracks – New

Our artwork, manufacturing, and rendering groups have leveled up considerably since Lengthy Seaside debuted just a few years in the past. We’re maintaining that momentum rolling this season with the extremely anticipated debut of the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.

Racing at “St. Pete” is a uniquely dynamic expertise. The circuit is a technical jigsaw puzzle, stitching collectively bumpy public roads, purpose-built racing segments, and an airport runway. Navigating the high-speed transitions between weathered concrete and contemporary asphalt—all whereas the observe width continually breathes out and in—is a rewarding problem for any driver.

Whereas it’s been a staple of the IndyCar calendar for years, 2026 sees the observe’s profile develop even bigger with the arrival of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence and the return of the Mazda MX-5 Cup. Whether or not you’re wheeling a high-downforce open-wheeler, a heavy inventory automobile, or a nimble sports activities automobile, the racing right here is phenomenal. We are able to’t wait to see you all take to the streets.

Barber Motorsports Park was one of many first street circuits ever constructed for iRacing, and it has been a staple of our service for years. Its sweeping turns and dramatic elevation adjustments make it a favourite for nearly each automobile in our storage.

Lately, the real-world facility has undergone important adjustments, together with a full repave that gives a smoother, grippier racing floor, up to date runoff areas, and varied facility enhancements. To match this, our scan group returned to Alabama to seize the trendy circuit, and our artwork and manufacturing groups rebuilt the observe and all art work from scratch. We’re extremely excited to re-release this contemporary, high-fidelity model of Barber.

What you have to know:

• Current House owners: This replace will likely be supplied at no extra value to all iRacers who already personal Barber Motorsports Park. It is going to mechanically seem in your library with the following replace.
• Brief configs: We opted to not construct the quick configurations for Barber. Our knowledge reveals they account for lower than 0.5% of all racing on the observe; moreover, new bodily limitations have closed off Brief A in actual life.
• Retirement: Together with this launch, now we have made the choice to retire the unique model of the observe to make sure our collection are operating on essentially the most correct and up-to-date illustration of the circuit.  

We additionally wish to ship our deepest sympathies to the Barber household for his or her lack of George Barber Jr.  George was an enormous within the worlds of motorsport and philanthropy, and his presence will likely be profoundly missed.

Tracks – Updates

Together with these two new tracks, Season 2 will characteristic three observe artwork refreshes centered on our quick oval racing followers: Lanier Nationwide Speedway, Langley Speedway, and USA Worldwide Speedway have all had from-the-ground-up art work overhauls. They give the impression of being phenomenal, and it’s nice to return to this core content material. 

We’re additionally rolling out a collection of focused enhancements throughout the service, together with:

• Artwork High quality Updates: Visible upgrades at Lengthy Seaside and Sebring.
• 3D Curbs: Now applied on the Crimson Bull Ring for elevated bodily accuracy and immersion.

Automobiles – New

Season 2 provides additions and updates throughout our racecar fleet, with most racing classes receiving consideration. Total, we’ve been closely invested this previous 12 months in persevering with so as to add participating new automobiles to the service whereas additionally guaranteeing our present fleet stays updated with enhancements to our physics engine, tooling, and automobile methods. This steadiness is essential to us, and we’ll proceed pushing arduous to increase and enhance iRacing on an ongoing foundation. Now let’s get into the main points, starting with our new automobiles…

We kicked issues off just a few weeks early by releasing the NASCAR Cup Sequence Subsequent Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, guaranteeing it was obtainable for the beginning of the season. This can be a totally refreshed physique that includes the aggressive new look of the ZL1 carbon efficiency bundle discovered on the road automobile.

However the largest information for NASCAR followers is a debut a few years within the making: the NASCAR Ram Truck. This addition (pending last approvals) brings the iRacing grid into sync with the actual world, marking the primary time in 14 years that NASCAR has featured a four-manufacturer discipline. We’re thrilled about our new partnership with Stellantis and the authenticity this brings to the Truck Sequence.

We’ve made important progress behind the scenes with our TCR class, together with a Season 2 class-wide physics overhaul, a brand new automobile, and a roadmap for future growth.

To start, we’re pleased to announce that the Audi RS3 LMS Gen2 TCR will debut in Season 2. The RS3 LMS platform is a legend in touring automobile racing, having secured a number of “TCR Mannequin of the 12 months” awards and numerous real-world championships. The Gen2 mannequin continues this legacy of dominance, and we will’t wait so that you can expertise it in iRacing.

Transitioning to the Gen2:

• Legacy Standing: With the arrival of the Gen2, the present Audi RS3 LMS (Gen1) will likely be moved from our energetic TCR collection into the Legacy class.
• Member Credit: To help drivers transitioning to the brand new automobile, credit will likely be supplied to present Gen1 homeowners based mostly on the timing of their authentic buy, going again one calendar 12 months.

This replace ensures our TCR discipline stays as trendy and aggressive because the real-world collection it represents.

Automobiles/Physics – Updates

Season 2 is totally stacked with regards to physics and class-wide updates. Very similar to the overhauls we’ve dropped at different classes in latest seasons, these updates leverage years of developments in our physics engine, our inner tooling suite, and the experience of our ever-evolving group. Now, for the main points…

TCR

We’ve got hinted at this for a few seasons now and are thrilled to formally announce that the TCR class in iRacing has acquired a complete, ground-up overhaul. Each automobile within the class—together with the Audi RS3 LMS (Gen 1 & Gen 2), Hyundai Elantra N, Honda Civic Kind R, and Hyundai Veloster N—has been raised to our highest present requirements of high quality and realism

This six-month mission was an enormous endeavor, and the result’s a driving expertise that’s extra rewarding and genuine than ever earlier than. Key updates embrace:

• Tire Tech: Full upgrades to each dry and moist tires using our newest tire mannequin.
• Refined Dealing with: Extra constant automobile conduct by means of entry, mid, and exit, alongside considerably decreased pitch sensitivity.
• Actual-World Methods: A totally redesigned braking system now features a rear proportioning valve throughout your complete fleet—mirroring the real-world TCR spec.
• Technical Accuracy: New splitter peak tech for passing “Storage” scrutiny and up to date gasoline ranges (85L with 100L capability) to match IMSA requirements.
• Drivetrain & Energy: Up to date energy items for superior increase management and equalized shift lights throughout the category.
• Physics & BoP: A complete redo of mass and inertia, paired with a contemporary Stability of Efficiency (BoP) for your complete class.

This overhaul represents the fruits of a number of seasons of effort. The outcome takes the TCR class to the following stage, and we expect you’ll discover it was nicely well worth the wait.

GTE

Our five-car GTE class has acquired an enormous physics refresh, bringing the Ford GTE, Ferrari 488 GTE, BMW M8 GTE, Corvette C8.R, and Porsche 911 RSR according to our newest GT3 requirements.

Word for Tuners: On account of a brand new period-correct 50mm minimal journey peak rule (70mm for Nordschleife layouts), outdated setups will fail tech. We advocate recording your present settings earlier than the replace in the event you want to use them as a baseline.

Some replace particulars embrace:

Physics & Tire Overhaul

• Subsequent-Gen Slicks: A complete overhaul of development and compounds, that includes practical tire deflection and improved really feel on the restrict of grip.
• Moist Tires: The GTE class is now totally rain-ready.
• Chassis Dynamics: We’ve added rub blocks to entrance splitters and axle centerlines, paired with softer tire spring charges and better static journey heights.
• Up to date BoP: Minor Stability of Efficiency changes have been made to account for these aerodynamic peak and rake adjustments.

Dyno & 5-Put up Testing   

We took your complete class by means of our digital testing services to dial within the base expertise:

• Engine Dyno: We optimized 1st–sixth gear ratios to completely match every automobile’s torque curve. We advocate adjusting the Last Drive in your observe’s high pace, then utilizing +/- 1 step on particular person gears to remain within the energy band.
• 5-Put up Shaker Rig: We analyzed tire pressure and aero stability throughout a full frequency sweep. The ensuing iRacing setups now characteristic a “candy spot” damper vary famous within the Storage, balancing platform management with most mechanical grip.

Storage High quality of Life Updates

We’ve redesigned the Storage to make trackside changes quicker and extra intuitive:

• Simplified Peak Adjusts: Experience peak is now straight adjustable—no extra wrestling with spring perches or torsion bars. The sim now auto-calculates these whenever you change spring charges.
• Cleaner Format: The Chassis web page has been condensed to suit on one display, with Dampers moved to their very own tab and “Left/Proper” changes linked to cut back clicking.
• New Tooltips: We’ve added detailed steerage for shift RPMs, LED mild situations, and “candy spot” ranges for damper tuning.

IMSA Classic

Our growth group was thrilled to return to an period of automobiles in iRacing that has a loyal following each in our studio and with iRacers – the IMSA Classic class. This contains two unbelievable racing machines – the Audi 90 GTO and the Nissan GTP ZX-T. Particulars of those enhancements embrace:

• Tires & Rain: Each automobiles now characteristic our newest dry and moist tire fashions. The Nissan has period-correct tire heaters, eliminating the must be cautious on new tires.  Whereas the Audi lacks tire heaters, it is possible for you to to lean into its Quattro All Wheel Drive system to handle the out laps.
• Aero Effectivity: Improved the Audi’s HDF and Nissan’s LDF packages.
• The Nissan Overhaul: Reworked suspension, aero, and turbo increase to align with 1989-era tempo. Whereas this makes the automobile roughly 6 seconds slower, it considerably improves multiclass steadiness with the Audi.
• Audi Gearbox: Considerably improved shifting reliability and support efficiency. Utilizing the clutch on upshifts is now performance-beneficial, reflecting the genuine conduct of a period-correct synchromesh gearbox.

Lotus 49

Our last main physics replace is one which has been a very long time coming—some would possibly say it’s been within the works since Papyrus launched Grand Prix Legends in 1998. The Lotus 49 has been totally up to date with our newest physics expertise and dynamic enhancements to deliver this legendary machine into the trendy period.

• All-Climate Tires: The Lotus 49 now makes use of our newest tire mannequin, able to dealing with each dry and moist situations. Word that as an “all-weather” interval tire, it lacks the specialised efficiency of a contemporary devoted moist tire—anticipate a major and rewarding problem in heavy rain!
• Suspension Overhaul: We’ve reworked the suspension mannequin to realize a near-perfect correlation between in-sim wheel charges and the documented charges used in the course of the period.
• Genuine Braking: Through the use of historic pad compounds and period-correct caliper sizing, we’ve achieved an optimum brake bias that mirrors precisely how these automobiles had been campaigned within the late ’60s.

Between the Audi, the Nissan, and the Lotus, it’s rewarding to revisit these iconic eras of motorsport. Every machine was a dominant pressure in its respective time, and making use of our newest physics and modeling developments to our historic content material permits us to protect that legacy with extra accuracy than ever.

When you haven’t had the possibility to expertise these automobiles but, I actually encourage you to offer them a spin. They’re as thrilling as they’re demanding, and also you’ll end up welcomed by some of the loyal and supportive sub-communities in iRacing.

NASCAR Cup physics 

Though you might be already having fun with this as we speak resulting from our pre-season NASCAR replace, it’s value noting that NASCAR Cup is now up to date with all 2026 developments made in the actual world, mirrored in iRacing. This contains engine energy and aerodynamic attributes that match the NASCAR Cup Sequence guidelines packages for all tracks.

NASCAR O’Reilly physics

The NASCAR O’Reilly class has had its drafting mannequin obtain updates based mostly on our most up-to-date CFD-based drafting mannequin. This method will end in extra nuanced interactions between automobiles, which embrace extra exact side-drafting, extra advanced car-to-car variability in understeer/oversteer dealing with whereas in shut proximity to different automobiles.

Dallara IR18 INDYCAR:

We’ve up to date our quick observe and Indianapolis packages to extra carefully align with how the INDYCAR collection presents these automobiles in actual life. Aerodynamics and tire development have been up to date. We’ve additionally up to date engine energy in any respect tracks. Members ought to see elevated high speeds at practically all tracks.

Oval Refresh:

Work continues on evolving our observe floor conduct, particularly relating to rubber build-up. Our latest focus has been on fine-tuning the steadiness of the racing line: how a lot rubber is laid down throughout high-intensity racing, and the way a lot is picked up by tires throughout warning durations or mild operating.

Partly rolling out in Season 2, it is a multi-season mission, and we’ll proceed to roll out enhancements to those dynamic floor interactions in subsequent releases.

AI

We’re dedicated to the fixed enchancment of our AI, and Season 2 delivers a significant quality-of-life breakthrough: Simulated Race outcomes.

• Simulated Finishes: You not lose your race knowledge in the event you go away early. Whether or not you exit resulting from a mechanical failure or just go away the session after your individual checkered flag, the sim will now calculate the remaining laps for the sphere to offer a full ending order.
• Skip Qualifying: Now you can skip the qualifying session with out being mechanically positioned on the entrance of the grid.
• Driver Habits: We’ve additional refined AI driver logic to incorporate extra human-like pacing and considerably extra practical timing for warning releases.

SIM UI

The New Sim UI continues to ship on the ambitions we had for this huge expertise mission after we set out just a few years in the past. Following the most important developments in Season 1, Season 2 introduces a number of all-new options designed to place extra energy and data in your palms.

• UI Profiles – This characteristic takes a giant step towards letting you make the UI your individual. Now you can create and swap between customized HUD layouts and configurations tailor-made to your particular wants. Since totally different automobiles or courses typically require totally different knowledge or positions for that knowledge on-screen, now you can effortlessly swap or construct layouts at will.  You possibly can set default profiles per automobile, after which have one place to make adjustments.  This additionally strikes the info to a brand new file for simpler sharing of profiles and app.ini settings.
• Stay Telemetry functionality – A brand new Brake/Throttle hint ingredient shows your management inputs (Throttle and Brake) over time. It’s obtainable as an choice within the pace/gear widget and inside the Replay/Session display.

iRacers can use this characteristic to raised perceive their driving efficiency, and this has been one of many key functions of the brand new UI expertise we had in thoughts from the outset of the mission. Now we’ll have it inbuilt and obtainable to all iRacers.

An instance use can be to grasp the form of braking inputs as one enters and exits a flip. This will present key insights as a racer appears to be like to refine their driving and higher perceive totally different functions of braking. There are a lot of nice tutorial movies on the market, and I like to recommend you search round YouTube a bit for instance functions of such knowledge, together with iRacing’s Braking Strategies tutorial video right here.

A enjoyable growth anecdote: To construct the expertise wanted for real-time graphing and animation within the new UI, our mission lead really prototyped the engine by recreating a Breakout-style sport proper contained in the UI. (And no, we aren’t releasing the sport! 🙂 Whereas the mini-game stays inner–until, after all, the key code–the tech itself unlocks the door for even deeper in-sim efficiency insights sooner or later.

(Disclaimer: There’s really no secret code. Please don’t spend your weekend looking for one!)

• New Widgets – S2 marks the debut of recent widgets – the Session Widget and Session Guidelines Widget. The Session Widget contains essential high-level details about your session, beforehand unfold throughout the UI in lots of locations. Info contains gadgets corresponding to Lap or Time remaining, Sim Time, whether or not Scoring has Ended, and extra.
• Visible Spotter – a brand new accessibility characteristic designed to help single-monitor customers with essential visible data that their {hardware} configuration obscures. That is NOT a radar, and makes use of the identical knowledge that powers the sim spotter system. 
• Driving Line – Whereas not strictly a UI growth, we’ve launched a extremely requested QoL replace for the Driving Line.

As useful as the road is for these preliminary few laps on a brand new observe, we at all times advocate turning it off to actually grasp a circuit. Till now, that transition was a little bit of a ache, requiring you to exit the automobile and dig by means of the Choices menu.

Beginning in Season 2, now you can toggle the Driving Line on and off through a bindable keypress. This lets you use the road as a short lived reference and shortly cover it when you’re prepared to begin discovering your individual marks—all with out ever leaving the cockpit.

Reference/Ghost Automotive enhancements

iRacing has lengthy supplied the flexibility to race towards reference/ghost laps, however considered one of its strongest instruments has been tucked away in configuration information—till now.

We’ve introduced the Reference Automotive Offset straight into the UI. This lets you place a ghost automobile at a set time hole forward of you. Whether or not you’re studying a brand new observe, practising close-quarters racing, or attempting to find that last tenth, having a goal automobile simply forward is an unbelievable coaching software.

Professional Tip: Use this in Time Assault. You will discover a driver who’s roughly half a second quicker than you, click on the inexperienced “Drive Towards” button on their outcome, and set them as your lead automobile. It’s a direct, visible method to examine their traces and braking factors, and so that you can enhance as a sim racer.

We’re additionally engaged on a extra streamlined, automated course of for loading Time Assault reference laps, however not for Season 2—I’ll have extra to share on that in a future replace

Leagues and launcher UI updates

We’ve got been centered on bettering present methods whereas we proceed to construct out new performance. One such instance: Leagues—a cornerstone of the iRacing expertise and residential to a few of our most passionate members.

To kick off this mission, our group interviewed League “energy customers” throughout the corporate and the neighborhood to establish ache factors and alternatives for development. For Season 2, we’re launching a set of enhancements particularly focusing on these frustrations, beginning with a significant overhaul of Roster Administration. We’ve streamlined the core actions and features concerned in managing your members to make operating a league much less of a chore and extra intuitive.

In subsequent seasons, you may anticipate focus returning to areas like Time Assault, Outcomes, Dashboard, and extra.

Updater

A small replace has been made to the updater that ought to assist streamline iRacing for a lot of – now you can replace simply your Favorited automobiles, tracks, and collection. Automobiles and tracks are simple, and with Sequence, the updater will have a look at your complete schedule and replace all content material that’s included.

Ongoing Improvement

That covers the first highlights for our Season 2 construct, although that is on no account an exhaustive record. Hold a watch out for extra updates over the approaching weeks and, after all, the total launch notes within the days main as much as the construct.

Let’s take a short have a look at among the long-term initiatives at present in growth for future releases and past.

Audio

First, I’d like to supply a little bit of a mea culpa relating to our audio roadmap. Final quarter, I shared that we had been on the cusp of delivering spatial Reverb to our automobiles and tracks. We actually had been; nevertheless, the satan is commonly within the particulars. When confronted with a tricky precedence determination, we selected to momentarily maintain Reverb again to make sure the inspiration was rock strong.

On a constructive notice, we’ve used this further growth time to optimize our core audio engine, decreasing the system’s compute value by roughly 50%. We’re already investigating methods to push that effectivity even additional.

These efficiency beneficial properties are opening new doorways: we are actually exploring the separation of transmission audio from the engine and increasing our chassis modeling to incorporate motion and flex. As at all times, our precedence is guaranteeing these high-fidelity particulars don’t come at the price of total efficiency.

I apologize for the delay. Discovering the right timing to share growth information is at occasions an artwork kind, however we stay dedicated to maintaining you knowledgeable as we share data relating to these advanced options.

Dust AI

The AI in iRacing is a testomony to our devoted growth group, and each season we attempt to push the boundaries of each racing high quality and content material help. Right this moment, I’m thrilled to share that we’re nicely on our method to bringing AI Racing to Dust!

Beginning with ovals, the characteristic is already totally purposeful and has moved into intensive QA testing, with filth races taking place internally each single day. I’ve spent a while behind the wheel myself, and I’ve to say: racing towards the AI on a sliding floor is an absolute blast.

Due to the advanced and dynamic nature of filth racing, we’re giving this mission a bit extra “time within the oven” to iron out the remaining kinks and guarantee it meets the excessive requirements of the iRacing neighborhood. We’ll share extra particular particulars as we get nearer to Season 3. Keep tuned!

Profession Mode

Profession Mode is now deep into its growth path, and now we have reached a significant milestone: full end-to-end “sport loop” ux testing is formally underway. Whereas we’re nonetheless being a bit coy with the finer particulars for now, we’re extremely excited in regards to the transformative expertise this can supply. The preliminary launch is designed to offer a strong basis with a sturdy characteristic set, constructed particularly to permit for steady growth and new options over the approaching seasons.

Count on to listen to a lot extra about Profession Mode in our subsequent replace…

Physics Improvement 

Our physics and automobile dynamics group is at present balancing an unprecedented record of initiatives. To handle this, we’ve cut up our efforts into two distinct paths: long-term transformation and steady enchancment.

The Lengthy-Time period Imaginative and prescient: We’re deep in growth on a number of core initiatives that may redefine high-level simulation within the years to return. A set of those in depth initiatives contains:

• Subsequent-Gen Tire Mannequin: A generational leap ahead in tire modeling.
• Enhanced Power Suggestions: Aiming for even better tactile element and constancy.
• Superior Aero Modeling: Pushing the boundaries of how air interacts with the chassis.
• Increased Physics Charges: Growing the frequency of our inner calculations for much more exact automobile dynamics.
• Multi-Threaded Structure: Extra performant core structure, bettering stability and creating room for development.

Instant Enhancements: Whereas these long-term initiatives cook dinner, we’ve spun off a devoted group to give attention to the right here and now. This group ensures that our present tire iterations and physics enhancements—which have already been rolled out to a lot of our hottest automobiles—proceed to evolve based mostly on our ever-advancing capabilities.

Presently, this group is concentrated on three particular current-model priorities:

1. Tire bounce
2. Uneven asperity stress
3. Tire floor temperature sensitivity

Sim UI

The New Sim UI has been such an incredible engine for development and innovation in iRacing. We’ve got a number of irons within the fireplace to maintain the following a number of builds constantly delivering new UI options and enhancements. The brand new UI unblocks years of pent-up characteristic backlog that was gated by our earlier applied sciences. 

Whereas the tech is groundbreaking, it’s the folks behind it who make the distinction. Our UI group is top-notch, and it’s solely getting stronger. We’ve not too long ago added a brand new Principal Engineer of UI growth, a veteran from a outstanding racing sport competitor you’d all acknowledge. He brings many years of expertise in UI design, gameplay methods, and growth administration to the group. With this leveled-up expertise, we’re positioned to ship thrilling developments to iRacing for years to return.

New Graphics Engine, a.okay.a. “Spark”

“Spark” is shifting alongside on schedule. Having simply accomplished our Vertical Slice, the group is now centered on our subsequent milestones, with a specific give attention to night time lighting. Evening lighting has at all times been a weak spot of iRacing, and with Spark, night time lighting will likely be transformative. Animation can also be being applied. We’ll be pushing on Spark all 12 months, however plan to have a growth deep-dive for you all within the coming months.

Miscellaneous Updates

Let’s shut this out with a handful of miscellaneous updates, in no explicit prioritized order…

• We’re excited to enhance our Reference Lap system sooner or later to raised present laps of accelerating problem and issue. 
• Equally, we’re centered on doing higher to organize iRacers for racing through new instruments to assist with teaching and racecraft. One such mission is our collaboration with Microsoft Analysis, which has reached the combination part with research-driven testing deliberate for the close to future. Whereas this can initially gasoline new teaching and suggestions instruments, the underlying tech represents a major step towards how we energy sim methods sooner or later.
• Our group has fully rebuilt our Business racing product from scratch, remodeling the expertise and tremendously bettering the comfort and accessibility of this mode. Many sim racing facilities all over the world are already signed up, and if you wish to strive it your self, cease by the NASCAR Corridor of Fame, the place they’ve a set of racing pods operating this software program.
• iRacing Arcade’s launch date has been formally introduced – March third! It’s actually a blast and an exquisite pick-up-and-play expertise. We hope to see you within the on-line lobbies in early March! You possibly can wishlist it on Steam or strive the demo now. https://retailer.steampowered.com/app/3226450/iRacing_Arcade/
• Our scan group within the US is overbooked and has a stacked schedule these subsequent few months.
• Our scan companions internationally are lined up for a number of new scans over the following a number of months.
• Our manufacturing groups have been modeling the following batch of all-new tracks that may ship over the following a number of months in our sim.
• I discussed Summit refresh final time – it’s been a 2-season mission and can ship in June.
• Our partnership with NASCAR to prototype the Naval Base Coronado observe has remodeled into one thing greater – we’re constructing the total observe and are tentatively focusing on a June launch.
• We’re changing a ton of VFX from our Legacy system over to our full-on trendy FX system. Burnouts will look epic!

As you may see, the street forward for iRacing is as busy because it has ever been. It’s a privilege to work on a platform that evolves alongside the game all of us love, however it’s a fair better privilege to be on this journey with all of you. We thanks for being the engine that powers our steady ardour and pursuit – to ship the very best racing sim and racing platform doable.

That shared ardour is why our membership continues to develop at such a wholesome price; you might be our greatest advocates. Due to that development, we’re extra dedicated than ever to turning your funding in us right into a return for you. We proceed to redeploy our revenues proper again into the corporate, and our workers has now grown to over 210 devoted staff.

Though we’re so much greater now, our mission stays precisely the identical—we will simply do much more of it. You possibly can see that affect already in our capacity to scale growth throughout an unprecedented variety of new options, automobiles, and tracks, whereas concurrently recommitting ourselves to bettering the inspiration we’ve already constructed.

Thanks once more for being a part of this with us and for selecting to do your sim racing on iRacing. We’re extremely happy with what’s coming in Season 2 and past, and we will’t wait to expertise it with you. Good luck within the new season.

See you on the observe,

-Greg

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