iRacing has deployed its 2026 Saison 1 construct for the iRacing On-line racing platform. As typical, the brand new construct introduces new content material, options, upgrades, and fixes for the 2026 Season 1, which formally begins on December sixteenth.
Try the total changelog beneath for all the main points.
Season highlights embrace:
- FIA Cross Automobile [FREE!]
- Porsche 911 Cup (992.2)
- Adelaide Road Circuit
- Miami Worldwide Autodrome (5 configs)
- Two New Dust Street Configs (Lucas Oil Speedway – Off Street and Winton Motor Raceway – Rallycross)
- New Scan Knowledge Config: Rockingham Speedway – Oval
- New UI Characteristic: Choices Search
- New UI Characteristic: Widget Editor
- New UI Characteristic: Standalone Widgets (Lap Timing, Relative, Standings, and Climate)
- Improved monitor mud and water initialization
- Dallara IR18 (Artwork and Hybrid System updates)
- Toyota GR86 (Physics and methods updates based mostly on the most recent real-world information)
- NASCAR Truck Collection aerodynamic mannequin updates
- GT3 Class Automobile updates
- Oval Refresh Updates: Rubber and rubbering enhancements for multi-groove racing
- New languages have been added to iRacing, together with: French, German, Italian, Portuguese (European), and Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Rain racing for the brand new Porsche 911 Cup (992.2)
- AI Racing comes built-in with the brand new automobile: Porsche 911 Cup (992.2)
- AI Racing is on the market at seven new monitor configs! (Adelaide Road Circuit, all FIVE configs for Miami Worldwide Autodrome (Grand Prix, Marina Loop, MIA Loop, Prolonged MIA Loop, and Prolonged Marina Loop), and Rockingham Speedway – Oval)
- A whole lot of precision-crafted new car setups
2026 Saison 1 Changelog:
iRacing
Localization
- Prospects could now choose to make use of iRacing in a number of new languages, together with:
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese (European)
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- This interprets a lot of the non-in-Sim iRacing software. For extra details about what this consists of, doesn’t embrace, and if you’re a local speaker, how one can assist us enhance our work right here:
- Localization
iRacing Simulator
Licenses
- Fastened a problem the place customers had been seeing improper contributions in direction of MPR.
- The Sporting Code states {that a} Race ought to solely be counted if the participant completes at the least 50% of the variety of laps (rounded down) because the winner of their automobile class. This was not being enforced. This alteration isn’t retroactive – there can be no adjustments to present information inside 2025 Season 4 or earlier than. Enforcement of lap completion for MPR begins now with 2025 Season 4 Week 13.
Netcode
- The netcode for dealing with automobiles and elevation adjustments has been up to date to enhance their vertical positioning on the earth. This fixes a problem the place some drivers may see different automobiles floating above the monitor or barely buried beneath it at some tracks with excessive elevation adjustments, particularly when these drivers had excessive latencies.
- Up to date the rotational references and predictive calculations for opponent automobiles. Opponent automobiles ought to now orient in a extra correct path based mostly on the place that driver is going through, their rotational velocity, their steering inputs, and forces appearing on their automobile.
Race Management
- Throughout Dust Street occasions, drivers will now appropriately be disqualified from a Qualifying session in the event that they use the joker route.
- Any laps accomplished earlier than using the joker will nonetheless depend, and the driving force can nonetheless take part in subsequent Classes, such because the Race.
- Tightened up the detection algorithm for course cuts to assist cut back the chance that black flags can be given for course cuts that didn’t happen.
Dynamic Monitor Mannequin
- Throughout monitor initialization, for monitor utilization proportion, the distribution of mud has been tuned for a extra correct dispersal. Additionally, fewer simulated off-track excursions can be current.
- As a part of the Oval Refresh venture, tire sliding parameters have been adjusted to apportion extra rubber tearing from the tire than the monitor as a monitor rubbers in. This can lead to extra tire put on on rubbered-in tracks, lowering the long-term benefit of staying within the groove.
- The tire versus monitor put on apportioning for AI automobiles has been tuned. This will increase the wear and tear and rubbering-in, particularly at average monitor rubber ranges.
- Fastened a current drawback with deep preliminary water depths, which resulted in “rising puddles” when automobiles interacted with the monitor.
Physics
- Damping charges for indifferent car elements have been improved. This could cease indifferent elements from jittering and leaping unrealistically.
AI Racing
- AI Drivers have been totally skilled to race with the next new automobiles:
- AI Drivers have been totally skilled to race on the following new monitor configurations:
- Adelaide Road Circuit
- Miami Worldwide Autodrome (ALL 5 Configs!)
- Rockingham Speedway – (Oval)
- AI drivers have expanded their minds, and at the moment are able to making extra impartial selections about their positioning throughout pacing on the race line and the way it pertains to the automobiles round them. AI Drivers ought to now seem to take their very own distinctive paths, whereas sustaining a common give attention to an excellent tempo line.
- After a light-weight course-load over the Summer time, the AI Faculty for the Gifted was again in full swing this Autumn. AI course supplies for the most recent semester included the next:
- [Garage Course Level IV] Hybrid Car Methods
- How & When to Ship It: 1001 Situations for Parcels & Race Rejoins
- Historical Secrets and techniques of Oval Kung-Fu – Discovering Your Middle As an alternative of the Excessive-Line
- The Schlimmer Coaching Routine for Psychological Kinesthetics and Response Timing in Excessive Stress Conditions (aka: The STRMKRTHSS)
- In & Out: Throttle Administration for Corners
- (Orienteering 213) The Pioneering Spirit and Discovering Your Personal Path
- Did It Break? The Crash Evaluation Handbook – Tow Truck Version
- AI Drivers have improved their racing expertise with the next automobiles:
- <Automobile Class> GT3 Class Vehicles
- <Automobile Class> LMP1 Class Vehicles
- Dallara IR18
- Ligier JS P320
- Mercedes-AMG W12 E Efficiency
- Mercedes-AMG W13 E Efficiency
- Toyota GR86
- AI Drivers have improved their monitor mastery on the following places:
- Daytona Worldwide Speedway – Moto, NASCAR Street, & Street Course
- Iowa Speedway – Oval
- Nashville Superspeedway
- New Hampshire Motor Speedway – Oval
- Phoenix Raceway – Oval, & Oval w/open dogleg
- Pocono Raceway – Oval
- Rockingham Speedway – Oval – 2012
- The Milwaukee Mile
- A number of AI automobiles have obtained a temperature correlation replace which makes their tires and driving habits vastly extra practical, as they’re now nearer aligned with precisely how a player-driver automobile capabilities. These automobiles embrace:
- Ligier JS P320
- Mercedes-AMG W12 E Efficiency
- Mercedes-AMG W13 E Efficiency
- The AI opponent paint scheme database has been totally rebuilt with extra practical paint schemes for all automobiles on the Sim.
- New specialised opponent paint scheme units have been created for the next automobiles:
- <Automobile Class> Gen 4 Collection
- <Automobile Class> Supercars Gen 3 Collection
- <Automobile Class> Inventory Automobile Professional Collection
- Radical SR10
- Extra specialised opponent paint schemes have been added to the present automobiles:
- <Automobile Class> NASCAR Cup Subsequent Gen Collection
- <Automobile Class> NASCAR Xfinity Collection
- <Automobile Class> NASCAR Vans Collection
- <Automobile Class> ARCA Collection
- <Automobile Class> NASCAR Legends 1987 Cup Collection
- Dallara IL-15
- Dallara IR18
- Fastened a handful of system-level AI points, together with:
- Fastened a crash-to-desktop subject that might happen in offline Race periods with Adaptive AI.
- Fastened a crash-to-desktop subject that might happen when restarting an AI Race session.
- Fastened a problem the place CPU utilization may develop into extreme throughout Cautions.
Consumer Interface
- A number of new parameters of customization have been unlocked for the in-Sim UI with the brand new Widget Editor!
- Widget Editor (Alt-Okay) lets you customise the overwhelming majority of UI components in new and impactful methods, together with measurement, transparency, place, and extra.
- Widget Visibility could also be adjusted. Disable or allow a widget’s visibility by clicking the eyeball button subsequent to the widget’s identify whereas within the Alt-Okay enhancing view.
- Essential Observe: The efficiency meter choices have been faraway from the Settings – Interface menu. The consumer configurable choices for efficiency meters at the moment are positioned throughout the Widget Choices.
- A brand new function has been added to the iRacing UI: Standalone Widgets!
- Standalone Widgets are informational UI components that show information from Black Field equivalents.
- With the 2026 Season 1 Launch, 4 Standalone Widgets can be found:
- Lap Timing (F1)
- Relative (F2)
- Standings (F3)
- Climate (F11)
- In contrast to Black Bins, you’ll be able to have a number of Standalone Widgets open on the identical time.
- These Widgets are read-only – you can’t work together with the information they show straight. However, if the information is adjusted or modified elsewhere, for instance, in a Black Field, the change can be instantly mirrored by the standalone Widget.
- To allow Standalone Widgets, enter the UI enhancing mode by urgent Alt-Okay, scroll right down to the Standalone Widgets part, and click on the eyeball to toggle their visibility.
- The “Search” function has been added to the Choices menu!
- Begin typing any choice or parameter of an choice, and the menu will robotically filter to solely present objects associated to your search string. You possibly can then edit any choice displayed within the Search outcomes as desired.
- GENERAL UPDATES & FIXES:
- Fastened a problem the place driver names had been showing for his or her spotter when navigating to the Admin menu.
- Fastened a problem the place the visibility of the Chat channel UI ingredient was not being managed appropriately.
- Fastened a problem the place customers couldn’t alter the refresh price after enabling Full Display screen.
- Fastened a problem the place Replays wouldn’t save through the transition from an Open Observe to a Race.
- Fastened a problem the place the UI would disappear when saving a Replay.
- For VR customers, mounted a problem the place the format decisions for UI widgets weren’t being saved appropriately.
- For VR customers, mounted a problem the place the off-screen render goal texture was allocating twice the wanted width, impacting efficiency.
- SESSION SCREEN UPDATES & FIXES:
- The show of Monitor Temperature and Session Situations has been added to the Data tab.
- Elevated the Climate Radar zoom for small monitor maps.
- The Guidelines tab is now open by default if the monitor loaded has monitor guidelines.
- Fastened a problem the place the Entries and Outcomes tabs on the Session Display screen may present duplicate drivers in a Race Session.
- Fastened a problem the place the body timer was not respecting the Choices worth after getting back from the Choices menu to the Session Display screen.
- Fastened a problem with main zeros when sorting the Outcomes tab by automobile quantity.
- Fastened a problem the place toggling between Session and Total timing comparisons within the Splits view would trigger unhealthy habits.
- Fastened a problem the place tabs on the Session Display screen may scale to unreasonable sizes.
- Fastened a problem with the underside bar the place spectators had been being included within the whole variety of positions.
- The efficiency meter choices have been faraway from the Settings – Interface menu. The consumer configurable choices for efficiency meters at the moment are positioned throughout the Widget Choices which is accessible by the Alt-Okay menu.
- DRIVE SCREEN UPDATES & FIXES:
- Fastened a problem the place the Final Sector Report wouldn’t seem robotically.
- Fastened a problem the place the beginning lights would typically shift horizontally after they turned seen.
- Fastened some points with scaling the digital mirror. The ‘Additional Giant’ scaling choice has additionally been eliminated.
- Fastened the digital mirror scaling in order that the rendered picture decision scales with the UI scale.
- Fastened a problem the place duplicate tires had been proven within the F5 Black Field for Dust automobiles.
- Fastened a problem with the Relative Time being over -60 seconds.
- Fastened a problem the place lap occasions could possibly be displayed as “60.000” as an alternative of “1:00.000”.
- GARAGE SCREEN UPDATES & FIXES:
- Within the Storage, BoP increment/decrement controls at the moment are nearer to one another.
- Fastened a problem the place customers couldn’t view Storage automobile setups which are positioned in file paths with particular characters, notably these with particular characters of their Paperwork folder or of their Home windows username.
- OPTIONS SCREEN UPDATES & FIXES:
- A handful of Graphics Choices have been reorganized.
- Fastened a problem within the Settings > Show menu the place the Monitor/Bezel width, Viewing Distance, and Angle choices weren’t saving.
Graphics
- Fastened a problem the place water spray within the digital mirror would flicker.
Controls
- The VNM wheel API has been added.
- The newest Simucube API has been added.
- The newest Thrustmaster API has been added.
- Fastened a steering torque error that might happen when the precise entrance wheel of your automobile was indifferent.
- Lowered the variety of makes an attempt to hook up with the Simucube API.
- This could assist cut back the time the Joystick logic takes at startup, stopping a warning message and leading to a sooner launch. This alteration could trigger older firmware/driver combos to fail to attach and fall again to 60 Hz mode. In case you are a sufferer to this, be sure you replace to the most recent drivers – no matter state, FFB will proceed to work appropriately.
Spotter/Crew Chief
- The Italian spotter pack has been up to date.
- The Spanish spotter pack has been up to date.
- Fastened a problem with a spotter line from the brand new participant onboarding expertise.
Climate
- In official racing, the iRacing sanctioning physique has decided a extra applicable degree for worst-case inexperienced flag climate.
- Forecast accuracy has been improved, particularly over lengthy intervals of time.
- Improved the initialization of water heights at first of Classes through the use of extra pattern factors to calculate the water’s dimensions and improved interpolation between pattern factors.
- Drastically improved the monitor initialization parameters for drying tracks, particularly in areas the place porous and non-porous supplies are instantly adjoining.
- Monitor maps are extra precisely centered within the climate radar window.
- Fastened a problem the place double fog was being utilized to shadowing.
Paint Package
- Fastened a problem the place sure automobiles had painted tires, windshields, and home windows when utilizing particular paints and automobile patterns.
Vehicles
FIA Cross Automobile
- NEW CAR!
- The FIA Cross Automobile is a brand new Dust Street automobile, and has been added to the bottom content material for iRacing – this implies all iRacing Members now have this shiny new automobile already parked of their digital storage for FREE!
- Whether or not you’ve bought desires of reaching the highest ranges of world rallycross and autocross or are simply searching for a enjoyable automobile to sling dust with, cross automobiles are particularly standard choices in Europe—particularly amongst younger drivers—and gaining a foothold in America. The FIA Cross Automobile represents the best degree of equipment on a thoughtfully designed ladder that permits drivers as younger as six years outdated to start out within the self-discipline. The highest-level Cross Automobile produces 120 horsepower from the identical 850cc Yamaha MT-09 engine that powers Legends automobiles the world over. Weighing in at simply 345 kilograms, that’s greater than sufficient energy for speedy lap occasions on tracks of every kind. The automobile has confirmed itself within the FIA European Cross Automobile Championship with a championship by the hands of driver David Méat, and it has been a daily presence on the rostrum in a number of rallycross collection as properly
Porsche 911 Cup (992.2)
- NEW CAR!
- The Porsche 911 Cup (992.2) is a brand new Sports activities Automobile, and is now out there for buy and racing!
- One of many world’s most iconic single-make buyer racing platforms receives a brand new evolution for 2026, because the Porsche 911 Cup (992.2) makes its debut within the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup and choose Carrera Cup collection the world over. Streamlining the expertise is the precedence with the brand new automobile, which options improved aerodynamics, simplified operation behind the wheel and within the pits, and a brand new identify. The 911 Cup (992.2) nonetheless encompasses a usually aspirated, 4.0-liter flat-six engine, which options extra parts from the road-going Porsche 911 GT3 however nonetheless produces 520 horsepower. Design upgrades to the entrance and rear bumpers, improved efficiency and lifespan to the automobile’s brakes, and the flexibility to make extra changes within the automobile make this the very best entry but in Porsche’s spectacular catalogue of machines for its one-make collection.
- Add the Porsche 911 Cup (992.2) to your digital storage by discovering this automobile within the iRacing Retailer in the present day!
- All Members who already had a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992.1) parked of their digital storage will discover this model new Porsche 911 Cup (992.2) parked proper subsequent to it, freed from cost!
- With the discharge of this automobile, the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992.1) is transferring to [Legacy] content material.
- AI Drivers are able to compete with this automobile!
- This car features a new sonic modeling approach that swaps a set of cogs with every gear. This helps elevate the auditory expertise of the transmission.
Tracks
Adelaide Road Circuit
- NEW TRACK!
- A brand new Street monitor, Adelaide Road Circuit, is now out there for buy and racing!
- Australia is understood the world over for among the most enjoyable road circuits in auto racing, and Adelaide, the capital metropolis of South Australia, boasts one of many best. Its first occasion, a part of the 1985 World Drivers’ Championship, earned the Race Promoters’ Trophy because the best-promoted occasion of the season, and its final occasion in that championship set an attendance document with 210,000 folks. Racing by the streets of Adelaide returned in 1999 because of Supercars, and the occasion has been a staple of that calendar ever since. The fashionable Adelaide format clocks in at a fair two miles (3.219 km), with 14 turns. The lap begins with the advanced Senna Chicane, which produces among the most compelling pictures in motorsport as Supercars can fairly actually fly by the kerbing. Prolonged straightaways on the again half of the lap lead into the Dequetteville Hairpin, Victoria Park part, and eventually the Mistral Hairpin that units drivers up for a cost to the end line.
- Add Adelaide Road Circuit to your geographic stock by discovering this monitor within the iRacing Retailer in the present day!
- AI Drivers are able to compete at this monitor!
Lucas Oil Speedway
- NEW TRACK CONFIGURATION!
- A brand new Dust Street config, Off Street, is now out there for racing at Lucas Oil Speedway!
- This new monitor configuration is the off-road circuit that exists at Lucas Oil Speedway!
- Wheatland’s off-road advanced has lengthy been considered as one of many premier layouts for short-course racing in America, and it’s simple to see why. Large jumps, difficult whoop sections, and even an over-under bridge make this some of the memorable circuits most drivers will see. After an prolonged interval of inactivity, the off-road monitor returned to the nationwide calendar in 2025 because the season opener.
- All drivers who have already got entry to Lucas Oil Speedway now have entry to this new monitor config!
Miami Worldwide Autodrome
- NEW TRACK!
- A brand new Street monitor, Miami Worldwide Autodrome, is now out there for buy and racing!
- This monitor consists of 5 configs: Grand Prix, Marina Loop, MIA Loop, Prolonged MIA Loop, and Prolonged Marina Loop.
- Town of Miami has a protracted and storied historical past of embracing open-wheel and sports activities automobile racing throughout quite a few venues, each short-term and everlasting. In 2022, that historical past lastly culminated in a spot within the Driver’s World Championship, because the inaugural Miami Grand Prix joined the calendar that Might on a multi-year deal to compete on the Miami Worldwide Autodrome, with help from the Porsche Dash Problem North America and W Collection. The three.363-mile, 19-turn short-term circuit has been designed to run by parking tons round Onerous Rock Stadium, house of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, with out utilizing any public roads. In contrast to many different fashionable FIA Grade 1 circuit designs, its longest straightaway isn’t the start-finish and pit straight, however slightly the stretch between turns 16 and 17 on the total format. After the preliminary success of the Miami Grand Prix, a number of shorter layouts had been constructed to present the circuit year-round viability in use for smaller collection and personal occasions.
- Add Miami Worldwide Autodrome to your geographic stock by discovering this monitor within the iRacing Retailer in the present day!
- AI Drivers are able to compete in any respect 5 configs of this monitor!
Mount Panorama Circuit
- Bathurst has obtained a complete from-the-ground-up artwork overhaul. All surroundings has been recreated with our newest processes and tooling, together with the driving surfaces, vegetation and timber, the panorama itself, and the buildings on the monitor.
Rockingham Speedway
- NEW TRACK CONFIGURATION!
- A brand new asphalt Oval config is now out there for racing at Rockingham Speedway!
- This new monitor configuration is the fashionable repaved model of the beloved Oval monitor.
- All drivers who have already got entry to Rockingham Speedway now have entry to this new monitor config!
- The earlier Oval monitor config has been preserved, and it has been re-named “Oval – 2012” to replicate the yr of the monitor floor information.
- (Oval) – AI Drivers are able to compete at this new monitor config!
Winton Motor Raceway
- NEW TRACK CONFIGURATION!
- A brand new Dust Street monitor config, Rallycross, is now out there for racing at Winton Motor Raceway!
- This rallycross configuration is impressed by the format utilized by the real-world Australian nationwide championship in previous seasons.
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