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What's iRacing?iRacing is the ultimate place to go racing online. From NASCAR, to IndyCar, to sports cars and Grand Prix racing, iRacing has it all. All you need is a PC, a gaming wheel or game pad and an Internet connection. iRacing organizes all of the racing for you, or you can choose to host your own race. Either way the competition is as real as it gets – you’ll be racing against motorsports fans who share your passion for racing.
iRacing is a thrilling on-line experience that offers:
- The best on-line racing simulation and service in the world with brilliant features and functionality
- Head-to-head competition - racing against real people
- Constant free automatic updates and improvements to the service
- Officially licensed cars that are engineered from the ground up in cooperation with real world race teams and using real-world physics
- Officially-licensed, exact replicas of the world’s greatest race tracks
- Officially-sanctioned racing organized by iRacing including the iRacing Pro Series (Road & Oval) and World Cup of iRacing
- An online community of racing enthusiasts over 30,000 strong
Ability to host your own private sessions or create your own private racing leagues
COMPLETE ONLINE
iRacing’s online competition is fun, challenging and rewarding. Racing against real people (everyday race fans through professionals like Dale Earnhardt, Jr.) will really get the adrenalin going. iRacing’s race licenses and safety rating system work to place drivers of similar skill in races together, keeping the competition tight.
Race, practice or qualify in a wide variety of cars and tracks at any time with members in official series or private-hosted races.
Complete race data , statistics and tracking of season championships available through easy-to-use member Web site.
Four 12-week seasons every year plus special events like the virtual Indy 500. Individual, club and regional champions are crowned seasonally.
ONLINE RACING DESCRIPTION
An iRacing.com membership provides entry into the newest form of competitive motorsport: internet racing. Internet racing is a fun, easy, and cost-effective way for race fans, sim racers and gamers alike to enjoy the thrill of the racetrack from the comfort of their home.
With professionally-sanctioned series running all the time, and four competition seasons each year, we’re always on track. We typically will have over 14 different racing series running each week. You’ll experience the challenge of global motorsport whenever you choose, and because iRacing.com automatically groups racers of similar skill levels together, everyone has a chance to compete. For those who compete in the physical world, it’s also a valuable opportunity to hone your racecraft in side-by-side racing, gaining experience that would otherwise require years and a financial commitment that for most is simply out of reach.
Driving & Testing
There’s more to iRacing.com than racing. The tracks and cars are at the beck and call of iRacers 24/7/365. That means you can drive any time, day or night, for as long as you like. No limits. Nada. Zero.
How you use that time is up to you. Practice your lines through the most demanding corners in the world. Work on your braking points, your downshifting technique. Camber, caster, toe-in, spring perch, damper rebound, tire pressures . . .experiment with an endless range of adjustments available on the race cars to find what best suits your driving style and experience level. Fine-tune the chassis for qualifying and race conditions. Learn to cope with an oversteering- and an understeering-car. Better yet, learn how to dial-out oversteer and understeer so you don’t have to cope with them. All for a fraction of what it would cost on the race track.
LEAGUE RACING ON IRACING.COM
In addition to the fully sanctioned racing that is offered on iRacing.com, you can also join or start your own league. What’s a league? Simple, it is a series that is run by a member, not by iRacing. Here is what makes it different:
- Race against who you want – password protected sessions allow you to control who can access your race
- Race when you want – tracks are open 24/7 and you set the schedule
- Race where you want – choose any car and track combination you like
- Score your way – you create the scoring system for your league
- Interested in league racing? All you need to do is become a member. Many leagues are open to all members and others are private. We even have a dedicated forum for league racing where you can find a league to join. Don’t see one that suits your interests, start your own!
ONLINE RACING COMMUNITY
iRacing’s member-based community is a great place to interact with fellow motorsport enthusiasts. From forums to chat rooms, in-sim voice chat to geographically-based clubs, iRacing welcomes members from all around the world and encourages members to get to know each other. iRacers often share racing tips, car setups or whatever is on their mind.
iRacing’s Member community features:
- Forums
- Voice and text chat rooms
- In-sim voice and text chat
- Geographically-based racing clubs and world-wide competition
- iRacingWorld – a social networking site for iRacing members
- inRacingNews.com, is one-stop shopping for all your racing news, including real-world racing, sim racing
- and complete coverage of iRacing competition
Pro Series & World Championships
At the top of the iRacing competition ladder is the NASCAR iRacing World Championship for oval racers and iRacing World Championship – Road Racing for road racers. The winners of these two series are, by definition, the best on-line racers in the world for that year! Both the road and oval series feature only the best 50 drivers in the world. To be one of the top 50 racers in the world and eligible for this elite series, one must compete in our qualifying series – the iRacing Pro Series.
COMMUNITY OVERVIEW
iRacing.com is a worldwide community of likeminded online racing enthusiasts and sim racers. The following list is a collection of sites from around the web which are created largely by the community and organizations interested in simracing. Sites range from setups, to paint schemes, sim racing news, discussion and leagues. If you have a site that you’d like to submit, please contact us.
WHO'S BEHIND IRACING?
iRacing.com was founded in September of 2004 by Dave Kaemmer and John Henry. Kaemmer was co-founder of Papyrus Design Group, developers of award-winning racing simulations including NASCAR Racing: 2003 Season and Grand Prix Legends. An active racer in the real world, Dave won 19 races in the Skip Barber Racing Championship and held the series lap record at Lime Rock Park.
Henry is principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group – the co-owner of a leading NASCAR team, Roush Fenway Racing – as well as an avid simracer.
The iRacing team combines more than 100 years of real-world racing experience with more than 50 years of successful racing simulation development.
The company has developed numerous corporate relationships in the motorsport industry, including agreements to develop models of tracks with International Speedway Corporation, Speedway Motorsports, Inc. and Panoz Motor Sports Group; vehicles with GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Riley Technologies, Radical Sportscars and U.S. Legends Cars International. iRacing is the official simulation partner of the Sports Car Club of America, Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup, Star Mazda Championship, Skip Barber Racing School and Australia’s V8 Super School.
In April, 2009 iRacing and NASCAR announced a partnership to develop NASCAR-sanctioned online racing series. A similar program with the Indy Racing League, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Dallara Automobili was announced in August, 2009.
Here is a chronology of titles from our internal team and the “godfather” of sim racing our CEO Dave Kaemmer:
The Excitement of iRacing
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