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iRacing: Daytona Past and Present

Jan 14 2012 07:55 PM | VELOCIPEDE in Software

Con l'annuncio che potete leggere integralmente a questo link, il team di iRacing ha annunciato l'arrivo per il prossimo mese di febbraio di una nuova versione aggiornata del mitico tracciato americano di Daytona, giusto in tempo per simulare anche noi la spettacolare gara 24 ore che si svolgerà nella realtà il 25 dello stesso mese.

Although the “new” Daytona International Speedway will be integrated into iRacing’s various online racing series in February, the service will continue to make the “old” Daytona available to members for use in hosted races and private leagues.  The new version of the track will be referred to as simply Daytona International Speedway, while the older version will be called Daytona circa 2007 (the last scan date prior to the 2011 scan).
“We anticipate the new track being ready in February, certainly in time for the iRacing.com Daytona 500 which is scheduled for Feb 25th, the day before the real world Daytona 500,” says Tony Gardner, president of iRacing.com.  “We are also rescheduling the iRacing.com GRAND-AM Continental Showdown and 2.4 Hours of Daytona races for mid-February and hope we can use the new track for those events as well.”
Gardner noted the new version of the track will not be in the 2012 Season 1 build, scheduled for release at the end of January.  He also said that while iRacing’s “new” Daytona will include night versions of both the oval and road courses, Daytona circa 2007 will remain exactly in its current form, which does not feature night racing.