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iRacing member Egil Sandfeld presents a new update for his Digital Race Engineer tool for the iRacing Online Racing Service bringing the tool to V2.0. The DRE is an audio system with built-in situation awareness which monitors your racing and surrounding conditions in order to optimize your racing performance. This virtual crew chief gives you important data and information and listens to you like a real race engineer would. With the Digital Race Engineer, you are in full control of driving whether that be in front of your screens or in Virtual Reality. The DRE has over 170 commands and 20 different types of feedback for iRacing! Be in control of your car and settings, dial in pit stop adjustments, decide with your voice whats on the screen and UI and many other features. The feedback system provides an interactive digital race engineer who alerts you about more than 20 various topics. The DRE gives you car warnings like risen oil temperature, low water levels, engaged pit speed limiter, brake or throttle pedals hanging and much more. Tutti i dettagli a questo link .

A quasi un mese dal lancio dell'ultima build "dirt", ovvero dedicata alle gare su sterrato, il team di iRacing annuncia la nuova partnership con la serie USAC (United States Auto Club), grazie alla quale potremo metterci al volante delle divertenti Sprint Car da terra senza alettoni. iRacing.com announced today that is joining forces with the United States Auto Club (USAC) as the famed sanctioning body’s premier online motorsports simulation partner. The agreement will see iRacing develop online racing series featuring digital versions of the cars that compete in the popular AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Championship. “We’re excited to partner with USAC in creating official iRacing series for our 410 and 360 non-winged sprint cars,” says Steve Myers, Executive Vice President and Executive Producer for iRacing.com. “The AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Championship is rightly known for some of the most competitive racing to be found on dirt – or any surface for that matter. I’m sure sim racers everywhere will be eager to sling some dirt in iRacing’s non-wing USAC sprint cars.” Although the partnership initially focuses on sprint cars, iRacing’s future plans include additional USAC-based online series on legendary dirt tracks like Eldora, Kokomo and Belleville raceways. “Joining forces with iRacing enables us to make an exciting new dimension in racing available to our fans in the United States and around the world,” says USAC President and CEO Kevin Miller. “We’re thrilled with the opportunity and look forward to participating in the rapidly growing sim racing community in the months and years to come.”

Il team di iRacing è al lavoro per migliorare il sistema dei danni del simulatore americano. Steve Myers in persona ci mostra infatti un breve filmato che evidenzia le nuove parti "danneggiabili" (e smontabili) della BMW Z4 GT3, che impattano contro i coni della pista e possono quindi colpire e presumibilmente danneggiare, anche le altre vetture. Chissà se arriveremo a questo livello....

Sarà disponibile il 29 marzo, probabilmente in nottata, la nuova ed attesa build di iRacing, ricca di novità e contenuti inediti. Oltre alle varie migliorie e bug fix solite, la nuova release del simulatore americano ci metterà finalmente a disposizione le nuove vetture e tracciati da sterrato, molto in voga negli USA. Con varie scontistiche spiegate qui sotto, possiamo acquistare le Dirt Late Model, Dirt Winged Sprint Car ed i circuiti di Eldora Speedway, Volusia Speedway Park e Williams Grove Speedway. Per gli appassionati di stock car invece, la nuova build offre il 2017 NASCAR Monster Energy rules package, ovvero un pacchetto di aggiornamento con tutte le nuove regole 2017 della stagione Nascar e la nuova Toyota Monster Energy Cup. Sim racers around the world have been looking forward to getting down and dirty ever since iRacing announced plans to develop its dirt racing feature. Now that dirt racing is a reality on iRacing, it’s important to understand that racing on digital dirt differs from racing on virtual pavement in significant ways. Who better to explain some of those differences than Tyler Hudson? A two time iRacing Daytona 500 winner and 2013 NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series champion, the Brandon, MS resident also has plenty of real world experience racing on dirt having run a full Late Model season at Jackson Motor Speedway as well as scores of Street Stock and Mini-Stock races, not to mention besting all comers in the dirt portion of the 2014 PEAK Stock Car Dream Challenge. Since joining the iRacing staff as Competition and Customer Service Associate, Hudson has been deeply involved in the testing and development of the iRacing dirt tracks and cars. As with pavement cars, iRacers can purchase dirt cars at any and all performance level, but Tyler advises dirt track newbies to start slowly, so to speak. “If you're new to dirt you would definitely want to start by doing single car testing sessions with the Street Stock or Legends Cars,” he says. “Once you’re comfortable turning laps by yourself jump into a open practice session and start getting comfortable driving the car around other people. When you reach the stage where you feel like you can control the car in traffic, go ahead and attempt your first race." Click here or here to read the full story. Great things come to those who wait. At long last, dirt track racing arrives on iRacing on March 29, and a slew of fantastic cars and legendary tracks are now available for pre-sale. Where to begin? How about with a couple of three-fers? With either the Dirt Late Model or the Dirt Winged Sprint Car packages you get three cars for one low price. In the case of the Late Models, you get the Limited, Pro and Super Late Model for $11.95. Or if you prefer racing without fenders, $11.95 buys you the 305, 360 and 410 winged Sprint Cars. Of course you’ll need some place to play in the dirt. Where better than three of America’s most legendary half miles: Eldora, Volusia and Williams Grove Speedways, available for pre-sale at $11.95 apiece. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to be among the first to own these sensational new cars and tracks – and to experience this exciting new dimension in sim racing! Click Here to add the Dirt Late Model package to your garage for $11.95. Click Here to add the Dirt Winged Sprint Car package to your garage for $11.95. Click on Eldora Speedway, Volusia Speedway Park and Williams Grove Speedway to your catalogue of race tracks for $11.95. Better yet take advantage of our volume discount packages: 10% off for purchases of 3 or more pieces of content 15% off for purchases of 6 or more pieces of content 20% off if you own 40 or more pieces of paid content 30% off if the purchase puts you at 100% content ownership Click Here for complete details on our volume discount packages. Yes, dirt oval racing is coming to iRacing on March 29th but so are the 2017 NASCAR Monster Energy rules package updates to the iRacing cup cars! Senior Vehicle Dynamics Engineer and former Team Penske Race Engineer, Steve Reis explains. The aero map on the iRacing cup cars has been completely reworked to represent the 2017 body style and NASCAR rules package. We have also updated the suspension geometry and made adjustments to the garage setup ranges to represent typical 2017 NASCAR chassis/setup ranges and rules package. o Minimum front springs increased to 500lb/in o Maximum front swaybar preload decreased to -500lb-ft o Swaybar rates decreased to more realistic values o Maximum Trackbar rake set to 4” o Maximum Rear Toe set to +1/8” LR and 0 RR. o Minimum LR spring increased to 100lb/in o Superspeedway frame heights set to 6” | 8” So what does that mean to the driver? 2013 NASCAR Peak Antifreeze champion Tyler Hudson explains. From a driver’s standpoint the most noticeable difference will be that entry and exit do not have that “light” feeling anymore. In the current physics model when you lift for the corner the front feels like it disconnects from the track and you use minimal steering inputs to set the car into the corner. With the 2017 update the tires feel more connected to the track and that feel carries from entry, center, and exit much better than it currently does. The chassis feels stiffer, more planted and “in” the race track, making everything feel much more natural and in control. Currently, during most races drivers will short pit after 30 laps or so on a mile and a half track simply because the car is too loose and the tire fall-off is so dramatic. With this new update, on a mile and a half tracks the balance stays consistent throughout a whole fuel run and the tire fall-off tops-out around 2.6-3.0 seconds with a reasonably well-balanced race car. So in summary, the update will make the cars a lot more realistic in terms of suspension geometry and aero. Also, the new garage limits will force people into a more realistic box in terms of the setups they can create. The end result is a more controllable driving physics model . . . and this was accomplished even without adding what we have learned from dirt development to the tire model! Finally it is our hope to get the new Toyota Monster Energy Cup car 3D model into next week’s build. But we are cutting it close. If it does not arrive on the 29th expect it shortly after. Along with the 2017 contingency updates the release next week will have the updated rear spoiler and shark fins on the Ford and Chevy Cup cars as well.

Presenting: The Bullring - a 3/8 mile oval track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway - coming to iRacing March 7th.

Con l'ormai imminente arrivo in iRacing della nuova modalità di gare su sterrato (l'ormai famoso "dirt"), il team del simulatore americano annuncia la nuova partnership con la World of Outlaws, ovvero la serie USA che include le tre categorie delle gare che si disputano su sterrato. Aspettiamoci quindi di vedere prima o poi un pilota virtuale "dirt" correre su un vero ovale tutto sporco di fango! Qui di seguito il comunicato stampa ed il trailer di lancio. iRacing.com and the World of Outlaws announced today that iRacing will become the World of Outlaws exclusive online racing partner. The agreement brings the world’s leading online motorsports simulation service together with North America’s premier dirt track racing series and comes as iRacing prepares to launch its highly anticipated dirt racing feature on March 29. Known around the racing world as “The Greatest Show on Dirt,” the World of Outlaws sanctions nearly 140 events a year throughout North America as part of the World of Outlaws Craftsman® Sprint Car Series and the World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series, while iRacing’s 235,000 plus member subscribers race dozens of precisely-modeled cars on laser-scanned versions of nearly 100 of the world’s greatest ovals and road courses. “We couldn’t be happier than to be associated with the World of Outlaws at the dawn of our online dirt racing feature,” says Steve Myers, Executive Vice President and Executive Producer for iRacing.com. “iRacers around the world are already eager to try their hands at dirt racing, and our partnership with the World of Outlaws will ramp up their enthusiasm to another level.” “This is really exciting news for World of Outlaws fans and competitors,” says Ben Geisler, Chief Marketing Officer of the World of Outlaws. “iRacing is recognized around the world for delivering a remarkably authentic racing experience, and we can’t wait for our fans to see for themselves what it’s like to race our cars at legendary tracks like Eldora, Williams Grove, and Volusia Speedways.” The agreement is part of a long-term commitment by iRacing and the World of Outlaws to integrate their brands in the dirt and online racing communities. In addition to the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car and Late Model Series, the World of Outlaws’ grassroots sanctioning body, DIRTcar Racing will be partnering with iRacing to bring authenticity to the entry level divisions featured as part of the dirt launch. DIRTcar Racing sanctions thousands of races in more than a dozen divisions ranging from Street Stocks to Pro Late Models and more at hundreds of tracks across the United States and Canada. In collaboration, iRacing plans to develop online versions of a variety of DIRTcar Racing series as a core element of its new dirt racing feature. To learn more about World of Outlaws and to take advantage of special offers visit www.worldofoutlaws.com