There are always debates about the popularity of sim racing and each individual title. So it's helpful to see some official numbers, as it's revealed that the 2026 iRacing Daytona 24 Hours featured 21,208 drivers across the weekend of the special event. As one of the biggest races, and marking the start of the special events season, it's always popular. 2025 saw a recording … [Read more...]
NASCAR 25 Update Adds Portland International Raceway
The official game of the American motorsport series gets a new circuit, as the latest NASCAR 25 update adds Portland International Raceway. Part of a January patch from developers Monster Games, it's worth noting the new circuit is only available in Quick Race and Online modes with the Xfinity and ARCA cars. But as part of a free update across all platforms, it's a decent … [Read more...]
Why Isn’t World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing on Game Pass?
Back in 2022, iRacing published their first venture outside of their core sim racing service, with the first licensed dirt racing title developed by Monster Games. As a more accessible option utilising some of the shared assets and technology of iRacing, it must have done fairly well as a sequel was released in 2024, including a PC version. But why isn't World of Outlaws: Dirt … [Read more...]
iRacing Arcade Release Is Delayed Until February 2026
Originally scheduled to launch at the start of December, the iRacing Arcade release is delayed until February 2026 for the PC, with console versions still arriving later in the same year. A demo allowing you to try out the Porsche Cup car at Tsukuba arrived in October, and is still available with more than 100,000 downloads via Steam. Apparently the extra time before the PC … [Read more...]
The 2025 iRacing Black Friday Sale Is Available Now
If you're thinking about trying the sim, stocking up on renewal months or looking to revive an expired account, the 2025 iRacing Black Friday sale is available now. There are discounts for each type of iRacing account, and you can even support ORD for no cost by using our referral link and crediting dan.thornton@onlineracedriver.com in the ReferredBy field on the sign up … [Read more...]
The 2025 iRacing FF1600 Festival Is This Weekend
Taking place just a week after the real world BRSCC Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch, the 2025 iRacing FF1600 Festival is this weekend. Having been organised since 1972 inititally at Snetterton and then at Brands Hatch from 1976, it's a celebration of the Formula Ford open wheel cars, with previous winners including Jenson Button, Mark Webber, Eddie Irvine, Johnny … [Read more...]
iRacing 2025 Season 4 Patch 3 Released
As always, the mid-season updates tend to be focused more on tweaks and slight improvements rather than massive overhauls, and that seems to remain the case with iRacing 2025 Season 4 Patch 3 now available. Standard official setups have been updates for a few cars, the Ferrari 499P now has the hybrid system's cornering mode, and the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO now has … [Read more...]
iRacing and Cosworth Partner On A Free Telemetry System
When I hear the name Cosworth I immediately think of fast Fords and legendary DFV engine used in Formula One across three decades. But obviously times have changed as iRacing and Cosworth partner on a free telemetry system available to all active subscribers. The multi-year agreement means Cosworth are an official data analysis partner, and their PI Toolbox software will be … [Read more...]
iRacing Studios Launches As A New Racing Game Brand
Having added console and more simple racing games alongside the core motorsport simulation, there's some business restructing as iRacing Studios launches as a new racing game brand. Now iRacing will sit within iRacing Studios, alongside NASCAR 25, the World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing series, ExoCross, iRacing Arcade and all future titles. Which is probably more about doing some … [Read more...]
iRacing 2025 Season 3 Patch 3 Released
A third update has arrived with iRacing 2025 Season 3 Patch 3 released with changes including an adustment of how driver divisions have been separated out. Not every pays attention to their division championships, but the splits were changed for the start of Season 3 and apparently it didn't have the desired effect. So now they're being adjusted a bit more. Most notable … [Read more...]
Race For Your Country In The 2025 Four Nations Esports Cup
Sim racers from the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand can race for your country in the 2025 Four Nations Esports Cup, which is organised by Motorsport UK (along with the corresponding Motorsport organisations in each country), and takes place on iRacing. After starting in 2022 as a competition between the UK and Australia, it became a three-way battle with New … [Read more...]
iRacing Partners With The NASCAR Euro Series
There's one sim racing platform that has dominated oval series for years, and that's expanding as iRacing partners with the NASCAR Euro Series. The combination of V8 stock cars and European circuits has been around since 2008 under various names, becoming an officially sanctioned series in 2012. EuroNASCAR cars and engines are built by Team FJ badged as various … [Read more...]
iRacing 2025 Season 3 Patch 1 Released
With the big Season 3 update launched on June 10th during the start of Week 13, further fixes and improvements have already arrived with iRacing 2025 Season 3 Patch 1 released. General changes include enabling the Connection Black Flag for hosted sessions, so you can enable an automatic return to the pits for people with intermittent and unstable server issues. There was … [Read more...]
Adaptive AI Opponents Arrive With iRacing 2025 Season 2
While it's always been seen as the leader in competitive online sim racing, the single player AI experience has always been pretty good in iRacing. But it's about to get a lot more interesting as Adaptive AI opponents arrive with iRacing 2025 Season 2. AI racers were first introduced towards the end of 2019 and start of 2020, and since then more cars and tracks have been … [Read more...]
World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing 24 Adds Huset’s Speedway
World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing 24 adds Huset's Speedway as part of the Gold Edition for PC and consoles and the original Season Pass for the game. The circuit is also available as standalone DLC if you've purchase the base game on Xbox or PlayStation joining Oswego as optional DLC. The 3/8 mile dirt oval track opened in 1954, carved out of a soybean field by farmer and … [Read more...]