If you’re an iRacer that likes to follow the real life NASCAR schedule, and race it, you may have been running in the NASCAR iRacing series that runs a 50% distance race twice a week. Next year, iRacing has announced a new series for those of us that prefer road racing. It’ll be called the iRacing Road Warrior Series and will have races or special events using just about every car in the service. It also looks like the races that used to be on the iRacing World Tour, like the 2.4 Hours of Daytona, is now on this schedule.
Here’s the details on how the series will work .
Description of Series: This official iRacing series will feature road racing from all around the world. The series will utilize a variety of cars with almost half the races being multi-class. It includes 20 races spanning all 12 months of the calendar with points being tracked all year long. Race in all of them or just the ones you want.
Race Times:
Saturday 1:00 GMT (Friday 8:00 PM est)
Saturday 20:00 GMT (Saturday 3:00 PM est)
Sunday 1:00 GMT (Saturday 8:00 PM est)
Sunday 12:00 GMT (Sunday 7:00AM est)
*Note that we will not be adjusting times for daylight savings. GMT start time will always remain the same. You will need to convert to local time and allow for DST if your location observes it.
Race Distance: This will vary week to week. Some races will be timed others will be laps but generally speaking a lot of variety in the race distances.
iRacing member eligibility: All members in good standing with at least a Road D 4.0 are eligible to participate in this series. You do not have to compete in all races.
Server Farms: US and Australian only
Resets: None
Race car setup: Open car sets so you can build your own, use a shared set from another member or use the iRacing setup that will be provided for each car participating in the series.
Race warm up: 10 minutes
Number of races and drop weeks: 20 races with 2 drop weeks
Field size: Will vary by race
Cautions: local only
Qualifying: 20 minute open qualifying session, 30 minutes prior to each race session. Your fastest qualifying time will carry to all race session you join. You do not need to qualify in order to race.
Divisions: Standard 10 divisions
Splits: Splits will be set by iRating
Gridding: Grids will be set first by qualifying time, then by iRating.
Points: Standard point system will be used. Note that for multi-class races only the class where you score the most points will be used. However you can race in all classes if you like but again only the car class in which you score the most points in a given week will be used for series scoring. That said, it is a moot point because standard iRacing scoring takes your top 25% race performances and with only 4 races per week, it is simply going to take your highest scored race regardless of car class in a given week.
Here’s the schedule ! How many races do you plan on running in ? I may try to make em all and compete for a title !
