World of Outlaws and iRacing bring dirt racing to prime time

[Returning to Dirt]

https://insidedirtracing.com/world-of-outlaws-and-iracing-set-to-bring-dirt-racing-to-prime-time/

Virtual dirt racing will take center stage on national television on Wednesday night

[BTExpress]

This has peaked my interest and I am looking forward to watching. Better than watching reruns of Swamp People.

[2muchstagger]

I have been following the the official iRacing WOO series for the last couple of years. No it isn’t real, but it is entertaining and they generally provide put on a good show. I joined iRacing last August, and I can tell you it isn’t easy. The official IRacing outlaw series runs on Monday nights at 8:00 central. They are broadcast on Twitch, YouTube and Facebook. Sprints are running their 10 week series at the moment and lates will start their 10 race season after the sprint season is complete.

[Zonks32x]

I suggest we all tune in tonight, even if you put it on and watch something else in another room.

Why??
Ratings drive programming, and what would all of us really enjoy? More dirt racing events on television. If this iracing deal does better than expected, it may lead to more real dirt racing on television when real racing returns.

One can hope.

[TerryM]

It’s not listed on our Dish guide, but we’ll be tuned in if we have the option to. We also have the DOD freebie as an option, so we’ll be watching some dirt racing one way or the other.

[smoothoperator32]

I have dish network and it's listed at 7 central

[NeedforLMspeed]

It's confirmed. Bloomers is officially washed up

[t3r3e3]

Counting caution laps is NA$CAR garbage. Why IRacing? Why? Listening to the NA$CAR clowns babble on while the laps disappear under yellow on a virtual race is stupid.

[t3r3e3]

It's confirmed. Bloomers is officially washed up

To be fair, Pedregon was a dart with no feathers. Can’t go from the wall to the infield and not expect someone to be there.

[lokwaidid]

that was a fun show because it wasn't scripted. it may be a game, but it was still real players.

[TerryM]

Counting caution laps is NA$CAR garbage. Why IRacing? Why? Listening to the NA$CAR clowns babble on while the laps disappear under yellow on a virtual race is stupid.

They have one hour of TV time to get two features in. I didn’t have a problem with it.

[TerryM]

I have dish network and it's listed at 7 central

It finally showed up on our guide around 7:00 or so est.

[kazual]

Counting caution laps is understandable, they have a schedule to keep. I’m thinking this TV sim racing might have some legs.

[huskerdirt]

Counting caution laps is NA$CAR garbage. Why IRacing? Why? Listening to the NA$CAR clowns babble on while the laps disappear under yellow on a virtual race is stupid.

In a normal Iracing race. The caution laps are counted, that’s just how it is. They’ve made progress towards not counting caution laps. I’m pretty sure they released it and there was glitch in it. It might be back now for hosted/league stuff but I haven’t been in one that has had it though. They’ve added the GWC recently, so it’s not like the developers are completely ignoring it.

[t3r3e3]

If they’re going to count caution laps, a better idea would be to just make both features 25 laps, and do not count the cautions. While not quite as bad as the Eldora truck race, the late model feature was about 40% caution laps. For what it’s worth Madden was steady climbing from the tail until getting caught in a wreck, and McKinney/Ivey looked good.