IRacing to add Dirt, First car is a super Late Model

[jp631989]

Suprised no one has talked about thisWent to Boyer's shop to scan his late models. First track is going to be Eldora.http://www.iracing.com/iracing-to-add-dirt-oval-racing/

[WisWildManFan]

I just got iracing last Friday. Very good with cars not lagging and skipping around. They break u up by experience so that's kind of cool too.

[jp631989]

Me too. Dirt should be good if they can get it right. Looks like you can host your own races. Hopefully they have heats.

[WisWildManFan]

If they can get the lates to drive like the rfactor mods it should be a lot of fun. Whenever I tried to race guys in DLM 16 there was a ton of lag

[chupp n bloomer fan]

Once they get it ironed out and more tracks, I'm in.

[SFrancisFan15]

Will this be for PC only?

[Bob Hubbard]

Thanks for the heads up .....

[chupp n bloomer fan]

Will this be for PC only?

Yeah, it's a membership based program. Very in depth, and only PC. I believe they are in with Papyrus. Who made the bad a$$ realistic NASCAR computer games.

[Bob Hubbard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl5DZyAKkCw&feature=youtu.be

[zyoung25]

A friend showed me this last week. Looks like my winters just got taken care of for a few years haha

[Matt49]

The co-founder of iRacing was one of the co-founders of Papyrus. Papyrus put out racing simulations that were WAY ahead of their time.

http://www.iracing.com/ownership-history/

[W2Racing09]

Will this be for PC only?

I think for the time being it is only PC. I seem to remember some discussion a long time ago about bringing it to console. None the less you would probably need a wheel to race. Some people race with a controller but I've never seen anyone competitive with a controller. This game is super realistic (to the point where there are several documented cases of people with no racing experience going into a mid or top level race car and being competitive/dominant I know this was the case with one of the Jetta TDI Cup drivers a few years back who won the series on iRacing and earned a seat in the real life series and did extremely well right off the bat with no prior real world experience). The asphalt racing is very well done, but I lost interest because of the lack of dirt racing. I was an iRacing subscriber for almost 5 years straight and I spent well over $1000 on cars and tracks. The one thing I'll say about iR is that it can get very expensive, especially if you are trying to start from square one at this point. The tracks running in the D License series (such as asphalt LMs, or SK Modifieds) are for the most part $11.95/each and with 10 different tracks it could be $119.50 plus the cost of the car (another $11.95) which makes it about $140 plus the monthly subscription to run your first season in D Class (of course the $140 is a one time cost, so if you are happy to run in the D Class then it is only the monthly sub after that until they release a new track and add it to the rotation).

The costs are definitely worth it though, it is very realistic and more importantly the racing online tends to be clean with very little messing around (so pretty much the opposite of iRacing). I expect that the Sprint Car is the ultimate top (A Level) division for Dirt (they have not announced one yet, but I'm positive that they won't stop at just the Late Model). It will probably be A: Sprint B: Late Model C: Modified D: Crate LM R: Legends and Street Stocks of course none of that is official but if you look at all the different divisions they have for Asphalt then you will see it wont take long before there are a bunch of choices on dirt.

[badacefaist19]

OOOOOHHHH! I'm gonna get a simulator.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

The co-founder of iRacing was one of the co-founders of Papyrus. Papyrus put out racing simulations that were WAY ahead of their time.
http://www.iracing.com/ownership-history/

Yes, they were wayyyyy ahead of their time.

[HoosierDirtFan]

Just seen on the iRacing Facebook page. iRacing coming to Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.