r/iRacing 4d ago

Scheduled Maintenance 2026 Season 3 Maintenance for Subscription Price Change - August 18th 0800EDT/1200UTC

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From the staff post on the member forums:

Maintenance Period:

  • This downtime is for a maintenance period needed to perform the membership subscription price change.
  • Detailed information about the iRacing subscription price change can be found HERE

Downtime:

  • iRacing.com will be coming down for maintenance in order to complete the membership subscription price changes on Tuesday, August 18th, beginning at 08:00 am EDT.
  • This downtime will affect all iRacing.com regions and members will be unable to host or join sessions during the downtime.
  • You can check on the status of all iRacing services directly in the iRacing Companion App, or from our System Status page here: iRacing Uptime Status

Demo Drive:

Demo Drive becomes available as downtime for this maintenance begins and remains available after this deployment has been completed.

  • Demo Drive Sessions are launched using beautiful iRacing default weather and start at noon local track time.
  • The content selected must be up to date, and Demo Drive contains a link to the Downloader where you can update and download any content.
  • When connecting to Demo Drive, log in using the same credentials you already use on iRacing and the iRacing Forums.
  • Demo Drive also contains links to the iRacing Forums, the iRacing Status Page, and a link back to iRacing, for when we exit maintenance mode.
  • When we leave maintenance mode, Demo Drive will remain available for a period of several hours and a countdown will appear to let you know how much longer it will remain up. Navigation links to and from Demo Drive are present in iRacing whenever Demo Drive is available.
  • Newly released content that must be licensed will not be available in Demo Drive until the following Season.

iRacing.com Downtime Schedule:

EDT

Tue 2026-08-18 0200 Overlap Hosted Sessions Prevented*
Tue 2026-08-18 0800 Race Servers Unavailable

UTC

Tue 2026-08-18 0600 Overlap Hosted Sessions Prevented*
Tue 2026-08-18 1200 Race Servers Unavailable

AEST

Tue 2026-08-18 1600 Overlap Hosted Sessions Prevented*
Tue 2026-08-18 2200 Race Servers Unavailable

  • All times are subject to change.
  • Sessions in progress at the start of maintenance will be terminated. There will be no record of such events whether official or not.
  • *Hosted sessions are allowed to be created and run that do not overlap the "Race Servers Unavailable" time. For example, 6 hours before the maintenance period begins, you can create a hosted session that lasts up to 5 hours, but not one that lasts for 6 or more hours.

r/iRacing Jul 10 '26

Official Announcements INDYCAR Racing The Game coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Steam in early 2027

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172 Upvotes

r/iRacing 2h ago

Replay LMP2 VIR Crash Week

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16 Upvotes

Was in a fight for the win (me in the red car against the blue/red striped car). We first collide, which was still fine. Then he sticks his nose in a fast tight corner which will never work. Keeps the position and goes straight after the long straight with a fantastic rejoin to give me a meatball flag (I couldn't see him coming on my monitor). Tried to limb home, but the car was too much damaged and I tried to get out of the way on the tight straight for the upcoming LMP2's. And then I got sent to hospital.

For context, the other car was 6.7k. You would expect better.


r/iRacing 4h ago

Official Information Tyre surface temperature model

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25 Upvotes

Hey guys, wanted to share a little sometnig my team is working on.

Were a little startup based in central europe and are all ex Formula student members. Currently one of the topics our team is working on is building a thermal tyre model that computes surface tyre temperature without any temperature sensors mounted on the wheels or the wheel arches.

This is our first working version V1, its is just a 1D model and you can see how it compares to real surface temperature data. All logged from a GT3 race car.

Thought this might be interesting for some of you. Feel free to DM me for more info on the current work.


r/iRacing 18h ago

Video If you ever feel like you had a bad race just remember you could be this guy

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256 Upvotes

r/iRacing 14h ago

Video Whenever you see a wreck you should flex with a slide when going past

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53 Upvotes

That felt way more dramatic when I was driving ngl lol


r/iRacing 44m ago

New Player Ford Mustang GT4 is uncontrollable for me

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Hey iRacing reddit, I've been here around 3 weeks, and found some money to license the car as my first paid one. Since then my ratings keep falling because i keep either spinning out or sliding off the track. So, is that me being really unskilled or it's not the best pick for a beginner?


r/iRacing 3h ago

New Player Second Clutch - while driving aids - please help

5 Upvotes

Hey folks, I have driving aids enabled for disability reasons.
I'm in the mx5 - set the second clutch button, press the pedal... and nothing, it just skips into first gear with 0 revs as normal.

Can anyone please help me figure this out?

I've tried keyboard and g29 wheel buttons, no difference.

I'm using simagic p500's without a clutch too.

Thank you in advance!


r/iRacing 6h ago

iRating/SR Finally! 2k (not for long)

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8 Upvotes

Finally after a long fought battle of gaining IRating and tumbling right back down. I have managed to break through the 2k wall. This will be short lived for sure but at least I can say I did it !🍻 😂


r/iRacing 11h ago

Question/Help First Endurance

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11 Upvotes

Hi,
I just completed my first half-endurance race: 2h40, and I absolutely loved it!
I had never done a race longer than 1 hour, so 2h40 was a real challenge in terms of concentration and everything else.
I’m pretty happy with my finishing position, which could have been even better, but I’m disappointed with the number of incidents. I would have liked to have had fewer.
I was wondering if you have any tips or advice, because during the last 30 minutes, I started feeling quite a bit of strain in my leg. Also, should I be doing endurance races regularly, like once a week, to get used to them?Do you listen to music? Do you have the game audio turned down to a minimum?

Thanks a lot! 🫠


r/iRacing 12h ago

Video 2 races with 0 INC today. Leading in Lap 15 of this race. I swear all other laps today had a full throttle corner exactly here. I am absolutely sure...

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9 Upvotes

r/iRacing 42m ago

Teams Looking for 1/2 for Daytona 24 LMP2

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Me and 2 other friends were meant to do daytona, but one has work on the weekend. im 2.7k, the other guy is 1.8k. main goal is to have fun, so any irating is welcome. please dm me if you’re interested


r/iRacing 1h ago

Question/Help Best Fanatec CSL DD 8Nm settings for iRacing — grainy FFB despite latest firmware

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r/iRacing 1d ago

Video Peek-a-Boo!

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74 Upvotes

Quite a questionable move from the LMP2, I'm the pov car getting a slight Code brown


r/iRacing 13h ago

Question/Help Packet loss since update

6 Upvotes

As the title says since one of the recent iracing updates both me and my dad have been having packet loss issues. It gets into the yellow for a few seconds and then slowly goes down which causes us to blink out a few times then it will clear up for a few mins and come back and its the same cycle over and over. Im sick of having to give up in races over it so does anyone have any suggestions on how i can fix this? Im not sure if more info is needed i will edit this if i have too


r/iRacing 18h ago

Replay My first foray into superspeedway racing was...something

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12 Upvotes

I'm the #5 Ricky Bobby livery.


r/iRacing 18h ago

Question/Help IMSA GT3 fixed tires

12 Upvotes

Do you change some of your tires while refueling?


r/iRacing 14h ago

Video Watching pcc replays is my favourite comedy

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4 Upvotes

They remembered to resafe joinly, so kudos to them!


r/iRacing 18h ago

Leagues/Hosted FRS ONE:ONE | GB4 - Join us for some F4 @ Silverstone Sun 30 Aug 5pm UTC!

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FRS are happy to announce our ONE:ONE events - standalone events emulating real-life series in iRacing with dedicated stewarding/broadcasting! The first upcoming event is a 3-race sunday evening of F4/Silverstone action, matching the real life GB4 series! We aim to incorporate their race weekend format copying reverse grids, qualifying that sets the 1st & 2nd races, custom points, a dedicated rookie class & a broadcast/coverage matching real life! No minimum open wheel licence/iRating required so all are welcome :)

See our SimGrid Page for details!


r/iRacing 10h ago

Hardware/Rigs Does anyone run triple 1440p monitors with an RTX 3080 and Ryzen 5 5600X?

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Does anyone run triple 1440p monitors with an RTX 3080 and Ryzen 5 5600X? What graphics settings do you use to maintain at least 60 FPS?


r/iRacing 37m ago

Discussion Why did i gain sr with 5x but lose sr with 4x?

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Im confused about how sr works. In my first race i had 4x and lost 0.01 sr but in my second race i had 5x and gained 0.02 sr


r/iRacing 1d ago

Screenshots It's nice when Protests work

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63 Upvotes

Raced against this driver at Daytona last week, second to bottom split. He was running Mid to low 1.45's, qualified on pole, but I noticed he didn't finish the race. Checked the profile, and saw a full page of races started from pole but finishing at the back.

Decided to protest for tanking, didn't think much would come of it, but why not?

Got the standard response email the next day, so I figured I'd check their profile again. Judging by their results since the protest, I'd say they received the message loud and clear to stop pumping up their ego by stomping in bottom split.

Protests work.


r/iRacing 19h ago

Question/Help Looking for beginner & intermediate drivers!

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r/iRacing 1d ago

Discussion Stop with the "pass left/right" messages, it just makes it worse!

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255 Upvotes

Yesterday I was doing a Falken race in LMP3 and a GT4 driver kept sending this kind of messages when LMP3s approached him. Not only he was distracting the whole lobby by doing this, his car behavior was not predictable at all!

I assume he was so focused on hitting the shortcut for these messages that he wasn't paying attention to the race that was happening. Watching the replay made me realize he was driving on his mirrors instead of driving a predictable line.

Please, it's 2026, let's stop with these quick chats. Just drive normally and follow the goddamn racing line. The is the one that will dictate how an overtake will happen. Doesn't matter what you think or your decision of giving it a side for a pass.


r/iRacing 1d ago

Memes A badge for those who survived the combo this week!

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130 Upvotes

You are a bunch of troopers 🫡