iRacing's Upcoming Releases

[Yoeri Gijsen]

Let's keep a little thread going about what iRacing has in store for us in the (near) future. Some things have been announced, some targets have been rumoured and who knows what you have picked up in the darkest recesses of the net...

Below I will put up some things I find or found. Please post any news, rumours or hints below so one of the moderators can update this thread.

Cars

• McLaren MP4-12C GT3 - Next up, but time unspecified
• Lotus 49 - Next up, but time unspecified
• RUF Rt12R - October 2012
• Honda Civic BTCC - May/July 2013
• Honda HSV-010 - May/July 2013
• NASCAR Sprint Cup 2013 models - TBA

Tracks

• Auto Club Speedway - To be scanned (confirmed!)
• Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve - To be scanned (confirmed!)
• Hongaroring - Plans
• Kansas Speedway - To be scanned (confirmed!)
• Lukas Oil Raceway - In production
• Rockingham Speedway - October 2012
• Interlagos - To be scanned (confirmed!)
• Miller Motorsports Park - To be scanned
• New Jersey Motorsports Park - To be scanned
• Long Beach - 2013
• Oran Park Raceway - October 2012
• Tsukuba Circuit - In production
• Willow Springs - Scanned but on hold

Features

• Crew chief & spotter functionality - February 2013 at the earliest, but probably later
• Driver swaps - February 2013 at the earliest, but probably later
• DirectX 11 and x64 support - Long term project
• Dirt and oil build up on windscreen - Side project
• Enhanced sounds (DirectSound > XAudio2) - Groundwork in next build; the rest later
• Exhaust fire - Side project
• Teams - February 2013 at the earliest, but probably later
• Time transition - Long term and after DirectX 11

Your turn!

 

[Xosé Estrada]

Don't know if somebody mentioned it but the Cadillac will be free

 

[Hampus Andersson]

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Late April. With Motegi.

 

[Greg Carr]

I think the Cadillac is growing on me, if they can make it sound like or better then the Corvette that would be great!

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

Don't know if somebody mentioned it but the Cadillac will be free

would be great. source?

 

[Dario Jagar]

http://twitter.com/#!/iRacing/status/178233324941230080

 

[Dazmaniac]

iRacing engineers coming to UK end of this month to continue data gathering for McLaren MP4 12C....

https://twitter.com/#!/iRacing/status/178261238411829248

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Someone wake me up when i can take a seat in this,

To compliment the Mclaren, this would do just fine
Slightly better sounding car

 

[Dazmaniac]

According to their twitter feed, iRacing have just signed Donington Park to be added to the service.

https://twitter.com/#!/iRacing/status/179284110131478528

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

yummie yummie, don't know a chap who doesn't like the string of sweeping downhill turns there following t1. nice one.

 

[Luke Chard-Maple]

Donington has been confirmed it seems!

 

[Hampus Andersson]

 

[Gareth Hickling]

I wish they would hurry up and get the MP4-12C or the Lotus 49 out. Though i'm sure the 49' is not going to be one of the cars I race full time.

 

[Danny Asbury]

Urgh, pedal shifters on GT cars is so wrong...

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Urgh, pedal shifters on GT cars is so wrong...

Pretty sure it´s paddles

It´s faster then sequential so they do whatever they can to gain time Just got legal in ALMS 2011 i believe.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

The pecking order of the road cars are this,

CTS-V R
Mclaren MP4-12c
"Unknown" touring car (BTCC perhaps)
Lotus 49
New Dallara

 

[Hampus Andersson]

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

The pecking order of the road cars are this,

...
"Unknown" touring car (BTCC perhaps)
...

my bet would be the Chevy Cruze since Chevrolet is one of the brands supporting iRacing. would make sense. also it is probably the car which atm most embodies Touring Car sports worldwide.

 

[Jamie Shorting]

They licensed that car how long ago and that is all that they have done?!!! lol. Kunos finished the Ferrari graphical model in a week and his company is a fraction of the size of iracing. That is hilarious.

 

[Greg Carr]

They licensed that car how long ago and that is all that they have done?!!! lol. Kunos finished the Ferrari graphical model in a week and his company is a fraction of the size of iracing. That is hilarious.

I am sure the Cadillac slowed them down because we didn't hear anything about it and all of a sudden it was done and going to be released at the end of the current season. I know there was a issue with the data that iRacing first had, looks like they have something to work with now!