iRacing.com™ - iRacing & NASCAR to Start Online Racing Series

By: VirtualR.net

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iRacing.com has announced what arguably is their biggest partnership yet as the online racing simulation and NASCAR will be joining forces to form an official NASCAR online racing series starting 2010.

The NASCAR-sanctioned series will be organised and hosted by iRacing and will allow NASCAR fans from all over the world to race each other as well as real life NASCAR drivers. With pretty much all NASCAR tracks either available or announced and cars from all top three NASCAR divisions already in the simulation, iRacing is pretty well suited to this new challenge. More info on the planned series is due to be released later this year.

This agreement blurs the line between real and simulation racing even further, a partnership that will probably be able to attract masses of people to sim racing. Spearheaded by its signature series, the Sprint Cup, NASCAR is the United State’s number one spectator sport as the races are usually followed by more than 100,000 fans trackside. Worldwide, NASCAR is one of the best known brands in motorsport, being televised to over 150 countries.

“I’ve been involved with iRacing since the alpha-testing days, and even used the service to prepare for my own testing and racing,” NASCAR superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr. commented “But the main thing is being able to get online pretty much anytime and have fun racing with other people who enjoy it as much as I do. I’ve helped iRacing develop their stock cars, but this isn’t something I’d do for money; it’s about having fun.”