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iRacing has deployed its 2025 Season 1 update, bringing iRacers a nice selection of new features and fresh content including the Acura NSX GT3 EVO 22, BMW M2 CS Racing, Mustang and Camaro Gen 3 Supercars, and the Ferrari 499P prototype.
Track-wise, iRacing added a new Dirt oval in the form of the Huset’s Speedway, the British Thruxton Circuit, and two new layouts for the already available New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
You can check out the full 2025 Season 1 Changelog here.
2025 Season 1 Highlights:
- Acura NSX GT3 EVO 22: iRacing’s latest GT3 joins the fray after three seasons competing in IMSA, including a Petit Le Mans victory to cap off its inaugural campaign.
- BMW M2 CSR (FREE!): Homologated for TCX racing and competing worldwide in the M2 CS Racing Cup, our newest BMW joins the service as base content that all users will receive for free.
- Ferrari 499P: Fresh off back-to-back wins at Le Mans, Ferrari’s first factory prototype in half a century joins our fleet in multiple series, including a redesigned Prototype Challenge.
- Supercars Gen 3: The newest generation of Supercars makes its long-awaited iRacing debut, as the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang take to the track. The previous-generation Supercars have been shifted to Legacy content.
- Huset’s Speedway: One of our most requested dirt ovals, Huset’s is a World of Outlaws mainstay and joins the ranks as our first-ever track from South Dakota.
- Thruxton Circuit: Known as one of England’s fastest circuits, Thruxton becomes the latest addition to our strong British track lineup, and comes complete with a fully drivable infield runway!
- New Hampshire Motor Speedway: NHMS not only gets an art upgrade but also has two of its layouts—Road Course & Road Course with North Oval—added to AI Racing for the new season.
- Demo Drive: Formerly known as Test Drive, this service—which allows you to turn solo laps with any content you already own—has been rebuilt from the ground up, and will be integrated directly into the iRacing UI moving forward.
- Debris Refresh: This comprehensive update to debris includes new surface parameters for gravel and mud, more realistic impacts to racing, and refreshed visuals.
- Netcode Improvements: Updates to our Netcode system improve the experience not only for a driver facing excess lag but also for everyone in the session with them.
- Specular Lighting Upgrade: An improved lighting system increases contrast and reduces excessive brightness for a more realistic look.
- Spotter Damage Effects Report: When you take damage, your spotter will now inform you if it’ll have a negative effect on aspects of your car’s performance.
- Rain Racing: The Formula Vee joins the five new cars as enabled for rain with the new season.
- AI Racing: Along with all five new cars and the three layouts, the Williams-Toyota FW31 is also AI-enabled. In addition, AI opponents will flash their headlights when they’re looking to make a move and have seen another host of driving improvements.
- Setups: Over 400 new vehicle setups have been created for many of our most popular cars.
Ferrari 499P
Sports car racing fans from around the world rejoiced when Ferrari unveiled its 499P prototype in late 2022. After all, it ended a 50-year absence of factory-backed Ferrari prototypes competing at the sport’s highest level, and the brand celebrated its return by adopting 50 as its flagship car number in the process.
The 499P quickly established itself as a global force to be reckoned with, winning Le Mans on its first try in 2023 and going back-to-back the next year as well.
As with other top-tier prototypes competing in the world’s major global series, the 499P is powered by a 671-horsepower twin-turbo hybrid motor. Weighing in at just 1120 kg, drivers will quickly cycle through its seven-speed sequential paddle shift to find top speed at long straightaways like those on the famed French circuit.
Any driver who can find the limits of the 499P is among the best of the best in sports car racing, whether real or virtual.
BMW M2 CSR
BMW’s modern racing pedigree extends to all levels of the sports car racing ladder, not just the very highest ones.
Its support for track day heroes and upcoming amateurs is no more apparent than in the M2 CSR, homologated for TCX class racing and competing internationally in its own M2 CS Racing Cup. BMW Motorsport and BMW M collaborated to design the car after adapting key learnings from the creation of the M4 GT4 to entry-level racing.
Weighing in at 3405 pounds and producing 365 horsepower from a 3.0-liter I6 engine in its Cup variant, the M2 CSR offers plenty of power for aspiring future stars who are looking for something that’s not quite a GT4, but also faster than many other entry-level vehicles. The car also features a fully FIA-approved roll cage, racing rear wing and front splitter, and a specially tuned ABS system.
Gen 3 Supercars
Supercars have been Australia’s premier touring series since the mid-1990s, gathering a passionate and devoted worldwide following over decades of close and exciting racing. Supercars’ Gen 3 regulations were first announced in 2020 before making their debut in time for the 2023 season.
The new regulation set was a completely clean slate for the series, intended to cut costs, increase road relevance for manufacturers, and create closer racing with cars that were more challenging to drive. Ford’s signature Mustang became its Supercars model of choice in 2019, and its use in the series continued into the Gen 3 regulation set.
The all-new Gen 3 Mustang won the first race of the new era at Newcastle with Cameron Waters in 2023, and capped off that season with four wins in a row at Surfers Paradise and Adelaide. Chaz Mostert led the Ford brigade in points in the car’s first two seasons, with a sweep of Sydney SuperNight in 2024 a highlight on the way to third in points that season. With the phase-out of the Holden brand in Australia, General Motors elected to replace the tenured Commodore model with the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 as the brand’s Supercars Gen 3 flagship. It marked the first time that Chevrolet had competed in the Supercars era, but the switch quickly paid off as Shane van Gisbergen gave the car its first win in its second race at Newcastle. That victory kicked off a 15-race winning streak for the Camaro on the way to Chevrolet’s first Supercars manufacturer’s title; the brand would repeat the feat in 2024, while Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown would give it back-to-back driver’s titles.
Huset’s Speedway
Named after farmer and businessman Til Huset, Huset’s Speedway was built in 1953 and opened the next year. As with so many of America’s premier dirt ovals, the track was built out of former farmland, in this case, a soybean field, and has hosted many of the top national series in the country, including the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series.
After a brief stint as the Badlands Motor Speedway in the mid-2010s and subsequent closure, the track was rescued in the summer of 2020 by Tod Quiring, who returned to top-level sprint car racing to the South Dakota circuit quickly thereafter.
Huset’s Speedway measures in as a high-banked, 1/3 mile bullring. It typically hosts both weekly and national-level racing through Labor Day weekend. The Huset’s High Bank Nationals and Huset’s Hustle for sprint cars each offer six-figure payouts to their winners, while the Silver Dollar Nationals pay $75,000 to win for top late-model racers.
Adding to the track’s prestige, Quiring also prominently displays the Huset’s brand on his Big Game Motorsports 410 Sprint Car on the World of Outlaws national tour, where he and driver David Gravel have teamed up for dozens of checkered flags in recent seasons.
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