iRacing 24 Hour Race announced

iRacing 24 Hour Race announced

iRacing.com announced its first official iRacing 24 Hour Race. This pre-season test will be held on January 17-18 in preparation for the iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona Race that will be the opening round of the 2015 Road Warriors Series, later in January. The weapons of choice will be the HPD ARX-01c in the prototype class while the GT class will feature the BMW Z4, Ford GT, McLaren MP4-12C and RUF Track version..

The pre-season test will enable iRacing to mass test the driver swap/team functionality and optimize the servers needed to stage three dozen or more simultaneous online races for 24 hours. The event will have up to 40 cars per race split.

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“Whether you’re talking about drivers, teams or sanctioning bodies, pre-season testing is an essential element of motorsports,” says Steve Myers, Executive Vice President and Executive Producer of iRacing.com. “It’s only fitting to have a pre-season test for our competitors and a final systems check before iRacing’s inaugural 24-hour event. Since the introduction of our driver swap/team feature last month, private leagues have successfully run scores of races lasting up to six hours with 50 or more cars. We want to make sure our first 24-hour race goes just as smoothly.”

The main iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona event is scheduled for January 31. It will be the first official event in a 2015 Road Warrior Series consisting of 10 races during the coming 12 months.

The last race in the schedule will be run on the long awaited laser scanned iRacing version of the Nurburgring Nordschleife.

2015 Road Warrior Series calendar: