iRacing – North Wilkesboro In-Game Screenshot

iRacing – North Wilkesboro In-Game Screenshot

Last year, iRacing announced that with the help of famous iRacing ambasador, Dale Earnhardt Jr. they would try to laserscan the Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway.

This classic venue started to host races in 1949, but is currently closed for the public and in a degenerate state. Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his team, JR Motorsports helped to initiate the cleanup of the speedway in order to make it possible for the iRacing development team to laserscan the speedway. Dale himself never raced at North Wilkesboro, but his father, the late NASCAR superstar Dale, Sr., raced at the track from 1979 to 1996, winning five times.

Yesterday Dale Earnhardt Jr. shared the first in-game WIP screenshot of the upcoming track on his social media account, and hinted that the track will become available on the iRacing service in June of this year.

North Wilkesboro Speedway is a short track that held races in NASCAR’s top three series, including 93 Winston Cup Series races. The track, a NASCAR original, operated from 1949, NASCAR’s inception, until the track’s closure in 1996.

The speedway briefly reopened in 2010 and hosted several Stock Car Series races, including the now-defunct ASA Late Model Series, USARacing Pro Cup Series, and PASS Super Late Models, before closing again in the spring of 2011. The track is located on U.S. Route 421, about five miles east of the town of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. It measured 0.625 miles (1.006 km) and featured a unique uphill backstretch and downhill frontstretch.

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