Ameer Zaita

After an impressive start to this year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, racers prepare themselves for one of the largest and most anticipated events of the motorsports world: the 24 Hours of Daytona.

Another money-saving opportunity for racing fans has arisen, as Microsoft announced a new Xbox One S bundle containing a download for Forza Horizon 3 (which can be used for both PC and Xbox). Two packages with varying hard drive capacities will be offered starting at $299 for 500 GB and $349 for 1 TB. Both bundles also include a 14-day Xbox Live Gold trial.

With the spotlight being shined on racing eSports events like the upcoming ESL Multi-Class Championship, it should come as little surprise that Project CARS’ successor will be featuring a driver rating system to help filter different players by their abilities in online races.

In our world of racing games, many players have different preferences as to what peripherals they choose to drive their virtual machines with. Some folks swear by using a wheel and won’t bother playing with anything else. Other people are content with using the standard controller supplied with a game console. The mouse, on the other hand, is probably something that you haven’t seen being used to play a racing game in any serious capacity—until now.

The Humble Store returns with another free Codemasters game after last month’s Race Driver: GRID was being given away. This time, DiRT: Showdown is available for PC players for the next 27 hours.

Change Racing will be returning to this year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with a new sponsor on board: Microsoft. Forza Motorsport branding is now present on the team’s Lamborghini Huracan GT3, driven by Corey Lewis along with Jeroen Mul, and will be competing in the GTD class at the upcoming Rolex 24 at Daytona (January 28).

When the latest update for Forza Horizon 3 was released, there was a slight issue with its distribution. The update brought the Rockstar Car Pack accompanied by a new barn find to Xbox One players without any complications. On the PC side, things didn’t go as smooth…

A very special event for racers of the digital world and real world alike will be taking place in Las Vegas this weekend. Ten of the fastest sim racers (who were decided from the ‘Road to Vegas’ championship) will hit the virtual asphalt along with 20 Formula E drivers all in an effort to obtain a piece of the $1,000,000 prize that is up for grabs in the Visa Vegas eRace.