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Having a look around at the info on here and on the iRacing site and am put off by the lack of info on there. People here talk about the difficulty and the clean racing requirements which is fine, but also D licences - what are they about? I can't find anything about licences and in game structure on the iRacing site other than the fact there are leagues, which is disappointing when they expect you to pay to sign up.

Also, what are the standard tracks like? Most look like ovals and I've never been particularly keen on Laguna Seca - how much are extra tracks?
 
Base Road tracks are:

Summit Point
Lime Rock Park
Laguna Seca
Okayama
Charlotte (Has a road course along with oval)

Can't remember the ovals.

New Road tracks are generally 14.95 ($)
I think oval tracks are 11.95, but not always (don't race oval)


You start out with a Road Career and an Oval Career.

You have a SR (safety rating, basically How many corners per incident) for both. The less off-tracks, lose control, car contacts you have, each race you get an increase to your SR.

Once you get your SR to 3.0 or higher, you are eligible to get promoted when promotion times comes. End of season. For rookie's it used to be 4 weeks, but I'm not sure if they just changed that or not.

If you get your SR to 4.0 you are insta-promoted as long as your meet your MPR(you must race so many races or time trials in your "Class") to get promoted.

So your in Rookie Road. You must do 4 races (can't remember number of time trials) and have a SR of 3.0 to get promoted. Or have 4 races in your class (rookie) and a SR of 4.0 to get insta-promoted to Class D.

Same rules apply on oval.

Once you get to D class, you can participate in more series. I personally race in a D-Class series (Skip barber.)

Licenses go up to A, then there is a Pro license, but I'm not sure how you get into Pro.

Does that help?

https://cadillaccupracing.com/

Will give you a 3-month trial for free.
 
However, submissions for this promo are closed. Shame because I wanted to try iRacing without having to spend any money; like a demo.
 
I think MX-5 goes up to 12, but it always splits so many times, it's usually 10.

Skip Barber goes up to 19-20 I think, but it's a popular series and usually always splits so you'll see smaller numbers.

Seen up to 30 per split on Ruf Cup.
 
@gnorman If you're up for the challenge of a high end simulator that is just as good, if not better, than most of the simulators that you pay $50 for 30 minutes of testing and the ones that I've used at official race teams, then this is most definitely the Sim for you.

HammerBlaster
Shame because I wanted to try iRacing without having to spend any money; like a demo.
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Paying $12 for a 1 month full trial seems like a really good deal to me. It would be a no brainer to at least try.

acedition333
How many players on track at once?
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Depends on the series and circuit. Most of the GT3, RUF Cup, Prototype & GT (Le Mans), and FW31 can range anywhere from 34-47 in a field.
 
gnorman
Having a look around at the info on here and on the iRacing site and am put off by the lack of info on there. People here talk about the difficulty and the clean racing requirements which is fine, but also D licences - what are they about? I can't find anything about licences and in game structure on the iRacing site other than the fact there are leagues, which is disappointing when they expect you to pay to sign up.

Also, what are the standard tracks like? Most look like ovals and I've never been particularly keen on Laguna Seca - how much are extra tracks?
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IRacing is more along the line of true VR professional racing. When GT is not, even though GT offers some well rounded racing pending on what your looking for, but not on the professional standards as IRacing is offering at the moment.
 

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