News Monza and updated NASCAR trucks now available in iRacing

The latest season build for iRacing has been released, bringing more content and improvements to the popular PC racing title.

Headlining the new update is the introduction of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza circuit that's best known for hosting the Formula One Italian Grand Prix.

Eight variations of the Monza location are available, with perhaps the most noteworthy layout being the banked circuit that hasn't been used for an officially sanctioned motorsports event since the 1,000km of Monza endurance race in 1969.

iRacing's new season update also brings two racing pick-up trucks from this year's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – the Chevrolet Silverado and Toyota Tundra.

Wrapping up this new iRacing build are several tweaks and bug fixes, which have all been detailed below in the official patch notes:

Release Notes

New Content Highlights

– New vehicles: NASCAR Camping World Chevrolet Silverado and NASCAR Camping World Toyota Tundra. Further details in the Cars section of these release notes.

Website:

Navigation and Site Organization

– The News Room, Race Guide, and Hosted Races pages now contain friendly buttons to help you jump to most main activities (Practice, Popular Races & Practices, Official Races, and Hosted Races).

– The What’s Hot widget has been removed and replaced with a full-page Popular Races guide – same data, more useful.

– There’s an Store Overview page now, that lets you see all that iRacing has for sale at-a-glance.

Documentation

– Paint Policy and Unofficial policies have been updated (new pdfs).

Leagues

– Leagues now can track & edit Team Standings for individual League Seasons.

– League Seasons are now sorted by the most recent races that have occurred.

– Fixed an issue where parsing fixed setups for league races would sometimes lead to a page not loading fully.

Teams

– Transfer of Team Ownership now works as intended.

– Fixed Team Session Details rollover tooltips to properly show GMT dates/times & local times.

General

– Repaired the spotters page so that it loads in all situations correctly, and will display errors that were being lost in some operations.

– 11 sets of Series assets have been updated to prevent the issue where the fixed, teams, and multiclass banners won’t overlap.

– The log in page now has a different internal structure, so that certain password keepers won’t incorrectly send users to the wrong place.

– Fixed an issue where track configs sometimes would disappear from the testing panel.

– Fixed an issue with joining a friend’s race from the fixed footer where members could potentially get misregistered.

– When editing “My Profile”, a cancel button now shows if you want to cancel. Error messages are more robust if something goes wrong while editing.

Steam

1) Go to “My Account”, and at the bottom of the page there’s a button to generate a Steam Key – click it.

2) Open Steam, and in the top-level menu, click Games, and then click Activate a Product on Steam…

3) Follow the steps on-screen until you’re asked for a Steam Key. Type in your Steam Key, then submit it. If you already have iRacing installed on your system, you don’t need to install it again via Steam in the steps following activation.

4) Finally, enable the Steam Overlay in iRacing by doing any one of these:

· Click the “Click here to enable it” button on account home once you’ve generated your key. This will automatically enable the Steam Overlay.

· Opening your settings dashboard on any page within the main membersite and turn Steam Overlay on under the section marked “Use Steam Overlay.”

· Open or create “_use64bit.txt” in the iRacing installation directory, type the number 1 into it, and save it.

Simulation:

UI

– We now display the total number of available fast repairs that are available for a race on the Session screen’s Info tab.

Physics

– All of our cars have updated iRacing setups adjusted for these suspension changes.

– Official sessions can now have a per-car weight penalty and a per-car fuel-fill limit, similar to what is available when Hosted sessions are created. These settings are displayed on the Info tab on the Session screen inside the simulation. We will work on getting the values displayed in appropriate places on the web site. For the moment these values are not used in any series. But they are available to help tune the balance of performance in multi-car series as the season progresses.

Updating

Replay

– Added a keyboard macro to fast forward the replay based on session number and session time. Using the number pad, type +num+time<enter>, following the format of the new video timer display.

Telemetry

– Output shock velocity to telemetry.

Fast Repairs

Driver Swap

– Fix a bug where getting out of your car while in your pit stall when the pit exit is closed during a caution period could cause an exit closed pits black flag.

Drafting

Clubs

Cars:

Cadillac CTS-V Racecar

– Wheels are now color changeable.

Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1

– Fix bad chassis ballast metric/english conversion.

Chevrolet Impala Old Class B

– Remove wedge adjustment cap as it can cause problems building a setup.

– Drafting adjustments.

– Set correct gear, and superspeedway drafting for Monza.

Chevrolet Impala-COT

– Remove wedge adjustment cap as it can cause problems building a setup.

– Removed right rear perch limit that can cause problems.

– New power curves and rev limits.

– Plate engine updates.

Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS

– Fixed a unit precision error and typo with how the metric value for ballast weight position is displayed.

Chevrolet Silverado – circa 2013

– The pitcrew can now replace parts that are damaged beyond repair, instead of simply ending your race with a disqualification for being too damaged.

– Updates to drafting.

– Plate engine updates.

– Increase downforce at superspeedway tracks.

Dallara DW12

– Increase maximum spring rates at ovals.

Ford Falcon FG V8

Ford Falcon FG01 V8 – circa 2012

Ford GT

Ford GT GT3

– Shift lights adjusted.

Ford Mustang FR500S

Holden Commodore VF V8

HPD ARX-01c

Kia Optima

Legends Ford ’34 Coupe

Lotus 49

– Allow the car more suspension droop travel and open up the ride height limits in the rear.

Mazda MX-5 Cup

Mazda MX-5 Roadster

Modified – SK

NASCAR Camping World Chevrolet Silverado

– The Existing or “Old” Chevy Silverado will no longer be used in the normal official Series. It will be renamed: Chevy Silverado – circa 2013.

NASCAR Camping World Toyota Tundra

– Physics is identical to the new NASCAR Camping World Chevrolet Silverado, the two trucks can share setups.

NASCAR K&N Pro Chevrolet Impala

– The pitcrew can now replace parts that are damaged beyond repair, instead of simply ending your race with a disqualification for being too damaged.

– Drafting adjustments.

– Control drag and downforce with splitter height.

– Fixed the bug where if you tried to set more than 80% tape during a race pitstop the pitstop would never end. The problem was that the car was being limited to 80% tape for the race, but the pitcrew did not know about that limit. Now they do.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Chevrolet SS

– The pitcrew can now replace parts that are damaged beyond repair, instead of simply ending your race with a disqualification for being too damaged.

– Now uses ‘shock springs’ which replace bumpstops.

– Rear bar is usable at road courses only.

– Rear shock damping increased 1.5x on the high side.

– Drafting updates.

– Plate engine updates.

– Rear non Super Speedway spoilers and contingency decals updated to 2015 season rules.

– Fixed the bug where if you tried to set more than 80% tape during a race pitstop the pitstop would never end. The problem was that the car was being limited to 80% tape for the race, but the pitcrew did not know about that limit. Now they do.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Ford Fusion

– The pitcrew can now replace parts that are damaged beyond repair, instead of simply ending your race with a disqualification for being too damaged.

– Now uses ‘shock springs’ which replace bumpstops.

– Rear bar is usable at road courses only.

– Rear shock damping increased 1.5x on the high side.

– Drafting updates.

– Plate engine updates.

– Rear non Super Speedway spoilers and contingency decals updated to 2015 season rules.

– Fixed the bug where if you tried to set more than 80% tape during a race pitstop the pitstop would never end. The problem was that the car was being limited to 80% tape for the race, but the pitcrew did not know about that limit. Now they do.

– Fix for nose and rear disappearing at extreme distances.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota Camry

– The pitcrew can now replace parts that are damaged beyond repair, instead of simply ending your race with a disqualification for being too damaged.

– Now uses ‘shock springs’ which replace bumpstops.

– Rear bar is usable at road courses only.

– Rear shock damping increased 1.5x on the high side.

– Drafting updates.

– Plate engine updates.

– Rear non Super Speedway spoilers and contingency decals updated to 2015 season rules.

– Fixed the bug where if you tried to set more than 80% tape during a race pitstop the pitstop would never end. The problem was that the car was being limited to 80% tape for the race, but the pitcrew did not know about that limit. Now they do.

NASCAR Whelen Tour Modified

– The pitcrew can now replace parts that are damaged beyond repair, instead of simply ending your race with a disqualification for being too damaged.

NASCAR XFINITY Chevrolet Camaro

– The pitcrew can now replace parts that are damaged beyond repair, instead of simply ending your race with a disqualification for being too damaged.

– Drafting adjustments.

– Control drag and downforce with splitter height.

– Fixed the bug where if you tried to set more than 80% tape during a race pitstop the pitstop would never end. The problem was that the car was being limited to 80% tape for the race, but the pitcrew did not know about that limit. Now they do.

NASCAR XFINITY Ford Mustang

– The pitcrew can now replace parts that are damaged beyond repair, instead of simply ending your race with a disqualification for being too damaged.

– Allow 10″ of perch adjustment at each corner.

– Plate engine updates.

– Set correct gear, and superspeedway drafting for Monza.

– New pit road war wagons.

Pontiac Solstice

– Fixed the Rookie’s tire black box to show the actual cold pressure of 32 psi instead of an incorrect 3.2 psi.

Radical SR8

– Fixed problems with bumpstop engagement, coil binding springs, hyper-extending shocks and damping, allow more spring and shock travel. The shocks have been rebuilt as linear, instead of digressive, with more high speed damping than before.

Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype

– Now has a replaceable nose and wing.

Ruf RT 12R AWD

Ruf RT 12R RWD

SCCA Spec Racer Ford

– Wheels are now color changeable.

Silver Crown

Skip Barber Formula 2000

Sprint Car

Street Stock

Super Late Model

– Fixed a unit precision error and typo with how the metric value for ballast weight position is displayed.

VW Jetta TDI Cup

Williams-Toyota FW31

– Reduce downforce loss with aerodynamic stall. This will gain some downforce above 260kph but not a whole hell of a lot.

– Updates to the shock and spring ranges.

Tracks:

Autodromo Nazionale Monza

– iRacing’s Monza features nine configurations: three variations of the GP circuit, the junior circuit, the historic oval left and right turning, and three variations which combine the high banked oval with the modern GP circuit.

Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps

Gateway Motorsports Park

Michigan International Speedway
– Turn 4 grandstand crowds no longer disappear at long distances.

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