iRacing associated Twitter accounts shared screenshots on Saturday of two exciting new developments for the racing sim: rainy conditions and Hillclimb racing.
A long-debated topic surrounding iRacing has been the exclusion of rain and wet weather racing. Inclement conditions are very much a part of real-world racing, so the sim community has been asking for the addition of weather variability in iRacing for years. And it appears that the wait is nearing an end.
The sim’s official Twitter account shared an image of a very wet Hockenheimring circuit, citing an interview with iRacing Executive Producer Greg Hill during a recent stream and noting the image as “Work-in-Progress.”
No date was set for release to the public, but iRacing’s 2021 yearend update is a plausible time frame for at least the first stage of release.
Greg Hill’s own Twitter account caught the attention of the sim racing world later the same day, when he shared a tweet thread detailing the process of adding the Mt. Washington Hillclimb to iRacing. The first tweet showed a snowy track, which precluded the laser scanning process. Subsequent tweets in the same thread showed the thawed track, which presented a new challenge for the team: the density of vegetation and rocks.
But it appears the team were able to overcome the new challenges to recreate the Mt. Washington Hillclimb course, and early access to the course is expected “in time for the 2021 real world event.”
Both the inclusion of rain and the hill climb course are exciting news for fans of the popular multiplayer sim. The excitement in the sim community in response to the forthcoming changes in iRacing was reflected in the hundreds of retweets for both posts.
Let us know in the comments which of these additions you are looking forward to most.
A long-debated topic surrounding iRacing has been the exclusion of rain and wet weather racing. Inclement conditions are very much a part of real-world racing, so the sim community has been asking for the addition of weather variability in iRacing for years. And it appears that the wait is nearing an end.
The sim’s official Twitter account shared an image of a very wet Hockenheimring circuit, citing an interview with iRacing Executive Producer Greg Hill during a recent stream and noting the image as “Work-in-Progress.”
No date was set for release to the public, but iRacing’s 2021 yearend update is a plausible time frame for at least the first stage of release.
Greg Hill’s own Twitter account caught the attention of the sim racing world later the same day, when he shared a tweet thread detailing the process of adding the Mt. Washington Hillclimb to iRacing. The first tweet showed a snowy track, which precluded the laser scanning process. Subsequent tweets in the same thread showed the thawed track, which presented a new challenge for the team: the density of vegetation and rocks.
But it appears the team were able to overcome the new challenges to recreate the Mt. Washington Hillclimb course, and early access to the course is expected “in time for the 2021 real world event.”
Both the inclusion of rain and the hill climb course are exciting news for fans of the popular multiplayer sim. The excitement in the sim community in response to the forthcoming changes in iRacing was reflected in the hundreds of retweets for both posts.
Let us know in the comments which of these additions you are looking forward to most.
