iRacing’s Season 1 2025: Every new car and track

Arriving 10th December 2024, iRacing is set to release a suite of pivotal fresh content for its competitive sim racing platform.

Much-requested cars are on the way, including the first appearance of an LMH car and the long-awaited Gen3 Australian Supercars. Long-teased venues such as Britain’s Thruxton are also on the list.

These will be all paid-for extras, but at least one car will be available to members for no additional cost.

Here’s every new release expected as part of iRacing Season 1 2025.

• Ferrari 499P car
• Supercars Chevrolet Camaro Gen3 car
• Supercars Ford Mustang Gen3 car
• Acura NSX GT3 Evo 22 car
• BMW M2 CS Racing car
• Thruxton track
• Huset’s Speedway track
• New Hampshire Motor Speedway (refresh) track
• Las Vegas Motor Speedway (refresh) track (possible)

iRacing Season 1 2025 new cars

Ferrari 499P LMH

Yes, this is a cool car. The 499P has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans not once, but twice. In its debut year, 2023, and earlier this season for back-to-back successes.

It uses a 3-litre V6 paired with a complex hybrid drivetrain and has also taken podiums and victories in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Drivers include ex-Formula 1 stars such as Antonio Giovinazzi and Robert Kubica.

But more importantly, this is the first car built to the Le Mans Hypercar ruleset, as opposed to the GTP (or LMDh, outside of IMSA) framework. This is key, as, until this point, iRacing has only made cars that have raced in IMSA’s contemporary top class.

While LMH cars can be licenced individually – and in the case of the Peugeot appeared in games such as GT Manager and Hot Lap Racing, while the Toyota is in Gran Turismo 7 – this is the first time an LMH has been seen in a pure simulation title outside of the official Le Mans Ultimate.

It will also welcome ‘bump starts’ for the LMH/GTP cars (now in a re-named Prototype Challenge Series). A previous glaring omission for vehicles such as the Cadillac V-Series.R GTP in simulation form that other titles have mastered.

• Paid DLC: Expected price $11.95

Supercars – Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang Gen3

For the uninitiated, Australia’s Supercars championship (formerly V8 Supercars) is the top-level Antipodean touring car category.

The championship includes the tentpole Bathurst 1000 event at Mount Panorama. But more than that, there are closely matched cars (although still going through a painful parity process) with highly competitive professional drivers. It really is a cut above, and some might say the world’s premier tin-top series.

iRacing already offers the ‘Gen2’ Holden Commodore (ZB) and Ford Mustangs, however, this will be the first time the current Gen3 Camaro and Mustang will be available – introduced in the real world in 2023. In-sim, they will replace the existing models as far as competitive series go, the prior models being switched to the ‘legacy’ tag.

These models have been teased for a while now, but next month, they will finally see a debut virtual release ahead of any other game or simulation.

• Paid DLC: Expected price $11.95 each
• Bonus credits delivered to those who have purchased the existing Gen2 Holden Commodore and Ford Mustang GT within a year prior to 10th December 2024. The amount of the credits will be determined by the recency of the purchase.

Acura NSX GT3 Evo 22

Following the (slightly delayed) release of the McLaren 720S Evo GT3 car two months ago, it’s time for another expansion of that category.

While the Acura NSX is now seen as an ageing design, with few still active on the world’s tracks, America championships seem to have a fondness for the unsung mid-engined sportscar.

It will mark the 10th contemporary GT3 available for iRacing that currently races in IMSA – although the Lexus RC F GT3 remains a notable omission.

• Paid DLC: Expected price $11.95

BMW M2 CS Racing

The BMW M2 CS Racing (CSR) is an entry-level race car that forms the basis of the BMW M2 Cup – a one-make support series for the real-world DTM championship.

Seen in other sim platforms already, and using the superseded F87-generation road car as a basis, this compact rear-wheel drive racer will be added as ‘free’ base content for all active iRacing subscribers

• New base content for existing members

iRacing Season 1 2025 new tracks

Thruxton

Aha, the fastest circuit in British motorsport – we’ve been expecting you…

First teased earlier this year, iRacing is seemingly on a mission to replicate slightly obscure (for those outside of the UK) venues.

Thruxton is no exception. Apart from a light rise after Allard, it’s flat and devoid of a stand-out scenery.

There is a very particular technique to driving around this former airbase venue… namely massive guts, especially around Church which is a high-speed corner, with a bump and kerb. Sometimes it’s flat. Most of the time it isn’t quite.

Then there’s the Campbell-Cobb-Seagrave sequence of corners. You can overtake traditionally on the inside of the first. But you can also over-run on the brakes, go around the outside of Campbell, then nip through on the inside of Cobb. This is known as the ‘Swedish Shuffle’, a move popularised by Rickard Rydell.

Or double-bluff these move and pass at Seagrave like touring car driver Daniel Rowbottom. Speaking of the Kidderminster-based driver, he also likes to pass around the outside of the final Club chicane.

Simply, there are infinite ways of overtaking and defending at Thurxton, and it will be intriguing how the track limit rules are implemented and how AI handles chicane cuts too…

• Paid DLC: Expected price $11.95 or $14.95

Huset’s Speedway

Huset’s Speedway is the polar opposite of Thruxton. A 3/8-mile dirt oval in South Dakota, it is home to events such as the World of Outlaws.

Handily, iRacing also creates a WoO console game, so this new virtual recreation will be available for both iRacing and the World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing 24 console game (as DLC).

• Paid DLC: Expected price $11.95 or $14.95

New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Wait a minute – New Hampshire Motor Speedway is already available for iRacing!

Aha, but this is not an entirely all-new track, but instead a heavily refreshed version. iRacing claims that a lot has changed in the real world and how it recreates tracks for the sim since it first released the 1.058 mi oval venue.

The track hosts NASCAR each year, next time in September 2025 – with iRacing also making a NASCAR 25 console game, these updates will surely be replicated in both.

• Paid DLC: Expected price $11.95 or $14.95 for new owners
• Free track update for all existing track DLC owners

Las Vegas Motor Speedway – A refresh of this venue is also in the works, but may (or may not) make the Season 1 2025 release in December.

New features

Alongside the fresh content, there will be some quality-of-life changes this December.

Chief of which is entitled ‘Debris Refresh’ by the Massachusetts-based team. In theory, this could mean gravel or mud being sprayed over the track surface, let’s say after someone has run off.

This, on paper, replicates real-world track evolution, with further changes to the system expected further down the road.

There are also tweaks to lighting and how the visuals are calculated for a claimed increase in ‘pop’, changes to the GTP and LMP2 tyre models, AI rivals now being able to flash their lights appropriately and there are further user interface changes.

iRacing 2025 Season 1 content release date

All five new cars and three new tracks (possibly four) will be released as part of an iRacing 2025 Season 1 update on 10th December 2024.