Ok, so I might be using this as an excuse to talk about that bombshell NASCAR news story that dropped earlier today. That news is that NASCAR, Hendrick Motorsports, IMSA and Goodyear have announced a joint effort to bring a modified NASCAR NEXT Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023.
The entry would run as a “Garage 56” entry, a showcase slot of sorts, and of course the NASCAR NEXT Gen stock car would need to be modified to handle everything needed in a 24-hour endurance race overseas at the gruelling Circuit de la Sarthe venue.
Anyway, as it turns out, iRacing jumped on the opportunity almost immediately, tweeting 90 minutes after the announcement that a new Time Attack competition was live on their platform which will run through the 6th of June. They’d be about the only ones who could do something like that, so good on them for doing so.
With having a scanned, current version of Circuit de la Sarthe, as well as an up-to-date Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 NEXT Gen stock car, the new Time Attack takes both of those unlikely entities (before today, that is) and combines them together.
Do note, if you don’t have the Camaro ZL1, you can also use the Ford Mustang or Toyota Camry NASCAR NEXT Gen vehicles in the competition. Of course, you won’t see a NASCAR Mustang or a NASCAR Camry on the 24 Hours of Le Mans grid in 2023, this is strictly a Hendrick Motorsports venture, and they run Chevrolets in the NASCAR Cup Series.
This is a great opportunity to explain what the heck the Time Attacks on iRacing are. If you’ve never run a Time Attack competition before, in the iRacing UI, click on Go Racing. The fourth option under Hosted is the Time Attack competitions, and you’ll see quite a number of them.
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