Currently in the midst of 2023 iRacing Season 3 Week 5, there’s a new patch that dropped on Thursday morning in the US (13th July) for the sim platform. Inside the update, well, it was your normal run-of-the-mill fixes and changes.
Tweaks to some of the cars, like the New Damage Model on the new Ligier LMP3, and some garage tweaks to the new Porsche 992 can be found in this update, as is a new penalty added to Willow Springs for those attempting to exploit a Turn 5 bypass.
One of the more interesting additions in this update doesn’t come in the program itself, but in the pricing for specific users that are subscribed through Steam. As of today, new cars and tracks on Steam will be an extra dollar while some of the legacy content rises by 30 cents.
This is due to the fact that iRacing’s prices need to add taxes directly, and Steam builds it in, so the new offset should make those pricing models more similar. In reality, Steam users were paying less this whole time, and now the prices should be comparable to going directly through iRacing.
It was a wild sight on Tuesday night to see the majority of the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series field weaving across the banking transition at Nashville Superspeedway. I don’t know the exact science behind it but I can only assume it deals with getting tires to a more grippier temperature.
While there’s no fix for it in this patch, hopefully it is something that does eventually get addressed. Thankfully, it seems the eNASCAR Sanctioning Body has told their drivers NOT to do that anymore. As long as it still exists outside of that, you can probably bet that some will exploit it in other races around the service.
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