When iRacing secured the rights to create official NASCAR video games across PC and console in 2023, it felt obvious that it was going to release a new title each year.
After all, that was the original plan by the previous licensees, plus including the year in the name of its first release, NASCAR 25, spoke volumes.
However, it hasn’t been concrete that a ‘NASCAR 26’ was on the way until today, 8th June 2026.
“The next version of NASCAR 25, which, as you can imagine, will be [called] NASCAR 26, is well into development, and I think you will see some news on that in the very near future,” said iRacing’s Vice President Marketing and Communications, Kevin Bobbitt, on the latest episode of the iRacing Downshift podcast.
“We’ll say ‘hashtag soon’ for some news that’s coming, but I can’t say more than that. I’m excited about it, [there’s] some cool stuff that we’re working on.
It follows a social media post by NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee and iRacing Executive Director, Dale Earnhardt Jr., in April that read:
Discussion
Hopefully they make it more like N2003 and have an actual sim instead of the casual racer!
Let’s see, and by the sound of things, quite soon!
quite soon in hearing about it? or soon as in implementing? I haven’t seen anything to suggest they are going more sim.
Oh no, I simply meant, let’s find out soon more (generally) about the game.
Heck yeah can yall please add blown tires and DNF in career mode so it will actually make you have to drive with care !!!! And it would be awesome if we didn’t have to restart our careers every time a new one comes out let us build a legacy and continue on instead of restarting