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That’s great. All iRacing needs now is for the FIA to officially sanction their road side World Drivers Championship… :)

So a V8 Supercars Series in a sim where there is only a Ford and Phillip Island from the real series? Sounds like a plan. :/

Hopefully this means more Australian tracks are in the pipeline.

great news but in which tracks? north american or european tracks? oh boy iRacing as usual doing things half right!

You’d think that they would have already scanned some tracks for this, otherwise, how would they get the license so easy, with no content. But then again, wouldn’t they mention the content with the license announcement? A 1 track, 1 car championship sounds fishy.

Hopefully Oran Park. Felt great in rFactor done with Bobs, but looked crap.

lol, its easy with Cockhrane on the throne. It’s all about the $$$.

Agreed. I never liked only having one car in each series, which is one of the things which put me off iRacing. GTR Evolution’s GT Pro class has corvettes, astons, audis, koenigseggs, zondas, apollos… But the only GT1 car in iRacing is the C6R. Racing just seems so much more rich when there’s a race between the cars as well as the drivers for me.

Did they really think this one through, It sound exciting but with only one car and track what does this really mean for V8 supercars and iRacing? Simply publicity it seems, maybe they will pull their finger out and get round to modeling the Commodore and thirteen… yes thirteen other tracks from the series.

V8 supercars in iRacing is a big pull for me, but as it is, it’s kind of half assed. Even the real drivers have resorted to racing Nascar lol

Someone from Bathurst with ties to the racing scene there seems to be indicating on the iRacing forums that he got the ball rolling on the track with the local government, now that their Shift license has run out.

On the other hand, aside from NASCAR iRacing doesn’t really have a full schedule for their other sponsored series, but that hasn’t stopped Grand-Am (10/12) or IndyCar  (9/17, with 2 more in the pipeline, 3 if you count Long Beach). I don’t see why they would say no to a series partnership just for the lack of a few tracks. One has to come first, in the FW31s case the car came first and slowly they are adding modern GP tracks.

common you telling me that a member is doing all the work to get one track? Where are iRacing’s PR people? Shouldn’t they come and sign the thing with all 13 tracks? A forum member is doing their work? iRacing is in business as usual!
BTW the NTM sucks you want to warm them up do a 360 lol pressure are useless as there’s no tire wear. iRacing doing things half right as usual.

No, it seems the city-owned tracks (Montreal, for example) don’t understand the benefit of licensing agreements. iRacing already asked, and the Bathurst council declined, so it just takes someone connected to grease the wheels sometimes.

And yeah, they could sign all 13 tracks, but they already have 2 years worth of tracks signed already. But then, why not sign all the rest of the Grand-Am/Indy/F1/ALMS/ILMC tracks?

People have to stop asking for the Holden. It would be an incredibly dumb business decision by iRacing. They’d be paying a large amount of money to license a car that is exactly like the Ford in performance and even looks almost exactly the same. 

Very few people would buy it and it would reduce participation in the series. It would be a financial black hole. There are zero ways in which licensing the Holden would make sense for iRacing

if you got the series you need the tracks uhhh that makes a lot of sense Bakkster ;)

I’m just saying, why turn down a partnership because they’re missing tracks the series runs in reality? They haven’t done it for any official series before, why start now? If V8SC doesn’t care, why should iRacing?

Following your logic, they would only have the NASCAR and Grand-Am licenses, and instead of Suzuka they would have released NJMP. No IndyCar partnership because they don’t have any street courses.

Actually, I disagree. V8SC is probably the series where it makes the most sense to have both manufacturers, due to how fanatical Aussies are about their brand loyalty. I’m actually pretty sure there are Aussies who take a look at iRacing and pass because they wouldn’t be caught dead in a Ford, even a virtual one.

my logic is the following… indycar series? let’s race the tracks then! F1 license? great let’s race those F1 tracks! not an official sanctioned series? let me think… give me any car any track any day I’ll be there for your races! :) But calling this an official think with 1 track out of 14 tracks if any vendor would knock on your door with this offer you would call it a scam Bakkster so would I!

my logic is the following… indycar series? let’s race the tracks then! F1 license? great let’s race those F1 tracks! not an official sanctioned series? let me think… give me any car any track any day I’ll be there for your races! <img src=”extra/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif” title=”Smile” border=”0″ alt=”Smile”/> But calling this an official think with 1 track out of 14 tracks if any vendor would knock on your door with this offer you would call it a scam Bakkster so would I! btw if this thread was in iRacing it would had been deleted and both of us banned for trolling!

my logic is the following… indycar series? let’s race the tracks then! F1 license? great let’s race those F1 tracks! not an official sanctioned series? let me think… give me any car any track any day I’ll be there for your races! :) But calling this an official think with 1 track out of 14 tracks if any vendor would knock on your door with this offer you would call it a scam Bakkster so would I! btw if this thread was in iRacing it would had been deleted and both of us banned for trolling!  

It’s kind of stupid to be forced to buy all the cars in a particular series just to compete in it. I’m sure there is a simple fix to allow you to see the cars during a race without owning them, but that wouldn’t generate passive revenue would it? lol

Bakkster is right, Guaranteed there are a bunch of Aussies racing Nascar events or not playing iRacing at all simply saying “I’m not driving that bloody Ford, Fords are for To**ers”

I see where you both are coming from TBH

Bakkater says: Sanctioned races can do no harm (and he’s right)
SBKRacer says: Sanctioned races mean nothing to users at this time (and he’s right)

I think where this partnership will come in handy is in the future.

The fact that V8 supercars are happy to partner with iRacing is a good thing, it will make for good publicity for the sim in Oz. The benefit for iRacing V8 supercar fans is that iRacing now has it’s foot firmly in the door of the Oz series, they will surely help when the time comes to model the tracks. Codemasters wouldn’t have had it so easy when it came to including tracks such as Monaco without FOM and Bernie Eccelstones help. Having such contacts on your side helps dramatically when it comes to the red tape side of business.

It’s a start, but the effects won’t be seen for some time yet by most end users.