American road courses, be it city or regular venues, are not engineered with safty in mind. It’s a strip of tarmac layed out in the contry side, where they thought it should go to create challenges.

It’s gone so far that people now a days in F1 talk about racing stadiums! Instead of race courses. PLEASE!

Road America, Sebring, Laguna Sebring, Mid Ohio, Road Atlanta, Sears Point. Those tracks just ooze motorsport. The spirit and mindset that I get into racing those tracks WOW! They are just real hard, much more damanding race tracks, then Silverstone, Hungaroring, Barcelona or the new Asian Stadium tracks will ever be.

American endurance racing is just much more dirty and gridy. It’s got that whole new and at the same time 70’s nostalgic feeling to it. New technolegies in the oldest ways :smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXOl5b9EVpU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN9F3eBq9NA
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Nothing wrong with it, it will push sim racing no doubt.

But is spending a lot of money for a simple GAME. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

But when it comes right down to it the mostly American content is most likely due to licensing. This isn’t rFactor where people just build anything they want with specs the find with Google without a high risk of law suits. They officially license the cars and get real data to build them. If Porsche, Ferrari and BMW weren’t so stingy with their licensing then we would probably have them too. The C6-R is a great racecar though. As Montoya said, they race it in the states in ALMS and in Europe in LMS. Oh and one last thing, iRacing is after all a business. They probably know what it takes to make money. They probably determined that the most profitable route was to stick to American content (including silly ovals) until they have the money to buy some imports. When it comes right down to it, racing is racing. Fantasy cars and tracks are even fun. Driving anything on the limit is fun. I even enjoy giving my wife’s Toyota Sequoia the beat down. :)

There are a lot of fun tracks in the states but there are tons and tons of track around the world that are also fun. I hope that with time we will pick some of them up. I don’t think iRacing is trying to single anyone out. It is just business.

I think it will take some time for them to develop the sim to all audiences. You have to remember that the whole service just launched a few months ago.

Have patience with them. I’m sure they’re working on expanding..

And I second the vote to make iRacing it’s own category.. :mrgreen:

By the way, wouldn’t it be appropriate to give iRacing its own category instead of always lumping it in “Other Sim Racing”? C’mon. :)

No sweat! That’s fine! BTW, Magny Cours, Spykers, and Fiats suck too, but that does not mean I dislike European cars, tracks, simracers, or citizens. Just because you (and I) find Nascar rather nauseating doesn’t mean that Corvettes are equally rancid, too.