There are only a few hours until the end of the second season of iRacing 2022, and some are already planning for the next one. There appear to be no significant novelties on the horizon, and everything is expected to remain relatively unchanged. The PESC championship concluded on Saturday with a new champion, and there is a sense of calm for the rest of the summer.
Let’s talk about the upcoming content, which is currently circuits. Circuits are always preferable to filling the garage with cars and then not using them. Three new tracks have been added to the catalog:
Fuji Speedway
Fuji Speedway is a racetrack in Shizuoka, Japan, near Mount Fuji. In 1976, 1977, 2007, and 2008, it hosted the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix. From 1982 to 1988, and again from 2012 to the present, the World Endurance Championship visited the track. It also hosts local and national championships on a regular basis, such as the Japanese Sport Prototype Championship, Japanese Grand Touring Car Championship, and Formula Nippon.
The track was intended to be a massive 33.3 km race track with a 10 km start, but there was insufficient funding to finish the project, and only one-sixth of it was designed.
The circuit opened in December 1965 and quickly proved to be a dangerous track, with numerous accidents taking place. The layout was 6 kilometers long, with a 2 kilometers long main straight and the first downhill banked curve. As a result, the first sector of the old circuit was eliminated in 1975, leaving it with a length of 4.359 km.
Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan purchased the complex in 2000.
Port Royal Speedway
Port Royal Speedway is a half-mile dirt racetrack located in Port Royal, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA. On September 10, 1938, it debuted. It closed during World War II (1941-1945), as did all racetracks in the United States, and reopened in 1946. Port Royal Speedway, also known as “The Speed Palace,” hosts a weekly local Sprint Car, Late Model, and Pro-Stock dirt track racing program.
Sandown Raceway
Sandown International Raceway, which opened in 1962, caused quite a stir when it attracted the world’s top drivers for the Sandown International Cup in March. The inaugural formula race podium included names like Jack Brabham, John Surtees, and Bruce McLaren, as well as Stirling Moss and Jim Clark. The track’s original layout remained until 1984, when an inside section was added to meet minimum track length requirements for hosting World Sports Car Championship events; over time, that design evolved into the current 13-turn, 2.5-mile (3.104 km) layout.
Since its first six-hour race in 1964, the Sandown 500 has been contested by numerous divisions and is currently contested by the Supercars championship. The circuit also hosted six Australian Grand Prixs before the event was added to the World Drivers’ Championship calendar. Sandown currently hosts five weekends per year of sports car and formulae races, both modern and historic.
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