iRacing Studios To Produce Standalone INDYCAR Video Sport in 2026

iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations and INDYCAR are happy to announce a long-term licensing settlement for iRacing Studios to supply standalone INDYCAR titles for console and PC.

As a part of the settlement, iRacing Studios will launch an INDYCAR title for PlayStation, Xbox and Steam within the second half of 2026. The new product will mark the primary devoted INDYCAR recreation in additional than twenty years.

“INDYCAR fans have long been clamoring for a standalone title for consoles, and we’re excited to give them what they’re looking for in 2026,” mentioned Tony Gardner, president, iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations. “iRacing Studios’ standalone INDYCAR title will offer all the excitement of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and an immersive experience that fans of all ages can enjoy. We are already very excited about how the game is coming together.”

Said INDYCAR President J. Douglas Boles: “The most competitive and challenging racing on the planet deserves a dedicated and widely available gaming experience. iRacing Studios is the ideal partner for us, trusted and known to our core fans and ready to share our sport with a wider and highly engaged audience.”

The iRacing Studios INDYCAR providing will be part of different iRacing Studios titles NASCAR 25 and the World of Outlaws: Dirt Racing video games as formally licensed merchandise that characterize a number of the high racing sequence on the planet. The recreation will characteristic a strong, multilevel profession mode, licensed drivers from the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and INDY NXT by Firestone, and on-line multiplayer. The new product might be constructed from the bottom up, with a devoted improvement staff creating the sport on iRacing Studios’ proprietary and enhanced Orontes engine.

“Our company has grown significantly in recent years with the addition of new development teams and studios,” Gardner mentioned. “Our INDYCAR title will benefit from this growth, as it will be the sole focus of one of these teams. However, the game will also incorporate elements like car and track assets, technology and driving characteristics developed from other iRacing Studios products.”

Real-world INDYCAR groups and drivers might be deeply concerned within the creation of the brand new title, together with Team Penske star and that iRacing fanatic Scott McLaughlin. Since transitioning to the sequence full time in 2021 from Australian Supercars, McLaughlin has received seven races and change into a fan favourite.

“I’m thrilled to be a part of the development process for iRacing Studios’ new INDYCAR title,” McLaughlin mentioned. “It’s an honor to work with a team that has developed such amazing products to help deliver INDYCAR’s first dedicated title in quite some time. It’s already an exciting time to be an INDYCAR fan for so many reasons, and this game will take the fans’ at-home driving experience to the next level!”

The heritage of the connection between INDYCAR and that iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations dates again greater than three a long time. The firm’s predecessor, Papyrus Racing Games, created the enduring Indianapolis 500: The Simulation in 1989, adopted by IndyCar Racing and IndyCar Racing II in 1993 and 1995, respectively.

A standalone INDYCAR title is the most recent step in a repeatedly increasing partnership between INDYCAR and that iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations. Separately, the 2 events have additionally prolonged their license settlement long run for the iRacing simulation. The extension ensures INDYCAR’s continued gaming presence on PC and consoles alike for years to return.

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The world chief within the on-line racing simulation and gaming market, iRacing was based in 2003 by Dave Kaemmer, co-founder of Papyrus Design Group, and John Henry, principal proprietor of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing.

iRacing has developed dozens of formal partnerships within the motorsport trade to assist create essentially the most genuine racing simulation on the planet, together with with NASCAR, INDYCAR, the FIA, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team and quite a few different automobile producers, tracks and racing sequence. Alongside its PC simulation, iRacing owns two extra recreation studios and produces the official console video games of NASCAR, INDYCAR and the World of Outlaws, in addition to the all-ages title iRacing Arcade and fantasy off-road racing recreation ExoCross.