iRacing’s updated Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval ships in September

It was revealed on the iRacing Downshift podcast on Wednesday (tenth August 2022) in an interview with Greg Hill, Senior Vice President and Government Producer at iRacing, that the just lately scanned four-cornered rectangular observe at Indianapolis Motor Speedway shall be transport out to iRacing members in a September replace.

The two.5-mile oval is without doubt one of the most well-known on the earth, internet hosting the annual Indianapolis 500 occasion in Could yearly (besides just lately in 2020 as a result of pandemic). “We shipped the highway course in (the 2022 Season 3 Patch 3) construct,” Hill stated on the present across the 21-minute mark. “From right here on out, we’re going to concentrate on finishing the remaining configs and, for positive, ship the oval in September.”

On the finish of July, iRacing launched an up to date model of Indy’s newer highway course format. The 14-corner clockwise turning circuit, which has been used for each the NASCAR and IndyCar Collection for the previous couple of years, was the primary of the up to date layouts launched with the brand new scan knowledge.

Now, the oval has been confirmed for a September launch. At present, the service affords the oval in two configurations with its 2009 scan knowledge, in addition to its 2009 highway course scan and a 2009 bike course which took the highway course counter-clockwise.

When Hill says remaining configs, he may very well be speaking concerning the bike course, which might be superb as that’s additionally been up to date with the brand new infield configuration in place. Additionally, the oval coming in two completely different configurations is as a result of pit entrances of the NASCAR oval and the IndyCar oval being in separate locations, in order that may very well be a part of it as nicely.

My thoughts speculates that for the reason that scan knowledge exhibits it as scanned, that the quarter-mile grime oval inside Flip 3 will even be included sooner or later. Heck, why don’t they make Indy the primary Swiss Military Knife obtainable on iRacing and add a fictional RallyCross observe inside it as nicely?

No matter manner it seems, we all know the oval is coming subsequent month, probably simply in time for the 2022 Season 4 construct. The up to date highway course was positioned contained in the earlier model of the observe, so I’d should count on that additionally occurs with the oval and the opposite remaining configs.

The complete iRacing Downshift episode is embedded above, the place Hill not solely talks concerning the Indy rescan, but in addition a few of the deeper perception on how these initiatives come collectively. It intrigued me that after Atlanta launched, they moved all of their observe builders on this one undertaking to get the roadie out fast.

What do you concentrate on the oval getting a facelift? What different new content material do you hope to see when the brand new season arrives subsequent month? Tell us your ideas down there within the feedback!

Featured Picture: Simon Pagenaud leads a pack on the 2022 Indianapolis 500. Picture by Jake Galstad by way of Motorsport Photographs.