iRacing.com continues their efforts to sign real-life racing series as partners for official sanctioned online racing series.
Following a contract extension with NASCAR and a new deal with Stephane Ratel’s Blancapain series, iRacing will also host officially sanctioned IMSA online sports car racing series.
The new series continues iRacing’s long-lasting ties with the Grand Am Road Racing Series that was announced all the way back in 2010. In the meantime, Grand-Am joined forces with the American Le Mans Series to create the Tudor Sports Car Championship under the IMSA banner and iRacing subscribers will be able to race virtual versions of several of the series prototypes and GTs on laser-scanned tracks.
???By partnering with IMSA, iRacing.com???s nearly 60,000 members will have the opportunity to experience the premier North American sports car racing series firsthand,??? says Steve Myers, Executive Vice President and Executive Producer at iRacing.com. ???In its debut season, the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship put sports car racing on the North American motorsports map, and we are very excited to be able to bring that racing to our members. In addition, IMSA fans will now have a new way to connect??to??the series and feel what it???s like to race wheel to wheel at some of America???s most historic race tracks in ultra-competitive cars.???
???IMSA is looking forward to partnering again with iRacing.com for the launch of the IMSA iRacing.com Online SportsCar Championship,??? said IMSA Vice President of Marketing David Pettit. ???Over the past several years, iRacing.com has established itself as a leader in sim racing. The TUDOR United SportsCar Championship represents an exciting new era in sports car racing and we are certain the IMSA iRacing.com Online SportsCar Championship will bring that same sense of excitement to online racing and sim racers everywhere.???
