NASCAR is a big focus of this seasons updates, with the Track Art Team continuing their overhaul of the 12 currently available NASCAR tracks. Speaking of tracks, a new one has just released that may be familiar to our Australian friends, The Bend Motorsport Park located in Adelaide. Also known as Shell V-Power Motorsport Park, this track is now available in iRacing with seven configurations – GT Circuit, International Circuit, East Circuit, West Circuit, West Plus Circuit, Spirit Circuit and South West Circuit.

Performance updates have also come to the NASCAR Cup Series Gen 7 Class cars and the Dallara IR18. If NASCAR isn’t your thing, GT3 fans will be pleased to hear that the entire GT3 class have received updates to their performance, tires and a complete physics overhaul. Also there are now rain-ready tires for the Super Formula SF23, Dallara IR18, Lotus 79 and Skip Barber Formula 2000. To compliment these new rain-ready tires, the developers have also introduced updates to the rain visual system to make the visuals better match the rain physics.

Other updates this season include the ability to select different car bodies in paint kit for viewing your custom paint jobs. Clubs have been retired and replaced with a flag feature that lets you select and wear your colors. Adaptive AI has been further expanded to be available for use in Hosted Racing Seasons and AI Seasons with new seasons now available for racers who enjoy racing against AI.

There have been improvements to the Connectivity Black Flag System, more devices now have support for force feedback at 360 Hz, and finally Fixed Foveated Rendering has been added for Open XR to improve rendering speed.

2025 Season 3 Updates Summary:

• Ferrari 296 Challenge
• NASCAR Gen 4 Chevrolet Monte Carlo – 2003
• NASCAR Gen 4 Ford Taurus – 2003
• Physics Overhauls for GT3 Class Cars, NASCAR Cup Series Gen 7, and Dallara IR18
• Shell V-Power Motorsport Park at The Bend
• TWELVE NASCAR Track Art Overhauls (EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta), Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Iowa Speedway, Lime Rock Park, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Martinsville Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, Nashville Superspeedway, Phoenix Raceway, Pocono Raceway, Richmond Raceway, Talladega Superspeedway)
• Car Body Support has been added to the Paint Kit
• Adaptive AI Racing for Hosted Sessions
• Adaptive AI Racing for AI Seasons
• Brand new Pre-Made AI Seasons
• Flags now fully replace Clubs
• Fixed Foveated Rendering for Open XR
• 360 Hz Force Feedback for more devices
• Connectivity Black Flag System Updates
• High CPU Usage Warning
• FIVE additional cars are Rain-Ready! (Dallara IR18, Lotus 79, Skip Barber Formula 2000, Super Formula SF23 – Honda, and Super Formula SF23 – Toyota)
• AI Racing is now available with FOUR new cars! (Audi R18, Ferrari 296 Challenge, Porsche 919, and Silver Crown)
• AI Racing is now available at ELEVEN new track configurations! (Daytona International Speedway – Moto – 2008 & Short – 2008, Iowa Speedway – Oval, Richmond Raceway, and Shell V-Power Motorsport Park at The Bend – ALL SEVEN CONFIGS)
• Hundreds of caringly crafted new vehicle setups

Full previews of the 2025 Season 3 updates can be found at the official iRacing site.

Overall it looks like an exciting season for NASCAR and GT3 fans, if you want to find out more about iRacing, head on over to our iRacing game page. Stay tuned for more iRacing news here at Zero Culture.