iRacingReviews of iracing.com

Terrible stewards, terrible racecraft, terrible customer service. They will literally steal your money and can get away with anything with their trash ToS. Corrupt pieces of trash.

i lvoe iracing the customer support is super cool and helps alot...wracking and ramming still a problem but sens ei know that i can di time trial too repair my safty rating when others ramming and wracking my car:( im happy time trial i s like pve mode and youc an elarn so cool driving and the track i even did endurance race with time trial 2 days 4 hours racing always 20 min and than a little break for tea or toilet than i go back so i got 4 hours in spa:D whas really cool sadly i buyed the wrong porsche int he shop instea dof the porsche 963 i got the porsche 919 hu is outdated and is tillw aiting the iracing support helps my and change the porsche or refund it so i can buy it again is no 3 days and they dident write back:((

iRacing delivers incredible driving realism but is undermined by a flawed penalty and lazy SR system. For GT3 enthusiasts, the climb to SR B feels unnecessarily punishing, often forcing players into defensive, non‑competitive strategies just to progress. How can they label Iracing as the most realistic racing sim, when they only punish for incidents. REAL motor sports punish the driver who's at fault. Until the system is reviewed, other alternatives offer a less stressful and more fun GT3 experience without having to waste precious time grinding SR. If iRacing revises its penalty mechanics, it could easily reclaim its place in my opinion as the premier sim racing platform and would warrant better review scores - but right now, due to the price to fun reward ratio, buyers should be aware of the limitations and frustrations before investing.

iRacing markets itself as the most realistic and fair competitive racing platform. When everything works, it’s excellent. But several core systems contradict what the service claims to deliver. 1. Incident System Ignores Context The penalty model punishes outcomes instead of behaviour. If you’re brake-checked on a straight, deliberately rear-ended by someone who stays full throttle into a braking zone, stuck in a Nürburgring track blockage with nowhere to go, netcode-launched into the sky, or overtaken off-track by someone who refuses to yield, you receive the same penalty as the offender. Safety Rating also ignores the nature of the race. Wet conditions, first-lap chaos, and unavoidable pileups are treated the same as clean, empty-track running. One unavoidable 1x can ruin an otherwise flawless drive. Fix: Use basic telemetry to identify obvious offenders and reduce penalties for victims. Scale SR to the average incident rate of the session. Stop overvaluing 0x races. 2. No Control Over Server Assignment You can’t choose your server region or set a maximum ping. You only see your ping after joining — when it's too late to leave without taking heavy iRating/SR penalties. This disproportionately affects players outside the USA/EU. Fix: Add region preferences, a max-ping setting, pre-join ping visibility, and no-fault protection for the first few disconnects. Nullify races where multiple drivers suffer identical server-side issues. 3. DX11 Limits Performance and Visibility The aging DX11 engine struggles with shadows and reflections — especially in rain, where reflections are required just to see the racing line. You effectively need a high-end GPU for basic visibility, not graphical luxury. Fix: Move to DX12/Vulkan, optimise shadows, and separate critical rain-visibility effects from GPU-heavy reflections. 4. Pricing Expectations Given how expensive iRacing is, the expectations for fairness and polish are much higher. The issues above would be more tolerable in a cheaper sim, but at this price point you simply expect better. Final Verdict iRacing has an outstanding competitive foundation — strong physics, structure, and racing quality. But the penalty system, server logic, rendering tech, and overall fairness tools all need modernising. These aren’t small annoyances; they directly contradict the realism and fairness iRacing advertises. With the right updates, iRacing could genuinely meet the standard it claims to set.

iRacing, though pricey, is the best Racing Sim on the market. For under $10/month, I am able to play and compete against similar skilled opponents on the most realistic racing sim out there. Sure, having to "rent" the cars you race seems a little outdated, but it is well worth it.

I raced over 600 races mad a mistake 3 times and got banned for 2 weeks. Yea i never botherd playing it again after that.

Stay away. This is a complete waste of money with terrible management.

too many kids on this game, it is like racing in all other free games, you get smashed every race you make! after investing almost 600$ in the games, i regret it for real