iRacing Senior Vehicle Dynamics Engineer Steve Reis provided an update for iRacing Dirt changes coming in the 2019 Season 2 build. Reis says that uncounted caution laps are coming. I’ll have to take his word for it. I think he believes it. I’m not sure if I do. Anyway, here is all of the information that Steve provided.
- The non-wing sprint cars will both have their cockpit shock adjusters re-enabled.
- The “damper adjustments no longer influencing heights and weights while the car is sitting in the garage” has been applied to all of the sprint cars, midget, late models, and modified. It has a fairly large impact on the sprints and midget, and much less so on the late models and modified. Expect your old setups to need some height/corner weight adjustments to pass tech, especially in the sprints and midget.
- There has been no major development on dirt tire wear. I’d expect it will happen once V7 is fully up and running on the asphalt side of things.
- Caution laps not counting is still a work in progress. It will happen eventually!
- Outside pits is not something we are currently pursuing.
- I’d expect the tire/track interaction update to go out at this point. As Tyler Hudson mentioned, it’s a fairly substantial change in grip, feel, and lap time between the tacky and the slick.
Will there ever be iracing on cellphones or anything like Xbox or Playstation
This reminds me of an old April Fool’s joke from 2016, I think. iRacing used to be really good at April Fool’s jokes. In this one, iRacing president Tony Gardner hosted a video in which he said iRacing was going completely mobile and would only be available as a mobile app. The production was excellent and some people probably actually believed it.
iRacing’s April Fool’s jokes ended with the introduction of iRacing dirt racing, which was announced in a high quality video very early on April 1, 2017 which was a Saturday. That left pretty much the entire weekend for people to wonder if this was an April Fool’s joke. There was a huge controversy over it for an entire weekend and beyond, as iRacing staff was pretty much mum about it. As it turned out, the joke was on those who did not believe it. We here at OSRacing.net took the correct position that it was indeed true, as demonstrated in this post from April 2, 2017.
I know I’m taking the long way around to answer your question, and you may already know all about this, but maybe some people don’t. The answer is, no, there will be no iRacing mobile app (other than support type apps) and I seriously doubt any console activity. The nature of the game doesn’t fit well with those models.