GAMING iRacing: • The best online racing simulation portal in the world offering outstanding features and functionality. • Head-to-head racing competition. • Open practice qualifying, testing, time trialing competition. • Team Racing offering river swaps in addition to crew chief and spotter positions. • Free automatic updates and improvements. • Officially licensed car replicas engineered from the ground up in cooperation with real-world race teams, applying accurate mechanical and dynamic models. • Exact officially-sanctioned replicas of the world’s greatest racing circuits. • Officially sanctioned racing series organized by iRacing. • Involvement in iRacing’s global online community of racing enthusiasts. • Ability t host your own private sessions, run you own tournaments, and/or create your own private racing leagues. eNASCAR PEAK Antifreeze iRacing Series: • Entering its 11th season in 2020, the esports series
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features the most elite oval sim-racers competing on virtual versions of NASCAR-sanctioned race tracks. • Races are held every other week throughout the course of the year at virtual tracks like Daytona Inter- national Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway and culminating with a four-race playoff featuring the championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. • The eNASCAR PEAK Antifreeze iRacing Series is the longest-running official esports racing series and it was recently announced that the 2019 season would feature a $100,000 prize pool. - The updated prize pool represents more than a 500% increase from the previous year, making it one of the richest payouts in esports racing competition. • The 2020 season kicks off Feb. 16 at Daytona International Speedway and runs through October with the Series Champion receiving his or her Championship trophy and check on stage during prerace ceremonies at the NASCAR Cup Series finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November. • Also announced, Jusan Hamilton was recently named the Series Director for both the eNASCAR PEAK Antifreeze iRacing Series and the eNASCAR Ignite Series. Hamilton brings years of racing experience and is well placed to integrate the series even more within the NASCAR framework thanks to his day job at NASCAR. • All 18 rounds of the eNASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series will be broadcast live on the iRacing eSports Network as well as on iRacing.com and NASCAR.com.
