Gaming of NASCAR

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

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.

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eNASCAR Ignite Series:

• NASCAR and iRacing have developed the eNASCAR Ignite Series, a first-of-its-kind esports competition created specifically to attract and identify young and diverse talent. • This online series was created to provide young aspiring racers a platform to showcase their talent and help launch or further their racing careers. • The youth esports series establishes another entry point to real-world racing, providing young compet- itors with an unparallel simulation experience on iRacing’s ultra-realistic software. • After 9 weeks of intense online competition, the field of 50 has been set to battle through a four-race Playoff.

704Games:

• 704Games is a video game publisher and develop- er focused on delivering high-quality experiences on console and mobile. 704Games, a video game licensee of NASCAR, released NASCAR Heat 3 on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and Xbox One in September 2018. • The gaming company also released NASCAR Heat Mobile, the first authentic NASCAR mobile racing game on iOS and Android devices, in 2017. 704Games is headquartered in Charlotte,

North Carolina • NASCAR’s exclusive esports partner for simulation- style video games. • They released NASCAR Heat 3 in 2018 and shortly after, launched a NASCAR esports

Tournament on consoles that culminated at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

• Recently announced a collaboration that will create the first-ever NASCAR esports league on consoles, eNASCAR Heat Pro League. - NASCAR, Race Team Alliance, and 704Games are a part of the collaboration. - The newly formed esports league will feature up to 16 race teams and 32 drivers, each owned and operated by prominent NASCAR race teams. - Happening now, fans across the nation owning NASCAR Heat 3 can begin to qualify for the first-ever eNASCAR Heat Pro League Draft, scheduled to take place early next year. - Following the Draft, the esports league will feature a 16-race season beginning in spring 2020 and culminating during the 2020 NASCAR Playoffs. - All eNASCAR Heat Pro League races will be live streamed online at NASCAR.com and Motorsport.com. • Many of NASCAR’s most successful teams are participating in the new esports venture, including Chip Ganassi Racing, Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, JR Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing, Roush Fenway Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing and Team Penske. Each of the participating teams will field two drivers, one competing on Xbox One and the other on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system.