Today iRacing announced that it has released a first in class feature for sim racing by introducing the Driver Swap team racing feature. The feature allows the 50,000+ iRacers, that are currently on the service, to team-up with multiple numbers of fellow iRacers to share driving duties as well as other roles on a race team including team manager, race strategist, crew chief, race engineer and race spotter.
“Driver Swap brings a whole new dimension to racing games,” says Tony Gardner, President of iRacing.com. “It’s the first time anything like this has been available to sim racers, who can finally work together in real time in a variety of roles as teammates. It’s so much more fun driving if you’re with a couple guys on your team. It really puts the ‘team’ in team racing.”
Driver Swap enables iRacing and private leagues to stage true team endurance sim races with driver changes akin to those in classic long distance events like the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring, not to mention offering a unique new twist to stock car and oval track racing. It’s a feature that will appeal to current – and prospective — sim racers and race gamers.
“Driver Swap is going to be terrific for getting people racing together and expanding the sim racing community,” says Steve Myers, Executive Vice President and Executive Producer of iRacing.com. “It’s something that’s never been done the way we’re doing it. I think the members are going to love it.”
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