iRacing and the Virtual Competition Organization (VCO) will, such as in the upcoming 2024 IMSA Esports Global Championship, continue working with IMSA, as it has been doing during the 2023 season. The novelty is that the competition will have undergone a change with at least one qualifying session opening up where fans can compete for places to the event.
The number of entries for previously ignored participants and VCO Grand Slam event winners will still be limited, but now all iRacing members will be able to go through the qualification to the championship consisting of four races. Also, there will be a limited number of wild cards, like in 2023, where Tony Kanaan’s Esports Team and Nitro Circus Sim Racing Team took part in.
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Timetable and Automobiles
Race events are planned to take place on November 24 at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. Race events will occur on the road course at the Indianapoils Motor Speedway on December 8. On the 5th of January, 2025, race events are anticipated to occur at the Sebring International Raceway.
The final race will take place at the Daytona International Speedway on January 12, 2025. As for aggression oriented sports cars, the competition will feature digital versions of the Acura ARX-06, BMW M Hybrid V8, Cadillac V-Series R, Porsche 963 leMans prototypes (LMP) and many more. There are also GTD class cars like Mercedes AMG GT3, BMW M4 GT3, Corvette Z06 GT3.R, Ferrari 296 GT3, Mustang GT3, and Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2 and Porsche 911 GT3 R 992.
Growing Competition
The IMSA Esports Global Championship, according to VCO’s CEO Florian Haasper, is the dominant league in multiclass sports car racing, the discipline that is important for the sim racing, there are that. Last few years have been quite pleasant with IMSA and iRacing and apart from developments staffs, we are happy to begin the new season and think that the new move to open up the qualifying system is healthy and helps progress.
Groups and the Qualification Procedure
Among the amazing teams that qualified for the GTD competition, we’ll mention Team Redline which boasts of drivers like Max Verstappen, VRS Coanda and Williams Esports. Whereas both Team Redline as well as Drago Racing earned their automatic spots in the GTP class of 2024. Steve Waugh of IMSA stated that teams wishing to participate in public pre qualifier events must register with the organization. Then the Time Attack qualifying teams will compete in a ‘Car Shootout’ where the competition will determine the car they would use to compete in the year 2024.
Referring to Tony Gardner who sits as iRacing’s president, “iRacing and IMSA have successfully worked together for over a decade with no other than satisfaction in sight”. The reason for this is that over this time, it wasn’t a coincidence that both groups expanded. The 2024 IMSA Esports Global Championship is an exciting new stage of development in the relationship between us. This can be considered as the best edition because we are letting the iRacers 270000 odd in getting the qualification process for the series.
Event Structure with Live Broadcasting
The format of the events of the IMSA Esports Global Championship shall be sprint to the finish races categorically aligning with the structure of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship series and running for two hours forty minutes per event. For those who Watch everything that happens live, social networks has provided fans with such opportunities, page accounts of iRacing and IMSA streaming with all video action.
Embracing Differences and Competition within Sim Racing
The public qualification scheme, opening up the competitions and enhancing participation, is the biggest factor expected to make the 2024 IMSA Esports Global Championship a landmark event. Thus, a greater number of iRacing members will be able to go one step closer to competing with some of the best sim racers in the world which is a step towards inclusivity.
IMSA and its associates are extending the first time ever of allowing every iRacing member to look forward to qualifying for the championship in the coming years. This qualification process in which 아무나 참가하는 방식은 선수들과 특정 경기의 디펜딩 챔피언들 ONLY participated in previous years and the winner of their designated competition is set to revolutionize this qualification process movement. Furthermore, the provision of wildcard participants also adds another layer of uncertainty and unpredictability as illustrated in TK sffects 2023 Texaco Racing and Nitro Circus Sim Racing Team an additional layer of tension and likewise adds another layer of excitement.
Fans interested in simulation racing are getting more and more impatient as the dates for the 2024 IMSA Esports Global Championship approach. The inclusion of a wide range of race cars of high quality as well as many qualification rounds built an anticipation for an interesting season. The embedding of the streaming service over various platforms makes it possible for fans all over the world to follow the events as they happen.
Such is the dynamic and ever-evolving bond between IMSA and iRacing, which one can expect to be on display from the 2024 season with respect to both competitors and fans.
