NASCAR Cup Series drivers Chase Briscoe and John Hunter Nemechek approached their first turns on the new NASCAR 25 simulation-style console game with unbroken focus.<\/p>\n
Settling on Homestead-Miami Speedway, site of next year\u2019s season finale, Briscoe and Nemechek put their cars through their paces, quickly advancing to expert level.<\/p>\n
Developed by iRacing, known throughout the industry for the quality of its simulations, NASCAR 25 doesn\u2019t require an elaborate rig. As such, according to Briscoe, it should be accessible to a much broader audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe average person would probably have trouble getting around the track in iRacing,\u201d Briscoe said, after dueling side-by-side with virtual Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell. \u201cThis is a game I can play with (wife) Marissa.\u201d<\/p>\n
Set for general release on Oct. 14, NASCAR 25 is played with the sort of hand-held controller familiar to anyone who grew up with Xbox or PlayStation. In fact, the new game is compatible with PlayStation 5, Xbox X|S and on PC through streaming (due Nov. 11) without sacrificing the quality of the graphics.<\/p>\n
NASCAR 25 is iRacing\u2019s first venture into the console racing area, and it\u2019s the first to feature four NASCAR Racing Series: NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, CRAFTSMAN Truck and ARCA Menards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe is the first time that iRacing is coming to console at all,\u201d said iRacing developer Matt Lewis. \u201cWe have, obviously, a 30-year relationship with NASCAR going back to their early days on sim and PC, but this is the first time on console.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, a lot of the driving aspects and things like that you would expect from iRacing\u2019s super-authentic race physics are in the game, and we\u2019re really excited to bring it to console for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The release of NASCAR 25 fills a void for fans with a yearn for racing who may not want to spend the money required for a full-blown competitive rig.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been about six years since there\u2019s been a NASCAR console game at all,\u201d Lewis added. \u201cIn that same span that we\u2019ve been doing sim for about 30 years, there have been five or six different publishers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is iRacing\u2019s first effort on the console, and we expect to build another 30 years doing console games now as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even before they played the game first-hand, both Briscoe and Nemechek were aware of its imminent release.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it,\u201d Nemechek said. \u201cIt\u2019s a new year. Growing up, one of my favorite things to do was to play NASCAR 2002, NASCAR 2003, and I\u2019m looking forward to NASCAR 25.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup Series drivers Chase Briscoe and John Hunter Nemechek approached their first turns on the new NASCAR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[924,49,48,10660,10662,19452,12101,16601,634,582,721,722,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-184409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-arca","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-chase","12":"tag-chase-briscoe","13":"tag-joe-gibbs","14":"tag-joe-gibbs-racing","15":"tag-john-hunter-nemechek","16":"tag-nascar","17":"tag-racing","18":"tag-series","19":"tag-speedway","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}