

Gamepads are fine and there are people that do very well with them, but you're missing out on a lot without a wheel.įind yourself a cheap deal ( ) and give it a go. At least if you buy a wheel you can use it with other games. If your finances are so tight that you can't afford $100 for a DFGT, you're likely going to find iRacing's pricing scheme pretty brutal. The first one really isn't cheap though.īut the initial subscription is cheap, and by the time you get to the license you want you'll probably have an idea of whether it will be worth it to you. It gets cheaper each season/car after that obviously, because you already have some tracks. Usually a couple of tracks will be the "free" ones that come with every account, so say you need six tracks and a car. Each season is 12 weeks, and only your best 8 are counted as far as points.

Say your goal is to race the V8 Supercar, when you get to the appropriate license level you will need to buy the car and at least some tracks in order to run a season.

If they dropped the price of the subscription, cars, or tracks very much then I imagine iRacing would end up ruined by people who just want to bash around on the track and ruin people's races. Unless you really like the game and love to race clean then you won't spend the money it takes to play it. It can get expensive, but that's one of the reasons that iRacing is great. If you think that $10 is to much to try it out for a month then iRacing probably isn't something you want to get involved in. If you have to pay a few bucks to try it out, then you might put in the time within a month to get to see what iRacing has to offer. I actually think alot of people would be turned off by it, because the cars do take time to get use to. I like that iRacing doesn't have a free demo. Most of the people take iRacing pretty seriously and put in the practice that you need to to be fairly fast on the track. It's not that hard either, but it is very hard to win races. I've never been able to drive a real car on a track and I love iRacing.

You don't need real track time to enjoy iRacing.
