Looks like playing iRacing will be like renting a car from sixt (or similar)...

- you pay for it every time
- you don't own it (you stop paying and can't use it anymore)
- you can't customize it (new skin)
- when the dealer goes bankrupt you loose the car / game
- you're not allowed with the car to do what you want / to damage it without consequences

whoever buys this... have fun with it...

edit
after seeing the vid:
iRacing = epic fail
At least I can't see why a person with some common sense would buy this dictator game...

The price really scares me.. But i'm also gonna go with a month for a start and see what it will bring.
It looks very promising, and I like what I have seen so far.
Hopefully it wont be too good.. cause then i'm broke 

That's waht I do for living every day, Rich   

Nahh.. Hopefully they will raise my salary at my current job, when I turn 18.

Hi Barry 

I have given up with iRacing for the moment. I had subscribed for 15 months after the Beta test phase but had not used it much this year at all, with getting married and falling out of practice with iRacing. Unfortunately they could not put my account on hold for using at a later time.

The shine had worn off with me. It was always clean racing for me since I was with the first wave of beta testers, so it was always likely there would be no trouble makers in my licence group as I progressed. Once I had got to A licence I pretty much stopped. To be honest I didn’t deserve A licence; I had just missed the cut at the end of my B licence season, but then they changed the safety calculation (dumbed down).

The tracks are fantastic, my favourite was Virginia. I never got used to the physics of the cars though, it being so different from LFS. It took me a lot of practice to get any feel for it, but I still thought  it was too unforgiving with unrealistic snap back of the slightest slide which would result in a spin (Mazda and Radical). Curbs were as absolute no-no! The Skippy was the most fun. The sounds never impressed me, the repetitive tyre squeal noise of the Solstice stuck in my head .

The main reason I stopped was that it just wasn’t as fun as LFS for me. Races were lonely affairs, everyone was so wary of their safety rating and the net code would not allow close racing. Get within a car length of someone and they would concede the place.

I keep reading the improvements they are making and, no doubt, a lot of my concerns have probably been improved. In reality it would take a lot of practice for me to be able to race in iRacing again, time which I don’t have at the moment. I can just jump into LFS after some time away and stay within control.

I'm pretty sure it's enough CPU and RAM power and the GFX card looks ok too

No one?

Im really enjoying iRacing!

The G27 is great

Today Im going to get the new PC, decided to go for:

   Radeon HD4870 1024MB POWERCOLOR PCS
   INTEL CORE i5-750 4x2,67GHz Box 1156
   MSI P55-GD65 Glan/R/FW/DDR3 1156
   SAMSUNG 1000GB HD103SJ 32MB Sata300   
   DDR3 2GB 1333 KINGSTON 1ner CL9 (x2)
   LG GH22NS30/40/50 DVD-RW BLK SII Bl
   NETZTEIL CORSAIR 650W 650HX V2 Plug
   MIDI COOLERMASTER CM 690 Schwarz o.W

I really wanted the 5870 for a three monitor setup, but is is totally out of stock everywhere. So I'll get that in December or January

For now I'll race on my current 19'' monitor

I think it's like Charles said. I had also given the trail a go.
But I missed to much of the little things [and some of the real (for me) important stuff too]

I also noticed that it takes lots of time to race (and be competitive) there.
And if you want to take part in leagues (I was interested in) then you have to buy the tracks and cars.

I still think the most annoying thing is that you can spend lots of money there but in the end it's not yours.
You don't own anything nor the cars or the tracks you "bought".

You just rent all the stuff and in the moment you don't pay the monthly fee anymore you'll loose everything.
And only if you pay again you can use it again.
When I tested it I couldn't even watch my stats anymore when the subscription ended.
So I do like iRacing somehow but I still have big problems with the whole business system they have choosen.

I wll try it again sooner or later (to see the changes they made myself)  but I doubt that I will ever pay for more then 1 month or 3.


About your PC specs.
Looks good and I bet you won't have any trouble running it with this machine.
I'm using the same HDDs (4 or 5 atm) now for some time. I they work very well for me (except they have a strange (kind of scratch/click) sound sometimes when they start or when you shut down the PC but thats normal for this series, so don't worry if you hear that