Our iRacing Season 1 Plan for 2026

The new iRacing season is quickly upon us. We go again with Season 1 2026, and it comes with new cars, tracks, updates, features and setups.

We head into the new season, bolstering our setup team further, especially on the GTP front, and we bring new setups and content for you to get your hands on.

The Coach Dave Academy setup team now boasts 14 full-time drivers creating these professional setups, datapacks, hot laps and lap guides for you each and every week of the 12 week season.

iRacing News for Season 1 – 2026:

The new Porsche Cup arrives in iRacing, the Porsche Cup 992.2. Gareth Higgins will continue making the datapacks for the new Porche Cup which replaces the old.

We also have 2 new road tracks, Adelaide Street Circuit and Miami International Autodrome. These will be covered as they appear in relevant series.

New Setups and Drivers:

We introduce Endurance setups following the IMSA Series, so, all the weeks in IMSA will now have Endurance, Sprint and Qualifying iRacing setups and full datapacks for Sprint and Qualifying (Endurance only setups)

Loic Marchand from Mivano joins the team. He will work together with Tanguy Billon to reach the maximum performance in the GTP cars. They are 2x IVRA Endurance GTP Champions, driven 2 full seasons in IMSA Esports and they are 2x ARL Team Champions.

We will cover baseline setups for another GTE, the BMW M8 GTE. We also continue our fantastic partnerships with Lumen Motorsports for TCR setups and Team 53 for Oval setups.

We Cover The Following Series:

In total, we will be knocking out setups, datapacks and hot laps for 67 different car and track combinations every single week. Which is a massive number to keep up with the demands of you guys. We hope you take full advantage of all of them.

This doesn’t include all of the iRacing Special Events that we will tackle, either. In the first half of the year, we have:

• Daytona Roar Before
• Daytona 24h
• Bathurst 12 Hours
• Sebring 12 Hours
• Nurburgring 24h
• 4 Hours of Thruxton
• Watkins Glen 6 Hours

Road Racing:

• IMSA
• Simucube GT3
• Falken Tyre GT4
• GTE Sprint Series
• IMSA Pilot Challenge
• Porsche Cup
• Sim Lab Production
• Advanced Mazda
• TCR Virtual

Formula Racing:

• Super Formula Lights
• Super Formula INSIM
• Formula 1600 Trophy

Short Oval Racing:

• Legends Cup
• SK Modified Weekly Series
• NASCAR Tour Modified Series
• Super Late Model Series
• CARS Late Model Stock Tour

Fixed Series Data Packs:

• Ferrari Challenge
• Global Mazda MX5 Fanatec Cup
• Toyota GR BUTKICKER Series
• Formula Vee
• FF1600
• BMW M2 CSR CUP
• Radical SR10
• Formula 4
• Superformula Lights
• Porsche Cup
• Formula 3
• GT4 Fixed
• GT3 Fixed

Lap Guides S1/26

Finally, we have our in-depth lap guides back for another season.

• Porsche Cup Series – Matt Emery
• Simucube GT3 Series – Yuri Kasdorp
• Sports Car Challenge Series – Corentin Guinez