By: Spencer Neff
August 26, 2025

On Tuesday morning, iRacing Studios and INDYCAR announced thy will partner for a standalone video game featuring the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and INDY NXT by Firestone.

This will be the first standalone video game for INDYCAR since 2005. The game will be released on STEAM, Play Station 5 and Xbox during the second half of 2026.

“INDYCAR fans have long been clamoring for a standalone title for consoles, and we’re excited to give them what they’re looking for in 2026,” said Tony Gardner, president, iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations.

iRacing has long been the. major player in the world of sim racing, a platform numerous drivers participate in across nearly every major discipline of motorsport around the world.

“iRacing Studios’ standalone INDYCAR title will offer all the excitement of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and an immersive experience that fans of all ages can enjoy. We are already very excited about how the game is coming together.”

“Our company has grown significantly in recent years with the addition of new development teams and studios,” Gardner said.

“Our INDYCAR title will benefit from this growth, as it will be the sole focus of one of these teams. However, the game will also incorporate elements like car and track assets, technology and driving characteristics developed from other iRacing Studios products.”

“The most competitive and challenging racing on the planet deserves a dedicated and widely available gaming experience. iRacing Studios is the ideal partner for us, trusted and known to our core fans and ready to share our sport with a wider and highly engaged audience,” INDYCAR and Indianapolis Motor Speedway President J. Douglas Boles said in Tuesday’s release.

INDYCAR, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and various INDYCAR tracks have been featured across many racing video games, including the Forza Motorsport and Project Cars series.

“I’m thrilled to be a part of the development process for iRacing Studios’ new INDYCAR title,” Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin said.

In 2020, McLaughlin won the 2020 INDYCAR iRacing Challenge, a sim racing championship set up following the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting impacts to the INDYCAR Schedule.

McLaughlin, who made his series debut later that year, won two sim races in a series that featured INDYCAR and other motorsports stars like Kyle Busch, Lando Norris and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

. “It’s an honor to work with a team that has developed such amazing products to help deliver INDYCAR’s first dedicated title in quite some time. It’s already an exciting time to be an INDYCAR fan for so many reasons, and this game will take the fans’ at-home driving experience to the next level!”

About iRacing

To learn more about the full line of iRacing Studios products, visit www.iracingstudios.com. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.

The world leader in the online racing simulation and gaming market, iRacing was founded in 2003 by Dave Kaemmer, co-founder of Papyrus Design Group, and John Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing. 

iRacing has developed dozens of formal partnerships in the motorsport industry to help create the most authentic racing simulation in the world, including with NASCAR, INDYCAR, the FIA, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team and numerous other car manufacturers, tracks and racing series. Alongside its PC simulation, iRacing owns two additional game studios and produces the official console games of NASCAR, INDYCAR and the World of Outlaws, as well as the all-ages title iRacing Arcade and fantasy off-road racing game ExoCross.

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