ARCA Sim Racing, the future of ASRS?

Earlier this year, The Sim Factory released it's ARCA Sim Racing title. The title was called "The Most Realistic Stock Car Sim To Date" by Sim Racing Tonight, a sim racing based webcast show. Even the sim's package touts it as "as real as it gets". When it first came out the track selection was very limited. But as the year has gone on, The Sim Factory has released numerous patches that have included more tracks and seemingly have increased the following of the title.

At first glance one would be in awe over the mass selection of cars, but would lose that feeling when they saw the limited selection of tracks. However, each track is highly detailed and nearly an exact replica of it's real life counterpart. The cars are even more impressive with the bodies and paint schemes life-like. The net code is the greatest ever offered and the physics surpass many other sims offered.

Just recently ARCA's home track, Toledo Speedway, was released by The Sim Factory. The track has become a popular stop on the ARCA schedule and packs in many fans for it's weekly offering of Late Models, Stock Cars and Figure 8. The Sim Factory's version is so close to it's real world couterpart that you have to scrape the wall just to make sure you are still driving a simulation. Toledo has changed many people's outlooks on ARCA Sim Racing and The Sim Factory and has brought the fun level of ARCA Sim Racing to a new high.

So, what does this have to do with ASRS? Well, you will be the first to know. The plan is to begin testing ARCA Sim Racing online with our league sometime early in 2009 with plans to move to the sim sometime around the midpoint of 2009. What we will look for during testing is the little details that will make it even more life-like for ASRS and we will also be learning the interface and options available to league adminstrators within ARCA Sim Racing. Our plan is to allow a few more tracks to be released before fully commiting to running a divison, but we fully expect The Sim Factory to have most of the tracks for 2009 out by the season's midpoint. We will start out on short tracks and slowly work our way up to the superspeedways. Eventually running a full ARCA season here at ASRS.

We encourage everyone to give ARCA Sim Racing a try and give The Sim Factory a chance to improve on it's maiden voyage into racing simulations. It will only get better! Despite some early issues, The Sim Factory has acted quickly and addressed many concerns from the sim racing community and along the way has improved ARCA Sim Racing greatly. You can pick up a copy of ARCA Sim Racing at http://www.arcasimracing.com