🛣️Do all roads lead to iRacing?

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Not done yet: Four-time world champ Sebastian Vettel says he's open to an F1 return two years after retiring, but only for the "right opportunity" that has real purpose. He admitted to chatting with Red Bull's Helmut Marko earlier this year, though nothing serious came from it. For now, he's happy promoting his environmental initiatives but hasn't fully closed the door on the sport he still loves watching.

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Daytona bound: Despite his Lamborghini GTP program hitting the wall, Romain Grosjean is still heading to Florida after securing a seat for the 24 Hours of Daytona. He'll be jumping into the GTD category, piloting the brand-new No. 16 Myers Riley Motorsports Ford Mustang GT3 alongside teammates Sheena Monk, Felipe Fraga, and Jenson Altzman. It's a bit of a return to his roots for Grosjean, who drove a Ford GT after his first F1 stint, and he's pumped to give the new Mustang its big racing debut.

The modern sim racing market presents a striking paradox. On one side, a steady stream of new, high-profile "AAA" racing titles—backed by major publishers—consistently fails to meet community expectations, with some failing outright. On the other, iRacing, nearing two decades in age, subscription service with notoriously high costs and dated graphics, not only thrives but dominates.

This isn't a traditional video game market; it's a niche, hobbyist market that values competitive integrity above all else.

New titles are failing because they are "products," often released as incomplete "Minimum Viable Products" (MVPs) that misunderstand this core value.

Microsoft's Forza Motorsport (2023) is the perfect case study. Marketed as a "built from the ground up" reboot, it was released in a "remarkably incomplete and unpolished state." It was a technical disaster, plagued by crashes, bugs, and a critical lack of basic features—like a virtual rear-view mirror or an online lobby browser. This catastrophic failure didn't just disappoint players; it actively pushed them away.

So, what's iRacing's secret sauce? It’s not a "game"; it's an "organized sports league." Its entire structure is built to guarantee fair competition. The "magic" comes from its proprietary dual-rating system:

This system automatically sorts all racers into "splits"—separate, simultaneous races—based on their skill level. You are always racing against drivers at your level. This, combined with a human-run protest system that actually reviews evidence and bans griefers, creates the accountability and justice that "product" games lack.

But what about the astronomical cost? That's not a bug; it's iRacing's greatest strength. The high subscription and content fees function as a "seriousness filter."

It filters out the "Fortnite kids" and intentional wreckers (mostly). When a user has a significant financial stake in their account, they are far less likely to want to lose it all by driving like an idiot. This investment creates a "digital garage" and a powerful "sunk cost fallacy" that locks users in, making iRacing's market position nearly unassailable.

New titles seem to fail because they sell a broken product or just can’t capture enough market share soon enough and have “dead lobbies”. iRacing dominates because it sells a stable service: trust. Trust that the race will be clean, the competition will be fair, and the hobby will be respected.

Is iRacing's "moat" simply too big for any new competitor to cross?

What do you do after 20 years as a professional backcountry snowboard and snowmobile "bum"?

If you're Joshuah James Wilkie, a few too many injuries meant it was time to pivot. He traded the high risks of the Revelstoke, British Columbia backcountry for the high-speed world of sim racing broadcasting.

Today, he's the owner of Slow Motion Broadcasting, and he's building an empire.

When asked about his current goals, Joshuah's answer is simple: "Total world domination."

He's not entirely kidding. Things are busy at Slow Mo, which puts on 10 shows a week on YouTube across a huge range of racing disciplines. Wilkie isn't just the owner; he's in the trenches, producing, commentating, running the company, and setting up assets for his "world-class crew."

When he’s not running the operation, he's honing his own skills as a camera operator, a self-described "professional motor mouth," and a weekend SRF and FF Driver.

It’s an all-consuming passion. When asked what he enjoys outside of sim racing, his reply says it all: "There is an outside Sim racing..?"