{"id":6551,"date":"2020-03-21T07:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2020-03-20T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:50:33","slug":"nascar-goes-virtual-what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2020\/03\/nascar-goes-virtual-what-to-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Goes Virtual: What To Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR is officially on hold until May, but they\u2019re replacing the live events<br \/>\nwith an iRacing series,featuring drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch,<br \/>\nand Denny Hamlin. So if you&#8217;ve been starved for sports and you&#8217;ve been cheering-on<br \/>\nthings like the marble olympics,\u00a0 or old replays of dart tournaments, then this could be<br \/>\njust what you needed!<\/p>\n<p>And even though they\u2019re just video game simulations, NASCAR is trying to get the<br \/>\nraces broadcast on TV. It&#8217;s basically just a video game. Drivers get in front of a computer,<br \/>\nwith a steering wheel and pedals. The set-up is a reflection of an actual car, and the<br \/>\nbackdrops even reflect real tracks.<\/p>\n<p>iRacing isn&#8217;t quite like an NBA player being themselves in &#8220;2K&#8221; . . . it&#8217;s a legitimate simulator.<br \/>\nSeveral current NASCAR drivers have started their careers in iRacing.<br \/>\nThe first race of this series is taking place on Sunday March 22nd at 1:30 P.M. Eastern<br \/>\nat a virtual version of Homestead-Miami Speedway track.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s\u00a0 pull up a full iRacing championship race from the vaults and see what we can expect<br \/>\non Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZgORmEWh9E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR is officially on hold until May, but they\u2019re replacing the live events with an iRacing series,featuring drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch, and Denny Hamlin. So if you&#8217;ve been starved for sports and you&#8217;ve been cheering-on things like the marble olympics,\u00a0 or old replays of dart tournaments, then this could be just what","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:11:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/sarnia.coolradio.ca\/blogs\/afternoons\/2020\/03\/nascar-goes-virtual-what-to-expect\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6553,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions\/6553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chksfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}