THIS WEEK: iRacing 24 Hours of Spa presented by Falken | Special Event
July 6th, 2026 by Justin Melillo
iRacing’s Special Event calendar features a selection of the world’s most compelling races across numerous disciplines. Whether you’re interested in stock cars or sports cars, open-wheel formula cars or sprint cars, sticking to pavement or playing in the dirt, running solo or racing with a team of your closest friends, our Special Events have something for everyone!
This week, the iRacing Spa 24 takes the spotlight with the GT3 class of cars taking on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for 24 hours of team racing competition. Here’s everything you need to know about participating in this iRacing Special Event.
TRACK: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps – Endurance
CARS COMPETING: GT3 Class
- Acura NSX GT3 EVO 22
- Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO
- Audi R8 LMS EVO II GT3
- BMW M4 GT3 EVO
- Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R
- Ferrari 296 GT3
- Ford Mustang GT3
- Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO
- McLaren 720S GT3 EVO
- Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020
- Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)
TIMES TO RACE | JULY 10TH TO JULY 12TH:
- Friday 22:00 GMT (Friday 6 PM ET)
- Saturday 07:00 GMT (Saturday 3 AM ET)
- Saturday 12:00 GMT (Saturday 8 AM ET)
- Saturday 16:00 GMT (Saturday 12 PM ET)
BROADCAST DETAILS
There will be a broadcast of the Top Split broadcast for the third time slot, the Saturday 12:00 GMT, 8 AM ET event. RACESPOT will be handling the call of the action.
ABOUT THE iRACING 24 HOURS OF SPA
The 24 Hours of Spa is an endurance race held in Belgium at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps since 1923. It is part of the Intercontinental GT Challenge Series in the real world. This virtual edition on iRacing in 2026 is presented by Falken, and has been going on for over a decade as one of the longest standing Special Events. This race will be scheduled in the sim for June 27th at 3:40 am with dynamic weather enabled. This is a 24 hour race, so plan accordingly!
As always, this is a team event, with participating teams required to declare their drivers at registration. A team is officially eligible at a minimum of two drivers, and up to a maximum of 16 drivers. With fair share enabled, all declared drivers will have to meet a threshold of laps in conjunction with the team’s total laps for the entry to be legal by the end of the event. Registration opens 60 minutes prior, and sessions will include both a 30 minute warmup and a 15 minute, four lap qualifying session.
This event is open to iRacing members that have an Sports Car license at Class C or higher, or at Class D with a 4.0 Safety Rating. Splits will be determined by iRating. Splits can have up to 60 teams, and a disqualification limit has been set at 255 incident points, or 255X. Stop and Go penalties will be administered after 100 incidents, and every 20 incidents afterward until the limit is reached and disqualification occurs.
Every car in the field has been BOP adjusted in some way or fashion, whether it be in the fuel, the weight, or the power. Those numbers are available now, but could potentially be updated on Wednesday prior to the event. Those numbers are available on the iRacing Forum post here.
Do take note that this is the Endurance layout of the track. As such, a warning to competitors at the start: The race starting green flag will not happen at the start-finish line. It will happen at the gantry on the run down to Eau Rouge. Please be mindful and careful at the start. Last year, the broadcasted SoF race was won by Verstappen Sim Racing, the team consisting of Chris Lulham, Diogo Pinto, and Florian Lebigre.
ABOUT CIRCUIT DE SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is one of the motorsport world’s most storied venues. The home of the Belgian Grand Prix, the 24 Hours of Spa, and the Spa 1000K, Spa has long been recognized as a supreme test of courage and skill, and its roll call of winners reads like a history of Grand Prix and sports car racing.
Spa has seen many variations over the years. Designed in 1920, the circuit originally ran for some 15km over public roads in Belgium’s Ardennes region. The elimination of a hairpin turn in the valley of Eau Rouge creek later shortened the circuit by about a kilometer and added to its already fearsome speeds. Those speeds peaked in the early 1970s, when Pedro Rodriguez won the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix at an average speed of 149.941 mph and Henri Pescarolo set a lap record of 163.086 mph during the 1973 Spa 100K.
Owing to safety concerns, the circuit was reconfigured to its current layout in the 1980s, and continues to evolve to this day. The revised circuit retains much of the flavor of the original course, and many of its signature turns including La Source, Blanchimont and the daunting Eau Rouge.
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