THIS WEEK: iRacing 6HRS of Road America | Special Event
July 20th, 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 6HRS of Road America takes the spotlight with multi-class IMSA competition taking on Road America for six hours of team racing competition. Here’s everything you need to know about participating in this iRacing Special Event.
TRACK: Road America – Full Course
CARS COMPETING: GTP Class
CARS COMPETING: LMP2 Class
CARS COMPETING: GTD Class
- Acura NSX GT3 EVO 22
- Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO
- 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 24TH TO JULY 26TH:
- 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)
- Sunday 00:00 GMT (Saturday 8 PM ET)
ABOUT THE 2026 iRACING ROAD AMERICA 6 HOUR
The 6 Hours of Road America is a six-hour endurance race held annually at Road America. It is the fourth round of the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. This race will be scheduled in the sim for August 2nd at 10:00 am with dynamic weather enabled. This is a six 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 100 incident points, or 100X. Stop and Go penalties will be administered after 35 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.
ABOUT ROAD AMERICA
Located outside the picturesque village of Elkhart Lake, in Wisconsin’s beautiful Kettle Moraine region, an hour north of Milwaukee and just two hours from Chicago, Road America opened in 1955. From 1950 through 1953 the town had been host to annual sports car races conducted on ad-hoc circuits made up of linked sections of county highways, but safety concerns ended open-road racing. The track was built by local civil engineer Cliff Tufte, who set out a 14-turn, four-mile ribbon of pavement, literally over hill and dale. Tufte took advantage of the hillsides adjacent to many parts of the track to provide natural viewing areas for spectators.
Road America, one of the world’s classic road-racing venues, has been host to every important North American racing series, beginning with SCCA sports cars in the 1950s, to the Can-Am and Trans-Am in the ’60s and ’70s, IMSA’s GT and GTP cars since the ’70s, and IndyCars beginning in 1982. NASCAR ran a race at Road America in 1956, won by the legendary Tim Flock, and now includes the Wisconsin road course on its Nationwide Series schedule. The June Sprints, put on annually for more than 50 years by the SCCA’s Chicago Region, draws 600+ amateur sports car racers and as many as 30,000 spectators. The current schedule also includes vintage and motorcycle racing.
Road America is beloved both by spectators, who are afforded a variety of spectacular views and by drivers, who value the challenges the track presents. And while Road America enjoys a rich tradition, it is not a prisoner of its history. A recent upgrade to the facility saw spectator viewing and paddock access improved by the replacement of the Bill Mitchell bridge with a tunnel a hundred yards further down the road. A further nod to the performance gains wrought by modern technology is the addition of an optional chicane at Road America’s famous “kink” in the back straightaway, providing a second configuration for race series that don’t wish to expose their drivers to one of motorsport’s biggest thrills every four miles.
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