2025 Season 1 Patch 2 Release - February 4th 0800EST/1300UTC

From the staff post on the member forums:

Patch Release:

• This downtime is for a Patch release that includes updates and improvements, as well as fixes for the 2025 Season 1 Release.

Downtime:

• iRacing.com will be coming down for deployment of 2025 Season 1 Patch 2, Tuesday, February 4th, beginning at 08:00 am EST.

• This downtime will affect all iRacing.com regions and members will be unable to host or join sessions during the downtime.

• You can check on the status of all iRacing services directly in the iRacing Companion App, or from our System Status page here: iRacing Uptime Status

Demo Drive:

Demo Drive becomes available as downtime for this deployment begins and remains available for several hours after this deployment has been completed.

• Demo Drive Sessions are launched using beautiful iRacing default weather and start at noon local track time.

• The content selected must be up to date, and Demo Drive contains a link to the Downloader where you can update and download any track you own, or any car.

• When connecting to Demo Drive, log in using the same credentials you already use on iRacing and the iRacing Forums.

• Demo Drive also contains links to the iRacing Forums, the iRacing Status Page, and a link back to iRacing, for when we exit maintenance mode.

• When we leave maintenance mode, Demo Drive will remain available for a period of several hours and a countdown will appear to let you know how much longer it will remain up. Navigation links to and from Demo Drive are present in iRacing whenever Demo Drive is available.

• Newly released paid content will not be available in Demo Drive until the following Season.

iRacing.com Downtime Schedule:

EST

Tue 2025-02-04 0200 Overlap Hosted Sessions Prevented*
Tue 2025-02-04 0800 Race Servers Unavailable

UTC

Tue 2025-02-04 0700 Overlap Hosted Sessions Prevented*
Tue 2025-02-04 1300 Race Servers Unavailable

AEDT

Tue 2025-02-04 1800 Overlap Hosted Sessions Prevented*
Tue 2025-02-04 2400 Race Servers Unavailable

• All times are subject to change.
• Sessions in progress at the start of maintenance will be terminated. There will be no record of such events whether official or not.
• *Hosted sessions are allowed to be created and run that do not overlap the "Race Servers Unavailable" time. For example, 6 hours before the maintenance period begins, you can create a hosted session that lasts up to 5 hours, but not one that lasts for 6 or more hours.