NEW CONTENT // Willow Springs International Raceway

One of the United States' finest hidden gems for road racers, Rosamond, California's Willow Springs International Motorsports Park is a complex of multiple diverse and challenging courses. Headlined by the 2.5-mile Willow Springs Raceway, also known as "Big Willow," the facility opened in November 1953, making it the oldest permanent road course in America; in 1996, it was also declared a California Point of Historical Interest.
"Big Willow" features challenging elevation changes, technical corners, and one of the most picturesque backgrounds of any circuit in the west. The nine-turn layout begins with a hard left-hander coming off of the long frontstretch, but it also features multiple long, sweeping right-handers and a tricky complex comprising Turns 3 through 5. The track has hosted everything from the NASCAR Cup Series in the 1950s to budget-level endurance racing in modern times. It's also beloved among the amateur racing community for producing exciting racing with an approachable but fun layout.
Willow Springs will be available with the 2023 Season 3 build update!
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[@RoccoHorvath]

I was paralyzed on this track over 10 years ago. Iracing has been my outlet for racing ever since. It'll be cool to get back on this track and show it who's boss.

[@R1K1-15]

I hope you're getting better ❤

[@patrickle1]

Rooting for you!

[@rolux4853]

Sorry to hear that man I hope you're living as good as possible! Great that you found fun in Simracing where you can do everything without the risk involved!

[@dankrhino]

Ayo that’s crazy if true. Couldn’t imagine the hurdle overcoming looking at this course again… even if it is on iracing

[@psychedelicsuns8600]

What happened?

[@RyanHellyer]

The trackside looks amazing now. It's great to see iRacing without the horrendous flat grass effect.

[@williampatrick7258]

honestly the thing I'm most excited about when i first saw it

[@TougeSolo]

Now if only they'd do something about the grass it's self and grip levels when you even look at it. lol

[@Walkingthroughthemountains]

So true!!

[@martin-hall-northern-soul]

The new terrain shaders make the backdrops look awesome 👌

[@KFox210]

WILLOW!!!!!! The good one not the Disney+ show

[@davecamyt]

Incredible job on the video 👌

[@wakenbakeracing85]

They could have added rain 😂 there’s plenty of tracks and cars. We need a weather model

[@gseric4721]

@@wakenbakeracing85 what about a night variant? XD

[@wakenbakeracing85]

@@gseric4721 now that’s a good idea!

[@gseric4721]

@@wakenbakeracing85 would be super cool to see, haha

[@niky161007]

I’ve been there IRL and this is crazy realistic. Amazing job!

[@nickreich1]

I remember about 7 months ago I posted on Reddit wishing for this track and everyone said I was crazy. Finding out this track has been added is getting me to sign back up.

[@Kpaxlol]

Is this the best detailed track rn ? It's insane. I love it. And also love the track itself.

[@sstrong42]

I cannot wait to spin coming into T2, or out of the last turn.

[@driver808]

Huge improvement. Look forward to older tracks getting the new treatment too!

[@mikeg284]

I've tested and raced 1000's of laps at Big Willow in our car, this looks fantastic. Can't wait to try it out.

[@haukeg21]

The music definitely gives this RDR2 vibes. Looks the part as well. 👍

[@fallrisktv]

I miss this track so much. Thank you for finally adding it, and for putting so much obvious work into it. Can’t wait to see this in VR.

[@Squiggly.Noodle]

The direction you have taken the detail of sim racing is absolutely incredible! Thank you for all the effort that goes into this. please add Pitt Race!

[@capobuzz2278]

Nailed it 👌. Iracing are the top dogs of sim racing fullstop.

[@Walkingthroughthemountains]

Love it guys! I can hear Barber crying for the same level of TLC 😂😂

[@gdoumit]

So good. I can't wait for this. The grass looks great and so does the track surface. Here's to hoping there isn't a big performance cost to the grass.

[@rainey06au]

Looks amazing with the new foliage. Red Dead Redemption but with racecars.

[@FedericoTesta1]

beautiful rendition and trailer

[@bunkermonkey_uk]

Mic drop! Just WOW!

[@LithFox]

Kind of wanted the trailer to be longer almost.. It was neat. Thank you for finally bringing this to us!

[@lestienofficiel721]

Looks amazing !! The new season will be unbelievable !! Thanks Iracing !!

[@1xRacer]

Absolutely amazing I never ever thought this was coming out of the vault, ty to everyone who worked on it!

[@MJY5drives]

Absolute classic.

[@backwardog1]

Love it, yup buying that track.

[@denn15m8]

Looking forward to the smaller versions of this track up on the hill. Very technical and tricky.

[@ugl10x12]

Bro street stocks around this place would be like 70s trans am

[@cacojugon]

Looks great! @iRacing do you plan to add the other tracks in the motorsports park like Streets of Willow and Horse Thief Mile? It would be great to have them as part of the same piece of content (like Summit Point - Jefferson)!

[@taxi615]

Love the graphic updates

[@cruisinwithcorey]

This literally looks like a new game

[@iracingaussie]

Take my credit card iracing, sold! Looks amazing!

[@mikemiller7946]

Looks good.

[@gearhead2519]

*WILLOW SPRIIIIIIIIINGS!!!!* THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE IRACING W

[@LoganWard4621]

let's go baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! btw track was/is also in NEED FOR SPEED PROSTREET maybe the will add the streets of willow and the horse thief mile layouts/versions in a future updates i am sure they will get around to it at some point

[@kneebon5]

Streets of Willow or riot

[@the_real_beaker_]

So glad to finally have a hometown track! Long Beach is closer but that doesn’t count to me 😂 will this just be big willow or will there be streets of willow too?

[@charliebeckey6269]

Fingers crossed. Would make sense to include streets if they went through all the trouble of scanning everything.

[@the_real_beaker_]

@@charliebeckey6269 the only reason I’d see them not adding it is because it would be really tight even for a Mazda

[@SupraDebt]

Awesome, a Track ive spent a lot of time on IRL... Now please do Streets, i cant count how many laps ive done around there :)

[@IssamErRabhi]

Ford vs Ferrari the movie vibes. Amazing work

[@RomainFleuryWhatever]

Nice !!!

[@redluca56]

It wouldn't surprise me if this became free content eventually if not immediately. I dread the thought of driving this track so often

[@rolux4853]

Amazing Track and it looks really well done! No it's really time for a Vintage American Touring Car! We need to rip those corners in a loose V8 monster to really feel the freedom in our Sim Rigs!

[@michaelmarchione6903]

WILLOWWWW! Also to add, this looks absolutely incredible. Great work.

[@MrEDET]

Awesome. Very happy with this one.

[@tugador3561]

Woo..Beautiful..👍

[@POP7QWIZ]

Holy heck the new shaders looks incredible. Hopefully this is at least somewhat performant

[@herby117]

This might just be the best new content video you've ever made, it's a proper good game trailer with great vibes. However, it looks like the anti-aliasing technique chosen isn't resolving the aliasing on the new shaders including grass, textures on the road and causing flickering as a result.

[@samson_hu]

Hope you guys get to Thunderhill one day

[@DerekSpeareDSD]

it's about time!

[@ThisBusch]

boy these improved graphics look so good

[@josephnh751fc4]

Bring the NASCAR Cup series here next year due to the loss of Fontana. Bring back the Winston Western 500 haha

[@ydeforsure]

Super veel zin in 😂

[@t.sewell1513]

The track looks amazing! Nice work iracing.

[@bsmracing6592]

beauty!

[@sbinalavettel2589]

time for gt40 and ken mile momen

[@tmips1]

I wish I had the money to get iracing just for this track. I remember this track always being so hard, but so rewarding as a little kid driving it in gt6

[@MrFlyingmachine]

May have to fire up iRacing again for this, please do Streets of Willow as well, now that's a technical track. Big Willow to test your cajones, SOW to test your skills.

[@amarokdcs1062]

Amazing Scan! Any chance we can see a rehaul of Trees soon aswell? The sim would look fantastic if we got updated trees aswell with weather hopefully soon! Keep up the good work team!

[@PlayJasch]

I hope it is just the youtube compression making the new grass look so unstable. Otherwise great seeing that you are putting in the effort!

[@DaveMcRee]

Yeah! Insert FR500S Mustangs! Or some street stocks etc.

[@slikk66]

iRacing please make a tier where all content is included and let the players find what is best!!!!!

[@BabaYaga_intherace]

❤❤❤

[@InsertYourself1]

I really get Kkona vibes from thins 😁

[@Racing_Rookie]

Are you guys still planning on adding Pukekohe raceway? Its been ages since they announced it but i haven’t seen anything since.

[@clubracer6]

Looks great! Odd seeing Prototype cars running there.

[@DigitalRaceEngineer]

Only one hearing better sounds as well? Distance based reverberations, or am I dreaming?

[@Prickles2001]

Sound improvements been in the works for ages now. Fingers crossed some improvements are being released this build!

[@GuessTheiRating]

👏👏👏

[@Severytree]

has that Radiator Springs vibe

[@simracingchannel9891]

Cant wait for all the new content

[@pittsky]

Wow!!!!!! Now we need AC Cobra's in the game!

[@7erdogdu]

Mugello next please.

[@gseric4721]

Just play Assetto Corsa, man XD

[@hippyjason]

It's already in the que of tracks they are currently working on.

[@pigofskies]

they were racing quite close here! I was afraid netcode would cause a collision where one of the cars spin off into the barrier and pinball bounce right out again.

[@simonk5571]

Ima drive through that grass on purpose because it looks so nice. Please take off off-track penalties!

[@HeyItsEmilyLove]

I’m hyped

[@s1nenomine]

I drove it on NFS ProStreet for the first time :D Feeling old rn

[@AndrewPeddie]

can't wait!

[@bobbyQQ]

Lets go!!

[@Kronikman07]

Tom Segura just talked about this track with Ryan Blaney on his podcast 2 bears 1 cave. that's some awesome timing. Gonna be kinda cool to race the track tom goes to sometimes.

[@the_real_beaker_]

I think that was just streets of willow.

[@bleavit]

Shut up and take my money! I'm guessing it's just Big Willow, but still way cool!

[@matthewcoleman8267]

Looks amazing. Not many braking markers though 😬

[@bjarulez]

I think I will give it a miss for now, guess it will be the track for the BMW M Sim Cup in November, will get it for that if it is

[@Triple87]

A lot of people hate this track. I for one, am not one of them. Easily my best track.

[@gseric4721]

Yeah. You have to do a few races on the circuit first, and then it starts to grow on you a bit.

[@Triple87]

@@gseric4721 Once you get it down, it’s a wicked track to race on.

[@gseric4721]

@@Triple87 facts.

[@MrRaphaelLippi]

there is just so much emptiness to it. I cannot stand it.

[@Triple87]

@@MrRaphaelLippi I love it. It flows so well. When you can nail every turn perfectly is just fun. Plus the added sense of death at every turn. One slip up and you’re in the desert. 😂

[@FaDezZ_]

nice one ads a lot of value to the track scape

[@collinthomas6288]

I recently moved to the west and being able to practice these tracks will be so helpful. Next thunder hill??

[@rarechineseantique3157]

Rosamond Town have 2 Acre Property is still cheap running around $10k near Willow Spring RaceWay

[@mailboxmedia6655]

WOAH, physical grass plants and weeds? this looks like beamng drive, not iracing. this is awesome

[@gseric4721]

Wohoho, you guess finally did it. Cool! XD

[@Jgallstar1]

This looks insanely realistic and I can't place why

[@smartah0]

gotta get iracing now this track is like 20 minutes away and I've been waiting for a good sim to make this track so I can practice before goin out there

[@markstuart8401]

Mugello next please! 😂

[@robertodams]

Looks very dry!😊

[@BudnikYura]

Вау. Звук - просто казка

[@Crazysworld91]

Good luck with getting any sort of frame rate. Please let us know when iracing overhauls its engine so it doesn’t require a 4090 to run max graphics. It’s insane that most tracks look like 2008 graphics but runs like a brand new AAA title.

[@kimjonglongdong4071]

just waiting for the caddy

[@GunSlingerAUS1]

If iRacing can roll out this quality level to existing tracks, as well as a PBR update to cars and overhaul of the audio engine, I'll happily throw money at it

[@CrYpTiK_Kaiser]

Is this the track you see in LA car KZbinr videos?

[@harrisonvoorhees]

Yep

[@MTBGarage]

This track looks like it could use some rain! 🌧🌧🌧

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

I just watched a vid yesterday about a guy explaining all the unused scans and such iRacing had for tracks. Weird.

[@DJYeeJay]

weird 🤣

[@christmworkflow2886]

wow hyperrealistic

[@xfontix39]

Would we see 1987 Stock Car Race on this track?

[@ozcomobros]

Would love to know what settings are used. Even mine on all max doesnt look this good lol

[@thelizardfolk]

Do we get Streets of Willow and Horse Thief Mille as well? Please say yes.

[@henrymorse9939]

Don’t think so, the video description refers only to big Willow and the frames that do have streets in the background like 0:22-0:23 show it with considerably less detail than big Willow, really unfortunate