iRacing Cost: Your Plan to the A License

• Promotion: Safety Rating shows how cleanly you drive. You start at 2.50 and lose about 1.00 after each promotion. You also need the Minimum Participation (MPR): 2 races as a Rookie, then 4 per level, only in series marked “MPR UP”, all possible in one week. With a Safety Rating of 3.0 (Rookie) or 4.0 you move up straight away (Fast Track), otherwise from 3.0 at the end of the season.
• The plan: for each level, one week with MPR races in a series of your class or one class higher counts (those series require a Safety Rating of 4.0 in your class, e.g. B series “Class C 4.0”; MPR races count in your class or higher). At the same price, the plan sticks to your own class. You collect Safety Rating for free in the other weeks (your class or below). It works out one level per week from the selected week. Every car allowed in a series counts as its own option, and the cheapest combination across all levels wins: each item counts once, with the volume discount on the total number of items (all in one purchase). At the same price, these win in this order: a car bought earlier that you keep driving towards your goal, then whatever costs nothing that week, then the car you’ll keep driving the longest at higher levels.
• The time is a range: one level per week only works if your Safety Rating keeps up. With a second week per level it takes twice as long. If your path runs past the end of the season, the week 13 break counts too. “Budget” has no time pressure: each level waits for the earliest week that makes the whole path cheapest. That line only appears when waiting really pays off. The shopping list assumes you make the purchases of the earlier levels as shown; after “I’ve got my … license” the plan asks about them, so nothing shows up twice.
• Only Sports Car series with a fixed set of cars count. Team, heat, track day and qualifying series don’t. Ring Meister only counts if you own the Nordschleife. Series with their own rhythm count in the week they actually race. Week 13 is the break week and is skipped.
• The plan doesn’t pick a GT3 or GTP for you: the price is the same for all of them, so the card says “GT3 of your choice” or “GTP of your choice”. LMP2 is its own class with one car, the Dallara P217 (its own races in B, its own class in IMSA). The plan only counts cars that also race in IMSA. Need help choosing a GT3? See the GT3 tier list.
• If an earlier level allows the same car (for example D with the Rain Master Challenge: all GT3s), you buy it there and keep driving it in B and in IMSA. At the same total, that wins over a free week, so the total never goes up because of it. When waiting, this only applies if no level ends up later.
• “about” in front of an amount on a card means there’s no schedule for the next season yet (usually out in December). Until then, week 1, 2 … of the new season is treated like week 1, 2 … of this season, as a guide. If you wait, the cheapest week of this season is used there. Which week that will be is open, so the time then says “at least”. “You pay” includes the discount where it applies (all in one purchase). The track list only counts race weeks in your class.
• Anything you tick under “What do you already own?” costs $0. “Any GT3/GT4/TCR” counts every car in that group as owned. The iRacing subscription is shown separately under the total (“+ subscription”, price of the 1-month plan).
• Safety Rating also counts in series below your class, Rookie series included. Source: Benta’s own experience, 27 Oct 2026.
• All prices are in USD incl. 19% VAT (German rate), as of 27 October 2026. Subscription prices in the price list are net and converted here with 19%. The iRacing store shows prices incl. your local tax, so in the UK and South Africa they can differ slightly.
• Car $14.22, track $17.79, short tracks $14.22. Legacy content: car $3.51, track $5.89.
• Subscription prices since 18 Aug 2026, incl. VAT (net): 1 month $17.55 ($14.75), 3 months $44.63 ($37.50), 12 months $148.16 ($124.50), 24 months $264.77 ($222.50).
• New member discount: on the date above, new members got 30% off. This is confirmed for the 12-month subscription ($103.71 incl. VAT). For 3 months it’s only assumed, and it’s unclear how long the offer runs. We don’t deduct the discount anywhere, not even from the subscription under the total.
• Volume discount per purchase (can’t be combined, excludes legacy content): first purchase (at least) 10%; 3 to 5 items 10%; 6 or more items 15%; 40 or more licensed items 20%. If you buy items one by one, 1 to 2 items only get a discount on your first purchase. The totals assume one purchase at the start, with 1 to 2 items as your first purchase.
• We don’t deduct participation credits ($4.00 up to Class C, $7.00 from B per season, max $10.00, points needed within 8 weeks).
• Season: 12 race weeks plus one break week. Season 4 2026 has been running since 15 Sep 2026; the end around 15 Dec 2026 is only calculated. Several levels in one season only work via Fast Track, which isn’t certain. With end-of-season promotions only, you need one season per level.
• 7 Sports Car cars and iRacing’s base tracks are free. Check the promotion rules (Sporting Code) yourself before you buy. No guarantee: some values come from third-party sources or are calculated.

Sources: iRacing: price update · iRacing: Membership · iRacing: Volume Discounts · Buying Guide Season 4 · iRacing store, as of 27 Oct 2026

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