From the iRacing forums via @GPLaps on Twitter:
Our current license agreement with IndyCar is set to expire on December 31, 2022. IndyCar has signed an exclusive license with another developer that goes into effect on January 1, 2023. While we are still working on finalizing a new license with IndyCar, it is clear there will be some notable changes to the way we are able to present IndyCar racing on iRacing. Most significantly, we will no longer be able to run an official IndyCar branded series and there will not be an iRacing Indy 500. You will also see the removal of the IndyCar Series logo from our sites.
I’m not a sim racer, but the feels like yet another example of short-term, petty thinking by Penske Entertainment’s IndyCar leadership. As a result of this agreement ending, IndyCar iRacing series’ can no longer feature current IndyCar tracks, and streaming of races using any IndyCar-related cars from past or present is now banned.
After short-changing the Indy Lights champion of his scholarship, cancelling the plan of 2.4 liter engines, shouting down journalists who dare be critical of the series’ direction, and several more shortcomings, it’s becoming hard to square Roger Penske, the owner of IndyCar, versus Roger Penske, successful businessman and owner of team that was won eighteen Indianapolis 500s. It seems impossible that somone whose leadership group has made so many questionable decisions with regard to the stewardship of the series can be so successful in other forms of business, including other facets of motorsports.
Michael Miller 