NASCAR's best sign up for simulation-style iRacing Pro Invitational this weekend
LONG POND, PA - JULY 28: Tony Stewart, driver of the #14 Mobil 1 Chevrolet, races on a simulator during a Mobil 1 and iRacing event at Pocono Raceway on July 28, 2016. (Rainier Ehrhardt/NASCAR)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Even though gatherings of more than 10 have been canceled all over the country, NASCAR figured out a way to get us our dose of left turns.
FOX Sports and NASCAR have invited racing's best to "drive" in the first-ever eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series on Sunday, March 22, at 1:30 p.m. ET (on FS1 and the FOX Sports app).
Some drivers are even coming out of retirement for the simulation-style digital racing experience.
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Drivers from the Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series will all be on the track for this unprecedented event.
Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Bobby Labonte, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, and Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell have already committed to strap on their racing gloves and sit behind the wheel of their individual eSports racing simulators for 90-minutes of iRacing around the virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Not enough? How about Bubba Wallace, Chris Buescher, William Byron, Matt DiBenedetto, Austin Dillon, Ty Dillon, Timmy Hill, Michael McDowell, John Hunter Nemechek, Ryan Preece, Garrett Smithley, Erik Jones, Ross Chastain, Parker Kligerman, Landon Cassill and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will also be in the 35-car lineup, the rest of which will be announced Sunday before the race.
The FOX NASCAR Broadcast Team - Jeff Gordon, Mike Joy and Larry McReynolds - are hosting the race while Clint Bowyer provides in-car analysis while competing in an iRacing simulator from the FOX NASCAR Charlotte studio.