Where’s the hype for NASCAR 25? iRacing just revealed the release date for the first entirely new NASCAR console game in years—October 2025—but the reaction has been… silence. No buzz from IGN. Nothing from GameSpot. Not even a whisper from Kotaku. How is this game launch flying so far under the radar for a sport that just announced it will host a race on a military base and is handing out a million dollars in an in-season tournament?

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This was supposed to be a turning point. A fresh start. A chance to finally give NASCAR fans a game worth getting excited about. And yet here we are, less than three months from launch, with zero gameplay shown and zero mainstream coverage. It’s not that fans don’t care—it’s that no one’s giving them a reason to. That can change fast, but iRacing has to do something soon. Do you think NASCAR 25 will deliver, or is this shaping up to be another quiet misfire? Let us know what you’re expecting in the comments.

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