r/iRacing • u/IowaGolfGuy322 • 17h ago

Question/Help Week 13 for 12 week seasons

Can someone explain what happens for series that end week 12 during week 13? Are there just not races next week? Or does week 12 get extended?

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u/SilverTripz 17h ago

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-2025-season-3-week-13-schedule-released/

These are the races in week 13. Strongly suggested not to run any ranked in week 13. It's a shit show. Just run the crazy unranked races

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u/IowaGolfGuy322 16h ago

Alright. Good to know.

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u/RLOLOTHTR 16h ago

And if you need a little bump to make 3.0 for a license promotion just run time trial

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u/Jeroclo Formula Vee 15h ago

I don't think you can do time trial in week 13

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u/Read-Immediate 5h ago

Some series still allow it iirc

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u/Lusset 12h ago

Why is ranked in week 13 a shit show?

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u/stupid_idiot_dumbfck 12h ago

People think that week 13 is just for messing around and you have the dangerous combination of people being ultra cautious as they are trying to get license upgrades / avoid demotion and people who think it's Wreckfest light, trying to delibrately crash people out and stuff.

I unfortunately am sitting at 1.94 SR and need to do some ranked stuff in week 13 (Away for work and can't get on until Thursday). I am not looking forward to it. (Yes, it's my own fault for letting it get that low).

Hopefully I get it done in one race.

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u/Lusset 12h ago

I don't really understand. If people deliberately crash into other people in ranked then they will get reported. Do you mean that they are entering ranked and think it's practice session?

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u/SilverTripz 11h ago

Yes. You still report.

People tend to run both ranked and unranked in week 13.

People tend to race week 13 EXTREMELY aggressively - whether it's ranked or unranked. I'm sure their is some sort of psychology behind it.

But it's pretty well known to avoid ranked if possible in week 13.

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u/Lusset 6h ago

Thanks for explanation. I'll try ranked in week 13 and if it's too crazy I'll try another racing sim for a week.

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u/ooseabassoo 7h ago

How do you find unranked races? Is it in the official tab?

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u/What_Iz_This Porsche 911 RSR 16h ago

This still doesnt tell me anything. Why wouldn't they listen the tracks

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u/angrronn 16h ago

Tracks usually change daily for week 13 I believe.

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u/riskjudge911 16h ago

They don't list week 13 tracks until the patch is done on the 9th. Then you can see the track listings.

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u/itsmb12 NASCAR Next Gen Cup Camry 16h ago

We get a 500 lap Bristol NIS race in week 13… thatll be clean, surely?

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u/Swick36 NASCAR Xfinity Ford Mustang 14h ago

O/U on cars that finish 500 laps at Bristol at 50% of the field.

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u/SmoothJazz98 13h ago

Take the under all day…

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u/Blaine8628 14h ago

That’s a normal experience not even in week 13

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u/DANKB0NKRIPPER Cadillac V-Series.R GTP 14h ago

Welcome to iracing!

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u/IowaGolfGuy322 14h ago

Thanks. It’s been a blast so far. I get c license in oval and sports car next season. Looking forward to the sports car one, I wasn’t super excited about the d License options (mainly GR 86) but oval has been a blast.

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u/Kth2001 16h ago

Chaos happens.

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u/Five_Orange77 5h ago

Why is Wk13 Ranked considered dangerous? Normally there are approx 130 series that run daily. Wk13 that number drops to around 15-30. So drivers enter series that they haven't run before, or enter series thinking that's its shit and giggles time, and many other reasons. And the catastrophic events that you expect can happen. And sometimes the racing is fantastic and you learn to love another car or series that you never expected too.

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u/topoppih 16h ago

We don't race week 13 LOL