Drive your season
Keep track of the race schedule, review results and standings, and manage your participation through the member portal.
iRacing · Drivers · Teams
The race is only
the beginning.
Welcome to the National Racing Championship Series. An iRacing league where the competition continues beyond the checkered flag. Race for results, build a team, negotiate driver contracts and manage the budget behind a season-long campaign.
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Welcome to NRCS
One series. More ways to be part of it.
NRCS combines on-track competition with the teamwork behind a racing season. Drivers compete for results, team owners build and manage their teams, and members use one portal to keep up with their league activities.
Build your team
Team owners can manage drivers, contracts and team planning alongside their racing commitments.
Stay connected
Find league information, account notices and the next steps that need your attention—all in the NRCS portal.
More than a finishing position
Race hard. Build a team. Balance the budget.
NRCS adds a team-management economy to the competition on track. Owners decide how to fund their cars and sign drivers. Drivers negotiate what they earn and which costs they share. Race results, incidents and sponsor commitments all feed into the season—not just the standings.
The portal tracks team and driver balances separately. The explanations below describe how that league economy works; the selected season’s rules and each signed agreement determine the actual amounts and conditions.
Where the income goes
A race purse is the amount awarded for a finishing position under the event’s economy rules. For a team-backed entry, that income goes to the team, while the driver earns the pay and bonuses in their contract. An independent driver receives their own race purse and covers their applicable entry and running costs.
A good result is not all profit
Running a car brings operating costs, incident-related charges and any applicable did-not-finish (DNF) penalty. Team payroll and agreed reimbursements also affect the bottom line. A contract can assign part of a DNF penalty to the driver. Clean, consistent racing can protect the budget as well as help the championship campaign.
Negotiate more than a seat
Contracts can include a full-season salary, signing bonus, per-race pay and bonuses for agreed results, such as wins, strong finishes, poles or clean races. Full-season salary and signing bonuses are paid when an offer is accepted; race pay and earned race bonuses follow race settlement. Other commitments, including championship bonuses, have their own conditions.
An offer is not a payment. Both sides need to review the terms, including cost sharing, before acceptance. Ending a contract can carry a fee under its cancellation terms.
Earn support—and meet the terms
Owners can review sponsor offers for eligible cars. An accepted agreement can provide signing income, payments for qualifying race starts and bonuses for meeting its stated targets. Eligibility, agreement dates and paid-start limits matter: putting a car on the grid does not create sponsor income without an agreement that qualifies for payment.
Sponsor income goes to the team. Driver earnings still follow the driver’s contract, rather than an automatic share of every sponsor payment.
Plan for the next race and beyond
Owners can compare their current balance with future payroll, possible bonuses and expected running costs. Race-budget plans and season forecasts help explore different outcomes before making a commitment. Running more cars means planning for more than one car’s expenses.
A forecast is an estimate—not a promised payout or extra money in the account. Saving a budget plan does not move or reserve funds.
See what actually changed
When a race is finalized, the portal records the applicable race income, costs and driver payments. Qualifying sponsor payments are recorded separately. The transaction history shows money coming in and going out, so a race purse should not be confused with the amount left after expenses.
Financial corrections keep a record of reversals and replacement entries. Private balances and contract details remain inside the member portal—not on this public page.