How to Join RTA iRacing Leagues

1. An Active iRacing Account

In order to race with RTA Virtual Motorsport you will need to have an iRacing account.
We strongly recommend that you only use iRacing via the official iRacing UI that you can download via iracing.com
DO NOT use iRacing through Steam!
It causes more headaches than it is worth when it comes to updates.
Create your account on iRacing and pay for your monthly subscription.
In advance of a season, you will be able to see the car and track calendar for the season.
- As iRacing uses a ‘pay to play’ system, you may have to purchase said cars or tracks if they are not provided free under the base subscription
RTA does not operate under the leagues tab in iRacing. Every practice session/race session will be under the ‘Hosted’ session under ‘RTA (‘whatever the car combo’ cup/championship etc)’. You can use the search function to find RTA sessions.
These sessions will be locked with a password that will only be provided to people that have paid for that particular season of RTA (explained further under Discord section).
Note: You do not need any official iRacing licence to participate with RTA. The stronger your iRating and licence, the better chance of starting in the A class but new users of iRacing will be in the B class automatically.

You will need to create your own profile on www.rtavirtualmotorsport.com
To do this, go to the website and on the top menu bar go to ‘My Account’ and go to ‘Register’
Here you will be asked to fill in your details and verify via email.
One of the things you will be asked and need to know is your iRacing customer ID.
- This can be found in the iRacing UI by clicking on the helmet icon in the top right and selecting “Account,”
Once registered, you can login and fill out your profile details.
Now that you are registered, navigate to the shop icon at the top right hand corner of the menu bar and click ‘Shop’.
Here you can purchase your entry for the next season.
Once completed, make sure you are in the Discord server where you will receive the dedicated role for that season to see all the season info.
All championship and penalty points can be found under ‘Current Series’.
You will also find information such as race calendar.

Link to join the RTA Discord: https://discord.gg/hJzZxYgN7y
So long as you have signed up to the website and purchased the entry for the season, you should have the right permissions within Discord to see all the information you require.

RTA runs in 8 week periods (with one gap week)
A practice server is made available to all entrants on a Monday night starting at 9pm GMT to 11pm GMT or Irish time.
Our race night is Tuesday nights.
- Practice starts at 7.30pm GMT
- A mandatory race briefing is held in the race voice chat at 8.45pm GMT
- Qualifying starts at 9.05pm GMT – 15 minutes in length
- Race 1 – 10 min race set by qualifying order
- Race 2 – 15 min race set by finishing order of Race 1
- 5 min break with interviews (See Gantry TV)
- Feature Race – 20 min race set by finishing result of Race 2 with the top 8 grid reversed.
Post race, drivers can report #incidents via the incidents channel in Discord.
The incidents are then streamed via Discord and decisions on outcomes are made by admins. In the event where a decision can not be made, decisions go out to the viewers of incident review and penalties made.
List of penalties are then posted via the #incident-investigations channel
For further information on the rules of RTA visit: https://rtavirtualmotorsport.com/rta-rules-and-regulations/
There are two classes in RTA:
- A Class – Drivers that have over a certain iRating or progressed from the B class by winning the B Championship. All drivers earn points in the overall standings.
- B Class – Drivers under a certain iRating or no iRating will automatically be entered into the B Class.

Gantry TV (unless specified pre-season) will broadcast every RTA race via Gantry TV’s Youtube channel and RTA Virtual Motorsport’s Facebook page.
This consists of live coverage of the racing with broadcast control covered by Ronan Hederman of Sim Consultants, commentary by Kevin Galvin and Evan Dalton, championships points updates and interviews.
Top 3 drivers of Race 2 are interviewed by commentators
Top 3 drivers of Feature Race are interviewed post race.
The commentators are heavily invested in the league, do extensive research into the cars, tracks and the drivers to keep audiences engaged.
All previous streams can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/@GantryTVSimRacing