On August 18, iRacing raises its subscription price. It is only the second time it has done so in nearly twenty years, which, to be fair, is a record of restraint that plenty of streaming services could only dream of, given they raise prices while quietly removing features. But records do not pay bills, and half the community is now asking one very specific question: do I renew now, or do I just let it happen? I have had a calculator open for two days. Here is where I landed. The numbers, no decoration Here is what goes up: the monthly plan moves from $13 to $14.75, three months from $33 to $37.50, the annual from $110 to $124.50, and the two-year from $199 to $222.50. Somewhere between 12 % and 13.5 %, with the shorter plans taking the worst of it in percentage terms. What does not go up, and this matters far more than the headlines suggest, is the price of cars and tracks. Now, the detail almost nobody puts in the headline and that hits some of us directly: iRacing lists its prices without tax. Its own membership page says so in the small print. So depending on where you live, you add your local VAT or sales tax on top. Where I am, that is 21 %, which turns the annual plan from roughly $133 into roughly $151, and the two-year from about $241 into about $269. Translated: renew a year now and you save around $17. Stretch it as far as the rules allow and stack two years, and you save around $28. Twenty-eight dollars. Less than a car and a half in the store. That is the whole drama. What someone actually saves by being clever This is where it gets interesting, because the