Forza 5 releases the “Road America” track for free as well as a new Booster Pack

Written by Brandon Hofer on February 18, 2014

News: Turn 10 Studios has just released new DLC for Forza 5 with one of them being a free track and other a car pack for Forza 5 Car Pass owners.

Forza Motorsport 5 was a launch title for the Xbox One and, according to Turn 10, it has been doing really well. According to Turn 10, one-third of console owners have purchased the game since the launch of Xbox One. So basically one out of every three people has about Forza 5. Those gamers who have picked up Forza 5 have driven over 653 million road miles which is the equivalent of circling the planet 49,223 times. Gamers have also participated in over 94 million races, putting in a combined eight million hours of total gameplay. When you aren’t playing Forza 5 your drivatar is always busy as drivatars have populated friends’ races and challenges, appearing in more than one billion races. In the livery editor tool community members have created hundreds of thousands of liveried cars, comprised of more than 66 million individual design layers.

To help celebrate these numbers Turn 10 revealed earlier today that Road America, one of the world’s premier tracks, will arrive today as the first track add-on update. Available for free, Forza fans can take a spin on the legendary high-speed straights and challenging turns on one of the oldest and most distinguished tracks in North America. Road America is being offered as a fully-integrated addition to Forza 5 and will be automatically added into the career events for the racing career. You will be able to take part in races on the circuit in both the main career events as well as career bonus events which are available after a mini-career series is complete. In addition, for the first time in the “Forza Motorsport” series, Road America will feature four alternate ribbons that will test the limits of each and every player. Players will also now find new Road America-themed events in Rivals Mode and in the multiplayer lobbies.

Finally, the Road America Booster Pack is also releasing today. It will feature five cars to collect, drive and customize in “Forza Motorsport 5.” This five-car pack will be available for free to “Forza Motorsport 5” Car Pass owners, in addition to the six monthly DLC packs that Car Pass owners will receive through May 2014. The five cars in the booster pack are the 2006 #2 Audi Sport North America R8, 1995 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1, 1968 Ferrari 365 GTB/4, 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1, and the 2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series.

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