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Episode 0488

6/5/2025 – Hocevar Corner – Episode 0488

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Show Introduction

On today’s show, we get some upcoming build teaser shots, find out what the fall out was from the iRacing Coca-Cola eNASCAR Series race at Kansas, more Sim Gaming Expo announcements, see if a $15,000 sim rig is worth it, is there a new wheel base coming from Logitech and which real life driver found an exploit in iRacing.

And remember you can follow along with us on your PC or mobile device in real time as you listen to the show and see for yourself all of the great topics and products we’ll discuss by visiting iracerslounge.com and selecting show notes. Hope to see you there..

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Topics

Hocevar Finds An Exploit

Caruth Grabs His Second Win!

https://x.com/NASCAR_Trucks/status/1928635515886047666

Can ChatGPT Analyze My Lap?

Dale Jr On Max

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1127978059359302&set=a.634020762088370&type=3&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=YjkAV0gxwrACkC6g&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F19DkUy19XA%2F%3Fmibextid%3DwwXIfr#

Karl Samson Has Won In Everything

https://challenge.duncanwatts.com/Driver/339746

A Farewell To 2008 Charlotte Oval

#VerySoon

Should Low Participation Series Have Increased Grid Size?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/80047/all-semi-dead-series-sould-have-at-least-40-grid-spots

Coanda’s Purple Lounge

Mount Washington Hill Climb

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/682803/#Comment_682803

Wilson Returns To Victory Lane At Kansas

https://www.iracing.com/steven-wilson-returns-to-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-victory-lane-at-kansas-for-fourth-win-of-2025

ENASCAR: Penalty Report

Never Know Who Will Show Up In Your Lobby

https://www.facebook.com/groups/258981315367421/permalink/1386566629275545/

Dodge Set To Make Return To NASCAR

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/80095/leaked-race-vehicle

Super Formulas Get Rain Tires Next Week

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1146374937528732&id=100064687091588&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=gvSVBrm8oUkdqhvn#

Sim Gaming Expo

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Skip Barber Formula Series Returns In 2025

https://www.iracing.com/skip-barber-formula-iracing-series-returns-for-six-race-2025-campaign

The Majors 24

https://majorsseries.com/event/majors-242025

Nurburgring 24 Hours

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/79289/2025-nuerburgring-24h-presented-by-thrustmaster/p1

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-june-3-june-9-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Does This Change The World?

Is A $15k Sim Rig Worth The Price?

Virtual Stream Deck

VRS 295 Now Available In The USA

OC Racing On The P1 DDX Prime

So, How About This Sim To Reality?

Beware GPU Scammers

Trak Racer TR120 V2 Review

Carl Edwards Tries Out The P1 DDX Prime

2025 Triple Screen Setup Guide

New Logitech Wheel Base Leaked

SimCore Indy2 EVO

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Nashville

  • Tony -P4 decided to Mike Ellis it and show up with no practice all week with a few minutes to spare. It showed with a p22 qual. Raced smart avoiding the wrecks in 1st half. Last caution was with 78 laps to go and about 2/3rds the way realize it was probably staying green so started saving fuel. A few of the leaders had to pit with 3 to go and gained a few spots. Bonus was the asshole that wrecked me last weeks coke 600 was leading and ran out of gas with 2 to go. (Evil laugh) 
  • Brad- P27 Another disaster of a race. Started p7 but was caught up in another accident not of my making. Worked to get damage fixed only to get collected again. This time the damage was too much, we’re done.
  • John – P22.  Got wrecked. Was running in the top 10 when a guy tried to pass under me in turn 1. He did not have enough room to make the pass, so instead of braking he decided to just take me out. Impatience of drivers like that guy is what is killing NIS. Oh well, I have a good memory. Car was junk after that. By the time repairs were done I was 13 laps down.

Sunday Open- NiS – Nashville

  • David – P2,  started of stretching fuel to make a 1 stop race, but caution comes out, so everyone gets back even i’m around 13th.  Hanging around that spot until late race caution 20 laps to go, take 2, p6.  I survive a lot of carnage at the front, and the leader on the last restart had to serve a penalty for bad restart.  If i’d known might have gotten in a better position.  But was having a tracking issue with pimax since the last patch, and the horison was bouncing of line and back, making it really hard to precisely drive the outside line.  So on the last lap i coudln’t really fight.
  • Tony – P7 had a great long run car again but late race restart wasn’t good for me 
  • Greg -P7

Sunday Fixed- NiS – Nashville

  • Mike- P started 28th drove up to eighth by lap 35 but then got destroyed by some loser couldn’t miss it. Seven minutes damage rode around for quite a while trying to stay on the lead lap and get it fixed, but got destroyed again and some other incident too much damage were done.

Wednesday Open -NiS – Michigan

  • David – P14, caught in an early wreck from a 4 wide in front of me.  5 minutes of damage, but enough cautions got it all fixed, then flipped to the front on tire strategy.  Was terrible on restarts though and fell to 14th.
  • Tony – P17 ever get excited for something and than it ended up being one of the worse experiences you ever had? Welp that was me whole race and I wasnt even wrecked. Either I wasn’t driving the set right or it was just a miss for me. I still love my track in the Irish Hills. Il be hanging out in my usual spot T1 with my camera glued to my face
  • Brad- P10 Started p8 and was keeping up with the top group. After a restart I was taken 4 wide off turn 2 and I bobbled and with no room for error, I bounced off the car inside, spun and collected teammate David. From then on it was a fight to get damage fixed. Made the mistake of pitting early before pits were open figuring I would get the EOLL penalty. I did this in order to get two trips down pit road. Coming down the second time I was flagged for passing under yellow. Ended up with a 11 second hold and lost a lap. Managed to get the lap back and repairs made to fight back to the front. Very happy with the finish after the challenging race that it was.

Thursday Open- NiS – Michigan

  • Mike- P riding around 20th at lap nine when they wreck up ahead of me they’re reckon down low and up high. I get through the middle but ran over from the guy behind me. He right rears me hard into the wall blows the engine.
  • David – P Wrecked, don’t like this style of track

Official Series

Draft Master

  • Kyle -Top Split Daytona B Car P1 by half a car. Started P5 and just shuffled back to P10 until the big one on lap 8 happened going into 3 and it was a sketchy moment. Locked bumpers with P4 and worked with him to make up a 2 second gap to the top 3. We run them down and coming to the white P1 makes a bad block to the high lane and gets sent to the infield collecting 2 more cars and I slide up to P2. stayed on the leaders bumper until P3 was knocking on my bumper and we went high going into turn 3 where I was able to squeak out a win. 2nd oval win this week. Feeling pretty good with 2 wins in the bag this week and this race having a 0 ”x” each. I have now set my Highest iRating of 2823 since joining in April 2020.

A Open

  • Brad W – P14 and p15 (Michigan) Missed the gearing on the first A open. Got collected in a wreck fought back to p14. Second race had the gear in the set much better but was collected in another 3 wide wreck. Damaged and struggled for pace after getting most of it fixed.

GT Sprint Simucube Series

  • Brad – P18 (Monza-Rain) I like this track but it does not like me. I avoided much of the lap 1 and 2 carnage and made my way up to p10 only to get collected in a stack up that caused quite a bit of nose damage. Kept racing to try and avoid the SR loss.

Indycar iRacing Series

  • Kyle P- P1 at Auto Club. Started P13 and just picked off cars 1 by 1 and battled for the lead. Led 6 laps but unfortunately I got this win the way I didn’t want to get it. 3 to go we are about to hit turn 1 and I go to squeeze the gap between P1 and P2 for a 3 wide run when P2 drops down to block and I bump P1 and that takes out P1 and P2 and hands me the win under caution.

League / Hosted Races

Majors Series – leman 2.4

  • David – P9, on the last lap running p7, leap frogged tom and was holding him off.  On last lap at the end of the mulson straight we caught a lmp2 and he was far enough ahead he didn’t have to yield to us.  Probably could have if he was paying attention to a 4 car fight and he wasn’t in one, but i was unable to get a good exit and tom got beside going into Indy, then i just missed a turn and go off the track and fall to 9th.
  • Tom D – P6

Hosted- 

  • Ellis – Indy car series fixed started P1 out of 14 finished P6.
    • Rein Meister at RuddsCogan in the GT three. Wreck out.
    • IndyCar at Daytona in hosted started 45 out of 60
    • Indy car fixed at Detroit qualified 11 out of 15. P8 no incident. Dean .12 got me to 3.5. This concludes my fourth mpr race at level B and so when week 13 comes, I will be promoted to class a formula.
    • Posted 87’s at Talladega started 40th at a 45. Wrecked out twice.
    • Then trucks at Talladega hosted start a 32nd out of 45
    • The fat attack GT3 challenge fish at the ring with the stadium qualified six out of 18. Pitch black can’t see it all no driving line. I wrecked out on lap one about halfway through the lap seven minutes damage I parked it.

Final Thoughts

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On today’s show, we get some upcoming build teaser shots, find out what the fall out was from the iRacing Coca-Cola eNASCAR Series race at Kansas, more Sim Gaming Expo announcements, see if a $15,000 sim rig is worth it, is there a new wheel base coming from Logitech and which real life driver found an exploit in iRacing.

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