7/17/2025 – Less Losers – Episode 0493
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Show Introduction
On today’s show we will cover the fall out from the iRacing Spa 24 Hour special event, get more updates from the 2025 Sim Gaming Expo, more detail about NASCAR 25, see if a real setup will work in iRacing, find out which budget sim racing accessories you need, give you a fix when you get thirsty in your rig and what event is coming to Charlotte NC in 2026?
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Topics
Sim Racing Expo 2026
A Real Setup…Was It Faster?
Why It Didn’t Work
Is There a Story Behind Your Number?
https://x.com/WhatDidBorisSay/status/1943711007395992041
NASCAR 25 News And Interview
https://insider-gaming.com/dale-earnhardt-jr-nascar-25/?
https://insider-gaming.com/nascar-25-multiplayer-features
Why No INDY NXT Series?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/82054/why-is-there-no-indy-nxt-series-in-iracing/p1
2025 Season 4 Schedule Submission Time
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/82343/2025-season-4-schedule/p1
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/82344/2025-season-4-schedule/p1
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/82342/2025-season-4-schedule/p1
Spa 24 Hours Results Issues
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/82464/spa-24h-results-replays/p1
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/82593/team-event-no-shows-a-disgrace-that-needs-fixing/p1
Typical Lap One Of A 24 Hour Race
Why? And What Should Happen?
Inconsistency?
https://x.com/iRacing/status/1945202722552102954
Really, We Are To Believe This?
Will Live Admins Ever Be A Thing?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/82522/when-are-we-going-to-get-live-admins-for-special-events
Nim Cross Interview
iRacing Studios
https://www.iracing.com/introducing-iracing-studios
Sim Gaming Expo
Use code IRLP10 to save 10% off tickets
iRX Championship
SGE Challenge Series By Simucube
iRacing Race For The Cure
https://www.iracing.com/iracing-and-national-ms-society-reunite-for-race-for-the-cure-on-august-13
This Week In iRacing
https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-july-15-july-21-2025
iRacing Weekly Tune In
https://www.iracing.com/iracing-weekly-tune-in-esports-community-events-july-17th-july-23rd/
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Fantasy
Hardware/Software
Budget Sim Racing Items
- Smaller Keyboards
- 80/20 Keyboard holder
- Raised Feet for rig
- Mountable PC Tray
- Cable Management clips
- Cup Holder
- Phone Holder
- Headphone Holder
- Play Station controller for camera control
Spa 24 Hours Giveaway
Trophi AI Race Engineer Coming Soon
Is The New MOZA Shifter Worth It?
If You’re Thirsty
Sim Lab AMG Mercedes Formula One Cockpit
Results
NASCAR iRacing Series
Wednesday Open -NiS – Dover
- David – P9. started from pits, but caution early. In a run later I start trying to cautiously move forward, but get loose and because I loose velocity on exit the person behind can’t help but hit me. Then the race goes through a shit show phase, and of course I get hit by a arca braker and then other just self spinner, up to 14x. I drop on the next start nearly a half a lap back, and we get a very long run, was able to start picking off all the way up to 5th before green flag pitting. Caution with 50 to go, upset cause I don’t feel safe with 14x, but manage to stay clear of the wrecks and bring it home 9th.
- Kyle – P4 after 3 weeks of dropping IR and SR like a rock. I walk away with a solid top 5. Started P16 and just worked my way up quickly through the field. Stayed top 5 for the first half of the race and then we went on a 94 lap run. After 90 laps on the run the meatball showed up and I needed a Right Front. Got 4 tires and some fuel and just started picking off cars. Caution comes out with 2 to go and the GWC happens. Cycled around the pace car to restart in the back but in P6. On the restart I went to the High Line and just let her eat. Picked off P5 quickly and started hunting down P4. 1 to go on the back stretch, I’m door to do with P4 and he goes high and his tires were too far gone and he nails the outside wall out of 4 and I cruise to a P4. Sadly I’m just as excited about a P4 as if I would if I won the race.
- Chris – Chris – P13. Got stuck two laps down when the caution came out before the leader had pitted, trapping the field a lap down. Later, another caution came, and for some reason, there was no wave-around — even though the leaders had pitted and all cars ahead were a lap down. Still… P13 – 3 laps down. I’ll take it.
- Brad- P15 Started p12. Was wrecked on the pace lap (you know who you are). Then wrecked after being taken three wide twice before 10 laps. Was able to get some damage fixed but the car never had pace after that. I was so tight and no matter what I changed the car would not free up. Ended up losing a lap but managed to finish p15. Looking for a better run on Friday.
Thursday Open- NiS – Dover
- Mike- Pdnf- was pretty fast top 10 but then I got in an incident with about five minutes damage and then we had a long green run with green flag stops lost a lap eventually got my lap back with a wave around and. But more wrecks was running ninth on the lead lap near the end when I’m sitting at 16 X and going around under caution some guy is on the apron trying to drive straight up onto the banking as cars go by and somehow I didn’t see him and ran into him And blew the motor
- David – P24, caught in early wreck 13 minutes damage, had to fix. Drove around for safety rating and 10 other cars dnf’ed
Official Series
Spa 24 Hours
- Brad, Justin, David and Tom P43. The race was really over before it got started. I was collected in an accident in the bus stop on lap 2 that caused over four minutes of damage and cost us two laps. From then we tried hard to battle back but each of us had issues on cold tires and mine was the one that did us in around hour 8. I had lazy spin and minimal contact with the wall but lost the rear wing. The spotter will not alert you of this so I went on and when I got to O’rouge I killed the car. 10 minutes of damage and we were already many laps behind. Tough race and a really challenging track with cold tires especially at night.
- William With GRR- P1!!! Split 4 of the 12 EST slot on Saturday. However, we didn’t finish P1 on track. In the race we finished P2 1 lap behind the leader, but they were DQ’d for tanking 2 days after the race. We did not protest them, and only found out last night when I went to look something up about the race. Overall the race went really well. Had a smurf that got karma’d with a DC early, 1.5 seconds faster than the field at 1.8k. Qualified 33, but the guy who went into the car first went from 33 to 9 then to 13 dodging a wreck. Handed me the car in 13. Ran 2 clean stints and handed the car over in 5th. Kinda disappointed in the performance of the sim overall though b/c as soon our 3rd guy got in his game crashes. We lost a lap, went down to 16th, but luckily we were able to get someone else right in the car. Rest of the race spent grinding. I got the car in 3rd the next stint, handed it off in the same place, and at some point we caught and passed. 2nd. Fantastic time, 0 damage for us the whole race which I think is a major reason we had the finish we did.
Gen 4
- Ellis – P qualified fifth out of 16 at Homestead 32 drivers with two splits. I don’t get it. Why can’t we just have one split this is NASCAR right?
- Qualified second out of 21 basically ran second till around halfway tried to go low on the leader couldn’t hold. It came up into him and wreck both seven minutes damage soldier Dawn to try to finish and finished P9.
- Switching to Pocono top split qualified six out of 17. Had a pretty good race ended up finishing P3.
- 12 out of 25 in top split. Had a good run going and got a stack up where somebody didn’t go on the start and I ran over him had to serve a black flag under green was able to recover from dead last clear up to the lead where everyone pitted with about 12 to go except for me and I stayed out that ended up not working well And I was getting real pushy and fell clear back to P9
- Qualified 10 out of 17 top split. Had a good run going up to about round fifth but then I creamed the wall coming out of two real hard 5 1/2 minutes damaged I fixed about three minutes worth of damage stayed on the lead lap and by the end it worked myself up to finish P8.
GT Sprint Simucube Series
- Brad – P17 (Spa) iRacing locked up right as qualifying was getting ready to start. By the time I got back in and tried to qualify I did not have enough time. Started P25 and made some progress but never enough speed to get to the front.
League / Hosted Races
Grass Roots Racing
MX5 League
- William W- P4. Not much to say other than the mx5 is pretty fun here even if I have a deep hatred for this track
GTP/GT3 League
- William W – P6. First off super stoked that Brad has joined us. Hope he has a fantastic time running with us. As far as the race I cannot stand Interlagos, probably my least favorite track on the service, though I do hate it a little less after running it on Tuesday. Royally screwed quali, spun on my first out lap and got damage, had to reset. Set the first slow lap on cold tires, got off tracks on the next two, and then ran out of time up 7 tenths on the last lap. Started P16 and the first 3 laps were insane with so many cars on this track. Thank fully it was very clean. Was able to push through the field. Pit in P7 and was able to get to 6th. Got to 5ths bumper but couldn’t make the pass. Overall I’ll take the result, especially at this track.
- Brad W – P8 (Sao Paulo-Interlagos) Got used up in the first few laps. First race with the league so I wanted to give plenty of room. Was able to battle back and get into the top 10. This pace is murder on the tires. Fronts were dead as the race was ending. No forward bite at all. Very competitive group, looking forward to the season.
Final Thoughts
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- Less Losers
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On today’s show we will cover the fall out from the iRacing Spa 24 Hour special event, get more updates from the 2025 Sim Gaming Expo, more detail about NASCAR 25, see if a real setup will work in iRacing, find out which budget sim racing accessories you need, give you a fix when you get thirsty in your rig and what event is coming to Charlotte NC in 2026?
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