Episode 0514 - iRacers Lounge Podcast

12/18/2025 – Race To The Summit – Episode 0514

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Show Introduction

On today’s show we catch up with the resident alien Robby Swan, is motion and static monitors correct?, an update on the Asetek sale, need a triple screen DDU?, 2026 eNASCAR Coke Series updates, one week in and two patches already, tell you why you need to turn off the racing line and we take a look back at 2025 and a look toward 2026.

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

Race To The Summit

***SAVE FOR END OF THE SHOW***2025 In The Rear View

Chad McNeese — 12/7/2025 8:55 AM

I just had a topic idea for the show (and maybe you already do something like this), as we close in on the end of 2025

Top 3 or 5 Hits of 2025
Top 3 or 5 Misses of 2025
Top 3 or 5 Hopes for 2026

Could be a mix of gear, events (race and other like expo) or any other notable memorable items.

Top 3 or 5 Hits of 2025

Mike – Moza Active Pedal, Expos in the USA!, iRacing continues to grow, I continue my streak of winning in NiS every year.

Brad – Sim Gaming Expo-Chicago, Daniel Newman Racing, Max’s impact on sim racing

Donnie – Sim Gaming EXPO at the top accompanied by the iRLP coming together, getting booth, and having a presence at the show.

Chris – Largest Daytona 24 ever, track Art updates, return of the Indy 500, tire wear on road courses, connection Black Flag, Sim Gaming Expo.

William – Gt3 tire model, 2025 Special Events, Sim Gaming Expo

Top 3 or 5 Misses of 2025

Mike – Still no race control updates, oval refresh, gen 4

Brad – Simagic Active Pedal (vaporware?), iRacing UI Update, Tarriffs

Donnie – NiS, dont have to say much about that. iRacing’s tent pole series should not be such a shit show. The Gen4, the car started off awesome, until you spent time racing it. This was a typical iRacing release. Release an unproven product to the community and let them “have at it.” It took iRacing two full seasons to make a significant correction to the car.

Chris – New UI, lousy officiating/protest consistency, new UI: it’s so hard to see things., goodbye Road to Pro.

William – Broken GTP in season 1, timeline of the graphics engine update, even though it debuted in 2024, the rain for the first half of 2025 was out of control.

David – NiS 2025

Top 3 or 5 Hopes for 2026

Mike – Moza adds telemetry effects to the pedals, race control fixes, big wins daytona, darlington hopefully, continue my win every year in nis thing.

Brad – Race Control updates both road and oval, Better stewarding for repeated actions, NiS not to SUCK!

Donnie – Garage Access and a Trophy room, pipe dreams really from me. I am hoping iRacing can utilize the “large” amount of employees they apparently have and really start cracking down on improving race officiating and post race stewarding.

Chris – Better officiating/protest consistency, scuffed tires, cleaner NiS, Digital Super Dirt Week special event at Oswego

William – Race control updates within the year, more new tracks suitable for multiclass racing, Toyota GT3, Ford GT3 Evo, Aston GTP.

David – Race control on oval; pace car waits on leader, multiclass starts.

2026 Season 1 Patch 1 Release Notes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/89757/2026-season-1-patch-1-release-notes-2025-12-14-01

Why So Dry?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/89874/rain-is-temporarily-disabled-in-official-series-race-server-crash

Trading Paints 2025 Wrap Up

Why Is Sim Racing So Popular?

Is This Lie Holding You Back?

Screenshot Submission Time

A Great Suggestion

A Very Fruitful Partnership

So Close, Almost Perfect?

The Racing Line = Sabotage

Building An AI Setup

2026 Season 1 Development Blog

Free Content During Week 13: Listener Feedback

Totally agree with Brad on the driving unpurchased new cars thing during week 13. Entitlement. Key word. I’m 65 and I didn’t grow up in an era of expecting anything for free. The claims he makes that it would make more revenue for iRacing. How the hell does he know? These are cars that are modeled after real life race cars and this is the closest 99% of us will ever come to driving them. The most endorphin stimulating time of new content of a car/track is the first hour or so. I’m a 80% plus content subscriber and I purchase content for the privilege to experience these things whether I participate in a race or not. Tell me, 30 years ago, had a video game in an arcade or bar been made to this type of reality, could you not see yourself sticking $10 in coins in for this experience? Once people have experienced the initial fun, my opinion is they may just move on without purchasing anything.

I also think sometimes that iRacing being an American built simulator there is some envy by some overseas. Don’t like it, then go play your European Assetto Corsa.

Thanks, Jeff

Not The Fix We Needed

Contest Winners

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/758253/#Comment_758253

2026 eNASCAR Coca Cola-Series

https://www.iracing.com/enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-returns-with-new-qualifying-series-format-for-2026-season

Miami International Autodrome

2025 Season 4 In The Books

Season 1 2026 Contests

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/89868/season-01-2026-contests

How To: Saving Replays

MX-5 At The Nordschleife

Sim Racing VS On The Track

Win World Of Outlaws Pit Passes!

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/89259/enter-to-win-a-pair-of-world-of-outlaws-pit-passes

Mad Max MX-5s

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/88128/miatas-have-developed-some-defensive-weaponry

Motion And Static Monitors Are Wrong

Too Expensive?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/89610/my-actual-cost-since-june-25th-2008-one-of-the-cheapest-hobbies-in-existence

Chili Bowl

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/89763/2025-chili-bowl-nationals

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-iracing-chili-bowl-special-event-2025

Race To The Summit

Production Car Challenge

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/89748/the-production-car-challenge-at-vir-2025

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-the-production-car-challenge-at-vir-special-event-2025

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-december-9-to-december-15-2025/

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Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Official Series

Ring Meister

Mike – P MX 5 cup starting 24th out of 28. Got the P3 by the end of lap one ended up finishing P2. What an awesome race.
- Then started at seventh and won the race winner winner, chicken dinner I had to race hard against another guy and earned it, but I certainly did. Career win number 118.
- Tried to back up my win, but ended up with a P3 after starting P2
- Whole position went off in the grass on my own and finish P3
- Then pole position. But wreck out actually got ran over from behind on a tight corner couldn’t get turned around and ended up in the back so just quit.
- Whole position had some fantastic racing between five cars for the lead I was leading when I overdid it and miss my breaking point by about 5 feet wrecked the car and wrecked out. That might’ve been some of the best road racing I’ve ever done on the service.
- Started from Paul and had to earn it but winner winner chicken dinner. I got the second win of the week.
- Started from pole again. Wrecked out from 2nd place from behind in the slow hairpin corner. DNF.
- P one winner winner, chicken dinner, good battle with about five cars eventually, they all wrecked off as I held the lead most of the time and won the race third win of the week career win number 119
- Started P2, but got wrecked out early on.
- Then I did it again another win winner winner chicken dinner
- Started P3, but wrecked out was starting to make mistakes.
- Started on pole position ended up, wrecking out, trying to retake the lead from a guy. I got to the outside of him, but he didn’t move over to leave Lane and I ended up getting forced into the wall and we both wrecked from first and second then he was upset on the radio telling me I took unnecessary risk, etc. etc..

Global Mazda MX 5 cup

Mike– started P1 and finished P6 at Virginia international raceway North course.
- Then started 10 out of 12 and finished P8 not a great race kinda all over the place

League / Hosted Races

Week Seven – Texas

Mike- p wrecked out
Doug – P15 started 16th without qualifying was a little intimidated, wanted to start from the rear. Got caught up with a car on lap seven there was an incident coming out of turn two on lap six ended up finishing 15th.

Grass Roots Racing

GTP/GT3 League – Road America Endurance Race

William W – P1!! Qualified 1st and led wire to wire. Was fairly confident going into this race as Road America is one of my favorite tracks, and was putting up very fast times during the testing the week leading up. Got out to about a second lead by the end of the first lap. Got the advantage to about 3 seconds once traffic started and that’s where it stayed. After the second stop just focused on not killing the car or doing something stupid. Up front it was mostly uneventful for a race I won. Anxiety started to creep in towards the end just knowing the win was mine as long as I didn’t sabotage myself. Super happy to take this one. Currently leading the points through 8 races, though it is very tight and next track is fuji. Not bad but definitely not as fast as I am at RA.
Brad W – P26 I wrecked during qualifying so I started p19. I was able to drive up to the top 10 before the first pitstop. After making the stop I was running p10 but was taken out by a GTP driver that used me for a brake pedal getting into T5. Took a 6 minute tow, my race was done.

RFK Holiday Showdown

Brad – P30 I started P12 and drove into the top 8 only to get collected in an early wreck. I used my one fast repair and managed to work my way back into the top 10 only to get wrecked again. This event has been really fun the last two years but they added splits to it that were not broadcasted. It was a typical NiS race, 4 yellows by ap 25 and the yellow I was taken out on was number 7 on la 44, of a 100 la race. They ended up with 14 yellows…kind of glad I was wrecked out.

Final Thoughts

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