Episode 0516 - iRacers Lounge Podcast

1/15/2026 – Snowball Slop – Episode 0516

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Show Introduction

On today’s show we sit down with Premier Racing Next Gen setup builders Brandon Evans and Scott Perfetti, see what to do when a wind sim won’t keep you cool, is the MOZA AB9 still not a shifter?, what are two F1 stars doing during the off season, show you another way to track your stats and two competing arguments on motion.

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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Brandon Evans/Scott Perfetti – PRS NASCAR Next Gen Setup Builders

Topics

Have You Been To Any Of These?

Downtime = Simtime

https://www.reddit.com/r/iRacing/comments/1q08fx4/i_guess_i_know_what_piastri_is_doing_on_his_break/

The Roar ROARED!

Cosworth’s Pi Toolbox

https://www.iracing.com/from-practice-to-race-cosworth-and-iracing-bring-high-tech-pi-toolbox-plus-to-daytona

Racing Ritual Opens

Unstoppable

Sim Riding

Sim Racing Expo – Charlotte, NC

May 22 – May 24, 2026

Who Turned Off The Lights?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/91050/safety-lights-at-daytona-off

Track Your Stats

https://iracing-insights.vercel.app/

Daytona 24 Hour

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/90696/initial-bop-2026-daytona-24h-powered-by-vco/p1

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-january-13th-to-january-19th-2026

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IRLP Polar League

Martinsville

Hardware/Software

Real DIY

This Changes Everything

Slower With Motion?

Telemetry FFB: Fad Or Future

DIY GT3 Cooling

BDH S1 Sequential Shifter

Still Not A Shifter

The Unintended Consequences

Ublockout Shades

Discord = Memory Hog

Easy To Do Rear View Dash

3D Printed Wheel Mount

Thermaltake’s G6 Bundle

Sim Tech At PRI

VI-RSR Wheel

SBR Formula Cockpit

Deshaun Watson Wanted It In Yellow

MOZA R21/25 Ultra Dash By Apex Racing

Go Big Or Go Home

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Official Series

Daytona Roar

Kyle-P5 drove the number 19 LMP3 started P20. Had to avoid the mess for the first handful of laps. Had a few self spins but was able to keep it up near the front shuffling between P5 to P10. Final stop i came out P9 and just focused on getting as many positions as possible and brought home a P5
Bobby – P2

A Open

Kyle P – P11 Started P7 and just stayed there. Lap 32 caution flys and We all pit I jump out of the pits P2. Survived a couple more restarts but on the last lap a driver decides its okey to just wall ride the turns and try and drive through me on turns 1 and 2. On turns 3 and 4 he does the same but this time takes me out. A protest was sure to follow.

Ring Meister

Mike – P super formula light at Ring Meister start a P2 was running P3 when second place basically drove through the leader and wrecked him real hard leader with only three wheels instead of four came across the track suddenly and I had nowhere to go but T-bone
- Next started second coming into the final lap on the long street side-by-side for the lead he neck codes off of me and gets into the fence I survive and go onto to win the race winner winner chicken dinner
- Next attempt was chasing the leader, trying hard, hit the curbs and killed it
- Next attempt had a great race with his leader until he wrecked out after putting heavy pressure on him and I went on to win again winner winner, chicken dinner
- Next attempt had the race lead barely but made a mistake and spun out and gave up the win finished P2
- Then switching cars to the pro Mazda start 10th ended up wrecking out
- Then start 10th and finish P2
- Then finally got qualified and started P4, but wrecked out by barely clipping a curb
- Start a P6 finish P5. Those guys are almost two seconds a lot faster than me. There’s no way I am not competitive when it’s just one split.
- Then started P6 was running third on lap one where the 2 L got into it. I got a piece but survived better than they did went onto gain on 11 second lead over the field and win and dominating fashion winner winner chicken dinner. That’s a win every week except for the GT four so far in this series this season.
- Then try it again lap one third one they wreck in front of me there’s nowhere to go. I’m wrecked out in one.

IMSA

Hall – P4 highest so far at tona
Kyle – Daytona Race 1 Started P13 in the GTP BMW. Lap 4 P7 self spins into the international Horseshoe and collects me for 7 minutes of repairs. Go back out and just keep pushing the car finishing P6 6 laps down
- Daytona Race 2 Started P14 in the GTP BMW and just ran a clean consistent race. No incidents all race long and finished on the lead lap P6.
- Daytona Race 3 Started P8 Moved up quickly to P5 but went to pass a GT3 and he decided to dive bomb me into the bus stop so I locked up the brakes spun the car and fell back to P12 Raced my way up Pitting at Halfway and then just clicked off laps. Wouldn’t you know that same GT3 got the favor paid back. I drove it a little deeper then I normally would into Turn 1 forcing him to veer off track as I went on around him again. I felt vindicated and happy with paying him back without actually doing anything malicious.
Brad W – P9 (Daytona) I finished about where I started but what a mess the prototypes were in this race. I’m guessing because it was the first race of the week but they were overdriving corners, wrecking into each other, wrecking into GT3s or a wall. Ended up with 8x just from being in the wrong pace at the wrong time. Really hope this is not a sign of what’s to come in the 24 hour.

League / Hosted Races

IRLP Polar Series

Po Week Eight – Martinsville

David – P5

Grass Roots Racing

GTP/GT3 League – Daytona Endurance Race

Brad W – P 8 after running in top 5 for about half the race.I did not have the pace of the leader but decided to try a no tire strategy and it would have worked had I not had a self spin after the first pit stop. That caused me to give up all track position and ended up getting collected by a spinner towards the end of the race. Not what I wanted but hey, I have not finished one of these the last three races. I’ll call that a win.
David – P lost it off turn 6

Major Series Snowball Derby

David – P10, just ran in the back till the last 40 laps
Brad – P32 after making the top split. Car was ok and had worked my way into the top 10 in the race. I would get into another car and received the expected EOL for any car causing an accident. However I would also get protested and have to serve a drive through under green as well. This would put me laps down and from then I was caught up in everyone else’s mess. The Race Control was a mess and the session was not set up correctly for limited tires. Voiced my opinion on the Discord but for a series that normally does a great job, this whole event was an absolute mess. Hope it gets better with the next round.

MEC Daytona 8 Hour

Will, Brad and William – P22. We started P11 but William would get turned by a GTP in the early laps and drop almost back to the tail end. Will would get in the car and we started the climb back to the front. We had made it back into the top 10 only to get run over getting into T1 that caused significant damage. We did a good job managing the 1xs but collected too many 4xs from other cars. We would use the fast repair before Will got back in the cra to start his final stints. Unfortunately he would loose it getting into the bus stop and have to serve a drive through for exceeding the incident limit. The plan was to serve the dive through and then get damage repaired. As he was exiting pitroad after the penalty he lost power at his house. This had me stuck out of the car for many laps and it was decided to park the car as we would not be able to make up any ground had we continued. Very low attrition even though there was some questionable driving but I attribute that to the 1 fast repair. Sitting 17th out of 54 in Pro-Am Points Sebring is up next and that is a great track for all of us.
Tom & David – p7 – made mistakes early, snapped on me entering the bus stop lap one, was not trying hard and it still snapped. But we were probably p7 speed anyway. Not as good in this car, but was kind of fun being the middle class.

Hosted-

Ellis – P5 car of tomorrow GEN five at Talladega was in a bunch of carnage but had a respectable finish of P5

Final Thoughts

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