Episode 0530 - iRacers Lounge Podcast

4/23/2026 – Connection Closed – Episode 0530

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Show Introduction

On today’s show: a major update from Premiere Racing Setups, the five worst cars in iRacing, do you know what Spark is?, 2026 Season 2 Patch 3 Release Notes, teflon sliders, happy haptics, is the Evo Ultra overkill?, a big update for the Sim Gaming Expo and Kimi knows, do you?

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Topics

DTM Liveries Are Line On Trading Paints

Kimi Knows

A Little UI Help

Talladega Challenge

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/94948/talladega-challange

Facepalm

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/94967/sort-it-out-iracing

Premier racing Setups And Garage 61

Smoking!

Sim To Reality

Do You Use Gloves?

Inspiring

Worst Five Cars In iRacing

Washed Up?

Box This Lap: What We Know

https://boxthislap.org/iracing-everything-we-know-about-iracings-new-graphics-engine-in-2026/

Backup Rig? I Think So

League Invitation Changes Coming

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/95018/league-invitations-update-100-invites-limit-auto-decline-invites-after-90-days-2026-07-21

2026 Season 2 Patch 3 Release Notes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/95012/2026-season-2-patch-3-release-notes-2026-04-21-01

GT3 BOP Changes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/95023/2026-season-2-patch-3-changes

Wasted Years

Hmm…

2026 Sim Gaming Expo

September 18 – 20, 2026

Sim Racing Expo – Charlotte, NC

May 22 – May 24, 2026

Rockingham 508

Skip Barber iRacing Series

https://www.iracing.com/skip-barber-formula-iracing-series-returns-over-500000-in-prizes-available

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-april-14th-to-april-20th-2026

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Chad McNeese’s Ultimate Hardware Spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i08zKjBSmSn5G_mCc9cHx07w7XLo03sfoytpVJkqbYk/edit?usp=sharing

More Than Meets The Eye

Teflon Sliders

Happy Haptics

Automotive Inspired

Simsonn Direct Drive Base

https://www.simsonn.com/collections/base-hub

Just Buy A Fan

https://www.ogracing.com/collections/driver-cooling-systems-cool-suit-systems

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/shf-1011-2042

Sim Rushu “Big Button Box”

https://simruito.com/shop/srt-12-a1/

A New Performance King

It Feels Real

Display Dash Updates

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Kansas

David – P14, bad racing all night, no long runs, last run a car wrecks a lap car right into me
Tony -P22 just hanging out in top 10 all race but 30 to go and on fresh tires took the middle in 2 and self spun into the inside wall ending my night
Brad- P13 Better than Wednesday but an ill timed yellow during green flag stops would cost a top 10 finish. Actually had some longer runs but a yellow right after making a green flag stop killed my race. I was able to get back on the lead lap but restarting in the 20s made getting back to the front hard. A late race restart and a car getting out of shape would back me up to p13 as I lost ground coming to the checkered.

Sunday Open- NiS – Kansas

Tony – P10 self spun early in same damn spot. Just minute and half of damage went lap down getting it fixed. Got lap back ½ through via wave around. Huge wreck in front of me on that restart giving me some more damage but enough to stay on lead lap. Final restart with 10 to go went from 16th to 10th il take it.
Greg -P36

Wednesday Open -NiS – Talladega

Chris – P 17. Was 7th when a lap car tried to block all 3 lines of the pack. We stocked up and wrecked. They got the lucky dog. Solvaged a P17
David – P13, ran top 8 all race, get hit when a car spins exiting pits. As a result loose the lead pack, the shit luck continues
Brad- P32 Wrecked 9 laps in by one driver being over aggressive from the very first lap. Have I mentioned that I hate drafting tracks?
Tyler – P12. 8x. Could not get through the pack. It’s was low line only. Wreckfest at the end.
Joe-P7 was 2nd off 4 and had a run on the leader and he drifted high and I went in the hole and he wrecked both of us. I had 0x until he wrecked us the found me on the cool down lap and hit me again giving me 8x.

Thursday Open- NiS – Talladega

Mike- P dnf. I couldn’t stop the car on a green flag stop. I pushed the brakes in like 80% and it won’t stop and I spun out getting on Pitt Road and had started the tail in and then penalty under green flag stop and go with a 15 second hole eventually got a lucky dog and then got in another rack trying to limp it home on a green white checker but another guy wrecked the field and I was involved DNF
Chris – P 7. Was 3rd on GWC got wrecked when getting pushed by 4th with no pace to go. Badly damaged I stayed out and could still draft. Went P12 to P7.
Joe-P14

Official Series

A Fixed

Mike- Pdnf— was it a pretty high split and the one car switches lanes goes up changes as mine comes back down I’m there. I barely touch him and wreck the entire field.

Ring Meister

Mike – P the Kia Optima started on first place and wrecked out on my own while leading the race
- Then started first and let every lap had a guy chasing me, but gapped him slowly eventually, a six second gap and winner winner chicken dinner went on the first night of the week and career win number 143
- Then try it again started first fell the third. It was top split, but then I hit the curb wrong and spun it out DNF.

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing

GTP/GT3 League – Imola Sprint Race

William W – P10- it rained. While I’ve gotten to where I actually don’t mind racing in the rain something was just awful about this race. I spun in quali and it made me reset to the pits so only my first lap counted. Started P15 and the train was agonizingly slow. Was scared to make moves because I didn’t want to murdered anyone, did end up murdering someone. Started to climb a bit but then self spun twice trying to push. Just an awful night.
Brad W – P8 Yes it rained. The track was drivable but the spray early on was bad. I made too many errors and caused myself multiple lost positions. I continued to get more comfortable in the wet which would lead to a spin. Track wetness at about 50%-67% is the sweet spot for racing. Any thing higher than that is just miserable.

Elbows Out Racing League (LMP2 and GT3 Wednesday Nights)

William- P6 – Man I’ve been my own worst enemy lately. On the dry I have serious pace here and love the track. I was .8 off in practice so I was a little worried, but stuck it on the pole. Got a great start and had an almost 1 second lead by the down hill double right. Was thinking just be smooth and I walk away with this, and that’s when I did about everything wrong you could in that turn. Too light on the brakes, missed a downshift and off the track I go. Somehow didn’t hit anything, but fell to 9th by the time I could recover. After that was real hard to try to get back through the field with traffic and everything. Also just atrocious driving from some of the lapped GT3 cars, two different ones were doing 10mph on the racing line the the apex of a corner. Got to 6th after the pit but by that time I was 12 or so seconds behind 5th and just couldn’t recover more. I feel like I’ve seen an improvement in the overall skill level of my driving over the past few months but I have got to limit these mistakes.

MEC Mosport 4 Hours

Will, Brad and William – P20 I do not want to talk about it. We could or should have won this race. We did everything right, me and Will were two of the fastest people all week in practice and pre-qual. Will and Brad had fantastic stints. We did absolutely everything right and it all came apart as soon as I sat in the car. First we got BONED by a safety car that came out as soon as I’m exiting the pit on the driver change for my first stint it trapped us in 11th or 12th after we came in 3rd AND it let people who were off cycle on the pit come in and reset and set up perfectly when originally they would have had to make an extra stop. Even with all that I’m picking off spots on my first stint, up to 8th or so when everyone blinks twice and then disappears. It was clearly something with my internet, all programs had issues, and even my cell phone didn’t have cell service to send a discord message to let the guys know what happened so I have no idea what went on. By the time it let Will in the car we were 2 laps down and day done. Crushing.

Hosted-

Ellis – P pick up cup at Phoenix DNF. Had a couple rookies doing unsafe, rejoin, and wrecked the leaders out.

Final Thoughts

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