10/15/2026 – Pedal Wars – Episode 0554
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Show Introduction
On today’s show: have the active pedal wars began?, iRacing graphic options quantified, motion in a suitcase?, is this another iRacing exploit?, eNASCAR has a three-time champ, Season 4 Easter Eggs, what is the most important upgrade? are you dealing with sim racing fatigue? and Rebecca Reigns enters the lounge at the Sim Gaming Expo.
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Special Guest
Rebecca Reigns
Topics
Justified?
Paint Of The Week
Blast Off
TiRST For iRacing
“Truck”Mans?
How Many?
Quantifying The Overhead Of Graphic Options
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/101103/quantifying-the-overheads-of-high-quality-trees
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/101212/quantifying-the-benefit-of-nvidia-smp
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/101142/quantifying-the-overheads-of-the-event-settings
More Immersion
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2167227774669395
Cheating Or Fair?
D.O.A.
Is AI Always The Answer?
Next Build Easter Eggs
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DfqMphDBFwF2F6I8SthyK?si=RshDpRFHQia3e8I3nm-DiQ
Weather Changed?
eNASCAR Memories
Wilson Is A 3X Champion
Sim Racing Fatigue?
Indy 8 Hours
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/101105/2026-indy-8-hour-presented-by-pcs-by-thomas
This Week In iRacing
https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-october-13th-to-october-19th-2026
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Hardware/Software
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Simagic P-Active Pedal
Simucube Active Pedal Sport
Wheel Stand
Simgasm At SGE
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Yes, In A Suitcase
Most Important Upgrade?
Small But Powerfull
Simrig Belt Module
Sim Lab + Vero Motion
Sim Lab DBX Dashboard Box
Bavarian Simtec And Simucube
RT4119 Simulator Seat
https://www.simrigs.com.au/products/rt4119-simulator-seat
Best Value
Ultra Wind RGB Elite
Parabellum
Gateway Drug?
Results
NASCAR iRacing Series
Friday Open – NiS – Charlotte
- Brad- P12 Don’t remember a whole about the race.
Wednesday Open -NiS – Phoenix
- Mike- P 11. Had a good run, got up to third, pitted under green. Caution came out, got a wave around. Worked my way back up to P2, restarted on the final restart third, went really low to try to go under the leader too low, and the car went sideways, and I lost all my spots. I suck P11
- Justin- P running third on the final green white checker, they get to three wide off turn two. Justin’s on the inside of the three, the guy on the outside gets loose, loops it, and comes clear across and wipes out Justin.
- Chris – P11
- Brad- P20 Typical Phoenix, run at the front 90% of the race only to get destroyed in the last 10%. Just amazed at how many people continue to drive over their heads (skill level?). Feel bad for Justin as he had a win in sight only to get wrecked because someone ran out of talent. Can’t decide to either race again on Friday or paint a wall just to watch it dry. Even though I know which one would be more rewarding.
Official Series
Ring Meister
- Mike- P street stock qualified 18th out of 25. Got completely wrecked out in turn three
- Send qualified third out of 29. Made many mistakes, lost the leaders, but still finished P3. Great run
- Then started fourth out of 30 top split. Got wrecked out, taken out basically, early in the race. DNF
- Ten qualified, fifth out of 25 top split. Wrecked out on my own
- started 1 out of 21. Wrecked out while leading, actually. Super frustrated. Haven’t been this frustrated in iRacing in a very long time
The Catterham 420 R cup
- Mike – P qualified tenth out of 17 at Schniterton. Wracked out
- Then qualified eighth out of 27. Guy Robertson was in this race from the UK, who runs the loan iRacing podcast, which I was lucky enough to be a special guest on recently, and it was fun to race him finally on track for the first time he qualified fifth. Guy got wrecked out in the first couple laughs, and tough break for him. I made it clear up to second with three to go. I was side by side with a guy coming out of one, and he didn’t give me enough room, and I ran off and destroyed the car, DNF.
A Open
- Brad W – P4 It was a lucky top 5 as I was able to avoid the final laps/restarts that ruin every race at this track.
Track day
- Mike- P at rudskogen. Ran the qualifier and the caturum. I was the only car in the entire session so moved on to the race, obviously started from the pole against 36 other cars, but I was the only one in my class, so winner, winner, chicken dinner
- Same car started fifth against several others this time, spun it on lap one, and fell to the back, but stayed in it and ran a lot of fast laps and caught everybody and took the win, winner, winner, chicken dinner
League / Hosted Races
Hosted-
- Ellis – P pick up cup at Daytona qualified eighth out of 29. Wrecked out from a guy that couldn’t hold a lane, I could call out over the radio, this guy is not holding the lane. He’s gonna wreck us all, and sure enough, that’s what happened.
- Ran it again, got quickly wrecked out again
Final Thoughts
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On today’s show: have the active pedal wars began?, iRacing graphic options quantified, motion in a suitcase?, is this another iRacing exploit?, eNASCAR has a three-time champ, Season 4 Easter Eggs, what is the most important upgrade? are you dealing with sim racing fatigue? and Rebecca Reigns enters the lounge at the Sim Gaming Expo.
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