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Episode 0479

4/3/2025 – The Mechanical Goat – Episode 0479

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show, did you fall for any April Fools pranks, see if more racing sessions per hour is helping the series, we have more Sim Gaming Expo announcements, find out what a seasoned product reviewer has learned, more reviews of MOZA Active Pedals and shifter, new product from Cube Controls and VRS and is sim racing just gaming or is it more?

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

Did They Fool You?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77419/2025-nascar-iracing-series-race-8-36-legends-600-iracing-superspeedway

Dynamic Debris

More Races Per Hour, Not Successful?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77263/15-minutes-between-the-formula-vee-races-ruines-the-fun-and-gameplay#latest

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/69307/racing-every-hour-rather-than-1-2-hour-was-better-imo#latest

He Said I Was “Number One”

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77172/hear-me-out-guys-an-in-race-one-finger-salute

Sim Racing Is Not Gaming

https://x.com/GregorSch5/status/1905926953758015566

If You Like Stats…

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2025/03/25/cup-series-2025-introducing-nascar-insights-performance-metrics

Look Who Testing At Long Beach

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SimRacingPublic/permalink/3142836105854120/

2025 Season 3 Schedule Submission Time 

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77481/2025-season-3-schedule/p1

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77485/2025-season-3-schedule/p1

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77508/2025-season-3-schedule/p1

2025 Season 2 Patch 3 Release Notes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77574/2025-season-2-patch-3-release-notes-2024-04-02-02#latest

Max’s Sim Racing Program

@oc_racing

Verstappen’s Upcoming Sim Racing Program! 🤯

♬ original sound – OCRACING

McKeown And Webster Split Wins At Thruxton

https://www.iracing.com/luke-mckeown-cooper-webster-split-porsche-tag-heuer-esports-supercup-wins-at-thruxton/

Sim Gaming Expo

Use code IRLP10 to save 10% off tickets

More Sim Gaming Expo Announcements

STEM Invitational Time Attack Open

https://www.iracing.com/racing-with-rajah-stem-invitational-time-attack-open-now

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-april-1-7-2025/

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

High Speed Hygiene

Sim Rig Break Down

@grandpoobear

How do you crash a SIM rig IRL #iracing #racing #simrig #twitch #fyp #streamer

♬ original sound – GrandPOOBear

Portable Steering Wheel 

Big Screen Beyond 2 VR

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/76736/bigscreen-beyond-2/p1

Random Callsign On What He Has Learned

00:38 most stuff is good 02:53 value is king 04:10 screw FOMO 05:40 watch multiple review

DIY FFB Wheel

Cammus C12 Released

MOZA mBooster Pedal Review

Simruito Button Box One

MOZA Active Shifter

Simucube Tuner 2.5 Software

Reboot Your GPU

Listener Suggestion

Jeff Wubker <>5:41 PM (1 hour ago)
to iracerslounge

Hey. For anyone that may be interested. This video explains if you use a small software tool to unpark cores, it won’t allow Windows to turn them back on and permanently leave them off is my understanding. 

DGX Station, An AI Powerhouse

Conspit Gets A US Distributor

F-Core EVO

https://www.cubecontrols.com/product-category/steering-wheels/f-core-evo/

When You Go…All In

https://www.facebook.com/groups/476277217678724/permalink/1044733354166438/

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Martinsville

  • Mike- P13-running basically 5th to 10th but kept getting incidents and I was at 16 X and got a drive-through penalty near the end
  • tony -P wrecked out… bleep these bleeping dumbass bleeping bleeps that cant drive this bleeping bleep track you bleeping bleep holes go bleepy bleeping bleep yourselves. 
  • Brad- P4 after starting p3. Really felt like I let a second win slip away. Ran up front the entire race. Too many yellows as usual but that is the pattern. In the late stages of the race I was bouncing back from p2 and p3. I was getting very aggressive on the restarts from p2 because of the outside disadvantage. I got too aggressive on one and spun the tires and caused a huge wreck on the front stretch. Teammate Mike Ellis was collected as well. Wanted the win so badly that I screwed up.

Saturday Fixed- NiS – Martinsville

  • Tom D – P4 – Pretty much my basic Martinsville.  Started 21st, a very bad qualifying.  Worked my way back and forth to the front.  Tried to stay my way out of danger.  I’ll take a top 5

Sunday Open- NiS – Martinsville

  • David – P software crashed, i logged back in, 4 laps down, but after two quick cautions caused 8x by people running the very back of the field and just not knowing how to fucking drive a car, I just left.  Nothing short of trashing the “fast track” system or putting real consequences behind repeated dirty driving will fix this.  As it stands now a rookie never has to touch a short track before fast tracking up.

Wednesday Open -NiS – Darlington

  • Mike- Pdnf- I was the first caution I got loose off of turn two went down to the inside, kept it off the wall spot it out and to a complete stop just off the racing grid and had it lockdown and stopped for a full more than a second six cars go by me, but the seventh car does it and decides to T-bone me. He couldn’t see me apparently while the other six cars did about 10 minutes damage.
  • David – P 3, fighting for 2nd at end.  Might have had something for the leader but a car took us three wide into turn 1 when i properly setup the pass.  Of course this guys lack of race craft was reflected in a poor finish afterwards.
  • Justin – P gearshift came unplugged DNF
  • Chris – P wrecked out
  • Brad- P14 Really frustrated with this result. The race was not as clean as the A Opens had been (not surprised). I kept the car in the top 10 most of the race and kept it clean. We had a restart with about 30 to go and the wrecking started off of T2. The yellow did not come out until everyone ahead of me wadded it up in T3. I was on the high side and could not get slowed enough to avoid. Should have pitted for repairs but was too scared to see how much damage I really had. Limped it home in 14th but the result should have been better. Great long run setup from Premier Racing Setups but never got the chance to let it shine. (11 cautions at this track is stupid!)

Thursday Open- NiS – Darlington

  • Mike- P22 – got wrecked once for eight minutes damage continued on but was pretty slow kinda lucky dog at one point finished P 22
  • Bobby – P wrecked out

Official Series

Super Formula Lights

  • William P3- Tried this out since GRR might be doing a fun league featuring these cars. In fairness I haven’t done formula since the license split and my rating is about 1250 lower than my road. Seems like ¾ of the grid went off track in the first lap. Cars are pretty fun, but might prefer F4.

A Open

  • Brad W – P6 The weather was much hotter fr the A Open race. I went with a setup that ended up being too free and I struggled. Made the changes and it was better. Only one yellow and that was at lap 80. It Felt so good to have green flag stops at Martinsville. 

GT Sprint Simucube Series

  • Brad – P12 (Watkins Glen) Does not matter what car or series, I just struggle at this track. Fast sweeping corners is just somewhere I seem to struggle. This series is so challenging and can be rewarding but this was not one of those races. I had ok speed but just not enough to make much progress forward.

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing 

GTP/GT3 League

  • William W –  Week 13 Fun Run / Off Week Monza combined. It went about as well as you thought it would. Week 1 of league season 4 starts next week. Daytona!

Hosted- 

  • Ellis – indyCar at Pocono finish P9
    • Supercars at Michigan, P 19
    • BMW M2 @Summit point hosted started 14th finish P5
    • BMW lime rock official qualified seventh out of 11. Finished P4.

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

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  1. The Mechanical Goat

Description

On today’s show, did you fall for any April Fools pranks, see if more racing sessions per hour helping the series, we have more Sim Gaming Expo announcements, find out what a seasoned product reviewer has learned, more reviews of MOZA Active Pedals and shifter, new product from Cube Controls and VRS and is sim racing just gaming or is it more?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – https://x.com/mikedeanellis

David Hall – https://x.com/dmixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus

Donnie Spiker – https://www.instagram.com/spikerman19/

Brad Wrenn – https://x.com/bradwrenn

John Kerley – https://x.com/KerleyJohnE

Justin Pearson – https://www.facebook.com/justin.pearson.5811

Bobby Jonas – https://x.com/bjonas71

William Westbrook – https://www.facebook.com/william.westbrook.35

Links:

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Twitter – twitter.com/iracerslounge

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Web (Show Notes) – iracerslounge.com/

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Episode 0478

3/27/2025 – Trading Wraps – Episode 0478

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Brought to you by:

Opening Audio Clip -“Your listening to the iRacers Lounge Podcast where we discuss everything iRacing, in a casual setting, enjoy.”`

READ THIS AT THE TOP OF EACH SHOW!!! 

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  • Joining me are the usual characters, ———— 

Show Introduction

On today’s show we will dig into many recent iRacing forum discussions, get you up to speed on the second 2025 Season 2 patch, see how your Sebring 12 Hours went, cover a ton of hardware topics, find out what a F1 driver thinks of simulators and how young was Yung Money when he started sim racing?

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

It’s Getting Very Real Now

Very Yung Money

https://x.com/nascarman_rr/status/1902678717047910466

Lando Norris On The Necessity Of Simulators

@outdrivegp

“If you want to reach the top level of motorsport, this is the thing to get.” Think talent alone will get you there? It’s not enough. Lando Norris has been using simulators since he was six years old—not just for fun, but to train, sharpen his skills, and stay ahead when he wasn’t in a real car. And it’s paying off. One of the favorites for the 2025 season
Winner of the rain-soaked Australian Grand Prix last weekend “It’s not just about an investment on the track—it’s about the investment away from it.” Simulators are shaping the next generation of drivers. OutDrive GP is building the league where they prove themselves. The shift is already happening—who’s ready to take the next step? DM us if you want to be part of the future of motorsport. #F1 #SimRacing #LandoNorris #Motorsport #OutDriveGP #RacingInnovation @Lando Norris

♬ original sound – outdrivegp

COVID Flashback

https://x.com/nascarman_rr/status/1903431543692906579

Regional Series…Ridiculous

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/76940/the-regional-f4-series-are-ridiculous#latest

2025 Season 3 Build Rumors

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/76818/2025-season-3-build-thread-content-list-confirmations-rumors

No Paint On The Track

https://x.com/tradingpaints/status/1904241868516503609

Why Is This Not Implemented?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77028/network-quality-rule

2025 Sebring 12 Hours…How Did Yours Go?

Race Lengths?

https://x.com/kkingstyle/status/1904408828978012298

Why Is Gargamel So Angry?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77073/deep-dive-into-the-severity-of-smurfing-special-events

Please Fix The Body Panels

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/660289#Comment_660289

2025 Season 2 Patch 2 Release Notes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77145/2025-season-2-patch-2-release-notes-2024-03-25-02

Incident Messages Are Part Of Chat?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/77160/why-are-incident-messages-part-of-the-chat-function

No Decals For You!

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/660781#Comment_660781

Wilson Grabs Third Win Of The Year

https://www.iracing.com/steven-wilson-earns-third-win-of-2025-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-season-at-richmond/

Virtual 2 Reality

Virtual2Reality.tv

🏁 A SIM RACING OPPORTUNITY LIKE NO OTHER 🏁

@virtual2reality.tv , @oasissimracing Sim Racing, and @racingprodigy have teamed up to deliver a game-changing competition for sim racers across North America.

This is more than just another tournament—this is your shot at going pro. Racing Prodigy is offering a Golden Ticket, giving the winner a chance to step out of the sim and into a real-world race car.

🔗 Learn more about the Prodigy Pass: https://racingprodigy.com/prodigy-pass/

📍 Get Your Local Sim Center Involved!

We are launching with 14 sim centers, but we’re actively expanding during the official qualifying period. If your local sim center isn’t listed, now is the time to get them involved! Let them know about this opportunity and encourage them to join the competition.

Drop your location in the comments, and we’ll help you find the nearest participating center—or guide your local facility on how to get onboard. Don’t miss your shot at racing for a real-world seat!

🗓️ KEY DATES

🏎️ Qualifying: 03.21.25 – 05.04.25

🏁 Main Event: 05.18.25

👑 Winner gets seat time in a real race car this summer!

THE DETAILS:

🎮 Platform: @iracingofficial

🚗 Car: Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)

🛣️ Track: Road Atlanta

Don’t miss your chance to turn your sim racing skills into a real-world motorsports career. Contact your local sim center and get on the leaderboard. This is your shot—take it.

@superlap.world Berkley, MI

@rpmrush_simcenter Manassas, VA

@shiftarcade San Ramon, CA

@apex_racing_lab Cary, NC

@racemodeison Winston Salem, NC

@simracingchicago Algonquin, IL

@oasissimracing New Braunfels, TX

@drivr_motorsports_lethbridge Alberta, CAN

@yellowstone_grand_prix Idaho Falls, ID

@apexonewestfiled Westfield, NJ

@speedhubsr Chattanooga, TN

@circuitsimracing Woodland Hills, CA

@fosrusa Glen Rock, PA

@myfastestlap Evansville, IN

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1239858177702460&id=100050348686203&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=073ufUcyB5XU9yOu#

Sim Gaming Expo

Use code IRLP10 to save 10% off tickets

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-march-25-31-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Enzo Bonito: Team Redline

Next Level ERS4 vs ERS5

Asetek: Next Generation Review

SimRuito Pedals Reviewed

Heusinkveld Race Center Sprints

Trak Racer Peripherals, First Look

You May Need To Revisit This

Asetek iRacing Wheelbase Settings

https://www.asetek.com/simsports/guides/iracing-wheelbase-settings

Marvin’s Amazing iRacing App

MOZA 360 Hz Soon

Conspit Welcome Tyler Wang

Best iRacing Settings By James Bladwin

Terra Forte Now Available

Razer Sensa Sim Racing

https://www.razer.com/campaigns/razer-sensa-sim-racing

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Homestead

  • Mike- P19- the first run. I wasn’t too bad. I came up through there, but got involved in a wreck not much damage. It was never the same after that once I lost track position. I pretty much ran in the back. I was lucky to get P 19.
  • David – P wrecked late by bone head moves on a restart
  • tony -DNF same ole song and dance, wrong place wrong time early on wrecking in front of me and couldnt avoid it. 
  • Brad- P6 after Starting p7. I had really good long run speed but the race did not fall the way it needed to. Another yellow during green flag stops would throw the long run out the window again. Faded at the end to finish p6. Shout out to Drew Blaze for the clean run to the checkered fighting for 5th.
  • Kyle – P 18 started P9 Just didn’t have the car I needed to be strong. Running in these higher splits is teaching a whole new race craft that I am trying to adjust.

Sunday Open- NiS – Homestead

  • David – P 8 faded bad on a long run from the lead
  • Tony – P7 had a decent clean race the i could run about anywhere and was actually passing cars middle and end of long runs. 
  • Greg -P3 – Lucked into setup coming in at the end
  • Kyle – P19 started p-19 Car felt tight all race. Couldn’t get it to turn. Was able to drive up to 6th for a portion of the race but tires faded and newer tire cars charged up and I had to just ride it out until the next caution. Tried to use strategy and save my last set of tires to the end. 13 to go I take my last set and hope it is enough for a strong finish. Greg and Tyler pitted the caution before and took the track position and I just didn’t have enough laps to work my way back up to them finishing P-19 after 3 Homestead starts this week and finishing on the lead lap in all of them. I must say I am proud of myself.

Sunday Fixed- NiS – Homestead

  • Mike- P19-started 23rd worked my way up to run as high as P5 but had a few incidents that put me back and this was not able to move up after that ended up getting wrecked near the end

Wednesday Open -NiS – Martinsville

  • Mike- P9- ran as high as P4 until somebody sideswiped me and sent me to the back got involved in an incident where David got taken out, but I was able to continue on and finish P9! 
  • David – P wrecked out late
  • Chris – P 5 We tried a strategy to keep the Sim Wraps Red Waldron’s Furniture Chevrolet up front. I was running 10th when I picked up 8x in incident points, so I dropped to the back to avoid further issues. Took fresh tires at halfway and worked my way back into the top 10. A few check-ups later, I had to serve a pass-through penalty. But luck was on my side when I got the Lucky Dog with 15 laps to go. From there, the Premier Set-up Shops car really came to life, and I powered my way up to 5th, just behind my iRacers Lounge teammate, Justin Pearson. We rubbing doors on the cool down lap as we both celebrated our finish and Brad Wrenn’s win! Big congrats to Brad Wrenn for his win in his split
  • Brad- P1 WINNER!Started p4 and stayed in the top 5-ish the whole night. The cautions were horrible but once out front I was able to control the restarts and led the most laps. First NiS win since 2016. Really have to give a huge shout out to the guys on this team. All of you are great encouragers and that really helps when we have races that don’t go the way we wanted. The setups this week from Premier Racing are on fire. Would have loved for this thing to have had a long run because I really think I had the field covered.

Thursday Open- NiS – Martinsville

  • Mike- P5!- started in the back ran around 5th to 10th. Most of the race was involved in several different incidents with about two minutes damage never got it fixed lost a lap at one point and got a lucky dog, but got to clean towards the end and finished in a nice respectful P5

Official Series

FIA F4 Americas 

  • Kyle – P11 started P12 spun on lap 1 and just spent the race trying to catch up.

A Open

  • Brad W – P12 (Martinsville) Started 6 and stayed in top 6-8 positions till final restart. Never pitted since we had 13 cautions. Green-white-checkerd had me in p3 heading into T3 to take the white only to get driven through from the car in p5! Really stupid race that was completely the fault of a handful of drivers. I can attest, races don’t get any better the higher the iRating.

IMSA

  • Hall – P3 at a Sebring 
  • Brad W – P10 Sebring – finished where I deserved.
  • William W- P5. Tossed away a podium with 2 mistakes. Auto fuel was not on, and spun the car in turn 4.

Sebring 12 Hours

  • William W, Brad W and Jacob J. – P5 Really had a very clean race for iRacing specials. William started the car and did a great job for the first three hours. I jumped in and with about 8 laps to go lost connection to the server. Jacob jumped in and from there one we were fighting to regain lost time due to the disconnect tow. A big shout out to William and Jacob fr having more speed than me which helped to get us back in contention for top 5. Being off cycle actually played to our advantage towards the end but had that not happened, I’m confident we would have podiumed the event.
  • Tom, Kyle, David – wrecked.  We’re running good, then has a severe mishap in sunset.  Started the race behind the whole field cause two GTP’s wrecked before even getting to turn 1.

Indycar iRacing Series

  • Tom D – (Saturday 1st race) – P8 ran up and down all race.  Got contact 3 different times and had to replace my wing 3 times.  Was able to work myself back.

ARCA

  • Kyle – P P10 started P18 save save save that is the strategy for the arca cars at Charlotte.

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing GTP/GT3 League

  • William W –  P2. Fast car but qualified 5th. Start on the outside so lost 5th in turn 1. Spent the rest of the race trying to get forward. Would have been 3rd but P2 had an unfortunate tangle with a lapped car. 

Hosted- 

  • Ellis – BMW M2 at Summit point started dead last drove up to P6
    • Draft masters GEN seven at Talladega got wrecked out right away and finished near the back

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

TITLE

  1. Trading Wraps

Description

On today’s show we will dig into many recent iRacing forum discussions, get you up to speed on the second 2025 Season 2 patch, see how your Sebring 12 Hours went, cover a ton of hardware topics, find out what a F1 driver thinks of simulators and how young was Yung Money when he started sim racing?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – https://x.com/mikedeanellis

David Hall – https://x.com/dmixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus

Donnie Spiker – https://www.instagram.com/spikerman19/

Brad Wrenn – https://x.com/bradwrenn

John Kerley – https://x.com/KerleyJohnE

Justin Pearson – https://www.facebook.com/justin.pearson.5811

Bobby Jonas – https://x.com/bjonas71

William Westbrook – https://www.facebook.com/william.westbrook.35

Links:

Facebook – www.facebook.com/iRacersLounge/

Twitter – twitter.com/iracerslounge

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Web (Show Notes) – iracerslounge.com/

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Episode 0477

3/20/2025 – Spent Mike’s Money – Episode 0477

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we get you caught on the 2025 Season 2 Patch 1, see what iRacing needs to add to dirt racing, what sim racing traps to avoid, show you how to get the perfect position in your sim rig, find out what Mike is spending his money on and did a sim to reality driver just win his first NASCAR Cup race?

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

NASCAR Refresh

New Stats Site!

https://irstats.net

2025 Season 2 Patch 1

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/76457/2025-season-2-patch-1-release-notes-2024-03-16-01

What Does Dirt Need?

What are the 5 BIGGEST things iRacing needs to add to make dirt racing undeniable on their platform? With the 2025 Season 2 build dropping and little dirt updates, it’s time to talk about what’s missing and how iRacing can take dirt racing to the next level.

In this video, we’ll cover:

✅ The cushion model and why it needs an overhaul

✅ Why we need updated dirt cars (Longhorn, Rocket, Maxim, etc.)

✅ How better hosted session options could change league racing

✅ The water truck feature that could make track conditions more dynamic

✅ Dirty air, and how adding it would transform racing on the sim.

Dirt racing in iRacing has huge potential, but these five changes would make it unstoppable! If you agree (or disagree), drop a comment with what you’d like to see changed!

2025 F2 Grid SOF 5,000

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1900749759377256752

New Lighting Changes

https://twitter.com/LostSchemes/status/1902495514832073190

https://x.com/DanSuzukiTV/status/1902441751861727279

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHZBvrDyTI9/?igsh=X25RT2IyN2g0

https://x.com/iRacing/status/1902742109850857749

Garret Lowe Racing Update

https://x.com/GarrettLowe_6/status/1902707361975763017

Bussa Has A Point

https://twitter.com/MattBussa/status/1901411691981668647

https://twitter.com/ENASCARGG/status/1902341900134121499

AI Coaching=Faster?

How Was Your 2025 Season 1?

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1902397901692678320

Contest Time

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/76592/season-02-2025-contests/p1

Mini Stocks At Monza!

NASCAR 25 More Immersion

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHL35w9NUzd/?igsh=QkFLSjVvT241ag%3D%3D

Sim Racing Traps To Avoid

Giving up too easy

Unsafe Rejoins

Neglecting Racecraft

Blaming Others

Sim Racing Magician (racing the delta bar)

Trading Paint 2025 S1, Wrap Up

Sim Gaming Expo

Use code IRLP10 to save 10% off tickets

More Sim Gaming Expo Announcements

Sebring 12 Hour

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/76078/initial-bop-2025-sebring-12-hour-powered-by-vco

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-march-18-24-2025

Podcast Housekeeping

Leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform to make it easier for more listeners to find the podcast. Mention the podcast to your fellow drivers so they don’t miss out, we would appreciate it.

Check out our Discord https://discord.gg/rvRas4DDqF

New Website – Leave Comments https://www.iracerslounge.com/

We are in the regular rotation… (Mike)

https://performancemotorsportsnetwork.com/

iRacers Lounge Merch!!!

You can now order fantastic looking merchandise for your favorite iRacing show, The iRacers Lounge Podcast!

Visit iRacerslounge.shop to get yours Today!

Fantasy

Hardware/Software

2025 Simagic Wheel Base Settings

Simsonn Periperals

https://www.simsonn.com/collections/peripherals

Trak Racer Variable VESA Mounts

https://trakracer.com/collections/monitor-stands/products/variable-adjustment-vesa-adapter-kit-for-monitors

Trak Racer TR40S Simulator

https://trakracer.com/products/tr40s-racing-simulator

Cheap Upgrades To Make You Faster

✅ Wheel Extender – Get the perfect driving position 🏁 ✅ Seat Cushion & Heel Raiser – More comfort, better control 🎯 ✅ Pedal Spring Mods – Improve braking consistency 🛑 ✅ Rumble Motors – Feel ABS and traction through your pedals 🔥 ✅ iFlags LED Matrix – Stay aware of flags and on-track action 🟡⚪ ✅ Button Box – Free up space on your wheel for performance settings 🎛️ ✅ Head Tracking with a Webcam – DIY VR-like experience 🎥

The Perfect Sim Seating Set Up

Alpine F1 Extends Trak Racer Partnership

https://media.alpinecars.com/bwt-alpine-formula-one-team-extends-partnership-with-trak-racer/

Precision Sim Engineering DD-R / DD-X

https://www.precisionsimengineering.com/?category=Displays

Reinventing The Wheel?

IndyCar’s Steering Wheel Explained

Incredible Force Feedback

Cleetus Gets A Rig

Base Shaker Mounts

We Finally Get To Spend Mike’s Money

I love this quote.This is basically talking about me, “… Budget pedals will let you sim race totally fine but if you’re an idiot like me and you like fancy simming equipment you like features you like messing around with stuff you like having more information from the SIM you’ve wasted your life SIM racing too much. This sort of stuff is absolutely fantastic. Absolutely Fantastic absolutely amazing ….”

MOZA Force Feedback Shifter

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Las Vegas

  • Mike- P26- start a 24th worked my way up to around fifth was good to go but towards the end of the race so I hit the wall too many times the last run faded hard all the way back
  • Chris- P 6. The Red Waldron’s Furniture iRacers Lounge Chevy Camaro proved its resilience today. Despite battling PC issues that left us starting from 32nd, we refused to back down. The car struggled to find its rhythm early on, but with determination and hard work from the Premier Set-ups crew, we made key adjustments. As a result, we climbed steadily through the field and crossed the finish line in 6th after a thrilling green-white-checkered finish. A huge shoutout to Sim Wraps for getting that striking red vinyl wrap back on the car – it was definitely a factor in helping us secure this strong finish! We also hit a career record 3584iR after this race. 
  • David – P12 was first caution, a car forced a 4 wide, I should have crowded him more, but had no way to know there the was also 2 cars high, it just said 3 wide, instead came up just enough to get right hooked (not intentionally by him or me)  Only 13 seconds of damage, next run was frustrating but I think i just burned my stuff up working way back up.  Late caution with 25 I had worked my way up to 15th, loosened the car up, and was able to run hard for 12th at the end.
  • Justin – P4. The ol Red, White & Blue Iracers Lounge Podcast Chevy Camaro had good top 5 speed. I wore this ol girl out. I got my money’s worth out of her tonight. It was a dog fight out there. I had a problem passing guys just couldn’t complete passes as soon as they got on your right rear they would drag you back. The last 10 laps i took right front damage. Very lucky to come out p4. All in all a good night of racing with the boys
  • tony -P22 had a fast car again but dumbass mistake of over cooking my pit entry on a green flag stop and having a caution fly while on pit road just couldnt make my lap back up
  • Brad- P14 after starting p20. Had a really good long run car but the race did not play out that way. Made a few adjustments for the long run but a late yellow and a short run that I did not make the correct adjustments cost me a top 5. Great sets all week from Premiere Racing Setups but the driver messed this one up.

Saturday Fixed- NiS – Las Vegas

  • Tom D – P5 – Ran up front most the race with pit stops.  Got front end damage and just beast able to get to the top spot.  Happy to run upfront.

Sunday Open- NiS – Las Vegas

  • David – P14, not a NIS week unless i get caught is someones mess.  Wreck in front.  Everyone piles in and hoooks me when I checked up.  Got back to 12th the a car drives down the left side of pit lane and gets beside me hitting me when I turn to pit.  P14.  SO, according to some genius among the iRacing stewards, it is okay to drive on the inside line of pit lane the whole time.  So from now on I’m driving down the inside lane whe n piting.  
  • Tony – P9 after what was a fever dream race . All i remember is being doored, wrecked and ass ramming a wrecked car on the front stretch and being at 16x for last 100 laps.

Sunday Fixed- NiS – Las Vegas

  • Mike- Pdnf. Got totally destroyed early in the race in the first caution. Some guy goes under me taking us three wide. He can’t hold his lane and wipe us out.

Wednesday Open -NiS – Homestead

  • Mike- P16- got involved in the First caution lost some track position never really made it up ran 20th to 25th most of the race gotten another wreck where I had a little bit of damage I got that fixed but with some late carnage I was able to get my way up into the top 20 to finish P 16
  • David – P DNF, got loose, got stuck back with the idiots, got turned, then a car running in the back arca brakes and torpedoes me.
  • Kyle – P24 Had a good car. Started 20th and stayed in the top 15. Sniffed the top 10 for a few laps but then faded back and kept it clean. Coming to the last restart and a driver decided to retaliate and spin another driver which then got the restart all tangled up and I received a passing under yellow which then gave me a black flag I had to serve and was able to stay on the lead lap but just didn’t have enough laps to gain anymore spots. Protest was filed and handled. Shout out to Lawrence and his team at Sim Coaches for fixing my gas pedal and making it good as new.
  • Chris – P21 Miami still has me scratching my head, trying to figure it out like Sunny Crockett in Miami Vice. The white Waldron’s Furniture Chevy just couldn’t find its rhythm, struggling to move forward all race. While the primer setup worked well for us in Turns 1 and 2, driver error slowed us down in Turns 3 and 4. We spent most of the race hovering in the 20s, but at least we stayed trouble-free. It was great to have my iRacers Lounge teammate, Justin “Tubbs” Pearson, in the race with me—it made the experience a little more enjoyable 
  • Brad- P6 after having a fantastic run. The car was so good on the long run. Was abe to drive up to p2 but just toward the tail end of the run I was too tight. Just drove it too hard at the beginning. Looked like it was going to be a green flag stop to the end but a yellow mid pit cycle trapped me a lap down. Took the wave around but restarted from p17. Had to drive really hard to gain spots and that was enough to use up the tires and was passed for p5 on the last lap. A shout out to Drew Breeze for the clean racing and great battle for two laps. Another really good set this week from Premier Racing Setups. Oh and the winner who led 131 od 134 laps…was on Premier Racing Setup as well.
  • Tom – P19 –  one of the worst races I have personally done.   I got red mist after slightly getting into another driver and as I came up to save my car it looked like I blocked him.  Some words were said to me and I crashed us both.  I am very disappointed in myself.  I did not get on the radio or chat because I didn’t want to get a ban.  My car was torn up and I could only get to that position.  Again, I am deeply disappointed in myself.  I am sorry for everyone involved in that if anyone is listening who was in that split, I am sorry

Thursday Open- NiS – Homestead

  • Mike- P12- ran usually between 10th to 20th. Most of the race pretty much stayed out of trouble. The last restart I was 19th got my way up to finish P 12.
  • David – P10.  Had a top 5 car.  On last run a car dive bombs me and fails to make the apex and stays up in lane three crowding me out can forcing me into the wall.  Say he doesn’t have to go to the bottom if he dive bombs, I disagree, and will treat him with the respect he deserves.

Official Series

A Open

  • Brad W – P20 after starting p4. This was just a really strange race. The car was super quick in practice but when the race started I was wrecking loose in turns 3 and 4. The weather was much different than NiS but I was really surprised how much different the car was. I threw air pressure and spring adjustment a it but could never get it comfortable. Fell like a rock and was actually lucky to finish p20.

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing GTP/GT3 League

  • William W –  P11. Was cruising in 3rd about halfway through the race when my screen froze for about 5 seconds. Was in the wall when it came back. Was able to limp back to the pits and gain a few spots before the end of the race.

Majors Series

  • Brad W – P21. Started p37 in 1st split. Kept the car clean and had no major issues. Ended up making contact try to pass a car and that resulted in a 10 second post race penatly. Finishing p21 with the stout fied is ok, I guess.
  • David – Road America – p11.   Started in 28th or so.  Ran clean, stayed out of trouble had good long run speed and consistency.  A few small mistakes probably cost my chance at the top 10, including forgetting to turn my lights on and having the tracking warning pop up in the middle of the screen.  Had to hit my button thats on the rig but gave away some time.
  • Tom D – (Race 1 – Bathurst 2 Hours) – Started 42nd in top split of the International Region.  Not my best combination.  Just worked steady and finished 28th without any major issues.             (Race 2 – Spa 2 Hours) – Started 34th in top split of the European Region.  A big crash at Radion hurt a few cars and had to use their fast repair.  I was able to pick a few spots and hold on to them.  Finished 19th.   I’ll take it for a GT3 race.        (Race 3 – Road America 2 hours) – started 20th in 2nd split of the Americas Region.  After a few laps I felt more comfortable than in the other races.  I lost it in the kink and destroyed my car. Had to pit, came back out in 33rd.   Had a fast car in the split, worked my way all the way back to 15th.  Probably could have had a top 5 without my mistake.  Looking forward to the next Majors race on April 5th & 6th.  Coke 600 with the Gen 4 cup cars.

Hosted- 

  • Ellis – GEN five at Talladega wrecked out
    • BMW’s at Nortslife in the rain finished P2 after towing
    • Second attempt, it was raining harder and wrecked right away and turned two
    • 13th week funny forecast at the Nurburgring North life in the BMW M2. Winner winner chicken dinner had a great class win and finished third overall kept it on the track pretty much the whole time heavy heavy rain super proud of this one.
    • Try it again the next day wrecked out right at the beginning
    • Then ran Matt Malone’s MX 5 cup at Oki Yama qualified 13th at a 19th
    • BMW’s at osher Slaven. Qualified fifth finish fourth.
    • FIAF4 @Sebring had a pretty good run going up to seventh but then wrecked out with two to go racing with a guy

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

TITLE

  1. Spent Mike’s Money

Description

On today’s show we get you caught on the 2025 Season 2 Patch 1, see what iRacing needs to add to dirt racing, what sim racing traps to avoid, show you how to get the perfect position in your sim rig, find out what Mike is spending his money on and did a sim to reality driver just win his first NASCAR Cup race?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – https://x.com/mikedeanellis

David Hall – https://x.com/dmixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus

Donnie Spiker – https://www.instagram.com/spikerman19/

Brad Wrenn – https://x.com/bradwrenn

John Kerley – https://x.com/KerleyJohnE

Justin Pearson – https://www.facebook.com/justin.pearson.5811

Bobby Jonas – https://x.com/bjonas71

William Westbrook – https://www.facebook.com/william.westbrook.35

Links:

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Web (Show Notes) – iracerslounge.com/

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Episode 0476

3/13/2025 – CHOVAL – Episode 0476

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we cover the 2025 Season 2 Build, see who is attending the Sim Gaming Expo, check out new hardware from multiple manufacturers, help spend Mike’s money, find out how Matt Malone’s week 13 is going and sit down with iRacing Alien, Robby Swan.

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..

TITLE SPONSOR READ:

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Special Guest

Robby Swan

Topics

2025 Season 2 Development Blog

Just Brutal

“At Watkins Glen for example my outlap is in the order of 4+ seconds slower than timed lap 1 which is then around a second slower than timed lap 2. At that point, timed lap 2 is within a tenth of my best lap of a 5 lap run.”

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/650301#Comment_650301

ARCA Stock Cars

ARCA Early Access

Portland International Raceway

Legends Ford 34′ Coupe

Victory Lane At Bristol Baby

https://twitter.com/A_Schwartz67/status/1899528572441620899

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1899526895240106495

2025 Season 2 Build And Release Notes

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-2025-season-2-build-is-here

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/75906/2025-season-2-release-notes-2024-03-10-03#latest

Watch Them Skid Marks

AI May Need More Training

https://twitter.com/bottomsplitCEO/status/1899200564124107049

Net Code From…..

https://x.com/FawCreative/status/1899512674787934412

Caruso Dominates

https://www.iracing.com/jordan-caruso-dominates-porsche-tag-heuer-esports-supercup-sachsenring-mid-season-tournament

2025 Season 2 Preliminary Schedule

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/75939/2025-season-2-preliminary-pdf-schedule

Save It…He Saved It…Uh Oh

Sim Gaming Expo Announcements

Sim Gaming Expo

Apex This iRacing League

Our new season kicks off next week, and we’ve got road racing four nights a week. Whether you’re a seasoned racer or just testing your skills, there’s a spot for you!

🔥 It’s Free. It’s Fun. And There’s a Trophy Waiting for You.
We have two divisions: Pro and Mid-Pack Larry. Maybe you’re the fastest Mid-Pack Larry out there? Or think you’ve got what it takes to run with the Pros? Let’s find out!

📅 Season 23 Details → https://apexthis.racing

We have over 1,000 members, but we haven’t seen all of you on track yet. What’s holding you back?

❌ Not good enough? → You are. We’re all learning and improving.
❌ Only free one night a week? → We race 4 nights a week—one is bound to fit!
❌ Never raced in a league? → We make it easy. Join us on Discord or FB—even introverts have fun here!

So, stop making excuses and get in the race! Your new racing friends are waiting for you.

🏁 See you on track!
— Apex This

https://discord.gg/fCgSHkACEu
https://www.facebook.com/groups/apexthis

Sebring 12 Hour

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/76078/2025-sebring-12-hour-powered-by-vco

This week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-march-11-17-2025

Podcast Housekeeping

Leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform to make it easier for more listeners to find the podcast. Mention the podcast to your fellow drivers so they don’t miss out, we would appreciate it.

Check out our Discord https://discord.gg/rvRas4DDqF

New Website – Leave Comments https://www.iracerslounge.com/

We are in the regular rotation… (Mike)

https://performancemotorsportsnetwork.com/

iRacers Lounge Merch!!!

You can now order fantastic looking merchandise for your favorite iRacing show, The iRacers Lounge Podcast!

Visit iRacerslounge.shop to get yours Today!

Fantasy

Hardware/Software

DD-X From Precision Sim

New Product: Mag Shift Mini

Sim Labs ASMR

MOZA FSR2 Formula Wheel

$10 Or Less

  1. HEX Key Holder
  2. Phone Holder
  3. Cup Holder
  4. Head Phone Holder
  5. Sim Racing Wheel Holder

Will Bloops Make You Faster?

3D Printed Window Net Quick Release

Is This The Sim Racers Cool Shirt?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1772358530/nrg-triangle-seat-cooling-with-single

Smallest Button Box

Metahaptics

https://podium1racing.com/collections/motion/products/nitro-concepts-sensit-metahaptics

Lovely Dashboard for MOZA Vision GS

Smart Pro By Restech Simulation

10″ USB DDU

Printed Sim Racing DDU

Spend Mike’s Money!

https://twitter.com/moza_racing/status/1899807601803608274

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Phoenix

  • Tony -P14 19 cautions. Stayed clean ans in top 10 til about 2 laps to go and was taken out by a guy that couldnt hold it in T2
  • Brad- P wrecked again. Started p7 and was in top 10 most of the race. Only to get wiped out by someone bouncing off the wall on exit of T2. No sorry, no my bad, no nothing. Spent the rest of the race trying to get damage fixed only to get a passing under yellow because people can’t catch up after coming out of the pits. Glad next week is Vegas.
  • John – P23. 18 Cautions for 54 laps. Need I say more? The guy driving the 3 car caused 7 of them. Of course, he finished in the top 10 on the lead lap.  He wrecked me 3 times, the first time being on lap 1. He was a menace. I never could get the car completely fixed so it drove awful. Also, it seemed the pits during yellow flags was messed up – they would open and close at odd spots. For example, if I was a lap down it would say the pits were open for me at the same time as the lead lap cars. But when I went in I got a black flag. Anyway, I’m glad there is no more Phoenix for a while.  Nothing wrong with the track; I just can’t drive it well.

Sunday Open- NiS – Phoenix

  • David – P7  Got wrecked with about 30 to go, car on fresher tires still used his stuff up and bounced off the wall when i got back beside him.  But recovered as the damage wasn’t severe.  Was about a 4-7th place car.
  • Tony – P20 Got to race with Donnie and 1st part was ok but 2nd half of the race was a shit show. Was wrecked by a lapper with 5 to go. Sums up my iracing career. Wrong place, wrong time.
  • Tyler – P7 wreck fest. 8x all from other drivers. Not my favorite track but i’ll take the top 10.

Sunday Fixed- NiS – Phoenix

  • Mike- P DNF started near the back got my way up to the front let some laps for a while had a slip fell back to fifth and then the guy in third basically wrecked and I couldn’t miss it and too much damage were done dnf 
  • Justin – Well lets just say The Iracers Lounge Chevy had one hell of week it was a roller coaster, 1st race, my buddy BW turned broad side in front of me in the dogleg meatballed, 2nd attempt was leading coming up to the G/W/C dropped the hammer just a little early Got Blacked for jumping the start. 3rd attempt halfway through the race i was leading came into the pits got caught speeding put me in the back with the squirrels didn’t end well But, now let’s talk about this 4th attempt Winner Winner Chicken Dinner, I dominated this thing. This was way easier than the other races because i didn’t do anything to self sabotage my race i just hit my marks and stayed up front led 105 laps out of 156.Most important thing 0x Baby! Big thanks to My Boiii BoBBie, the best spotter in the business couldn’t have done it without him.

Wednesday Open -NiS – Las Vegas

  • Mike- P5- I was trying to make the discord overlay work as I was getting on the grid huge mistake. It went completely gray screened across all my triples. I couldn’t see anything I couldn’t close Discord and so I did a task manager and did in task we start rolling off pit Road. I decide to try it one more time for whatever reason and the same thing happens. I end up having to stop the car and tow it so now I’ve missed the start. I’m sitting on Pitt Road as it goes green. It gives me four tires and then lets me off pit Road so I go for a little bit and there’s a caution and I decide to pit to look for damage cause I hit the wall, but I couldn’t see the track well as I was approaching my pit stall I went to uncheck the tires and I uncheck them and I see them unchecked and I put and they give me right side tires so now I’ve taken six tires within eight laps while the rest of the field has taken none. I hang in there persevere and end up recovering by doing a double stent on the tires end up in the top 10 near the end of the race worked my way up to finish P5.
  • David – P8.  FIX the Frackin Marshal.  Caution in the middle of green flag stops, lucky dog in 9th place was about to unlap myself.  Take lucky luck, a bunch take a wave by and because iRacing continues to let cars that come out of the pits in front of cars on the track, someone had to delay the green.  I then still get stuck with my EOL and forced back to 22nd  drove back up the field like a mad man though.  Very aggressive with the fresh tires against all the waveby’s.
  • Tony – P15 had a fast car  but couldn’t keep tires on it. Made mistake of not pitting with 30 to go 
  • Chris – P 21 Sim Wraps gave us a WHITE Waldron’s Furniture Chevrolet Camaro that was a rocket with that Premier Setup under the hood. We were comfortably in the Top 10 until about 50 laps to go when we got door-slammed. The damage took us about 3 minutes to fix, but we were back on track with fresh tires and 20 laps to go. Unfortunately, we got caught up in a wreck going into Turn 1. Stayed out, only to be collected again. Despite the setbacks, we limped it home in P21. We’ll be back at it on Friday in our normal bright red, thanks to Sim Wraps!
  • Brad- P7 after starting p17. What a rocket the PRS set was this week. The car was consistently fast and really good on the long run. Drove up to the top 10 and eventually to the lead for 29 laps. A caution during green flag stops would ruin the strategy that was playing out. Had to take a wave around to get back on the lead lap and was able to drive back to p7 over the last two restarts. The car was fast and I can’t wait to give it another shot Friday night.
  • Donnie – P18.  Thought I was underpowered all night, only to learn I was dragging my brake due to user error in the calibration process.  2025 is looking great!
  • Bobby – P11 One of the fastest cars after 20+ laps, running 2nd when the guy pushed me out of 4 into fence, fell to like 17th, drove back to 11th
  • Tyler – P7. Started 33rd and layed low. Saved tires every chance I could.Stayed clear from the chaos and managed my race. Fresh tires with 60 laps to go and no cautions. Saved enough to race all the way up into the top 10. Felt really good to have a fast pace and manage my equipment.

Thursday Open- NiS – Las Vegas

  • Mike- P DNF. Start a 22nd work my way up to 11th then got involved in a big wreck. I couldn’t avoid was seven minutes of damage then just kept riding along trying to recover anything I could and the computer power just turned off didn’t restart just off.
  • David – P10  Was running a good p6 on a long run with a green flag stop, VR blacks out.  Turn left slam on brakes, VR comes back on I’m sitting on the apron on the front stretch.  Nota complete loss but still a bummer.

Official Series


League / Hosted Races

Hosted- 

  • Ellis – DW 12 IndyCar at Pocono. Wrecked out.
    • GEN five at Talladega started 40th finish P6
    • Supercar at Michigan wrecked out
    • FIAF4 @lime rock got wrecked out
    • Carburetor cup at Monza oval was leading and got wrecked out

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

TITLE

  1. CHOVAL

Description

On today’s show we cover the 2025 Season 2 Build, see who is attending the Sim Gaming Expo, check out new hardware from multiple manufacturers, help spend Mike’s money, find out how Matt Malone’s week 13 is going and sit down with iRacing Alien, Robby Swan.

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – twitter.com/MikeDeanEllis

David Hall – www.twitch.tv/mixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus – www.twitch.tv/froozenkaktus

Brian Maccubbin – www.twitch.tv/MacRubbinsRacin

Kyle Pendygraft – twitter.com/LoudPedalGaming

Tony Rochette – twitter.com/TonyRochette

Tom Dreiling – 

Donnie Spiker – twitter.com/Spikerman19

Bobby Jonas –

MacKenzie Stevens – https://twitter.com/MackStevens48

Justin Pearson – https://twitter.com/big7bang_

John Kerley –

Brad Wrenn – https://twitter.com/bradwrenn

Links:

Facebook – www.facebook.com/iRacersLounge/

Twitter – twitter.com/iracerslounge

Instagram – instagram.com/iracersloungepodcast/ 

Web (Show Notes) – iracerslounge.com/

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Episode 0475

3/6/2025 – Spleenix, Arizona – Episode 0475

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we close out 2025 Season 1 and get ready for build week, see what size wheel you should buy, if you need a sim coach; we have one for you, which is the most realistic GT3 in iRacing, find out what Asetek’s HUGE news is and who is Max Verstappen putting in his GT3 car?

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..

TITLE SPONSOR READ:

https://www.premierracingsetups.com/

Topics

Updated Series Page

Life Of A Next Gen Tire

https://x.com/kkingstyle/status/1895317696927146226

Where Is He?

Happy Retirement!

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/75433/legends-ford-34-coupe-rookie-retirement-march-11th-12-00-utc

Season 2 – 2025 Car And Series Updates

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/75448/season-2-2025-car-and-series-updates/p1

GTP Physics And Tire Updates

Adaptive AI

Racing With Rajah

https://x.com/rajahcaruth_/status/1896637110637281292/

Is Cletus Here?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/75285/who-would-like-to-try-crown-vics-on-iracing

Verstappen.com Racing To Join GT World Challenge

https://www.gt-world-challenge-europe.com/news/2920/

More Sim 2 Reality

https://www.iracing.com/glenn-mcgee-returns-to-mx-5-cup-in-st-petersburg-with-iracing

Coaching Available

https://x.com/KadenWHoneycutt/status/1896699372341203174

Lane Change Penalty

https://x.com/aaronsmithrcn/status/1895355196517294390

Wilson Grabs Second Win Of The Year

https://www.iracing.com/steven-wilson-rebounds-for-second-win-of-2025-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-season-at-inaugural-interlagos-event/

How Different Will It Be?

iRacing GT3 Showdown: All Cars Ranked

Variations On A Theme

https://x.com/kkingstyle/status/1896412608590430668

Remote Control…From 2000 Miles Away

Hmm, We’ve discussed This Before

Brake Check!

Next Listener Race Is A few Weeks Away!

Join Us In Chicago!

NASCAR 25 Career Mode

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG3hTcRPe5P/?igsh=QkFaSnpHand2bg%3D%3D

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-march-4-10-2025

Sim Gaming Expo 2025

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Hardware/Software

Advance Sim Racing / Corbeau

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https://corbeau.com/products/fx1-pro

Size Does Matter

Check Out Max’s Gear

Too Much Or Just Right?

Huge News: New Products

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – COTA

  • Chris – P 16. I finished… that’s an accomplishment 

Wednesday Open -NiS – Phoenix

  • Mike- P9- lots and lots of cautions I kept it clean but a little past halfway I got wrecked out a couple different times with a little over six minute damage was able to keep it on track and somehow bring it home to finish P9
  • David – P5 stayed safe
  • Justin – P wrecked out
  • Chris – P 16. The bright red Waldron’s Furniture team fought hard through an action-packed race today. Starting with a challenging 16x 50 laps in, we found ourselves playing catch-up right from the start. But our team’s perseverance showed through. Despite multiple repairs and constant adversity, we stayed sharp and safe as the race wound down. In the end, we brought the iRacers Lounge, Primer Setups, Sim Wraps Chevy Camaro home in 16th place, managing to finish just outside the top 15. Considering the circumstances, it was a solid effort, we’re proud of how we pushed through.
  • Brad- P 27 – Self-inflicted. Started p2 and dropped back to avoid some very aggressive driving at the start. Made it to about half way and on restart cut the dog leg only for the car to bottom out and spin. Was completely caught off guard as it had never happened in practice or the race the previous day. Worst part was I took out teammate Justin Pearson. Had almost 7 minutes of damage to get fixed. At that point came out to ride it out for SR. Was going to finish p25 but was collected by two spinners on a late restart through the dog leg. I run really well here but can’t ever finish a race.
  • Bobby – Decent, trying to click off laps, tons of yellows. Got shoved into wall by driver cutting dogleg and    shoving up into me, lots of damaged, ended up extremely tight, hitting wall again, killing car. 

Thursday Open- NiS – Phoenix

  • David – P21  its not a NiS week if I don’t have somebody spin in front of me.   Had to fix the damage even though it wasn’t drivable.  After words we finished with a long run. I ran all the way to behind 4th place, but 8 laps down.
  • Bobby – Well, for the 25 feet we made it passed the line on the green car was very solid and quick. Driver who started on the high side, laid back, got a jump and right passed the line turn down trying to cut dogleg and hooked us dead into the wall. Car was done at that point. I get there is no track limits there, but a solid object like a CAR, should be avoided at all cost. 

Official Series

M2

  • Ellis – P11 Summit point. Wasn’t fast finished ninth out of 11.

A Open

  • Brad W – P23 Started p7 and was in top 10 for the first half of the race. As usual, I get caught up in other people’s mess. Two spun in front of me getting into T1. Could not avoid and ended up with “Too much damage to fix” While the two that caused the wreck go on to finish p9 and p12. SMH

IMSA

  • William W- P17 – Spa – Embarrassing. Got dumped lap one before even the start finish line. Guy took it 4 wide then wrote me a book how it was my fault. Then coming up through the field I murdered a GTP. Just a mistake I haven’t made in ages. Was paying attention to the car to my right and missed my breaking point. 8 min repairs, just called it a day. 

League / Hosted Races

Majors Endurance Championship

  • Greg, Tom and David –  P13  Ended up with early trouble from a GT3 who shot up high in parabolica blocking our outside pass.  Hung in there and worked back up through some attrition, to have a decent finish.  They learned a lot on the live caution officiating side and that aspect was way smoother.
  • Brad and Justin – P11 (GT3 Monza) Started on pole but lost it coming out of Lesmo 2 on cold tires. Started fighting back through the field only to get caught up in an accident going through Ascari. Had a meatball and forgot that we had a fast repair, so sat and had it fixed. It was a fight for all 4 hours but kudos to Justin for doing  the middle stents and got us up to 14th from 18th. Played some pit strategy to gain a few spots as we finished the race.

Grass Roots Racing GTP/GT3 League

  • William W –  P4. Week 10 at Montreal. Thought this track would be bad for multiclass but it was actually great. Probably could have had 3 but was over driving the car in a couple corners. Straightened that out but it was too late, still solid result. 

Final Thoughts

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  1. Spleenix, Arizona

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On today’s show we close out 2025 Season 1 and get ready for build week, see what size wheel you should buy, if you need a sim coach; we have one for you, which is the most realistic GT3 in iRacing, find out what Asetek’s HUGE news is and who is Max Verstappen putting in his GT3 car?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

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Brian Maccubbin – www.twitch.tv/MacRubbinsRacin

Kyle Pendygraft – twitter.com/LoudPedalGaming

Tony Rochette – twitter.com/TonyRochette

Tom Dreiling – 

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Bobby Jonas –

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Justin Pearson – https://twitter.com/big7bang_

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10/17/2024 = Barney and Fred – Episode 0457

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topi

Show Introduction

On today’s show we find out which manufactures are releasing new hardware at the ADAC Sim Racing Expo, update you on the 2024 Season 4 Patch 3, discuss what to do when you are burned out on sim racing, find out why there is no karting in iRacing and is the FIA really seeking a sim platform for the 2025 Olympics?

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..

Topics

We Have Lift Off

Are You Burned Out?

  1. Excessive gaming
  2. Real life stressors
  3. To correct:
    • Personal goals
    • Join a community
    • Explore other games

How Close Is It?

Too Young?

Sim2Reality: Matt Bussa

Trading Paints Now On Instagram

2024 Season 4 Patch 3 Release Notes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/69354/2024-season-4-patch-3-release-notes-2024-10-09-01#latest

What A Finish!

Why No Karting In iRacing?

2025 Olympic Esports

https://racinggames.gg/article/fia-seeking-game-developrs-for-new-olympic-push?fbclid=IwY2xjawF-D1RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHc4h28W853ABhVJUB4yw3Za8juXC1B7KQde-jnccpOPl80T5jpK8RxQfBA_aem_Xu8K16xIDot8_VavP_jsgQ

For All The International Stockcar Drivers

Hello driver,

in 2023, we created a Internationnal Open CUP Series NASCAR league, based to 100% distance with Sectors in the races at European Friday evening time.

(Race Start, Friday 9:10pm at Paris/Brussel - UTC+2) summertimer

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We are a serious and clean league with a “Race Commission” after each race…and of course “cash prizes” for drivers and teams.

  • We are preparing season 3 which will begin in February 2025.
  • There are 7 races left to date and we have entered the Playoffs of this 2024 season.
  • Join us as “tester” drivers for the end of the season, alone or with your team !!! You have more than “2000 irating” in OVAL and would you like to participate in this end of the 2024 championship in order to try yourself in this unic format 100% on iRacing?
  • Next Race friday 18 October at Las Vegas, ..Martinsville 1 November ; Phoenix 15 November(final)

Participation is only 5€ and we distribute bonuses at each race, until the end of season 2.
(If you take a membership in 2025, your 5€ will be deducted)

Join ourDiscord server or copy/past that—>https://discord.gg/btNgsWGhbr

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iRacing Petit Le Mans This Weekend

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/69056/initial-bop-added-2024-iracing-petit-le-mans-powered-by-vco/p1

Time Attack Starts October 21

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-october-15-21-2024

Sim Gaming Expo ’25

Home

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Sim Lab’s Direct Drive Wheel Base

Comment
byu/duude88 from discussion
insimracing

https://www.reddit.com/r/simracing/comments/1g3cu7y/comment/lrxhmx0/?rdt=52678

Velocity One Multi-shift By Turtle Beach

Simagic Releasing A New Pedal Set

Sim Design Simucube Shaft Extension

Conspit Halo

Dyn X Simulator At ADAC

MME Motosport To Debut H-Shifter EVO2 At ADAC

Thrustmaster T598 Preorder

Ascher Racing Debuts New Wheel At ADAC

RGB Logo Lights From Sim Sport Gadget

Its A Proper Bit Of Kit

Simucube Active Pedal Pro: A Closer Look

P1 Sim Ascari Wheel

Next Level GTE Lite Ford Edition

Lian Li 011 Vision Compact

Simworx SX-02 Edge Simulator

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – Charlotte ROVAL

  • Mike – P computer issues

Wednesday Open – Las Vegas

  • Mike- P wrecked out. Had a good first run that came from 22nd up to fourth then we had a green flag run. The caution came out while I was on pit Road and ended up taking a wave around. I was 22nd and got myself up to around 15th and then got involved in an incident where a guy got loose and I got ran over and the car was undrivable from that point DNF.
  • Tom – P12. 
  • Brad W – P29. Started 10th and ran way too hard the first run. Made a change to the car and ran too hard the second run. Went to make a green flag pit stop and yellow came out while coming to pit road. Speeding on entering and was trapped a lap down. Played the strategy to get back on the lead lap but the last restart was on old tires. Ended up getting turned coming to the checkers. Self-inflicted issues all the race.
  • Chris W – P12. Got stitches on my hand but raced Davey Allison style. Stayed out during green flag stops and got a caution. After getting fresh rubber we had a nice long run to end the race and drove up to P12. Set the fastest time in the race and NEW iR personal record 3522.

Thursday Open – Las Vegas 

  • Mike- P9- ran back half of the top 10 as high as P2 at one point, some guy tagged me and I fell back and had damage and from there fell back to P 22 on a longer run, but finally caught a caution with three to go, and with the subsequent cautions was able to work my way back up to finish a respectable P9 with a heavily damaged car

Official Series

FIA F4 

  • Ellis– P5 started at 11th got up to P6 by the end of lap one was able to not get wrecked and keep it clean from there and finish P5 Watkins Glen
    • First race at Montreal and it’s raining started 11th got to finish P8
    • Second race started P2 quickly took the lead and then swap the lead with two other cars back-and-forth throughout most of the race eventually reclaim the lead and was able to pull away. Bit by Bit eventually winning the race with about a seven second gap to second place.  My 103rd career win 106 championship points. 
    • Third attempt qualified, fourth got the second spun off on my own at least once but finished P3 finally learning I need to drive off-line in the rain
    • Fourth attempt started P3 got to pee too and on the first lap about halfway through got ran over from behind from a guy who completely missed the chicane I went in and got the fast repair came out 15th worked my way back up to finish P4. Heck of a drive in the rain.

B Open

  • Brad W – P18. (Las Vegas) Decided to give the B car another go. Really enjoy the car but you have to drive these. Top split and out classed. Dropping iR but having a good time.


League / Hosted Races

Hosted- 

  • Ellis- winner winner, chicken dinner posted Chris McGuire, one in the supercar at Michigan
  • P8 1987 at Talladega started 44th out of a 55 car field
  • Radicals at Phoenix finish P5
  • Delaura Dash at Michigan ran it twice and got wrecked out twice

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

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  1. Barney and Fred

Description

On today’s show we find out which manufactures are releasing new hardware at the ADAC Sim Racing Expo, update you on the 2024 Season 4 Patch 3, discuss what to do when you are burned out on sim racing, find out why there is no karting in iRacing and is the FIA really seeking a sim platform for the 2025 Olympics?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – twitter.com/MikeDeanEllis

David Hall – www.twitch.tv/mixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus – www.twitch.tv/froozenkaktus

Brian Maccubbin – www.twitch.tv/MacRubbinsRacin

Kyle Pendygraft – twitter.com/LoudPedalGaming

Tony Rochette – twitter.com/TonyRochette

Tom Dreiling – 

Donnie Spiker – twitter.com/Spikerman19

Bobby Jonas –

MacKenzie Stevens – https://twitter.com/MackStevens48

Justin Pearson – https://twitter.com/big7bang_

John Kerley –

Brad Wrenn – https://twitter.com/bradwrenn

Links:

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1/16/2025 – Should I wait for the RTX 11090? – Episode 0468

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we sit down with new team member, William Westbrook, find out which drivers signed with which Coke Series teams, preview the iRacing Daytona 24, check out new hardware from MOZA, some very unique sim rigs and your next chance to race with us is only a few weeks away!

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..

Special Guest

William Westbrook

Topics

Ok Sim Community, Time To Help Out

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ENASCAR Series News

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https://x.com/WBeSports_/status/1879609724976628192

https://x.com/VegasInferno/status/1879629292390478224

One Of These Things Does Not Belong

https://twitter.com/brendanhyprstar/status/1877222468017963453

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Funniest Rage Quit

https://twitter.com/daletanhardt/status/1877857431679623268

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0.000 Photo Finish

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1877407874252501094

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1877407874252501094

Season 1 2025 Contests

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/71976/season-1-2025-contests/p1

The Most Dangerous Rookie Car?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73425/this-is-probably-the-most-dangerous-rookie-car-on-the-service-yeah

Daytona Turn 1 – Unrealistic Entry

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73419/unrealistic-t1-line-at-dayto

Avoid Sim Racing Burnout

  1. Take a break and get outside.
  2. Avoid running the same races over and over again.
  3. Include other fun games like simcades versus simulations.

IMSA Esports Finally At Daytona

https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1878522668754092309

https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1878522668754092309

https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1878544608201785620?s=61&t=0BM5wP7L2MgLDooBGnAC1Q

https://twitter.com/vcoesports/status/1878544608201785620?s=61&t=0BM5wP7L2MgLDooBGnAC1Q

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1878837012297580984

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1878837012297580984

https://www.iracing.com/imsa-esports-global-championship-concludes-at-daytona-5-williams-esports-chillblast-171-team-redline-win-respective-class-titles/

How Did Your ROAR Go?

Should Special Events Get An Additional Time Slot?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73320/sunday-timeslots-for-series-like-mpc-roar-imsa-enduro-eastern-standard-time#latest

iRacing Special Events Promo

Scanning Bowman Gray But Not For Who You Think

https://www.facebook.com/703599752/posts/10161584147719753/

Search For The Next Racing Prodigy

North America Sim Expo 2025

Come Race With Us!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZBLNN7zgwsD6QeFytxKuQLIWVXZ5P1eA74i1TyffGAEn4Sg/viewform

Yearlong Dirt Super LM And 410 Sprint Cars

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-announces-yearlong-dirt-super-late-model-and-410-sprint-car-tours

Daytona 24

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/72780/2025-daytona-24h-presented-by-vco

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-january-14-20-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Full Rig Build

RTX 5090 – First Look

Project DIGITS?

https://twitter.com/EHuanglu/status/1876495323302166822

Discover The Art Of Racing

VRS GT-2 Cockpit

https://twitter.com/EHuanglu/status/1876495323302166822

Simagic Neo X Hub

More Simagic Active Pedal Information

This Is A Steal

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SimRacingMarket/permalink/3870125906591809/

7.1.2 Surround Sound

Turn The Game Filters Off

Simdid DV480 DDU

Spend Brads Money

https://twitter.com/maxpapis/status/1879504557119873377

https://twitter.com/maxpapis/status/1879504557119873377

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Official Series

GT4

  • Donnie S – Daytona and Mugello Results

IMSA

  • Brad W – P6 (GTD-Daytona) Had a horrible qualifying and figured I was doomed. It was typical Daytona on the first lap. Avoided too many spinning cars and was up in the top 10 coming out of the infield only to be spun coming on to the banking. The eyes turned red and I was driving like a mad man. Played the pit strategy right, took just enough fuel to finish and jumped a bunch of cars. Was happy at the end but know I have a better finish in the car.

GT Sprint Simucube Series

  • William W – 1/11 P4. Started P7 finish P4. Didn’t feel like I was as fast as some that I finished ahead of, but kept it clean and good pitstop. 

GT Endurance Series

  • William W – P26 Qualified horrible, started P52, getting used to porsche, up to P40 by lap 3 then got dumped in the horseshoe. Mostly incident free after that to finish P26, but could have been better.

Roar Before the 24

  • William W – P11. Self sabotage. First time driving the AMG in months. No practice. Started middle pack, got black flag on lap 3 for not clearing a slow down. Recovered nicely, but could have been much better without the self inflicted wounds. 
  • Brad W – P5 (GT4) What a fun race! Did not have a great qualifying lap but in race trim the car was great. Ran multiple people down making my way to the front to grab p5 by inches at the line.

League / Hosted Races

Leagues

  • Westbrook’s GTP/GT3 League – Daytona Week P3. Could have been P2 but got some damage pushing out of turn 5. Glad to hold onto P3 after that. Was a rather sloppy race than normal as far as driving standards are concerned in this league. 

Majors Series

  • Brad W P17 (GTD-Majors2.4) Started on pole but lost P1 because of iRacing multiclass starting issues. Lap one a safety car was called and half the field did not “hear” it. Lost 4 spots for cars passing under yellow. They were not penalized but that rant is over. Drove back up to p2 before first stop, cand came out and the car was a mess. I spun multiple times, used my fast repair and spun multiple times again. Could not figure out what was wrong until I parked it. Went to the garage and saw I had put on Wet tires. I had a button on my wheel mapped to change compounds and I somehow hit it during the first stint. I threw this one away. Needless to say, that mapping is now moved to the button box.
  • David P4 – Was comfortably in third, a lapped GTP dove bomb a gt3, the gt3 freaked out and spun into me.

Hosted- 

  • Ellis –supercars at Michigan Chris McGuire hosted finished P4
    • At Charlotte legend’s oval legend cars and radical SR8. Started in the back finish P8.
    • Supercars in Michigan wrecked out
    • All in the car at Pocono started at 12 finish P4
    • Lotus 49 and star Mazda at Pocono Road course start at P 12 finished p seven
    • BMW M2 at lime rock started P3 finish. P2 had a good battle getting around second to take that V2 nice clean pass.
    • Then Pole  position – let every lap no one challenge me, pulled away to almost 7 second gap to win the race career win number 105
    • Then fifth finished second
    • Then started fifth and won the race winner winner chicken dinner number 106
  • Westbrook – Sim Racing for the Kids. This was technically before last week’s show, but I’d like to talk about it if we have time. Great time for a great cause. Both of our teams had a fantastic time. We placed P12 after a bit of a slip in qualifying. Super clean race for our end. Sister team P2

Polar Series – Legacy Kentucky

  • Mike – P18
  • David Hall – P15, accidentally started from pits, and thus couldn’t make it on 1 stop

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

TITLE

  1. Should I wait for the RTX 11090?

Description

On today’s show we sit down with new team member, William Westbrook, find out which drivers signed with which Coke Series teams, preview the iRacing Daytona 24, check out new hardware from MOZA, some very unique sim rigs and your next chance to race with us is only a few weeks away!

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – twitter.com/MikeDeanEllis

David Hall – www.twitch.tv/mixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus – www.twitch.tv/froozenkaktus

Brian Maccubbin – www.twitch.tv/MacRubbinsRacin

Kyle Pendygraft – twitter.com/LoudPedalGaming

Tony Rochette – twitter.com/TonyRochette

Tom Dreiling – 

Donnie Spiker – twitter.com/Spikerman19

Bobby Jonas –

MacKenzie Stevens – https://twitter.com/MackStevens48

Justin Pearson – https://twitter.com/big7bang_

John Kerley –

Brad Wrenn – https://twitter.com/bradwrenn

Links:

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Episode 0469

1/23/2024 – Purrfect Race – Episode 0469

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Brought to you by:

Opening Audio Clip -“Your listening to the iRacers Lounge Podcast where we discuss everything iRacing, in a casual setting, enjoy.”`

READ THIS AT THE TOP OF EACH SHOW!!! 

  • Welcome to the iRacer’s Lounge, I am your host “XXX”. iRacer’s Lounge is a podcast for the iRacer, where we talk all things iRacing in a casual setting.
  • Joining me are the usual characters, ———— 

Show Introduction

On today’s show we will recap our Daytona 24 weekend, discuss more stewarding drama, see how close Max thinks sim racing is to reality, a content update for NASCAR ’25, does sim racing have a blind spot? See what new hardware MOZA has introduced and where is the ENASCAR 2025 roster information?

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..

Special Guest

Bryant Lucas

General Questions:

  1. What brought you to iRacing and how did you hear about it?
  2. Which series do you normally run?                
  3. What type of hardware do you use? (Wheels, Pedals, ect.)
  4. Software
    1. What gear did you use when you first started iRacing?
  5. Do you run Monitors or VR?
    1. How many monitors?
    2. What VR headset are you running?
  6. Are you part of a team?  
  7. Do you participate in any leagues or is it just official racing? 
  8. What is your most memorable iRacing moment? 

Topics

Was The Appeal Ruling Correct?

https://twitter.com/mikedeanellis/status/1880378866273071332

300k Subscribers

https://twitter.com/iRacingMyers/status/1880756886724907110

A Podium Finish For Team iRLP

https://twitter.com/iRacersLounge/status/1881029676854022311

Turn 1…Lap 1

https://twitter.com/SteelHorseLive/status/1880659432675373231

Penalty Box…Twice

https://twitter.com/SCUDERIAFEMBOY/status/1880767848672629176

Un-CrashGate

https://twitter.com/D1ckTr1ckle/status/1880967682146853364

Grid-and-Go.com eSports are the new GTP winners of the iRacing Daytona 24, powered by VCO, following post-race penalties. Congratulations!

Ferrari disqualified from iRacing Daytona 24, Grid-and-Go win

“These ‘Motion’ Rigs, They Are Slower”

https://twitter.com/TeamRedlineSim/status/1880737443076567320

More Lap 1 Heroes

https://www.facebook.com/groups/258981315367421/permalink/1290689128863296/

Daytona 24 By The Numbers

23,397 iRacers entered the iRacing Daytona 24 over the weekend, making it the largest sim racing event in the world!

You all showed up to Daytona and drove a combined 2,915,614 laps for a total of 89,444 hours of racing!

Is This A Problem?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73724/daytona-24-team-behavior

Daytona 24 Feedback

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73756/daytona-24-feedback

Not Sure I Want A Re-scan

https://twitter.com/cytrusf1/status/1881671501075865951

ENASCAR Media Day

Wobbly Wipers Wanted

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73659/many-of-us-are-missing-out-on-the-best-feature-of-the-s1-2025-build-wobbly-windshield-wipers

Should iRacing Meet His Demands?

NASCAR 25 Information

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFIkIgYxn8n

Sim Racing’s Blind Spot

Is It Time To Fix The Fixed Setups?

https://twitter.com/MGuest33/status/1881447672470818945

IMSA Time Attack Is Back

Come Race With The Lounge

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZBLNN7zgwsD6QeFytxKuQLIWVXZ5P1eA74i1TyffGAEn4Sg/viewform

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-january-21-27-2025/

Podcast Housekeeping

Leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform to make it easier for more listeners to find the podcast. Mention the podcast to your fellow drivers so they don’t miss out, we would appreciate it.

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Start The PC From Your Phone

Impressive Combo Or Overkill?

Ascher F64 V3: Almost Perfect

PurrPRO Pedals Open For Pre-order

MA-24 Light Mount Available

MOZA DDU

New MOZA FSR2 Wheel

Keep Your Rig Neat And Organized

Sim Formula Europe Walk Through

4090 Performance for $549?

Muzzle That Gamer!

AI Gamer Copilot

BDH H1SQ Shifter Review

Spend Brad’s Money…Round 2

How Many?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73713/windows-11-showing-54-instances-of-my-monitors-under-audio-inputs

Simutec’s SDU-3-5″ Display

https://www.simutec.co.uk/product-page/sdu3-5-display

MOZA’s DDU

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Official Series

24 hours of Daytona – 

  • Ellis– P3 I got in the car with about six hours left. We were already in P3 at that point and had a very uneventful race in the fog. Stay dry the whole time I ran two double stents took a break and then another double stent.
  • Chris – P15: I had a great experience all week. It was fun to get practice and to bond with teammates. I got to race in the rain for the first time at 1am est to 4am and absolutely loved it. I wanted to bring the car back with 0x added but had two fender benders. This is my second 24, first finish, and I can’t wait until next year. Proud of the resiliency of this group. 
  • William- P3. GRR team of 4. Did the 7AM EST timeslot. Started P15, was P6 by the time I got in the car for my first stint. Team of 4 did double stints, 1 guy couldn’t race during day, one at night. Pretty clean race overall. Got punted off in the horseshoe early on but no damage and not much spot lost. Started raining in my second stint, rained for a couple hours then dried. Then rained again all night long. We did fine in the rain, and I understand its a part of racing, but kinda disappointed in the amount when i’ve talked to other timeslots that didn’t have any at all. We were P2 at one point chasing the leaders, but had a slight mishap with the inside pit wall about 16 hours in. 6 min repairs, dropped to 6 but recovered to podium P3.
  • Tyler – P15 in class and P25 overall. Spent a week practicing for this event only for half of it to be wet. Disappointed by the weather forecast but had a great time with the GT3 team. Rain and multi class racing was a major challenge but the best 24 yet. I’m ready for the next one. 
  • Brad – P15 Can’t say enough about the team’s effort this past weekend. The race did not go the way that we planned. Almost half was in the rain (on a 25% forecast). The guys stepped it up and overcame many challenges. Did we make mistakes? Yes, did we learn? Yes and we will be better prepared for the next one.

GT4

  • Donnie S – GT4 Challenge Barcelona – P6 and P17  GT4/LMP3 Barcelona – P7 and 3

M2

  • Ellis– P qualified P4 finish P2 made a couple mistake mistakes. I probably could’ve won it.
    • Qualified second
    • New track Winton motor raceway.  Qualified third got dumped in the first turn on the first lap fell back to the end and finish P 10.
    • X-ray qualified for

IMSA

  • Brad W – P11 (GTD-Nurburgring) Last car in top split. I like this track but I can’t find speed here. I’m normally 1-1.5 off the fast guys but this weeks it’s closer to 3 seconds. Honestly a p11 was better than what I deserved.
  • William W- P9 Daytona day after 24 and the only race I did this week besides the 24. Only car under 2.3K in this field. Hard race but rewarding keeping pace with with 2.6k drivers. Higher split helped as I was able to get my race pace down to the low to mid 44s, was only able to get to that in qualifying before.

League / Hosted Races

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

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  1. Purrfect Race

Description

On today’s show we will recap our Daytona 24 weekend, discuss more stewarding drama, see how close Max thinks sim racing is to reality, a content update for NASCAR ’25, does sim racing have a blind spot? See what new hardware MOZA has introduced and where is the ENASCAR 2025 roster information?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – twitter.com/MikeDeanEllis

David Hall – www.twitch.tv/mixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus – www.twitch.tv/froozenkaktus

Brian Maccubbin – www.twitch.tv/MacRubbinsRacin

Kyle Pendygraft – twitter.com/LoudPedalGaming

Tony Rochette – twitter.com/TonyRochette

Tom Dreiling – 

Donnie Spiker – twitter.com/Spikerman19

Bobby Jonas –

MacKenzie Stevens – https://twitter.com/MackStevens48

Justin Pearson – https://twitter.com/big7bang_

John Kerley –

Brad Wrenn – https://twitter.com/bradwrenn

Links:

Facebook – www.facebook.com/iRacersLounge/

Twitter – twitter.com/iracerslounge

Instagram – instagram.com/iracersloungepodcast/ 

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Episode 0472

2/13/2025 – America’s Sim Gaming Expo – Episode 0472

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we sit down with Sim Gaming Expo coordinator Jorge Anzaldo for a preview of the September 2025 event, it’s Daytona 500 week and the kickoff of NiS 2025, should iRacing take different approach to Safety Rating, see who is Mr. 10,000, do you need skill to be successful at drafting tracks and is your sim rig ever really finished?

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..

TITLE SPONSOR READ:

Special Guest

Jorge Anzaldo

Topics

Nathan Brown Wins 2025 iRacers Lounge Clash

We want to give a big shout out of thanks to Fred from Spectrum OG for the PTT wheel button box that he donated for this event. If you are looking for a very functional, great quality at a tremendous value please check out his shop, Spectrum OG on Etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1581985657/nascar-style-push-to-talk-usb-button-box?click_key=d04be02bb42c4b2857132f6d900f943f71e87d10%3A1581985657&click_sum=ab5e6493&ref=shop_home_feat_1&frs=1

Mr. 10,000

How we was racing Late Models, and had heard from the Waltrip brothers about iRacing. So bought a used g27 wheel, and still have it today.

In the beginning it was for me to get used to the parameters of a big vehicle.

Helped him the most is the muscle memory, learning consistency.

Talked about his laptop with the g27, he could race on the road, in the hotel, etc…

So while he was at the snowball this year, he used iracing in the hotel, doing laps talking to the crew chief about the car…

Made friends with TJ, and TJ kinda got him involved in the nascar funnel…

Iracing is about getting a good group around you, a community, you go on there to hang with your buddys, its not always about turning laps…

Iracing is more difficult as you can only ‘see’ the car getting loose/tight, while in real racing you feel it in your seat… U can almost see yourself get loose before you feel it, with the iracing realling training you on the seeing the car….

Got to 10000 irating, on 3 accounts….

HOT! iRacing Swag!

https://twitter.com/imbracewear/status/1888004628333101363

This Still?

https://twitter.com/AJRGaming_/status/1887891058853400579

If Safety Rating Was Money

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/637893#Comment_637893

Job Grabs First Win Of The Season

https://www.iracing.com/jordan-caruso-sebastian-job-split-porsche-tag-heuer-esports-supercup-wins-in-misty-mugello-debut/

Listener Feedback: Should SR Be Related To iR?

To whom it may concern, I have been a faithful listener of the podcast for several years and in listening to the many conversations about the frustration of being involved in way to many accidents, I can’t help but think about an idea I had a few years back now to reduce accidents.

I happen to know many really good drivers that may have ony a 2000 to 3000 IR but a 4.5 or higher SR, and quit officials only to participate in either hosted, or league racing. I tend to be one of those. Actually I have always maintained a SR in the mid fours in both oval and road but in all sincerity I think the last 7 or so official races I ran, I was taken out in about 6 of them no fault of my own. I have also found the most unsafe area to qualify is mid-pack. There always seems to be that one guy that goes for the win in the first turn. 

In my opinion, the most unrealistic aspect to sim racing, is the high percentage of wrecks. As we all know the one thing sim racing cannot replicate is the fear of bodily injury or worse, and the repercussions of very expensive car repair and damage.

So my idea would be to try and equalize this, by having IR more related to and incorporated with SR. So my thought is why not have drivers receive a higher percentage of IR points based on their SR. 

So for example, if you you have a 4.5 or higher SR,  a percentage could be attached to the IR accordingly. Say for every .5 or whatever number determined a driver would receive say a 5% bonus to the IR score.

The numbers could be determined however but the premise is a 2.0 safety rated driver would essentially be punished and the 5.0 driver rewarded.

Lets face it. In real life if we wrecked as much as in the sim world, a high percentage of people would either lose their careers or worse, their lives.  I”m also of the opinion that some sim racers hold much pride in SR as some do IR.

Well that’s my thoughts. I”d really like for Brad Wrenn’s to hear my thoughts and get his opinion on this. I hear so much frustration in his voice when sharing his race results from sloppy driving and poor etiquette. I sympathize. I don’t suspect this is what occurred in his real life racing experience.  

Please don’t share my name if discussed

Thank You, Anonymous

ENASCAR Post Race Press

Wilson Grabs Season Opener At Daytona

https://www.iracing.com/steven-wilson-breaks-through-for-elusive-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-victory-at-daytona

“Holy SOF Batman!”

https://twitter.com/BriarLaPradd/status/1889110505945550969

A View From The Stands

Is It Luck Or Skill?

Sim Gaming Expo

https://simgamingexpo.com/

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https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/74746/2025-iracing-nuerburgring-endurance-championship

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https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/74750/creventic-endurance-series-returns-for-five-race-2025-season/p1

IndyCar-Open_2025Season2_Schedule.jpg

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/74745/indycar-iracing-series-2025-schedule#latest

Bathurst 12 Hour 5x3 Social.jpg

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/74734/iracing-presents-the-12-hours-of-bathurst-presented-by-rss

Daytona 500

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/18014/nis-fixed-and-open-race-times/p1

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-unveils-busy-slate-of-yearlong-sports-car-formula-car-series-for-2025

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-unveils-busy-slate-of-yearlong-sports-car-formula-car-series-for-2025

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-february-11-17-2025

Podcast Housekeeping

Leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform to make it easier for more listeners to find the podcast. Mention the podcast to your fellow drivers so they don’t miss out, we would appreciate it.

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Is This How Real Drivers Work Out?

Spend Mike’s Money

Hmm…What Do I see?

Is It Ever Complete?

Is There A Problem?

AdminBoxx

https://www.adminboxx.com

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Wednesday open -NiS – Daytona

  • Mike- P had a good race going was running third when the guy behind me ran into me and knocked me down through the grass and then I lost the pack and then shortly after a lapper was pushing me in was scrubbing, left and right on my bumper and basically turned me seven minutes optional I’ve done
  • David – P wrecked, dominate car, formed an alliance within the race and we had a 3 car trio pulling away from the pack.  Caution bunches back up,  and car who doesn’t know how to draft misses the line then comes right back down on me.  Then the fuck tard says I need to get my iRating up.
  • Justin – P
  • Tony – P16 welp here we are new year, new season same ole NiS fun. Started about 9th. stayed out of the way most of the race. About 150 laps in running P8 and coming in for a GF stop When 2 cars behind me not pitting wreck and somehow hit me giving me a unsafe pit entry so had to serve the 40 second penalty while under green. Couldnt make up the 2 laps down. Racing was actually clean for most part for a 1.8k split. Only 6 cautions and a 30 lap run at the end. This is race 1 of 6 il be running this week. NiS Is back and catch me on Tik Tok Live when im racing its fun. 
  • Kyle – P6 started P25 and just hung out in the back. Was having technical issues with my throttle and had to keep resetting my throttle map every couple of laps. Finally about half way I marched my way to the front and took the lead for 9 laps until a green flag run came out and cycled back a few spots due to a lapper who wanted to block the whole track. Stayed in the top 10 to bring it home P6
  • Chris – P 4. I kept the Waldron’s Furniture, iRacers Lounge, Sim Wraps, Premier Racing Set-Ups Chevy clean for most of the race as some big incidents thinned out the field. My goal was to stay safe until the final fuel run. Then it was balls to the wall. The draft had me moving both forward and backward, but I managed to charge from 11th to 4th in the final lap. You can see it in my eyes – I’m laser-focused and determined to win the Daytona 500 this week.
  • Brad- P28. Really had a good race going. The racing was really tame for the first half of the race. It looked like fuel was going to come into play. However, a yellow around lap 115 had us all pit. Coming back to the green in the top 10 when we lost power at the house. Thursday night and we still have no power. Oh well, call this one an engine gremlin.
  • Donnie – DNF.  Ran top 8 the whole race, good pit stops. Finally taken out by the lobby closer.  I’ll try again Sunday morning.
  • Tyler – P lost internet

Thursday Open- NiS – Daytona

  • Mike- P dnf – green flag stop around halfway running 4th, got into hot to pitroad and slammed into the wall
  • David – P wrecked out, a pit in mistake getting loose on entry to put me where I was in the wrong mix, but the wreck was just bystnder standard
  • Tony – P ass rammed welp got my pole on, led first 40 laps til GF stops. About half way was caught a lap down when caution came out when i was pitting. Was trying to stay clean in the lucky dog when i just got total slammed when i was checking up for car in front. Sent to the wall hood a flapping. Too much damage to finish.

Official Series

Draft Master

  • Ellis -Daytona. Started ninth was leading laps and upfront in the mix coming to the end. I was pushing a guy on the outside, but I ended up getting wrecked and finishing P6.  

A Open

  • Mike. P22- was all over the place most of the race but at the end I was like five or six back on the bottom lane guy tried to shove it underneath me and turned me into Pitt Road and I ran through Pitt Road to get to the start finish line so it scored me one lap down in P 22. Fixed. 
  • Mike- Open -Man, last night I was in position to win. It was the White. I’m on the bottom three back the outside Lane is coming. I move up to block. I see him going higher like they’re gonna go around me. I don’t continue or finish the block and they go around me and I ended up fourth.

IMSA

  • Brad W – P5 (GTD-Monza) Finally was able to finish one. Started mid pack but was somewhat consistent and picked them off over the race. Not my best track but glad to get away with a top 5 after two DNFs.

League / Hosted Races

Hosted- 

  • Ellis – Saturday night, The Clash and hosted special thanks to Chris Waldron for putting on the event and our winner. Michael takes on the wind and gets the push to talk button.  Refill the room with 40 people had a pretty good event and I appreciate everyone coming out.
    • 87 at Talladega finish the 11th

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

TITLE

  1. America’s Sim Gaming Expo

Description

On today’s show we sit down with Sim Gaming Expo coordinator Jorge Anzaldo for a preview of the September 2025 event, it’s Daytona 500 week and the kickoff of NiS 2025, should iRacing take different approach to Safety Rating, see who is Mr. 10,000, do you need skill to be successful at drafting tracks and is your sim rig ever really finished?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

Sponsors: 

Hosts:

Mike Ellis – twitter.com/MikeDeanEllis

David Hall – www.twitch.tv/mixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus – www.twitch.tv/froozenkaktus

Brian Maccubbin – www.twitch.tv/MacRubbinsRacin

Kyle Pendygraft – twitter.com/LoudPedalGaming

Tony Rochette – twitter.com/TonyRochette

Tom Dreiling – 

Donnie Spiker – twitter.com/Spikerman19

Bobby Jonas –

MacKenzie Stevens – https://twitter.com/MackStevens48

Justin Pearson – https://twitter.com/big7bang_

John Kerley –

Brad Wrenn – https://twitter.com/bradwrenn

Links:

Facebook – www.facebook.com/iRacersLounge/

Twitter – twitter.com/iracerslounge

Instagram – instagram.com/iracersloungepodcast/ 

Web (Show Notes) – iracerslounge.com/

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Episode 0470

1/30/2025 – Holidays Aint For Everyone – Episode 0470

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show we review the Coke Series Clash, see more drama from Max, more to sim to reality, see which sim racing company came to the aid of an iRacer, should you buy a throttle active pedal and discuss the iRacing 2025 series surprises that were announced this week.

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..

Topics

Daytona 24 In Slow Motion

NiS All Time Stats

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73458/all-time-stats-per-series

Sim Racer Gets Help From Mardon PC

2025 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Roster

https://www.iracing.com/2025-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-roster-confirmed-following-2025-free-agency

Salas Going Xfinity Series Racing In 2025

“I’ve said it before and I stand by this statement, but I don’t believe I’d be anywhere close to where I am now – and certainly not at the Xfinity Series level – without the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series,” Salas told Motorsports Hotspot on eNASCAR Media Day. “Growing up on the West Coast, I felt like I was disconnected from the actual NASCAR scene out east, but I built connections, made friends that work in the industry, and they were able to get me the connection to go race a pro late model that really got this whole journey going.”

https://athlonsports.com/racing/nascar/vicente-salas-dream-alpha-prime-racing

https://twitter.com/RaceFaceDigital/status/1882823346016149655

eNASCAR Clash At Daytona=Wild Finish

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1884425401260179678

https://www.iracing.com/parker-white-survives-chaos-in-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-clash-at-daytona

Netcode Got Him!

https://twitter.com/MGuest33/status/1884431739566625156

More Max Drama

https://twitter.com/verstappenews/status/1884587740412416

More Max Drama, Round 2

https://twitter.com/iRacing/status/1884798275116478467

iRacing Hidden Features

0:00 – Intro
0:19 – Private Free Practice
1:49 – Join Two Races
3:42 – Spotting Legends
4:53 – Test Drive Shortcut
6:31 – Low Fuel Alert
7:13 – Active Reset Quirk
8:45 – Virtual Mirror
10:22 – Driver Position
13:08 – iRacing Logo
14:03 – Spectate
15:29 – Rotate w Veloc
16:26 – Auto Text

Rockingham Re-Scan Needed

https://twitter.com/twade405/status/1884649267756777658

2025 Porsche TAG Heuer Drivers And Schedule Released

https://www.iracing.com/2025-porsche-tag-heuer-esports-supercup-30-driver-roster-seven-race-schedule-released

Yearlong Modified And Super Late Model Tours

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-announces-yearlong-super-late-model-and-nascar-modified-tours

Come Race With The Lounge

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZBLNN7zgwsD6QeFytxKuQLIWVXZ5P1eA74i1TyffGAEn4Sg/viewform

Dale Jr Driven To Give 400

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73199/dale-jrs-drive-to-give-400

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-january-28-february-3-2025

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Check Your Windows Update

https://twitter.com/iRacingSupport/status/1882830317972799635

Throttle Assist = Cheating?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/73889/so-obvious-some-of-these-guys-are-using-throttle-assist

Great Resource

https://www.tnutz.com/product-category/sim-racing-solutions

Active Throttle, Why?

Sim-Lab’s New Secret Chip

Ford GT3 Wheel = Real Thing

Vendor Follow Through

Spectrum OG is the Etsy shop that Justin and Brad purchased their NASCAR style PTT button boxes from. Justin had a wire failure and the owner stepped up…big time.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SpectrumOG?ref=own_favorite_shops_page

Early Bird Gets The…

Comes With Pro 1 Traction Loss

Must Be Listeners To The Show

More Updates For Marvin’s Awesome iRacing App

I am not sure if you guys have seen this, but a clever programmer has come up with a cool app that opens iRacing 360hz to more bases and offers some unique setting options.  Main one being the ability to scale the “FFB Detail” higher without having to increase the overall FFB Force.  He has effectively separated the detail and main force levels via 2 channels (AC/DC).

He’s quickly implementing changes to improve the performance and include community suggestions.  The bit I have tested shows good promise.  Some other users are also very impressed with the clarity of FFB signal and adjustability.

The main issue I see now (and suffer from myself) is that Simagic bases are not functioning properly with the app.  But all other brands I have seen mentioned (usual suspects) are working well.  The dev says he will be working to address the Simagic issue when he can visit a friend with one of them.

Also interesting is that David Tucker from iRacing’s programming team has been chatting with the dev and seems to appreciate the direction of the project.  Anyway, may still be a ways out from ultimate refinement but it is a simple app to set up and test for yourself.

His main site:

– https://herboldracing.com/

iRacing Forum Thread:

– https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/72467/marvins-awesome-iracing-app—

Thanks,

Chad McNeese

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Official Series

FIA F4 Americas 

  • Mike – P17- qualify at 18th and top split finish 17th with zero incidents at Tsukuba.. I was here for SR. 

M2

  • Ellis– P6 qualified third but ran off into the grass on my own lap. One fell back to eight recovered to finish P6.
    • We switched over to circuit de Lebanon. I qualified 11th out of 12 and top split got my way up to finish. P6 had a great battle for six with a guy and it was a little rough and I ended up getting the bump and run on the final corner to take the spot Great racing
    • Qualified fifth finish P2 great run, but I didn’t have anything for the leader. He was way faster than me.  

A Open

  • Chris W – P 6. Took a bit to learn the set up. I quit shifting and took off. Late race caution I stayed out on tires 10 laps old. Lead some laps and bright it home P6. 

IMSA

  • Brad W – P6 (GTD-Road America) Probably one of my favorite circuits. Started p9 and was able to gain a few spots in the early laps. As large as this place is, traffic can still be an issue. I could gain on cars ahead until being passed. Had a very good pitstop and jump p6 and was able to hold him off till the finish.

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing GTP/GT3 League

  • William W –  P2. Road America Week. Qualified P2, fell to P3 on first lap with bad off track. Rode in P3 for a long time, jumped to P2 at the pitstop. With 20 min to go spun the car coming out of the final corner got some aero damage and got passed by p3. P1 got taken out with about 15 to go trying to pass a lapped car. Could have had the win if not for the spin, but will take P2. Probably only race this week. 

Polar Series – Legacy Michigan

  • David Hall – P14 race length 100laps, fuel window 50 laps, = spend whole race racing the fuel tank instead of cars.

Hosted- 

  • Ellis –old IndyCar at Michigan got wrecked out
    • GEN five at Talladega finished P2 almost one  it
    • Supercars at Michigan. Wrecked out.
    • Mini stocks at Bristol qualified 45 out of 60 finish
    • GEN five at Talladega. Qualified 41st at a 54.
    • Sprint car pavement at Rockingham finished P2
    • 87 at Talladega P4 great race

Final Thoughts

Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

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  1. Holidays Aint For Everyone

Description

On today’s show we review the Coke Series Clash, see more drama from Max, more to sim to reality, see which sim racing company came to the aid of an iRacer, should you buy a throttle active pedal and discuss the iRacing 2025 series surprises that were announced this week.

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

iRacers Lounge Podcast is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, Podbean, Spreaker, Podbay, PodFanatic, Overcast, Amazon, and other podcast players. 

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Hosts:

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David Hall – www.twitch.tv/mixmage

Greg Hecktus – twitter.com/froozenkaktus – www.twitch.tv/froozenkaktus

Brian Maccubbin – www.twitch.tv/MacRubbinsRacin

Kyle Pendygraft – twitter.com/LoudPedalGaming

Tony Rochette – twitter.com/TonyRochette

Tom Dreiling – 

Donnie Spiker – twitter.com/Spikerman19

Bobby Jonas –

MacKenzie Stevens – https://twitter.com/MackStevens48

Justin Pearson – https://twitter.com/big7bang_

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Brad Wrenn – https://twitter.com/bradwrenn

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