6/19/2025 – Divisional Splits – Episode 0490
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Show Introduction
On today’s show we’ll cover some growing concerns after the Season 3 build, see if these top 7 races are on your list, more NASCAR 25 information has dropped, help elevate your cable management, help you if your MOZA wheel base has started vibrating and hopefully answer two questions; What does the future of sim racing look like? and Does Safety Rating even matter?
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Topics
Is The 296 The New King?
2025 Season 3 Patch 1 Release Notes
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/80739/2025-season-3-patch-1-release-notes-2025-06-12-02
Working On Period Correct Restarts
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/689817#Comment_689817
2025 Season 3 Contest Time
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/80751/season-03-2025-contests/p1
Does Safety Rating Mean Anything?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/80651/getting-to-d-0-0-safety-rating-should-mean-something/p1
2025 Season 3 Video Development Blog
Gen 4 Physics Issues?
https://x.com/MGuest33/status/1934657339778383979
https://x.com/ChrisOverland47/status/1934783674236424393
Are These On Your List For Season 3?
- GT3s At Daytona
- Major’s 24
- 6 Hours of The Glen
- Spa 24 Hours
- IMSA at Daytona
- Portimao 1000
- Indy 6HR
More Rear Air Grief
https://x.com/jackmace07/status/1933353291598987500
How Many?
NASCAR 25 News
https://x.com/MikeStrawMedia/status/1933249107545510143
Is The Gen 4 The Craziest Car In iRacing?
iRacing 2025 Season 2 Is Complete
https://x.com/iRacing/status/1934985273508512024
Yes, We Are All Geeks
https://simracelife.com/products/sim-racing-geek-t-shirt
Issues That Needed To Be Sorted Out?
Wilson Makes It Two In A Row
https://x.com/eRacr_gg/status/1935438732594991474
New Tires Worth The Hype?
What Does The Future Of Sim Racing Look Like?
Are Division Splits Getting Worse?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/80998/divisions-have-just-got-worse-for-higher-iratings
Sim Gaming Expo
Use code IRLP10 to save 10% off tickets
The Majors 24
https://majorsseries.com/event/majors-242025
iRacing Race For The Cure
https://www.iracing.com/iracing-and-national-ms-society-reunite-for-race-for-the-cure-on-august-13
Six Hours Of The Glen
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/81037/2025-iracing-watkins-glen-6-hour-presented-by-vco
iRacing Weekly Tune In
https://www.iracing.com/iracing-weekly-tune-in-esports-community-events-june-19th-25th/
This Week In iRacing
https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-june-17-june-23-2025
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Fantasy
Hardware/Software
How Much?
https://www.advancedsimracing.com/products/precision-sim-engineering-gt-fx-steering-wheel
Elevate Your Cable Management
Is Quad Views A Game Change?
SimPro Manager Update
Asetek 360 Hz Hotfix
MOZA’s M Booster In Action With ABS
Car Motor Vibration On MOZA Wheel After Update?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/80374/car-motor-vibration-on-moza-ffb-after-update/p1
Results
NASCAR iRacing Series
Wednesday Open -NiS – Pocono
- David – P wrecked, running well, but you can’t pass here, its just use pit strategy, so at some point i had to be back with the squirrels and i got squirreled
- Brad- P5 Started p15 and hung around the top for the first half of the race. Way too many yellows but waiting till lap 35 to pit only to get dropped from the server during the cycle, lost a lap. Managed to get back in but lost a lap and then was collected in a wreck and had almost 3 minutes of damage to fix. Was able to get all but 45 seconds fixed and get back on the lead lap. Tried to gain some track position and stayed out under a yellow but would spin off T2 from the 5th spot. Went back to p16 and was able to avoid the carnage over the next 15 laps, 3 GWC to come home with a P5. (15 yellows and 47 caution laps) WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS!
Thursday Open- NiS – Pocono
- Mike- P 20 had a pretty good run gone. I started in the pets and stayed in the back the first half the race basically but still got caught up in incident inside three minutes on 14 minutes on another just rode around and finished.
- David – P 8, can only gain positions by strategy and restarts, its really just like the real thing now. Used strategy to get up to p3. Got caught in a leader wrecking, made it back up again with strategy to p8 and pretty much held that. This isn’t racing.
- Justin – P4 top split
- Bobby – Pwrecked
Official Series
Gen 4
- Ellis –car 20 out of 25 first race of the week. Talladega draft Masters definitely less horsepower in this package and I got wrecked out pretty bad running up the middle in a three wide four deep with a massive check up.
- Then onto the regular series at Charlotte. Ran the tires off way too hard in the first run. Second run was a lot more gentle got up to run in as high as P5. Then I killed the wall but save the car. It fell back to 14th ended up finishing P 14 out of 28.
- Next night ran Talladega again, ended up wrecked out
- Then to Charlotte had a good run going but got wrecked out was able to finish though P 14
- Next night, Talladega DraftMaster car 21 top split out of 24. Finished P2.
- Then Charlotte ended up P5 great run. I was involved in three different cautions, but they were all racing incidents. 12 incidents.
A Open
- Brad W – P17 Started p10 and ran in the front all race. Pitted around lap 25 and was good to go from there. Was running p8 on GWC when the car ahead started to loose it out of T1. I tried to check up but could not avoid him. Caught up and finished p17. (10 yellows and 31 laps under caution.) DO WE SEE A PATTERN HERE?
League / Hosted Races
Hosted-
- Ellis – Gen 4 @Richmond qualified 12 out of 21
- Gen 4 at Dover qualifying 13 out of 20
Final Thoughts
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On today’s show we’ll cover some growing concerns after the Season 3 build, see if these top 7 races are on your list, more NASCAR 25 information has dropped, help elevate your cable management, help you if your MOZA wheel base has started vibrating and hopefully answer two questions; What does the future of sim racing look like? and Does Safety Rating even matter?
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