7/10/2025 – iRacing Vandals – Episode 0492
iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics
Show Introduction
On today’s show we will jump into a ton of stories following our week off for the holiday. What does a current professional GT3 driver think of the new tire model, get you up to speed on two recent updates, see what two pro drivers are using for race prep, new chassis from Advance Sim Racing, is the Moza mBooster for everyone and things are really ramping up for the Sim Gaming Expo!
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
Draft Too Strong In Gen 4?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/695729#Comment_695729
2025 Season 3 Patch 3 Hotfix 1 Release Notes
Sponsor Gone?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/80725/racers-for-christ-sponsorship-decals
GT3 Driver Morad Breaks Down The New Tire Model
Drivers Doing Filming For NASCAR 25
https://x.com/tymajeski/status/1939714392641208368?s=43
https://x.com/NoahGragson/status/1940409131258532070
https://x.com/sammysmithss/status/1940432905127559512?s=43
6Hrs Of The Glen: By The Numbers
https://x.com/iracing/status/1940070702524096590?s=43
2025 Season 3 Patch 3 Release Notes
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/81773/2025-season-3-patch-3-release-notes-2025-06-27-02
Heim Credits Road Course Success to iRacing
https://x.com/AlanCavanna/status/1940400206107078800
The Dark Side Of Sim Racing
Salas Victorious In Chicago
https://x.com/iracing/status/1940231143733027213?s=43
Now Hiring
https://x.com/thedrewadamson/status/1940834418048094452
Listen Up Community
Toyota’s Arizona Test Track
A Little To The Left, Now To The Right…
https://x.com/NASCARRegional/status/1942327343344934999
Prep Work For Sao Paulo
https://x.com/KelvinvdLinde/status/1942190534396666089
Training For Endurance Race With Simulator
BMW Tops Audi At The Ring
Summer Sale
https://x.com/iRacing/status/1939682625184301285
Looking For forum Posts From Staff?
https://devtrackir.herokuapp.com/
Sim Gaming Expo
Use code IRLP10 to save 10% off tickets
SGE Challenge Series By Simucube
iRacing Race For The Cure
https://www.iracing.com/iracing-and-national-ms-society-reunite-for-race-for-the-cure-on-august-13
Spa 24 Hour
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/81853/iracing-presents-the-2025-falken-tyre-24-hours-of-spa
AMG Mercedes Hot Laps Now Open
https://www.iracing.com/hot-laps-open-for-mercedes-amg-motorsport-virtual-championship
This Week In iRacing
https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-july-8-july-14-2025
https://www.iracing.com/iracing-weekly-tune-in-esports-community-events-july-10th-july-16th/
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Fantasy
Hardware/Software
Lovely Sim Racing Button Cap Set
Listener Suggestions and Feedback
| Jeff Wubker <milwaukeemile3@gmail.com> | Sun, Jun 22, 8:47 PM (12 hours ago) |  | |
| to me | |||
Did you guys already cover this? Man check out that pricing. I’d be surprised if this is successful, but I wish them well.
https://simracersgroup.com/pricing/
Also, I wanted to share this tool if anyone is interested. I purchased my computer through Lenovo Advantage.
I was concerned about having the Intel i9 and the 4080 super similar to Brad so the computer builder recommended this free app that monitors all of the internal hardware temps.. I haven’t had any issues.
https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.28.exe
Simagic NeoX Wheel
Is It Really Worth $600 More?
Summer Is Here
The Hammer F1 By Sim Design
P1X Ultimate Cockpit Is Back
https://sim-lab.eu/en-us/products/p1x-ultimate-simracing-cockpit-us
The New King?
Taking It On The Road
Advance Sim Racing Formula Chassis
https://www.advancedsimracing.com/collections/formula-chassis
Three Months Later With The MOZA mBooster
It’s So Cute
Definitely A Custom Build
New Stickers Coming Soon
Results
NASCAR iRacing Series
Friday Open – NiS – Echo Park Speedway
- Tony -P2 this stupid track was pretty much a conga line whole race
- Avoided some wrecked and avoided leaders wrecking coming to the checkered for a silver trophy
- Brad- P10 Led the second half of the race only to get right hooked from the lead with 8 laps to go. Protest was filed but it was the normal response, as expected.
Wednesday Open -NiS – Chicago
- Brad- P3 Ran in p2 for the bulk of the race but as tires were getting sketchy I spun on the last lap and gave up p2. Much better managed race compared to the A Open I did.
Thursday Open- NiS – Chicago
- Mike- P5– started his P8 had a pretty uneventful race. Had a lazy spin at one point with a little front end damage, but was able to keep it going only four cars on the lead lap and I finished P4. Second split out of three.
- Chris – P took the pole but wrecked out on lap one as the leader
Sunday Open- NiS – Chicago
- Greg -P7 type shit here dude 😛
Wednesday Open -NiS – Sonoma Raceway
- David – P10 Ran mostly mistake free, though on the front stretch i Knocked my front cowl off. 2 laps down, not fast just stayed on the track.
- Chris – Chris – P1 – Started practicing Sunday, studying the pros on YouTube, and shaved 5 seconds off my previous best time. Qualified P2. Dropped to P4 early, but battled back to the front. Took the lead before a mistake sent me off track and back to P2. On Lap 10, the leader slipped up—I pounced, retook the lead, and never looked back. Second career NiS win for the Waldron’s Furniture / iRacers Lounge / Premier Setups / Sim Wraps Chevy!
- Brad- P20 Started p23 and never really had pace like I did in practice. This was top split so take it for what it’s worth. Not my favorite track regardless of the car. One and done for me as this helped cover for my horrible luck in the Daytona 500.
Thursday Open- NiS – Sonoma Raceway
- Mike- P7-qualified 14th was able to keep it on the pavement basically raced fairly conservative and I was able to bring it home. P7 glad I took tires per Brad‘s instructions as the right front was down to 45%.
Official Series
6 Hrs at the Glen
- David & Tom. – p4, Wrecked out of first session on lap 8 unavoidable. Started 11a session, wrecked out on lap 6 in a 30 car pileup coming out of the boot. Realizing so many were taken out we stuck it out and came home 4th. Not enough time to work all the way back up though we had the same pace as the leaders
- Donnie, Justin, William & Brad – P9 – Had a rough start getting collected in a lap one wreck heading into the boot. Brad would spin the car getting into the bus stop after contact from the car he was passing. Would drive back up to p10 before turning the car over to Justin. Justin and Donnie did a great job keeping the car clean which allowed William to finish the race and drive from p12 to p9 over the last two hours of the race. Great job by everyone.
- Justin, Chris , and Mike. Wrecked out early.
FIA F4 Americas
- Mike – P started 20th out of 22 at spa and finish P 19 I kept breaking too late in the final backstretch. I finally figured it out.
M2
- Ellis– P ran at the nord slife in the BMW M2. Start 15 out of 27 and end up finishing P 10. Great run.
- Got wrecked out, running into another guy who wrecked
- Then finally qualified, so it started second. But missed the corner ended up in the grass ended up coming back across the track and wrecking hard. DNF.
- Qualified pole position. Got away from everybody and started a gap about halfway through the race. I had a 14 second lead when I made a mistake and went and killed the car meatball DNF.
Gen 4
- Ellis – P Sunday night Bristol had 36 entries, but they decide to split it into the two races why it doesn’t make sense. There should be one split. Worked my way forward to run as high as P3. There was a split tire strategy at the end. It wasn’t playing in my favor. I got wrecked for six place with eight minutes damage but it’s only two laps left. I was able to bring it home to finish P4. Great run.
- Tuesday, New Hampshire. A true test of the new break holy cow. I have to stand on this thing to stop it. Was running top 10 on a restart. I was P6 in the single file restart and the leader is all stacked up in front of me. I didn’t see any of that we were already going. I drove underneath the guy in front of me as the guy behind me drove underneath me too much damage we’re done.
- Tried the very next race qualified P6 out of 27. Got a big wreck at the halfway point but only about a minute and a half damage did not pit for fuel got into another incident later but was somehow able to finish P9.
- Ran again Wednesday night. Qualified 4 out of 20. Quickly got to pee too, but eventually finished P5 after a couple of minor incidents.
- Then switching to Homestead. Qualified nine out of 27. After a while, I was just riding two cars crash into each other down low on the front but the third one went high. I didn’t see the third one and me and another guy plowed him. DNF.
- Q 6 out of 30 cars .. red top five pretty much most of the race at the end didn’t really have anything for the top two but was happy to bring it home with a podium finished to finish P3
- Qualified nine out of 23 got my Way to the top three pretty quick there was a split strategy. I was conservative and got tires while making it a two stop race while others stayed out till well. Past halfway to make it a one stop race I ran it out of fuel near the end, leading up the most lapsstop for a splash and go, but all the people on the one stoppers got by me and I ended up coming out P9 and finishing P9.
A Open
- Brad W – P14 Chicago- Top split and drove up to p5 but was really over driving the car which led to a bunch of damage. The final was wall contact in turn 2 after a car spun ahead of me and I tried to avoid. Ended up getting 6 minutes of damage fixed and soldiered to a 14th place finish.
IMSA
- Brad W – P12 (Watkins-GT3) I’m just not very good at this track. Really struggling with qualifying on the cold tires. The Porshce is so unstable with light fuel, having to start towards the back makes a good finish hard. The race was rather uneventful, managed to keep it relatively clean and finish mid-pack.
- P3 (Mosport) Started in the same spot. Had ok pace but never enough to catch p2. Single split madness, 23 GTP, 9 LMP2 and 10 lonely GT3s. Hardley had a minute of clear track.
GT Sprint Simucube Series
- Brad – P10 (Spa) Started p13 and made my way up to p5 but was spun early on. Soldiered back to get to p8 but in a last lap battle I spun and fell back to P10.
- William W – P3 0X – Had pace for P2 but didn’t push the issue due to PTSD from GT Endurance. Felt really good about Saturday after doing this race. Broke 2500
GT /IMSA Conspit Endurance Series
- William W – P30 – Impatience led to 2 incidents in the first 12 laps. Neither were really my fault, but put my car in bad positions and had people turn in on me. 3 min of damage from the second incident put me behind for the rest of the race. Got from 50 something to 30. +1 iRating.
League / Hosted Races
GTP/GT3 League
- William W – P4 – Off week between seasons so we did a Spa 24 practice race. 90 min. Ran in the front 3 nose to tail for about 50 min then hit the gas too hard coming out of 14. Half spun the car, no damage but lost 14 seconds. Was able to drive up to 4 seconds behind 2 and 3. Leader won by 12. Exceptional pace in this race, really excited for weekend and normally don’t like spa.
Hosted-
- Ellis – Saturday night Chris McGuire hosted ran V8 supercars at Michigan started dead last and somehow someway finish P4 great run
- Firecracker 400 qualified 18th out of 41 cars. Made it almost a half a lap before the leaders wreck and take out the entire field too much damage we’re done didn’t even finish one lap. It’s truly the fire crackers zero
- Firecracker 400 fixed. Made it to lap 59 before I actually touch the apron got into a spin and the guy behind me. Finished me off nine minutes damage. DNF.
Final Thoughts
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- iRacing Vandals
Description
On today’s show we will jump into a ton of stories following our week off for the holiday. What does a current professional GT3 driver think of the new tire model, get you up to speed on two recent updates, see what two pro drivers are using for race prep, new chassis from Advance Sim Racing, is the Moza mBooster for everyone and things are really ramping up for the Sim Gaming Expo!
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