8/28/2025 – Cooling Your Sack – Episode 0499
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Show Introduction
On today’s show, an unexpected announcement from iRacing Studios, see how sim racing changed NASCAR, can NiS be fixed, new hardware teaser from Cube Controls and ASR brings back a favorite, is iRacing telemetry about to go crazy and WE ARE SEVEN DAYS AWAY FROM THE SIM GAMING EXPO!
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Topics
INDYCAR Console Game Coming In 2026
Can Your Brain Tell The Difference?
Data Analysis From Cosworth
Commitment
How Sim Racing Changed NASCAR
Season 4: Where And When
Some Reading Material For You
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84105/new-book-release-for-sim-racers-pixels-to-podiums
How Do We Fix NiS?
Do We Need Podiums And Victory Lanes?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/83956/podium-celebration
NW Sim Racing
The New UI Is Here
iRacing’s Most Dead Series
Do You Have A Dream Spotter Pack?
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/83996/dream-spotter-pack-hickory-dickory-dock
Sim Gaming Expo
Use code IRLP10 to save 10% off tickets
https://www.instagram.com/p/DN4P27SASSe
2025 IMSA Global Esports Schedule Announced
INDY 6 Hour
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84061/2025-indy-6-hour
Majors Series 2 Hour Solo Petit Le Mans
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/84085/majors-petit-lemans
This Week In iRacing
https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-august-26-to-september-1-2025
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Fantasy
Hardware/Software
Lamborghini By MOZA
ASR 6 Chassis [Legacy Edition]
https://www.advancedsimracing.com/products/asr-6-chassis-legacy-edition
Cube Controls Teaser
Sabelt SRS-1 Racing Yellow
Morad Gets The mBooster
First Ever Bike Sim!
Try It In One Week At The SGE!
No Real Competition At This Price Point
Why Are They?
NLR Hypercool Seat Review
Bavarian Simtec Omega V2 Unboxing
iRacing FFB Autotune Settings
MOZA AB9 Shifter
Race Labs VR
PXN vs Everything
Rival Racing
https://www.rivalsimracing.co.uk
The Dumbest Mod?
Results
NASCAR iRacing Series
Friday Open – NiS – Daytona
- David – P5, won the not get wrecked out lottery. Did cause an accident on the trioval but wasn’t going to listen to the Carson Hocevar of our Split
Sunday Fixed- NiS – Daytona
- Mike- P1 let’s lapse made some really good moves at the end. Everything went perfect. Winner winner chicken dinner career win 115 first NIS win of the year.
Wednesday Open -NiS – Darlington
- David – P11, same shit different race, caught up in others stuff. Additionally there was a 8 lap down car, not just running what is car had, but holding faster cars up and even crossing over after a clean pass. This is the bullshit that iRacing should be educating about, if thats what they actually give a shit about. Was 5th, climbed back up to 11th with close to 4 minutes damage.
- Brad- P19 I qualified on pole but gave up to faster cars in hopes of catching on a longer run. I made a mistake and turned a driver getting into T1. From then on I managed to get caught up in almost every accident. Had to manage the last half of the race with 16x. Just a bad night.
Thursday Open- NiS – Darlington
- Mike- P15- had a fast car I got caught up in a wreck in the first part of the race with seven minutes damage later on in the back half of the race another wreck not my doing went to 17 minutes damage from there just limping it around on the lead lap and got ran over three different times by people that don’t give a crap and had a drive-through penalty P 15.
- David – P2! Had a top 5 car. Caution came out right outside the fuel window. I saved just well enough to pass everyone but the leader who had something left and took off the last 3 laps
Official Series
Gen 4
- Ellis – P darlington only 10 cars in a single split on Monday night. Pitiful. Got to lead pretty quick started pulling away had a five second gap at one point getting ready to pit on halfway gap was 3.6 seconds to the second place go to adjust my fuel so I have a little bit more for green white checker and as I move the mouse, the screen freezes a little bit and then I plow the wall hard 2X. 8 minutes damage. I can’t even drive it DNF.
- Ran again creamed the wall wasn’t too bad this time kept going and finished P7 in top split 24 cars.
- Was running about 5th to 7th green flags stop started I pitted right at halfway and then the caution came out about a lap later and I was trapped a lap down for the rest of the race finished P 10 out of 22
A Fixed
- Mike. P10- top split I got in a wreck early on when the pack had to go around a lap car and a neck coated with the lap car stayed out anyway no idea how much damage I had but it looked like it was quite a bit after the race hung in there to finish P 10.
- Was starting third on a late restart, but the leader sucked and so I didn’t have any opportunities and finished P6
B Fixed
- Mike- P 18 got wrecked several times just crawled at home to finish P 18 out of 23
GT3 challenge fixed
- Mike- Nordschilfe- wrecked out
League / Hosted Races
Grass Roots Racing
GTP/GT3 League – Hockenheim Sprint Race
- William W – P15 – Haven’t driven hockenheim in a long time. Had bad memory from it driving pcup in like S2-2024. However after practice I had found some pace here, and I actually started to like the track. Quali P2, struggled on new tires in the beginning and fell 2s back. Was pulling that gap back when the rain came. I hate rain. Did not practice rain as the forecast was a 14% chance so of course according to iracing that means rain a majority of the race. Leader pit 1 lap before us and that was the play because cold tires and rain are a nightmare. Struggled mightily. Turned the TC up too high and was losing exit speed. Finally got it figured out to run a semi decent rain pace but spun the car about 3 times from touching curbs. Never any damage but fell all the way back to 15. Awful time.
- Brad W – P7 I had a decent qualifying spot but bobbled on the start coming out of the last corner. I lost a ton of spots and then the rain came. It has been a while since I raced in the rain but my gosh what a performance hit. FPS went from 140 to 55 at times. I managed to keep it on the track except for one spin early on the wets.
Final Thoughts
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On today’s show, an unexpected announcement from iRacing Studios, see how sim racing changed NASCAR, can NiS be fixed, new hardware teaser from Cube Controls and ASR brings back a favorite, is iRacing telemetry about to go crazy and WE ARE SEVEN DAYS AWAY FROM THE SIM GAMING EXPO!
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