6/25/2025 – Low Hanging Fruit – Episode 0538
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Show Introduction
On today’s show: how many newton meters do you really need?, a Nvidia GPU upgrade guide, Coke Series drama from Dover, multiclass starts…soon?, Watkins Glen 6 Hour mayhem, do you need an iRacing plugin for your Stream Deck?, what happened with the Simagic Zeus launch? and why was iRacing crucial for last weeks NASCAR race.
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Topics
Is It A Gentlemen’s Agreement?
Driven: Zack Novack
Taking The Fight To Max
Trading Paints By The Numbers
We’re Done, To Much Damage
So Close
Bad Rejoin!
iRacing = Better
18 Years…
Any Easter Eggs?
Qualcomm Onboard
Kimi Gets A New Rig
2026 Season 3 Patch 2 Release Notes
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/97398/2026-season-3-patch-2-release-notes-2026-06-24-02#latest
Tighten Up!
Video Dev Blog
More #SOON
Team Boss
Wilson Wins At Dover
Coke Series Drama
Past Champion Finished?
2026 Sim Gaming Expo
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Fantasy
Hardware/Software
Chad McNeese’s Ultimate Hardware Spreadsheet
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It’s Back
No One Needs 28NM
Zeus: What Happened?
Smart Rev-Mathcing?
Will This Run iRacing?
iRace Deck
Is It Upgrade Time?
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Oktane Designs Shifters
A Lot Of Cats In China
Not Normal?
4 DOF By Dem Tech
More Phoenix Images
JJ Spotter Pack Update
Coming To Europe
Not Practical
Sim Panel Button Boxes
Best Base Ever?
Results
NASCAR iRacing Series
Friday Open – NiS – Coronado
- David – P2. Really surprised by this result. Something just click and I was also good at staying off the walls. The leader was in his own league though and lapped everyone.
Wednesday Open -NiS – Sonoma
- Mike- P DNF. Started a 22nd quickly made my way up to P 16 before in the hairpin I checked for a little bit of a check up in front of me. A guy ran right through the back of me and wiped out about four or five cars I lost all my spots back to P 22 drove it back up to 19th only to spin on my own and kill the car with 14 to go
- Tony -P12 started in the back made my way up to 10th just before half way wentboff track to avoid a spinner and didn’t realize i had a slow down til too late which turned into a black flag. Served the 41 second penalty while pitted and my car only took left side tires so had to pit again for rights. Overall i actually finished a road race for the first time I can remember. Think i might of found how to brake in this car properly
- Kyle – P9 Started P16 and just ran my own race. Kept all 4 corners clean and only went off track 4 times. Late race mistake caused me to give P8 and just brought it home P9.
- Chris – P1 at Sonoma! Qualified P3 in the Waldron’s Furniture/iRacers Lounge Chevy Camaro. The polesitter checked out early before crashing, and after pit strategy put me back out front, the leader exited pit road right in front of me but pushed too hard on cold tires and crashed. From there, I just hit my marks, kept the car clean, and drove away to a 12-second victory. A huge thank you to Premier Racing Setups for another winning setup and Sim Wraps for the great-looking red Chevy Camaro!
- David – P12. Fell to 26th early from a few small mistakes and just being more careful that others, worked my way back up through survival.
- Brad- P made 3 laps. Started p16 and just after crossing the line two guys to my inside get together and come across the track. No where for me to go, damage to the front and then get turned into the inside wall. Get going dead last and make it two more laps before some yahoo decides to make a very unsafe rejoin. He literally drives into the right side of my car and yells at me for not using the whole track to avoid him…REALLY? Here’s your protest. Enjoy.
- Adam- P1
Thursday Open -NiS – Sonoma
- Tony – P9 only 68 people signed up for this session and think thats the lowest ive ever seen a nis race. Q’d 10th stayed out of trouble got lapped 3 times. Avoided wrecks off tracks were my only Xs again. Slow but steady
- Chris – P2
Official Series
C-OPEN
- Tony- P8 & P12 its Daytona week in the trucks so tried to do some farming. Got yelled at and was told how I should drive when I switched lanes by a car and half gap by a 800ir C class driver. STFU
Ring Meister
- Mike – P eight in the Mustang FR 500 S at the ring start 10th got up to six try to get around the guy in front of me. He ran me off. I was able to save it but lost all my spots.
- Wrecked out was running from fifth clear up to second the leader was seven seconds out but faster than me and then I lost a spotter too, and I was getting too greedy and wrecked it DNF
- P3 started P4 in top split. They were definitely faster than me. Top three got away far away, but I was the best of the rest and one guy had a problem so I went up to third.
- Then I started third and top split but wrecked at the top of the hill and couldn’t get it turned around, so dnf
IMSA
- Brad W – P15 (Watkins-Top Split) Finished where I started. The race was pretty tame but the SOF swing was huge. I was car 36 out of 41. Extremely outclassed. I was surprised not to have a larger field on Sunday night.
GT Sprint Simucube Series
- Brad – P10 (Watkins). Started p15 and kept it clean the whole race. I’m going to try and do more of these with the intent on making my in class GT3 racing better for IMSA. The racing is usually very aggressive in this series and I think that can help my race craft.
League / Hosted Races
Grass Roots Racing
GTP/GT3 League – Sebring – Sprint Race
- William W – P1
- Brad W – P7 after starting P9. Finally put a whole race together. I felt like I had a good pace for where I was running. For once the chaos happened behind me. Looking forward to a good season in GRR.
Hosted-
- Ellis – P pick up top at Daytona started 15th the entire field wrecked and turned two. I went to the grass to miss it. Only three cars survived the big wreck. I was able to go on and win the race.
- Then carburetor cup Adega started fifth was leading the most laps leading on the White. They got a big run on the outside and got by me, but I went up and made a new middle and kind of pushed my way through and won the race.
Final Thoughts
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On today’s show: how many newton meters do you really need?, a Nvidia GPU upgrade guide, Coke Series drama from Dover, multiclass starts…soon?, Watkins Glen 6 Hour mayhem, do you need an iRacing plugin for your Stream Deck?, what happened with the Simagic Zeus launch? and why was iRacing crucial for last weeks NASCAR race.
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