Episode 0546 - iRacers Lounge Podcast

8/20/2026 – eNASCOURT – Episode 0546

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show: We already had NASCOURT, now we have eNASCOURT, another discussion about the price of iRacing, is career mode coming next season?, is there an ideal display for sim racing?, how quick could you get to a 10k iRating? and should Mike just go ahead and pull the motion trigger?

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

Impressive

Godspeed Justin

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/99058/in-heavy-hearts-that-i-post-this

iR Companion App 3.0

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-companion-app-3-0-launches-today

Does It Need A Change?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/99055/speaking-of-hostile-scheduling

Is There A Fix?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/99026/oval-pit-box-cutting-issues-fix

This Again?

Watch Out!

A Minimum iRating?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/99020/minimum-irating-limit-for-multiclass

More Fun! Not Boring

Career Mode Next Build

You’re Fired!

eNASCOURT

2026 Sim Gaming Expo

September 18 – 20, 2026

Marlin 2.4

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/98933/special-event-marlin-2-4hr-presented-by-ruk-offshore-joinmrl-com

Empire State Showdown

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/98835/dirtcar-esports-empire-state-showdown/p1

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-august-18th-to-august-24th-2026

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Chad McNeese’s Ultimate Hardware Spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i08zKjBSmSn5G_mCc9cHx07w7XLo03sfoytpVJkqbYk/edit?usp=sharing

Ridiculously Innovative

The Ideal Sim Racing Display?

Pokornyi GT

Circuit One Motion

https://circuitone.com

Grip Tape Guide

Sparco EVO L

Just Buy It Mike

Aston Martin By Simagic

Back In Stock

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcBnLtwwkMR

Great Price

Simagic vs MOZA

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Richmond

Mike- P wrecked out with 15 to go. Pretty eventful race was involved in a lot of early cautions. I had 12 X by 45 got the drive-through penalty at some point was running at 20 X for the last part of the race drove from the back to the front several times even led some laps at one point, but I had three different self spin. The last one killed the car. I suck.
David – P21, caught up in early wreck, never could get enough damage fixed
Tony -P8 same race with mike. Man that was brutal. Caught in wreck early gave me 9 minutes optional. With 23 cautions ended up getting it down to 45 seconds. This place is not that hard to drive

Sunday Open- NiS – Richmond

David – P wrecked out on lap 30, a car on inside self spins, i’m the outside domino of about 5 cars, meat ball

Wednesday Open -NiS – New Hampshire

Mike- P wrecked out. Had a fast car I drove up to the field a couple times spun on my own twice with no damage then I right before halfway it was trying to go up the middle on a restart and the guy in the outside crowded me and knocked us down to the inside lots of damage so I parked it
Tony –P24 can we just drive the track 23 cautions. Caught in 1 late and just didnt get my lap back why cant NiS race like real New Hampshire and only have like 2 cautions and be the worse action track and boring
Kyle – P19 had a bad ass car and kept it up near the front. Battled for the lead and was about to take it when a caution came with 3 to go. First GWC got ran high and a car got loose and gave me a 4x sending me in for a drive through and ended up with a P19.
Chris – P 16… what a mess. Final GWC my cars wheel was upside down. Had to serve a drive through penalty. Went from P30 to…. 16th. Yes you read that right. Must have been 14 black flags the final lap.
David – P21, restarted on inside, a guy on the out side forces a three wide gets himself hooked into me, 7 minutes damage. This race was pathetic. 21 cautions.

Thursday Open -NiS – New Hampshire

Tony – P6 29 i say 29 cautions in the race. Iracing needs to make a seprate IR for oval tracks mile and below for shit driving. Not that hard. Drive brake turn corners dont hit anyone drive and repeat. Wish i could’ve actually seen what this great Premier Race set could’ve actually done with more than 5 green flag laps at a time

Official Series

F-4 Fixed.

Mike – PFIAF4 @Winton motor raceway qualified six out of 19. Had a guy come across my nose, pick my nose off and then I wrecked out shortly after.
- Rudskogen. Qualified 11th out of 23. Wrecked out.
- Road America. Qualified 13 out of 21 got to P5 by the end of lab one eventually work my way up to P2, but the leader was long gone and there was no catching him, but it’s still a good run after many wreck outs.

League / Hosted Races

Hosted-

Ellis – P time attack GTO 90 several tracks
- Pick up cup at Phoenix qualified ninth. Finish fourth.
- Hosted old Indy car at Indy qualified eight out of 45. Didn’t really know what I was getting in for just jumped in had to mute the guy because the admin was talking nonstop for like the 10 minute call in the 10 minute warm-up and so forth. So we get it going I get up to fourth and he throws a competition caution on lap three so I stay out that I look at the fuel and they have a limitation of apparently 10 laps of fuel and it’s 100 lap race so I’m thinking there’s gonna be nine or 10 pit stops so I hang with it until the first stop and I stop and I come out and I’m everyone is spread out all around the track nobody’s racing nobody it’s basically drive around for a few hours so I parked it not interested

Final Thoughts

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