Episode 0547 - iRacers Lounge Podcast

8/27/2026 – A Premier Coke Zero Challenge – Episode 0547

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Show Introduction

On today’s show: new MOZA hardware drops, coffee with your sim racing?, are your pedals pur-rfect?, is a virtual button box needed?, another alien has arrived, we are only three weeks away from the 2026 Sim Gaming Expo and is profile or tubular the next great debate?

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Topics

iRacingStats.net To Shut Down

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/99264/iracingstats-net-shutting-down

Velocity Sim Lounge

Why You Should Abuse Track Limits

Best Car?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/99369/best-car-in-iracing-is

SIM1Racing NJ

Can We Get An Update?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/99258/mount-washington-gravel-section

Do You Have A Favorite Corner?

A Sim Racing Coffee Shop

A Well Travelled Alien

https://www.iracing.com/the-alien-who-has-been-everywhere-iracing-community-spotlight-karl-samson

A New Branch Of Service

2026 Sim Gaming Expo

September 18 – 20, 2026

Pro 4 Trucks Crandon

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/99206/2026-crandon-championship-presented-by-trak-racer

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-2026-crandon-championship-presented-by-trak-racer-special-event

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-august-25th-to-august-31st-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

Take My (Brad’s) Money

VPG vs ????

Purr-fect?

Rate This Setup

Conspit CHS Shifter

Asetek’s Virtual Button Box

SSG DV-7 DDU

Amazing Support

The Next Great Debate

10 Must Haves

Sim Lab Button Box

Simucube Wheelbase Mount V2

They Tested Both

MOZA At Gamescom

Half The Cost?

The Future But Not Yet

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – New Hampshire

Mike- P wrecked out. Decided to try something different today decided to ride around in the back and pit every time the caution came through and then wait in the pit and let everyone go and try to be in the very back each and every restart this worked like a charm with no incident and no wrecks up through the halfway point I finally felt it was time to go restarted 17th got up to like seventh and then some guy spun up in front of me and I plowed right in knocked the wheel off of it DNF
David – P 3, I Qed and opted for the CW strategy. Didn’t grid, kept going to the back every caution, with about 80 laps to go i decide i should go ahead and go to the bathroom and allowed my self to go a lap down in the process. Got the lucky dog after on the 2nd caution after, then started working my way up, managed to avoid the bad luck and had good speed at the end. Discuss race control issues
Tony -PI hate this track I must be a gluten for punishment. Told myself I was done after thursdays 29 cautions and somehow with 15 minutes til race time i turned he pc on and hopped in the seat. Something with my steering felt off this race so couldnt really turn the corners like I had in the previous races. Typical race people crash about every 2-5 laps. We actually got a 20 lap run right after the caution that took poor mike out. But with 8 to go on a restart i was making my around 2 cars on the high line when dipshit sent it 4 wide left rearing me into the wall ending my night. I was in 8th or 9th. Least this race had 22 cautions

Wednesday Open -NiS – Daytona

Mike- P9- had a great race led Some laps was in position to win at the end on a green wide checker number two I was leading on the White. They kept trying to go to the outside of me. I kept inching up eventually I got hooked into the wall.
Tony –P21 typical drafty track fun. Race survive a few wrecks and get clipped by a spinning car and than connor Zillich’d by a arca braker
David – P25 I had a blink out on the white flag lap, spooked me out of line and then i let the field go cause i didn’t want to cause a big one in that situation

Thursday Open -NiS – Daytona

Mike- P2- a great race basically ran upfront all day long top three top five led some laps. Tony and I stayed together pretty much right at the end I was leading he was third he got by second he looked high. I didn’t wanna block him so I let him go high and we came across side-by-side he wanted it and I finished P2 a great race. Nice to see my teammate win for the first time in several years well deserved happy to help.
Tony – P1 WOOOOOOO “pours the Coke Zero over my head” good god that was probably 1 of the best finishes i’ve ever had. Led 34 laps through the middle got towards the end and the Permier set wanted to go. Did bump a car and spun him & self before the green white checkers but made it back. Restarted 8th while mike was leading. Made my way to 3rd and psyched out the guy pushing mike and got him out of the way and hit the go go pedal around mike.
First NiS win since Pocono in August of 2022 first ever win in a Chevy. Lets get that Southern 500 next week. Thank you mike for being a great teammate
David – P wrecked out, got damage and and a 45 second hold cause someone hit the brakes in the racing line during green flag stops. Stuck around while 2 laps down, but the had to take pit road to avoid a wreck, got another 45 hold, and was done

Official Series

A Open

Mike. P Daytona took the pole position. Bennett around lap 12 so I could make it on one more stop and then it stayed green from there. Tried to say fuel. I was gonna be a laugh and a half short a caution finally came. I was involved in a couple incidents with a little bit of damage, but the car was still OK. We’re just a few left to go. I was running P2. There was some bump drafting going on. I got bumped a certain way and my brakes engaged to 80% without me pushing on the pedal for about a second and it caused me to lose the pack P 15
Tony – P9 survived til the end when push gone wrong from behind out of 4

Global Endurance – Daytona 24

David – P5 – our opening driver got wrecked by a guy thinking it was good to bump draft in a GTP

F-4 Fixed.

Mike – P DNF road America qualified seventh out of 26. Got to the leave pretty quick let right up until two to go and I spun on my own and then I had to battle for it and then some guy in third ran over me in the last corner and took me out DNF.

League / Hosted Races

Hosted-

Ellis – sim Gaming Expo challenge series started 18th finish P 16 reached really hard with donnie Hann and Junior Robinson. We had a great battle for 15 1617 trading paint and what not lots of fun. A very stout field I had no chance wife ran my fastest lap ever during the race of a 206.3 and the winners were running 204.
- Ghosted some lotus 79 races and did some time trials in the GTO 90

Final Thoughts

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