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Episode 0552

10/1/2026 – Come Sit In My Rig – Episode 0552

iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics

Show Introduction

On today’s show: We sit down with professional driver Stefy Bau, Track Day series dead already?, can AI paint you a livery and fix your graphics?, Buttkicker gone?, MOZA firmware coming, are Road America and Road Atlanta realistic?, Nim chimes in and do the iRacers down under deserve more?

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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Special Guest From The Sim Gaming Expo

Stefy Bau

Topics

Five Changes Needed

New Vehicle Widgets

SimOS Update

I just put out version 4.0 of SimOS.

The biggest change is a reworked Stats screen. I know you guys liked the old one, so I spent quite a bit of time improving it. I also added a way to compare yourself lap by lap against several rivals from the same race, and a chart that shows the distance between you and them on track as the race goes on.

If you give it a try, I’d be curious to hear what you think!

Cheers, 

Jared

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simos-hub-racing-companion/id6756025064

Nim Chimes In

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/844345#Comment_844345

Smoke Is Impossible

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/100528/the-new-smoke-particles-are-impossible/p1

Climb To 7k iRating

https://www.tiktok.com/@charles.wimbley/photo/7676559289615519006?_r=1&_t=ZT-9A3kBY55h2z&image_index=2

Dead All Ready?

Life Changing

Realistic?

More From Down Under

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/100701/more-australian-tracks-pleaseeee

Planned Or Accident?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/100672/creventic-has-been-a-joke-all-year

Contest Time

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/100268/season-4-2026-contests

AI Livery

NASA Rallycross World Championship

Last week in the NASA Rallycross World Championship, we thought Evan MacFarlane had the upper hand on his competitors with a first place result in qualifying and his heat race – until the field converged at Feature Race time. Five drivers were within one tenth of a second in qualifying – and Kieran Liflander overcame that deficit to beat Evan off the line in the Feature and took the victory. Twenty five drivers attempted the event, and the top seven qualified for the feature in one of the most competitive NASA fields in recent history. We head to Hell next! A beautiful, natural terrain rallycross venue steeped in history – who comes out on top? Check out ASNtv’s LIVE coverage on Monday at 9pm EST from Norway – https://www.youtube.com/asntvusa

Great American 500

https://discord.com/channels/238867726335082506/238867726335082506/1549721684557307945

Bathurst 1000

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/100630/2026-bathurst-1000-powered-by-next-level-racing/p1

This Week In iRacing

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-september-29th-to-october-5th-2026

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Fantasy

Hardware/Software

Brought To You By

Chad McNeese’s Ultimate Hardware Spreadsheet

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

AI Fixed My Graphics

Here is a summary of the video “Your iRacing Settings Are Wrong (And It’s Not Your

Qubic Systems???

SimCore 7.8 DDU

Buttkicker, Out Of Business?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/100537/buttkicker-have-they-gone-out-of-business/p1

Conspit CHS Shifter

Conspit GT Vent Seat

Delta Sim-Tech-SC

Ascher Black Editions

MOZA Firmware Update Coming

SimLab DDS TorqueSync

Heusinkveld One-SC

Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Friday Open – NiS – Kansas

  • Mike- P had a good race going with about 70 to go. Would just turn around on me and spin out, and I got back in the garbage and then got wrecked several times. DNF 
  • Chris- P7
  • Brad- P wrecked out. Had a good start to the race only to be collected early on by a car that thought he was clear coming off turn 2. The SR slide continues.
  • Tom – P9

Sunday Open- NiS – Kansas

  • Tony – P8 been fighting a pretty nasty cold for the last few days so I didn’t feel like racing was in my best interest. But I needed to get a start in and this was it. The foggy weather in game mimicked how my head felt. Stayed out of trouble til about ½ way where fog started to lift in game and in my head where just charged to the front. Was 4th til final caution came out and lost a few spots on the last restart 
  • Tom – P 12
  • Kyle – P15 Car 1 started P19 and just launched towards the front. First 3rd of the race was filled with cautions. Then a 40ish lap run came and I just picked off spots reaching 3rd until a a guy with fresher tires came up past me and then instantly lost it out of 4 and I had no where to go T-Boning him and having almost 3 minutes of damage. Got most fixed but wasn’t enough laps and ended with a P15. Definitely was a top 3 car. This will be my last race for about a month. Having to take the rig apart and clear out the house for a major home renovation.

Wednesday Open -NiS – Las Vegas

  • Mike- P17- had a good fast car. drove up through the field more than once, but near the end I spun on my own and just snapped loose and I can’t catch it and lose all my track position and then obviously can’t catch a caution when I need it. P 17
  • Justin- P wrecked out early
  • David – P18  Got right hooked going straight down the exit of a turn, guy was apologetic, Brad confirmed his culpability.
  • Brad- P7 What a mess of a race after the first caution. We opened up with a 60 plus lap green flag run. I overdrive at the start trying to get track position as I expected an early caution. That never came and had to pit under green and then we got the yellow. Would get the wave by but be collected on the next restart. Too many games being played on restarts. Would end up getting collected in David’s mess but would drive on to survive more ridiculous driving on the white flag to grab a top 10.

Thursday Open -NiS – Las Vegas

  • Tony – P29 had a fun car, stayed out of trouble til about 30ish to go when t boned a spinning car i couldn’t avoid, had a fast long run car 
  • Stephen- P4 
  • David – P19   good long run speed. On last run, two cars I was catching and on the move to pass outside, the one in front gets loose, the other moves into me either not aware or just reacting to the near spin.  Car ruined.

Official Series

Ring Meister

  • Donnie S – P
  • Mike- P lotus 79. Start a 23rd out of 29. Got the P3 by the end of lap one. but that got an a pissing match on one of the heavy breaking areas and I overdid it trying to beat him wrecked us both
    • then, switching to the spec racer Ford, started 16th out of 27. Got up to ninth in the first lap, but wrecked out hard on my own, killed the car
    • started 14th out of 26. Got the P3 by the end of lap one, the top two were long gone, and there was no catching them at that point. Finished P3. nice podium. 
    • Then started ninth out of 28. Got wrecked out, heavy damage
    • When started ninth out of 25. Add one off excursion, but the car was OK., went on to finish P4 
    • Started first out of 27. Hit the wall and got wheel damage, but the car was OK. Fell the fourth, recovered back to P2  

Production car challenge by Simlab 

  • Ellis – P7 at Monza in the Toyota GR 86. Start at 12th, got as high as third, but finished P7. Pretty clean race.  

C Open  

  • John K –  P15. This was my first race in six months. It was a shakedown race for the new sim lab rig. Wanted to run one to figure out what adjustments i need make. Glad I did it; gave me an idea of height adjustments for seat, wheel deck, pedal deck and monitors. Will make those adjustments this weekend and get back to regular racing. And by the way, it felt so good to get back into a race.

F-4 Fixed. 

  • Mike – at Canadian Tire. Qualified 17th out of 24. Got to pee 11 by the end of lap one. got a tie at ninth with about four to go. I got hit and knocked into the wall and then another car came by and finished me off.

Track day

  • Mike- okayama- radical SRA spun it off the curb right off the bat and got ran over and destroyed. 60 cars in this race. It’s crazy. Did a tow and then got a quick repair, went back out 29th, made my way forward to finish actually P11
    • Second attempt, got to the lead but then wrecked out like a fool. did not finish
    • Tried two more times and wrecked out two more times
    • Then switch cars to the caterham. Started on pole, finish second after spinning like four or five times
    • Next Ray Scott, pole position, and spun out in the middle of the race and wrecked
    • Started first, got away on the first lap a little bit at a nice lead going, but some faster car couldn’t control himself and wiped me out completely DNF

League / Hosted Races

Grass Roots Racing 

GTP/GT3 League – Fuji Sprint Race

  • Brad W – P10 after an adventurous race. One of my least favorite tracks as I have never figured out how to be quick through the last sector. I would get up to 13-14 but would self spin twice and get spun once. Not my best showing but the league is great.

Hosted- 

  • Ellis – P Chris Maguire hosted. IndyCars at Daytona Oval, crashed out several times

Final Thoughts

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On today’s show: We sit down with professional driver Stefy Bau, Track Day series dead already?, can AI paint you a livery and fix your graphics?, Buttkicker gone?, MOZA firmware coming, are Road America and Road Atlanta realistic?, Nim chimes in and do the iRacers down under deserve more?

So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast. 

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