This week on the I Racing down Ship, Greg recounts his Daytona red and
I left a lane and a half instead of three lanes. Kevin breaks down
a new Simrich design. Do you think he'll actually race from the insane of
shubine because that would be a pack of a choice? And Chris plays a
mini game Cisco U serendipitous, so I had to match with another you know,
ten cent vocabulary word. They're all that and more so strap in.
Welcome to I Racing zausch if Tom your host, Greg West. I'm back
with the boys, Kevin Bobbitt and Chris Leoni. We're a little late on
this one, but we've been a little busy, haven't we. Kevin,
it's been it's been a busy new year. We were going to record last
week and then we didn't sow apologies to everybody, but you know that happens,
is it because you and Chris have been busy with the I'm checking the
outline that has been sarcastically bulleted and formatted. Pursa's outline brought me back to
like third grade when you learned how to do a proper outline. It was
like disturbing, so is this APA or MLA out of curiosity formatting? Well,
it's whatever Microsoft word put in. But I have to say I never
thought i'd see the words disingenuous use of proper outline formatting and a for that
anywhere. Yeah, no, exactly. Like I said, disingenuous outline formatting
is my favorite RAM album and had all the hits on it. That's a
big one. It went platinum, I think, yes, it did.
What have we been up to? Chris? What do you? What have
you been up to? You are a very uh you live a very interesting
life and eclectic. Just softball it in like that. Well, other than
trying to build you about twenty week thirteen series ideas that may or may not
be ill advised here and there, I got new rats. I took a
break for a few months. I have new rats. Well, and what
are their names? Their names they're inside. Their names are Noon and Midnight.
Mostly because I thought it'd be really funny to have an albino rat named
Midnight. And then uh, usually I name one and then the other one
gets a name in response to the first name. So uh yeah, Well,
congratulations on the new family editions. That's very exciting. Thank you the
personality scaring me along? How are their personalities? They are still scared to
death of me? But they're babies. It's okay. Status quarter remains unchanged,
got it? Yeah? Are they? Are? They house trained and
stuff? They run around the house or no? No, no, no,
no no no. I like actually knowing where my pets are so gotch?
Does Emily like the rats? Like for real, She's not gonna watch
this, so I don't think you want to open that can of worms?
We do? Yes, I do as I do. This is this is
a downship. This is not Jerry Springer. Let's let's bring Emily on as
a guest next time. Leo Leo Leo didn't. No, no, it's
gonna be too stable. Yeah, neither of us are set up for that.
That doesn't work. Can that's good? That's better. We have had
the couples we had, we had Tyler and Lisa. Oh yeah as precedent.
Yeah, we have done it before. I mean Lisa works for the
company though, so she can be all in told. Yeah exactly, that's
that's different. What about you, Kevin? Did you get any new pets?
I did not get any rats or anything. No. Wren, my
dog is still going strong fifteen years old. She naps a lot most of
the time, but you know she'll wake up and run around. You know,
she plays fetch with the ball. She'll fetch it once and then the
next time she's like, yeah, I've had enough, you go get Yeah,
she's living her best life. So it's all good. But no new
pets in my house. How about the other exciting things for the holiday?
Lots of family around, which was great. Yeah, the boys. The
boys were home, one home from college, one home from the army.
H he was on leave. And now they're all back. So now the
house is quiet again except for me and the dog. So it's all good.
Happy New Year, everyone, Happy New Year. As it's January thirty,
first we can still say that it's January. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Flit in under the recording. We'll make it out in times.
What about you, Greg? Kind of the same thing. Stayed laid
pretty low for the holidays and yeah, exciting a couple of weeks here at
I Racing with the I Racing Daytona twenty four, followed up by the outside
version. I think im is is that the outdoor version? Yeap, that
outdoor version of the I racing data or something like that. But you know,
January is great, a great month of your motorsport fan, and so
I've been watching a lot of that and excited to excited to get back into
this. So let's kick it off. Let's talk about it. I racing
Dayton and twenty four the biggest event in SIM racing history. Eighteen thousand,
five hundred drivers, over four thousand t eames. But he had know how
many miles were driven? We have that. Yeah. I was actually I
was typing it up while we were going through the outline. I went back
to uh Dougie's tweet. Ten million, two hundred and twenty eight one hundred
and eighteen miles over two million, eight hundred and seventy three thousand and sixty
seven laps. How many times around the world is that? Somebody do the
math? Somebody do the math? Hang on? Hang on, yeah,
Chris is on that. Kevin. We didn't get an incident count. We
should have got an incident count. Yeah, it was probably close to ten
million. I contributed a few of those I got. I got killed international
on Twitter that you got killed. Yeah, that's the problem I got.
I was in the Ferrari and I got I got gtped. That's just the
nice set, you know what. But this is a great I rasing lesson
here. I looked back at the replay, and there's something I could have
done better. I knew he was going to send it from one point two
seconds back going into the International Horseshoe, and I left a lane and a
half instead of three lanes. And even I knew it was coming. I
don't know why it wasn't out. You should just drop off in the grass.
Anyway. I feel like this was clearly your fault. Probably, No,
the second part was my fault because he clipped me, spun me.
I ended up completely sideways, right in the middle of the International Horseshoe.
And here comes a bunch of GT threes and a couple more GTPs, and
some dove to the inside and some dove to the outside. So I just
held still until the second wave got there and I got t bone. Oh
somebody else got caught up to Oh yeah, the second you did the predictable
thing when you got wrecked, and that was the mistake. You know,
the driving if you've been two feet in and uh no, just just go
just get lesson, learned, give room give all of the track to the
GTP. I think that was that was it. Do we have a sarcasm
font for the podcast or is that just the whole show? The record?
I've got the math. The circumference was twenty four thousand, nine hundred and
one miles, so that puts us at four hundred and ten and three quarters
trips around the Earth lot. Does that wrong the equator? Yeah? I
believe so. Yeah, Okay, I don't know. We're doing math on
the fly, which you already don't trust my setup building. We probably have
it wrong, but we're going on, well, probably have it wrong.
Somebody's gonna fast. We're gonna check this in post by the way, Well
yeah you no, no, no, no, the comments are gonna check
it. Yeah no, I don't have to comments. Yeah, are fore
fans. Somebody's gonna do the math and tell us that Chris was wrong.
Let's tell Chris that he was wrong, right, he did. Let's be
clear, he did the math, not me. Yeah, they're going to
tell us that Chris was wrong. If the viewers looked on the left side
right here, so if you look over there, you can see twitch chats
actually figuring it out right now in real time. I like it. Okay,
what about on YouTube? Oh yeah, I guess that would be that
would be down there, Yeah, yeah, down there. What about on
Facebook? Facebook? Oh yeah, they do, it'd be over there as
well. Okay, I just want to make sure we covered all our bases.
This is the dance dance revolution of Cisco pointing places. Uh, Kevin,
you had you had some staff that did pretty well, Corey and Cole.
Corey and Cole, both on the marketing team, ended up winning their
split. I think they were in an Uh what were they I think they
were peachings. Yeah, so that's pretty awesome. They were pretty excited,
pretty exhausted. It was them and I think they had other two of their
friends driving as well, but two staff. There were multiple staff teams,
but that was the one that did the best that I'm aware of, So
you know, much better than Greg's. How long were you in the race?
Actually, I think we made it like six hours in okay, but
you're very exciting fully totaled. Uh, you know, had was art is
forty five minutes and uh that was we decided at that point we enjoy sleep.
So that was that was the end of that. Yeah, but awesome.
And there was some other big name guy in one of the splits,
maybe talking about world champion F fun driver, multiple time world champion F one
driver, Max was in Huh, how do you schmer map? How you
say that Max ver stap in redline? Max was stapping win GTD in the
tops. That was pretty exciting to see. And they come they came back,
they were they were down early UH and came back for the win.
I have to say here and this is where I go off script Cisco sorry
in advance. It is. It's funny how this event is beginning to emulate
the real world event because the number of UH emails and discord messages and smoke
signals and carrier pigeons about wreck mendations for the BOP from the from the teams.
There's a lot of a lot of lobbying, a lot of lobbying.
And you know, we don't get taken out to dinner or anything. I
know that maybe they just start sending like a box of chocolates or something.
You know. I mean, I'm not saying we can be bribed. Disclaimer,
we cannot be bribed or do everything by the data. And we want
everybody to be successful and have a chance to win in every single chocolate,
but we do accept chocolate. Who was it that since donuts after they winning
NASCAR? It was Contie but he's retired. Yeah, if you're listening,
if you just want to continue to send send donuts to the office, you're
more than welcome. But yeah, that was it was really interesting to get
everybody's car is slow. It's funny how that works. That's that's how I
feel that the bop is pretty good. If every single car is slow,
we're good to go anyway. It's really quiet and awkward right now, So
we're going to move on. Ats for my early twenties right there. Moving
on, We've got IndyCar, Kevin. IndyCar is back, and I've heard
the news. Huh, I have you heard the news. It's all news
at this point since we're the end of January. But it's super exciting to
be back. It's continuing to develop though. Yeah. Yeah, So lots
going on with the IndyCar. Obviously, the biggest part I think is Indy
five hundred is back, so we're running that the week after the real world
Indy five hundred, So that's awesome. We're gonna run it similar to the
way we've done it in the past, so there'll be an open series and
a fixed series, although they will run the same week. In the past,
we ran them different weeks, trying something new. Part of it has
got added to the special Events calendar after we already published that. We also
think this might be a nice change up, so we'll see how it goes.
But Indy car is fully supporting it. They're on board. They're super
excited and meeting with their team on a regular basis. So it's it's awesome
to have the communication and we're talking to what can we do help them,
what can they do help us. It's back to a partnership level, so
that's awesome. I think that we've updated the names of all the series that
are currently running. We'll be updating tracks for next season. You can get
into that, Greg, but you know, it's we'll be back to what
you guys were used to, you know, a couple of years ago.
So yeah, I think about that. The goal was real simple, just
put it back how it was right. Yeah, but there are a couple
of you know, small additions. As Kevin said, we're gonna just really
due to scheduling, we were kind of boxed in when we could do the
fix in the open eighty five hundred. So yeah, we'll try it together
this year and we'll look at the information in the community feedback, and maybe
it stays that way next year, maybe it goes back. We'll see.
We don't know what. We don't know yet, but it's still so this
is the one special event that has separate qualifying, right, So that's correct
qualifying all week, which is if you've been around a while, that's kind
of how it used to work for most of our series that they were just
qualifying all the time of separate sections. It wasn't part of the race session.
But so you can qualify what up through. I don't even remember I
think you qualified. We haven't built the series yet, but I believe it's
through the fridayday or Friday afternoon, and then I don't have the calendar in
front of me, but yeah, and then whatever session you join, it
will take your qualifying time and based on that. Ye. So it's a
yeah, a lot of fun, really popular to you know, emulate bump
week that way or bump Day. I should say its bump week on I
racing bump Day. And but there are no bumps. Everybody makes it so
that everybody makes the field. So uh yeah. We're also adding a couple
of a couple other changes. We're bringing back the d W twelve to the
delar Dash. That'll be really popular, you know. We made some changes
there that were necessitated. Happy to bring back the community and fan favorite to
that series. The changing next season or well, yes, that changes with
the March in March. We are also adding a fixed series that complements the
open set up series, and also all the Indy Car series are gonna be
at b moving forward, even the Oval Series, but we'll have a short
sprint race on opposite hours or the Open series. That sprint race will be
fixed. Just trying to get more people involved. The IRA eighteen is one
of the best cars on the service. We have a ton of data for
it. We've got a great relationship with DeLaura and and just they're open with
everything that we build with them, and we just want more people to try
it. It's a it's one of the hardest cars to set up in the
service because it's so aero sensitive. But with fixed setups you can get in,
you know, strap in and go and that's that's a cool opportunity.
Kevin's nod and like he's gonna say something, all right, moving on to
C section two. I guess this bullet C letter I whatever this is on
Chris's outline, real world drivers finding success on the back of their I Racing
relationships. I've read it directly off the script, and Max Esterson's a great
example handing to Chris for that. I thought we were going to go the
other way around, that Kevin would take this one. Kevin, you can
talk about that. I thought I had the next one. We're like a
bunch of bad outfielders. Just not call him for the ball, all right.
Well, well Max is moving up. I mean, if you've followed
along, we've been supporting him, he's been supporting us through his career as
he's kind of moved up rapidly because he's not been racing all that long,
only a handful of years. He's going to Formula three for the season,
which is a nice step up. If you don't know him, young American
driver who got to start on I Racing. When you see him on track,
there's always an E Racing logo on his car, and you'll see typically
there's some other SIM related sponsors. I don't know who's got lined up for
this year, so I won't mention names. But in the past he's had
names you would recognize from our world, right, I mean, he's got
real world sponsors as well. But it's nice to see the integration helmet.
Yeah, well that's also SIM racing related, right, Chris. But yeah,
I think he had a steering wheel on the side, you know,
a SIM steering wheel, things like that. So, but great young American
driver. So cool to see him moving up the ranks. You know,
we're doing us, you know, trying to support him as best we can,
a lot of you know, promotion, doing a little bit to help
him, and you know, great representative of our world, you know,
the SIM racing world in the real world space. So awesome to see him
moving up. Yeah, and so everybody knows it's not just we, you
know, are helping him out with sponsorship and promotion. What Max, This
is a reciprocated relationship because Max has helped us a lot in vehicle development.
He has a lot of experience and you know Formula Forward we developed the f
F sixteen hundred and we actually scanned the car he raced and then he helped
us with the development of that. We also have another project in the works
right now that he is helping us on. More news on that at a
later dating time hashtags soon. Yeah. I mean it's probably important to note
just in general with sponsorship, our logo on the sod of car is lovely,
but it's not a smart way to spend money necessarily, right. It
needs to be a relationship and there needs to be more involved than that.
So so if you're sending sponsorship requests and you know, a logo on the
side of your car isn't going to get it cut, is going to cut
it? So yeah, all right, Now we'll throw it over to Chris
to talk about somebody else who has had a long term relationship with this.
Glenn McGhee is what well, I did the interview with him last month.
Gat Yeah, all right, and you can talk about you get here.
I'll be quiet. You guys both take it all right? Well, Yeah,
as mentioned, we had a big interview just before Christmas with Glenn McGee
talking about kind of his rise through the ranks over the past decade, moving
up through m X five Cup, which he won the opportunity to even start
in the first place on I Racing, his career path from there focusing on
lambergiy Any super Tropeo last year and then going out and winning the world finals
and becoming a world champion and the first virtual to FIA World Champion, which
just an incredible accomplishment no matter how you swing it. But just you know,
he had a lot of great stories about just the drastic change that comes
from when you move up from an m X five to a Super Tropeo,
which in so many ways could not be more different vehicles. But Glenn is
another, you know, another SIM racer who has really done just so much.
Truly got his start on I Racing. You know, we were working
with Mazda I don't know six seven years ago and he got an invite to
the Master Shootout, which is where they take Masda drivers, put them on
track and do all kinds of stuff, you know, data analysis, feedback,
sponsorship stuff, and they select a winner who gets a scholarship to race
in the m x five series. And he won. That was the first
tim Raicher to ever win that, you know, because he was going up
against real world Master drivers, guys that race spect meatas or open wheel mouses
and things like that, and he won that and and it's just stuck with
it. He's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet in the paddock.
If you see him, he's usually got uh an I racing something on because
he because he's he's proud of where he came from, which is awesome to
see. But he'll stop and talk and you know, as long as he's
not jumping in the car for a session, he'll talk to you all day.
And super nice guy. So he does when he wins. Don't forget
that. Don't forget that. He does the pose when he wins, he
does do the pose, the I Racing poses. Yeah, and and Kevin
was the U I. Yeah. One of the cool things about Glenn too
and last year was the fact that he came back from some adversity at the
beginning of the year, because he started the year in the wall at Daytona
during the Speciata race and broke his hand and he came back from that really
badly. Yeah, like metal up in there now. Yeah, it was.
He used I Racing for physical therapy to recover. But that's also part
of what allowed him to kind of focus on the super Trofeo season as he
again as he talks about in the interview, and we'll have to throw the
link in the in the description, but link in chat. Yes, Lincoln
Bio everybody. It's a really good interview though, definitely check it out.
It's once again, really nice guy. I've not had the privilege of meeting
him, but Kevin has spoken highly of him. Shoot, since I've worked
at I Racing, so it's really cool to see the success and and yeah,
it's it's good stuff. And most recently, one last guy we really
want to to talk about and really congratulate Dan Morat coming off a victory at
the role X twenty four Big Time I Racer Cisco. You've got the details
there. Yeah, and it was a really cool story. He had a
busy weekend at the Rolex this year, Randon Mitchelin pilot and then in the
Windward Racing Mercedes got the GTD victory. So it was really cool to see.
He was super emotional in the car. You could see that on the
broadcast once he crossed the line and pulled over after the race, he was
crying in the car for a while. He was emotional in his interview.
It was really cool. But yeah, Dan's always been a big supporter of
us. Big Streamer is doing some race racework gloves now that you can buy
and been promoting that. So through that, he's gotten to work with a
lot of sim racers. I know he has a good relationship with Casey Kerwin
for example. But yeah, it has been a big pillar of the community.
And it's cool to see, you know, another Eye racer go out
and hey, win a Rolelex. That's not a bad that's not a bad
weekend. I think I saw a stat from him that he's won two weather
Tech races in his career so far and both of them were the Rolex twenty
four, so that's pretty impressive. That's a good batting average. That's fine.
Yeah, and we did a piece on him. There's a video piece.
He did one and we did one as well because he he used Eye
Racing, so he's not just a racer, but he's a coach. A
lot of guys coach other drivers as they're coming up. So he was coaching
one of his teammates using IE racing a lot, and he was using his
I Racing team and guys that he races with on I Racing to help with
that coaching, and the owner of that team ended up inviting everybody out to
drive the real world car. I forget which track it was in Texas,
but I forget which track, but check it out. We did a little
video piece on it. He put a bunch of sim racers into his car
kind of as a thank you for helping him get up to speed. So
so really neat community stuff for sure. Absolutely stealing Chris's line. We never
have that on the shirt. We should. Moving on section three of Chris's
sarcastic outline, E sport News good timing since we delayed the show because we
kicked off the E NASCAR Coca Cola I Racing Series last night, right,
Chris, Yes, we did with our preseason exhibition clash Free for All whatever
you want to call it, moved back to Daytona this year. But before
we actually get into the race details themselves, uh, the series got a
complete kind of overhaul in the off season. The prize pool is the highest
it's ever been, more than half a million dollars on the big increase.
That is a lot of money, Kevin. It was three hundred grand last
years. More. It's awesome. Yeah, measly three hundred grand now have
been There is a lot of money. Now that's not for the that that's
that's the whole the whole prize pool. It's the whole prize pool. Yeah,
that's everything. That means a lot of people can win money. So
yeah, Champion still takes home that hundred grand at the end of the year,
but a lot of new faces. Not so much with the driver pool,
as we only have a handful of rookies and a lot of the people
who weren't on the grid last year that worked their way back in are actually
veterans of the series. Fell out for a little while, came back.
But six new teams, a lot of names you've heard of. Spiro Motorsports,
a Cup Series team, the virtual return of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, which
is really cool if you've been following NASCAR over the past couple of decades.
Kevin Harvick always did so much in the X Findy and Craftsman truck series,
and now we've got Virtual KHI, which is awesome. Multiple esports teams M
eighty Oxygen Esports which is local our friends at BS competition, and then a
project that I have been working on for a few years behind the scenes.
Nitro Circus now has an e NASCAR team, which is a really cool bit
of crossover and trying to get Travis and the entire Nitro team involved a little
bit more this year. So really exciting to have some new faces there.
It meant that free agency just went completely bonkers, and I think it was
about one out of every four driver stayed in place from last year. Everybody
else changed up. Oh, very exciting. Exciting to see all the new
teams and once again you hit on this. You know, some of the
biggest names did stay in place, you know, Ottenser Zolensky, Keegan Ley.
Uh, there's there's a lot of people in the that did stay and
they were starting to kind of build relationships and brands. And I mean,
isn't that, you know, Kevin maybe talk about the you know, is
the goals of this of this of this series. Yeah, I mean you're
exactly right, trying to build brands and relationships and and you know, get
these drivers more known, right, so that they can do more both in
this series and other things that they choose to do in sim racing. But
you know, the new teams that came on board are super excited, right
they're they're already doing a ton of promotion. You see it all over social
Shout out to Florian from BS Competition because he's the most excited guy I've ever
talked to about having a team, So that's awesome. Well, what else?
One other thing to note is that the series races are at a different
time now, So if you're in the US on the East Coast, they're
eight pm instead of nine pm, which is awesome for me because never getting
late for me and as I get older, as past my bedtime. But
hopefully, well we'll change some get some better viewership. I know it's a
little early if you're in California, but it'll be all right center four thirty,
just in case anybody's wanting anyway. It's just something to note, so
if you're going to tune in, it'll be an hour earlier than it was
in the past, And if you're wanting to participate and not just watch E
nascars I step all over Cisco right there. We do have the I Racing
Daytona five hundred coming up in a couple of weeks, the week of February
thirteenth. Through the nineteenth standard in I times kicking off the year, So
yeah, very exciting, one of our biggest special events of the season.
Yeah, I did want to jump in and say you were mentioning partnerships.
Kevin one of the drivers that changed teams this year. But it's actually kind
of a cool story. Colin Bowden one of our more outspoken and social drivers
in the series. He actually works on submarines as his day job and moved
over to RFK racing over Rash Fenway Keselawski and it's going to be driving the
build submarines car this here, So it sort of works out another one of
those very serendipitous sponsorship opportunities. Do you think he'll actually race from inside a
submarine because that would be a heck of a story. How would you get
the how would you get the Internet out of the submarine? I feel like
can't talk about that. Yeah, I feel like you have as long as
you're not using a knockoff GameCube control. Probably can't force him to use a
camera though when he's doing that. So Chris went there, moving on Porcha
tag East Sports super Cup. We've got the season kicking off, I believe
this weekend right Kevin Saturday kicks off. We have a All Star series again,
which is awesome, a lot of big name streamers that you'd recognize.
The All Star Race is always super fun to watch. It's a little bit
more casual, a little less serious than the guys like to have fun with
it, so that'll be awesome. And then that's followed by the round one
of the Sports Super Cups here which has I guess, kind of like Coke,
some changes this year, so the format is changing. We're fewer events,
but we're doing kind of a midseason tournament, extra points on the final
round, things like that, just to mix it up, make it a
little bit more exciting. That's the idea, trying to put on a good
show, right. Prize pool still two hundred thousand plus some pretty awesome prizes
from some of the sponsors, so over two hundred grand awesome partnership with Porsche,
Tag, Hoyer and all the other sponsors. So excited to kick that
off. The race on East Coast time, I believe. Also, our
race is one pm on Saturday, with the main event kicking off at two
pm, so hope you guys can tune in. It'll be on our twitch
porsa twitch YouTube Facebook every place that Cisco can put it right Cisco, yeah,
exactly. And one of the big changes Kevin as well is the fact
that our opening race has changed for the first time, and I think three
years now, it's no longer Hockenheim. We're going into the Daytona road course.
So gee, if you haven't had enough Daytona yet, we got more
Daytona for you. That's a good point. And it'll be the first rolling
start we've had as well. R Yes, so we didn't want to do
a standing start on the angled banking at this time. That would be that's
bad, that would be a disaster, be fun to watch, but but
it would end the race pretty quickly. So rolling start first time. We'll
have that in this series. So all starts are driving the prototypes too.
We're pumping the prototypes right. We possibly go wrong, go big, or
go home right, So it should be good. It's interesting to watch,
you know. The the the actual Esports series is some of the best road
racing you will see period. The All Star race is some of the most
fun streaming you will see period exactly. And so they compliment each other really
well. I think what was it SPA that last year. Year before last,
we had all there was like there was Kerwin, Matt Malone, who
else any there on the yeah cork on the last lap, they're all talking
to each other and talking trash a little bit and you know, door banging
all the way around the last lap. That was a ton of fun to
watch. So yeah, tune in next. I Racing Thrustmaster World of Outlaws
Sprint Car Series. That's a long one. That's a really long one.
Handing that one off to Chris because it's on dirt. I don't know if
you guys know this. Chris like dirt. Forget the fact that it's on
dirt. Let's not bury the lead. This championship came down to a tie.
And not only did it come down to a tie with the tiebreaker which
is feature victories, it literally came down to a single lap. Ryan Avila
Aiden Forster teammates front runners all year, just incredibly consistent all season long.
They kind of had to swing a big swing on points in the penultimate round
of the season. Cisco used serendipitous, so I had to match with another
you know, ten cent vocabulary word. There's scrabble today we are, So
Aiden comes into the final race, twenty one point lead. Justin Malilla's recap
has all the details and all the math and everything. Aiden gives up a
few points in the heats because they're in the same heat, and Ryan comes
off much better. Ryan's towards the front of the field the entire race.
Aiden Forster's got to claw his way through from sixteenth on a grid to twenty.
When the checkered flag finally falls, Logan Ramsey's up front takes the checkered
flag, but Ryan Avila Aiden Forster tied for the championship on points. It
comes down to a race at Fairbury where Aiden Forrester only led one lap,
but it was the most important one, the last one. Took his only
victory of the season. That was the tiebreaker. That's the difference between taking
home ten grand and about forty five hundred bucks. So big, big swing,
you know. Sometimes that's all it comes down to, though, is
over the entire course of a season. So congratulations to both of those guys.
They both put on a hell of a fight. Logan I believe,
jumped up to third in points with the victory. Alex Bergeron won half the
season, but you guys know how it goes. Sometimes you can win a
lot of races, but if you don't have luck in the ones you don't
win, it doesn't come down to it championship. I feel like Bergeron's won
his fair share races on iras. I feel like he will be back for
more. Let's be honest that he can wheel. But yeah, it was
incredible that it came down to the wire and once again the tie. That's
I don't stab boy. We've never had that happen, right. This is
the first time where we had a tie and it came down to the driver's
side by side and whoever could edge out who they're in front of. Uh,
and that coming down to the points victory, which, let me tell
you, that's not fun to broadcast because I really wanted to show Logan at
the end crossing the line for the rais. I'm like, I can't leave
this because they're literally side by side for the championship. Get good, Cisco,
get good? All right? Moving on, I racing New Year's Resolutions.
This is part four for those that are keeping score at home. Actually,
I'm gonna go back just for a moment. You guys are talking about
your Scrabble Awards, Chris I said disingenuous format outlined formatting. I didn't get
any points for disingenuous. We weren't playing. This is an educational there's too
many letters in that for that to be a scrabble award. I don't think
you can make that. I don't know. Super col fragilistic, xblidocious indeed
also too long to play. It's a double scrabble, Kevin, when you
have two boards at the same time. Oh gosh, all right, I
racing New Year's resolutions. What are we planning on getting better at this year
participating? I'm gonna go with participation number one. Also, Kevin and I
are going to do a special event together that we did agree. We're going
to do seabring. What car are we driving? Not GT threes? Please
one of the prototypes? One of the prototypes. I figure you'd want to
do the Porsche GTP. I don't know. I might that car Cadoc sounds
good. Cadillac. Maybe maybe we'll just maybe we could do a poll and
our our four fans could pick the car we drive. Who would actually comment
comment below on what you think that we should race. I just I like
being in the fast class. Because you decide when the stupid overtake attempt is
the only way I can pass anybody well, and it makes it more entertaining.
I can be three seconds off the pace, but I feel great passing
all those GT threes. So but yeah, comment down below what you think
we should race. But yeah, just racing more. We have a lot
going on this year, a lot of really cool stuff coming in the build.
Looking forward to talking about that probably on our next podcast for honest.
But yeah, there will be more opportunities to participate for a lot of different
types of ey racers, and that is is very exciting. Agreed. I'm
also gonna work on my golf swing this year. So for whatever, you're
always gonna work on your golf. I know it's gonna get any better.
Sometimes it's gonna get work. It's like me saying I'm gonna lose weight.
It's the perpetual resolution. But how much progress do you really make? Chris
didn't lose like a lot of weight. Yeah, it's been a couple of
years. Well we've tried him. Yeah, well it's not it's not so
much new year, new me that hasn't worked for so well on that.
Thanks, We gotta give a shout out. Hold on, shout shout out
to Sean who's working the soundboard for Yeah, the Weekly. I have to
turn the monitor and lean over. Yeah where set there is? Also?
Are we gonna let Chris off without talking about his road rating and his road
license? I thought that was a whole thing. Yeah, I was appointed
in all of you for I didn't put it in the outline more time making
a professional outline. You forgot the depth. I forgot to throw myself under
the bus. Figure you guys would do. Greg, you don't even stick
to the outline half the time. I thought you'd do that on the fly.
No, I like to have it organized. Then I know what to
mess around with. Yes, I didn't even prepare anything for this. Usually
he's got nice graphics and whatnot. He's like, no, I's just gonna
go away anyway. And then it was because we had a broadcast. It
wasn't because we had a broadcast or anything last night, Greig or you know,
it's the first, Yes, Chris, Chris is supposed to have at
least a d license and something. By now I have a B in dirt
road. No, sorry, something that's paved, something that people play I'm
not going there? Does that count? Does that count as the first uh
mention? Can I do? Yeah? You can use the counter well Travis
earlier he did say, yeah, there's two. There's two of my secret
words. Can we get like the Peewee's Playhouse and just have everybody shout and
scream from now on? No, I feel I'm going to go with no,
that's that's too high budget. No. My resolution is to finally get
somebody to commit to doing that development level off road car with us. If
you're listening, sign the licensing deal. Please? Wow, that's direct,
Please Chris on the podcast, it's a tactic. We'll put it that one.
Yeah, yeah, No, we're we're having to shift directions in how
we do this year. I guess New Year knew me. That's a little
more direct than I usually am. Well, thank you listening to this edition
of the I Raising Downshift. Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe
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I am Greg West and we'll see you on the track at Daytona