WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:08.000 This week on the I Racing down Ship, Greg recounts his Daytona red and 2 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.320 I left a lane and a half instead of three lanes. Kevin breaks down 3 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.960 a new Simrich design. Do you think he'll actually race from the insane of 4 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.079 shubine because that would be a pack of a choice? And Chris plays a 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:22.920 mini game Cisco U serendipitous, so I had to match with another you know, 6 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.559 ten cent vocabulary word. They're all that and more so strap in. 7 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:31.239 Welcome to I Racing zausch if Tom your host, Greg West. I'm back 8 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:35.200 with the boys, Kevin Bobbitt and Chris Leoni. We're a little late on 9 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.960 this one, but we've been a little busy, haven't we. Kevin, 10 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:41.920 it's been it's been a busy new year. We were going to record last 11 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.759 week and then we didn't sow apologies to everybody, but you know that happens, 12 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:49.119 is it because you and Chris have been busy with the I'm checking the 13 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:55.240 outline that has been sarcastically bulleted and formatted. Pursa's outline brought me back to 14 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:58.399 like third grade when you learned how to do a proper outline. It was 15 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:03.719 like disturbing, so is this APA or MLA out of curiosity formatting? Well, 16 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:10.239 it's whatever Microsoft word put in. But I have to say I never 17 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:15.640 thought i'd see the words disingenuous use of proper outline formatting and a for that 18 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.920 anywhere. Yeah, no, exactly. Like I said, disingenuous outline formatting 19 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.640 is my favorite RAM album and had all the hits on it. That's a 20 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.599 big one. It went platinum, I think, yes, it did. 21 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.040 What have we been up to? Chris? What do you? What have 22 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.560 you been up to? You are a very uh you live a very interesting 23 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:41.920 life and eclectic. Just softball it in like that. Well, other than 24 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:48.439 trying to build you about twenty week thirteen series ideas that may or may not 25 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:51.319 be ill advised here and there, I got new rats. I took a 26 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.040 break for a few months. I have new rats. Well, and what 27 00:01:55.079 --> 00:02:01.719 are their names? Their names they're inside. Their names are Noon and Midnight. 28 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.280 Mostly because I thought it'd be really funny to have an albino rat named 29 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.919 Midnight. And then uh, usually I name one and then the other one 30 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:13.840 gets a name in response to the first name. So uh yeah, Well, 31 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.039 congratulations on the new family editions. That's very exciting. Thank you the 32 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:24.120 personality scaring me along? How are their personalities? They are still scared to 33 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:28.759 death of me? But they're babies. It's okay. Status quarter remains unchanged, 34 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:30.400 got it? Yeah? Are they? Are? They house trained and 35 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.560 stuff? They run around the house or no? No, no, no, 36 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:37.479 no no no. I like actually knowing where my pets are so gotch? 37 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.639 Does Emily like the rats? Like for real, She's not gonna watch 38 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:46.960 this, so I don't think you want to open that can of worms? 39 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.039 We do? Yes, I do as I do. This is this is 40 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.439 a downship. This is not Jerry Springer. Let's let's bring Emily on as 41 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:00.280 a guest next time. Leo Leo Leo didn't. No, no, it's 42 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:05.199 gonna be too stable. Yeah, neither of us are set up for that. 43 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.360 That doesn't work. Can that's good? That's better. We have had 44 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:15.000 the couples we had, we had Tyler and Lisa. Oh yeah as precedent. 45 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:16.719 Yeah, we have done it before. I mean Lisa works for the 46 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:20.240 company though, so she can be all in told. Yeah exactly, that's 47 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.800 that's different. What about you, Kevin? Did you get any new pets? 48 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:28.520 I did not get any rats or anything. No. Wren, my 49 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:32.400 dog is still going strong fifteen years old. She naps a lot most of 50 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.039 the time, but you know she'll wake up and run around. You know, 51 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.919 she plays fetch with the ball. She'll fetch it once and then the 52 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:44.439 next time she's like, yeah, I've had enough, you go get Yeah, 53 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:46.439 she's living her best life. So it's all good. But no new 54 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:50.800 pets in my house. How about the other exciting things for the holiday? 55 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.479 Lots of family around, which was great. Yeah, the boys. The 56 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:58.360 boys were home, one home from college, one home from the army. 57 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:00.360 H he was on leave. And now they're all back. So now the 58 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.400 house is quiet again except for me and the dog. So it's all good. 59 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:08.840 Happy New Year, everyone, Happy New Year. As it's January thirty, 60 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.520 first we can still say that it's January. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 61 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:14.719 yeah. Flit in under the recording. We'll make it out in times. 62 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.240 What about you, Greg? Kind of the same thing. Stayed laid 63 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.560 pretty low for the holidays and yeah, exciting a couple of weeks here at 64 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:28.600 I Racing with the I Racing Daytona twenty four, followed up by the outside 65 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:30.560 version. I think im is is that the outdoor version? Yeap, that 66 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:35.720 outdoor version of the I racing data or something like that. But you know, 67 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.959 January is great, a great month of your motorsport fan, and so 68 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.639 I've been watching a lot of that and excited to excited to get back into 69 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.079 this. So let's kick it off. Let's talk about it. I racing 70 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:55.279 Dayton and twenty four the biggest event in SIM racing history. Eighteen thousand, 71 00:04:55.519 --> 00:05:01.639 five hundred drivers, over four thousand t eames. But he had know how 72 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.879 many miles were driven? We have that. Yeah. I was actually I 73 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:08.360 was typing it up while we were going through the outline. I went back 74 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:14.199 to uh Dougie's tweet. Ten million, two hundred and twenty eight one hundred 75 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:19.079 and eighteen miles over two million, eight hundred and seventy three thousand and sixty 76 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:24.600 seven laps. How many times around the world is that? Somebody do the 77 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.000 math? Somebody do the math? Hang on? Hang on, yeah, 78 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.399 Chris is on that. Kevin. We didn't get an incident count. We 79 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.319 should have got an incident count. Yeah, it was probably close to ten 80 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:40.480 million. I contributed a few of those I got. I got killed international 81 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.639 on Twitter that you got killed. Yeah, that's the problem I got. 82 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.720 I was in the Ferrari and I got I got gtped. That's just the 83 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:53.199 nice set, you know what. But this is a great I rasing lesson 84 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.800 here. I looked back at the replay, and there's something I could have 85 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:00.319 done better. I knew he was going to send it from one point two 86 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.480 seconds back going into the International Horseshoe, and I left a lane and a 87 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:11.639 half instead of three lanes. And even I knew it was coming. I 88 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.160 don't know why it wasn't out. You should just drop off in the grass. 89 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:17.279 Anyway. I feel like this was clearly your fault. Probably, No, 90 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:21.360 the second part was my fault because he clipped me, spun me. 91 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:26.519 I ended up completely sideways, right in the middle of the International Horseshoe. 92 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.519 And here comes a bunch of GT threes and a couple more GTPs, and 93 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:32.240 some dove to the inside and some dove to the outside. So I just 94 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:39.439 held still until the second wave got there and I got t bone. Oh 95 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:43.319 somebody else got caught up to Oh yeah, the second you did the predictable 96 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.079 thing when you got wrecked, and that was the mistake. You know, 97 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:53.879 the driving if you've been two feet in and uh no, just just go 98 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:58.720 just get lesson, learned, give room give all of the track to the 99 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.600 GTP. I think that was that was it. Do we have a sarcasm 100 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:08.120 font for the podcast or is that just the whole show? The record? 101 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:13.639 I've got the math. The circumference was twenty four thousand, nine hundred and 102 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.360 one miles, so that puts us at four hundred and ten and three quarters 103 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:24.439 trips around the Earth lot. Does that wrong the equator? Yeah? I 104 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:28.000 believe so. Yeah, Okay, I don't know. We're doing math on 105 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:30.560 the fly, which you already don't trust my setup building. We probably have 106 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:32.519 it wrong, but we're going on, well, probably have it wrong. 107 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:36.319 Somebody's gonna fast. We're gonna check this in post by the way, Well 108 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.759 yeah you no, no, no, no, the comments are gonna check 109 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:43.240 it. Yeah no, I don't have to comments. Yeah, are fore 110 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.040 fans. Somebody's gonna do the math and tell us that Chris was wrong. 111 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:48.439 Let's tell Chris that he was wrong, right, he did. Let's be 112 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.360 clear, he did the math, not me. Yeah, they're going to 113 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:55.879 tell us that Chris was wrong. If the viewers looked on the left side 114 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.519 right here, so if you look over there, you can see twitch chats 115 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.399 actually figuring it out right now in real time. I like it. Okay, 116 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.839 what about on YouTube? Oh yeah, I guess that would be that 117 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.279 would be down there, Yeah, yeah, down there. What about on 118 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.199 Facebook? Facebook? Oh yeah, they do, it'd be over there as 119 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.040 well. Okay, I just want to make sure we covered all our bases. 120 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:22.319 This is the dance dance revolution of Cisco pointing places. Uh, Kevin, 121 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.000 you had you had some staff that did pretty well, Corey and Cole. 122 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:30.759 Corey and Cole, both on the marketing team, ended up winning their 123 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.360 split. I think they were in an Uh what were they I think they 124 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.200 were peachings. Yeah, so that's pretty awesome. They were pretty excited, 125 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.039 pretty exhausted. It was them and I think they had other two of their 126 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.200 friends driving as well, but two staff. There were multiple staff teams, 127 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.559 but that was the one that did the best that I'm aware of, So 128 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.320 you know, much better than Greg's. How long were you in the race? 129 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.679 Actually, I think we made it like six hours in okay, but 130 00:08:54.000 --> 00:09:00.480 you're very exciting fully totaled. Uh, you know, had was art is 131 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:05.360 forty five minutes and uh that was we decided at that point we enjoy sleep. 132 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:11.159 So that was that was the end of that. Yeah, but awesome. 133 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.240 And there was some other big name guy in one of the splits, 134 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:20.480 maybe talking about world champion F fun driver, multiple time world champion F one 135 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:26.480 driver, Max was in Huh, how do you schmer map? How you 136 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:33.360 say that Max ver stap in redline? Max was stapping win GTD in the 137 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.200 tops. That was pretty exciting to see. And they come they came back, 138 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.519 they were they were down early UH and came back for the win. 139 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:43.559 I have to say here and this is where I go off script Cisco sorry 140 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.399 in advance. It is. It's funny how this event is beginning to emulate 141 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:56.320 the real world event because the number of UH emails and discord messages and smoke 142 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:03.080 signals and carrier pigeons about wreck mendations for the BOP from the from the teams. 143 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.720 There's a lot of a lot of lobbying, a lot of lobbying. 144 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:09.600 And you know, we don't get taken out to dinner or anything. I 145 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.679 know that maybe they just start sending like a box of chocolates or something. 146 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.600 You know. I mean, I'm not saying we can be bribed. Disclaimer, 147 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:18.919 we cannot be bribed or do everything by the data. And we want 148 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.480 everybody to be successful and have a chance to win in every single chocolate, 149 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.399 but we do accept chocolate. Who was it that since donuts after they winning 150 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:33.519 NASCAR? It was Contie but he's retired. Yeah, if you're listening, 151 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:37.600 if you just want to continue to send send donuts to the office, you're 152 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.840 more than welcome. But yeah, that was it was really interesting to get 153 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.159 everybody's car is slow. It's funny how that works. That's that's how I 154 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:48.320 feel that the bop is pretty good. If every single car is slow, 155 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:54.399 we're good to go anyway. It's really quiet and awkward right now, So 156 00:10:54.679 --> 00:11:03.840 we're going to move on. Ats for my early twenties right there. Moving 157 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:09.600 on, We've got IndyCar, Kevin. IndyCar is back, and I've heard 158 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.720 the news. Huh, I have you heard the news. It's all news 159 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.320 at this point since we're the end of January. But it's super exciting to 160 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.480 be back. It's continuing to develop though. Yeah. Yeah, So lots 161 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:22.360 going on with the IndyCar. Obviously, the biggest part I think is Indy 162 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.720 five hundred is back, so we're running that the week after the real world 163 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:31.480 Indy five hundred, So that's awesome. We're gonna run it similar to the 164 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:33.960 way we've done it in the past, so there'll be an open series and 165 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.759 a fixed series, although they will run the same week. In the past, 166 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.559 we ran them different weeks, trying something new. Part of it has 167 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:46.440 got added to the special Events calendar after we already published that. We also 168 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:48.399 think this might be a nice change up, so we'll see how it goes. 169 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.879 But Indy car is fully supporting it. They're on board. They're super 170 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:58.799 excited and meeting with their team on a regular basis. So it's it's awesome 171 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.960 to have the communication and we're talking to what can we do help them, 172 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.559 what can they do help us. It's back to a partnership level, so 173 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.840 that's awesome. I think that we've updated the names of all the series that 174 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.840 are currently running. We'll be updating tracks for next season. You can get 175 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.600 into that, Greg, but you know, it's we'll be back to what 176 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:18.840 you guys were used to, you know, a couple of years ago. 177 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.360 So yeah, I think about that. The goal was real simple, just 178 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.320 put it back how it was right. Yeah, but there are a couple 179 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.639 of you know, small additions. As Kevin said, we're gonna just really 180 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.759 due to scheduling, we were kind of boxed in when we could do the 181 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.200 fix in the open eighty five hundred. So yeah, we'll try it together 182 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.759 this year and we'll look at the information in the community feedback, and maybe 183 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:41.120 it stays that way next year, maybe it goes back. We'll see. 184 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.879 We don't know what. We don't know yet, but it's still so this 185 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.519 is the one special event that has separate qualifying, right, So that's correct 186 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:52.320 qualifying all week, which is if you've been around a while, that's kind 187 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:54.799 of how it used to work for most of our series that they were just 188 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:00.840 qualifying all the time of separate sections. It wasn't part of the race session. 189 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:05.480 But so you can qualify what up through. I don't even remember I 190 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:09.440 think you qualified. We haven't built the series yet, but I believe it's 191 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:13.279 through the fridayday or Friday afternoon, and then I don't have the calendar in 192 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:16.639 front of me, but yeah, and then whatever session you join, it 193 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.559 will take your qualifying time and based on that. Ye. So it's a 194 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.200 yeah, a lot of fun, really popular to you know, emulate bump 195 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:26.720 week that way or bump Day. I should say its bump week on I 196 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.759 racing bump Day. And but there are no bumps. Everybody makes it so 197 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:35.279 that everybody makes the field. So uh yeah. We're also adding a couple 198 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.720 of a couple other changes. We're bringing back the d W twelve to the 199 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:46.200 delar Dash. That'll be really popular, you know. We made some changes 200 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.919 there that were necessitated. Happy to bring back the community and fan favorite to 201 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.799 that series. The changing next season or well, yes, that changes with 202 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:58.679 the March in March. We are also adding a fixed series that complements the 203 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.360 open set up series, and also all the Indy Car series are gonna be 204 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:05.480 at b moving forward, even the Oval Series, but we'll have a short 205 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.600 sprint race on opposite hours or the Open series. That sprint race will be 206 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.399 fixed. Just trying to get more people involved. The IRA eighteen is one 207 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.759 of the best cars on the service. We have a ton of data for 208 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:22.039 it. We've got a great relationship with DeLaura and and just they're open with 209 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:26.639 everything that we build with them, and we just want more people to try 210 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:30.320 it. It's a it's one of the hardest cars to set up in the 211 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.320 service because it's so aero sensitive. But with fixed setups you can get in, 212 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.240 you know, strap in and go and that's that's a cool opportunity. 213 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.120 Kevin's nod and like he's gonna say something, all right, moving on to 214 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:46.879 C section two. I guess this bullet C letter I whatever this is on 215 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.559 Chris's outline, real world drivers finding success on the back of their I Racing 216 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.320 relationships. I've read it directly off the script, and Max Esterson's a great 217 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:01.480 example handing to Chris for that. I thought we were going to go the 218 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.639 other way around, that Kevin would take this one. Kevin, you can 219 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.879 talk about that. I thought I had the next one. We're like a 220 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.240 bunch of bad outfielders. Just not call him for the ball, all right. 221 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:15.279 Well, well Max is moving up. I mean, if you've followed 222 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.720 along, we've been supporting him, he's been supporting us through his career as 223 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.600 he's kind of moved up rapidly because he's not been racing all that long, 224 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.200 only a handful of years. He's going to Formula three for the season, 225 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:31.240 which is a nice step up. If you don't know him, young American 226 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:35.799 driver who got to start on I Racing. When you see him on track, 227 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.919 there's always an E Racing logo on his car, and you'll see typically 228 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.240 there's some other SIM related sponsors. I don't know who's got lined up for 229 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.559 this year, so I won't mention names. But in the past he's had 230 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.559 names you would recognize from our world, right, I mean, he's got 231 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.279 real world sponsors as well. But it's nice to see the integration helmet. 232 00:15:54.480 --> 00:16:00.559 Yeah, well that's also SIM racing related, right, Chris. But yeah, 233 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.200 I think he had a steering wheel on the side, you know, 234 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.159 a SIM steering wheel, things like that. So, but great young American 235 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.039 driver. So cool to see him moving up the ranks. You know, 236 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:12.639 we're doing us, you know, trying to support him as best we can, 237 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:15.279 a lot of you know, promotion, doing a little bit to help 238 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:21.320 him, and you know, great representative of our world, you know, 239 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:23.600 the SIM racing world in the real world space. So awesome to see him 240 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:27.720 moving up. Yeah, and so everybody knows it's not just we, you 241 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.679 know, are helping him out with sponsorship and promotion. What Max, This 242 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:36.279 is a reciprocated relationship because Max has helped us a lot in vehicle development. 243 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.559 He has a lot of experience and you know Formula Forward we developed the f 244 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:45.679 F sixteen hundred and we actually scanned the car he raced and then he helped 245 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.240 us with the development of that. We also have another project in the works 246 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:53.120 right now that he is helping us on. More news on that at a 247 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:56.799 later dating time hashtags soon. Yeah. I mean it's probably important to note 248 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:02.000 just in general with sponsorship, our logo on the sod of car is lovely, 249 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.880 but it's not a smart way to spend money necessarily, right. It 250 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:10.119 needs to be a relationship and there needs to be more involved than that. 251 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:14.000 So so if you're sending sponsorship requests and you know, a logo on the 252 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:15.119 side of your car isn't going to get it cut, is going to cut 253 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:22.960 it? So yeah, all right, Now we'll throw it over to Chris 254 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.759 to talk about somebody else who has had a long term relationship with this. 255 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:32.359 Glenn McGhee is what well, I did the interview with him last month. 256 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:34.039 Gat Yeah, all right, and you can talk about you get here. 257 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.839 I'll be quiet. You guys both take it all right? Well, Yeah, 258 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:45.599 as mentioned, we had a big interview just before Christmas with Glenn McGee 259 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.200 talking about kind of his rise through the ranks over the past decade, moving 260 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:53.000 up through m X five Cup, which he won the opportunity to even start 261 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:59.519 in the first place on I Racing, his career path from there focusing on 262 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:04.519 lambergiy Any super Tropeo last year and then going out and winning the world finals 263 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:14.599 and becoming a world champion and the first virtual to FIA World Champion, which 264 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:19.240 just an incredible accomplishment no matter how you swing it. But just you know, 265 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:23.160 he had a lot of great stories about just the drastic change that comes 266 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.799 from when you move up from an m X five to a Super Tropeo, 267 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:32.880 which in so many ways could not be more different vehicles. But Glenn is 268 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.759 another, you know, another SIM racer who has really done just so much. 269 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.039 Truly got his start on I Racing. You know, we were working 270 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.279 with Mazda I don't know six seven years ago and he got an invite to 271 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:48.559 the Master Shootout, which is where they take Masda drivers, put them on 272 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.960 track and do all kinds of stuff, you know, data analysis, feedback, 273 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:56.920 sponsorship stuff, and they select a winner who gets a scholarship to race 274 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:00.279 in the m x five series. And he won. That was the first 275 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:02.920 tim Raicher to ever win that, you know, because he was going up 276 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:06.839 against real world Master drivers, guys that race spect meatas or open wheel mouses 277 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:10.160 and things like that, and he won that and and it's just stuck with 278 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:11.519 it. He's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet in the paddock. 279 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:17.400 If you see him, he's usually got uh an I racing something on because 280 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:19.200 he because he's he's proud of where he came from, which is awesome to 281 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:22.200 see. But he'll stop and talk and you know, as long as he's 282 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:25.599 not jumping in the car for a session, he'll talk to you all day. 283 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.880 And super nice guy. So he does when he wins. Don't forget 284 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:32.960 that. Don't forget that. He does the pose when he wins, he 285 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.440 does do the pose, the I Racing poses. Yeah, and and Kevin 286 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:40.440 was the U I. Yeah. One of the cool things about Glenn too 287 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:42.960 and last year was the fact that he came back from some adversity at the 288 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.680 beginning of the year, because he started the year in the wall at Daytona 289 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:52.000 during the Speciata race and broke his hand and he came back from that really 290 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:53.799 badly. Yeah, like metal up in there now. Yeah, it was. 291 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:59.799 He used I Racing for physical therapy to recover. But that's also part 292 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:03.759 of what allowed him to kind of focus on the super Trofeo season as he 293 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.319 again as he talks about in the interview, and we'll have to throw the 294 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:11.319 link in the in the description, but link in chat. Yes, Lincoln 295 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.759 Bio everybody. It's a really good interview though, definitely check it out. 296 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:21.240 It's once again, really nice guy. I've not had the privilege of meeting 297 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:25.240 him, but Kevin has spoken highly of him. Shoot, since I've worked 298 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:29.119 at I Racing, so it's really cool to see the success and and yeah, 299 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.119 it's it's good stuff. And most recently, one last guy we really 300 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:38.720 want to to talk about and really congratulate Dan Morat coming off a victory at 301 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:45.000 the role X twenty four Big Time I Racer Cisco. You've got the details 302 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.880 there. Yeah, and it was a really cool story. He had a 303 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.799 busy weekend at the Rolex this year, Randon Mitchelin pilot and then in the 304 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.119 Windward Racing Mercedes got the GTD victory. So it was really cool to see. 305 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.880 He was super emotional in the car. You could see that on the 306 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.400 broadcast once he crossed the line and pulled over after the race, he was 307 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:07.480 crying in the car for a while. He was emotional in his interview. 308 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:11.119 It was really cool. But yeah, Dan's always been a big supporter of 309 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:17.279 us. Big Streamer is doing some race racework gloves now that you can buy 310 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:21.279 and been promoting that. So through that, he's gotten to work with a 311 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:23.799 lot of sim racers. I know he has a good relationship with Casey Kerwin 312 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:27.920 for example. But yeah, it has been a big pillar of the community. 313 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:30.680 And it's cool to see, you know, another Eye racer go out 314 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.880 and hey, win a Rolelex. That's not a bad that's not a bad 315 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:37.759 weekend. I think I saw a stat from him that he's won two weather 316 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.440 Tech races in his career so far and both of them were the Rolex twenty 317 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:45.759 four, so that's pretty impressive. That's a good batting average. That's fine. 318 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:52.599 Yeah, and we did a piece on him. There's a video piece. 319 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.359 He did one and we did one as well because he he used Eye 320 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:59.680 Racing, so he's not just a racer, but he's a coach. A 321 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:03.680 lot of guys coach other drivers as they're coming up. So he was coaching 322 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.240 one of his teammates using IE racing a lot, and he was using his 323 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:10.400 I Racing team and guys that he races with on I Racing to help with 324 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:14.960 that coaching, and the owner of that team ended up inviting everybody out to 325 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:18.400 drive the real world car. I forget which track it was in Texas, 326 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:19.599 but I forget which track, but check it out. We did a little 327 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:22.680 video piece on it. He put a bunch of sim racers into his car 328 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:26.000 kind of as a thank you for helping him get up to speed. So 329 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:34.680 so really neat community stuff for sure. Absolutely stealing Chris's line. We never 330 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:38.640 have that on the shirt. We should. Moving on section three of Chris's 331 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:44.759 sarcastic outline, E sport News good timing since we delayed the show because we 332 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:48.680 kicked off the E NASCAR Coca Cola I Racing Series last night, right, 333 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:55.440 Chris, Yes, we did with our preseason exhibition clash Free for All whatever 334 00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:59.559 you want to call it, moved back to Daytona this year. But before 335 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.759 we actually get into the race details themselves, uh, the series got a 336 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.160 complete kind of overhaul in the off season. The prize pool is the highest 337 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:12.240 it's ever been, more than half a million dollars on the big increase. 338 00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:17.519 That is a lot of money, Kevin. It was three hundred grand last 339 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:22.039 years. More. It's awesome. Yeah, measly three hundred grand now have 340 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:26.440 been There is a lot of money. Now that's not for the that that's 341 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.720 that's the whole the whole prize pool. It's the whole prize pool. Yeah, 342 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.359 that's everything. That means a lot of people can win money. So 343 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.880 yeah, Champion still takes home that hundred grand at the end of the year, 344 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:41.319 but a lot of new faces. Not so much with the driver pool, 345 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:44.359 as we only have a handful of rookies and a lot of the people 346 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:48.480 who weren't on the grid last year that worked their way back in are actually 347 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:51.240 veterans of the series. Fell out for a little while, came back. 348 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:56.119 But six new teams, a lot of names you've heard of. Spiro Motorsports, 349 00:23:56.119 --> 00:24:00.480 a Cup Series team, the virtual return of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, which 350 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:06.279 is really cool if you've been following NASCAR over the past couple of decades. 351 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:10.920 Kevin Harvick always did so much in the X Findy and Craftsman truck series, 352 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:17.319 and now we've got Virtual KHI, which is awesome. Multiple esports teams M 353 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:22.359 eighty Oxygen Esports which is local our friends at BS competition, and then a 354 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.559 project that I have been working on for a few years behind the scenes. 355 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:30.519 Nitro Circus now has an e NASCAR team, which is a really cool bit 356 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:37.279 of crossover and trying to get Travis and the entire Nitro team involved a little 357 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:40.799 bit more this year. So really exciting to have some new faces there. 358 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:44.880 It meant that free agency just went completely bonkers, and I think it was 359 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:48.799 about one out of every four driver stayed in place from last year. Everybody 360 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:52.359 else changed up. Oh, very exciting. Exciting to see all the new 361 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:56.720 teams and once again you hit on this. You know, some of the 362 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:03.319 biggest names did stay in place, you know, Ottenser Zolensky, Keegan Ley. 363 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:07.519 Uh, there's there's a lot of people in the that did stay and 364 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:10.119 they were starting to kind of build relationships and brands. And I mean, 365 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:11.279 isn't that, you know, Kevin maybe talk about the you know, is 366 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.599 the goals of this of this of this series. Yeah, I mean you're 367 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:21.279 exactly right, trying to build brands and relationships and and you know, get 368 00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:25.359 these drivers more known, right, so that they can do more both in 369 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:29.440 this series and other things that they choose to do in sim racing. But 370 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:32.359 you know, the new teams that came on board are super excited, right 371 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:34.920 they're they're already doing a ton of promotion. You see it all over social 372 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.240 Shout out to Florian from BS Competition because he's the most excited guy I've ever 373 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:45.000 talked to about having a team, So that's awesome. Well, what else? 374 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.519 One other thing to note is that the series races are at a different 375 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.160 time now, So if you're in the US on the East Coast, they're 376 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:55.359 eight pm instead of nine pm, which is awesome for me because never getting 377 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:56.920 late for me and as I get older, as past my bedtime. But 378 00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:00.440 hopefully, well we'll change some get some better viewership. I know it's a 379 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:04.559 little early if you're in California, but it'll be all right center four thirty, 380 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:10.880 just in case anybody's wanting anyway. It's just something to note, so 381 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:12.640 if you're going to tune in, it'll be an hour earlier than it was 382 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:18.559 in the past, And if you're wanting to participate and not just watch E 383 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:22.799 nascars I step all over Cisco right there. We do have the I Racing 384 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:26.279 Daytona five hundred coming up in a couple of weeks, the week of February 385 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.680 thirteenth. Through the nineteenth standard in I times kicking off the year, So 386 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:34.200 yeah, very exciting, one of our biggest special events of the season. 387 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:38.119 Yeah, I did want to jump in and say you were mentioning partnerships. 388 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:42.400 Kevin one of the drivers that changed teams this year. But it's actually kind 389 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:48.319 of a cool story. Colin Bowden one of our more outspoken and social drivers 390 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:52.519 in the series. He actually works on submarines as his day job and moved 391 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:57.480 over to RFK racing over Rash Fenway Keselawski and it's going to be driving the 392 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:00.880 build submarines car this here, So it sort of works out another one of 393 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:07.440 those very serendipitous sponsorship opportunities. Do you think he'll actually race from inside a 394 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:10.160 submarine because that would be a heck of a story. How would you get 395 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:11.839 the how would you get the Internet out of the submarine? I feel like 396 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:19.200 can't talk about that. Yeah, I feel like you have as long as 397 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:22.559 you're not using a knockoff GameCube control. Probably can't force him to use a 398 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:32.000 camera though when he's doing that. So Chris went there, moving on Porcha 399 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.759 tag East Sports super Cup. We've got the season kicking off, I believe 400 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:41.359 this weekend right Kevin Saturday kicks off. We have a All Star series again, 401 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:45.480 which is awesome, a lot of big name streamers that you'd recognize. 402 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.880 The All Star Race is always super fun to watch. It's a little bit 403 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.519 more casual, a little less serious than the guys like to have fun with 404 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.680 it, so that'll be awesome. And then that's followed by the round one 405 00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:02.480 of the Sports Super Cups here which has I guess, kind of like Coke, 406 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:07.160 some changes this year, so the format is changing. We're fewer events, 407 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.799 but we're doing kind of a midseason tournament, extra points on the final 408 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:12.839 round, things like that, just to mix it up, make it a 409 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:17.720 little bit more exciting. That's the idea, trying to put on a good 410 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:23.119 show, right. Prize pool still two hundred thousand plus some pretty awesome prizes 411 00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:30.000 from some of the sponsors, so over two hundred grand awesome partnership with Porsche, 412 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.279 Tag, Hoyer and all the other sponsors. So excited to kick that 413 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.079 off. The race on East Coast time, I believe. Also, our 414 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:41.559 race is one pm on Saturday, with the main event kicking off at two 415 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.880 pm, so hope you guys can tune in. It'll be on our twitch 416 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.880 porsa twitch YouTube Facebook every place that Cisco can put it right Cisco, yeah, 417 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:52.839 exactly. And one of the big changes Kevin as well is the fact 418 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.240 that our opening race has changed for the first time, and I think three 419 00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:00.319 years now, it's no longer Hockenheim. We're going into the Daytona road course. 420 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.519 So gee, if you haven't had enough Daytona yet, we got more 421 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.079 Daytona for you. That's a good point. And it'll be the first rolling 422 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:10.039 start we've had as well. R Yes, so we didn't want to do 423 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:14.799 a standing start on the angled banking at this time. That would be that's 424 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:17.440 bad, that would be a disaster, be fun to watch, but but 425 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:21.400 it would end the race pretty quickly. So rolling start first time. We'll 426 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:26.279 have that in this series. So all starts are driving the prototypes too. 427 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:32.640 We're pumping the prototypes right. We possibly go wrong, go big, or 428 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:37.319 go home right, So it should be good. It's interesting to watch, 429 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.480 you know. The the the actual Esports series is some of the best road 430 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:45.640 racing you will see period. The All Star race is some of the most 431 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.680 fun streaming you will see period exactly. And so they compliment each other really 432 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.920 well. I think what was it SPA that last year. Year before last, 433 00:29:52.960 --> 00:30:00.119 we had all there was like there was Kerwin, Matt Malone, who 434 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.640 else any there on the yeah cork on the last lap, they're all talking 435 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.119 to each other and talking trash a little bit and you know, door banging 436 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:10.440 all the way around the last lap. That was a ton of fun to 437 00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:17.440 watch. So yeah, tune in next. I Racing Thrustmaster World of Outlaws 438 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:19.880 Sprint Car Series. That's a long one. That's a really long one. 439 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:22.000 Handing that one off to Chris because it's on dirt. I don't know if 440 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.599 you guys know this. Chris like dirt. Forget the fact that it's on 441 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.519 dirt. Let's not bury the lead. This championship came down to a tie. 442 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:36.039 And not only did it come down to a tie with the tiebreaker which 443 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:41.920 is feature victories, it literally came down to a single lap. Ryan Avila 444 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:48.240 Aiden Forster teammates front runners all year, just incredibly consistent all season long. 445 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:52.599 They kind of had to swing a big swing on points in the penultimate round 446 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.200 of the season. Cisco used serendipitous, so I had to match with another 447 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:03.240 you know, ten cent vocabulary word. There's scrabble today we are, So 448 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.880 Aiden comes into the final race, twenty one point lead. Justin Malilla's recap 449 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:12.000 has all the details and all the math and everything. Aiden gives up a 450 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.960 few points in the heats because they're in the same heat, and Ryan comes 451 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:19.960 off much better. Ryan's towards the front of the field the entire race. 452 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:25.839 Aiden Forster's got to claw his way through from sixteenth on a grid to twenty. 453 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.279 When the checkered flag finally falls, Logan Ramsey's up front takes the checkered 454 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:36.759 flag, but Ryan Avila Aiden Forster tied for the championship on points. It 455 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:41.160 comes down to a race at Fairbury where Aiden Forrester only led one lap, 456 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.759 but it was the most important one, the last one. Took his only 457 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.559 victory of the season. That was the tiebreaker. That's the difference between taking 458 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:55.839 home ten grand and about forty five hundred bucks. So big, big swing, 459 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:59.839 you know. Sometimes that's all it comes down to, though, is 460 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.000 over the entire course of a season. So congratulations to both of those guys. 461 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:07.160 They both put on a hell of a fight. Logan I believe, 462 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.920 jumped up to third in points with the victory. Alex Bergeron won half the 463 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.240 season, but you guys know how it goes. Sometimes you can win a 464 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:16.599 lot of races, but if you don't have luck in the ones you don't 465 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:22.359 win, it doesn't come down to it championship. I feel like Bergeron's won 466 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.799 his fair share races on iras. I feel like he will be back for 467 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.359 more. Let's be honest that he can wheel. But yeah, it was 468 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:34.720 incredible that it came down to the wire and once again the tie. That's 469 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.640 I don't stab boy. We've never had that happen, right. This is 470 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:42.440 the first time where we had a tie and it came down to the driver's 471 00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:45.640 side by side and whoever could edge out who they're in front of. Uh, 472 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:50.119 and that coming down to the points victory, which, let me tell 473 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:52.759 you, that's not fun to broadcast because I really wanted to show Logan at 474 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:55.279 the end crossing the line for the rais. I'm like, I can't leave 475 00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.920 this because they're literally side by side for the championship. Get good, Cisco, 476 00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:07.440 get good? All right? Moving on, I racing New Year's Resolutions. 477 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:09.119 This is part four for those that are keeping score at home. Actually, 478 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:12.160 I'm gonna go back just for a moment. You guys are talking about 479 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:17.680 your Scrabble Awards, Chris I said disingenuous format outlined formatting. I didn't get 480 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:25.599 any points for disingenuous. We weren't playing. This is an educational there's too 481 00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:29.440 many letters in that for that to be a scrabble award. I don't think 482 00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:37.960 you can make that. I don't know. Super col fragilistic, xblidocious indeed 483 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:45.400 also too long to play. It's a double scrabble, Kevin, when you 484 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:50.759 have two boards at the same time. Oh gosh, all right, I 485 00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:54.039 racing New Year's resolutions. What are we planning on getting better at this year 486 00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:58.960 participating? I'm gonna go with participation number one. Also, Kevin and I 487 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:02.440 are going to do a special event together that we did agree. We're going 488 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.559 to do seabring. What car are we driving? Not GT threes? Please 489 00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:15.320 one of the prototypes? One of the prototypes. I figure you'd want to 490 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:21.519 do the Porsche GTP. I don't know. I might that car Cadoc sounds 491 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:24.639 good. Cadillac. Maybe maybe we'll just maybe we could do a poll and 492 00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:30.400 our our four fans could pick the car we drive. Who would actually comment 493 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:35.360 comment below on what you think that we should race. I just I like 494 00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:38.400 being in the fast class. Because you decide when the stupid overtake attempt is 495 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:42.360 the only way I can pass anybody well, and it makes it more entertaining. 496 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:44.960 I can be three seconds off the pace, but I feel great passing 497 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:50.079 all those GT threes. So but yeah, comment down below what you think 498 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.519 we should race. But yeah, just racing more. We have a lot 499 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:55.920 going on this year, a lot of really cool stuff coming in the build. 500 00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:00.559 Looking forward to talking about that probably on our next podcast for honest. 501 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:07.639 But yeah, there will be more opportunities to participate for a lot of different 502 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:12.920 types of ey racers, and that is is very exciting. Agreed. I'm 503 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.199 also gonna work on my golf swing this year. So for whatever, you're 504 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:19.840 always gonna work on your golf. I know it's gonna get any better. 505 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.079 Sometimes it's gonna get work. It's like me saying I'm gonna lose weight. 506 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:25.400 It's the perpetual resolution. But how much progress do you really make? Chris 507 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:29.719 didn't lose like a lot of weight. Yeah, it's been a couple of 508 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:35.800 years. Well we've tried him. Yeah, well it's not it's not so 509 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:39.800 much new year, new me that hasn't worked for so well on that. 510 00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:44.800 Thanks, We gotta give a shout out. Hold on, shout shout out 511 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:47.159 to Sean who's working the soundboard for Yeah, the Weekly. I have to 512 00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:53.599 turn the monitor and lean over. Yeah where set there is? Also? 513 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:58.320 Are we gonna let Chris off without talking about his road rating and his road 514 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:01.360 license? I thought that was a whole thing. Yeah, I was appointed 515 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:07.239 in all of you for I didn't put it in the outline more time making 516 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.599 a professional outline. You forgot the depth. I forgot to throw myself under 517 00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:15.800 the bus. Figure you guys would do. Greg, you don't even stick 518 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:17.039 to the outline half the time. I thought you'd do that on the fly. 519 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:21.719 No, I like to have it organized. Then I know what to 520 00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.920 mess around with. Yes, I didn't even prepare anything for this. Usually 521 00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:28.880 he's got nice graphics and whatnot. He's like, no, I's just gonna 522 00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:30.760 go away anyway. And then it was because we had a broadcast. It 523 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:35.039 wasn't because we had a broadcast or anything last night, Greig or you know, 524 00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:40.159 it's the first, Yes, Chris, Chris is supposed to have at 525 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:45.280 least a d license and something. By now I have a B in dirt 526 00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:52.519 road. No, sorry, something that's paved, something that people play I'm 527 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:57.159 not going there? Does that count? Does that count as the first uh 528 00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:01.719 mention? Can I do? Yeah? You can use the counter well Travis 529 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:07.239 earlier he did say, yeah, there's two. There's two of my secret 530 00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:12.119 words. Can we get like the Peewee's Playhouse and just have everybody shout and 531 00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.400 scream from now on? No, I feel I'm going to go with no, 532 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:21.119 that's that's too high budget. No. My resolution is to finally get 533 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:24.840 somebody to commit to doing that development level off road car with us. If 534 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:30.559 you're listening, sign the licensing deal. Please? Wow, that's direct, 535 00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:38.519 Please Chris on the podcast, it's a tactic. We'll put it that one. 536 00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:43.320 Yeah, yeah, No, we're we're having to shift directions in how 537 00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:46.679 we do this year. I guess New Year knew me. That's a little 538 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:52.440 more direct than I usually am. Well, thank you listening to this edition 539 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:54.920 of the I Raising Downshift. Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe 540 00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:01.920 or unsubscribe Apple anywhere else Chris puts this thing, or Cisco whoever puts it 541 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:06.360 up these days. For We've got a lot of people on the on the 542 00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:09.039 team. Now we've got for Kevin Bobb at Chris Leone Cisco and Sean. 543 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:13.679 I am Greg West and we'll see you on the track at Daytona