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This week on the EYE Racing Down
Show, a frank discussion of company wide

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priorities than COP three. At least, Greg and Chris count down the years.

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I guess our anniversaries like in three
weeks. Well, if you put

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it that way, I'm always gonna
get mad at you. In an interview

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panel with staff members, you're racing
the real one, Like, no,

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I'm sorry, I'm telling you your
stuff is broken by kids broken all This

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is more staffing. Welcome to the
I Racing Down Ship. I'm your host,

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Greg West. I'm back with the
boys, Kevin, Bob and Chris

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Leoni. Another great show for you
guys. Today we're gonna talk about this

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month in Eye Racing, Season two
is well under way. We got some

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new cars that both Kevin and I
have been racing, slash crashing on a

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pretty regular basis and giving out I
let you Win awards. That's a that's

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a spoiler alert, spoiler alert,
Hush Hill events. We got the Road

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America five hundred coming up this weekend. If this goes out before that,

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we'll see bmw M SIM Cup Roade
America this weekend. Hey, we're gonna

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talk about an esports coach series.
In past, and we're gonna talk about

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Steve's family liking our podcast, which
is kind of cool. Week. Yeah,

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it's another spoiler alert for a part
of the episode coming up later.

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So we have we have a fan. We have one that's two, remember

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one in Daytona. So we have
we've got two fans. Yeah, we

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have two fans. So what's everybody
been up to, Kevin? You know,

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it's starting to get warm, looking
forward to playing some golf. Might

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be playing some golf later this week. Um. But I've been racing the

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Cleo the Clip Cup and and I
earned an award. I was very excited.

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I got an I Let you Win
award from Greg West. It was

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it was the most amazing race.
Where we are we Manza? Is that

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right? Yeah? And uh Greg
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how do you start? I said, I'll just just rev it up and

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go, And so he started.
Greg's at the back of the pack because

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he didn't have enough time to put
a qualifying lap in. Um and then

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he's I can hear him on discord
saying, oh, I didn't go.

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I didn't go, And I really
thought that just many got a poor start

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and all of a sudden, He's
about twenty seconds behind me, which is

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really slow. If anybody's raced against
me and it's your twenty seconds behind me,

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you know there's a problem. So
anyway, I did beat him,

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and then I went back to watch
the start, and sure enough, Greg

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literally did not move on the start. He sat there for about fifteen seconds.

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So can you tell us what happened? Greg? I listened to Kevin.

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Kevin sabotage me. I'm gonna put
a protest in with them. Unsportsmanlike

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conduct on the offense. But the
award stands. It does it's problem with

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our protest system. I have no
I have no recourse. He can't revoke,

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and I let you win award once
it's bring granted, it is there

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for all eternity. I'm framing that
one. He's that going on your door

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underneath your NIM. Yeah, it's
almost as exciting as having an award with

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Nim's picture on it. It's pretty
good. So thank you, Greg.

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How about you? What are you
been up to? You know, just

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racing. I've been racing the form
of the Ford. We'll talk about that

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more here in a little bit.
Uh and the staff race challenge and things

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like that, and then we have
Chris who's probably up to been up to

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wacky things or you know nothing,
I racing. I mean this was more

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of the what are you up to? Outside? Did I jump ahead again?

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I? Did? You don't follow
the outline that Chris puts together?

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And there's bullets this week? Yeah? Yeah, I just for you Greg,

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after after last month, do we
have to start over or do we

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know? Rolling? No? No, no, keep keep going. Okay,

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yeah, when you mess up the
podcast, we're going to point it

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out. And since we're testing this
on video that we're not going video,

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keep how did you not even mention
that? Well, because we're not going

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to show people that, oh okay, we're not showing test video. Is

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there testing video? So I just
have to remember that Chris is on my

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left and Kevin's on my right,
even though they're on my right and the

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backwards on screen it tomorrow we're new
here. We're taking our amateur hour podcast

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and putting a little polish on it. It's still going to be amateur hour

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though. Just so you guys now, how many times have I called it

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the MX five Cup of Podcasting in
the past week? At least three times

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at least three. Yeah, but
yeah, no, no, but that's

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what makes us relatable. That's why
two people like us. Um this mini

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fans, Yes we have we have
that MANI fans. Um. Yeah.

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Now I've just been doing my usual
what slow road cars can I make work

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on dirt road because that's what Yes
two does and uh yeah. Other than

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that, I don't know, trying
to get some things prepped for the off

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Road Pro Series once that comes up
in the summer, doing our usual previews,

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and some background work on another game
that we're going to talk about later

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in the show. There's your tease
there. It is, all right,

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well let's get let's get into it. We kind of teas it already since

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Kevin went out of Warder. But
twenty twenty three season two well underway.

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We've got new contents on the roadside, We've got new content on the oval

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side, and we'll kick it off
with you know, Kevin has been driving

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the Clear Cup in case you haven't
heard, Yeah, did I tell that

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story already? I want and I
let you from Big West in case you

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hadn't heard. Some stories never get
old. Kevin, I win so few

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awards I have to bring it up
as often as I can. I'm here

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for you. It's super fun to
race. Uh, you know, it's

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nice and slow just like I am. So it's it's a perfect car for

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me. So that car is surprising
because you know, it's a front will

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drive car that typically not a whole
lot of fun to race. But those

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are the exception. I remember when
we were developing the car, I was

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like, this is gonna be elbows
out door to door like fun because it

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just you just go and it doesn't
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definitely some nuance to go fast,
as we found because to be honest,

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even after I started off fifteen or
twenty seconds behind Kevin, he was still

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pulling away. I have to have
to own up to that. I just

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you can't show and go on I
racing and expect to be competitive or at

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least in my lack of skill levels. So yeah, it was a lot

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of fun though even though I drove
around my entire race by myself, I

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think I picked up one or two
spots by attrition. Other than that,

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it was pretty clean and had a
pretty good time. Did you figure out

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how to start the car? Now? Though I've not entered another race,

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I'm afraid that somebody was going to
complain about that, like to NIM that

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I was scarred for rating. Yeah, I just I can't afford that my

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I rating is not high enough to
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on one car at a time.
You don't have a second account, well

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I do and a third I do. The third ones for very professional looking

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for when somebody needs to be removed
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just gave up my secret identity.
I, on the other hand, have

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been racing the Formula Forward. Oh
sorry, F sixteen hundred, not the

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Formula Ford. It's definitely not the
Formula Forward. In case supplies the Ray

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F sixteen hundred car. I've got
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content for anybody that's not aware.
So it doesn't cost anything more than your

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membership to race, and it goes
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fun. There's a bunch of the
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and Nim's challenge and keeping score and
uh it's it's been pretty competitive and I

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am not near the top, so
I've got some work to do there.

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But I've also been dabbling in the
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on bigger tracks, more premium tracks, has a really UK euro feel to

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it this season, so I believe
there there were Snedderton last week. I

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forget where they're going this week.
There as a couple of weeks ago.

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A lot of fun. If you
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try it. It is not first
off, once again, it's free,

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so why not a second? It's
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thing is not a Formula V or
an MX five. It definitely has its

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own personality to it and the motors
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if you are not breaking in a
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much, the back does try to
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be patient with it. But it's
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it's gonna be ah, it's gonna
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long time I can feeling so.
And then we also have the late Model.

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I'm not a huge oval racer,
but I've seen all the paint schemes

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on trading paints and I see Chris
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have been very busy with that car. I've been running a lot of that

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car actually, both on ovals and
road courses. It is a really fun

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road course car as well. But
on what it's developed for, just some

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short tracks, some beaten and banging, it's been a blast. I mean,

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you guys know that most of what
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But we actually have started running a
late model stock short track league.

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We are using an eye racing car
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one in a row, yeah,
one in a row. That was my

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question joke on my community. Did
you put it out on the rallycross stuff

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yet? No? But I did
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hundred and the Jetta in a multi
class series and that was a blast.

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Perfect. You've taken over the jump
at the figure eight track yet? Uh

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no, But I know what I'm
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I don't. I don't think it'll
survive. I it's yes. We are

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about to find out stream of bulling
in the marketing slack channel. Please yeah,

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no promise is Alex Horn asked me
for some replays of some other thing

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that we did, and it took
me about six weeks to get them to

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them. So um, it's it's
it's like getting your favorite driver's gear shipped

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in from another country. It'll be
four to six business weeks before I get

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you that content. All right,
Moving on, we've got special events.

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It's coming up this week Road America
five hundred. This is coming back to

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the service. It's been gone for
a few years, but there's been a

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ton of messages in my inbox about
hey, can we do some more with

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classic content and why not? So
we've brought back the Road America five hundred

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with the Nissan GTP z x T
and the out ninety gto. That's five

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hundred miles that wrote America going off
this weekend and it can be run as

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a solo event or with a team, doesn't matter. Pick your poison.

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Whatever makes you happy driving old content, you can do it on I Racing.

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Get your h pattern out. It's
a ton of fun. Turbo lag

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is back. And just to be
clear on it, it's the historic GTP

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class car. Yes, that is
correct, all right. One that is

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beast. It is a big beast. Yes, I thought I made it

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clear with the turbo lag comment.
Well, then fairness, if you want

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to race the current GTP at Road
America in a team, you just have

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to wait a week. No,
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's

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very true. So there's that because
that's the next bullet point, isn't it?

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Yes, it is nice. Nice. It's almost like I wrote the

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outline or something. Did we plan
this? I didn't. I'm reading that

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on the first of us are all
over the place. Oh well, that's

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that's a dangerous Thank Kevin, that
is a dangerous thing. Speaking of being

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on script, that reminds me before
our interview, I've got to read our

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sponsor read well, right now sounds
like a great time for a sponsor read

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because I do love sponsors. Sponsors
are great, especially people like Next Level

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I did it. One read one
getting more organic than that. I was

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fantastic. But on a serious note, it is great to have sponsors.

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That means maybe we have three fans, maybe we have more than just two.

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Maybe, and and and no jokes. You know, it's a it's

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a good chassis. We've got a
bunch of great peripheral manufactures, you know,

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Next Level sent one over that's sitting
in the h in the lobby right

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now. It's a good piece of
kit. So absolutely interested in checking it

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out. We love working with with
partners that make the e racing experience better

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and and people like Next Level Racing. Dude, just that So I was

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actually gonna I was gonna point to
it, but it's in front of me

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rather than behind me, unfortunately.
But yes, it is a beautiful piece

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of kit. Um. We are
not allowing people to sit in it in

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the lobby because we we want to
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remain special. But it is a
beautiful Okay, let's be honest. It's

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also because we haven't bolted a seat
down yet. I think it's really a

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safety thing. We forgot to built
the seat down. So U m x

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five cup of podcasting everybody. Oh
yes, top three at least, so

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I'm moving on. Hey, Kevin, you wanna talk about rain April?

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to rain here today. It is
not. But i've heard rain is coming

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in and we may have put some
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an April Fool's tease or something.
Yeah, but it wasn't really April fool.

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It's just happened to go out on
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so there was no planning involving Easter
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your Easter egg four oh one pm. Oh you caught onto that? Oh

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huh? You told me three times? Hey, hey, Greg, I

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an easter egg. Hey hey hey
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clever. You gotta give me a
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I'll give you that. You know
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shots look good, though, but
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know when, and all we're saying
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We would like to know when as
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news is there's progress and Greg Hill
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show and he doesn't do that.
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so that's that's a positive sign for
the community. So it's coming. It

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is not coming in though, and
I realized I've said that for every build

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for the last while. Oh,
don't anticipate rain in June. Let's let's

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just let's set realistic expectations. Rain
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going into it. It's not just
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textures. This is a complete reinvention
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with many different aspects of the sim
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all the above. H It is
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going to be uh, it's going
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is to make it as realistic as
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driving offline, You're gonna be avoiding
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to break offline. It's uh,
breaking in a straight line, things like

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that. It's going to take some
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rain. So I feel like it's
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and driving. So yeah, so
you'll have an excuse when you wreck somebody,

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Oh was that two pointed? Somebody's
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am jealous. I'm gonna have to
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right, just come run up Pro
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that I'm gonna. I can't.
I can't do that, even you could

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get Actually, um, I have
heard complaints that from people who have raced

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with me my friends that they have
not gotten and I let you win award

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from beating me so that you don't. No, no, no, no

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no. We run public we do
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our own cause I didn't know that. Yeah, maybe Chris isn't actually flagged

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as an employee. Have we decided
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I don't know. I mean it's
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before me. Oh all right,
well I guess our anniversaries like in three

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weeks. Well, if you put
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get mad at me. Okay,
that's a really good point. Sorry,

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Leslie. She's upstairs on a meeting, so I'm not gonna yell up.

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The stairs are bad prettyway. Oh
whatever, Moving on, Chris talking about

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dirt Racing is getting a twenty twenty
three season update. It sure is getting

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a twenty twenty three season update.
And not only that, it's also getting

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a Nintendo switchport, and that switch
port gonna have everything in it, all

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the tracks that were released, all
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everything is going to come together.
So if you're a Nintendo Switch person

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and you've been holding out, you've
been waiting, waiting, waiting. Wait,

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it's not that much longer. You're
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on the Nintendo Switch soon enough.
We'll have a twenty twenty three season update

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coming with some new paint schemes,
cars, tracks, you name it.

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It's going to be a really exciting
fall if you're a if you're a World

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of Outlaws fan, that game has
still been going. If you're checking out

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World of Outlaws game dot com,
you're seeing that we've still got the weekly

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challenges, the online tournaments, all
sorts of different posts going up trying to

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encourage some of that community participation as
well. All of the weeks that acts

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that are in the game or being
visited by cars and series in the game.

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So if you're looking for something to
do. If you're looking for a

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new challenge in that, send us
some screenshots, send us some replays,

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have some fun with it. It's
that game is still going strong. I

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know that I have gotten quite a
bit out of my career mode up to

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this point, and I still got
a little waste to go. I'm still

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not that four ten national champion yet, but we'll get there. And that

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little segue here, we'll be talking
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involved in the development of that,
who also happens to drive the an Eye

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racing liveried car on dirt coming up
in just a little while. Oh and

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then last thing before the interview,
Chris Exocross coming to console. But what

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the heck is Exocross? I don't
even know what that is, except I'm

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in some of the meetings where they
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another another console product for us,
as well as a PC product for those

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who were paying attention to. A
couple of years ago, shortly after we

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completed that Monster Games acquisition, we
also acquired another company, a European company

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named Aroantis Games, and their product
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what this was is a futuristic sci
fi off road game. You can imagine

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why this one was handed to me
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made a note that I wanted to
keep it to myself. Anyway, we

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have done a ton of work,
had a lot of people come in to

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help refine this game, take it
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is Exocross. And what this game
is is again, it's a futuristic,

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it's a sci fi type game.
You are racing unmanned vehicles on worlds in

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different galaxies. There's going to be
a whole championship system. There's going to

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be all sorts of cool different things
within this product. Again, if you

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have it, if you have Drag
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be granted that Exocross product when it's
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it's so cool. I love the
graphics, modeling, I love the kind

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of open world nature of it.
And obviously I'm an off road person,

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so driving these I know, I
breaking news, So I love driving these

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things. In a lot of ways. They kind of remind me of a

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rear wheel drive trophy truck. Not
that I'm at all biased, but no,

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it's it's really cool. I've been
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some of the different things on this. I cannot wait for this to get

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unleashed. It is very different from
anything we've ever done. Though, don't

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come into it if you're an eye
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a super simulation type thing. This
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and sci fi and if there's a
podcast drinking game then you're probably you know

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one on one hand, one and
the other every time I've said that,

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But regardless, fantastic, a lot
of fun. Like I said, Steam

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Early Access has drag out of worlds
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and really thrilled to show off the
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I've been watching the screenshots come in
and it's been great to see,

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you know, not only the development
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has made its way over at I
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have that we're involved with the titles
that we were involved with, and everything

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works together more in the on the
back side than you can possibly imagine.

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And that's all working to make all
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even better. So it's pretty fantastic, all right. Moving on, so

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we have something a little bit different
today, and by today, we're probably

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going to be doing this interview tomorrow
if I'm completely honest, or maybe even

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Wednesday, since it's Monday. We'd
like to show you how the sausage is

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made it on iRacing, we were
sat down with a couple of folks that

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are employees of I Racing who take
that passion into the real world and are

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racing iRacing liveried race cars in a
variety of different ways, on road courses,

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on dirt, um on ovals,
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Not exactly sure who's going to be
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I'm not going to say names in
the intro. I'm here for you,

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buddy. Once again, we're not
good at our jobs. It send complaints

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to Kevin Dotbob and I Racing dot
com ouch if you would like his phone

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number see the description below. But
yeah, we're go side down. It's

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really cool to see the passion that
goes into making the iRacing product as good

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as it is. Uh. Also
it comes from people that are racing in

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the real world. So without further
ado, um, the iRacing racer guys.

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All right, Kevin and I are
back with the as promised panel of

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guests. We have not one,
not two, not three, but four

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iRacing employees who spend a lot of
their time outside of the office racing in

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the real world, and they are
combining their their hobbies and passion with their

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work, which is a pretty cool
concept. So we've got quality assurance tester

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Mike Kinkle, Quality Assurance tester Kevin's
Zoo. You guys maybe have heard of

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Tyler Hudson, our senior Competition Esports
manager, friend of the show, Kevin,

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He's been one. He's a frequent
flyer here on the shoff, I

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mean, welcome back to Tyler.
And then I Racing Associate producer Kevin iron

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Elly. So we've got dirt Oval, we've got pavement Oval, and we've

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got road racing all on one call, which and Kevin iron Elly probably has

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the most passport stamps out of any
employee. So I think, no,

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I don't actually, oh you don't. No, I don't do a lot

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of international child all right, Well
sure, yeah, I got the frequent

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flyer miles there. That's what I
meant to say. Well, on that

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note. We'll start with Kevin.
He's the Iron Nelly because we have two

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Kevin, which one. You're the
longest tenured iRacing employee. So you've been

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around I Racing since before it was
I Racing, since Papyrus, you've been

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Yeah, you're an og so yeah, talk to us a little bit about

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your you've been here longer than me. Yeah, I was HAP Papyrus.

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I was a junior in high school. I was QA testing there of all

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things. They were based out of
Conquered Massachusetts, So I grew up in

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Manard, Massachusetts, which was,
I don't know, roughly ten minutes away

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from where I lived, So I
just kind of I was always racing online

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and just kind of reached out about
going there to check the place out,

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and ended up meeting Eric Bush there
who now works with I Racing, and

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he got me a like a QA
position in turning. After school. I'd

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go there a couple hours every day
after class, and it's kind of how

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my foot in the door from there, and then um transitions over to iRacing

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once that got going in two thousand
and five. So what all have you

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done? From QA tester to associate
producer. I feel like there's a big

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leap in there. Oh yeah,
it weren't all, but it was pretty

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much filling the blank everything when we
were startup back in, Oh, whatever

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need to be done, you know, everybody jumped in and did it,

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whether it was traveling to scan tracks
or sound recording stuff, UM put back

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then, putting d D DVDs in
the mail for our QA testers, whatever

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it took, because everything was you
know, dongles and and DVDs back then,

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so we'd send those out to our
dark beta testers or alpha testers back

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then to uh, let's get testing
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moving into your role now as a
producer, you you're spending a lot of

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your time doing the back end stuff
on getting cars and tracks created on I

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Racing, right, Yeah, yeah, so that's a majority of my time

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now, is UM. I went
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were pretty much the only ones building
tracks for the longest time. So now

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we've kind of increased our our production
speed on track cars and tracks. So

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now I kind of um, I'll
start planning ahead UM executing our contracts once

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we signed someone um in getting our
our teams in place to go out there

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and scan and photograph. All these
tracks were being cars that we do now.

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So it's exciting. You know,
any given day I can be talking

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to three different countries or people in
three different countries. That always goes perfectly

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smoothly too, right, Yeah,
yeah, you're not kidding, like right

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now, I got two teams right
now. Don't say it all over the

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place. We're gonna have to bleep
something out when you start mentioning cars and

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tracks. No, no, I
was. I already gut told what I

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can talk about and whatnot. So
I reached out to Greg Hill beforehand.

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So, Kevin, you're supposed to
ask forgiveness, not permission. That's kind

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of yeah, try to stand on
Greg's good side. Greg and I have

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worked together since yeah back Papyrus,
So he was a QA tester at the

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time too, was going to school. Yeah it was Greg was there before

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I was. Um, so Greg
was going to college and he was QA

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testing there back then. He had
this huge beard and every saying. He

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totally different for some than he is
now. Um, but yeah, that's

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We used to sit in this little
back room. Um no lights, I

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mean there was lights, but there
was no windows there, and we just

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sit there and and test on all
these you know, different machines, whether

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the low one. Usually I got
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it was he was miserable and then
things would crash all the time. So

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yeah, Brian Simpson was back done
too. He was doing schemes back then

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for IRUs. So yeah, and
then um, a little bit after that.

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I'd say I was in college when
Steve came on board as a qua

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tester at I at Papyrus, So
you are really I was the first person

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to say hello to Steve at at
Papyrus. Yeah, I would you say

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your fault? Steve is still here, is what you're saying. Probably,

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yeah, all right, we blame
I don't think you're gonna last. You

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know his mom. His mom is
like likes this podcast. Who's our number

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one fan of the podcast? Yeah, yeah, watch too. I'm probably

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not, probably not, probably not. We'll come back to you a bit

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and talk about race and let's swing
over to Tea Hunt Tylert Hudson. Let's

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getting senior competition and esports manager coming
off a late night coke race last night.

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Right, Yeah, we we just
finished up last night at Monza UM

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first time at that road course.
So it was it was interesting, but

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um, yeah, Bobby Zilinski stole
the show. I think he got the

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pole and let every lap, so
he dominated course. Show me a headline

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I've not read before. Right.
He's also in our Porsche super Cup Esports

406
00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:21.240
series, so he knows his way
around Manza and a road course. Oh,

407
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:22.680
Kevin, all right, sorry,
Tyler. Let's uh, you've been

408
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.119
on the show a few times and
we've talked about this a few times,

409
00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:27.559
but let's go over and again.
You know kind of how you got started

410
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:32.279
in I Racing period and how that
transitioned into a career at I Racing.

411
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:36.839
Yeah. So, um, as
some people may know, I won the

412
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:42.640
twenty thirteen e NASCAR Coca Cola everybody
knows because you tell her. I'm getting

413
00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:47.960
to a point here. So uh, through that, I built some connections

414
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.279
with Otto and Steve and uh,
you know, in twenty fifteen life just

415
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.039
you know how it is, it
throws you down a few times, and

416
00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:00.440
so I would spend probably I would
do. I would send an email to

417
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.880
these guys once a month, begging
for a job at I Racing, and

418
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:08.279
eventually, uh, they replied back
and I got an interview. So um,

419
00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:14.160
that's how that works out. But
yeah, so I love my job

420
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:18.599
here. I started out in support, working in the protests department and with

421
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:23.759
Susan Flint on support, and then
eventually transitioned over to the esports side,

422
00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:29.559
and uh now I managed all of
our our pro series as well as the

423
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.960
um just any kind of special one
off esports events we do, and then

424
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:37.960
I do a lot here lately in
production, you know, with um MGI

425
00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:44.880
with the Word of Outlaws console game, and um just I Racing as well.

426
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.039
Just a little bit here and there. You can talk about that dirt

427
00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:51.039
refresh thing. I think that one's
out there. Yeah, yeah, so

428
00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:56.400
we're thick in it right now,
trying to do a lot of um uh

429
00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.920
updates for the dirt refresh. We're
trying to make just things better for our

430
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.559
members, make the tracks race better, and make the cars race better.

431
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:10.240
All that's going really nice. I'm
very very happy with how that's going,

432
00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:15.759
and hopefully we have something for members
comes June. It's pretty comprehensive from the

433
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:19.200
checkens that I see of the work
being done. It's not just a little

434
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:22.599
update that they're doing. It's quite
a bit of physics changes going on.

435
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.319
They flipped it on its head.
But I'm excited. Yeah, it's gonna

436
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:29.799
be It should be pretty impressive.
I think it's funny. One of the

437
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:33.480
other vpas who does not like dirt
racing is having a blast with the trucks

438
00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:37.680
right now, which is a lot
of fun. So good things coming,

439
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.440
Tyler. Good thing, Yeah,
I hope so ye. All right,

440
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:44.359
we'll come back to racing here in
a little bit. We'll talk about your

441
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:48.759
exploits on dirt. Let's swing over
to Mike Kinkel, fresh off a race

442
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:55.200
weekend at VR prepping for this year's
SEC runoffs, right, Yeah, plan

443
00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:59.559
on going to the runoffs this year
for the first time. Able to make

444
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:03.119
that happy because of the support of
Eye Racing. So super super happy about

445
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.400
that. And we're going to see
how we do down there. Yeah,

446
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:10.799
looking forward to watching it. I
would offer to help in the garage,

447
00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:12.400
and we'll have an opportunity for Mike
to make fun of me here in a

448
00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:17.200
little while. I don't think he
wants my assistance at the track. But

449
00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:19.200
Mike, let's talk about you know, how you got involved in IE racing

450
00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:25.880
and how that led to you working
at Eye Racing. I've always been interested

451
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:30.519
in racing in general, in Formula
one. So when I was this was

452
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:34.200
about ten or eleven years ago,
I started as an eye racing member.

453
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:38.680
I couldn't go racing in real life. It was too expensive, just all

454
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.960
the options were just much too much
for me at the time, so I

455
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:47.000
started doing eye racing. I bought
a used Momo wheel off a Craigslist at

456
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:51.920
the time and started playing around at
eye racing. And at the first few

457
00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:56.440
races went very poorly, but I
really stuck with it and figured out where

458
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.119
to get faster, and I got
better and I had some success early early

459
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:06.200
on, and that actually because of
all the success I was having an eye

460
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:12.799
racing, it really really propelled me
to pursue real life motorsports. And even

461
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:15.799
though I was on a very limited
budget, I put together some money,

462
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:22.359
sold some things and bought my first
race car, Formula V because it was

463
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:27.000
the lowest class, the most affordable
class to race. And I got out

464
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.880
there and I started open wheel racing
and the first few years were tough,

465
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:35.319
but we got through it and we
learned a lot, and now we're we

466
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:38.279
had a lot of success over the
last I've been with the SECA for eight

467
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:45.119
years now and we've won a lot
of races when multiple championships. So doing

468
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.240
pretty good, and I want to
take that next step to go to the

469
00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.920
next level. And with the SECA
that would be the Hoosier Super Tour right

470
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:55.160
now and the sec A runoffs.
So I don't think I'm gonna be a

471
00:32:55.480 --> 00:33:00.039
major contender at the top level.
Yet different my toes on the water because

472
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:05.240
this is another level. These guys
are very serious and they're spending a lot

473
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.759
of money out there and having having
a good time in very competitive class.

474
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:14.160
So but we're gonna we're gonna see
how we do great. Yeah, all

475
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.240
right, let's flip over to your
counterpart, quality shurtance tester Kevin Zoo,

476
00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:21.680
who I think is the newest of
the iRacing employees on this call. At

477
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:25.279
least, Kevin, you your race
on the ours. Let's let's go back.

478
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:29.119
You know how you got started in
I Racing and how you got came

479
00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:32.599
about working for I Racing. Uh
yeah, So I guess the story of

480
00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:38.119
how I got started I Racing starts
with I got started with racing um Back

481
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:42.640
in freshman year of college, I
drove my Honda Civic into a ditch and

482
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.480
realized I maybe wasn't as good this
whole driving thing as I thought I was.

483
00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:50.759
Um, So I started doing some
other cross to get better, and

484
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:54.880
then through there ended up meeting Grant
Reeve um. And at some point and

485
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.480
all that, I decided to pick
up EYE racing and when they get better

486
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:02.680
there, um, you know,
as it was with Michael, it was

487
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:07.319
you know a lot of crashing out
and not finishing races to start with.

488
00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:10.119
Um, that's still how I race
on I Racing, by the way,

489
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:20.800
YE can confirm it hasn't changed that
much for me either. I guess that's

490
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:22.159
a good thing that you're in QA
though. So you get paid to wreck

491
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:30.239
the cars, Yeah, exactly.
Um, and I lost my trail fop.

492
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:32.079
That's all right. It happens all
the time. And now you're here,

493
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:35.719
you're working for I Racing, and
you and Mike sit right next to

494
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.519
each other. Yes, we do. Every Thursday. We get to uh

495
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:44.679
stay high in the morning and then
go to our work. All right,

496
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:46.599
let's start. We're in a QA
lab where we get to sit and play

497
00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:50.320
with all the equipment. I think
me and Kevin have the best jobs that

498
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:52.280
I racing. Honestly, sorry to
you other guys, but I get to

499
00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:55.920
play the sim and break all your
stuff every day, play play around.

500
00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:00.679
Yeah. Yeah, my job is
like break all the f you work really

501
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:04.000
hard on. Then complain. Yeah. I think you have your responsibility to

502
00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:07.000
fix it right now. Point it
out broken, go fix it. Guys

503
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:09.480
want to get when I see a
bug report, but I'm like, yeah,

504
00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:14.840
yeah, we gotta fix it.
Some some people take that better than

505
00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:17.960
the other. It's true. It's
like, no, I'm sorry, I'm

506
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.360
telling you your stuff is broken,
but it's broken, yeah, or your

507
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.599
fix really didn't fix anything. Yeah. Yeah. But then you're like,

508
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:29.679
no, I did it. Because
this has happened with Kevin specifically, He's

509
00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:30.199
like no, no, no I
did that. I'm like, no,

510
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:37.480
you didn't know you didn't. He's
no, we checked in the wrong file.

511
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:44.679
Yeah, it happens. That happens. Yeah, I always look forward

512
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:50.280
to though. At the seven am, you know, email testing report,

513
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:58.119
Michael follows it up with the all
the highlighted commented portions of it. Yeah,

514
00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:01.360
yeah, the things are extra bade. The email says, iron Elly,

515
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:05.639
your thing is broken. Then Kevin, then Mike comes in fifty minutes

516
00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:07.840
later, I have confirmed iron Elly, your thing is broken. So as

517
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:13.000
you're wondering, yes, it really
is. Yeah, this is, especially

518
00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:16.400
when it's marked in red. That's
never good. I'd like the teacher that

519
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:22.719
i'd corrected all your things in red. Choose a more soothing Keller. Next

520
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:29.079
time, let's talk about racing.
Let's talk about things that go room on

521
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.760
real world race tracks. Iron Ellie
Kevin, you are racing this week In

522
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.880
fact, you're off today. Thank
yeah, thanks for joining us, No

523
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:38.039
problem, you are. You're going
racing this weekend. Right, let's talk

524
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:40.960
about what you're racing, where you're
racing, and how long you've been doing

525
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.400
it all right? Yeah, we're
racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway up on

526
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:51.639
the Oval this weekend. Um,
doing a tour modified race up there.

527
00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:55.320
So we've been trash and the last
month or two. Get in the car

528
00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:00.119
ready for that. So yeah,
it should be exciting basically a super speedway

529
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:04.360
for you guys. Right. Yeah, they put a restrictor played on us

530
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:07.559
up there, um, so you
get quite a bit of draft. It's

531
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:13.639
it's pretty wild. How many cars, Harry, how many cars you guys

532
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:17.559
expecting this weekend? Probably twenty five
might have to twenty five for that.

533
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:23.199
Then they'll have past super late models
there, which the I racing number nine

534
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.039
Alan Tardif car will be there,
oh nice, Maybe Cody and Gardener will

535
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.239
be up there then yeah maybe.
Yeah. It's supposed to be great weather

536
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:36.280
this weekend, so yes, it's
finally so yeah, free passes for all

537
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:37.480
of us. Are you on the
podcast? Oh? Um, no,

538
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:43.519
you'll probably not. Your guys.
They they're charging me to go there,

539
00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:46.079
so yeah, quite a bit of
money too. That's nice of them,

540
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:51.199
I know. So yeah, yeah, we're excited to go there. Um,

541
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:57.039
it's always fun going up there.
How long you've been oh, fum,

542
00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:04.280
probably about ten years or so.
Yeah, and you raced other stuff

543
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.639
too, didn't you have a Yeah, I've raced winged midgets yea pro for

544
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:15.239
modified and whatnot too, so mostly
the NASCAR wheel stuff. Yeah, but

545
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:20.400
so about how long have you been
racing in total? I mean basically same?

546
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:22.639
Yeah, about the same time I
started at Papyrus. Yeah, how

547
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:28.199
I afforded to go racing was working
because my parents wanted nothing to do it.

548
00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:30.519
It's like it's just a fad,
No, just a fad, and

549
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:36.519
they are going to support it at
all. So yeah, yeah. A

550
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:37.599
few weeks in the phone call,
Dad's like, so, what are you

551
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:40.679
gonna do, you know after this, when you're gonna get a real job

552
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:44.920
instead of working for a video game
company and racing cars. Right, I

553
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.760
know because when I started Papyrus,
I didn't even have my driver's license,

554
00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:53.119
so my mother had to drive me
there a couple of hours later. Well,

555
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:57.199
your parents lost money on that deal
because the gas money and time and

556
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:00.519
oh back then it was what a
dollar gallon or so right, Wow,

557
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:06.199
you're old. I graduated high school
and two yeah, oh you're not that

558
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:13.480
old. No boys help, Yeah
he is swinger to Tyler. Tyler,

559
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:17.039
you're kicking your season off right now
on dirt as well, right, yep,

560
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:23.519
we're running the uh Sportsman equivalent to
a Sportsman late model in I Racing.

561
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:28.360
It's a great car with a six
o two engine dirt late model.

562
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:31.159
But yeah, we we've run two
races this year for second, both of

563
00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:37.159
them, so not you know,
not totally disappointing that, but uh definitely

564
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:39.480
don't want to be second all the
time. So um, what is it?

565
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:44.039
Seconds? The first loser and that's
how it feels. So uh yeah,

566
00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:46.400
but our season is just now kicking
off and we're getting under way here

567
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:51.639
and now we've have we have a
few races coming up this weekend and during

568
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.320
the week actually next week. But
the weather does not look great, so

569
00:39:55.079 --> 00:40:00.760
you're not sure down there? Huh
Yeah, some severe weather and just lots

570
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.000
of rain. So are you running
for points this year? Uh? The

571
00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:07.800
goal is probably to run for the
track points like we did last year.

572
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:12.800
Um, but that's you know,
that's still up in the air as well.

573
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.880
We've been talking about venturing off and
running some other tracks just to get

574
00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:19.800
more experienced on some other tracks,
and if we do that, then we're

575
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.679
probably just not gonna point trace um. But so we're not totally decided yet.

576
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:28.639
For our listeners. Tyler is not
based in the Boston area, in

577
00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:31.599
case you're wondering why he gets different
weather than us. So Tyler down in

578
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.199
Mississippi. That's right, that's right, all right, let's uh. It

579
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:42.239
was briefly up here for a little
bit though, before he went back home.

580
00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.639
Yeah. I loved it up there. I mean, you know,

581
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:52.320
it was it was fun. A
lot of braces. Oh yeah, it's

582
00:40:52.440 --> 00:41:00.440
different snow than down here. It's
like I'm explaining, Yeah, but it's

583
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:04.920
like powder down here. It's just
wet. It's just different. But yeah,

584
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.000
not as many dirt tracks up here
though, No, no, definitely

585
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:13.119
not. Yeah, I just I
just love racing, Like I liked the

586
00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:15.519
racing they had up there. I
think the event Kevin's Racing in this weekend.

587
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:19.039
I went to it when I was
up there. It was really fun,

588
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.239
Like it's just racing all the time
up there. It's awesome. Ye

589
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:24.639
were a bunch of good short tracks
up here for sure. All right,

590
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:29.719
let's swing it over to Hankle,
Mike Cankle, and let's talk about your

591
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:32.079
racing career and you can feel free
to talk about how easy it is to

592
00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:37.719
get into Formula Vie and how I
broke that. Yeah. Actually, so

593
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:42.119
I didn't touch on this when we
talked earlier. But the reason I work

594
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.480
at Eye Racing more or less is
because Greg West had approached me. I'm

595
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:51.079
I help out with the NYMV dot
org. We have our own organization in

596
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:55.320
New England and I'm listed as a
contact on the website for people who are

597
00:41:55.400 --> 00:42:01.320
interested in starting in Formula vi.
So Egg contacted me and said, hey,

598
00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:06.440
I want to start racing Formula Vie. So we met, We went

599
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:10.239
over the cars, we went over
the maintenance and and things that I thought.

600
00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:14.800
He should know before getting in.
He dived right in, bought a

601
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.199
car, and I helped him out
with going to school, and through that

602
00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:22.039
relationship, I think I Racing decided
they wanted to scan a Formula VI and

603
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:28.000
I helped put together a lot of
information for that. So yeah, so

604
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:32.280
my my Formula VIE is the one
that was scanned. Yesh, Yeah,

605
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:40.480
those are the oil stains. Yeah. Oh yeah, leaks oil it yeah,

606
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:45.519
smokes, that's normal Volkswagen stuff.
Don't worry about that. Perfect Yeah.

607
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:47.320
So yeah, we run the rings
so loose in the engines that we

608
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:51.480
actually build up oil and then when
you step back on the gas, it

609
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:53.920
just shoots all that out the exhaust. So when you're following somebody, you

610
00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.880
can tell when they pick up a
throttle again going out into they to model

611
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:01.119
that. Yeah, you guys did
a good job. Yeah, they did

612
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:04.760
a great job on the car.
I mean the scratches, some of the

613
00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:07.960
scratches and paint chips that were in
the car, which I'm I'm kind of

614
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:13.280
ticked off about. You guys left
in there race tracks that when we sign

615
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:16.480
them, Bill, that's one of
the first questions they asked, do we

616
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:20.400
need to paint the walls and the
lines before you guys show up, because

617
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:23.519
we wanted to look pristine in the
game. Well they should, I would,

618
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:25.599
Yeah, if I could go back. We're going to bu the lawn

619
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:30.880
too, the first time in ten
years. They move the grass. That's

620
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:37.719
a safety feature, actually fill in
the holes. So getting started in form

621
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:39.880
of be super easy. Greg West
was able to do it. So anybody

622
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:45.199
who is interested to live in the
New England area. That's fired. I

623
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:47.480
like it. I own it.
Mike told me, oh yeah, anybody

624
00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:51.760
can do this. Anybody, Yeah, anybody, yeah, and Greg corrected

625
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:53.639
me after. So I had a
conversation with Greg not too long ago,

626
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:58.119
and I said, you know what, looking back on it, actually I

627
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:00.320
have to start being more careful about
how i'd say anybody can do this,

628
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:06.840
no offense, Greg, But all
right, it's if you're interested in Formula

629
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:08.440
V, you're interested in racing,
you think that the person has a certain

630
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:12.679
amount of car knowledge, and Greg
does. He's not. He's not totally

631
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.679
inapt with I've never done drum brakes. Yeah, so definitely not, mister

632
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.239
Carr. Yeah. When I showed
him drum brakes, I showed him how

633
00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:22.039
to adjust drum breaks. He just
his eyes glossed over. I think he

634
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:27.280
started playing on his phone and then
me blow up. It's like I break

635
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.639
quickly. I blow up. I
break race cars more than anybody at I

636
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:35.760
Racing, including you, Kevin.
I think the percentage of you having issues

637
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:38.599
on track is really highly in terms
of how many times you got to issue

638
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:40.880
and how many races you did.
So. Yeah, let's see. I

639
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:45.639
blew up the Formula V the very
first time I drove it. Mike told

640
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:47.760
me that it doesn't have a rev
limitar, but you'll you'll hear the valves

641
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:52.320
float and that's kind of the that
that lets you got built. Yeah,

642
00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:54.960
and then I it blew up,
and then Mike thought, I it didn't

643
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:58.400
blow up. He thought I just
whimped out and pulled the fire bottle.

644
00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:00.039
It turns out there was like a
two inch HO pulled the fire bottle.

645
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:04.559
I didn't pull the file. I
thought he did. So he stopped and

646
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:07.159
turned one uh, and he pulled
over and there was a big cloud of

647
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.920
smoke, and I thought for sure
he just pulled the bottle. I was

648
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:14.480
like, what is he doing?
Because you know now we had to replace

649
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:17.360
the bottle. Fun facts We found
out afterwards that we never pulled the pin

650
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:20.840
safety pin out of the bottle,
so I couldn't have pulled the bottle.

651
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:22.840
So yeah, there was a there
was a hole on the side of the

652
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.559
engine, so that you know that
was Did you have to rewire that whole

653
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:30.880
car too? Uh No, we
didn't require that. We did a little

654
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:35.440
bit. We did a little bit, but I broke the Oh there's an

655
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:39.599
ignition coil. Yeah, there's a
rain light, Yeah, rain light.

656
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.000
But I blew the Formula V and
then we went. I went up to

657
00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:49.679
any car race. It wrote America
and was supposed to go on the two

658
00:45:49.719 --> 00:45:54.000
seater ride and it broke the transmission
and turned one, which mean I got

659
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:57.320
another ride, which was cool,
and the guy that was driving it felt

660
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.360
bad and so he really ringed it
out. I was not mad about that.

661
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:04.159
That thing breaking in a straight line
for turn five road America was wild.

662
00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:07.760
Then Kevin and I go down to
Lime Rock and Max and Imsa arranges

663
00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:12.559
a pace car ride for me around
the track because I've never been there,

664
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:19.000
and going in to turn one there, the right front break explodes on the

665
00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:23.079
pace car and we went around a
Lime Rock at ten miles an hour maybe

666
00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:27.559
less, and it sounded like nails
on a chalkboard. You just saw people

667
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:30.440
covering their ears like we just had
to limp it back around. It's spitting

668
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:34.719
pizza the pieces of the disk.
So yeah, if you want your race

669
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:37.199
car to break, put me in
it. I can. I can make

670
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:42.199
that happen. Have you con stilled
becoming a QA tester? Right? Exactly?

671
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:45.599
You know? I sorry to interrupt, Mic, I just like making

672
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:47.079
fun of myself. No problem.
I don't even know where we were going

673
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:52.000
after that because it's making fun of
you. True. We'll keep the roll

674
00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:54.880
it over to Kevin Zoo. Then, so Kevin, you you're racing on

675
00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:58.840
the Grid Life Touring Cup in a
Honda Civic. Tell us a little bit

676
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:02.000
about that. Yeah, so,
um, Good Life Touring Cup is I

677
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:06.639
guess a newer race series. Um. It's a power of the weight class

678
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:10.880
um, and it will try to
allow for you know, very unique builds.

679
00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:14.039
So he got you know, me
and my Honda Civic. There's other

680
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:17.960
Honda Civics. There's Monster Miyada's Chevy
Corvettes, BMW M Freeze, um,

681
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.079
all brought to the same power levels
so they can race with each other.

682
00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:27.440
Um. I'm pretty you know,
new to wheel wheel racing. Um.

683
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:32.840
I've only just started last year.
UM, and it's been you know,

684
00:47:34.039 --> 00:47:38.519
a big change from my previous autocross
and time attack. Um. I I

685
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:44.679
say, I Racing has prepared me
very well. The first time I took

686
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:46.360
a green flag, you know,
get for all the turn one carnage,

687
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:49.920
you know, tiptoe for return two
and then you all, I saw,

688
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:53.320
It's just like I'm in my living
room on the sim Yeah that that I

689
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:58.360
would say that my limited experience.
I think I did what four Formula V

690
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:02.480
races and whatnot, and yeah,
turn lap one carnage dodging. I Racing

691
00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:08.960
really prepared me well, especially in
VR you fully expect. But well,

692
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:15.039
I think the big trend here is
there's a lot of passion that goes into

693
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:16.519
what we do here at I Racing, and I think sometimes people forget that

694
00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:20.440
it's not just a bunch of people
sitting in office that are just trying to

695
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:23.480
make it happen. These are people
that's been their free time outside Grant on

696
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:30.719
this. You can get Grant to
come on our show for the rest of

697
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:35.800
my career at EYE Racing. Ya, there's other Eye Racing employees that all

698
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:37.880
the race that haven't shown up yet
either, Kevin just saying he's saving it

699
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:42.960
for the next episode, like the
you know successful racers of eye Racing.

700
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:46.719
So I started back at eye racing. Grant and I used to a carding

701
00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:52.800
all the time after work. And
he would not race anybody. He just

702
00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:54.480
go out there, ride in the
back just to turn quick lapped. He

703
00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:58.920
would not. He did not want
to be side by side or nothing with

704
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:04.480
anybody's And that's why he races.
Yeah, and now he's a national,

705
00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:08.360
multiple national champion and solo racer.
This's Grant. The reason we have time

706
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:14.760
attacks on I racing. Probably probably
Greg, you haven't talked about yourself.

707
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:16.719
You've done some racing, You've done
some well you did Formula V, but

708
00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:20.800
you've done some cart racing too.
Yeah. Yeah, I grew up did

709
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:23.400
some car racing growing up in the
race Formula VI, and then Mike and

710
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:27.719
I decided to take a sabbatical from
Formula VI after I sold my car.

711
00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:31.639
Uh yeah, alexanders is still upset
about that. But yeah, we went

712
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:36.559
went cart racing for a couple of
years, won some races. I have,

713
00:49:36.719 --> 00:49:39.079
I have some trophies. Yeah,
we should certainly did. We got

714
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:43.159
torn down because people thought we were
cheating and we weren't, which is fun.

715
00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:46.079
This was after the V Yeah,
yeah, this was after the V.

716
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:50.320
Yeah. I think Greg the first
race, Greg one, if I

717
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:53.559
remember correctly, I was out front
by a country mile and I actually the

718
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:58.039
chain fell off and and Greg goes
by me, and I'm like, you're

719
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.039
in first place, and he's like, what what are you talking about?

720
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:05.239
Fun? I've gotten spun on last
one. So I was like ten or

721
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:09.480
twelve seconds behind the pack. And
then it started raining or it was it

722
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:14.039
was raining before. And we were
on the right tires, me and you

723
00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:17.000
are. We had our gearing and
our tires set for the conditions that that

724
00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:21.239
track was in, and me and
you were just killing it. We were

725
00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.360
just running away from everybody. And
yeah, you passed a bunch of people

726
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:27.000
coming from the back half of you
spun and you had no idea you were

727
00:50:27.039 --> 00:50:29.280
in first place until I think it
was all over. I didn't know it.

728
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:31.360
Yeah, I had no idea.
I one, I thought it was

729
00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:36.400
like tenth place. Yeah. Mike's
like, Mike's sitting in the infield and

730
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:38.719
doing like dancing with his fingers up
in the air, and I'm like,

731
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.039
is he happy? Is he doing? Why is he flipping me up?

732
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:45.400
I have no idea what's going on
here? And I mean I knew I

733
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:51.719
was turning good lap times, but
yeah it was didn't didn't know one racing's

734
00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:54.800
fun. I need to get back
out in some capacity. I miss it.

735
00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:58.440
But but like I said, it's
it's it's cool. I mean,

736
00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:00.079
and this isn't everybody. This is
just the people that agreed to come on

737
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:04.920
the podcast today. And some volunteered, some were volunte told, but whatever.

738
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:07.519
But like I said, it's it's
about the people that are behind the

739
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:12.440
product are passionate about the product,
and that's a that's just something you don't

740
00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:15.000
really find everywhere. So guys really
appreciate you taking the time out of your

741
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:17.800
day, whether you he said,
whether you wanted to or what. It's

742
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:22.760
old too, but yeah, especially
Kevin I for doing this on his day

743
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.280
off. So yeah, sureus points
there. I'm actually working right now.

744
00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:32.920
Yeah, standard operating procedure. I
think a lot of people at I Racing

745
00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:36.679
have a lot of racing experience and
some of the members might not know that.

746
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:39.000
And when we develop cars, we
have a lot of seat of pants

747
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:44.599
feel and expectations of how a car
should feel and we're not afraid at least

748
00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:46.639
QA at least you know, me
and Kevin, I know that's for a

749
00:51:46.719 --> 00:51:50.639
fact. We're not afraid to send
it back and say, listen, guys,

750
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:52.840
you didn't get this right or something's
a little off with this. And

751
00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:57.079
played a big part in in the
Formula V on the handling of that.

752
00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:00.320
Yeah, that was a really cool. Well, you know, that was

753
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.360
my first interaction with eye racing,
uh, you know, besides being a

754
00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:07.559
customer, And I was really blown
away how we took my real life data

755
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.239
at a racetrack that I've been at, and we lined it up with the

756
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:15.000
sim data and we made you know, the changes it took to make that

757
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:19.960
the same, and we throttle inputs
and steering inputs and we got that thing

758
00:52:20.039 --> 00:52:24.679
dialed in. And I was I
was impressed because it's not just taking a

759
00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:30.119
car, adding a horsepower number and
adding a grip level number and making it

760
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:32.840
work. There's a there's so much
more that goes into it. So um,

761
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:37.360
you know, I've seen it myself
personally going through it with the Formula

762
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.679
V. But after that, the
other cars that we developed, I know,

763
00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:44.840
we always get real life drivers to
come drive them in you know,

764
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:50.800
ninety nine percent of the cases we
get somebody who can share data and really

765
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:54.360
get that feel correct, like we
did with the V. So I you

766
00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:57.880
know, even though the V and
the SIM isn't exactly the same as the

767
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:00.760
one that I race in real life, I can tell you that driving around

768
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:02.599
New Hampshire Motor Speedway, which I
have the most dad at, it's it

769
00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:07.119
feels exactly the same. So and
I think that a lot of cars.

770
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:08.920
I haven't get to drive a Formula
One car, but we did a lot

771
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:13.199
of work on that, and you
know, from the low end the Formula

772
00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:15.360
V to the Formula One, I
think we're getting it right most of the

773
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:17.559
times. No, I would agree, and I mean you've been huge,

774
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:21.000
and he said, Formula V,
you helped a lot on the Formula Ford

775
00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:23.199
just on the field, similar to
the V. Kevin Zoo has been big

776
00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:28.039
toyt G already six and the Cleo
uh, you know, because you're touring

777
00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:31.760
car experienced Tyler of course on the
dirt stuff. And then Kevin Ironelli has

778
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:36.480
been involved in almost every car and
track there is on I racing in some

779
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:39.679
capacity. So it's a lot of
that seat of the pants feeling as well,

780
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.079
what do you think. There's a
lot of a lot of times where

781
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.960
files are passed over, especially recently
to Mike, it's like, well what

782
00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:47.400
do you think drive this? I'm
not going to tell you what we changed.

783
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:52.280
Yeah, that happens on a regular
basis. And and like I said,

784
00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:54.920
we're not afraid to say no,
this is this is junk, guys,

785
00:53:55.000 --> 00:54:00.440
we gotta gotta look at this again. So cool. Yeah, Greg

786
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:06.719
lost my long emails about how I
think tires should behave. Yeah, yeah,

787
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:07.920
but it helps, It really does
help. And I mean if you

788
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:12.280
look at the especially the g R
eighty six and the Cleo what you helped

789
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:15.000
with there, you know, very
very popular cars on the service. So

790
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:17.880
looking forward to seeing how those things
continue. Looking forward to the dirt refreshed

791
00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:22.440
tea hud that'll be exciting slated for
June. We're just gonna say it now

792
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:28.159
more than just a dirt refresh that's
you know Oval too, where we're you

793
00:54:28.239 --> 00:54:32.840
know, our vehicle dynamics guys are
going through and we're kind of reviewing a

794
00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:37.719
lot of our short track stuff to
get our lap times where grip setting is

795
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:43.039
more in line with three re rold
data. That we have to correlate the

796
00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:47.639
two. So it's it's a project
that kind of morphed into the oval side

797
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:53.119
of things too. Yep, all
right, Kevin, you have any Kevin

798
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:57.559
Bobbitt, do you have anything else? Three Kevin is on this show now?

799
00:54:58.039 --> 00:55:01.039
Yeah, I think that's all the
ones. I think it's pretty fantastic.

800
00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:05.679
Yea here so special episode. So
no, I appreciate you guys coming

801
00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:07.760
in. Uh, it's cool to
hear your backgrounds. I knew much of

802
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:12.079
your stories, but I always always
fun to learn something new about it.

803
00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:15.800
I mean, like Greg said,
it really does show that the connection everything

804
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:22.400
this company has to real world motorsport
and why why we do what we what

805
00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:23.880
we do? We love it,
you know, so Awestoly be part of

806
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:29.000
this team. All right, On
that note, Kevin, let's get back

807
00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:32.000
to the show. All right,
We're back a lot of fun sitting down

808
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:36.480
with those guys. It's once again
great to see the passion that goes in

809
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:40.679
to making eye racing as good as
it is actually manifesting itself on real world

810
00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:45.199
tracks all across the country. Because
this group has been been all over the

811
00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:50.039
place. I know, I think
Hankle's actually driving back from vir right now

812
00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:54.159
from racing the Super two race this
weekend. So moving on, speaking of

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racing back in the digital space,
we have the e NASCAR Cocacola I Racing

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Series in full force. Chris two
of last year's Champion Championship four, Wilson

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00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:09.599
and Zelenski where March winners. That
is true, I mean we had a

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00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:15.039
surprise winner to kick off the season
in Daytona Tucker mentor and first ever race,

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00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:19.760
but fins of the drivers who you
would expect to be winning races or

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00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:23.360
winning races again. Michael Conti obviously
finished off February with that win at the

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00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:29.239
Milwaukee Mile, but then Stephen Wilson
beck in the winner circle at Atlanta and

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00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:34.519
Bobby Zelenski dominating at Richmond Raceway.
Wilson and Zelenski both in the Champion four

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00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:37.320
last year. Contie, I believe
was the first driver out. So you

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00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:42.320
know a lot of familiar names punching
those playoff tickets early or at least trying

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00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:46.199
to remember you have to stay in
that top twenty come playoff time and have

824
00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:52.119
that win to have you have your
shot in and as we've seen in past

825
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:54.800
years, if there are more than
ten winners for those ten playoff spots.

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The one win might not even be
enough. We don't have a repeat winner

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00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:01.320
yet, but we could get one. We don't know yet, but we

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00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:06.039
could get one sometime this month.
And this is going to be a really

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00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:08.840
interesting month. First of all,
it's back to back races. Second of

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00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:14.400
all, we're heading to Manza for
the first of those races. E NASCAR

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00:57:14.480 --> 00:57:17.679
has never left the country. I
mean, real world NASCAR obviously has never

832
00:57:17.719 --> 00:57:22.119
competed at Monsa, but that is
some of the beauty of the eye racing

833
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.320
space is that we're able to take
cars into all sorts of different things.

834
00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:30.360
I mean, we frequently joke about
my league that does that. But gonna

835
00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:34.360
be really cool. We're running the
GP layout at Monza without chicanes, so

836
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.719
those drivers are just going to be
barreling down into some of those corners.

837
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:40.960
In a lot of ways, it's
going to be like a European Watkins Glen,

838
00:57:42.119 --> 00:57:45.320
like a classic Watkins Glen race where
it's a road course, but in

839
00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:49.480
some ways it does kind of feel
like an oval. The week after that,

840
00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:52.400
we go to Talladega and for the
first time this year. You know,

841
00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:55.719
we've had a lot of drivers over
the years people who have followed e

842
00:57:55.840 --> 00:58:00.679
NASCAR over the years said, you
know, oh, it'd be interesting to

843
00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:04.840
see this series do fix set up. Now, that's not happening for most

844
00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:07.920
of the races, but when we
do back to backs this year, the

845
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:09.679
second half of the back to back
is going to be a fixed set up

846
00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:13.800
rate. It takes a little bit
of pressure off the drivers and make sure

847
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:16.119
that they're going to be fresh for
it. But it's also a great equalizer

848
00:58:16.199 --> 00:58:20.760
and we'll see, you know,
some of those drivers who might excel more

849
00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:24.119
in a fix than a you know, that have made the Koke Series level

850
00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:30.199
try to take advantage of those couple
of opportunities, you know, not to

851
00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:34.639
mention the fact that it's also Talladega
where anybody can win. Again we saw

852
00:58:34.719 --> 00:58:37.039
with a first time winner in his
first race at Daytona and Tucker Mentor.

853
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:43.119
So this is really going to be
one of the most interesting little pockets of

854
00:58:43.239 --> 00:58:45.960
the schedule in the history of the
Koke Series. So really looking forward to

855
00:58:46.039 --> 00:58:50.840
that. Obviously, every Tuesday night
at nine pm countdown to Green Date thirty.

856
00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:54.280
So can't can't wait to see how
those races play out. Now,

857
00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:57.679
it's gonna be a lot of fun
I'm excited the seat. Like I said,

858
00:58:57.719 --> 00:59:00.119
there's just a little bit of verse. See going to Monza, that's

859
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:02.400
gonna be quite a wild race.
I've been listening to some of the driver

860
00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:06.599
feedback as they've been practicing for that, and it's, uh, it's definitely

861
00:59:06.920 --> 00:59:08.519
something that's a little bit different for
for them, but it should be a

862
00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:13.039
great show. And then you know
Talladega going to a fixed setup race.

863
00:59:13.079 --> 00:59:15.119
I mean, if there's any race
where setup is not nearly as important as

864
00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:19.639
a draft track like like Talladega,
So I'm I'm excited to see how that

865
00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:22.039
plays out. Also, watching Talladega
is just always a good time because you

866
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:25.000
know, you're always waiting for the
big one, and then the second big

867
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:30.239
one, then then the third big
one and then two two green white checkers

868
00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:34.840
at least maybe three. So it'll
be a lot of fun. Speaking of

869
00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:38.119
a lot of fun, Taghire Porsche
e Sports or wait is it Porsche Taghre

870
00:59:38.280 --> 00:59:45.320
Esports Supercup or Taghwior Porsche Esports Supercup. Kevin's rolling his eyes. I'm so

871
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:49.559
disappointed. I'm not even gonna cover
it. I mean, it's just I

872
00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:52.320
can't believe you got that wrong.
But I've been called worse by better.

873
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:57.760
Kevin. Let's talk about pass.
Well, what a race we had at

874
00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.760
Watington's Glen last week. You talk
about how Monza is kind of mixing things

875
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:06.079
up for the Coke Series. We
went to Watkins Glenn, the short course,

876
01:00:06.760 --> 01:00:09.880
no bus stop. It was it
was interesting, it was it was

877
01:00:10.159 --> 01:00:15.280
a draft machine. Um. The
All Star race was completely dominated by Casey

878
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:22.840
Kerwin from the Cooke Series, the
reigning champion. UM like completely dominated by

879
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:27.039
him until he ended up in the
wall on the second race. But anyway,

880
01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:34.079
uh, he was the fastest guy. But the the the actual pass

881
01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:38.360
race was fantastic. Um. Caruso's
leading the points. Now. Actually we're

882
01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:40.679
back to we had back to back, so now we're off for two weeks.

883
01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:45.320
We come back at SPA for the
tail end of the season. I

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01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:47.280
think we've got four races to go, is that right, Chris, yep?

885
01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:52.039
Four to go, so we're almost
almost there. But it's been a

886
01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:57.639
good season, lots of different winners, fantastic show. The guys in the

887
01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:00.519
studio I have been doing a great
job with PASK as well as Coke and

888
01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:02.679
all the other stuff they produce.
They're actually behind the cameras today, so

889
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:07.880
we're so to speak anyway, shout
out to Jerrancisco. That's right. But

890
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:10.800
yeah, been a great season,
looking forward to uh, you know,

891
01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:15.280
wrapping things up over I guess the
next six or seven weeks or something like

892
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:20.280
that. So no, always a
good time. And before we head out

893
01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:23.719
today, Kevin, we have doubled
our fan count. We got a nice

894
01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:28.679
little Easter message from a mister Steve
Myers. Steve Meyers sent us a video

895
01:01:28.760 --> 01:01:34.159
recording from his mother talking about how
much she loves this podcast and the highlight

896
01:01:34.239 --> 01:01:38.440
of it is she loves it because
it's both informative and we have very few

897
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:43.639
four letter words used, so it's
like very few. I thought we cut

898
01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:46.840
them all out. I thought we
had zero, but at yeah, we

899
01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:51.880
say slow a lot, you're a
lot. Oh okay, gotcha. But

900
01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:55.039
it was actually a sweet video that
was sent. She does seem to enjoy

901
01:01:55.119 --> 01:02:00.000
it, and I don't know that
that's probably the nicest thing Steve's ever said

902
01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:01.440
to the three of us, so
that that he likes the work we're doing.

903
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:07.000
So absolutely, it was a nice
easter that's my word. It was

904
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:12.760
a nice easter message. And I
don't know's we've kind of been joking in

905
01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:17.079
the office like this started office kind
of just a something fun to do,

906
01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:22.440
a different way to get the message
out. And it's grown way bigger than

907
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:28.079
we thought it would be. I'm
not exactly sure how. I maybe maybe

908
01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:30.480
just because it's it's entertaining that we
are making it up as we go,

909
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:35.920
Maybe that's it. But uh,
this has been a As we're approaching fifty

910
01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:39.519
episodes, this podcast has been such
an adventure and hearing people come up to

911
01:02:39.639 --> 01:02:43.159
us at expos and things like that
and say they listen to it and that

912
01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:45.719
they're fans of the show and asking
Tony Kennan to take pictures of me and

913
01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:50.760
Kevin. Uh, that's that's pretty
wild. I was a highlight. Yeah,

914
01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:52.559
yeah, that's a highlight. You
know, things like that. Um,

915
01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:55.920
but you know, it's we appreciate
everybody that's come along the ride with

916
01:02:57.119 --> 01:02:59.559
us. We're looking at ways to
expand it. So for those of you

917
01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:01.679
that they haven't picked up the hint, we are, well, this will

918
01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:06.760
not go out. I don't think
as a video podcast we are. We

919
01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:10.440
are doing a test run today adding
video to this and uh, I'm glad

920
01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:15.159
it's a test run because God knows
I'm not camera ready. This this is

921
01:03:15.239 --> 01:03:20.440
why I keep actually going to the
gym now I have no choice. This

922
01:03:20.679 --> 01:03:24.920
is why I motivate you to go
to the gym for you. Wow,

923
01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:31.159
something had to whatever it takes,
right, I'm glad to go to the

924
01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:35.400
gym. It's good for you.
Yes, get something from me while you're

925
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:38.360
there too. Yeah. Yeah,
do three workouts today and then we all

926
01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:42.960
get credit. Yeah. Crap up. Well, I gotta leave now then,

927
01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:45.559
because I won't be done until it
closes at ten. My goodness,

928
01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:49.599
there's somebody that used to spend a
lot of time in the gym. That's

929
01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:52.079
a lot of time in the gym. I'm going back to that four letter

930
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:57.320
words slow ah, gotcha. Well, it's the effort that counts when you're

931
01:03:57.360 --> 01:04:00.039
hitting the gym. So good for
you, yep, and and and and

932
01:04:00.199 --> 01:04:02.880
expanding podcasts. You know, once
again, we're gonna look at ways to

933
01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:06.880
make this uh more entertaining. I
mean, well, now that I think

934
01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:11.119
about it, the video part,
there's Cisco and Drew. They probably have

935
01:04:11.239 --> 01:04:14.880
filters that could take care of us
going to the gym. Right, I

936
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:16.519
thought you were gonna say for the
four letter words, Well they have that

937
01:04:16.679 --> 01:04:19.320
I know that, but but I'm
just saying we could. We don't have

938
01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:20.960
to go to the gym. I'm
sure we could. Yeah, we could

939
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:24.599
all just become a v tubers would
be great. Yeah, there we go,

940
01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:29.519
Cisco and just yeah, make Kevin
look buff. I need a lot

941
01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:33.199
of help on that one. Multiple
filters. Oh. On that note,

942
01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:36.400
thanks for listening to this edition of
the I Racing Downship. Don't forget to

943
01:04:36.519 --> 01:04:40.960
rate, review, and subscribe on
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else Chris

944
01:04:41.039 --> 01:04:44.320
decides to put this thing probably YouTube
and Twitched and feature as well, So

945
01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:47.079
we'll be doing that for Kevin,
Bob and Chris Leoni. I am Greg

946
01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:49.079
West and we will see you on
the track.