Speaker 1: This week and the I Racing Downship, we recapped some
Speaker 1: of the most fun special events and simmers look at
Speaker 1: the start of the season for two of our biggest
Speaker 1: d sports series and welcome special guest Steve Luvender to
Speaker 1: talk about fifteen years of trading bos all this and more, Strappy.
Speaker 2: What Mores and down Shift. I'm your host, Greg West,
Speaker 2: I'm back of the boys, Kevin, Bobba and Chris Leoni.
Speaker 2: We've got a great.
Speaker 3: Show, a great day. Oh, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: Episode sixty something.
Speaker 3: That's awesome that we're going to have a great show.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have a great show because Kevin's had
Speaker 2: a whole pot of coffee and a red bull.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of a red bull. There's a little left.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you and your We're not going to get into
Speaker 2: your red bull.
Speaker 3: I'm just enjoying our red bull. How about that. We'll
Speaker 3: leave it at that.
Speaker 2: Kevin has a lot a red Bull. There's more red
Speaker 2: bull than you can buy. Even that it's weird anyway.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm highly caffeinated today and I'm ready to go spunky.
Speaker 2: Would you say spunky, Chris?
Speaker 1: I would not use that word in any context. Greg,
Speaker 1: what have we been up to Chris Well. We boycotted
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Emily and I had a nice steakhouse.
Speaker 1: So uh had a great meal. Had a great meal
Speaker 1: Sunday night at uh gibb It Hill, a few downs down.
Speaker 3: I've been there. It's a that's a great place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, taking her back for the anniversary and a couple
Speaker 1: of week you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you get a raise or something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna. I could only go there once a year.
Speaker 3: You're going twice.
Speaker 1: Hey, it's a second mortgage, Yeah, exactly, it's the it's
Speaker 1: the whole second mortgage sold the rats. Yeah, yeah, of
Speaker 1: course would I give for those ten dollars?
Speaker 2: I don't know what the rats? Yeah, usually people pay
Speaker 2: to get for somebody to get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everything else is more expensive nowadays. I'm sure rats
Speaker 3: are you.
Speaker 2: Know it's not more expensive these days? Hi racing?
Speaker 3: That is well said.
Speaker 2: You know what, in a world where inflation is exploded
Speaker 2: and we get a lot of crap about our pricing,
Speaker 2: we have not raised prices one cent. I'm pretty proud
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: I was not in the outline.
Speaker 3: That was not in the out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's something that I want to wait. We
Speaker 2: have not raised prices one cent?
Speaker 1: Wait, do you mean to tell me that we've missed
Speaker 1: Turned one of the show? When does that happen? When
Speaker 1: have we ever hit Turned one of the shows? I
Speaker 1: told you where the spect me out of podcasts?
Speaker 2: The thing I saw?
Speaker 3: There's one exits an off track? Is that? What this is?
Speaker 2: This is a four x Yeah? Have you listened to
Speaker 2: the show before? Was I watched that? I got it?
Speaker 2: I saw just perusing Twitter a little while ago, and
Speaker 2: it was a DTM and they ran the tight turn one,
Speaker 2: not not the finger quotes easy turned one, but the
Speaker 2: full like twenty mile an hour ninety left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't even send people there? And yes too
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really good because the reason we changed
Speaker 2: the layoup Anyway, Kevin, what have you been out?
Speaker 3: Gosh? Well, what I've enjoying the winter? When skiing, getting
Speaker 3: out there, some snowshoeing, you know. Wow, I'm you know,
Speaker 3: trying to enjoy make the best of winter, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, but how much do you enjoy it? Do you
Speaker 1: still snow blow or are you a shovel person?
Speaker 3: I have a snowblower?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, Kevin's full memory, He's he's got a snowblower,
Speaker 2: and then he got a new lawnmower.
Speaker 3: Got a riding tractor.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he still mows as long as though
Speaker 2: we got like what a foot of snow on there.
Speaker 3: It does have a cup holder in it, you know
Speaker 3: that was there? You go for water for water, of course,
Speaker 3: of course, of course.
Speaker 2: It's well, there's water in it.
Speaker 1: No, it's a cup holder for red Bull.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Red Bull Mowing a lawn does not super appealing.
Speaker 3: How about you? What have you been up to?
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been doing some I racing. I've been doing
Speaker 2: a little Ira sing race in the M two series.
Speaker 2: Nice sick fan.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: IM gonna do another series, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: here in a little while. I was down in Florida
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago. I went to the PJ show. Nice.
Speaker 2: That was fun, except it was cold in Florida, which
Speaker 2: was defeating the purpose wear a heavy coat.
Speaker 3: I was in Taytona a few weeks ago as well. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there was this big race that I went to and long,
Speaker 3: it was long, but everybody said it was cold and
Speaker 3: it was like sixty and I was like, that wasn't
Speaker 3: sixty When I was. It was minus two when I
Speaker 3: left New Hampshire, so sixty. I was like, this is
Speaker 3: pretty nice, but locals thought I was pretty cold.
Speaker 1: So no. I was in Charlotte for a couple of
Speaker 1: days and we got snowed a couple of days I
Speaker 1: was there. We're brought it with me. Yeah, bad luck.
Speaker 1: We're bad at warm weather. Sorry, but great show, Kevin,
Speaker 1: We have a great show.
Speaker 2: We have a guest. We do have a we haven't
Speaker 2: had a guest in a while, but we have a guest.
Speaker 3: Are we not going to tease him or he'll probably
Speaker 3: be in the title anyway.
Speaker 2: Probably be in the title. But I'm going to say
Speaker 2: it right now, but you show my thunder.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, okay.
Speaker 2: Steve Luvendernder not Lavender, No no, no, no no, Founder
Speaker 2: of Trading Paints. Fifteen years strong, over four hundred thousand members.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty cool service, Steve.
Speaker 2: They make the best T shirts.
Speaker 3: They do, and we're going to talk about that. You
Speaker 3: will talk about Trading Paints, what they do, how they
Speaker 3: got started, how they've grown.
Speaker 2: How Kevin hasn't given me the free code that Steve
Speaker 2: sent him for me to get my second Trading Paint
Speaker 2: T shirt because the best T shirt on the face
Speaker 2: of the planet.
Speaker 3: We can talk about that.
Speaker 2: They're like the softest T shirts.
Speaker 3: Did I mention that I'm wearing one and it's super comfortable.
Speaker 2: And I mentioned I don't like you very much.
Speaker 3: You mentioned that twice already today, but.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll get to three. But besides our special
Speaker 2: guests that we haven't had in a while, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about special events. We had this really big one,
Speaker 2: the biggest one in the history of sim racing, uh
Speaker 2: not too long ago. We did some charity work with
Speaker 2: Dale Junior's Foundation and some really goofy penalties that kept
Speaker 2: me and Alexander's busy all.
Speaker 3: Night hitting buttons and kept my team in pitt Lane.
Speaker 2: Gosh, it wasn't just your nim. We'll get into that.
Speaker 2: We got some more special events coming up we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about. We're gonna announce all of our year long
Speaker 2: series on this show. We got some really some.
Speaker 3: New stuff, stuff popular. We like new stuff we do
Speaker 3: like we do, yeah, especially new T shirts from trading things.
Speaker 2: Give me the code. We're gonna talk about es sports.
Speaker 2: Last night, Ean Ascar Coo Coo E Racing Series Ding
Speaker 2: kicked off at Daytona. We have the Porscha Tag, Horry
Speaker 2: Es Sports Super Cup, ding World of Outlaws Pro Series
Speaker 2: because Chris didn't write the whole name, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about MC sports Global Championship where Kevin's going.
Speaker 3: To Okay, sounds like a plan.
Speaker 2: That's our outline, which is is I think an a
Speaker 2: p a well formatted.
Speaker 3: But if we're going to talk about formats, it seems
Speaker 3: like every time we get one of these from Chris, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, thank you, but they are always in
Speaker 3: a different format.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The inconsistency is that we talk about now.
Speaker 3: I almost kind of like it.
Speaker 2: It's even Sean Shaker nod in his head. It was like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to Sean.
Speaker 3: I don't think Sean has a hot mic today.
Speaker 2: Oh I have, Oh Sean, Sean, I'm.
Speaker 3: Here to defend it. And he's probably punchy because he
Speaker 3: was here late last night.
Speaker 2: He was. But we have monitors in both ears for
Speaker 2: the first time. So I'm very happy about it.
Speaker 3: So nice work today, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's get into it. Special Events Daytona twenty four, biggest
Speaker 2: special event in I racing history, twenty three thousand over
Speaker 2: twenty three thousand total drivers super excited about that. What's
Speaker 2: what's Chris Other's debut for about five different cars in
Speaker 2: this event?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was the Yeah, this was the first Daytona
Speaker 1: twenty four for first of all, the Ferrari four ninety
Speaker 1: nine P first.
Speaker 2: One for the hypercar.
Speaker 1: Yep, yes, first one for that, but then the the Acura,
Speaker 1: the Corvette, the Mustang and the seven twenty s McLaren.
Speaker 1: It was the first Daytona twenty four.
Speaker 3: For all he's been paying attention.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he didn't say the complete names of the
Speaker 2: cars as he was. Now that's what I say.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I said shorthand. But still, hey, I
Speaker 1: had to do something. Well, you guys were interviewing.
Speaker 3: Thinks has a different outline because none of that, none
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 2: I didn't even read. That was that's under Just to
Speaker 2: give me section two a I number two.
Speaker 1: Just to give you all a little glimpse into how
Speaker 1: the sausages made. We do the interview first and hell them,
Speaker 1: that's when I do my notes five minutes beforehand.
Speaker 3: So it makes him look smarter than us because he
Speaker 3: knows more about what we're about to talking.
Speaker 2: Hard to look smarter. No, that's that's tea in that one.
Speaker 2: I mean, Sean's got the brands in the room, He's
Speaker 2: the one that has the pots.
Speaker 3: Back to the Daytona twenty four, what did we have
Speaker 3: sixteen different.
Speaker 2: Cars, sixteen different vehicles in him?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I remember when I got laughed out of the room
Speaker 2: and I asked for seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we've come a long way.
Speaker 2: We've come a long way.
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: So soup, Yeah, amazing, great race, some big names racing
Speaker 2: in it, and uh yeah went off without a hitch too,
Speaker 2: which is always super exciting. You knocked up with the race.
Speaker 3: It was good, It was good, it was fantastic. You
Speaker 3: knocked on wood. That's just a habit.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I mean yeah, that's fair enough.
Speaker 1: Isn't wood?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: That's like that's like particle board, It's like would anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on to the show is nominally about iRacing.
Speaker 2: Phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: We also had a kind of spur of the moment
Speaker 2: laid edition special event the Dale Junior Driven to give
Speaker 2: four hundred, which was goofy to say.
Speaker 3: The lead's super fun, super honored to be a part
Speaker 3: of it. To raise a lot of money for a
Speaker 3: lot of.
Speaker 2: Money over seventy thousand dollars d foundation.
Speaker 3: That was really cool.
Speaker 2: And Kevin, you participated with the now so mini stocks
Speaker 2: at Iowa four hundred laps. For those of you that
Speaker 2: maybe not are familiar with the oval stuff mini stock,
Speaker 2: little car, slow car, Yes, Iowa typically little track, but
Speaker 2: since little car are on it like a super speed
Speaker 2: it was a super speedway. It was. It was. It
Speaker 2: was a fairly approachable combination. Sure it was not stressful
Speaker 2: other than the you know, massive amount of crashes. But
Speaker 2: we could community members could purchase penalties. Yes for people
Speaker 2: they could.
Speaker 1: And that's where the stress came in for you.
Speaker 2: Just hitting buttons. But for a hundred bucks you could
Speaker 2: black flag somebody, make him come and do a drive
Speaker 2: was a drive through stopping go for you?
Speaker 3: Drive to drive through?
Speaker 2: Yeah you were, You did more than a few of them, Yes.
Speaker 3: Drive through. Yeah, I got familiar with Pitt Lane. It
Speaker 3: was not as bad as Nim was my teammates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like my I still think the funniest thing
Speaker 2: Max for staff and penalizing Nim talking about flipping the
Speaker 2: script there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2: That was more than mildly entertaining.
Speaker 3: But we had a great team, so it was me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you had entertaining. It was Nim Uh and Casey Crowen.
Speaker 2: So it was a case.
Speaker 3: We nominated as team captain because we said you can drive,
Speaker 3: so you figure this out. And he was helping with
Speaker 3: strategy and strategy they're talking about like how long we
Speaker 3: should run each ten and then it was like, well,
Speaker 3: how many times is Nim going to go through? This
Speaker 3: is going to screw up your fuel calculations. So we
Speaker 3: just kind of went with it. But it was so
Speaker 3: much fun. Uh, Steve and I raced here in the office.
Speaker 3: You were here, both you guys were here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I popped him.
Speaker 3: You were hanging out half Chris and and Greg. You
Speaker 3: were given penalties and coordinating with the Dale Junior Foundation
Speaker 3: and doing all that. But it was super fun to
Speaker 3: do it all in the office. Uh, it was just
Speaker 3: a fun experience.
Speaker 2: It was fun.
Speaker 3: We had pizza, which I needed.
Speaker 1: Something to do, so I was your Coca Cola runner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris got me a coke and even got me pizza.
Speaker 3: The broadcast guys were working that night too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sound guy Sean was here doing I was on
Speaker 3: the board, was on the board. I was a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. So it was fun.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 4: You know, for me, one of the really fun things
Speaker 4: was seeing some members we have that haven't been on
Speaker 4: the service for a while. They came back from the
Speaker 4: past just for this event. Came several ogs in the field.
Speaker 2: Taylor Junior obviously racing TJ was was in there racing
Speaker 2: CJ Majors, a bunch of Cup drivers I can't even count.
Speaker 2: I mean there was there was a bunch of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: At some point Kelly Earnhardt got my number and started
Speaker 2: instead of using a middle person to to uh to
Speaker 2: hand out penalty, she just started texting me directly. She's like,
Speaker 2: I'm good for it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, my life has changed so much.
Speaker 2: It was a good time. But yeah, great, great event.
Speaker 2: That one will be back in some capacity. Yeah, that was.
Speaker 2: That was a ton of fun fan favorite. We got
Speaker 2: a lot coming up this week in Daytona five hundred,
Speaker 2: which actually I think first race for Daytona five hundred
Speaker 2: and the n I S Series is tonight.
Speaker 3: Nice are you racing in it?
Speaker 2: No? Okay, now that's five hundred a lot I'm gonna
Speaker 2: race in a series. Were gonna talk about a little
Speaker 2: bit though, okay. So and then we had Bathroost twelve
Speaker 2: hour coming up here in a couple of weeks GT
Speaker 2: three's at Panorama. What could possibly go wrong? This is
Speaker 2: the event that everybody, you know, the bop balance and performances,
Speaker 2: talked about all the time in GT three's and I
Speaker 2: just think it's hilarious. For this event. Every car is
Speaker 2: going to be dinged up, every car is going to
Speaker 2: be wrecked. This is like the least impactful BOP.
Speaker 3: Of the year.
Speaker 1: Yep, just keep it on the track.
Speaker 2: Easier said than done. Did you watch the real one?
Speaker 2: There are some big hits. Yeah, some big hits. The Mercedes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I forget the driver's name.
Speaker 3: It was a big Wreckord Wow, big wreck.
Speaker 2: Yep, no fun there. They were trying out the damage model,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. But yeah, So lots going on in
Speaker 2: special events land pivoting over now. This is a section
Speaker 2: two bulletpoint B Kevin, Oh, that's me, that's you.
Speaker 3: NASCAR twenty five. NASCAR twenty five. So that's the console
Speaker 3: game we're working on. We've talked about it before. Not
Speaker 3: the only one, not the only one, but it's the
Speaker 3: NASCAR console game we're working on. Right. So latest update
Speaker 3: is we've announced that there will be four series in
Speaker 3: it ARCA all the way up to Cup. So it's
Speaker 3: a first time in a game that you can really
Speaker 3: do that full NASCAR career, just like many of the
Speaker 3: heroes that we watch on Sundays have started in ARCA
Speaker 3: and work their way up.
Speaker 2: So to Cletas yep cles getting started in ARCA, he's
Speaker 2: got to make it all the way. He's starting his
Speaker 2: career exactly.
Speaker 3: So that's exciting. We're starting to put some more information
Speaker 3: out because people have been asking, and I would expect
Speaker 3: that in the very near future there'll be more information coming.
Speaker 3: So I would stay tuned to our social channels to
Speaker 3: see what we talk about.
Speaker 2: You're walking that line really because I'm like, I know
Speaker 2: the things that you're.
Speaker 3: Like almost, so just pay attention.
Speaker 2: This is like a huge edition of Ina something.
Speaker 3: So anyway, lots of cool stuff. We also have a
Speaker 3: team of people going down to the Daytona five hundred,
Speaker 3: not just to watch the race, but to meet with
Speaker 3: teams drivers, get more people involved in the game.
Speaker 2: So get out of the cold.
Speaker 3: Get out of the cold. Although I heard it's going
Speaker 3: to rain on Sunday at Daytona.
Speaker 2: Let's hope not. Yeah, that would suck.
Speaker 3: Suck. Yeah, But anyway, So, lots going on with NASCAR
Speaker 3: twenty five. More to come in terms of announcements very soon,
Speaker 3: and excited to continue to develop that game for a
Speaker 3: fall launch. That's what.
Speaker 2: More info hashtag soon, hashtag soon, hashtags soon. All right,
Speaker 2: Moving on now. Section two C I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring you in Chris, We're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: it is a year long series announcement time mid I Racing.
Speaker 2: For those of you that might be new to the service.
Speaker 2: Not only do we have twelve week series, but we
Speaker 2: have some series that progress throughout the year, some of
Speaker 2: which are loosely mirroring like the real world calendar. Others
Speaker 2: are just spreading races out just to give somebody, to
Speaker 2: give people something different to look forward to. We have
Speaker 2: some fan favorites that are back then this will be
Speaker 2: Chris is gonna write a story about this today. I
Speaker 2: know this because we talked about it earlier and I
Speaker 2: asked him, Hey, could you write a story about this?
Speaker 1: Yes, I could do that.
Speaker 2: That would be great. But yeah. Nurber Ringing Durance Championship
Speaker 2: are the I Racing kind of parallel to yell in
Speaker 2: nine races at the Nurburgring, mostly four hour races, one
Speaker 2: six hour race. Uh, sixteen different cars this year.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're if you're that, that's a that's a
Speaker 2: whole thing happened in there is a thing. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: very excited about that. That has become a massively popular series.
Speaker 2: Over one thousand entries per race.
Speaker 3: That's pretty solid.
Speaker 2: And yeah, with sixteen different bakes, it's a it's a
Speaker 2: lot of diversity of car selection on the track, a
Speaker 2: lot of fun M two BMWM two coming to that series.
Speaker 3: That'll be the the.
Speaker 2: Token free car. Yeah, the Craventic. The twelve hour series,
Speaker 2: the series that started kind of as nothing is just that,
Speaker 2: hey let's try this, and now it's a fan favorite.
Speaker 2: I think you're four of that, so it'll be it
Speaker 2: expands from four twelve hour races last year, so we're
Speaker 2: adding a fifth race and the last race of the
Speaker 2: year will be a twenty four hour race. I did
Speaker 2: Barcelona because they run a twenty four hour race at Barcelona.
Speaker 2: I like it small format, changing cars because in the
Speaker 2: real world they race some GT threes and they put
Speaker 2: I Racing stickers on them. Go figure.
Speaker 3: So what are we running in I Racing.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go GT threes Porsche Cup, Okay, in GT fours.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: It's a cool like it. We don't do that anywhere else.
Speaker 3: It's a good mix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be a good time. So pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2: That kicks off. I think in April. Uh, the I
Speaker 2: Racing Indy Car Series is back. That's when it starts
Speaker 2: in like three weeks. I probably should put a form
Speaker 2: post up about that. Probably format as last year kicks
Speaker 2: off at Seabring.
Speaker 3: Probably should build the schedule too.
Speaker 2: That's done, Okay, Larry's already done the artwork. Travis has
Speaker 2: done the heavy lifting. The perfect They've done it. They're
Speaker 2: very well organized. I am the weak link in the
Speaker 2: chain on this. I think I'm gonna run that one.
Speaker 2: I've been actually practicing a little bit.
Speaker 3: That's just didn't you weren't you an eedy car guy
Speaker 3: before you started on I Racing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I like single seaters. It's kind of my thing.
Speaker 2: I think anything that looks like a hot wheel or
Speaker 2: matchbox car, that's that's what a race car should be
Speaker 2: like in my mind. So yeah, pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2: I g B T the I Rasing Grand Prix Tour,
Speaker 2: which loosely mimics the real world Formula One schedule that
Speaker 2: is back this year as well. And then we have
Speaker 2: some new ones. Chris, I'll go first, because I only
Speaker 2: have one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, did you mentioned and I s did we
Speaker 3: mention that?
Speaker 2: I mean that, Well we have you know, I asked
Speaker 2: we talked about that or exist start.
Speaker 3: Talking about Yeah, we said, by the Daytona five. But
Speaker 3: that's part of a big but it's part of a
Speaker 3: bigger series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, n I s the NASCAR I Racing Series, which
Speaker 2: kicks off tonight. We alluded to heavily. That follows the
Speaker 2: real world schedule. That that that that starts tonight this.
Speaker 3: Week and runs until October whenever. The yeah, real series
Speaker 3: November November.
Speaker 2: Yeah, NASCAR series got longer, gotcha. So yeah, very very exciting.
Speaker 3: So under the new one sorry new ones, Yes.
Speaker 2: All right, this will this one will appeal to tens
Speaker 2: of I Racers'll be there'll be probably few hundred people
Speaker 2: in each. We're gonna do the Vintage Grand Prix Tour.
Speaker 2: Vintage Vintage Grand Prix Tour using the Lotus seventy nine,
Speaker 2: a very similar schedule to the seventy eight F one series.
Speaker 2: All right, seventy eight F one calendar, a couple of
Speaker 2: editions in there, and it loosely follows. So pretty excited
Speaker 2: about that, and then the rest Chris has to talk about. Yep.
Speaker 1: These are all four short oval series. There are two
Speaker 1: dirt ones and two paved ones. So the paved ones
Speaker 1: feature the super Late Model and the Tour Modified, and
Speaker 1: those are running about twenty races each. They both started
Speaker 1: at New Smyrna within the past couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: they'll wrap up around Thanksgiving Myrtle Beach for the modified,
Speaker 1: five flags for the super Late Model.
Speaker 2: Gee, you I wonder why no idea? In fact, this
Speaker 2: the Winter Derby, not the Snowball. The Winter Derby is
Speaker 2: actually housed within that series.
Speaker 1: For this season, which is a very cool development.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool, fun fact. Yeah, I think I'm right.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
Speaker 3: Something new everything.
Speaker 1: Well, now that you've said it, I mean you got
Speaker 1: you have ten months to figure it out.
Speaker 2: Graik Tyler, Travis, Hey, if we're not doing it, we
Speaker 2: are now. We're doing it now.
Speaker 1: And as for the dirt folks, they started a little earlier,
Speaker 1: both at Vlusia. The super Late model and the four
Speaker 1: ten sprint car each with their own nearly forty races
Speaker 1: in each of those. So if you're a if you're
Speaker 1: a big dirt guy, you got plenty of racing to
Speaker 1: do over the course of this year until you wrap
Speaker 1: up in early November the dirt Track at Charlotte, just
Speaker 1: like the real World of out Laws World Finals.
Speaker 2: Fancy. Yeah, this is the cool stuff I really like
Speaker 2: that we do here in I Racing. We've been I
Speaker 2: Racing over the last couple of years has find ways
Speaker 2: to get more people involved in these shorter format races
Speaker 2: and maybe a little bit more casual experience. I've been
Speaker 2: accused us on several occasions of ruining I Racing with
Speaker 2: these shorter sprint race format races. But this is the
Speaker 2: kind of stuff that I actually think is really cool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because this is the stuff that we can do that
Speaker 2: a lot of people can do. Is the full length,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent racist and you are in that series
Speaker 2: and that's that's a lot of fun. So very excited.
Speaker 2: There's a little bit of everything here. If you're on
Speaker 2: I Racing, there is some sort of year long series
Speaker 2: that that should have some sort of like analogous appeal
Speaker 2: to you. So we're we're really excited about that. We
Speaker 2: might expand the schedule even more, maybe later this year,
Speaker 2: but that's nic.
Speaker 3: Those are great additions. So I think that, like you said,
Speaker 3: members will be excited because it really hits all the
Speaker 3: different markets, different groups of races that we have.
Speaker 2: I can tell how excited you are right now, very
Speaker 2: h take a red bull, do it all right?
Speaker 3: Moving on?
Speaker 2: All right, we got a great interview, as we alluded
Speaker 2: to earlier, Steve Luvinder from Trading Paints celebrating their fifteenth anniversary.
Speaker 2: They're running in parallel with I Racing. If you see
Speaker 2: pretty paints on your service, you're probably running in the
Speaker 2: background and may not even know it. So, without further ado,
Speaker 2: mister Steve livin here. He's been on here exactly one
Speaker 2: time as of today. The most famous person that you
Speaker 2: probably don't know their name in I Racing because pretty
Speaker 2: much everybody listening uses something he built. Mister Steve Luvender
Speaker 2: from Trading Paints.
Speaker 3: Welcome probably, oh thanks everybody.
Speaker 2: To be here. It's quite an introduction. Yeah, I like
Speaker 2: to build you up and then we just all crumble off.
Speaker 3: So don't disappoint this better be a good interview because
Speaker 3: you know, people are expecting well, I'm sure you will
Speaker 3: disappoint perfect.
Speaker 2: Oh so trading paints you started, but fifteen years ago,
Speaker 2: big anniversary for you guys, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we just celebrated our fifteenth anniversary. We launched in
Speaker 5: January twenty ten. So it's a different time online, different
Speaker 5: time on I racing back then. So excited to be
Speaker 5: here fifteen years later, with much different kind of direction
Speaker 5: than we set out with the media initially, where it
Speaker 5: was just kind of you know, you upload your paint
Speaker 5: steam and that's it. We're you know, a full community
Speaker 5: of nearly four hundred thousand eye racers who were sharing
Speaker 5: their work and kind of getting noticed and published and
Speaker 5: still doing the basics of exchanging and having you know,
Speaker 5: paint schemes and irashing at the same time.
Speaker 3: Nice. Back then you only had to support about a
Speaker 3: dozen cars, I think or something, and now it's more,
Speaker 3: well more than that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's funny because during special events, Steve and
Speaker 2: I actually exchange a text message that just says good
Speaker 2: luck or something to the to the to that effect,
Speaker 2: because you know, servers and whatnot. But Steve, you text
Speaker 2: me during the days on the twenty four was it
Speaker 2: nineteen thousand Trading Paints members out of twenty three thousand
Speaker 2: or twenty three thousand drivers? You had nineteen thousand accounts
Speaker 2: online at once.
Speaker 5: That's when we texted. We ended up getting up to
Speaker 5: twenty three thousand. So definitely shout out to you guys
Speaker 5: on the I Racing side. We're putting on such a
Speaker 5: successful event. We're just glad our servers didn't go down to.
Speaker 3: Right exactly.
Speaker 5: But no, it was a great event and it's really
Speaker 5: cool to see this that they ton of twenty four
Speaker 5: and become what it is in I Racing, just this
Speaker 5: premiere feature event, the biggest event in some in racing,
Speaker 5: it really is. So it's nice to exchange those texts
Speaker 5: to good luck and good luck and godspeed.
Speaker 2: We've had some good ones, we've had some that were
Speaker 2: more like, hey, we're with you at.
Speaker 3: Different times too. I'll have to say though, but your
Speaker 3: service Trading Paints really helps enhance that event, right, So
Speaker 3: it wouldn't be as big as it is without what
Speaker 3: you guys do. So it's super cool that you guys
Speaker 3: are involved. You know, you're involved in the background, like
Speaker 3: people don't necessarily think about it like they set up
Speaker 3: their Trading Paints account and then just do stuff right,
Speaker 3: and then they get into a race, and everybody's card
Speaker 3: looks cool.
Speaker 2: Right, But that's like, isn't it the biggest compliment you
Speaker 2: can give a service like Trading Paints. You turn it on,
Speaker 2: then you forget about it because it just works like
Speaker 2: that is the biggest compliment I think you can give
Speaker 2: to a piece of software.
Speaker 5: That's our goal, at least we want to. We haven't
Speaker 5: historically been super loud and in your face about things,
Speaker 5: so I'm glad that our kind of role has been
Speaker 5: to quietly be there and let these people's let's let.
Speaker 2: The rasearch do the speaking.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of established our mission statement actually as
Speaker 5: part of our fifteenth anniversary, and it's to unleash the
Speaker 5: creativity and personality of SIM racers everywhere. So our job
Speaker 5: basically is to be that platform. We're not the ones
Speaker 5: being creative, We're the ones allowing everybody else, all the
Speaker 5: artists and designers and racers to express themselves. So I'm
Speaker 5: really proud that we have that role and just to
Speaker 5: be a part of the IRIS and community that way.
Speaker 5: We are kind of in the background, sort of by Designs.
Speaker 3: That's super cool. I noticed that this year you have
Speaker 3: kind of up your game on social and stuff. You've
Speaker 3: been putting more stuff out on Instagram and elsewhere, and
Speaker 3: that's fun because the stuff you guys deal with is
Speaker 3: perfect for social right. Awesome paints, awesome shots, so super
Speaker 3: cool to see that everybody should follow you guys if
Speaker 3: they're not. So it's kind of wild.
Speaker 5: We launched the same year as Instagram launched in twenty ten,
Speaker 5: so it was kind of wild that we didn't have
Speaker 5: any sort of present so welcome to twenty Instagram until
Speaker 5: this past year.
Speaker 2: So you're responsible for the growth of Instagram, is where
Speaker 2: I'm hearing.
Speaker 3: That's exactly it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, responsible for all good things.
Speaker 2: Yes obviously, And I mean your guys is in house
Speaker 2: paint shop that you know you kind of alluded to
Speaker 2: earlier but really glossed over for those of that have
Speaker 2: not had the opportunity or to go in there and
Speaker 2: try it. You can really create some amazing paints without
Speaker 2: any external tools like Photoshop or anything like that. It's
Speaker 2: kind of a one stop shop. And there's some great
Speaker 2: sponsors in your garage. Steve. I have to admit I'm
Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of some of the sponsors you
Speaker 2: can put on your car.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we do have some fun ones in team Builder.
Speaker 5: Not everybody wants to put a a real company logo
Speaker 5: or go out and try to find sponsorship to put
Speaker 5: them their hiercing paint schemes. So we loaded up Paint
Speaker 5: Builder with some fictional brands. A lot of the things
Speaker 5: are either you know, made up terms you hear in
Speaker 5: the iras and community. Something like wall glue comes to mind,
Speaker 5: you know, the kind of phenomenon where you get stuck
Speaker 5: in the wall and stick in the wall glue. That's
Speaker 5: a sponsor in our paint shop and paint builders. So
Speaker 5: there's a couple of throwbacks also from like the old
Speaker 5: pavirus days, which you know, it's fun to see some
Speaker 5: of those from twenty thirty years ago. But lots of
Speaker 5: fun little things like that just to kind of I
Speaker 5: like to just go in and goof around. I'm not
Speaker 5: much of a painter, but it's fun to go in
Speaker 5: a paint builder and put something together with you know,
Speaker 5: fake sponsors.
Speaker 3: Just some irony right there that you're not much of
Speaker 3: a paint builder, but you are the king of.
Speaker 2: You are the king but let's go back. Let's throw
Speaker 2: back fifteen years a guest, since we're kind of celebrating
Speaker 2: your anniversary here. You know, what was the impetus?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: What was that moment They're like, hey, I what if
Speaker 2: we did this? I think we could do this, like
Speaker 2: talk us through the genesis of trading paints.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so back in late two thousand and nine. We
Speaker 5: launched in twenty ten. So late two thousand and nine
Speaker 5: on the old old I Racing forums. Of all people,
Speaker 5: they learn our junior posted the fact that I Racing
Speaker 5: was going to be adding custom paint schemes support in
Speaker 5: the following build, which would have been January twenty ten.
Speaker 5: He kind of had this idea of, like, I Racing's
Speaker 5: not going to host these third party paints and try
Speaker 5: to serve them to all the users. What if there
Speaker 5: was kind of this central exchange or a weekend people
Speaker 5: can upload and download paint schemes. I kind of saw
Speaker 5: that as like as it called action.
Speaker 3: It was like.
Speaker 5: I want to do this.
Speaker 2: I love paint schemes, I like websites.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It was just kind of a.
Speaker 2: At the time I had a.
Speaker 5: That's called racing two thousand and three seasons still had
Speaker 5: quite a big following. So I had a website in
Speaker 5: that community for exchanging setups. And I have always been
Speaker 5: more of a pain scheme person that I've been a
Speaker 5: going fast speaking setups kind of person, so feel that
Speaker 5: I mean, it was just kind of like, Okay, we need.
Speaker 2: To make this happen.
Speaker 1: So I went to.
Speaker 5: Sean Brandt, who at the time was running a it's
Speaker 5: called it was called Race Points Manager, just like a
Speaker 5: league management software kind of thing, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 5: can you help me build this. Here's my design, here's
Speaker 5: my idea based on what Dale Junior said. So he
Speaker 5: agreed to it and kind of took a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks and we worked together and kind of rolled out
Speaker 5: V one in January twenty ten. It was super basic.
Speaker 5: It was just you upload your car, you browse the
Speaker 5: website and then make a zip file of all things
Speaker 5: to choose other people's paints and download them and manually
Speaker 5: put them into igh racing. So that was that was
Speaker 5: fifteen years ago. Obviously things are a lot different now
Speaker 5: we have, you know, the download or all these things
Speaker 5: to make it a lot easier. But that was the
Speaker 5: story of kind of how it began fifteen years ago and.
Speaker 2: Now it's absolutely exploded. I mean, did you ever think
Speaker 2: that this was going to become you know what it
Speaker 2: has become to that, I mean, in your wildest dreams.
Speaker 5: Definitely not. We didn't even have a showroom when we launched.
Speaker 5: The showroom's kind of like the central piece of Trading
Speaker 5: Paints now because people can show off their skills there.
Speaker 5: They can go, you know, if you're not a designer
Speaker 5: kind of like me, you can go browse it and
Speaker 5: see what people have created and with things in racing
Speaker 5: with one click. So definitely wasn't the goal at first,
Speaker 5: and actually the showroom specifically was kind of built from necessity.
Speaker 1: It was we had this issue where, you know, the
Speaker 1: only thing you could.
Speaker 5: Upload the Trading Paints was your personal paint, and then
Speaker 5: anyone can download them and be exposed to view them.
Speaker 5: So we have a problem where people would, you know,
Speaker 5: say hey, that's a cool paint scheme. I'm going to
Speaker 5: do this and put it on my account. So we
Speaker 5: had this issue of people stealing paint schemes and some
Speaker 5: people were fine with it. Some were like that's cool,
Speaker 5: Like I think it's really cool that someone is racing
Speaker 5: my car. Other people were like, hey, I want some
Speaker 5: credit for that completely justify obviously, So you know, we
Speaker 5: decided to go in the direction was like, what if
Speaker 5: we lean into this, make the showroom so you can
Speaker 5: go onto it, upload your work and click race and
Speaker 5: other people can enjoy it. So now that's kind of
Speaker 5: become the central part of Trading Paints. You go to
Speaker 5: Trading Paints dot com and you see the showroom. You
Speaker 5: can browse through six hundred and fifty thousand uploads from
Speaker 5: the very talented artists in the community and just about
Speaker 5: anything you can think of, and it's it's super cool,
Speaker 5: but no, definitely not hot where.
Speaker 3: We thought this would go.
Speaker 5: So I'm really proud of what we build it in
Speaker 5: the community that has always had our backs all along.
Speaker 3: So it's it's been really wonderful.
Speaker 2: Well it's Kevin Alluded, you know, you really is such
Speaker 2: a cornerstone of what I Racing has become, and it
Speaker 2: let it it brings the racing to life in a
Speaker 2: way that you know, that's not something that we could
Speaker 2: we could manage ourselves. And what I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people don't understand is, you know, Training Paints and
Speaker 2: I raising we are we are completely separate instities. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we have interest that align and we do work very
Speaker 2: very well together. Uh, but you know they're they're two
Speaker 2: totally separate companies.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: But you, you guys, you compliment us in such a way.
Speaker 2: We talk about in I rasing a lot, how many people,
Speaker 2: how many members have memberships that don't race because they
Speaker 2: actually just paint and and sharing that with the community.
Speaker 2: You know, It's like instead of painting minis, which is
Speaker 2: obviously a hobby of its own, there are so many
Speaker 2: members that we have that are just they just want
Speaker 2: to just paint cars. And that's that's just such a
Speaker 2: cool thing and really cool thing that you've you've fostered.
Speaker 2: But are you still making candles? We haven't exchanged candles
Speaker 2: in a while.
Speaker 5: You're right, I've paused the candle making.
Speaker 2: Greg.
Speaker 5: You sent me a candle. It was wonderful, And after
Speaker 5: that I kind of wound down my candle making. I
Speaker 5: can't I just couldn't get the ratio of wax descent
Speaker 5: and everything right. So I also spent a couple of
Speaker 5: days just making like wordy candles at a time, and
Speaker 5: it's like, Okay, now my house is full of candles.
Speaker 2: What am I going to do with all them? That's
Speaker 2: a lot of work. I make one at a time.
Speaker 3: That's hand crafted with love. There you go, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: but thanks uh Steve for there is one other thing
Speaker 3: we have to talk about is that you have a
Speaker 3: store where you sell Trading Paint skin and if people
Speaker 3: don't know, you make the best T shirts. Oh my
Speaker 3: gosh so and I'm wearing one right now, so thank
Speaker 3: you very much. It is the best T shirt ever.
Speaker 3: So if people don't have one, they should go to
Speaker 3: your store and buy one.
Speaker 2: And if Kevin will ever send me the code that
Speaker 2: you so magnanimously sent us for I Racing staff, I
Speaker 2: will have two Trading Paints T shirt.
Speaker 3: There you go, all right, I'll see, I'll see if
Speaker 3: I can do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I wore my Trading Paints T shirt yesterday. It
Speaker 2: was quite good and I was very happy about it.
Speaker 3: Nice. So keep up the good work that's cloth on
Speaker 3: Trading Paints and your T shirts.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: For whatever reason, I'm super particular when it comes to
Speaker 5: T shirts. I've had some shirts where they have like
Speaker 5: really cool designs and prints on them, but like it's
Speaker 5: like the itsiest, foxiest shirt you've ever seen. So for
Speaker 5: the trading paint shirts, I was like, if we're going
Speaker 5: to do this, we're going to do it right. So
Speaker 5: that's the highest compliment you could give.
Speaker 2: No, there, I have multiple people that think have gone
Speaker 2: to Kevin for our company shirts like just get whoever
Speaker 2: an they're the past. So yeah, nice, nice job there.
Speaker 2: I'm picking a vend Thanks for taking the time with
Speaker 2: us today. I appreciate it, and uh yeah, looking forward
Speaker 2: to the next fifteen years because yeah, if you're around
Speaker 2: fifteen more years, it's it's probably good for my career
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we can probably have you on before fifteen,
Speaker 3: before the thirtieth anniversary, we can have you on again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, friend of the show.
Speaker 3: I have to wait for fifteen more years.
Speaker 5: I'd be delighted whether it's fifteen years or senior than that.
Speaker 1: But thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All Right, thanksty, have a great day, and we'll get
Speaker 2: back to the show. All right, let's talk e sports.
Speaker 2: Last night, we kicked off the NASCAR Coco Cola I
Speaker 2: Racing Series Ding at Daytona Ding ding yep, Oh.
Speaker 1: God, what can we say about this series now more
Speaker 1: than a decade and a half. Incredible prize pool more
Speaker 1: than half a million dollars. We got through the Daytona
Speaker 1: clash that was Parker White. Parker White almost swept dayton A.
Speaker 1: King this close, but you can't see.
Speaker 2: They can't see your fingers when you say no, no,
Speaker 2: they can't.
Speaker 3: But they could hear. They could hear close. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: could hear how close it was.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of new teams that have come back,
Speaker 1: but it was Steven Wilson shifting over to the returning
Speaker 1: folks Spier Motorsports taking that victory at Daytona. A couple
Speaker 1: of cars reckoned behind him, but very dramatic, finished, very
Speaker 1: cool race. A lot of new teams this year, a
Speaker 1: couple of returning teams. I might or might not know
Speaker 1: a little bit about one of those returning teams.
Speaker 2: Jim Beaver.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's back, He's yeah, I knew that well. Well,
Speaker 1: Jim is also selling T shirts.
Speaker 2: But are they soft?
Speaker 1: I believe so.
Speaker 2: Do you have a code?
Speaker 3: I feel like we need some samples to compare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well I'm here for how about this?
Speaker 1: We'll do that on a different show. I don't want
Speaker 1: to steal Steve's thunder because I got my medium No,
Speaker 1: I got my medium shirt in and Steve's a not.
Speaker 2: As Chris through the size and the Yeah. For folks
Speaker 2: that don't know, Chris has absolutely transformed his body over
Speaker 2: like the last year, and he's in a medium T shirt.
Speaker 2: He walks in this morning. First thing, I was like,
Speaker 2: this shirt's a medium.
Speaker 3: Hey, it's not tight.
Speaker 2: I have to go absolute applause. It's really good. Done
Speaker 2: a good job of making some healthy choices.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah, and Greg, considering your athletic expertise,
Speaker 1: the fact that you've there, considering that you've been my
Speaker 1: hype guy over the past six months, I mean that
Speaker 1: makes me feel like I'm actually doing something, so I
Speaker 1: should probably should probably give my nutritionists a nice little
Speaker 1: bonus there. I didn't know it was your hype guy,
Speaker 1: but you're the one who comments on it the most.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're recognizing it, I feel good. You've
Speaker 1: done a lot more athletically than I ever have. Anyway,
Speaker 1: to get back to the Coke series, Tuesday's eight pm Eastern.
Speaker 1: We're going to Las Vegas next. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a really cool schedule this year. Rockingham makes it series
Speaker 1: debut later in the year in Lagos is the International race.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be a really cool schedule.
Speaker 3: And seven thirty is countdown to green.
Speaker 1: Seven thirty is countdown to green. Don't miss that countdown
Speaker 1: to green. Get a get prepared with all the storylines
Speaker 1: and everything going on, knee race, and then eight pm
Speaker 1: to tune in for the green flag.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 2: But that's not all. But wait the more there's more.
Speaker 2: Kevin Portion, tag Hoyer, E Sports super Cup is back.
Speaker 3: It's back. We're two races in already and some great racing.
Speaker 3: Next race is Saturday, so there's three in a row.
Speaker 3: It's been great racing already. This last week there was
Speaker 3: a segment I don't know a few laps to go
Speaker 3: the leaders side by side for an entire app. It's
Speaker 3: some of the best racing you can see in a broadcast.
Speaker 2: Link in the description below, we can link to it.
Speaker 3: But it's been fantastic. Uh. Sanchez is leading the points,
Speaker 3: so that's uh, that's pretty cool. There's some big names
Speaker 3: that came back.
Speaker 2: That wasn't in the bullets. You knew that off the
Speaker 2: top of your head.
Speaker 3: I sort of pay attention.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. That's good.
Speaker 1: But so Sanchez is leading the points, but he hasn't
Speaker 1: won any of the races yet.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Oh oh no, I'm not I'm not disagreeing. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that that's a really tight series. You've got four
Speaker 1: different winners in the two sprints, in the.
Speaker 3: Two features so far. Absolutely, it's the sort of thing
Speaker 3: that you know, you you you have a bad sprint
Speaker 3: race and you start in the back, and you might
Speaker 3: have a really bad weekend, you know. Uh, conversely, you
Speaker 3: know you can pick up a ton of points if
Speaker 3: you do well in both races. So I think you'll
Speaker 3: see a lot of flip flopping on who's leading or
Speaker 3: who's close to leading the championship throughout the seven week season.
Speaker 3: So looking forward to that. We've got, like I said,
Speaker 3: a race this weekend on Saturday, and then a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks off and then we're back on so mid
Speaker 3: season tournament, right, mid season tournaments coming up. But I
Speaker 3: don't remember what track that Saxon Ring, thank you, Yes
Speaker 3: I should have known.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a new one for this series.
Speaker 2: But wait, there's more World of out Laws Pro a series.
Speaker 1: Chris yep Logan Rumsey takes the Championship ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: prize went down to Vlusiah Speedway Park to get celebrated
Speaker 1: with the real world World of Outlaws season opener. Now,
Speaker 1: this was just a really interesting format this year because
Speaker 1: we switched between the four tens and the Super Late
Speaker 1: Models race after race. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So guys like
Speaker 1: Logan Rumsey, Kendall Tucker. Those were the two heavy hitters
Speaker 1: in the championship and both of them have been front
Speaker 1: runners in both of those classes when we ran them
Speaker 1: a separate series, and you know, the cream rises to
Speaker 1: the top, and that was that was Logan Rumsey and
Speaker 1: he had it locked up by qualifying in the final race.
Speaker 1: So congrats to him, certainly, somebody who's been in those
Speaker 1: series for quite a while and then finally got that
Speaker 1: rightfully deserved championship.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's one more. There is one more, all right,
Speaker 2: more IMSA Esports Global Championship. Friends at good friends. We
Speaker 2: had a good call with him yesterday.
Speaker 3: We did. Ems is a great partner. But their series
Speaker 3: wrapped up at the beginning of January. There was a
Speaker 3: four race season for them that started I think in November.
Speaker 3: Some really big name teams and drivers uh, two classes
Speaker 3: GTP and gt D. Williams z Sports took the championship
Speaker 3: in GTP and Redline in g t D. So no
Speaker 3: surprises there that the heavy hitters performed well. There are
Speaker 3: also some surprise guests in some of the races. Uh,
Speaker 3: really good competition. I'm sure that we're going to do
Speaker 3: more with him so this coming year as well. So
Speaker 3: it's foreshadowing hashtag soon, hashtag soon.
Speaker 2: Curious curious what that's going to be.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 3: that's the next podcast we can talk about that, can
Speaker 3: we I don't know, it's our podcast. That is a
Speaker 3: really cryptic maybe a guest suggestion. Maybe we could get
Speaker 3: Max from guy Sean Max from I like that.
Speaker 2: I bet he.
Speaker 3: I bet he'd joined us. He's a personable guy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh man. He jumped on the call yesterday and Steve
Speaker 2: was not quite there yet. Steve jumps on the call
Speaker 2: and we're just talking. Steve was mortified for two seconds.
Speaker 2: It was great, fantastic. Really, remember I broke the pace car.
Speaker 3: I do remember when he broke them pace car. We
Speaker 3: haven't been invited back, so no.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, thanks for listening to this episode of The
Speaker 2: I Racing down Shift. Don't forget to rate, review, and
Speaker 2: subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else. Chris is
Speaker 2: put this thing for Kevin Bobbitt, Chris Leoni, sound guys, Sean,
Speaker 2: and Cisco, who's out there. I think he was doing
Speaker 2: something helping out.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, I'm Greg West and we'll see you on the tracks.
Speaker 2: Cisco gave me a thumbs up, so that's that's good.
Speaker 3: Nice through the soundproof room.