Speaker 1: This week on the I Racing Down Shift, It's almost
Speaker 1: built season. We take a look at everything coming to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season one. We've also got the latest
Speaker 1: Die Racing esports updates, plus a recap of everywhere we've
Speaker 1: been over the past couple of months.
Speaker 2: We're ready to go. Strap it.
Speaker 3: Welcome to I Racing Downship Tommy Host, Greg West, I'm
Speaker 3: back of the boys, Kevin, Bobba and Chris Leoni. We've
Speaker 3: got a great show for you, as we.
Speaker 2: Always do everything.
Speaker 3: Every time I need a new tackle. We even make
Speaker 3: it through the opening sentence before trash talkies. Kevin woke
Speaker 3: up on either the right or the wrong side of
Speaker 3: the bed this morning.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. Let's go.
Speaker 3: I mean walked into the kitchen this morning, the bistro
Speaker 3: or the chili bowl, whatever we call it where they
Speaker 3: keep the snacks. Thanks Kim. And you know, Kevin just.
Speaker 2: Fired up the cup of coffee already, So let's do this.
Speaker 3: Three cups of coffee. Yeah, my goodness.
Speaker 2: And I thought I had a problem. Your problem is
Speaker 2: unrelated to here.
Speaker 3: Here we go, which one, Kevin, what have you been
Speaker 3: up to?
Speaker 2: Oh man?
Speaker 4: Lots lots, lots lots I don't know where to start.
Speaker 4: I went to Nashville for the weekend, which was unbelievable
Speaker 4: if you like affinated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 4: It was a great trip with great friends, playing some
Speaker 4: golf which maybe we should.
Speaker 2: Talk about, maybe we shouldn't. And I played in the
Speaker 2: golf term and last weekend participated. We participated.
Speaker 4: It was super fun. We took a lot of shots, yes,
Speaker 4: lots of shots. We raised a lot of money and
Speaker 4: turkeys for the locals because it was a fundraiser. You
Speaker 4: bring a turkey that was the entry fee for the
Speaker 4: local food bank. So we actually did some good work.
Speaker 3: There were no nothing else of interest happened at all that.
Speaker 4: We won't talk about the rest of it, but all day.
Speaker 4: But it was super fun.
Speaker 2: You didn't drop the turkeys from helicop?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, next weekend that's okay, Yeah, okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: my scheduling is off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had fun, We have fun, raised a lot
Speaker 3: for a good cause.
Speaker 4: And and it's Thanksgiving time, right. I went to a
Speaker 4: friends giving last weekend, which was amazing, and the host
Speaker 4: the texts.
Speaker 3: I didn't get a text.
Speaker 2: You get it's called friends giving, not worth Yeah.
Speaker 1: Colleagues giving, that's the holiday party later today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but anyway, the host dear friends listeners of the podcast,
Speaker 4: so I wanted to give a shout out to Kathy
Speaker 4: to see if she's actually listening.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 3: Wait, now, do we have a fan count? I feel
Speaker 3: like that we need like this.
Speaker 2: We're almost a.
Speaker 3: Second six six, This could be six fans well, and
Speaker 3: I've met some people that are also not I Racing members,
Speaker 3: so I think we might be up to like seven
Speaker 3: or eight. We can talk about in all of our
Speaker 3: adventures a little bit later.
Speaker 4: But speaking of I Racing members that I met, I
Speaker 4: was at a Lego store last week and I ran
Speaker 4: into an iRacing member.
Speaker 2: How cool was that?
Speaker 3: You just are living your best life.
Speaker 2: I still play with Legos.
Speaker 3: Got where are the kids?
Speaker 2: And you? Like? Now, I had fun and you get
Speaker 2: to be a kid exactly.
Speaker 3: Kevin is living his best life. When I grow up,
Speaker 3: I want to be Kevin.
Speaker 2: So what have you been up to? Greg?
Speaker 3: We've had a lot going on. You and I were
Speaker 3: in Europe.
Speaker 2: How could I forget? Oh?
Speaker 3: Hey, it's it is under bullet point one item sea.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't get to it yet.
Speaker 3: We skipped Chris going to Vegas though, we'll come back
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: I printed it for you.
Speaker 3: Kevin printed my notes in Comic Sands And if anybody
Speaker 3: this is like an inside joke at I Racing and Larry,
Speaker 3: if you're listening, I apologize it was not my idea,
Speaker 3: but yeah.
Speaker 2: Kevin, that makes it very legible, very legible.
Speaker 3: In Comic Sands. Most people listen to this are like,
Speaker 3: why is this funny? And you just's you had to
Speaker 3: be around.
Speaker 2: But SIM Racing Expo was super fun.
Speaker 3: SIM Racing Expo was super fun. It really is. I
Speaker 3: think this the fourth or fifth year I've gone to it.
Speaker 3: This was the biggest one I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 3: They filled the venue. Yep, absolutely fantastic. The ad crew,
Speaker 3: they've done a great job with it. It's coming to
Speaker 3: the US.
Speaker 4: This is gonna be one next March in Austin, associated
Speaker 4: with south By Southwest, So a little shout out to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure we'll be there.
Speaker 3: I have a sneaking suspicion, but I gotta be honest
Speaker 3: with you. We don't have a booth of these things,
Speaker 3: but we walk around in our I Racing polos and
Speaker 3: we get an opportunity to talk to members and it's
Speaker 3: really funny. A lot of times you have these people
Speaker 3: that are super passionate and get an opportunity to actually
Speaker 3: answer their questions and maybe answer some of their gripes
Speaker 3: and explain kind of the why in a manner in
Speaker 3: person that I can't do in the forums on Twitter
Speaker 3: or something like that. And it's what it's great to
Speaker 3: see is the everybody. They love what we do so much.
Speaker 2: It's a great community of people.
Speaker 3: It's so much fun. And we've gotten there's people that
Speaker 3: we see on a regular basis now it's almost like friends.
Speaker 2: It's almost like they are friends.
Speaker 3: We see them once every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they get the friends giving to absolutely.
Speaker 1: Oh god, anyway, Greg, I'm gonna start a spite Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: friends giving it.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Chris, appreciate it. Anyway. A long story short sim
Speaker 3: Racing Expo. A ton of fun. Yeah, a ton of fun.
Speaker 3: We won't talk about me getting a phone call one
Speaker 3: in the morning or anything.
Speaker 2: No, it was it was a good time.
Speaker 3: We did make it to the airport, yes, on time.
Speaker 2: I did not miss a flight.
Speaker 3: You did not miss a flight, Yours was in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: That's so true.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, and then I stayed around actually then met
Speaker 3: up with Steve in Valencia for the FIA Motorsport Games,
Speaker 3: which is the coolest on site event I think I've
Speaker 3: ever been to. I I think there were fifty one,
Speaker 3: fifty two, somebody fact check me. I think around fifty
Speaker 3: competitors from that many countries. You know, people from all
Speaker 3: over the world coming to compete. You know, big nations,
Speaker 3: small nations, powerhouses, startups, and to watch. There's twenty rigs
Speaker 3: on stage, there's I got thirty foot screen, massive production,
Speaker 3: and we had three days of amazing racing. And let
Speaker 3: me tell you what short format sprint races for a
Speaker 3: live event. It was standing room only.
Speaker 2: That's great and that it was just a ton of fun.
Speaker 3: And the best part about it is the racers all
Speaker 3: got it. Yeah. Last lap of the final we got
Speaker 3: six cars within two seconds of each other at SPA
Speaker 3: going into last chicane and I'm sitting there just biting
Speaker 3: my fingernails. Please please don't want it, Please don't do it.
Speaker 3: And they went too wide through the final chicane at
Speaker 3: SPA and came out the other side. It was an
Speaker 3: excellent race, excellent show, great opportunity with the FIA. We're
Speaker 3: super happy to be involved. With that, you know, looking
Speaker 3: looking forward to being involved with more things with them
Speaker 3: as that relationship continues to flourish and grow. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was like two weeks in Europe for me.
Speaker 4: But uh, anything else you want to talk about your
Speaker 4: European trip? Nope, I didn't know if there was anything
Speaker 4: else anyway, All right, let's move on.
Speaker 2: Don't know something.
Speaker 3: I got to go to the F one Expo in London.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 3: I got to see Grosjon's cockpit from the big accident.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you sent me a picture of that. That
Speaker 4: was frightening. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if this I thought it was gonna like kind
Speaker 3: of like a kid's exhibit. It was at the Excel
Speaker 3: Center I think, and in London.
Speaker 2: Pretty cool.
Speaker 3: This was super cool afternoon if you if you're yeah,
Speaker 3: I wish I could have stayed like for a couple
Speaker 3: more hours. I went with one of our friends. We're
Speaker 3: gonna talk about a little bit. Paul from Motorsport UK
Speaker 3: took me down there.
Speaker 2: One other thing from our trip. We went to the
Speaker 2: Dortmund game. Oh, we went to the door. What a
Speaker 2: great sporting event, right, eighty one thousand of our friends.
Speaker 4: Yes, who are not coming to friends giving but they
Speaker 4: were what an event it was. It was one of
Speaker 4: the coolest sporting events I've ever been. I guess somebody
Speaker 4: said that.
Speaker 3: Somebody told us yea allegedly.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm a huge soccer fan, as you know,
Speaker 4: Greg is whatever, you're a sports fan, sports fan, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I think you still had a good time.
Speaker 2: So I had a great on an atmosphere.
Speaker 4: So if you're ever ever looking for a soccer slash
Speaker 4: football game to go to, I highly recommend going to
Speaker 4: a Dortmund game.
Speaker 3: It was like an SEC football game meets European soccer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super cool, super friendly, great crowd. It was awesome,
Speaker 2: steepest stadium I've ever seen. It was a little sketchy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely wasn't up to US code. At some
Speaker 3: point during this podcast, we're gonna talk about SIM racing,
Speaker 3: I'm sure, but we don'ta talk aout.
Speaker 2: Christ Chris did something.
Speaker 1: I will try to keep mine quick so we can
Speaker 1: get into the sim racing and hopefully is quick.
Speaker 3: If there's a thumbnail for this, I think it should
Speaker 3: be Chris from Vegas.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Greg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I I was twenty four hours from my
Speaker 1: doorstep back to my doorsteps.
Speaker 2: So that's how quick this trip was.
Speaker 1: Flew to Vegas, just brought a backpack, got out of
Speaker 1: the airport, went straight to the Perry Ellis store, wore
Speaker 1: the suit out of the store, went to the South
Speaker 1: Point for the off Road Motorsports Hall of Fame induction.
Speaker 2: Did you return the suit when you're done? No?
Speaker 1: No, I didn't have time for that. I had to
Speaker 1: take a red eye back. I didn't want to lose,
Speaker 1: lose the whole day of work on Monday, and I
Speaker 1: made it to the meeting.
Speaker 2: He did. I made it to the meetday morning meeting.
Speaker 1: He was there, but this was it wasn't It wasn't
Speaker 1: very active in the was there?
Speaker 3: How bloodshot his eyes?
Speaker 2: It was all right?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, yes, yes is the answer. But did
Speaker 1: you sleep on the plane? I got about an hour? Yeah,
Speaker 1: hour and a half maybe, yeah, No, Jeff Blue is
Speaker 1: the best one to sleep on I've found.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay. I flew back on Virgin Atlantic and was
Speaker 3: very impressed.
Speaker 2: Also a great Greg.
Speaker 3: I was in cattle class in the back and still
Speaker 3: had a ton of room.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I missed Virgin America dearly, but I digress Ormhoff induction.
Speaker 1: It was the biggest one they ever had. They had
Speaker 1: twelve people going in. Usually they have three to five.
Speaker 1: But my good friend, longtime collaborator Jim which the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame was this off road Motorsports Hall of thank You.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or I was like Ormhoff just.
Speaker 4: For those that Chris Chris went to something related to
Speaker 4: off road racing.
Speaker 2: No, you heard this one before.
Speaker 1: But anyway, my good friend, longtime collaborator Jim Beaver.
Speaker 2: Was hosting it for the fourth time. You know Jim Baber.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, right, not the actor, not the actor.
Speaker 1: There is an actor and they get each other's fan
Speaker 1: mail all the time. It's they did a podcast together.
Speaker 3: I know of one, Jim Beaver. Yeah, and it's not
Speaker 3: the actor.
Speaker 1: Anyway. This was the that Ken Block went in, and
Speaker 1: obviously Ken and I had some stories going back to GRC,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to be there for this one. Had
Speaker 1: a couple of other friends and then Mia Chapman, who
Speaker 1: I've also done some work with, won the Impact Award,
Speaker 1: which was incredibly special, which is one of their awards
Speaker 1: for like the you know, the up and comers, the
Speaker 1: people who are doing it right now. So it was
Speaker 1: a really cool event and it's a really nice suit.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Sean, that needs to be in the
Speaker 3: thumbnail somewhere.
Speaker 1: Look, I know, Greg, you were disappointed walking in seeing
Speaker 1: me wear the ugly sweater for the holiday party. If
Speaker 1: we didn't have the holiday party and the ugly sweater,
Speaker 1: I would have worn the suit in. But yeah, you guys,
Speaker 1: Yeah no, we had a directive from the I Racing
Speaker 1: Events Committee to wear ugly sweaters.
Speaker 3: So Kevin and I look at each other and not
Speaker 3: an ugly sweaders anyway. Oh god, all right, let's talk
Speaker 3: about some racing stuff. Let's get into it. Bullet point
Speaker 3: number two for those of you falling at home, Kevin,
Speaker 3: we got a big sale going on something that I
Speaker 3: racers wait for an entire year.
Speaker 2: Black Friday is happening.
Speaker 4: Started a couple of weeks ago, continues until the second
Speaker 4: of December. Great deals for any sort of customer.
Speaker 2: What kind of deal.
Speaker 4: If you're a new customer, because I know some of
Speaker 4: our listeners are not members yet, fifty percent off any
Speaker 4: new membership, pretty good deal.
Speaker 3: That's a deal in right.
Speaker 4: And if you're an existing customer, whether it's current or laps,
Speaker 4: twenty five percent off renewals of one or two years,
Speaker 4: and that.
Speaker 3: True or false, is the only time of year that
Speaker 3: you can renew at a discount.
Speaker 4: Mostly that is generally true. It's the biggest sale we
Speaker 4: do any year, at any time of the year.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's super fun and I got to be honest,
Speaker 3: looking at member counts, it seems like it might be working.
Speaker 2: Nice job.
Speaker 4: You know, I do what I can, so no, but
Speaker 4: it's a it's a great deal if you aren't going
Speaker 4: to stick around. The other thing to note is if
Speaker 4: you if you want to add a year, it adds
Speaker 4: to whenever your your membership expires. It's not like it
Speaker 4: starts from the day that you add this offer, so
Speaker 4: you can add on the.
Speaker 3: Year's some people that have like stacked up like to.
Speaker 4: Your memberships that have like more details iRacing dot Com,
Speaker 4: slash Blackfridy, all the details are there in case I
Speaker 4: misspoke on any other com.
Speaker 3: Click on the banner. You can't miss it. So all right,
Speaker 3: Well we're gonna do something a little different. Usually we
Speaker 3: talk about the build after the build, but due to
Speaker 3: the timing of this podcast post Greg Hill's blog.
Speaker 2: He already told everybody.
Speaker 3: He told everybody what's coming. We're basically just gonna regurgit.
Speaker 2: You We're gonna parrot what Greg said.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's we hit two very different ways of explaining that.
Speaker 3: So Yeah, twenty twenty five Season one build cars Chris
Speaker 3: Supercars Gen three and can you please ask the community
Speaker 3: to stop tagging me in the forums asking when there.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that the community is gonna listen to
Speaker 1: me very much, Greg, But yeah, different kind of supercars
Speaker 1: from the ones I'm used to, but these are really exciting.
Speaker 1: The Chevy Camaro Gen three, the Ford Mustang Gen three.
Speaker 1: As you've mentioned obviously, these have been a big ask
Speaker 1: from certainly our Australian supercars community, but numbers the world over.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's such a cool looking pair of cars.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be awesome to drive, you know some of
Speaker 1: the some of the different.
Speaker 2: Tracks that these cars hit.
Speaker 1: You know, our Australian community I think is going to
Speaker 1: have a blast with these.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And I think this is a you know, it's
Speaker 3: like elbows out GT racing. It's it's less proper than
Speaker 3: like European GT three racing. This is like like imsamiadas,
Speaker 3: you know, meets go.
Speaker 2: Cars, so a ton of fun.
Speaker 3: I have to admit the the North American Contingent that
Speaker 3: races these cars is an incredibly dedicated group.
Speaker 2: Yes, for sure, and I mean we have two we have.
Speaker 3: Two series for these cars, even though they're not necessarily
Speaker 3: the highest participation cars. It is a niche, but we
Speaker 3: keep that. We have the version that runs just on
Speaker 3: the AUSSI servers because you know, the speed alight only
Speaker 3: goes so fast, so we have the the Aussie folks
Speaker 3: so they don't have to worry about high pings but
Speaker 3: still get good races every week with North American and
Speaker 3: the European Contingent Racing and the other series. So really
Speaker 3: excited to finally be able to talk about this, and
Speaker 3: wasn't trying to be rude, just I couldn't answer the
Speaker 3: questions you guys were asking.
Speaker 1: Well, one question that we should get ahead of. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you've bought the previous generation cars within the past year,
Speaker 1: you will get some form of a credit refund.
Speaker 4: Back details in Greg Hill's block, Greg Greg Hill. If
Speaker 4: we try to remember going to do that, but exactly.
Speaker 2: It. Yeah, we'll put a link in the description.
Speaker 3: Link in the description below. Yes, sorry, Sean.
Speaker 1: So that's the Ford Mustag GT and the Holden ZB
Speaker 1: Commodore for those of you, just to be totally clear,
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, Yeah, that that's the previous generation.
Speaker 1: Those are going to go to legacy content, so they'll
Speaker 1: be taken out.
Speaker 2: Of official series. The new ones will replace them.
Speaker 3: All right, everyone put two fingers, all right, that's two
Speaker 3: cars now, number three Kevin, it's.
Speaker 2: My turn, your turn, BMW two.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about the BMWM two coming to irasing. It's
Speaker 4: going to be a free car, so it's in the
Speaker 4: base content. Amazing to have a great car like that
Speaker 4: from a great partner like BMW. It'll be another rookie series,
Speaker 4: so it'll be an alternate to the Miana series that
Speaker 4: we run. I think Greg's gonna shoehorn it into some
Speaker 4: other series.
Speaker 3: Perhaps there will go in some some more special series.
Speaker 3: I bet you see it at the ring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would go on, I would, so you're.
Speaker 3: Probably gonna see it at the ring. There's actually a
Speaker 3: really cool format change though that we're gonna be making
Speaker 3: it rookies. That's not on this list. I'm off we're
Speaker 3: off script.
Speaker 2: Throw it down. So we tried something new.
Speaker 3: This season with the open wheelers at Rookie. We have
Speaker 3: them instead of going off every hour. We have them
Speaker 3: going off every half hour, So the V I think
Speaker 3: is on the hour and on the half hour, and
Speaker 3: then the ray f F sixteen hundred is on the
Speaker 3: fifteen and on the forty five. There's a Rookie open
Speaker 3: wheeler race going off every fifteen minutes, and they share
Speaker 3: a calendar, so new users can see the difference between
Speaker 3: two cars, but they only have to learn one track.
Speaker 2: Away and they can jump between them right exactly.
Speaker 3: So with the new BMWM two coming in, we're gonna
Speaker 3: do the same thing with the GT side, So the
Speaker 3: Miata and the M two are going to share a schedule.
Speaker 3: They're going to be going off alternating every fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: We've actually seen a rise well, there is a GT
Speaker 3: race going off everything on the hour, the Perfect five.
Speaker 3: We've actually seen an increase in participation across the board
Speaker 3: by running the races more often at Rookie. Great, and
Speaker 3: we're still getting huge splits, so great. I'm pretty excited
Speaker 3: about that. We need people to be able to get in.
Speaker 2: And race, absolutely, that's what people want.
Speaker 4: The other cool part about this tagline, oh yeah, Well,
Speaker 4: the other part about the car is that Chris has
Speaker 4: the note wrong. By the way, he says, there's a
Speaker 4: pace car. It's actually a safety car. Chris, you know,
Speaker 4: it's the European thing.
Speaker 3: All of our road course cautions that happen on IRIS.
Speaker 4: Yes, so, so it'll be another choice for uh that
Speaker 4: So what do we have the BMW, we have the Porsche,
Speaker 4: we have a generic car, we have a truck.
Speaker 3: The truck.
Speaker 4: The truck is always but super excited to have BMW
Speaker 4: on board for this.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to now.
Speaker 3: Kevin just has to tell me where to put the
Speaker 3: BMW safety car, what series everywhere?
Speaker 2: That's not what you told me earlier, because that's not true.
Speaker 2: I don't think we wanted on NASCAR, so I.
Speaker 3: Want on a NASCAR. I'm feeling that maybe putting it
Speaker 3: with the Ferrari Challenge my.
Speaker 2: Not probably not Cup, probably not. All right, I'll get
Speaker 2: back to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know anything dirt road.
Speaker 2: Probably No, we'll take it. We'll take for Yes too.
Speaker 2: Maybe Chris is definitely gonna test drive this car for
Speaker 2: Yes two and see how it does.
Speaker 1: You can't drive pace car, yeah, safety, Well, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: want me driving the pace car. You remember Detroit a
Speaker 1: few years ago, that Indy car race that'd be me.
Speaker 3: No road were no truckloads.
Speaker 2: We're not kidding.
Speaker 1: Oh, everybody actually.
Speaker 2: Just believed, well you sold beautiful.
Speaker 3: Moving right along, all right, So three fingers up, raise
Speaker 3: a fourth finger. We got a fourth car coming accurate
Speaker 3: in SX GT three EVO twenty twenty two. Nice, very
Speaker 3: highly requested cars. Absolutely, and the GT three field just
Speaker 3: keeps getting bigger. This is also going to run in
Speaker 3: our Global sports Car Championship Series, a bunch of them,
Speaker 3: the ones that are sponsored by IMSA. They're not an
Speaker 3: IMPSA analog. They race in both North America and Europe.
Speaker 3: This has been a very careful delineation recently for other discussions,
Speaker 3: but for the next two cars that we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about, they're going into that series and we're not
Speaker 3: replacing anything. Car counts are growing. I remember what it
Speaker 3: was just a couple of years ago. We were stuck
Speaker 3: at seven. I think we're up to.
Speaker 2: Like sixteen sixteen. Yea.
Speaker 3: There is a lot of work by are the dev
Speaker 3: teams on optimization, frame rates, load times, the stuff that
Speaker 3: it's not sexy work, but it makes a massive difference.
Speaker 3: Huge kudos to that entire group that has made this possible.
Speaker 3: Because these fields look awesome. It is such an authentic experience,
Speaker 3: so we're really excited about that. But yeah, accurate n
Speaker 3: SXGT three EVO twenty twenty two coming to I ra
Speaker 3: sing it'll be once again in the multi class and
Speaker 3: the GT three only series.
Speaker 2: And then Kevin.
Speaker 4: The Ferrari four ninety nine P Hypercar. Super excited for
Speaker 4: that car. A lot of people thought we would never
Speaker 4: have a car like that. It's awesome, it'll be running
Speaker 4: in the series. You would expect it to run with
Speaker 4: GTP cars. I think El said, I think I think
Speaker 4: they're going to put it in with the other product.
Speaker 2: Is there a prototype only series? There is going to
Speaker 2: be an update.
Speaker 4: It's in the notes it says something redesigned, Redesigned, Redesigned
Speaker 4: Challenge series is the l.
Speaker 3: M P two Fixed Prototype Challenge has been reformatted to
Speaker 3: l and P two is going to be are other
Speaker 3: prototypes because there are multi names behind them, whether.
Speaker 2: It's GGPT ripercar or whatever, they all.
Speaker 3: Home all agate together, just like they do in the
Speaker 3: real world. And so that series is being reformatted to
Speaker 3: be to have all five of the our newest prototypes
Speaker 3: on I Racing.
Speaker 2: Amazing see how many words have we used?
Speaker 1: Reformatted, redesigned, and Greg Hill's blog said reconfigured, slash, reconstituted, reconstituted, reconstituted.
Speaker 2: That Yeah, that was.
Speaker 3: That well done?
Speaker 2: All right, well anyway, hey, I didn't write it. Greg
Speaker 2: Hill done five cars. That's five cars. That's amazing.
Speaker 3: We got five safety car and a safety so five
Speaker 3: and a half yeah, five and a half cars.
Speaker 2: Hey, I have an idea for a week thirteen series.
Speaker 2: Moving on wrong Meeting, Chris, wrong Meeting.
Speaker 3: I gotta do week thirteen. So we'll talk later. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so but that's not all. But wait wait you order now,
Speaker 3: you'll also receive nothing because the rest of it is
Speaker 3: you gotta pay for it. Well kind of yeah whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 3: for our we were talking about, you know, going to
Speaker 3: the UK, our friends at Motorsport UK, we're bringing another
Speaker 3: British track to I Racing, and this one I didn't
Speaker 3: know anything about. I'm gonna be completely honest with you.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that this track exist until Steven ounceid
Speaker 3: he signed it and then went and drove it and
Speaker 3: like this is cool. Bruxton coming to I Racing, standard
Speaker 3: British airfield track. Uh, really high speed. I was expecting
Speaker 3: something like Cadwell Park, you know, slower car. No, you
Speaker 3: can totally go GT three's here.
Speaker 2: It's nice pipe.
Speaker 3: You can run GT threes here. This track, though, the
Speaker 3: art team has gone above and beyond because you can
Speaker 3: drive all over the infield amazing, which means you have
Speaker 3: the air strip, which means those that like to go
Speaker 3: and these people that like to drag I'm looking at Chris.
Speaker 3: They like to use tracks for what not what they're
Speaker 3: designed for. There is basically another dragstrip. No, yea, this
Speaker 3: does not mean drag racing is coming to I Racing.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go ahead and put it out there, but
Speaker 3: there are three drag strips now between Sonoma, Hawkenheim and
Speaker 3: the airfield that thrucks.
Speaker 2: I forgot about Hackenheim. Yeah, thank you form. It's really cool.
Speaker 2: The track is excellent.
Speaker 3: I cannot articulate or do justice the strides that Greg
Speaker 3: Hill and his art team have made in the last
Speaker 3: couple of years. On the visual quality of the tracks,
Speaker 3: it is absolutely mind blowing. Even going back to tracks
Speaker 3: that are made just a couple of years ago, the
Speaker 3: the level of detail has just They continue to re
Speaker 3: up it every single time. So super impressive. And speaking
Speaker 3: of once again British things we have, we're gonna reformat
Speaker 3: the ray f F sixteen hundred Advanced Series, We're gonna
Speaker 3: do the Motorsport UK f F sixteen hundred series and
Speaker 3: we'll be running on predominantly British tracks this season. Just
Speaker 3: a kind of a British formula forward throwback. See how
Speaker 3: how it's received, Try something different. Motorsport UK does a
Speaker 3: fantastic job at putting on these national level leagues at
Speaker 3: multiple multiple levels. You can see a lot of their
Speaker 3: broadcasts F four on Wednesdays on I Racing. We've been
Speaker 3: co hosting.
Speaker 2: The hosting the broadcast. Yep, they put it together, I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just do the pass through. They work with
Speaker 3: race Spot Excellent Racing. They have a support series with
Speaker 3: the ray f F sixteen hundred and then the the
Speaker 3: main series with the FIAF four and so it's nice
Speaker 3: to partner with them to have some series branding and
Speaker 3: it just makes sense. So really excited for that. Hope
Speaker 3: in the community will so you will get behind it
Speaker 3: as well. All right, move on, Hewsett's it's got dirt
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: So Chris, see when you said speaking of British things.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, man, that's a weird segue into Hewestt's.
Speaker 1: It's not a British track.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's not at all. It's not in the
Speaker 2: South either, No it's it's also not in the South.
Speaker 1: But Hewsett's has been one of the most popular asks
Speaker 1: among our dirt oval racers for quite some time now.
Speaker 1: Obviously a sponsor of a real world four ten sprint
Speaker 1: card in the World of Outlaws with David Gravelle, who
Speaker 1: has been a great supporter of I Racing over the years.
Speaker 1: Really exciting to have that track coming not only to
Speaker 1: the main I Racing service, but also eventually No tid
Speaker 1: and table announced on this yet, but as DLC too.
Speaker 1: World of Outlaws Dirt Racing twenty four So same scan,
Speaker 1: same track. It's going to be coming both to the
Speaker 1: console game and to the I Racing sim itself. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you're on the sim you're going to have the
Speaker 1: first crack at it. But console racers, we're not leaving
Speaker 1: you out of that one. It's a really fun track.
Speaker 1: It's going to be really cool to see the community
Speaker 1: I think embrace that one because they've been asking for
Speaker 1: it out of all the world of outlaws tracks, probably
Speaker 1: the number one I think that we've gotten comments about, Hey,
Speaker 1: add this one, add this one.
Speaker 3: Have you got have you? Have you gone around on
Speaker 3: Alpha and flown or flowing around the track.
Speaker 1: Yet not as much time as I've spent trying to
Speaker 1: rallycross the M two.
Speaker 3: I'm not even surprised, not even surprise.
Speaker 2: I I am who you want me to be.
Speaker 3: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. But I don't know
Speaker 2: what that means. No one knows what it will go.
Speaker 2: It's provocative.
Speaker 3: I need more coffee for this podcast. Possibly something from
Speaker 3: that golf tournament this weekend. All right, but wait, there's
Speaker 3: more NASCAR refresh. Now this is an art refresh. Uh.
Speaker 2: We're excited because this was just down the road. It's
Speaker 2: our local home track on the Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah, there's an oval there and that's
Speaker 3: fun and all magic mile, but I love it.
Speaker 2: Has the best roval in the business, the.
Speaker 3: Absolute best roval in the business. I have gone off
Speaker 3: the track there in a Formula V. In the real world,
Speaker 3: I've stayed on the track a little bit too.
Speaker 4: I have done that, and not in a Formula V
Speaker 4: but in a portion. Didn't hear anything but yeah casual
Speaker 4: little flex, Yeah.
Speaker 3: But little flex. You had to sell your portion.
Speaker 2: Look, I did sell it, so I didn't have to
Speaker 2: sell it. I chose to sell it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, we're in the weeds.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Okay, so who went further off track us?
Speaker 2: Just now? Are you guys on the new Hampshire Roval? Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a great track.
Speaker 4: Anyway, it's part of the overall NASCAR refresh. This track's
Speaker 4: coming next and then you'll see more and more over
Speaker 4: the course of the next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of these come down.
Speaker 3: We have some other that are listed here, but we're
Speaker 3: not one hundred percent they're going to make the builds,
Speaker 3: so we're going to hold off on that. If you
Speaker 3: want to know, go check out Greg Hill's blog because
Speaker 3: then he said it and we didn't say it. So
Speaker 3: that's really the goal of these podcasts. See if we
Speaker 3: can get out without geting yelled at. Sometimes they're successful.
Speaker 3: I don't think we're going to be on this one.
Speaker 1: But just one important thing on these NASCAR refresh type tracks,
Speaker 1: these updates, if you already own the track, this is
Speaker 1: an automatic free update.
Speaker 2: It'll just happen.
Speaker 3: It'll just it's magic.
Speaker 2: It'll be exactly need to do an update. So it
Speaker 2: is the magic Miles Greg.
Speaker 3: Hey, he did it, Hey job.
Speaker 2: Thank you? All right, moving along, moving along, all right?
Speaker 2: Now features This one's really cool.
Speaker 3: Uh, debris refresh so when you go off track spinning out,
Speaker 3: which may have done Actually we missed the century right there.
Speaker 3: So now we're doing a better job of calculating the
Speaker 3: amount of tire debris, that debris that goes on tires,
Speaker 3: debris gets thrown on the track. And we've got uh,
Speaker 3: you know, grass, gravel, sand, and it's dynamic. Yep, it's
Speaker 3: not pre planned or whatnot. You also have the marbles,
Speaker 3: all of that, the crazy math behind out how it
Speaker 3: all works in short eye racing more realistic. I believe
Speaker 3: the video guys are going to put together like a
Speaker 3: little sixties.
Speaker 4: We're working on it. We want to be able to
Speaker 4: show it because it's it's very graphical.
Speaker 3: It's hard to describe it. But once you drive, I
Speaker 3: can't work in these conditions. I can't work in these conditions.
Speaker 2: And he just processed the comic sands.
Speaker 3: Moving on. We have a bunch of other feature updates
Speaker 3: for this build. The GTPs and the l m P
Speaker 3: two's are getting an updated tire model that is also
Speaker 3: going to be coming to NASCAR, but it won't make
Speaker 3: this build, but I think you odds are you'll see
Speaker 3: it by March. By the March release. But in short,
Speaker 3: tire is better. I think that that's the release.
Speaker 2: That's a short note.
Speaker 3: Tire is better. So there's good AI behavioral improvements. This
Speaker 3: is one of my favorite things. The AI now if
Speaker 3: you may contact them, will blink their head lights at
Speaker 3: you as if they're angry. It just brings them to
Speaker 3: life a little bit more. They will also blink their
Speaker 3: lights at appropriate times, you know, if you're coming up
Speaker 3: to lapy or whatnot. But really, if you hit them,
Speaker 3: they're gonna.
Speaker 2: If they're lapping you, you've set the AI too hard,
Speaker 2: too high.
Speaker 3: I think we may have a feature to talk about
Speaker 3: with that in the near future, but not today.
Speaker 2: Okay, And then.
Speaker 3: This is the one that I'm gonna hand to Chris
Speaker 3: because he was just gonna quote Greg Hill's blog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 3: You're looking at the graphical improvements.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at the graphics engine enhancements. I mean,
Speaker 1: so what's going on right now. Obviously we are trying
Speaker 1: to develop and we're going to develop a fantastic new
Speaker 1: graphics engine at some point, but.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna leave people without dates.
Speaker 1: Greg's just taking the biggest sip of coffee. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: reading this off. Significant improvement to the specular lighting model.
Speaker 1: No longer rendering speculator into the cube map. Essentially what's
Speaker 1: happening here. Scenes used to be brighter and blurrier than
Speaker 1: they were intended to be, and so we've refined that
Speaker 1: a little bit. Again, go to Greg Hill's blog and
Speaker 1: you can see a couple of before and after shots
Speaker 1: of just how some of the colors have changed. It
Speaker 1: looks a lot more realistic, and we're going to keep
Speaker 1: refining that graphics engine as we build the new one.
Speaker 1: As Greg said in his blog, you know, we're not
Speaker 1: leaving people without updates as we develop this new engine.
Speaker 1: You know, there has to be a balance there. We
Speaker 1: can't We're not just going to sit on anything as
Speaker 1: it stands. We're not that kind of company. So when
Speaker 1: the new engine comes out, it's going to be fantastic,
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, there's still going to be progress
Speaker 1: on the current Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, once again, go look at the blog. But
Speaker 3: in short, you know, I racing has typically had a
Speaker 3: little bit of this yellow tint to it, and just
Speaker 3: the way it's very almost looks like a little bit
Speaker 3: of a warming filter. And this has remedied it. Not
Speaker 3: with something hacky. There's not a filter. It's just like
Speaker 3: the way that the scene reflects the light from the
Speaker 3: sky and some other amazing witchcrafty stuff that I don't understand.
Speaker 3: But in short, I racing look better.
Speaker 2: I think that, Yes, that's what I got out of it.
Speaker 3: That's what I got out of it. Yeah, some other
Speaker 3: people that are really can explain it a little better.
Speaker 2: So you like Greg's block, gregs, I think we referenced,
Speaker 2: not me others. Does anybody have a count on that?
Speaker 3: Everyone?
Speaker 2: Okay, listeners, we need you to go back and moving on.
Speaker 3: This is the part of the podcast where christ is
Speaker 3: the talking to me and Chris, Me and Kevin nod
Speaker 3: Our heads uh E. Sports update. NASCAR contendercies wrapped up
Speaker 3: this week in Texas. The top thirty made the cut
Speaker 3: for CO consideration this year.
Speaker 1: Yes, yep, so exciting going into next year's NASCAR Coca
Speaker 1: Cola I Racing Series. The free agency pool is going
Speaker 1: to be a little bigger. In the past, we've had
Speaker 1: forty drivers. Now we have fifty, so there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little more competition.
Speaker 2: For forty spots. For forty spots, yes, and make the
Speaker 2: driver the race is bigger. It's just a bigger pool
Speaker 2: to choose.
Speaker 1: From, exactly. So you know, previously, if you were that
Speaker 1: first driver out, second driver out, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Just heartbreak for you.
Speaker 1: It's you're basically rooting for somebody to not be in
Speaker 1: the series next year, for somebody to decline an invitation
Speaker 1: or whatever else. Now you can still go to the
Speaker 1: table in free agency, you can still talk to teams,
Speaker 1: and there's a chance, you know, that a driver who
Speaker 1: maybe didn't have the contender season that they felt they
Speaker 1: deserved or that they might have been capable of, might
Speaker 1: kind of get a second chance, might get a lifeline.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be really interesting. Obviously, a lot
Speaker 1: of big name drivers coming back, a lot of exciting.
Speaker 2: New rookies, just as there is really every year.
Speaker 1: So as the as the off season continues to progress
Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty five team lineup is is solidified.
Speaker 1: Justin Malillo is going to have all that information for
Speaker 1: you at I Racing dot com.
Speaker 3: And we also had the College Series this week at Michigan.
Speaker 3: I don't I think the College Series really surprises some
Speaker 3: people if you don't know what it is, but it's
Speaker 3: I mean, esports at the college level is exploding right now.
Speaker 3: And Chris, you can tell U a little bit more
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I actually had friends texting me about the College Series
Speaker 1: broadcast on Tuesday that I don't think it ever watched
Speaker 1: a sim race before.
Speaker 2: So it's compelling.
Speaker 1: It's compelling, and it's captivating people outside of that space.
Speaker 1: And you know what she told me was, you know,
Speaker 1: I really like how the you know, how the college
Speaker 1: athletes kind of present themselves and how they how they're
Speaker 1: pushing themselves forward. And obviously Drew in the and Sean
Speaker 1: and Cisco and the entire broadcast team have done a
Speaker 1: great job and presenting these races and also developing some
Speaker 1: really cool paint schemes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love how these cars and trucks look.
Speaker 1: But Michigan was this week's race, and since we follow
Speaker 1: an academic calendar, the season started in September and it's
Speaker 1: going to continue through the academic year. They get a
Speaker 1: December break, just like you know, real college students. So
Speaker 1: the next race is going to be at Walkins Glenn.
Speaker 3: That time attack are real college students.
Speaker 2: They're not like them.
Speaker 3: They are like them. They are college students.
Speaker 1: Yeah, too far removed from college to know the difference.
Speaker 1: Time Attack opens January seventh for Walkins Glenn. So if
Speaker 1: you're in college, if you're eligible again, our website is
Speaker 1: going to have all the details on how to register.
Speaker 1: Go compete in that time attack and try to earn
Speaker 1: your spot in Awesome.
Speaker 3: Moved on to next on the list. IndyCar, the inaugural
Speaker 3: season wrapping up this week at Nashville.
Speaker 1: Yep, Diego Pinto dominated most of the championship. Didn't win
Speaker 1: a ton of races, but sometimes it's about consistency. Still
Speaker 1: found the winner circle once this year. Other drivers have
Speaker 1: won more races but haven't had quite the same luck.
Speaker 1: By the time this comes out, the race is going
Speaker 1: to have run. Diego's got a decently solid cushion, so
Speaker 1: he is probably going to be the champion. But again,
Speaker 1: Justin's gonna have your end of season recap at I
Speaker 1: race it's.
Speaker 4: A fun series to watch. It's a mix of road
Speaker 4: and oval, so we don't do a lot of that
Speaker 4: in on the esports level, so it does mix things
Speaker 4: up a bit, right, There are definitely guys that are
Speaker 4: better at one of the two. So it's not done.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a big lead, but it's not done.
Speaker 4: It's an oval race tonight, so and.
Speaker 3: Anything can happen.
Speaker 1: Anything can happen, especially for the change exactly, especially a
Speaker 1: track like Nashville with the you know, with the concrete.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to the race.
Speaker 3: Should be a good race in those cars, I think
Speaker 3: probably the most complex car, I know, the most complex
Speaker 3: car on the service to set up and get tuned
Speaker 3: up just right so the you know, to run at
Speaker 3: the front of that field. Big feather in the cap
Speaker 3: for anybody, not just those that are winning.
Speaker 1: And of course shout out to our friends at a
Speaker 1: butt Kicker for coming on in supporting that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, big fifty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Tody Car has been huge too. They're they're
Speaker 4: promoting it, putting stuff up on their site. Uh, it's
Speaker 4: a to be working with Indiecar again.
Speaker 3: Feeling that there might be some expansion in that relationship in
Speaker 3: some capacities.
Speaker 2: I hope so, I think we'd be open to Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would hope so too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, click bit.
Speaker 2: O.
Speaker 3: World of Outlaws we got an all new format for
Speaker 3: twenty four to twenty five season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a really cool new format to the
Speaker 1: World of Outlaws Pro Series. In the past, we've done
Speaker 1: two different pro series, or maybe we've just done the
Speaker 1: one for four ten sprint cars, but we had separate
Speaker 1: series for the four tens and the super late models.
Speaker 1: This time around, the series is fifty to fifty and
Speaker 1: you have weekly qualifiers to get in, not unlike a
Speaker 1: real world.
Speaker 2: It's so good. Yeah, it's it's it's such a blast.
Speaker 1: I mean you have to be great at both of
Speaker 1: those vehicles to try and go for this championship, which,
Speaker 1: in fairness, in the past, a lot of the drivers
Speaker 1: who were the best in that east in both of
Speaker 1: those esports series, we're also pretty good in the opposite
Speaker 1: car as well.
Speaker 3: So although there's such a different driving experience, I cannot
Speaker 3: drive I apps, I cannot get around the track with
Speaker 3: any pace whatsoever. I've had Tyler like try to show
Speaker 3: me how to do it, because he races one in
Speaker 3: the real world. Yeah, I just I do not get it.
Speaker 3: I do a little bit in the in the sprint cars,
Speaker 3: but it's what is really cool about this. These are
Speaker 3: pretty separate communities, yep. And so to bring him together
Speaker 3: under a single championship, I think is a really cool
Speaker 3: combination and I think was a really clever way.
Speaker 1: To do it one hundred percent. And so mondays at
Speaker 1: eight pm Eastern, that's when you can tune into our
Speaker 1: socials and to be able to watch these. Logan Ramsey
Speaker 1: won the first super late Model race at Belusia, and
Speaker 1: then Tanner Pettit won the first four to ten race
Speaker 1: at Weed Sports. So we'll see how many different winners
Speaker 1: we have this here there. It would not shock me
Speaker 1: if we have ten winners and ten races.
Speaker 3: I think that's a good championship if you do that.
Speaker 3: Moving on now esports, this is a cool one because
Speaker 3: it's not necessarily us managing it, but we're helping support
Speaker 3: our partners at IMSA.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: This is on a great series.
Speaker 4: That's correct. Ims IS is all in on esports. They're
Speaker 4: running this series. We are supporting it. Obviously, we're doing
Speaker 4: the broadcast and providing other support that we can. First races,
Speaker 4: this weekend, so hopefully this podcast will be up before then.
Speaker 2: There's suns that's going out tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, so Sunday, there's four races we run
Speaker 4: through I think January on the dates in front of me.
Speaker 4: But Team Racing, two classes you know, so so, mixed class,
Speaker 4: super funs like you know, they're all in so it's
Speaker 4: their off season. It's a perfect time to run this,
Speaker 4: right because they're they're they're able to fully support it
Speaker 4: and should should make for some great racing.
Speaker 3: Now, this is invitational only.
Speaker 4: Invitation only so which was managed by MS so there
Speaker 4: wasn't a traditional qualifying max although there was a way
Speaker 4: people could get in through a time attack system, but
Speaker 4: generally it was invitation only.
Speaker 3: So yeah, very cool. They put on some of the
Speaker 3: best racing we see. Uh, the relationship with IMSA has come, you.
Speaker 4: Know, and I know that Drew is super excited. Drew
Speaker 4: one of my podcasts, like somebody. He also likes Rhode
Speaker 4: Atlanta and that's where the first race is. So I
Speaker 4: don't know if he didn't know that about Drew loves
Speaker 4: some road Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he goes peteete every you don't he does.
Speaker 2: He's from Atlanta, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: Atlanta, all right. I think that's it. And on that note,
Speaker 3: I guess that's a wrap. So thanks for listening to
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Speaker 3: I am Greg When and Sean the sound guy.
Speaker 2: Shawn the sound guy. I didn't know that was your
Speaker 2: last name, Sean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have Greg West and we will see you
Speaker 3: on track