Speaker 1: This week on the I Racing Downshift, it's the season
Speaker 1: three build preview. We talked about all the new cars,
Speaker 1: repress tracks, and exciting features coming to our latest release.
Speaker 1: Plus Greg and Kevin talked golf and I recap all
Speaker 1: the race tracks I've been hitting all this and more
Speaker 1: to strap in. Welcome to the I Rasing Township, tom Me,
Speaker 1: Hell's Greg West, I'm back of the boys, Kevin, Bobby,
Speaker 1: who's laughing at me? And Chris Leoni is also laughing
Speaker 1: at me? Why's laughing at me? And sound guy Sean?
Speaker 1: Why are we laughing?
Speaker 2: Because we just did a sound check and you want
Speaker 2: to be a word if your the mic was popping,
Speaker 2: and there's lots of lots of assumptions that it was
Speaker 2: gonna pop, but it didn't.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of things happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's a good thing we didn't record.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the amount of evidence that Sean has all three
Speaker 1: of us right now. Hey, Sean, you look great today?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that a new shirt? That is a new shirt?
Speaker 3: Thanks? Are you going fishing? Looks like a fishing maybe
Speaker 3: the best tournament later today? Possibly not really? No, No,
Speaker 3: you live in the middle of the woods, so I
Speaker 3: do I live near a really big reservoir?
Speaker 2: Can you fish in it? Do you have a van
Speaker 2: parts of it? Yes?
Speaker 1: Do I have a van down?
Speaker 2: But okay, I don't know where we're going with that.
Speaker 1: Oh I did, well, we got a mediocre lear. I'd
Speaker 1: give it. What do you think C plus B minus show?
Speaker 1: I think we should credit after Okay, so we'll get
Speaker 1: it back to your ugrading on or not on a curve? Well,
Speaker 1: there's no other No one else is turning in their homework.
Speaker 1: So plus we're going against Joe Rogan. If that's the curve,
Speaker 1: we're just screwed.
Speaker 2: We're one level below that, just one level, one level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well we're gonna get into it. We're
Speaker 1: gonna a build coming up next week, a lot in it,
Speaker 1: especially a lot of car updates in it. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about E sports, We're gonna talk about Kevin's
Speaker 1: golf game, and uh, probably Chris's rats. At some point
Speaker 1: I would think, but what have you got up to, Chris?
Speaker 1: Uh actually been to a lot of racetracks. Uh visited
Speaker 1: Limerock Park for the first time over a Memorial Day.
Speaker 1: Amazing track, right, great place to watch the race for
Speaker 1: the trans Am Classic. Was working with Tommy Drecy there,
Speaker 1: got to meet Andy Laalley. They're doing a great job.
Speaker 1: This car sound so good. Oh god, I had so
Speaker 1: much fun there. And where did you watch the race from?
Speaker 2: Everywhere? Everywhere? That's the start of line. Well, I was.
Speaker 1: I was shooting photos for Tommy as part of it.
Speaker 2: Shone.
Speaker 1: No, I actually had a camera. I am a better
Speaker 1: iPhone shooter than I am a than I am a
Speaker 1: camera shooter. And that was proved when I went to
Speaker 1: New England Dragway for the NHRA event. Yeah, jealous, God,
Speaker 1: that was It's a lot of fun. Were you with caps? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Ron helped me, help me get in with my credentials
Speaker 1: because I put in a little late. So shout out
Speaker 1: to Ron, thank you. And at the end of the show,
Speaker 1: all right, yes, great friend of everything with I racing, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we're not doing drag racing. For those of you that's
Speaker 1: going red.
Speaker 2: Is not a teaser.
Speaker 1: This is not a teaser.
Speaker 2: Noting the personal section that has nothing to do with
Speaker 2: I race, and we're just talking about ourselves. Now.
Speaker 1: This is the part that people actually listen to it,
Speaker 1: and they stopped listening whenever we start talking about it,
Speaker 1: and then trying to make an appearance at Stafford for
Speaker 1: Wicked Big Meat the super room Meat. Weren't they Oh
Speaker 1: what what is that?
Speaker 2: Wicked?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wicked Big Meat. It's the biggest super room that's
Speaker 1: in America. Yeah. The Wicked is a New England thing.
Speaker 1: Well superes that means good right, yes, yes, but uh
Speaker 1: but my buddies Pastrada and Bucky and Connor Rotell are
Speaker 1: all going to be there. And then I have played
Speaker 1: a drinking game name drop we name drop? Yeah? How
Speaker 1: much coffee you got?
Speaker 2: I need another?
Speaker 1: I'm almost Yeah, I'm just trying to get both of
Speaker 1: you guys amped. You have to take a sip of
Speaker 1: coffee every time I name dropped something. Oh yeah, because
Speaker 1: in pre production we were definitely flat. Yeah there was
Speaker 1: there definitely wasn't any swing.
Speaker 2: No swearing at all, No, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: Hey, Sean, you look great, man, really look we're going
Speaker 1: there again.
Speaker 2: If you know he's going fishing later?
Speaker 1: Did you condition I did last night? Thanks?
Speaker 2: I did? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh Kevin, what have you been up to?
Speaker 2: What have I been up to? Well? You mentioned golf.
Speaker 2: I've been taking golf lessons. I've had a couple of
Speaker 2: golf lessons. I can hit the ball slightly straighter. Now, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's good. Okay, I'm I'm gonna throw a fire. Uh oh, are.
Speaker 1: You still choking up like a foot on your No. No,
Speaker 1: that was one of the things we're working on. When Kevin,
Speaker 1: he's a righty. When he swings every club, his right
Speaker 1: thumb is probably on the like the actual shaft of
Speaker 1: the golf it's not on the grip. He chokes up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he actually still hits pretty pretty far. But
Speaker 2: that's one of the things the instructors working on. He's like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, so that's been helpful.
Speaker 1: I've got to ask Greg, since you've seen Kevin swing
Speaker 1: and I know nothing about golf on a scale of
Speaker 1: one to Charles Barkley, how bad was his swing? Oh,
Speaker 1: Kevin's gone pretty good swing. I mean I can't okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make fun of Kevin for a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Kevin's gone pretty goodwing. Okay, thanks, that's the nicest thing
Speaker 1: you've ever said. I didn't see. I didn't say the
Speaker 1: ball once.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the writer yeah occasionally, But I didn't my
Speaker 2: driver better, so that's good. And the other thing is
Speaker 2: I went into a concert this weekend, which was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Because you and your wife are like living your best
Speaker 1: life right now, the most social butterfly people. You know,
Speaker 1: when the kids move out, you've got time to do
Speaker 1: other things. When I grow up, I want to be
Speaker 1: Kevin Bobbitttah.
Speaker 2: I get that a lot too. So Jelly roll and
Speaker 2: post malone show was fantastic. Wow, midlife crisis in hard
Speaker 2: mid life crisis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got the same thing because I have trouble
Speaker 3: picturing Kevin at Jelly Roland.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a show that that I thought i'd go to.
Speaker 2: My brother in law bought us tickets for Christmas, were
Speaker 2: like it would be a fun day out. It was
Speaker 2: a great show, really good show.
Speaker 1: You can you go buy a corvette after this? No, Hi, Steve,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, what's up? I got to put my
Speaker 1: jorts on and go buy a corvette or something. You
Speaker 1: don't have new balances now white new balances. I mow
Speaker 1: the lawn in those. Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 2: What have you been up to?
Speaker 1: I had been in a lot of airplanes recently. So
Speaker 1: it was in Switzerland this weekend for the ioc Esports
Speaker 1: Forum for Developers and publishers looking forward to see what
Speaker 1: comes with that. They are putting a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of effort behind the Esports Olympics, which are gonna
Speaker 1: be twenty twenty seven in Saudi Arabia legedly, Well you know, hope, hope.
Speaker 1: So but it was really cool. See they are planning
Speaker 1: on that being a full metal event or games. It's
Speaker 1: a tertiar version of the game. So that was that
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. And then yeah, I'd go into going
Speaker 1: to Macau for the.
Speaker 2: FIA and no, we're not building that track.
Speaker 1: No, we're not building that track.
Speaker 2: But we always have to say that when you go
Speaker 2: someplace Chris goes to some weird form of motorsport. No,
Speaker 2: we're not building that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if if my passport arrives, i will I'll
Speaker 1: get on an airplane on Saturday.
Speaker 2: You should try to go without a passport, and then
Speaker 2: that would be a full episode. And seeing how that goes,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. No, I'm gonna go with Now, oh,
Speaker 2: that's too bad. We don't have a documentary crew to
Speaker 2: follow him.
Speaker 1: So you know, let's let's I'll never I'm never going
Speaker 1: to hear at the end of this show. I'm going
Speaker 1: to hear about this. I'm sure. Hey, I have a
Speaker 1: golf story though I did something a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago I've never done. I played golf in the UK.
Speaker 1: Oh links are proper links?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How it go?
Speaker 1: I lost fear balls?
Speaker 2: Interesting in nine holes.
Speaker 1: What you're saying is you played a proper goat trail.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2: But it was. But because nobody has the reporting of
Speaker 2: the free show, that was funny, right we should laugh?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, the good job. So did you rebrush
Speaker 1: the beard like it looked? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So was it crazy bunkers?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: What was different about it?
Speaker 1: A lot of water and the bunkers while not massive
Speaker 1: or deep?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: And so I had a nine on the ninth hole
Speaker 1: because it took me six shots together.
Speaker 2: Did you have some of those like when you watch them,
Speaker 2: like you know the Ulphin or whatever over there, they
Speaker 2: go in there and they have to shoot backwards.
Speaker 1: I should have Yeah, yeah, I should have. Just I
Speaker 1: just shot it spray into the like the side like
Speaker 1: five times before I finally got it out.
Speaker 2: But you could have gone backwards once and then ended
Speaker 2: up with a six instead of a nine Yeah, so
Speaker 2: you didn't play smart golf, is what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Do I ever place Martin? No, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: that's that's a trend, like get driver out and go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that was fun. Also went to the eighty
Speaker 1: five hundred.
Speaker 2: That was That was that's an event.
Speaker 1: Huh, three hundred and fifty thousand of your closest friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good time. We saw. I went with Alex
Speaker 1: mood or AI guys, one of my longest friends. That
Speaker 1: was a cool trip because we ran into a guy
Speaker 1: we used to race Lineheart with the right Linehard IndyCar series,
Speaker 1: Adam Blocker, who is now Connor Day's race engineer, and
Speaker 1: they had a heck of a five hundred. They were
Speaker 1: they were in a position where they maybe could have
Speaker 1: won it if it didn't.
Speaker 2: Just maybe we should bring them on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Working on that. We'll see, we'll see. But it was
Speaker 1: cool the three of us keetting together and none of
Speaker 1: us worked for in the industry at all, like I
Speaker 1: Racing or Motor Supports.
Speaker 2: You guys are just fans and users of I Racing
Speaker 2: in the day.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, now all three us in some way,
Speaker 1: shape or former in there cool, So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Went to the little five hundred Anderson Speedway. No, we're
Speaker 1: not building it, but saw Ryan Newman among the thirty
Speaker 1: two other sprint car drivers. I was going to bring
Speaker 1: that up because your video of the start was wild. Yeah. Go,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a plug for my personal Twitter,
Speaker 1: but go on my Twitter at West Underscore Greg. But
Speaker 1: there is a nice seven car pile up about fifty
Speaker 1: feet into the race. So and two of those cars
Speaker 1: finished in the top five. All everybody was okay, though,
Speaker 1: everybody's fine. Anyway, we're rambling on. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five, Season three Built comes out on.
Speaker 2: Tuesday, I believe Tuesday, the tenth, the tenth. That is
Speaker 2: the plan.
Speaker 1: That is the plant. Watch a new content, a ton
Speaker 1: of updated content. Let's go to the new content. First
Speaker 1: Gen four Monte Carlo and Taurus. This is basically NASCAR
Speaker 1: two thousand and three redone. And this is cool because
Speaker 1: the Gen fours, I'm not going to say they were
Speaker 1: an accident, but it's not necessarily something that was planned
Speaker 1: and you can go back and you know, find out
Speaker 1: the lore behind that. But we have done them properly,
Speaker 1: including the super Speedway bodies which are kicked a lot
Speaker 1: of fun nine hundred horsepower. Though, remember that whenever you're
Speaker 1: coming from the next gen car and you hop in
Speaker 1: one of these things, you can absolutely leave elevens behind
Speaker 1: you in fourth gear, So little bit of an egg
Speaker 1: under the throttle probably a good idea. We are going
Speaker 1: to be featuring them. They're going to have the in
Speaker 1: the GIN four series. That will of course be in
Speaker 1: Draft Master Plus during Week thirteen Chris our new five
Speaker 1: to Go series. Oh, good old five to Go. That
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the more fun Week
Speaker 1: thirteen series.
Speaker 2: But no.
Speaker 1: One of the coolest things about this is there is
Speaker 1: some new infrastructure in the UI for you to be
Speaker 1: able to switch between the two different packages and being
Speaker 1: able to view them because the templates on these cars
Speaker 1: completely different for one another.
Speaker 2: We weren't when you say packages you mean superspeedway and
Speaker 2: non super.
Speaker 1: Superspeedway stock car in stock car is I leave what
Speaker 1: we are calling them in the end, but you'll be
Speaker 1: able to toggle between them and see whether you're creating
Speaker 1: a custom paint through trading paints, You'll be able to
Speaker 1: toggle between them and the paint viewer, or if you're
Speaker 1: just using the instant paint booth, which more on that later.
Speaker 1: More on that later. I thought you're going into that.
Speaker 2: That's not in this section the outline.
Speaker 1: I do want to. I know, there are bullets and
Speaker 1: then there's bullets. There's no like a B and C.
Speaker 2: I mean, how do we using?
Speaker 1: How do we stay? And I was, you know, and
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say something nice about you guys
Speaker 1: printing out your own, but I didn't for my own.
Speaker 1: I stole Sean. He's got a coffee spot off.
Speaker 2: The sound guy has no idea what's happening right now.
Speaker 2: He's lost because he doesn't have an outline.
Speaker 1: I apologize to anybody listening to this shower. Really you could.
Speaker 2: We're still in section two, Sean, so we got a
Speaker 2: way to section two with them too. It just got
Speaker 2: a dot next to it. AnyWho, AnyWho?
Speaker 1: Sorri two nine six Challenge car. We actually built the
Speaker 1: car for the series. We did, so the two nine
Speaker 1: to six Challenge car comes this week. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Next week, well depends on when you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: but you're right.
Speaker 2: Next week the tenth days and days, so it's coming soon.
Speaker 2: It will be in the in the Ferrari two nine
Speaker 2: to six Challenge Series, which replaces the Ferrari GT three
Speaker 2: Challenge Series. So but expect a different driving car. This
Speaker 2: is I think a seven hundred horsepower car. They don't
Speaker 2: have to build it to g GT three spec. They
Speaker 2: can build it anyway. They want the world beater, so
Speaker 2: it will be a fun car to drive and a
Speaker 2: fast car to drive.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of debate, both external and internally
Speaker 1: about the placement of this car and why it's at
Speaker 1: the D class series, even though it's got more power
Speaker 1: than a GT three. But this is a proper gentleman
Speaker 1: driver car. If you've got the money, you can go
Speaker 1: race it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go to a real world Ferrari Challenge race. And
Speaker 2: there's no platinum drivers exactly, there are no platinum drivers.
Speaker 1: So it being at the D license level is uh, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's appropriate. It's where the carboard is, where it belongs.
Speaker 2: It'll be fun, it'll be fast, it's approachable, and it
Speaker 2: sounds good.
Speaker 1: It sounds really good, but it's actually really approachable. Surprisingly,
Speaker 1: given how much power it has, it is not going
Speaker 1: to overwhelm the senses. So I think it's actually gonna
Speaker 1: provide really good racing. But yeah, sounds great.
Speaker 2: Is there a Ferrari that doesn't sound good? I mean
Speaker 2: it's almost redundant to say that, but you know it'd
Speaker 2: be good. I got nothing for you.
Speaker 1: And then we have a new track, Chris the Ben
Speaker 1: Motorsport Park, and you guys both know that I wait,
Speaker 1: hold on time out.
Speaker 2: When we were talking about the Bend earlier in pre production,
Speaker 2: Greg was saying that it looks like a guy flexing,
Speaker 2: and he was standing up and flexing for it, so
Speaker 2: you have that image. No, no, no, that is not true.
Speaker 2: I was I was sitting down in flexing.
Speaker 4: Okay, fair enough, let's not mislead people on racing circuits,
Speaker 4: and the GT course looks like a guy flexing.
Speaker 1: Accuracy matters here down all right anyway, for accuracy purposes.
Speaker 1: There are seven different confius figurations on this track, which
Speaker 1: I love about it, the longest of which is the
Speaker 1: GT circuit four point eight two eight miles or properly
Speaker 1: for the rest of the world, that's seven point seven
Speaker 1: to seven kilometers. That is the second longest permanent facility,
Speaker 1: permanent racing facility in the world after the North Slifha
Speaker 1: believe our slife. Phuh yeah, I haven't had well yeah, yeah, look,
Speaker 1: I grew up in New England, but I watched a
Speaker 1: lot of TNN as a kid, so my accent don't
Speaker 1: do Steve Evans throwing it back. I'm gonna go watch it.
Speaker 1: And they walked away after this. Oh yeah. Oh so
Speaker 1: seven configurations ranging from that long GT one, the International Circuit,
Speaker 1: which you see more prominently in racing, which greg as
Speaker 1: we talked about in pre production. The naming feels backwards
Speaker 1: for how people know, but nonetheless not quite as long, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: GT is the super long one. International is still pretty sizable,
Speaker 1: and then you get all the way down to I
Speaker 1: believe it's the uh one of the sprint circuits is
Speaker 1: under two miles. At least two of them are under
Speaker 1: two miles, yeah, which is still a long tread still size.
Speaker 1: Well that's the right.
Speaker 2: A lot of times when we have a short version
Speaker 2: of a track, it really is short. But a lot
Speaker 2: of value for money in this track, a lot.
Speaker 1: Of value, a lot of cars racing there in the
Speaker 1: real world. Obviously, you know the supercars are there. GT three's,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a variety of racing there. Nice to
Speaker 1: get another track down under big ask from her Asia
Speaker 1: Pacific contingents for sure, for sure, should be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun looking forward to it. It's all over Week thirteen.
Speaker 1: Get a chance to go in there and rip around
Speaker 1: a bit. New feature. Now, we discussed how much we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the new features, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about VR VR updates, but none of us are
Speaker 1: to pronounce it, so we're just going to say it's
Speaker 1: more better, no better, quad view phoviated render You did it,
Speaker 1: I did it?
Speaker 2: Good job.
Speaker 1: Where's the bell? We're not one hundred percent sure, but
Speaker 1: we'll go with that. That.
Speaker 2: We'll give you that.
Speaker 1: If you want to know more about quad view phobia,
Speaker 1: renter rendering, getting saying it phobiated phobiated, Yes, go check
Speaker 1: out Greg Hill's block. Yeses, he'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 1: And he's got pictures and stuff. So yeah, go to
Speaker 1: Greg Hill's blog. It's all over the place. Website forms,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: We'll link in the description.
Speaker 1: Link in the description below.
Speaker 2: We can do that, can do that.
Speaker 1: We can are we putting this on YouTube? If we've
Speaker 1: been doing that, we know we can link in the
Speaker 1: We'll link in the description. Okay, maybe we should put
Speaker 1: this back on YouTube probably probably eventually. Hey Shaan, you look.
Speaker 4: Great, Oh thank you Rain Visuals.
Speaker 1: Rain Visuals also filing this under mo beta. That's that's
Speaker 1: the word of the day. Mo beta no better, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Rain Visuals. I do not have the technical vocabulary to
Speaker 1: accurately articulate how good this is, So once again, go
Speaker 1: to Greg Hill's blog and just look at the pretty pictures.
Speaker 2: But rain mo beta yep. But I think the short
Speaker 2: is like you'll be able to tell visually how much water,
Speaker 2: how wet it is, that sort of thing. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a greater differentiate differing, no different aviation. Yes, so
Speaker 2: that will not only does it look better, but it
Speaker 2: will help you drive better because you'll have a better
Speaker 2: understanding of what you're coming into.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, some new cars got some rein tires Indy Car,
Speaker 1: which we're gonna talk about a little bit of super
Speaker 1: Formula Lotus seventy nine. You not way to drive both
Speaker 1: of those on rein tires, And we made it so
Speaker 1: the Skippy actually works the rain.
Speaker 2: So that's because I already had rein tires.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you still had to you know, it's not
Speaker 1: one line of cook Skippy more better Skippy mo better,
Speaker 1: but the Lotus seventy nine and rain tires wild, Skippy
Speaker 1: and rain. I've actually driven that car in the real world,
Speaker 1: in the rain. We should really have Richard on the show.
Speaker 1: Oh too soon, No, it's not absolutely not okay, I'm
Speaker 1: absolutely just going to go with this. The engineer that
Speaker 1: was in charge of developing the new damage model from
Speaker 1: the beginning, back the Skippy end of the wall. You
Speaker 1: were there, weren't you.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not part
Speaker 2: of this conversation.
Speaker 1: You are lying, you are eyeing, you are not telling
Speaker 1: the truth. I don't recall this is you are. I
Speaker 1: don't rienator. I don't recollect Kevin is pleading the fifth.
Speaker 1: If you wreck as Skippy, you have to develop the
Speaker 1: damage moment. I think that was the rule right anyway. Sure,
Speaker 1: whatever talk about adoptive A, I refinement them.
Speaker 2: Adaptive AI learns how you're driving and makes itself more
Speaker 2: competitive over time over the course of the race of
Speaker 2: trend so or less competitive less drive like oh that's fair, well,
Speaker 2: but that still makes it more competitive if if it
Speaker 2: goes didn't I didn't say it goes faster, it gets
Speaker 2: more to you a lot.
Speaker 1: I like how we made the same joke at the
Speaker 1: same time and I went inward and you went outward.
Speaker 2: I didn't even hear you.
Speaker 1: I'm completely we we basically we said the exact same.
Speaker 2: All right, Now we're losing. We're losing the.
Speaker 1: Lots of new AI seasons featuring multi core options e g.
Speaker 1: Nascar or so that's read spit right off the script
Speaker 1: from Chris. That is right off the script. So this
Speaker 1: is actually pretty cool. There's some technical reasons where we
Speaker 1: couldn't have multi car series in our pre Baked in
Speaker 1: AI seasons, which are almost like her the first Verse
Speaker 1: single player mode. We now have that. It's really cool.
Speaker 1: The series follows the real World series a nice challenge
Speaker 1: that I think it's set up with like twenty five
Speaker 1: minute races. But if you just want to go race,
Speaker 1: you want to use adaptive AI, you don't want to
Speaker 1: set up the season whatnot. We have a lot of
Speaker 1: really nice Baked In seasons, you know, IMSA all the
Speaker 1: NASCAR stuff. You can just get in there and go
Speaker 1: rip around. It's good time, agreed, and there's good AI
Speaker 1: news stories afterwards that Chris wrote. I should probably up
Speaker 1: to some of those. Most points that mock you. I
Speaker 1: have burned myself in those stories so many times at
Speaker 1: this point I've seen Yeah, Chris, do you want to
Speaker 1: talk about the substantial increase and sponsored options in the
Speaker 1: paint I guess I'll talk about that. Greg.
Speaker 2: You have a time limit.
Speaker 1: I have a time lift fifteen seconds. Okay. To make
Speaker 1: a long story short, we wanted to add a lot
Speaker 1: of new sponsors into the paint booth. So we have
Speaker 1: gone and licensed. Yeah, we have gone and licensed some
Speaker 1: of the biggest tire, wheel, fuel, et cetera brands all
Speaker 1: around the world. So many of these brands are also
Speaker 1: going to appear in NASCAR twenty five. But in the meantime,
Speaker 1: ninety new options in the paint booth. Ninety. I did
Speaker 1: not know that, I'm will I'm actually not joking. Okay,
Speaker 1: I did not know it was ninety. That's what it's about.
Speaker 1: Fifty brands. Oh, thank you. That was a high five
Speaker 1: for those of you. Yeah, I can't see what's about
Speaker 1: fifty brandell ninety different options. One of them even gave
Speaker 1: us throwback logos.
Speaker 2: Excellent.
Speaker 1: The more you know, So your eighty seven car is
Speaker 1: going to look really cool if you find that sponsor.
Speaker 1: What sponsor is it? I'm going to keep that a secret.
Speaker 1: I want to take it out. What is it? I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell you, Sean, what is it? Come
Speaker 1: on green? That's all I can say. That's a good clue.
Speaker 1: That's a good clue. It is a green brand that
Speaker 1: going green? No, like green is their primary colory.
Speaker 2: Let's say color not not actually a green company?
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, their primary color is green. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they definitely don't qualify as a green color. No. If
Speaker 1: you're still listening to the show, you know, we appreciate you. Yes, hey, Tony,
Speaker 1: if you're still listening, thank you. Really like my job?
Speaker 1: Enjoy it? Remember that? Please? H e sports, let's get
Speaker 1: into it. Nascarka Coola I.
Speaker 2: Racing, hold on time out? You skipped in the.
Speaker 1: I skipped a lot. Yeah, well you see it wasn't
Speaker 1: bullet it's there's no letters, it's bold. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to say. I would you like to borrow my
Speaker 1: glasses that you make fun of me for what? Okay,
Speaker 1: because apparently, why does Sean's outline only have bullets because
Speaker 1: the rest of us are working with them? I don't know,
Speaker 1: all right, refreshes I missed.
Speaker 2: Sound got Sean? Would you do the last one I
Speaker 2: got yesterday? And then anyway, maybe it'shes.
Speaker 1: Fresh as Oh we can the thing though I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to talk about. Yes, this is your section and it's
Speaker 1: price section. I might we're down the page GT three class.
Speaker 1: This is actually jokes aside being serious for my massive,
Speaker 1: massive six month project on the GT threes. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's almost like a new game. It really is a
Speaker 1: complete refresh all of the GT threes. Got it. You've
Speaker 1: got new tire modeling, you've got new arrow maps.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It is an absolute game changer. This is one of
Speaker 1: those things that I mean, we're gonna market it, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna stand on Mary. I'm really excited to on
Speaker 1: Tuesday watch the streams, watch the YouTube videos and just
Speaker 1: sit back and say the work stands on itself. But basically,
Speaker 1: you can take the cars to the limit, even step
Speaker 1: over the limit, and it's not gonna snap spin into
Speaker 1: a wall anymore. That is that is really nice. You know,
Speaker 1: Chris Yancher, Christian Abbott, all those guys that the Robert
Speaker 1: Nash that they put in a ton of time drew
Speaker 1: to Wieze worked on the Arrow there. I'm missing people
Speaker 1: I know, but just go drive good stuff.
Speaker 2: And I will mention that there is a streamer that
Speaker 2: is going to have a preview out this weekend, so
Speaker 2: you guys can check it before you can drive it.
Speaker 1: Somebody that might have some experience will leave it at that.
Speaker 1: But they they've driven a real.
Speaker 2: Car, mayfe they know the car, the car, the cars.
Speaker 1: Do you want to hint on a brand that they
Speaker 1: have Nope? Driven, Nope, just gonna leave it like that, gotcha. Yeah,
Speaker 1: onen's this go out.
Speaker 2: We're doing a lot of teases on the show. We
Speaker 2: don't know where.
Speaker 1: We just don't know. We're talking Yeah, yeah, GT three
Speaker 1: MO Beta. I think that's the safe way.
Speaker 2: Of put it. Maybe that's the name of this episode.
Speaker 2: No better, Attle Better.
Speaker 1: I Racing is no better. NASCAR Lots and lots of
Speaker 1: track updates is part of the NASCAR refresh on this one.
Speaker 1: We've got rescans for remodeling of Io Speedway and Richmond Raceway.
Speaker 1: We've got a refresh list of about ten different tracks.
Speaker 1: I am going to defer to the release notes to
Speaker 1: get exactly which ones are coming out because everything has
Speaker 1: been in the works. There are some that aren't gonna
Speaker 1: make it until September, but.
Speaker 2: It's about ten tracks that are coming out that are
Speaker 2: either redone or refreshed.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly exactly, it's double digits.
Speaker 2: We already had some of the last build and then
Speaker 2: the rest will be in September YEP. So everything is
Speaker 2: getting and.
Speaker 1: Then the Gen seven car, the current Cup Series car,
Speaker 1: has a new CFD based drafting model that we worked
Speaker 1: on with NASCAR, as well as some updated tires, so
Speaker 1: a little bit of a new racing experience for that
Speaker 1: vehicle as well. The drafting stuff is really cool. It's
Speaker 1: something that's either six or maybe even nine months of
Speaker 1: the works. That's a big thing, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's it's gonna be one of those things. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have a massive impact on the next chens and
Speaker 1: the learnings from that are going to make its way
Speaker 1: down through Exfinity and Trucks and OAR, et cetera, and
Speaker 1: subsequent builds. We're on it, but we just beg got
Speaker 1: it in on the Gen sevens for this build and
Speaker 1: that will be stuff that we're going to continue to improve.
Speaker 1: So but we're excited to see see people racing, especially
Speaker 1: in draft sure, oh yeah, and then Kevin.
Speaker 2: IndyCar also in the excuse me refresh section. Yes, I'm fine,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: The IndyCar IR eighteen, updated tires, Arrow visuals, wet tires.
Speaker 1: As you teased, it will say hybrid not yet still
Speaker 1: in the works so soon hashtag soon as well as
Speaker 1: I think Greg mentioned not in the GTPs yet, but
Speaker 1: we're working on it.
Speaker 2: So hybrid is in progress. So there'll be further updates
Speaker 2: on the IndyCar as we continue to work with that.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to that eighting stuff.
Speaker 1: A lot of fun, good Indy five hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool that we've got like all these different
Speaker 2: classes that are getting updated. Right. These are kind of
Speaker 2: three of the biggest populations within I racing right, NASCAR,
Speaker 2: IndyCar GT three, So a lot of people are going
Speaker 2: to feel, you know, a lot of differences and a
Speaker 2: lot of updates. So exciting build.
Speaker 1: Three of the most complex classes of cars that we
Speaker 1: have to do right. And is I mean the number
Speaker 1: of people that have.
Speaker 2: You mean, it wasn't just a single line of code
Speaker 2: to do these things. It was like three three lines,
Speaker 2: three lines of kids, got it? I mean really, I
Speaker 2: mean g T three NASCAR and Indy Car are. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they are absolutely the most complex combination of cars that
Speaker 2: we could do to do them all for sure. Massive
Speaker 2: hats off to the production teams, the URT teams, everybody
Speaker 2: that has spent so much time working on this. Like
Speaker 2: I said, I am really excited for twoday just to
Speaker 2: sit back and I really do think the the quality
Speaker 2: of this building speak for itself. So yeah, it should
Speaker 2: be a good time. Hey, Kevin, can we go in
Speaker 2: to esports? We can go to esports the esport.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the NASCAR KU COO I Racing Series.
Speaker 1: Chris real interesting championship battle in the Coke Series right now.
Speaker 1: We are going to have a driver in the playoffs
Speaker 1: based on points at least one. Did Chris not just
Speaker 1: on like a weather guy on a morning talk show
Speaker 1: right there? Did you hear that?
Speaker 2: I didn't hear that.
Speaker 1: Like Sean's nodding too, like you really It's like we
Speaker 1: just tossed you the news break two out of three,
Speaker 1: ain't bad?
Speaker 2: Are you going to do the traffic report afterwards?
Speaker 1: Greg steven Wilson four wins now this year, just won
Speaker 1: the most recent race of Kansas one segment two in
Speaker 1: the standards probably in the playoffs, I would imagine so
Speaker 1: against him, and it's just got five bonus playoff points
Speaker 1: for winning that segment as well. He's got four wins,
Speaker 1: Tucker Minter has three, Bobby Zelenski and Colin Keister have
Speaker 1: a win apiece. So we've only got five races left
Speaker 1: in the regular season, which means by default, even if
Speaker 1: we've got five new winners in these next five races,
Speaker 1: and it sure doesn't sound like that's going to be
Speaker 1: the case considering what Wilson and Minter have been doing.
Speaker 1: Somebody's going to earn their way in there on points,
Speaker 1: so consistency can be rewarded in this next segment of
Speaker 1: the championship. This has been the busy season for the
Speaker 1: Koch Series. Yeah, it's about to continue to get busy.
Speaker 1: We take off the week for build Week, but then
Speaker 1: June seventeenth, we're back at it at Iowa Speedway, which
Speaker 1: is Wilson's home track, isn't it It certainly is. It
Speaker 1: is certainly is represented Iowa pretty for pretty long time
Speaker 1: in the e NASCAR College I Racing Series. But more
Speaker 1: importantly to the forty drivers on track, this will be
Speaker 1: the first race after the update not only to the
Speaker 1: Gen seven but also the Rescan Iowa Speedway, So everybody
Speaker 1: is going to be coming in with kind of a
Speaker 1: clean sheet of paper, so it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: who adapts most quickly to the updates.
Speaker 2: Right, that's a full update Rescan, not just a graphical
Speaker 2: so it's new surface and everything that's completely different. It's
Speaker 2: like a new track. Yeah, yeah, wake up, Greg. I
Speaker 2: think Greg doesed off for a second.
Speaker 1: I need more coffee. I'm out all right. Moving on
Speaker 1: FIAF four Global Esports Championship presented by Mosa. Pretty excited
Speaker 1: for this to kick off. The qualifiers start with during
Speaker 1: Week one using the regional series we have, you know,
Speaker 1: the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. The top ten drivers
Speaker 1: from each region at the end of the season it
Speaker 1: points make their way in. There were some questions on
Speaker 1: the qualifiers from last year. The top three from last
Speaker 1: year also qualified, so the field will be thirty nine drivers, Chris,
Speaker 1: that's one of those things we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: to do it right up on later day. But yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty nine drivers this year and a prize pool increase
Speaker 1: with MOS thirty nine drivers will be thirty nine drivers.
Speaker 2: Just seems like a weird number. How did we get
Speaker 2: to that number?
Speaker 1: Well, three three year came in from each region from
Speaker 1: last season. Three they get to keep their spots, so
Speaker 1: that's nine drivers three times three there with the fingers,
Speaker 1: and then ten from each region and that's three.
Speaker 2: That's why it's thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so thirty plus nine hold on, let me okay,
Speaker 1: carry the one?
Speaker 2: I got it?
Speaker 1: What's the meme? Ifty riot or yes?
Speaker 2: So there is a method to the madness. There is a.
Speaker 1: Method to the mednis. It was actually making it simpler,
Speaker 1: which made it more difficult.
Speaker 2: I guess you had to explain it to me because
Speaker 2: I'm simple person.
Speaker 1: So this is a cool series because it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different because it's four race weekends. But each of
Speaker 1: our doubleheader we do not announce the track until twenty
Speaker 1: four hours beforehand. Thou so you have to get up
Speaker 1: to speed quickly. Fixed setups should be a good time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, thirty five thousand dollars up.
Speaker 2: From twenty five more fries money, right, it's up, no
Speaker 2: beta better? Nice?
Speaker 1: And then the Skip Barber Formula I Racing Series k Bob.
Speaker 2: That comes back. What have we got six races this year?
Speaker 2: Starts in June. You qualify through time attacks, is that right, Christine?
Speaker 1: Hot lap qualifiers from Friday through Sunday the week before
Speaker 1: in the last four car.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 1: That's verbata?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's in the F four car. How do
Speaker 2: you participate? How do you participate?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is a little extra step that I
Speaker 1: think some people don't know about. Yeah, so there is
Speaker 1: a registration we go us. I was going to say that,
Speaker 1: but through Skip Barber Racing School. It is twenty interesting
Speaker 1: you weren't bearing, I was struggling. I had to jump
Speaker 1: in for you. That was you know that video of
Speaker 1: the guy just getting yoanked out of the car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, my work here is done. It is twenty
Speaker 1: dollars to participate. So this has an entry fee to
Speaker 1: participate in this series. But what you could possibly get
Speaker 1: in return. Not only do you get coaching from real
Speaker 1: Skip Barber Racing School instructors in the days before the race,
Speaker 1: but also the hard charger gets a racing school credit.
Speaker 1: Everybody who qualifies for the series gets a one time credit.
Speaker 1: It gets two racing guy. Yeah, yes, and he's not
Speaker 1: a bad deal. That's not a bad deal.
Speaker 2: All that registration happens on skip Barber dot Com, not
Speaker 2: on IRIS to the extra registration. Just make that clear.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then the top three finishers in the championship
Speaker 1: get a shootout for a real world seat in the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Skip Barber Formula Race Series.
Speaker 2: And if people want more information, should they go to
Speaker 2: our story, should they go to the time attack? Where
Speaker 2: do they find out? Where do they find the registration page?
Speaker 1: All of the above perfect, We are going to put
Speaker 1: that registration page as many places as we need to
Speaker 1: love it. Excellent, And the irising alumni in the real world.
Speaker 1: I've done a pretty good job in this series. I
Speaker 1: believe they'veto Perez right now is dominating that champion yep.
Speaker 1: I think he'd been in the podium every single week
Speaker 1: so far and he got a seat through this last year, right, Yes?
Speaker 1: And all worth the twenty bucks. Yeah, yeah, twenty bucks
Speaker 1: for a real.
Speaker 2: World You can even go karting for fifteen minutes for
Speaker 2: twenty bucks. A no, no, it's not these days, No,
Speaker 2: all right? Special Vince Nerve twenty four this weekend nice
Speaker 2: up to sixty cars, sixty cars participating. Final BOP went
Speaker 2: out yesterday.
Speaker 1: My inbox blew up as usual, so everybody's complaining, which
Speaker 1: means I think we probably got it right. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: So the more I get yelled at, the better it
Speaker 1: typically is. And then we have the six Hours of
Speaker 1: the Glen at the end of the month, which is
Speaker 1: a good tie a little sprint race compared to the
Speaker 1: Nerboer Green the Green hell but uh yeah, and of
Speaker 1: course build next week once again. Even if you're one
Speaker 1: of the five people who listen to this show that
Speaker 1: you know you're not an I Racing member, but you know,
Speaker 1: check it out, YouTube, Twitch, whatever, watch some streamers, watch
Speaker 1: the new content. Amazing new graphics, especially the rain visuals,
Speaker 1: these new tracks. It all looks excellent. Really really excited
Speaker 1: for next week. So on that note, thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to the I Racing Downshift. Don't forget to rate, review,
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Speaker 1: is put this thing for Kevin, Bobba, Chris Leoni and
Speaker 1: sound guys. Sean you look great man, Thank you. I'm
Speaker 1: Greg West. We will see you on the track.