Speaker 1: This week on the I Racing down Shift. It is
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four recap and holiday show. The boys
Speaker 1: talk about their favorite cars and tracks that were released
Speaker 1: earlier this year, we look back at some of our
Speaker 1: favorite moments, and we look ahead to some of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five special events. All this and more strap it.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the I Racing Downshift. I'm your host, Greg West.
Speaker 2: I'm back with the boys, Kevin Baba and Chris Leoni.
Speaker 2: We have a better than average.
Speaker 3: Show today, let's hope.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you make fun of me when I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, we've got a great show today, because
Speaker 2: we always have a great show.
Speaker 3: And well, it's the same intro for sixty episodes, sixty yeah.
Speaker 2: Looks over at Sean who doesn't have his mic on
Speaker 2: sixty one. So I just went one for every year.
Speaker 3: E've ben alive almost almost.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a day. Oh yeah, good times, well,
Speaker 2: exciting show. Today we are going to do something a
Speaker 2: little different.
Speaker 3: It is the holiday edition.
Speaker 2: Of the I Racing Downshift. You've heard of the Twelve
Speaker 2: Days of Christmas. We're doing the twelve things that we
Speaker 2: thought was exciting and fun in twenty.
Speaker 3: Nine Christmas did you count my outline.
Speaker 2: Tony says, makes me look fat?
Speaker 1: Did you count the outline though, because technically there's thirteen
Speaker 1: because neither of us, neither of the three of us
Speaker 1: can count good well.
Speaker 2: But thirteen weeks in an I race.
Speaker 3: That's why we don't work in accounting.
Speaker 2: So fair shout out to the accounting team that are
Speaker 2: probably not listening to this.
Speaker 3: We'll find out.
Speaker 2: There's a treat if they show up. So we got
Speaker 2: a lot, We're going a lot to talk about today.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go through our twelve favorite things that happened
Speaker 2: through our top moments and favorite things that happened throughout
Speaker 2: the year. We're gonna talk about some special events stuff
Speaker 2: for January, some new and exciting things happening during that,
Speaker 2: and me and Kevin are gonna roast each other, and
Speaker 2: Chris is going to referee, and Sean's going to try
Speaker 2: not to throw things at us. How to do that?
Speaker 3: Sounds like an excellent plan. Yeah, none of that's on
Speaker 3: the outline.
Speaker 1: But hey, I'm on vacation. I gave you a vacation.
Speaker 1: I gave you a vacation caliber outline this.
Speaker 2: Time, let's let's let's get in you know what have
Speaker 2: we been up to? Chris on your vacation this week
Speaker 2: where you've worked every single day, I think, what what
Speaker 2: have you been doing?
Speaker 1: Man of the people? What have I been doing? I
Speaker 1: got rid of a bunch of hot wheels at the
Speaker 1: Savers up in Nashua.
Speaker 2: Get rid of hot wheels?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah. The the overflow situation was starting to
Speaker 1: get out of hand.
Speaker 3: Are you able to sell them or don't them?
Speaker 1: Do you make some kids happy?
Speaker 3: Look at you? Holidays heartwarming episode?
Speaker 1: We'll go over to We're about to do a Christmas
Speaker 1: Carol backwards. We're doing the heartwarming stuff at the beginning,
Speaker 1: and then it's just going to get increasingly dour downhill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. So what about Kevin?
Speaker 3: I haven't done anything nicely that. I guess I need
Speaker 3: to donate some of my cars or something. I don't
Speaker 3: know what have I been doing? Well? Thanksgiving was great,
Speaker 3: we had a great build here, and I racing. I
Speaker 3: don't know what I've been doing.
Speaker 1: Christmas shopping for your Oh.
Speaker 3: Christmas shopping, I need to do that. Few days's Christmas
Speaker 3: A week for yeah, week, I got time. It's all good,
Speaker 3: all good. That's what Amazon's for, right right?
Speaker 2: I'm going I'm heading home back down to Alabama on Saturday.
Speaker 2: And I ordered this gift for my stepdad like a
Speaker 2: month ago, maybe maybe six weeks ago, and it was
Speaker 2: back order of course, right and I'm watching watching like, okay,
Speaker 2: give me a tracking number. I'm like kind of scrambling.
Speaker 2: What am I gonna do? What am we gonna do?
Speaker 2: I got a tracking number yesterday. It's going to be
Speaker 2: here Friday and I leave Saturday morning.
Speaker 3: Excellent? Can you reroute it Friday the day before? Yeah,
Speaker 3: show up like I misheard.
Speaker 2: It happens, but yeah, excited to go home, spend the
Speaker 2: time with the fam. Uh. And then we're getting right
Speaker 2: back into it in January. January and I racing one
Speaker 2: of our biggest months of the year as far as
Speaker 2: things to do. We have a new and exciting special
Speaker 2: event that I'm gonna clickbait a little bit here but
Speaker 2: not give a ton of details. Our Dale Junior Charity
Speaker 2: Race secrets out. It's gonna be Mani Stocks at Iowa.
Speaker 2: It's a team race, and that's all I can tell you.
Speaker 3: It should be fun, should be fun looking forward to.
Speaker 2: Or details to come first week of January sometime, don't
Speaker 2: if it's the sixth or the seventh, of the eighth,
Speaker 2: one of those days we're gonna we're gonna say something
Speaker 2: but really cool announcement. Yeah, but a team oval race
Speaker 2: and a pretty goofy combination that is actually a ball
Speaker 2: of fun. So looking forward to that, we have the
Speaker 2: roar coming back on I Racing, the iration I Racing.
Speaker 2: I Racing sound great?
Speaker 3: You need some more red Bull or less, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I'll start with me bob it, glasshouse stones something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we've got the roar, uh we before the Dayton
Speaker 2: and twenty four on I Racing and then of course
Speaker 2: the Dayton twenty four the biggest event in SIM racing
Speaker 2: or community event for SIM racing anywhere in the world
Speaker 2: every year.
Speaker 3: Last year, what eighteeny five hundred something like that, thousand
Speaker 3: of our friends. Yeah, that's pretty cool looking.
Speaker 2: I really think with the growth and especially with the
Speaker 2: focus on all of the GT three slush d and
Speaker 2: you know GTP hypercars, I think you see probably twenty thousand.
Speaker 3: I think we're over twenty this year. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: I've been saying that for two years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but I think we're there. I think we're there.
Speaker 2: So Kevin you want to talk hypercar a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we should probably talk about it about hypercars. Well
Speaker 3: GTGT hypercar. I mean everybody probably knows we introduced the
Speaker 3: Ferrari four ninety nine P hypercar.
Speaker 2: First hypercar, but homologated with the GTPs just like in the.
Speaker 3: Rules, just like the real world. It can run at
Speaker 3: all the IMPS events or WEK events and we put
Speaker 3: them together having some fun with that. The car has
Speaker 3: been people are excited about it, but there has been
Speaker 3: some discussion about the car.
Speaker 2: Let's say, yeah, a lot of fun to drive. The
Speaker 2: question is you know, maybe maybe maybe a little high
Speaker 2: on apex speed in.
Speaker 3: Certain situations the word on the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and you know that's one of the things
Speaker 2: that we we are committing are already committing to addressing
Speaker 2: rather quickly. Now, that's not something that's gonna happen, you know,
Speaker 2: in before a build or something like that. But our
Speaker 2: vehicle engineering team can go in the forums and there's
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a post. I think it should be
Speaker 2: up probably about the time that.
Speaker 3: This probably this goes out from Chris.
Speaker 2: Lerch who's our vehicle engineering manager. You know, gonna talk
Speaker 2: a little bit more in detail on on on. You know,
Speaker 2: what the issues were and how they're being addressed, and
Speaker 2: how seriously we take this. You know, I Racing, we
Speaker 2: pride ourselves on being the most accurate and most realistic
Speaker 2: simulator in the world. Our members hold us to that standard.
Speaker 2: We hold ourselves to that standard, and we see an
Speaker 2: opportunity to improve that. Maybe maybe we we we have
Speaker 2: some opportunity for growth. That's what we're gonna do. UH.
Speaker 2: Without getting majorly in the details, the tires of the
Speaker 2: first thing, there's going to be a comprehensive reconstruction of
Speaker 2: the tires on those cars, UH, targeting, targeting March. No guarantees.
Speaker 2: This stuff is hard, especially with these incredibly fast cars
Speaker 2: when you get up around you know, the high end
Speaker 2: Formula level or the high end prototype level, lots of downforce,
Speaker 2: lots of speed, lots of cornering cornering speed. To build
Speaker 2: that these tires is incredibly difficult. The people that work
Speaker 2: on this work tirelessly. Our partners work with us. I
Speaker 2: guarantee this. This was not from lack of blood, sweater tears.
Speaker 3: I think it's worth noting though, that the cars are
Speaker 3: incredibly fun to drive right now, So if you're interested
Speaker 3: in driving those cars. There's no reason not to right now.
Speaker 3: Are the lap times going to be a little quicker
Speaker 3: if you're a top you know, one percent driver, probably
Speaker 3: in specific conditions, but for most of us, I think
Speaker 3: you're not going to see much speed difference. I can't
Speaker 3: get that much out of the car anyway. But the
Speaker 3: important thing is that they're super fun to drive and
Speaker 3: super competitive. It's not a bop thing between hypercar or
Speaker 3: the BMW or the CADOC or whatever. It's it's kind
Speaker 3: of a thing that is in that whole class. So
Speaker 3: if you're interested in those prototypes, race them now. We'll
Speaker 3: just make them better in the future.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, we're really excited about the direction this
Speaker 2: tire went as far as the limit feel. We were
Speaker 2: really proud of what it does and the feeling of
Speaker 2: the car. And that's the one thing. No one's complained
Speaker 2: about the feeling of the tire. It's it's just we
Speaker 2: definitely have high apex speeds, specifically in super cool conditions
Speaker 2: and some you know, wonky wonky setup options. You know,
Speaker 2: you can't catch everything, but it's something we're gonna we're
Speaker 2: focusing on. You know, we could, it's not as simple
Speaker 2: as turning the knob and slowing the car down. And
Speaker 2: I will say this just from my experience and development,
Speaker 2: slowing a car down without just destroying how it feels
Speaker 2: is probably the hardest thing there is to do. But
Speaker 2: we have some incredibly talented engineers that come from all
Speaker 2: walks of life. These are folks that have spent time
Speaker 2: on pitwalls in Formula one, NASCAR, any car are that
Speaker 2: team can talk the talk and walk the walk and whatever.
Speaker 2: The important one is there, right, So anyway, I wanted
Speaker 2: to address it because it is very important to us,
Speaker 2: and we can assure you that, yeah, the every resource
Speaker 2: is being put toward, put toward that. Kevin's writing me a.
Speaker 3: Note, No just to me, Oh okay, not myself, gotcha?
Speaker 1: Do you want to read for the class?
Speaker 2: Yeah, passing note. Kids these days will never know the
Speaker 2: art of passing a note.
Speaker 3: Class.
Speaker 2: You're just in a text. That's things that are lost
Speaker 2: in time. Moving forward, All right, let's get into Top
Speaker 2: Moments twenty twenty four. I'm gonna switch the order here
Speaker 2: because I've been talking. I need a sip of coffee.
Speaker 2: So why don't we talk about Chris? Why don't you
Speaker 2: kick it off with your first.
Speaker 1: One, with my first one, NASCAR twenty five, acquiring the
Speaker 1: rights to do the console game for NASCAR coming out
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 2: With lots of pregnant pauses.
Speaker 1: Well as you you guys know, I'm the only person
Speaker 1: who's come in without caffeine on the show.
Speaker 2: So it's weird. I don't know how to handle.
Speaker 1: I know, did you hear me like not talking over
Speaker 1: both of you for the past ten minutes? I just thought, Sean,
Speaker 1: you no, no, no. But anyhow, certainly, our our partners,
Speaker 1: our friends at Monster Games, you know who we acquired
Speaker 1: a few years ago, who've done such an amazing job
Speaker 1: in the World of Outlaws games, which we'll touch on
Speaker 1: later back behind the wheel of the NASCAR franchise. They
Speaker 1: have done so many great games for NASCAR over the
Speaker 1: past quarter century, and working with us, you know what
Speaker 1: they've done with their with their sprint car games, you know,
Speaker 1: with the World of Outlaws games, to evolve on what
Speaker 1: they had already done, you know, has taken that platform
Speaker 1: to the next level. NASCAR is going to be the
Speaker 1: exact same way. We have so many great people working
Speaker 1: on that project, you know, so many people putting resources
Speaker 1: into career mode, so many people putting resources into making
Speaker 1: this the best NASCAR console experience that it's ever been.
Speaker 3: I would say the amount of work going into the
Speaker 3: soundtrack alone, it would blow your mind.
Speaker 1: So we do not think any of us agree on
Speaker 1: what should be on well.
Speaker 3: No, but it's important. We all agree. It's important. Every
Speaker 3: level of detail matters in this game.
Speaker 2: Hoping for shake it off? Really disappointed that's not going
Speaker 2: to make it.
Speaker 3: Who's going to.
Speaker 1: Write that check?
Speaker 3: Will it have? Molly Hatchett? Wow? Who was that talking
Speaker 3: on the mic?
Speaker 2: Some some good names that are U. I guess it's
Speaker 2: all still negotiating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just got a lot of input from the community,
Speaker 3: a lot of great ideas. Love, love to hear what
Speaker 3: people want. We'll see what comes out. Uh in the
Speaker 3: final playlist, I guess.
Speaker 2: But uh, but Myers was teasing yesterday in the marketing meeting.
Speaker 2: Was pretty solid.
Speaker 3: It's pretty solid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course the one week I take off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we did talk about you a lot too
Speaker 3: in that meeting, by the way, a lot.
Speaker 1: It's good to be loved.
Speaker 2: That's a word, all right. Next moment, this is a
Speaker 2: huge one for I rasing Rain debuts.
Speaker 3: And oh you got this.
Speaker 2: Why are you pointed?
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure who was going to cover this bullet
Speaker 3: point on your hands.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, everybody's calling for a fly ball down.
Speaker 2: You want to take rain all you? Oh so it
Speaker 2: rains and I racing. Now. This is obviously a massive
Speaker 2: multi year project, and I shoot, I'm gonna blank on this.
Speaker 2: Greg Hill had added it up. How many people had
Speaker 2: worked on it at some point? I'm thinking it was
Speaker 2: like forty or fifty into the lot. Developers a lot
Speaker 2: different times working on this, and the the reception has
Speaker 2: been fantastic. I mean, tooting our own horn a little bit.
Speaker 3: But isn't at the point of this podcast being honest.
Speaker 2: I know we raised the bar. Yeah, we did not
Speaker 2: just make water drop les fall from the sky and
Speaker 2: lower the grip slider. It was a you know, a
Speaker 2: physics base implementation of what you know how rain works
Speaker 2: in the real world. And uh really proud of the
Speaker 2: team that that worked on that and and and how
Speaker 2: the community has received it. It is badass. That's the
Speaker 2: best way I know to put it, you know, learning
Speaker 2: how to drive offline and not in the rubbered in areas.
Speaker 2: How cool it is that because we laser scan everything.
Speaker 2: The puddles just show up where they're supposed to. You
Speaker 2: don't have to hack it together if you did it
Speaker 2: right from the beginning. We know where the drains are
Speaker 2: getting all that to work in conjunction with each other,
Speaker 2: the the team, the the art and effects team that
Speaker 2: you're doing the spray, and the sound team that sounds droplets.
Speaker 2: As you're sitting in the pits. Turn the motor off
Speaker 2: and just listen to it.
Speaker 3: Rain.
Speaker 2: There's some a SMR stuff happening there. That's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the rain coming in I racing has been
Speaker 2: an absolute game changer, and that's not understated at all.
Speaker 2: It's been fun to watch it in special events. It
Speaker 2: definitely is added a wrinkline dynamic to the sims, definitely
Speaker 2: needed so that they did.
Speaker 3: To announce the weather forecast for data on twenty four
Speaker 3: Is it too early for that.
Speaker 2: I haven't even built it.
Speaker 3: Yes, So we don't know the weather.
Speaker 2: We don't know that as in the real world, we
Speaker 2: don't know the weather a month out. Now, look at
Speaker 2: the almanac. That's what it's based right, that is what
Speaker 2: it's based off.
Speaker 3: I like it. I like it all right.
Speaker 1: Not to mention just before we go week thirteen. All
Speaker 1: the rain stuff that we've been doing in week thirteen,
Speaker 1: because that's some of my favorite stuff on the SIM
Speaker 1: all the funny forecasts.
Speaker 2: I cannot believe that we thirteenth week wet and wild
Speaker 2: yet approved.
Speaker 1: I mean, and sim Kana revolutionized Simkanna to have the
Speaker 1: cars with the rain tires. I got so many rave
Speaker 1: reviews about the Cleo and the g R eight six
Speaker 1: rally Cross.
Speaker 2: I'm just smiling it Chris right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but look, it's a it's an episode of Downshift.
Speaker 1: I'm the dirt road guy. I'm not gonna let us
Speaker 1: go a show without mentioning it.
Speaker 2: I think you forgot to say yes too, though.
Speaker 3: We'll talk.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 3: That's later online.
Speaker 2: We'll circle back to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll circle Yeah, we can touch on it.
Speaker 3: After the holiday.
Speaker 2: There we go, Kevin, is it me? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What's next? IndyCar, Indy Car's back, Indy Car's back. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Indy five hundred. Another Indy five hundred will be on
Speaker 3: a special event next year. I don't know the date
Speaker 3: off the top of my head, but sometimes sometime in May,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Yeah.
Speaker 2: Fixed an opener on separate weekends again.
Speaker 3: Perfect, perfect, So you can do them all. So if
Speaker 3: you want to do the Indy one thousand, that's open
Speaker 3: to you. Yeah. What else? We did an Indie Pro
Speaker 3: Series this year. That was pretty sweet, very cool, some
Speaker 3: of the best racing we've had in a long time.
Speaker 3: Car was great. It was a mix of oval and road.
Speaker 2: Good price.
Speaker 3: Fifty fifty dollars. What else do you want?
Speaker 2: Money?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What else do you want? It was super fun.
Speaker 3: More to come on that for next year, but I
Speaker 3: would I would say we're you're likely to see that again.
Speaker 3: No formal announcement yet, but uh, everybody seemed pleased with it.
Speaker 3: The competitors enjoyed it. IndyCar enjoyed it. They were super supportive,
Speaker 3: which was awesome. When you have a partner that's you know, reposting,
Speaker 3: posting stuff about it, you know they're into it. So
Speaker 3: they're they're getting into the esports. They understand you know
Speaker 3: that that our drivers, our members are fans or potential
Speaker 3: fans for them. So there's a nice synergy there. So
Speaker 3: great to have Indie Car back on board.
Speaker 1: It's like when a band gets back together and they're
Speaker 1: better after the reunion. That's that's what this has been.
Speaker 3: What happens, it doesn't know, it does. I'm a huge
Speaker 3: Guns N' Roses fan, and I think they were better
Speaker 3: back in the eighties, but I still go see them now.
Speaker 1: So Kevin's point that rarely happens, Yes, that rarely happens,
Speaker 1: but it did here.
Speaker 3: So thank you Sean. All right.
Speaker 2: Next next on the list, Christmas Splitting this one. You
Speaker 2: go First.
Speaker 1: Consoles launched two console games this year, and Greg will
Speaker 1: talk about the future. But World of Outlaws Dirt Racing
Speaker 1: twenty four PlayStation consoles, Xbox consoles. We've just announced that
Speaker 1: it will be coming to Steam. Just announce it this week,
Speaker 1: which is really exciting.
Speaker 2: Did Chris do that on his vacation?
Speaker 1: What didn't I do on my vacation besides vacation, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to vacation in the world vacation
Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And so the point now, when when Chris is on vacation,
Speaker 3: I don't even hesitate. I just a message because I
Speaker 3: know he's around to hear something.
Speaker 1: By vacations, because those are the weeks I don't feel
Speaker 1: like a.
Speaker 2: Great place to work and we totally have work.
Speaker 3: This is Chris's choice. Not not ours.
Speaker 1: That is that is true.
Speaker 3: It's a fault.
Speaker 1: That is it is, it is, it is. My My
Speaker 1: schedule is just it's like a tight ie shirt and
Speaker 1: none of it makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: Huh, Okay, you were not off, far far off on
Speaker 3: your question. You asked him earlier.
Speaker 1: Assume all right. World of Outlaws Dirt Racing twenty four,
Speaker 1: which eleven cars this time around more and more tracks
Speaker 1: uswego got added to the game. Houstt's is coming. It's
Speaker 1: coming hashtag soon, hashtag soon. We know we have people
Speaker 1: asking Kevin.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Kevin told a great story about something, and I sent
Speaker 1: him a meme and I got them to almost break
Speaker 1: up during a meeting. It's a Simpsons memes.
Speaker 3: Chris is sending memes during marketing meetings now on Slack.
Speaker 3: It's not helpful.
Speaker 2: I mean I got called out for those yesterday. I
Speaker 2: was losing.
Speaker 1: Second game, obviously one. I pulled a lot of blood,
Speaker 1: sweat and tears into Exocross with the Orontis team. Very
Speaker 1: very different, big departure from what we normally do here
Speaker 1: at I Racing. It's a very science fiction kind of
Speaker 1: space type off road game. Still a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: The driving physics are still some of the best offerad
Speaker 1: driving physics. I think I've ever touched on in any game,
Speaker 1: you know, in any platform, so you know, really love
Speaker 1: those cars. Obviously. Again, it's a different world. It's very
Speaker 1: different from what people are used to from us. People
Speaker 1: are used to simulations, you know. But we can have fun,
Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna have a lot more fun
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, right, Greg.
Speaker 2: There are more opportunities to have fun in the I
Speaker 2: Racing ecosystem to come.
Speaker 3: Fun is good.
Speaker 2: Fun is good. It's F word and sim racing we
Speaker 2: sometimes don't say enough.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's the better F word.
Speaker 2: The two.
Speaker 1: There's the S two. That's what we do in yes
Speaker 1: two we have fun.
Speaker 3: Oh, there we go.
Speaker 1: We set it up.
Speaker 3: We're going to start charging you for for all these plugs.
Speaker 3: Put Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Personal League a great advertising platform. What's the rate card
Speaker 2: for the podcast? Angelo? Angelo would know.
Speaker 3: We're going to get you in touch with Angela.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, yes, yes, the office that is literally right
Speaker 1: next to it.
Speaker 3: And don't worry, we can do like a direct depositor
Speaker 3: right out of your paycheck.
Speaker 1: Yeah veno, Yeah no, I'll just scoot my chair back
Speaker 1: when she's in and just yell over, hey, Angela, what's this?
Speaker 2: And then her door shuts. All right, So we have
Speaker 2: another title. We have loosely announced working title I Racing Arcade.
Speaker 2: It is a complete departure for I Racing. It is
Speaker 2: more Mario Kart Goofy, a beautiful art style, partnering with
Speaker 2: the team from Original Fire Games who brought you titles
Speaker 2: such as Circuit Superstars and Karting Superstars. Go on YouTube
Speaker 2: check it out. The art style is fun. It is
Speaker 2: just fun. It's cute, and so I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: you're gonna see a game that looks very similar to that,
Speaker 2: but definitely has a lot of eye racing in it.
Speaker 2: Controller friendly, no steering wheels. This is It is more
Speaker 2: Mario Kart console game, right, it is Steam and console,
Speaker 2: it'll be it'll come out and Steam later next year,
Speaker 2: you know, consoles Xbox and PlayStation a couple months behind that. No,
Speaker 2: we're not really sure on Switch yet. Don't want to
Speaker 2: promise anything there, but uh, it has been. It is
Speaker 2: just Goofy fun to develop, and anybody that we've handed
Speaker 2: the controller to uh just smiles. It's a it's an
Speaker 2: engrossing it's gonna have a career mode and yeah, it
Speaker 2: will be a really good time. More details to come,
Speaker 2: looking forward to some maybe some teasing after the first
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 3: Can't wait.
Speaker 2: Some stills, maybe a video, maybe a video. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: see you.
Speaker 3: Get Alex and Cole on that. Yeah, be good, that'd
Speaker 3: be good.
Speaker 2: Best in the business. What's next on the list?
Speaker 3: Next? Top moment of twenty twenty four Cook Series, Koch Series, Oh,
Speaker 3: the Coke Series finale, that's me, that's you.
Speaker 2: You were there.
Speaker 3: I was there in Charlotte at the Hall of Fame. Again.
Speaker 3: What a great event. This is the third time we've
Speaker 3: done it, I think third fourth. But it's super cool
Speaker 3: to have the final event live, top four drivers there,
Speaker 3: the energy in the room. You know, it's a proper
Speaker 3: esports finale.
Speaker 2: You need oxygen tanks for moms.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Actually, though, those are some of the best moments. Now,
Speaker 3: let me think about it. There's a mom. Mom's there
Speaker 3: watching their son. Most of them are young guys. Somebody
Speaker 3: on that stage is going to win one hundred thousand
Speaker 3: dollars plus whatever else they've already won throughout the season.
Speaker 3: It's a big deal.
Speaker 2: And nobody's going home empty handed.
Speaker 3: Everybody's yeah, the top four all getting something, but one
Speaker 3: hundred grand, I mean that's that's real money. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: you know, that's not just a night out on the town.
Speaker 3: You know, that's real, real deal. So Parker White came
Speaker 3: out on top. He's a worthy champion. Great series and
Speaker 3: again just a great way to end that series. Hopefully
Speaker 3: we do more of that in the coming series. The
Speaker 3: Koch series is coming back. I don't think there was
Speaker 3: any question, but we might as well acknowledge that coming
Speaker 3: back next year, as is PESK that starts in That's
Speaker 3: not on the notes here, but I thought i'd mentioned it.
Speaker 3: That starts in January February. So yeah, that's coming up
Speaker 3: on esports next year.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Chris, you got the next one.
Speaker 1: F F another record setting Daytona twenty four. Yes, it
Speaker 1: was we alluded to earlier.
Speaker 2: Could you've read that off any more monitors?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're asking the guy who normally does five minute
Speaker 1: races to talk about the twenty four hour one. But
Speaker 1: here we'll pull up the stats for this year's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four I Racing Daytona twenty four powered by Vco.
Speaker 3: Ding Friend's not here it's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okay, more than eighteen thousand, five hundred total drivers,
Speaker 1: just under sixteen thousand uniques. We're gonna get it above
Speaker 1: sixteen thousand euniques this year.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: We are absolutely more than four thousand teams. We had
Speaker 1: ninety five splits.
Speaker 2: That's a lot.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of splits, everybody. Okay, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: The price is right on miles completed.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I know this number, but it's eight million
Speaker 2: a year ago.
Speaker 1: No, Kevin, you're locking in an eight million, Greg, eight.
Speaker 2: Million and one.
Speaker 1: I hate when people do that, but you win because
Speaker 1: of it. Ten million, two hundred and twenty eight thousand,
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighteen zero point fifty two.
Speaker 3: I have to say my eight million, million and one
Speaker 3: was a little closer. I was a little closer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not buying you lunch today, a friend? Are you?
Speaker 1: This was the first time we had the full mc
Speaker 1: GTP lineup, so obviously going to be exciting next year
Speaker 1: with some of the lineup changes to the vehicles, which Greg, you.
Speaker 3: Can teen cars in this years car will be part
Speaker 3: of it. We've got one or two more GT three's.
Speaker 3: What do we I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's ten of them now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so's a lot of Carskra.
Speaker 2: McLaren was new Revam McClaren, but there was a McLaren.
Speaker 3: Yes, but it's the newer McLaren. And thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you know this.
Speaker 1: Will be the first one for the Corvette and the
Speaker 1: Mustang too, right in GT.
Speaker 3: Three the dark Horse Mustang. Yes, yes, right, yeah, thank
Speaker 3: you Sean Man.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four was a long year.
Speaker 1: We did a lot of stuff out that is, we
Speaker 1: did a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: No, it's I'm it's when I started here. One of
Speaker 2: the biggest gripes on I Racing was an aging GT
Speaker 2: three class and also at the time, I think we
Speaker 2: had limited a six cars seven was it seven seven? Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm staying corrected, and with this build sixteen makes racing
Speaker 2: at the same time is wild and it's just such
Speaker 2: a cool experience of the variety of things, you know,
Speaker 2: cars you see on track, and I think that's really special.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, I'm very excited watching the day till twenty
Speaker 2: four on I Racing is a ton of fun. It's
Speaker 2: the one special event I make sure to compete in
Speaker 2: every year and.
Speaker 3: At least for an hour. I made it.
Speaker 2: I made it like ninety minutes. Last year I got
Speaker 2: wrecked in an international horseshoe twice. Not sore about it.
Speaker 1: I was like, I listened to the podcast.
Speaker 2: Ah there was we were three wide. Everybody made a
Speaker 2: bad decision. That's what was it. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: I came in. It was a snowstorm. My computer died.
Speaker 2: So I drove into the office and it was doing
Speaker 2: my stint overnight and I was going through the trivial
Speaker 2: and an Ozzie team in front of me had fallen asleep.
Speaker 2: I remember, and I got tko't on Twitch. Yeah that
Speaker 2: was just he was so apologetic, sent me, you know,
Speaker 2: email after email, Fredy's gonna get like banned or something like, Dude,
Speaker 2: things happen. Yeah, it's it's pretty comical looking back at it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was that was pretty good. So all right,
Speaker 2: I'll take the next one. It says FIA Motorsport Games,
Speaker 2: but really the FIA whole relationship, and it's something that
Speaker 2: means a lot to me. I've been heavily involved in it.
Speaker 2: But the regional the regional series in twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: has been massive, a cool opportunity. Some people really enjoy
Speaker 2: that opportunity to season overseas and just race on regionally,
Speaker 2: you know, specific tracks. We did the fi Global Championship,
Speaker 2: which was an eight race, four weekend, eight race series.
Speaker 2: We did something new, We didn't announce the track until
Speaker 2: twenty four hours prior fixed setups. Twenty five thousand dollars
Speaker 2: prize for four race weekends ain't bad. And then of
Speaker 2: course it kind of capped off with the FIA Motorsport
Speaker 2: Games of Valencia. Steve and I were there, and that
Speaker 2: was such a cool event. You know, you've got uh,
Speaker 2: you know, fifty fifty drivers from around the world showing
Speaker 2: up racing. They had twenty rigs and on stage, you know,
Speaker 2: a thirty foot screen, and that was just a really
Speaker 2: special event to see the broad range of community members
Speaker 2: that showed up. And we had you know, powerhouse nations,
Speaker 2: you know like Germany and Italy, and then you had
Speaker 2: you know up and coming nations like you know from
Speaker 2: the Caribbean or you know, from from Africa or whatever.
Speaker 2: There was just it was a really cool dichotomy and
Speaker 2: it was surprising to see the people that were competitive,
Speaker 2: and I think some people like oh no, we're we're fine,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, these up and comers said, hey,
Speaker 2: it's a race, and so that was a lot of
Speaker 2: fun to watch. Stephen had had a great time. It
Speaker 2: was such an unfortunate event, you know, with Valencia. The
Speaker 2: day after we left is when the floods took place,
Speaker 2: and that really like hit home. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: looking at the streets like we were just walking on those.
Speaker 2: So that was that was an interesting experience. But yeah,
Speaker 2: everything with the fire was, yeah, I think, really really special.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to expanding that next year. But yeah, that's
Speaker 2: pretty cool. All right. Moving into we got Chris, Kevin
Speaker 2: and Greg's favorite car and track of the of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four that we released. We're gonna change the order
Speaker 2: up Chris go.
Speaker 1: Oh you're making me go first, You go first. I
Speaker 1: was gonna go last because I had like an A,
Speaker 1: B and C just in case all my stuff got taken.
Speaker 1: Now we're surprising one another on these.
Speaker 2: Nobody Kevin and I know each other's We just left
Speaker 2: you out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like you do with golf.
Speaker 3: Oh do you play golf? Golf?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: Well, then this is awkward.
Speaker 3: I'm just to take that, Okay.
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of Tim and Eric growing up.
Speaker 1: Anti comedy is my comedy?
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 1: Car wise, I am going to start jen three supercars
Speaker 1: just came out a little bit of recency bias here,
Speaker 1: certainly because they're in the most you know, in the
Speaker 1: newest release for the season one build earlier this month.
Speaker 1: But oh my god, those things are such a treat
Speaker 1: to drive.
Speaker 2: They are to me.
Speaker 1: They're they're like this this beautiful mix of you know,
Speaker 1: they look like muscle cars, the Mustang, the Camaro. They
Speaker 1: look like things that you'd see exactly on the street,
Speaker 1: you know, but you have to manage the tires. You
Speaker 1: can't spin those tires or you're spinning yourself. You know.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of delicate throttle inputs to really
Speaker 1: getting the most out of that car. I am having
Speaker 1: a blast wheeling those things on the tracks that they're
Speaker 1: even designed for. Well yeah, but no, I I street courses.
Speaker 1: I love them on street courses.
Speaker 2: Like anything on a street course. This is thing is
Speaker 2: called consequences that you know, certain generations don't understand.
Speaker 3: What a.
Speaker 1: Greg hates the kids today, Jesus. First, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the lost art of passing notes.
Speaker 2: And now that's all right, so that track.
Speaker 1: Track, this one was a tough one for me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go back a little earlier in the year and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Messano really okay, Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: there's a club road course layout that's two thirds of
Speaker 1: a mile.
Speaker 2: What do you think that's okay?
Speaker 1: But amazing flowing, you know, nice Italian road course.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 1: I love the road courses where you don't have the
Speaker 1: little strip of grass between the between the sand traps
Speaker 1: and the road. Again that thing you consequences, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like consequences. I mean I also like, you know, driving
Speaker 1: the pro two wide and going through the sand is
Speaker 1: fun for me. But but no, Massano is a great
Speaker 1: flowing track. It's got five layouts, which is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things that we do sometimes when we have
Speaker 1: a track that we've just got layout after layout after
Speaker 1: layout on launch. I don't think Aragon was this year,
Speaker 1: but Aragon was another great example, had seven of them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Hockenheim has up to ten if you want
Speaker 1: to count. The Porsche Experience Center. It's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things that we do.
Speaker 2: Go do Porsche Experience here if you have not driven
Speaker 2: it yet, if you're on Hackenheim, I force experienced center
Speaker 2: getting the cup car and just have a ball.
Speaker 1: It is so much fun. But yeah, going back to Masano,
Speaker 1: I think that was my pick. You know, multiple shorter,
Speaker 1: longer layouts. I think the top I think the main
Speaker 1: layouts like two and three quarters miles. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's a nice it's a nice open wheel track, it's
Speaker 1: a nice sports car track. It's it's a nice track
Speaker 1: for anything.
Speaker 2: What about you, Kevin car track?
Speaker 3: Any guess? Was on my favorite car?
Speaker 2: No idea geez one can.
Speaker 3: BMW M two CS That car. I don't know what
Speaker 3: to say. I love it, absolutely love it, and I
Speaker 3: think it's such a cool car to have as part
Speaker 3: of our kind of base package. But the car is uh,
Speaker 3: I just love it.
Speaker 1: Did you get the interior color change?
Speaker 3: I've not been able to figure out how to get
Speaker 3: the interior color to match my car, Simpson, if you're listening,
Speaker 3: apparently best I can tell you you can't paint the
Speaker 3: inside of it yet, so I got to check it.
Speaker 3: If I'm wrong, listeners, let me know, because I need
Speaker 3: to change the color of the interior.
Speaker 2: So there's like the trade to be made with you
Speaker 2: in Simpson. You know he liked the form of the
Speaker 2: V stuff versus the interior of the M two. I
Speaker 2: feel like, a right, maybe I'll reach out to you
Speaker 2: guys could organize that.
Speaker 3: We could probably do something, all right. So yeah, that's
Speaker 3: my favorite car, favorite track. I was going through them
Speaker 3: all and you know, I'm gonna go with the Refresh
Speaker 3: in New Hampshire. I know that mister Myers made some
Speaker 3: tweets about that, but I have to agree with him.
Speaker 3: It's our home track. I've been there a ton driven
Speaker 3: cars on it and many many types of races for
Speaker 3: both the road course, the oval, every IndyCar, NASCAR, Sports
Speaker 3: Car Club of America, PORSA Club, I was up there
Speaker 3: in September, the BMW Club. It's just an awesome track.
Speaker 3: Best roval in the world for sure because it goes
Speaker 3: outside it because it's not really a roval, right, but
Speaker 3: it's really a fun road course. And I guess I
Speaker 3: had forgotten how long ago we built it. So when
Speaker 3: the refresh came out, it's like, Holy cow, it's like
Speaker 3: a I mean, we didn't just like put a couple
Speaker 3: of signs up and update the billboard. If you haven't
Speaker 3: checked it out, kind of worth checking out. It looks
Speaker 3: fantastic and it's and it's cool. Some of the tracks
Speaker 3: that we drive on I've never been to and that's awesome, right,
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, this is a place I'll never get
Speaker 3: to or haven't gotten to yet. But when you go
Speaker 3: to a place that you've been to, you know, a
Speaker 3: thousand times, you really appreciate how much work goes into
Speaker 3: it and what our our team does to to make
Speaker 3: these things right. So bravo to to everybody that worked
Speaker 3: on that and just check it out.
Speaker 2: Go with us. I'm gonna open well guy. Uh, super
Speaker 2: Formula Light, I think is an awesome car. I love
Speaker 2: that the partnership with super Formula has been really good.
Speaker 2: But a little three cylinder to the sound of it,
Speaker 2: it just it gets me like I'm not an audio file,
Speaker 2: but that car has.
Speaker 3: Such much good Because we only have one.
Speaker 2: Shot under the bus shoot back for it.
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: So no. Super Formal Light a ton of fun, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, really popular obviously on the service and then
Speaker 2: portsmow so that is uh, you know, some elevation change
Speaker 2: is always a good time.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They're a lot of fun to work with. Great guys, uh,
Speaker 2: and that was that one. It seemed like it took
Speaker 2: a little while to get it going and then and yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a I would say that one. That's a
Speaker 2: real driver's track because you're you're the track is on
Speaker 2: all three axes, which is yes, a lot of fun
Speaker 2: from me.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: So Kevin, you wrote a note.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was going to bring something else up, so
Speaker 3: I can't even read read your handwriting. This is this
Speaker 3: uh over the holidays, right so we're not doing many
Speaker 3: broadcasts right now. Most most of the things are wrapped up.
Speaker 3: But we do have a bunch of vacation people are
Speaker 3: on vacation, not a lot of sports. Yeah, most people
Speaker 3: take vacation and don't work. Chris will be working for
Speaker 3: the next two weeks.
Speaker 2: Don't racing is a great place to work.
Speaker 3: Totally have with HR after this, but no, But we
Speaker 3: have a bunch of stuff planned for Twitch uh in
Speaker 3: the coming weeks.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: So it'll be a lot of highlights of shows. There's
Speaker 3: what some paint contests, all kinds of stuff. Sean, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you have the list. If not, it's fine,
Speaker 3: but check out Twitch over the holiday break if you're
Speaker 3: looking for something to watch.
Speaker 2: It'll be fun, excellent, egg excellent.
Speaker 3: That's all I got.
Speaker 2: That's all you got?
Speaker 3: That thought. That was my note, one note.
Speaker 2: That was your one note.
Speaker 3: What are you?
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: I I didn't have the stones to do a Sea
Speaker 1: Montgomery Burns impersonation, so I was just doing the hands.
Speaker 2: Chris has got his hands steepled and looking at me
Speaker 2: in a very yeah, yeah mildly.
Speaker 3: I guess finally we just wrap up, right, I mean, everybody,
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas. If you guys have a good I hope
Speaker 3: you have some time off Chris and and fine days
Speaker 3: not to do any work. But Greg, have a great
Speaker 3: time going home. I know you haven't been home in
Speaker 3: a while, so that i'd.
Speaker 2: Be yeah, looking looking forward to So we're waiting for
Speaker 2: that delta. Great, hopefully it comes.
Speaker 3: Through to that Delta one to Alabama.
Speaker 2: I don't think they make Delta one of those small
Speaker 2: little plays. You're just happy, happy to get there, get
Speaker 2: on the way. Well, thanks for listening to this holiday
Speaker 2: edition of the I Racing down Shift. Don't forget to rate, review,
Speaker 2: and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else. Chris
Speaker 2: puts this thing while I was on vacation for Kevin Bobbitt,
Speaker 2: Chris Leoni and Sagushan, Greg West and we will see
Speaker 2: you on the track.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas,