1/25/2024 – Racing with Depends – Episode 0419
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Show Introduction
On the show today, we will be recapping the highly sucessful Daytona 24 Hours and how the Tifosi Teams faired. We have the final iRacing 2024 Coke Series lineup and sponsores, and we get a glance at what the rain setup could look like.
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Topics
Coke Series News
eNascar reports that there will be 6 new teams that will be involved in the 2024 Coke Series to go along with their new format as the full sponsorhip field is set.
https://www.enascar.com/news-media/2024/01/19/newteams2024/
https://www.iracing.com/2024-enascar-coca-cola-iracing-series-free-agency-results/
Virtual Tie
AREA racing posted a video of a fantasic finish at their race at Richmond
iRacing in Stages
iRacing AutoStages -is a fully automated stage racing and season tracking program. AutoStages will allow racers in Hosted or AI sessions to simulate NASCAR-style stage racing complete with points tracking. You’ll be able to toggle options to customize your stage race experience – including 2, 3 or 4 stage races, custom stage lengths and whether or not to throw stage break cautions. Here’s a look at what the beta UI looks like as of today:
Top 10 Highlights
iRacing puts out the January Top 10 Highlights
52 Car Pile-Up
iRacing posted a video of a huge, 52 car pile up at Talladega
Streaming The Simracer
The SimRacer, a feature film set in the world of Sim Racing, is now available to watch on Tubi
The 24 Up in Smoke
Presley Sorah Tweeted how is Daytone 24 Hour race was ended with a unexplainable blown engine
Tony and Matt At the 24
Matt Malone posted a video of his Daytona 24 race at Tony Kanaan’s Sim Racing Garage
Redline Takes the Crown
Team Redline featuring Max Verstappen won the 24 Hours of Daytona in the GTD division
Drafting to the Title
Paul Wainwright asks in the iRacing Community what’s everyone’s thought on the drafting strategy that got Team Redline the 24 Hour victory
Sailing it In
Jack Mace shows a video of a GT car taking off in a crazy glitch at Daytona
No Spotter
Leigh Overton asked why they were unable to spot or crew for their team during the 24.
Staffer Jason Bryfrogle responded…
I can see that you can join a team in a practice session that started after the 12:00 UTC session launched. But you are not in the list of people who can join that same team in the 12:00 UTC session. The only reason there wouldn’t be an entry in that particular table is if you were not a member of the team at the time the team was registered for the 12:00 UTC session. If a team invitation or application is accepted after the team is registered, they do not get added to the list of people who can join the team in the session.
Daytona 24 Recap
The 2024 iRacing Daytona 24 event wrapped up this weekend with some very impressive numbers
this year’s event was the largest in history, with more than 18,500 competitors split across 95 concurrent race sessions that started at four different times on Friday and Saturday. In addition, more than 1.8 million viewers watched iRacing broadcasts of the event across Twitch and YouTube.
NASCAR Avg for 2023 2.8m on broadcast/cable tv
https://www.iracing.com/2024-iracing-daytona-24-powered-by-vco-sets-record-with-over-18500-drivers/
Where’d That Come From
Listener Ryan Carwile submitted a video clip of a LMP in the Daytona Pits getting cleared out by a rouge GT car
Daytona Solo
Matt Sherlock (kinda) won his split of the Daytona 24 by himself
Fastest Down the Hill
iRacing posted a video of what might be the fastest decent of Mt Washington ever in the Mercedes F1 car
Rogan’s Rig
Podium 1 Racing posted a video of a ultra high end build-in-progress Sim Rig for Joe Rogan
Next Gen Updates
iRacing is ready for 2024 with the new artwork and texture updates for their Next Gen Cup cars
WoW Week 9
Forster assumes championship lead as Bergeron takes fifth 2023-24 World of Outlaws Thrustmaster Sprint Cars win at Eldora
Storm’s Coming
iRacing posted a quick view of how you will be able to set up weather timelines that will change according to how you edit your session
Vetting IMSA
Michael Poole is asking iRacing to get the new Chevy Corvette into the new IMSA season
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/54408/new-corvette-iracing-wake-up/p1
Season 1 Patch 4
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/54914/2024-season-1-patch-4-release-notes-2024-01-23-01
iRacing Stats
Jason Chess put out some interesting iRacing stats
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/28333/iracing-survey-iracing-stats-site#latest
https://json.racing/irs/24s1/oval/series/
Mt Washinton – ReScan Needed?
In an iRacing discussion post, Johnny Mularz reported that Mt Washington is totally paved now, and there’s no dirt section. Does this need a rescan?
Dave Cam Gets Hacked
Dave Cam’s Youtube Channel was recently hacked and he posted how his subscriber nubers plummeted
iRacing at Court
iRacing finds itself in “The Stupidest Lawsuit” against them according to a video by DJ YeeJ
Porsche 2024 Season
The Porsche Tag Heuer Supercup returns on Feb 3 with some new formats
The Family that Races Together…
SimRacing Family posted a video of a family with 3 kids all putting time into their racing simulators!
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Hardware/Software
Simagic GT Neo
Lance Dusoswa reviews the Simagic GT Neo formula wheel that’s well priced
Camus C5
Dan DiMaggio takes a first look at the new Camus C5
Discontinued Graphics Cards
Nvidia Is discontinuing the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070Ti GPU’s
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-and-rtx-4070-ti-officially-reach-end-of-life
Why You Need Triples
Karl Gosling explains in a video when you need triple screens
Sim Formula Expo
Lawrence Dusoswa and Overtake.gg took a trip to the Sim Racing Expo 2024
Sim Lab XP1 Review
Boosted Media reviews the Sim Lab XP1 Load Cell Pedals
https://sim-lab.eu/en-us?clickref=1101lyb6siXt
ImSim – Motion With Style
Lawrence Dusoswa reviews the ImSim motion rig
Turtle Beach Enters Sim Racing
Turtle Beach is entering the Sim Racing market with a wheel / pedal offering for pre-order complete with integrated LCD display and button box
https://www.turtlebeach.com/pages/velocity-one-race
SimHub Hue Lighting Setup
Alex Kay shows you how to set up you Hue Lighting system on Simhub
Simagic P-HTS
Simagic reveals their P-HTS hydraulic throttle system fpr their P-1000 sim pedals
NVIDIA RTX 4090
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4080-super.c4182
Results
NASCAR iRacing Series
Thursday open –
- Mike- P
- Justin- Winter Nis Winter Series update the fixed series i placed p6 and P26 then the open series i had a p9 and p4, just a steady week. The open race I placed 9th in I set the fastest lap time of the race, never done that before in any official race and there were some studs in that race too. My Open series points battle im losing by 58 points and fixed series im leading by 20 points. Side note without drop weeks in both series I would be leading more than 80 points in each series. I Hate drop weeks. Lol. Another side note: I had a family emergency and I’m stuck in Chicago starting tomorrow so I don’t know if I will be able to make all my starts. I’m not going to use it as an excuse though. I will keep grinding. Sorry for the paragraph mike
Official Series
Daytona 24-
- Team Real Fun – P7
- Team Fun P14
- Team Fun 2 p43
Ellis–
- FIAF4 fixed at spa. Started at 16th got wrecked out real hard and lap one and a huge incident.
- Second attempt started dead last 22nd. God is high as P6 in a great race before finally getting wrecked DNF.
- Chris McGuire hosted old IndyCar at Michigan
Kerley
Draftmaster P11, P17, and P22. People wreck and I get caught up in it every time. Doesn’t matter whether I’m in front or back. Never fails.
B Open
John P16. Car was terrible in turns 1 and 2 initially. Made some pit adjustments and stayed with the leaders the last 30 laps. Problem is I was a lap down. Was the lucky dog but did not get the caution
League / Hosted Races
Winter Series League –
- Brad – p 18
- Mike- p started dead last finish P 16. Was planning on a one stop strategy, but a caution came out. We could make it from there on fuel. Next run ran it until the tire gave out had to put under green but then a caution came out, was able to take the wave around and get a lap back and threw attrition and what not worked my way up
- David – p5 . Good long run speed but spent most of the race 1 lap down after first long run. Was p6 in lucky dog spot, late caution comes out puts me on lead lap, but cost me the lucky dog prize, finished p5, best finish for the year.
Final Thoughts
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On the show today, we will be recapping the highly sucessful Daytona 24 Hours and how the Tifosi Teams faired. We have the final iRacing 2024 Coke Series lineup and sponsores, and we get a glance at what the rain setup could look like. So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast.
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