Episode 0440

6/20/2024 – Noah’s Glen – Episode 0440

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Show Introduction

On today’s show we will recap the the 6 Hours of The Glen, find out how wanting to be last was the way to win, discuss which cars could be coming to iRacing, see who is opening a new sim center in North Carolina, see what the cheapest way to get into sim racing is and take a tour of some sim racer’s rigs.

And remember you can follow along with us on your PC or mobile device in real time as you listen to the show and see for yourself all of the great topics and products we’ll discuss by visiting iracerslounge.com and selecting show notes. Hope to see you there..





Topics



Not Sure The Stewards Will Allow This

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/63836/small-pitting-issue-at-navarra-long-circuit



Now, That’s Fast

https://x.com/iRacing/status/1803103198313357330


Could These Be Coming…#SOON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-La5_r03yM

Updated McLaren GT3 Car

Aston Martin

LeMan NASCAR Next Gen

Lamborghini GTP

Aston Martin LMH car – uses Cosworth naturally aspirated 6.5 liter v12 – redlines at 11k rpm



Rain Fall IMSA Stats

The 2019 IMSA season had 7 out of 12 races affected by rain.

The 2021 IMSA season had 4 out of 12 races affected by rain.



Schedule Drama

Greg West steps into a continuing drama filled forum post about IMSA schedules.

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/547556#Comment_547556



Victory SIM To Open Hickory NC

https://x.com/VictorySimLLC/status/1803476776556929213


Did The Pace Car Stop For Fuel?

https://x.com/KarmaMJO/status/1803081829513097354


Exocross Update

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8Z9T5SPODx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==



FIA F4 Esports Regional Tour – Week 1

https://www.iracing.com/miranda-roberts-dunne-lead-respective-fia-f4-esports-regional-tour-series-after-first-week



iRacing’s Hidden Boss – Bob Bryant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ET7hAUCkps


Staff Member Profile

iRacing’s Travis Sollenberger is this weeks Staff Member profile.

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-staff-member-profile-esports-competition-manager-travis-sollenberger



iRacing 101 – Incident Points

https://www.iracing.com/iracing-101-incident-points




9.33.1 Release Notes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/63698/release-notes-for-iracing-9-33-1



Schedule Submissions Due Soon

Tyler Hudson is requesting schedules for 2024 Season 4 to be submitted soon. The following three series , Street Stocks, Gen 4 Stock Car and 305 Winged Sprint Cars will have Week 13 schedules that will be created by the community.

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/63741/2024-season-4-schedule/p1

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/63725/2024-season-4-schedule/p1

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/63718/2024-season-4-schedule-c-class/p1



They Have Done It Again

https://x.com/vcoesports/status/1802287352443789332
https://x.com/iRacing/status/1802788059865313561


Was It Really That Bad?

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/63775/6hrs-of-death/p1



2024 Season Contest Follow Up

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/547239/#Comment_547239



Sim Racing Expo Time Attack

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8R3kP9M2rS/?igsh=MXJ0NjY3bTRoc2kzcA%3D%3D


INDYCAR iRacing Series

INDYCAR iRACING SERIES
With the return of INDYCAR, the INDYCAR iRacing Series (Open Setup) predominantly follows the real world INDYCAR schedule. It will have full length races on road courses while utilizing amended race distances for the ovals during the 16-week racing season.

The series returns for it’s ninth week of competition, this week at Laguna Seca, utilizing the Dallara IR-18 for 95 laps of racing.

Week 9 Schedule: Thursday, 01:00 GMT; Friday, 20:00 GMT, Saturday, 18:00 GMT; Sunday, 02:00 GMT

https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-june-18-24-2024



Global Endurance CONSPIT Format Changes

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/63118/global-endurance-conspit-tour-moves-to-24-hour-races-for-season-3



Round 2 Is Now Live

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8UcFVkNhrL/?igsh=dmxraTV1YzVwczE0


INDYCAR Qualifying Series Announced

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8NCpwxgjMv/

https://www.iracing.com/indycar-buttkicker-iracing-qualifying-series-to-kick-off-july-11




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Hardware/Software



Cheap Sim Racing Guide

Shaun Cole from the SimPit shares his guide to cheap sim racing gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuPQ7zm-_KU


Thoughts?

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7tG_ISvafp/?igsh=c2Z2bG9zanM1aGo0


Does The Perfect Sim Racing Wheel Exist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmGsAjaUEHI


Sim Tour Project Season 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDLuk5YsDQ


BDH H1SQ Shifter Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thjiaF4Rylc

BDH H1SQ



Does Your Rig Need A Floor?

https://trakracer.com/products/sim-floor



Logitech Ecosystem Add Ons

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8aC-htIEHV/?igsh=NXdlejN1OXFrMDFh




Results

NASCAR iRacing Series

Thursday Fixed – Iowa

  • Jusitn- P1, Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. Only led 1 lap and that was the last one, I have probably choked the last 10 GWC being  on the front row and now I finally closed one!

Friday Open – Iowa

  • Mike -P got a passing to the left black flag when the leaders wrecked out and I had to avoid them then running a lap down on a restart somebody misses the gear and they all stack up and they turn each other and take out the outside lane, including me, DNF
  • Tony -P7 race was typical nis short track’n was caught up in 4 yes 4 wrecks in front of me from guys not knowing how to handle the bump. Spent last 120 laps on 16x. Finally had a nice long run at the end of the night which i was a moving through the field. Iowa isn’t that hard to drive 
  • Brad – P wrecked on lap 2!
  • Hall – P wrecked out, caution fest, a lot of idiots, I’m going low to avoid a near wreck up high and then get loose and over correct

Sunday Open – Iowa

  • Mike- P wrecked out didn’t have the right set in the car and I couldn’t drive it and wrecked. I was distracted going into this race by some other stuff and that messed me up.
  • Kyle P P Ran Out Of TALENT early. Was top 10 for the first 20ish laps and just lost it off of 4 and nosed into the outside wall and then collected a half dozen others and the car was just “D O N E”    DONE!

Wednesday Open – New Hampshire  

  • Mike- P17- first lap I get wrecked out by some bonehead who can’t hold his car meatball with 4 1/2 minutes damage. Limp around and get it fixed throughout. During one caution while getting damage fixed as I went to leave the pit it decided to give me another set of tires so I ended up taking two sets of tires on the same stop and ended up losing a lap The race finally decided to go get up to as high as 13th and then faded caught caution but kept getting involved in incident and got DQd on the final restart for too many incidents while running ninth.  P17.   12 cautions.
  • David – P technical failure
  • Justin – P Whatever, Some days I don’t even deserve to click that green race button to grid up!
  • Tyler – P disqualified out
  • Kyle P P21 Car was good and strong. Started P5 and on the start 3 cars in front of me were involved in 2 separate wrecks and I got passing on the left on the start and was given a drive through after reaching P2. Stayed in the back most of the first half of the race and then marched up to top 10 and then got tagged from a car out of 4 who bounced off the outside wall and then I was along for the ride and had over 5 minutes of repairs and went down 7 laps and just rode around in the back collecting a P21 and done for the week. Bring on Nashville next week. 
  • Chris W – P 9. Road around in the back to be safe….. Aaaaand ended up with 22x. Car was wrecked on 100 lap tires and I spun causing a caution. Got the wave around, another caution gave me tires for a GWC. Went from 23rd to 9th. The worst feeling P9. After my spin all my teammates had horrible luck.

Thursday Open – New Hampshire 

  • Mike- P 19 top split what a mass 17 cautions. I had a good top 15 going but got door, slammed near the end and fell to the back.
  • Justin – P wrecked out rage quit
  • Bobby –final green, white, checker started second but wrecked out wrecked out


Official Series

6hrs at the Glen

  • Tom, David, McKee and GranspeedP7.  I ran the 1st and 4th stint.  On the first stint started in 5th, had to avoid a turn 1 wreck on lap 2, took the runoff and stopped to escape.  Put me in last.  Drove back to 7th.  Got the car back in 3rd, drove up to 2nd.  Then during the rain out late drivers ran into torpedoes.
  • Justin- I partnered with Brad. He deserved a better teammate. There’s a lot of things I need to learn about this road racing stuff “being consistent” Brad had race winning speed. His first stint he put on a clinic on, 20 something to 8th. Its going to be a different Story next year on these enduro’s i’m going to figure it out. We are going to get that trophy someday!
  • Brad – What a fun time Justin and I had. Regardless of the outcome it is just enjoyable to team race. We had a great start and were doing well till the rain came. Justin pitted early for wets and I took over. We were making good time but it just continued to get heavier and heavier. The bus stop was a lake and I ended up looping it and stuffed it in the tires. We did get the damage fixed and Justin finished the race and came home in 28th. 

FIA F4 

  • Ellis – Road America. Started P2. Winner winner, chicken dinner.! 99th career win
    • Started fifth got wrecked on one and a three wide incident finished P 14
    • Qualified second- finished p1 – career win number 100!!! 
    • Qualified fifth at mid Ohio. Got wrecked in lap one had to pit for a quick repair, fell to dead last 18th and then gradually worked my way up to tonight if I had another lab or two, I could probably get to six but p nine.
    • Qualified eight out of 25  

IMSA

  • Hall – P 1, at the glen after twice being wrecked out by LMP2’s failing to pay attention on a straight away. 
  • Brad – P3 (The Glen, GTD) Started 6th in class and ran a consistent and clean race. The entire session was dry and I was able to capitalize on some others misfortunes. GTP doing GTP things but I was intentional when allowing them to pass.

GT Sprint Simucube Series

  • Brad – P11 (Barcelona) Started p16 and grabbed some spots early on and was in top 10. Ended up with a lazy spin as I continue to learn the new Corvette. Was able to recover but fell just a spot short to get back into the top 10. This series is extremely competitive and the races have been good.




League / Hosted Races

Hosted- 

  • Ellis-Chris McGuire hosted GEN five at Daytona finish p8
    • Old IndyCar at Michigan p10


Final Thoughts



Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .” 

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Description

On today’s show we will recap the the 6 Hours of The Glen, find out how wanting to be last was the way to win, discuss which cars could be coming to iRacing, see who is opening a new sim center in North Carolina, see what the cheapest way to get into sim racing is and take a tour of some sim racer’s rigs.

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Tony Rochette – twitter.com/TonyRochette

Tom Dreiling – 

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Justin Pearson – https://twitter.com/big7bang_

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