February 1, 2024 • 38 mins
The boys are back for their first show of 2024! It's been a busy January with the biggest iRacing Daytona 24 ever, the return of INDYCAR, tons of esports updates, and much more. Plus, the boys recap their holidays and talk about their iRacing-related new year's resolutions.
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This week on the I Racing downShip, Greg recounts his Daytona red and
I left a lane and a halfinstead of three lanes. Kevin breaks down
a new Simrich design. Do youthink he'll actually race from the insane of
shubine because that would be a packof a choice? And Chris plays a
mini game Cisco U serendipitous, soI had to match with another you know,
ten cent vocabulary word. They're allthat and more so strap in.
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Welcome to I Racing zausch if Tomyour host, Greg West. I'm back
with the boys, Kevin Bobbitt andChris Leoni. We're a little late on
this one, but we've been alittle busy, haven't we. Kevin,
it's been it's been a busy newyear. We were going to record last
week and then we didn't sow apologiesto everybody, but you know that happens,
is it because you and Chris havebeen busy with the I'm checking the
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outline that has been sarcastically bulleted andformatted. Pursa's outline brought me back to
like third grade when you learned howto do a proper outline. It was
like disturbing, so is this APAor MLA out of curiosity formatting? Well,
it's whatever Microsoft word put in.But I have to say I never
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thought i'd see the words disingenuous useof proper outline formatting and a for that
anywhere. Yeah, no, exactly. Like I said, disingenuous outline formatting
is my favorite RAM album and hadall the hits on it. That's a
big one. It went platinum,I think, yes, it did.
What have we been up to?Chris? What do you? What have
you been up to? You area very uh you live a very interesting
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life and eclectic. Just softball itin like that. Well, other than
trying to build you about twenty weekthirteen series ideas that may or may not
be ill advised here and there,I got new rats. I took a
break for a few months. Ihave new rats. Well, and what
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are their names? Their names they'reinside. Their names are Noon and Midnight.
Mostly because I thought it'd be reallyfunny to have an albino rat named
Midnight. And then uh, usuallyI name one and then the other one
gets a name in response to thefirst name. So uh yeah, Well,
congratulations on the new family editions.That's very exciting. Thank you the
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personality scaring me along? How aretheir personalities? They are still scared to
death of me? But they're babies. It's okay. Status quarter remains unchanged,
got it? Yeah? Are they? Are? They house trained and
stuff? They run around the houseor no? No, no, no,
no no no. I like actuallyknowing where my pets are so gotch?
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Does Emily like the rats? Likefor real, She's not gonna watch
this, so I don't think youwant to open that can of worms?
We do? Yes, I doas I do. This is this is
a downship. This is not JerrySpringer. Let's let's bring Emily on as
a guest next time. Leo LeoLeo didn't. No, no, it's
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gonna be too stable. Yeah,neither of us are set up for that.
That doesn't work. Can that's good? That's better. We have had
the couples we had, we hadTyler and Lisa. Oh yeah as precedent.
Yeah, we have done it before. I mean Lisa works for the
company though, so she can beall in told. Yeah exactly, that's
that's different. What about you,Kevin? Did you get any new pets?
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I did not get any rats oranything. No. Wren, my
dog is still going strong fifteen yearsold. She naps a lot most of
the time, but you know she'llwake up and run around. You know,
she plays fetch with the ball.She'll fetch it once and then the
next time she's like, yeah,I've had enough, you go get Yeah,
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she's living her best life. Soit's all good. But no new
pets in my house. How aboutthe other exciting things for the holiday?
Lots of family around, which wasgreat. Yeah, the boys. The
boys were home, one home fromcollege, one home from the army.
H he was on leave. Andnow they're all back. So now the
house is quiet again except for meand the dog. So it's all good.
Happy New Year, everyone, HappyNew Year. As it's January thirty,
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first we can still say that it'sJanuary. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Flit in under the recording. We'll make it out in times.
What about you, Greg? Kindof the same thing. Stayed laid
pretty low for the holidays and yeah, exciting a couple of weeks here at
I Racing with the I Racing Daytonatwenty four, followed up by the outside
version. I think im is isthat the outdoor version? Yeap, that
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outdoor version of the I racing dataor something like that. But you know,
January is great, a great monthof your motorsport fan, and so
I've been watching a lot of thatand excited to excited to get back into
this. So let's kick it off. Let's talk about it. I racing
Dayton and twenty four the biggest eventin SIM racing history. Eighteen thousand,
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five hundred drivers, over four thousandt eames. But he had know how
many miles were driven? We havethat. Yeah. I was actually I
was typing it up while we weregoing through the outline. I went back
to uh Dougie's tweet. Ten million, two hundred and twenty eight one hundred
and eighteen miles over two million,eight hundred and seventy three thousand and sixty
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seven laps. How many times aroundthe world is that? Somebody do the
math? Somebody do the math?Hang on? Hang on, yeah,
Chris is on that. Kevin.We didn't get an incident count. We
should have got an incident count.Yeah, it was probably close to ten
million. I contributed a few ofthose I got. I got killed international
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on Twitter that you got killed.Yeah, that's the problem I got.
I was in the Ferrari and Igot I got gtped. That's just the
nice set, you know what.But this is a great I rasing lesson
here. I looked back at thereplay, and there's something I could have
done better. I knew he wasgoing to send it from one point two
seconds back going into the International Horseshoe, and I left a lane and a
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half instead of three lanes. Andeven I knew it was coming. I
don't know why it wasn't out.You should just drop off in the grass.
Anyway. I feel like this wasclearly your fault. Probably, No,
the second part was my fault becausehe clipped me, spun me.
I ended up completely sideways, rightin the middle of the International Horseshoe.
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And here comes a bunch of GTthrees and a couple more GTPs, and
some dove to the inside and somedove to the outside. So I just
held still until the second wave gotthere and I got t bone. Oh
somebody else got caught up to Ohyeah, the second you did the predictable
thing when you got wrecked, andthat was the mistake. You know,
the driving if you've been two feetin and uh no, just just go
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just get lesson, learned, giveroom give all of the track to the
GTP. I think that was thatwas it. Do we have a sarcasm
font for the podcast or is thatjust the whole show? The record?
I've got the math. The circumferencewas twenty four thousand, nine hundred and
one miles, so that puts usat four hundred and ten and three quarters
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trips around the Earth lot. Doesthat wrong the equator? Yeah? I
believe so. Yeah, Okay,I don't know. We're doing math on
the fly, which you already don'ttrust my setup building. We probably have
it wrong, but we're going on, well, probably have it wrong.
Somebody's gonna fast. We're gonna checkthis in post by the way, Well
yeah you no, no, no, no, the comments are gonna check
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it. Yeah no, I don'thave to comments. Yeah, are fore
fans. Somebody's gonna do the mathand tell us that Chris was wrong.
Let's tell Chris that he was wrong, right, he did. Let's be
clear, he did the math,not me. Yeah, they're going to
tell us that Chris was wrong.If the viewers looked on the left side
right here, so if you lookover there, you can see twitch chats
actually figuring it out right now inreal time. I like it. Okay,
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what about on YouTube? Oh yeah, I guess that would be that
would be down there, Yeah,yeah, down there. What about on
Facebook? Facebook? Oh yeah,they do, it'd be over there as
well. Okay, I just wantto make sure we covered all our bases.
This is the dance dance revolution ofCisco pointing places. Uh, Kevin,
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you had you had some staff thatdid pretty well, Corey and Cole.
Corey and Cole, both on themarketing team, ended up winning their
split. I think they were inan Uh what were they I think they
were peachings. Yeah, so that'spretty awesome. They were pretty excited,
pretty exhausted. It was them andI think they had other two of their
friends driving as well, but twostaff. There were multiple staff teams,
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but that was the one that didthe best that I'm aware of, So
you know, much better than Greg's. How long were you in the race?
Actually, I think we made itlike six hours in okay, but
you're very exciting fully totaled. Uh, you know, had was art is
forty five minutes and uh that waswe decided at that point we enjoy sleep.
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So that was that was the endof that. Yeah, but awesome.
And there was some other big nameguy in one of the splits,
maybe talking about world champion F fundriver, multiple time world champion F one
driver, Max was in Huh,how do you schmer map? How you
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say that Max ver stap in redline? Max was stapping win GTD in the
tops. That was pretty exciting tosee. And they come they came back,
they were they were down early UHand came back for the win.
I have to say here and thisis where I go off script Cisco sorry
in advance. It is. It'sfunny how this event is beginning to emulate
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the real world event because the numberof UH emails and discord messages and smoke
signals and carrier pigeons about wreck mendationsfor the BOP from the from the teams.
There's a lot of a lot oflobbying, a lot of lobbying.
And you know, we don't gettaken out to dinner or anything. I
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know that maybe they just start sendinglike a box of chocolates or something.
You know. I mean, I'mnot saying we can be bribed. Disclaimer,
we cannot be bribed or do everythingby the data. And we want
everybody to be successful and have achance to win in every single chocolate,
but we do accept chocolate. Whowas it that since donuts after they winning
NASCAR? It was Contie but he'sretired. Yeah, if you're listening,
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if you just want to continue tosend send donuts to the office, you're
more than welcome. But yeah,that was it was really interesting to get
everybody's car is slow. It's funnyhow that works. That's that's how I
feel that the bop is pretty good. If every single car is slow,
we're good to go anyway. It'sreally quiet and awkward right now, So
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we're going to move on. Atsfor my early twenties right there. Moving
on, We've got IndyCar, Kevin. IndyCar is back, and I've heard
the news. Huh, I haveyou heard the news. It's all news
at this point since we're the endof January. But it's super exciting to
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be back. It's continuing to developthough. Yeah. Yeah, So lots
going on with the IndyCar. Obviously, the biggest part I think is Indy
five hundred is back, so we'rerunning that the week after the real world
Indy five hundred, So that's awesome. We're gonna run it similar to the
way we've done it in the past, so there'll be an open series and
a fixed series, although they willrun the same week. In the past,
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we ran them different weeks, tryingsomething new. Part of it has
got added to the special Events calendarafter we already published that. We also
think this might be a nice changeup, so we'll see how it goes.
But Indy car is fully supporting it. They're on board. They're super
excited and meeting with their team ona regular basis. So it's it's awesome
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to have the communication and we're talkingto what can we do help them,
what can they do help us.It's back to a partnership level, so
that's awesome. I think that we'veupdated the names of all the series that
are currently running. We'll be updatingtracks for next season. You can get
into that, Greg, but youknow, it's we'll be back to what
you guys were used to, youknow, a couple of years ago.
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So yeah, I think about that. The goal was real simple, just
put it back how it was right. Yeah, but there are a couple
of you know, small additions.As Kevin said, we're gonna just really
due to scheduling, we were kindof boxed in when we could do the
fix in the open eighty five hundred. So yeah, we'll try it together
this year and we'll look at theinformation in the community feedback, and maybe
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it stays that way next year,maybe it goes back. We'll see.
We don't know what. We don'tknow yet, but it's still so this
is the one special event that hasseparate qualifying, right, So that's correct
qualifying all week, which is ifyou've been around a while, that's kind
of how it used to work formost of our series that they were just
qualifying all the time of separate sections. It wasn't part of the race session.
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But so you can qualify what upthrough. I don't even remember I
think you qualified. We haven't builtthe series yet, but I believe it's
through the fridayday or Friday afternoon,and then I don't have the calendar in
front of me, but yeah,and then whatever session you join, it
will take your qualifying time and basedon that. Ye. So it's a
yeah, a lot of fun,really popular to you know, emulate bump
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week that way or bump Day.I should say its bump week on I
racing bump Day. And but thereare no bumps. Everybody makes it so
that everybody makes the field. Souh yeah. We're also adding a couple
of a couple other changes. We'rebringing back the d W twelve to the
delar Dash. That'll be really popular, you know. We made some changes
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there that were necessitated. Happy tobring back the community and fan favorite to
that series. The changing next seasonor well, yes, that changes with
the March in March. We arealso adding a fixed series that complements the
open set up series, and alsoall the Indy Car series are gonna be
at b moving forward, even theOval Series, but we'll have a short
sprint race on opposite hours or theOpen series. That sprint race will be
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fixed. Just trying to get morepeople involved. The IRA eighteen is one
of the best cars on the service. We have a ton of data for
it. We've got a great relationshipwith DeLaura and and just they're open with
everything that we build with them,and we just want more people to try
it. It's a it's one ofthe hardest cars to set up in the
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service because it's so aero sensitive.But with fixed setups you can get in,
you know, strap in and goand that's that's a cool opportunity.
Kevin's nod and like he's gonna saysomething, all right, moving on to
C section two. I guess thisbullet C letter I whatever this is on
Chris's outline, real world drivers findingsuccess on the back of their I Racing
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relationships. I've read it directly offthe script, and Max Esterson's a great
example handing to Chris for that.I thought we were going to go the
other way around, that Kevin wouldtake this one. Kevin, you can
talk about that. I thought Ihad the next one. We're like a
bunch of bad outfielders. Just notcall him for the ball, all right.
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Well, well Max is moving up. I mean, if you've followed
along, we've been supporting him,he's been supporting us through his career as
he's kind of moved up rapidly becausehe's not been racing all that long,
only a handful of years. He'sgoing to Formula three for the season,
which is a nice step up.If you don't know him, young American
driver who got to start on IRacing. When you see him on track,
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there's always an E Racing logo onhis car, and you'll see typically
there's some other SIM related sponsors.I don't know who's got lined up for
this year, so I won't mentionnames. But in the past he's had
names you would recognize from our world, right, I mean, he's got
real world sponsors as well. Butit's nice to see the integration helmet.
Yeah, well that's also SIM racingrelated, right, Chris. But yeah,
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I think he had a steering wheelon the side, you know,
a SIM steering wheel, things likethat. So, but great young American
driver. So cool to see himmoving up the ranks. You know,
we're doing us, you know,trying to support him as best we can,
a lot of you know, promotion, doing a little bit to help
him, and you know, greatrepresentative of our world, you know,
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the SIM racing world in the realworld space. So awesome to see him
moving up. Yeah, and soeverybody knows it's not just we, you
know, are helping him out withsponsorship and promotion. What Max, This
is a reciprocated relationship because Max hashelped us a lot in vehicle development.
He has a lot of experience andyou know Formula Forward we developed the f
F sixteen hundred and we actually scannedthe car he raced and then he helped
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us with the development of that.We also have another project in the works
right now that he is helping uson. More news on that at a
later dating time hashtags soon. Yeah. I mean it's probably important to note
just in general with sponsorship, ourlogo on the sod of car is lovely,
but it's not a smart way tospend money necessarily, right. It
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needs to be a relationship and thereneeds to be more involved than that.
So so if you're sending sponsorship requestsand you know, a logo on the
side of your car isn't going toget it cut, is going to cut
it? So yeah, all right, Now we'll throw it over to Chris
to talk about somebody else who hashad a long term relationship with this.
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Glenn McGhee is what well, Idid the interview with him last month.
Gat Yeah, all right, andyou can talk about you get here.
I'll be quiet. You guys bothtake it all right? Well, Yeah,
as mentioned, we had a biginterview just before Christmas with Glenn McGee
talking about kind of his rise throughthe ranks over the past decade, moving
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up through m X five Cup,which he won the opportunity to even start
in the first place on I Racing, his career path from there focusing on
lambergiy Any super Tropeo last year andthen going out and winning the world finals
and becoming a world champion and thefirst virtual to FIA World Champion, which
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just an incredible accomplishment no matter howyou swing it. But just you know,
he had a lot of great storiesabout just the drastic change that comes
from when you move up from anm X five to a Super Tropeo,
which in so many ways could notbe more different vehicles. But Glenn is
another, you know, another SIMracer who has really done just so much.
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Truly got his start on I Racing. You know, we were working
with Mazda I don't know six sevenyears ago and he got an invite to
the Master Shootout, which is wherethey take Masda drivers, put them on
track and do all kinds of stuff, you know, data analysis, feedback,
sponsorship stuff, and they select awinner who gets a scholarship to race
in the m x five series.And he won. That was the first
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tim Raicher to ever win that,you know, because he was going up
against real world Master drivers, guysthat race spect meatas or open wheel mouses
and things like that, and hewon that and and it's just stuck with
it. He's one of the nicestguys you'll ever meet in the paddock.
If you see him, he's usuallygot uh an I racing something on because
he because he's he's proud of wherehe came from, which is awesome to
see. But he'll stop and talkand you know, as long as he's
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not jumping in the car for asession, he'll talk to you all day.
And super nice guy. So hedoes when he wins. Don't forget
that. Don't forget that. Hedoes the pose when he wins, he
does do the pose, the IRacing poses. Yeah, and and Kevin
was the U I. Yeah.One of the cool things about Glenn too
and last year was the fact thathe came back from some adversity at the
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beginning of the year, because hestarted the year in the wall at Daytona
during the Speciata race and broke hishand and he came back from that really
badly. Yeah, like metal upin there now. Yeah, it was.
He used I Racing for physical therapyto recover. But that's also part
of what allowed him to kind offocus on the super Trofeo season as he
again as he talks about in theinterview, and we'll have to throw the
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link in the in the description,but link in chat. Yes, Lincoln
Bio everybody. It's a really goodinterview though, definitely check it out.
It's once again, really nice guy. I've not had the privilege of meeting
him, but Kevin has spoken highlyof him. Shoot, since I've worked
at I Racing, so it's reallycool to see the success and and yeah,
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it's it's good stuff. And mostrecently, one last guy we really
want to to talk about and reallycongratulate Dan Morat coming off a victory at
the role X twenty four Big TimeI Racer Cisco. You've got the details
there. Yeah, and it wasa really cool story. He had a
busy weekend at the Rolex this year, Randon Mitchelin pilot and then in the
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Windward Racing Mercedes got the GTD victory. So it was really cool to see.
He was super emotional in the car. You could see that on the
broadcast once he crossed the line andpulled over after the race, he was
crying in the car for a while. He was emotional in his interview.
It was really cool. But yeah, Dan's always been a big supporter of
us. Big Streamer is doing somerace racework gloves now that you can buy
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and been promoting that. So throughthat, he's gotten to work with a
lot of sim racers. I knowhe has a good relationship with Casey Kerwin
for example. But yeah, ithas been a big pillar of the community.
And it's cool to see, youknow, another Eye racer go out
and hey, win a Rolelex.That's not a bad that's not a bad
weekend. I think I saw astat from him that he's won two weather
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Tech races in his career so farand both of them were the Rolex twenty
four, so that's pretty impressive.That's a good batting average. That's fine.
Yeah, and we did a pieceon him. There's a video piece.
He did one and we did oneas well because he he used Eye
Racing, so he's not just aracer, but he's a coach. A
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lot of guys coach other drivers asthey're coming up. So he was coaching
one of his teammates using IE racinga lot, and he was using his
I Racing team and guys that heraces with on I Racing to help with
that coaching, and the owner ofthat team ended up inviting everybody out to
drive the real world car. Iforget which track it was in Texas,
but I forget which track, butcheck it out. We did a little
video piece on it. He puta bunch of sim racers into his car
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kind of as a thank you forhelping him get up to speed. So
so really neat community stuff for sure. Absolutely stealing Chris's line. We never
have that on the shirt. Weshould. Moving on section three of Chris's
sarcastic outline, E sport News goodtiming since we delayed the show because we
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kicked off the E NASCAR Coca ColaI Racing Series last night, right,
Chris, Yes, we did withour preseason exhibition clash Free for All whatever
you want to call it, movedback to Daytona this year. But before
we actually get into the race detailsthemselves, uh, the series got a
complete kind of overhaul in the offseason. The prize pool is the highest
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it's ever been, more than halfa million dollars on the big increase.
That is a lot of money,Kevin. It was three hundred grand last
years. More. It's awesome.Yeah, measly three hundred grand now have
been There is a lot of money. Now that's not for the that that's
that's the whole the whole prize pool. It's the whole prize pool. Yeah,
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that's everything. That means a lotof people can win money. So
yeah, Champion still takes home thathundred grand at the end of the year,
but a lot of new faces.Not so much with the driver pool,
as we only have a handful ofrookies and a lot of the people
who weren't on the grid last yearthat worked their way back in are actually
veterans of the series. Fell outfor a little while, came back.
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But six new teams, a lotof names you've heard of. Spiro Motorsports,
a Cup Series team, the virtualreturn of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, which
is really cool if you've been followingNASCAR over the past couple of decades.
Kevin Harvick always did so much inthe X Findy and Craftsman truck series,
and now we've got Virtual KHI,which is awesome. Multiple esports teams M
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eighty Oxygen Esports which is local ourfriends at BS competition, and then a
project that I have been working onfor a few years behind the scenes.
Nitro Circus now has an e NASCARteam, which is a really cool bit
of crossover and trying to get Travisand the entire Nitro team involved a little
bit more this year. So reallyexciting to have some new faces there.
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It meant that free agency just wentcompletely bonkers, and I think it was
about one out of every four driverstayed in place from last year. Everybody
else changed up. Oh, veryexciting. Exciting to see all the new
teams and once again you hit onthis. You know, some of the
biggest names did stay in place,you know, Ottenser Zolensky, Keegan Ley.
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Uh, there's there's a lot ofpeople in the that did stay and
they were starting to kind of buildrelationships and brands. And I mean,
isn't that, you know, Kevinmaybe talk about the you know, is
the goals of this of this ofthis series. Yeah, I mean you're
exactly right, trying to build brandsand relationships and and you know, get
these drivers more known, right,so that they can do more both in
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this series and other things that theychoose to do in sim racing. But
you know, the new teams thatcame on board are super excited, right
they're they're already doing a ton ofpromotion. You see it all over social
Shout out to Florian from BS Competitionbecause he's the most excited guy I've ever
talked to about having a team,So that's awesome. Well, what else?
One other thing to note is thatthe series races are at a different
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time now, So if you're inthe US on the East Coast, they're
eight pm instead of nine pm,which is awesome for me because never getting
late for me and as I getolder, as past my bedtime. But
hopefully, well we'll change some getsome better viewership. I know it's a
little early if you're in California,but it'll be all right center four thirty,
just in case anybody's wanting anyway.It's just something to note, so
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if you're going to tune in,it'll be an hour earlier than it was
in the past, And if you'rewanting to participate and not just watch E
nascars I step all over Cisco rightthere. We do have the I Racing
Daytona five hundred coming up in acouple of weeks, the week of February
thirteenth. Through the nineteenth standard inI times kicking off the year, So
yeah, very exciting, one ofour biggest special events of the season.
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Yeah, I did want to jumpin and say you were mentioning partnerships.
Kevin one of the drivers that changedteams this year. But it's actually kind
of a cool story. Colin Bowdenone of our more outspoken and social drivers
in the series. He actually workson submarines as his day job and moved
over to RFK racing over Rash FenwayKeselawski and it's going to be driving the
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build submarines car this here, Soit sort of works out another one of
those very serendipitous sponsorship opportunities. Doyou think he'll actually race from inside a
submarine because that would be a heckof a story. How would you get
the how would you get the Internetout of the submarine? I feel like
can't talk about that. Yeah,I feel like you have as long as
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you're not using a knockoff GameCube control. Probably can't force him to use a
camera though when he's doing that.So Chris went there, moving on Porcha
tag East Sports super Cup. We'vegot the season kicking off, I believe
this weekend right Kevin Saturday kicks off. We have a All Star series again,
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which is awesome, a lot ofbig name streamers that you'd recognize.
The All Star Race is always superfun to watch. It's a little bit
more casual, a little less seriousthan the guys like to have fun with
it, so that'll be awesome.And then that's followed by the round one
of the Sports Super Cups here whichhas I guess, kind of like Coke,
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some changes this year, so theformat is changing. We're fewer events,
but we're doing kind of a midseasontournament, extra points on the final
round, things like that, justto mix it up, make it a
little bit more exciting. That's theidea, trying to put on a good
show, right. Prize pool stilltwo hundred thousand plus some pretty awesome prizes
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from some of the sponsors, soover two hundred grand awesome partnership with Porsche,
Tag, Hoyer and all the othersponsors. So excited to kick that
off. The race on East Coasttime, I believe. Also, our
race is one pm on Saturday,with the main event kicking off at two
pm, so hope you guys cantune in. It'll be on our twitch
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porsa twitch YouTube Facebook every place thatCisco can put it right Cisco, yeah,
exactly. And one of the bigchanges Kevin as well is the fact
that our opening race has changed forthe first time, and I think three
years now, it's no longer Hockenheim. We're going into the Daytona road course.
So gee, if you haven't hadenough Daytona yet, we got more
Daytona for you. That's a goodpoint. And it'll be the first rolling
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start we've had as well. RYes, so we didn't want to do
a standing start on the angled bankingat this time. That would be that's
bad, that would be a disaster, be fun to watch, but but
it would end the race pretty quickly. So rolling start first time. We'll
have that in this series. Soall starts are driving the prototypes too.
We're pumping the prototypes right. Wepossibly go wrong, go big, or
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go home right, So it shouldbe good. It's interesting to watch,
you know. The the the actualEsports series is some of the best road
racing you will see period. TheAll Star race is some of the most
fun streaming you will see period exactly. And so they compliment each other really
well. I think what was itSPA that last year. Year before last,
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we had all there was like therewas Kerwin, Matt Malone, who
else any there on the yeah corkon the last lap, they're all talking
to each other and talking trash alittle bit and you know, door banging
all the way around the last lap. That was a ton of fun to
watch. So yeah, tune innext. I Racing Thrustmaster World of Outlaws
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Sprint Car Series. That's a longone. That's a really long one.
Handing that one off to Chris becauseit's on dirt. I don't know if
you guys know this. Chris likedirt. Forget the fact that it's on
dirt. Let's not bury the lead. This championship came down to a tie.
And not only did it come downto a tie with the tiebreaker which
is feature victories, it literally camedown to a single lap. Ryan Avila
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Aiden Forster teammates front runners all year, just incredibly consistent all season long.
They kind of had to swing abig swing on points in the penultimate round
of the season. Cisco used serendipitous, so I had to match with another
you know, ten cent vocabulary word. There's scrabble today we are, So
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Aiden comes into the final race,twenty one point lead. Justin Malilla's recap
has all the details and all themath and everything. Aiden gives up a
few points in the heats because they'rein the same heat, and Ryan comes
off much better. Ryan's towards thefront of the field the entire race.
Aiden Forster's got to claw his waythrough from sixteenth on a grid to twenty.
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When the checkered flag finally falls,Logan Ramsey's up front takes the checkered
flag, but Ryan Avila Aiden Forstertied for the championship on points. It
comes down to a race at Fairburywhere Aiden Forrester only led one lap,
but it was the most important one, the last one. Took his only
victory of the season. That wasthe tiebreaker. That's the difference between taking
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home ten grand and about forty fivehundred bucks. So big, big swing,
you know. Sometimes that's all itcomes down to, though, is
over the entire course of a season. So congratulations to both of those guys.
They both put on a hell ofa fight. Logan I believe,
jumped up to third in points withthe victory. Alex Bergeron won half the
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season, but you guys know howit goes. Sometimes you can win a
lot of races, but if youdon't have luck in the ones you don't
win, it doesn't come down toit championship. I feel like Bergeron's won
his fair share races on iras.I feel like he will be back for
more. Let's be honest that hecan wheel. But yeah, it was
incredible that it came down to thewire and once again the tie. That's
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I don't stab boy. We've neverhad that happen, right. This is
the first time where we had atie and it came down to the driver's
side by side and whoever could edgeout who they're in front of. Uh,
and that coming down to the pointsvictory, which, let me tell
you, that's not fun to broadcastbecause I really wanted to show Logan at
the end crossing the line for therais. I'm like, I can't leave
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this because they're literally side by sidefor the championship. Get good, Cisco,
get good? All right? Movingon, I racing New Year's Resolutions.
This is part four for those thatare keeping score at home. Actually,
I'm gonna go back just for amoment. You guys are talking about
your Scrabble Awards, Chris I saiddisingenuous format outlined formatting. I didn't get
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any points for disingenuous. We weren'tplaying. This is an educational there's too
many letters in that for that tobe a scrabble award. I don't think
you can make that. I don'tknow. Super col fragilistic, xblidocious indeed
(33:38):
also too long to play. It'sa double scrabble, Kevin, when you
have two boards at the same time. Oh gosh, all right, I
racing New Year's resolutions. What arewe planning on getting better at this year
participating? I'm gonna go with participationnumber one. Also, Kevin and I
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are going to do a special eventtogether that we did agree. We're going
to do seabring. What car arewe driving? Not GT threes? Please
one of the prototypes? One ofthe prototypes. I figure you'd want to
do the Porsche GTP. I don'tknow. I might that car Cadoc sounds
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good. Cadillac. Maybe maybe we'lljust maybe we could do a poll and
our our four fans could pick thecar we drive. Who would actually comment
comment below on what you think thatwe should race. I just I like
being in the fast class. Becauseyou decide when the stupid overtake attempt is
the only way I can pass anybodywell, and it makes it more entertaining.
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I can be three seconds off thepace, but I feel great passing
all those GT threes. So butyeah, comment down below what you think
we should race. But yeah,just racing more. We have a lot
going on this year, a lotof really cool stuff coming in the build.
Looking forward to talking about that probablyon our next podcast for honest.
But yeah, there will be moreopportunities to participate for a lot of different
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types of ey racers, and thatis is very exciting. Agreed. I'm
also gonna work on my golf swingthis year. So for whatever, you're
always gonna work on your golf.I know it's gonna get any better.
Sometimes it's gonna get work. It'slike me saying I'm gonna lose weight.
It's the perpetual resolution. But howmuch progress do you really make? Chris
didn't lose like a lot of weight. Yeah, it's been a couple of
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years. Well we've tried him.Yeah, well it's not it's not so
much new year, new me thathasn't worked for so well on that.
Thanks, We gotta give a shoutout. Hold on, shout shout out
to Sean who's working the soundboard forYeah, the Weekly. I have to
turn the monitor and lean over.Yeah where set there is? Also?
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Are we gonna let Chris off withouttalking about his road rating and his road
license? I thought that was awhole thing. Yeah, I was appointed
in all of you for I didn'tput it in the outline more time making
a professional outline. You forgot thedepth. I forgot to throw myself under
the bus. Figure you guys woulddo. Greg, you don't even stick
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to the outline half the time.I thought you'd do that on the fly.
No, I like to have itorganized. Then I know what to
mess around with. Yes, Ididn't even prepare anything for this. Usually
he's got nice graphics and whatnot.He's like, no, I's just gonna
go away anyway. And then itwas because we had a broadcast. It
wasn't because we had a broadcast oranything last night, Greig or you know,
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it's the first, Yes, Chris, Chris is supposed to have at
least a d license and something.By now I have a B in dirt
road. No, sorry, somethingthat's paved, something that people play I'm
not going there? Does that count? Does that count as the first uh
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mention? Can I do? Yeah? You can use the counter well Travis
earlier he did say, yeah,there's two. There's two of my secret
words. Can we get like thePeewee's Playhouse and just have everybody shout and
scream from now on? No,I feel I'm going to go with no,
that's that's too high budget. No. My resolution is to finally get
(37:21):
somebody to commit to doing that developmentlevel off road car with us. If
you're listening, sign the licensing deal. Please? Wow, that's direct,
Please Chris on the podcast, it'sa tactic. We'll put it that one.
Yeah, yeah, No, we'rewe're having to shift directions in how
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we do this year. I guessNew Year knew me. That's a little
more direct than I usually am.Well, thank you listening to this edition
of the I Raising Downshift. Don'tforget to rate, review, and subscribe
or unsubscribe Apple anywhere else Chris putsthis thing, or Cisco whoever puts it
up these days. For We've gota lot of people on the on the
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team. Now we've got for KevinBobb at Chris Leone Cisco and Sean.
I am Greg West and we'll seeyou on the track at Daytona
This week on the I Racing downShip, Greg recounts his Daytona red and
I left a lane and a halfinstead of three lanes. Kevin breaks down
a new Simrich design. Do youthink he'll actually race from the insane of
shubine because that would be a packof a choice? And Chris plays a
mini game Cisco U serendipitous, soI had to match with another you know,
ten cent vocabulary word. They're allthat and more so strap in.
(00:28):
Welcome to I Racing zausch if Tomyour host, Greg West. I'm back
with the boys, Kevin Bobbitt andChris Leoni. We're a little late on
this one, but we've been alittle busy, haven't we. Kevin,
it's been it's been a busy newyear. We were going to record last
week and then we didn't sow apologiesto everybody, but you know that happens,
is it because you and Chris havebeen busy with the I'm checking the
(00:49):
outline that has been sarcastically bulleted andformatted. Pursa's outline brought me back to
like third grade when you learned howto do a proper outline. It was
like disturbing, so is this APAor MLA out of curiosity formatting? Well,
it's whatever Microsoft word put in.But I have to say I never
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thought i'd see the words disingenuous useof proper outline formatting and a for that
anywhere. Yeah, no, exactly. Like I said, disingenuous outline formatting
is my favorite RAM album and hadall the hits on it. That's a
big one. It went platinum,I think, yes, it did.
What have we been up to?Chris? What do you? What have
you been up to? You area very uh you live a very interesting
(01:33):
life and eclectic. Just softball itin like that. Well, other than
trying to build you about twenty weekthirteen series ideas that may or may not
be ill advised here and there,I got new rats. I took a
break for a few months. Ihave new rats. Well, and what
(01:55):
are their names? Their names they'reinside. Their names are Noon and Midnight.
Mostly because I thought it'd be reallyfunny to have an albino rat named
Midnight. And then uh, usuallyI name one and then the other one
gets a name in response to thefirst name. So uh yeah, Well,
congratulations on the new family editions.That's very exciting. Thank you the
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personality scaring me along? How aretheir personalities? They are still scared to
death of me? But they're babies. It's okay. Status quarter remains unchanged,
got it? Yeah? Are they? Are? They house trained and
stuff? They run around the houseor no? No, no, no,
no no no. I like actuallyknowing where my pets are so gotch?
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Does Emily like the rats? Likefor real, She's not gonna watch
this, so I don't think youwant to open that can of worms?
We do? Yes, I doas I do. This is this is
a downship. This is not JerrySpringer. Let's let's bring Emily on as
a guest next time. Leo LeoLeo didn't. No, no, it's
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gonna be too stable. Yeah,neither of us are set up for that.
That doesn't work. Can that's good? That's better. We have had
the couples we had, we hadTyler and Lisa. Oh yeah as precedent.
Yeah, we have done it before. I mean Lisa works for the
company though, so she can beall in told. Yeah exactly, that's
that's different. What about you,Kevin? Did you get any new pets?
(03:23):
I did not get any rats oranything. No. Wren, my
dog is still going strong fifteen yearsold. She naps a lot most of
the time, but you know she'llwake up and run around. You know,
she plays fetch with the ball.She'll fetch it once and then the
next time she's like, yeah,I've had enough, you go get Yeah,
(03:44):
she's living her best life. Soit's all good. But no new
pets in my house. How aboutthe other exciting things for the holiday?
Lots of family around, which wasgreat. Yeah, the boys. The
boys were home, one home fromcollege, one home from the army.
H he was on leave. Andnow they're all back. So now the
house is quiet again except for meand the dog. So it's all good.
Happy New Year, everyone, HappyNew Year. As it's January thirty,
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first we can still say that it'sJanuary. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Flit in under the recording. We'll make it out in times.
What about you, Greg? Kindof the same thing. Stayed laid
pretty low for the holidays and yeah, exciting a couple of weeks here at
I Racing with the I Racing Daytonatwenty four, followed up by the outside
version. I think im is isthat the outdoor version? Yeap, that
(04:30):
outdoor version of the I racing dataor something like that. But you know,
January is great, a great monthof your motorsport fan, and so
I've been watching a lot of thatand excited to excited to get back into
this. So let's kick it off. Let's talk about it. I racing
Dayton and twenty four the biggest eventin SIM racing history. Eighteen thousand,
(04:55):
five hundred drivers, over four thousandt eames. But he had know how
many miles were driven? We havethat. Yeah. I was actually I
was typing it up while we weregoing through the outline. I went back
to uh Dougie's tweet. Ten million, two hundred and twenty eight one hundred
and eighteen miles over two million,eight hundred and seventy three thousand and sixty
(05:19):
seven laps. How many times aroundthe world is that? Somebody do the
math? Somebody do the math?Hang on? Hang on, yeah,
Chris is on that. Kevin.We didn't get an incident count. We
should have got an incident count.Yeah, it was probably close to ten
million. I contributed a few ofthose I got. I got killed international
(05:40):
on Twitter that you got killed.Yeah, that's the problem I got.
I was in the Ferrari and Igot I got gtped. That's just the
nice set, you know what.But this is a great I rasing lesson
here. I looked back at thereplay, and there's something I could have
done better. I knew he wasgoing to send it from one point two
seconds back going into the International Horseshoe, and I left a lane and a
(06:04):
half instead of three lanes. Andeven I knew it was coming. I
don't know why it wasn't out.You should just drop off in the grass.
Anyway. I feel like this wasclearly your fault. Probably, No,
the second part was my fault becausehe clipped me, spun me.
I ended up completely sideways, rightin the middle of the International Horseshoe.
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And here comes a bunch of GTthrees and a couple more GTPs, and
some dove to the inside and somedove to the outside. So I just
held still until the second wave gotthere and I got t bone. Oh
somebody else got caught up to Ohyeah, the second you did the predictable
thing when you got wrecked, andthat was the mistake. You know,
the driving if you've been two feetin and uh no, just just go
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just get lesson, learned, giveroom give all of the track to the
GTP. I think that was thatwas it. Do we have a sarcasm
font for the podcast or is thatjust the whole show? The record?
I've got the math. The circumferencewas twenty four thousand, nine hundred and
one miles, so that puts usat four hundred and ten and three quarters
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trips around the Earth lot. Doesthat wrong the equator? Yeah? I
believe so. Yeah, Okay,I don't know. We're doing math on
the fly, which you already don'ttrust my setup building. We probably have
it wrong, but we're going on, well, probably have it wrong.
Somebody's gonna fast. We're gonna checkthis in post by the way, Well
yeah you no, no, no, no, the comments are gonna check
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it. Yeah no, I don'thave to comments. Yeah, are fore
fans. Somebody's gonna do the mathand tell us that Chris was wrong.
Let's tell Chris that he was wrong, right, he did. Let's be
clear, he did the math,not me. Yeah, they're going to
tell us that Chris was wrong.If the viewers looked on the left side
right here, so if you lookover there, you can see twitch chats
actually figuring it out right now inreal time. I like it. Okay,
(08:01):
what about on YouTube? Oh yeah, I guess that would be that
would be down there, Yeah,yeah, down there. What about on
Facebook? Facebook? Oh yeah,they do, it'd be over there as
well. Okay, I just wantto make sure we covered all our bases.
This is the dance dance revolution ofCisco pointing places. Uh, Kevin,
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you had you had some staff thatdid pretty well, Corey and Cole.
Corey and Cole, both on themarketing team, ended up winning their
split. I think they were inan Uh what were they I think they
were peachings. Yeah, so that'spretty awesome. They were pretty excited,
pretty exhausted. It was them andI think they had other two of their
friends driving as well, but twostaff. There were multiple staff teams,
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but that was the one that didthe best that I'm aware of, So
you know, much better than Greg's. How long were you in the race?
Actually, I think we made itlike six hours in okay, but
you're very exciting fully totaled. Uh, you know, had was art is
forty five minutes and uh that waswe decided at that point we enjoy sleep.
(09:05):
So that was that was the endof that. Yeah, but awesome.
And there was some other big nameguy in one of the splits,
maybe talking about world champion F fundriver, multiple time world champion F one
driver, Max was in Huh,how do you schmer map? How you
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say that Max ver stap in redline? Max was stapping win GTD in the
tops. That was pretty exciting tosee. And they come they came back,
they were they were down early UHand came back for the win.
I have to say here and thisis where I go off script Cisco sorry
in advance. It is. It'sfunny how this event is beginning to emulate
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the real world event because the numberof UH emails and discord messages and smoke
signals and carrier pigeons about wreck mendationsfor the BOP from the from the teams.
There's a lot of a lot oflobbying, a lot of lobbying.
And you know, we don't gettaken out to dinner or anything. I
(10:09):
know that maybe they just start sendinglike a box of chocolates or something.
You know. I mean, I'mnot saying we can be bribed. Disclaimer,
we cannot be bribed or do everythingby the data. And we want
everybody to be successful and have achance to win in every single chocolate,
but we do accept chocolate. Whowas it that since donuts after they winning
NASCAR? It was Contie but he'sretired. Yeah, if you're listening,
(10:33):
if you just want to continue tosend send donuts to the office, you're
more than welcome. But yeah,that was it was really interesting to get
everybody's car is slow. It's funnyhow that works. That's that's how I
feel that the bop is pretty good. If every single car is slow,
we're good to go anyway. It'sreally quiet and awkward right now, So
(10:54):
we're going to move on. Atsfor my early twenties right there. Moving
on, We've got IndyCar, Kevin. IndyCar is back, and I've heard
the news. Huh, I haveyou heard the news. It's all news
at this point since we're the endof January. But it's super exciting to
(11:16):
be back. It's continuing to developthough. Yeah. Yeah, So lots
going on with the IndyCar. Obviously, the biggest part I think is Indy
five hundred is back, so we'rerunning that the week after the real world
Indy five hundred, So that's awesome. We're gonna run it similar to the
way we've done it in the past, so there'll be an open series and
a fixed series, although they willrun the same week. In the past,
(11:37):
we ran them different weeks, tryingsomething new. Part of it has
got added to the special Events calendarafter we already published that. We also
think this might be a nice changeup, so we'll see how it goes.
But Indy car is fully supporting it. They're on board. They're super
excited and meeting with their team ona regular basis. So it's it's awesome
(11:58):
to have the communication and we're talkingto what can we do help them,
what can they do help us.It's back to a partnership level, so
that's awesome. I think that we'veupdated the names of all the series that
are currently running. We'll be updatingtracks for next season. You can get
into that, Greg, but youknow, it's we'll be back to what
you guys were used to, youknow, a couple of years ago.
(12:18):
So yeah, I think about that. The goal was real simple, just
put it back how it was right. Yeah, but there are a couple
of you know, small additions.As Kevin said, we're gonna just really
due to scheduling, we were kindof boxed in when we could do the
fix in the open eighty five hundred. So yeah, we'll try it together
this year and we'll look at theinformation in the community feedback, and maybe
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it stays that way next year,maybe it goes back. We'll see.
We don't know what. We don'tknow yet, but it's still so this
is the one special event that hasseparate qualifying, right, So that's correct
qualifying all week, which is ifyou've been around a while, that's kind
of how it used to work formost of our series that they were just
qualifying all the time of separate sections. It wasn't part of the race session.
(13:01):
But so you can qualify what upthrough. I don't even remember I
think you qualified. We haven't builtthe series yet, but I believe it's
through the fridayday or Friday afternoon,and then I don't have the calendar in
front of me, but yeah,and then whatever session you join, it
will take your qualifying time and basedon that. Ye. So it's a
yeah, a lot of fun,really popular to you know, emulate bump
(13:24):
week that way or bump Day.I should say its bump week on I
racing bump Day. And but thereare no bumps. Everybody makes it so
that everybody makes the field. Souh yeah. We're also adding a couple
of a couple other changes. We'rebringing back the d W twelve to the
delar Dash. That'll be really popular, you know. We made some changes
(13:46):
there that were necessitated. Happy tobring back the community and fan favorite to
that series. The changing next seasonor well, yes, that changes with
the March in March. We arealso adding a fixed series that complements the
open set up series, and alsoall the Indy Car series are gonna be
at b moving forward, even theOval Series, but we'll have a short
sprint race on opposite hours or theOpen series. That sprint race will be
(14:09):
fixed. Just trying to get morepeople involved. The IRA eighteen is one
of the best cars on the service. We have a ton of data for
it. We've got a great relationshipwith DeLaura and and just they're open with
everything that we build with them,and we just want more people to try
it. It's a it's one ofthe hardest cars to set up in the
(14:30):
service because it's so aero sensitive.But with fixed setups you can get in,
you know, strap in and goand that's that's a cool opportunity.
Kevin's nod and like he's gonna saysomething, all right, moving on to
C section two. I guess thisbullet C letter I whatever this is on
Chris's outline, real world drivers findingsuccess on the back of their I Racing
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relationships. I've read it directly offthe script, and Max Esterson's a great
example handing to Chris for that.I thought we were going to go the
other way around, that Kevin wouldtake this one. Kevin, you can
talk about that. I thought Ihad the next one. We're like a
bunch of bad outfielders. Just notcall him for the ball, all right.
(15:13):
Well, well Max is moving up. I mean, if you've followed
along, we've been supporting him,he's been supporting us through his career as
he's kind of moved up rapidly becausehe's not been racing all that long,
only a handful of years. He'sgoing to Formula three for the season,
which is a nice step up.If you don't know him, young American
driver who got to start on IRacing. When you see him on track,
(15:35):
there's always an E Racing logo onhis car, and you'll see typically
there's some other SIM related sponsors.I don't know who's got lined up for
this year, so I won't mentionnames. But in the past he's had
names you would recognize from our world, right, I mean, he's got
real world sponsors as well. Butit's nice to see the integration helmet.
Yeah, well that's also SIM racingrelated, right, Chris. But yeah,
(16:00):
I think he had a steering wheelon the side, you know,
a SIM steering wheel, things likethat. So, but great young American
driver. So cool to see himmoving up the ranks. You know,
we're doing us, you know,trying to support him as best we can,
a lot of you know, promotion, doing a little bit to help
him, and you know, greatrepresentative of our world, you know,
(16:21):
the SIM racing world in the realworld space. So awesome to see him
moving up. Yeah, and soeverybody knows it's not just we, you
know, are helping him out withsponsorship and promotion. What Max, This
is a reciprocated relationship because Max hashelped us a lot in vehicle development.
He has a lot of experience andyou know Formula Forward we developed the f
F sixteen hundred and we actually scannedthe car he raced and then he helped
(16:45):
us with the development of that.We also have another project in the works
right now that he is helping uson. More news on that at a
later dating time hashtags soon. Yeah. I mean it's probably important to note
just in general with sponsorship, ourlogo on the sod of car is lovely,
but it's not a smart way tospend money necessarily, right. It
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needs to be a relationship and thereneeds to be more involved than that.
So so if you're sending sponsorship requestsand you know, a logo on the
side of your car isn't going toget it cut, is going to cut
it? So yeah, all right, Now we'll throw it over to Chris
to talk about somebody else who hashad a long term relationship with this.
(17:26):
Glenn McGhee is what well, Idid the interview with him last month.
Gat Yeah, all right, andyou can talk about you get here.
I'll be quiet. You guys bothtake it all right? Well, Yeah,
as mentioned, we had a biginterview just before Christmas with Glenn McGee
talking about kind of his rise throughthe ranks over the past decade, moving
(17:48):
up through m X five Cup,which he won the opportunity to even start
in the first place on I Racing, his career path from there focusing on
lambergiy Any super Tropeo last year andthen going out and winning the world finals
and becoming a world champion and thefirst virtual to FIA World Champion, which
(18:15):
just an incredible accomplishment no matter howyou swing it. But just you know,
he had a lot of great storiesabout just the drastic change that comes
from when you move up from anm X five to a Super Tropeo,
which in so many ways could notbe more different vehicles. But Glenn is
another, you know, another SIMracer who has really done just so much.
(18:37):
Truly got his start on I Racing. You know, we were working
with Mazda I don't know six sevenyears ago and he got an invite to
the Master Shootout, which is wherethey take Masda drivers, put them on
track and do all kinds of stuff, you know, data analysis, feedback,
sponsorship stuff, and they select awinner who gets a scholarship to race
in the m x five series.And he won. That was the first
(19:00):
tim Raicher to ever win that,you know, because he was going up
against real world Master drivers, guysthat race spect meatas or open wheel mouses
and things like that, and hewon that and and it's just stuck with
it. He's one of the nicestguys you'll ever meet in the paddock.
If you see him, he's usuallygot uh an I racing something on because
he because he's he's proud of wherehe came from, which is awesome to
see. But he'll stop and talkand you know, as long as he's
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not jumping in the car for asession, he'll talk to you all day.
And super nice guy. So hedoes when he wins. Don't forget
that. Don't forget that. Hedoes the pose when he wins, he
does do the pose, the IRacing poses. Yeah, and and Kevin
was the U I. Yeah.One of the cool things about Glenn too
and last year was the fact thathe came back from some adversity at the
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beginning of the year, because hestarted the year in the wall at Daytona
during the Speciata race and broke hishand and he came back from that really
badly. Yeah, like metal upin there now. Yeah, it was.
He used I Racing for physical therapyto recover. But that's also part
of what allowed him to kind offocus on the super Trofeo season as he
again as he talks about in theinterview, and we'll have to throw the
(20:07):
link in the in the description,but link in chat. Yes, Lincoln
Bio everybody. It's a really goodinterview though, definitely check it out.
It's once again, really nice guy. I've not had the privilege of meeting
him, but Kevin has spoken highlyof him. Shoot, since I've worked
at I Racing, so it's reallycool to see the success and and yeah,
(20:29):
it's it's good stuff. And mostrecently, one last guy we really
want to to talk about and reallycongratulate Dan Morat coming off a victory at
the role X twenty four Big TimeI Racer Cisco. You've got the details
there. Yeah, and it wasa really cool story. He had a
busy weekend at the Rolex this year, Randon Mitchelin pilot and then in the
(20:52):
Windward Racing Mercedes got the GTD victory. So it was really cool to see.
He was super emotional in the car. You could see that on the
broadcast once he crossed the line andpulled over after the race, he was
crying in the car for a while. He was emotional in his interview.
It was really cool. But yeah, Dan's always been a big supporter of
us. Big Streamer is doing somerace racework gloves now that you can buy
(21:17):
and been promoting that. So throughthat, he's gotten to work with a
lot of sim racers. I knowhe has a good relationship with Casey Kerwin
for example. But yeah, ithas been a big pillar of the community.
And it's cool to see, youknow, another Eye racer go out
and hey, win a Rolelex.That's not a bad that's not a bad
weekend. I think I saw astat from him that he's won two weather
(21:37):
Tech races in his career so farand both of them were the Rolex twenty
four, so that's pretty impressive.That's a good batting average. That's fine.
Yeah, and we did a pieceon him. There's a video piece.
He did one and we did oneas well because he he used Eye
Racing, so he's not just aracer, but he's a coach. A
(21:59):
lot of guys coach other drivers asthey're coming up. So he was coaching
one of his teammates using IE racinga lot, and he was using his
I Racing team and guys that heraces with on I Racing to help with
that coaching, and the owner ofthat team ended up inviting everybody out to
drive the real world car. Iforget which track it was in Texas,
but I forget which track, butcheck it out. We did a little
video piece on it. He puta bunch of sim racers into his car
(22:23):
kind of as a thank you forhelping him get up to speed. So
so really neat community stuff for sure. Absolutely stealing Chris's line. We never
have that on the shirt. Weshould. Moving on section three of Chris's
sarcastic outline, E sport News goodtiming since we delayed the show because we
(22:44):
kicked off the E NASCAR Coca ColaI Racing Series last night, right,
Chris, Yes, we did withour preseason exhibition clash Free for All whatever
you want to call it, movedback to Daytona this year. But before
we actually get into the race detailsthemselves, uh, the series got a
complete kind of overhaul in the offseason. The prize pool is the highest
(23:07):
it's ever been, more than halfa million dollars on the big increase.
That is a lot of money,Kevin. It was three hundred grand last
years. More. It's awesome.Yeah, measly three hundred grand now have
been There is a lot of money. Now that's not for the that that's
that's the whole the whole prize pool. It's the whole prize pool. Yeah,
(23:29):
that's everything. That means a lotof people can win money. So
yeah, Champion still takes home thathundred grand at the end of the year,
but a lot of new faces.Not so much with the driver pool,
as we only have a handful ofrookies and a lot of the people
who weren't on the grid last yearthat worked their way back in are actually
veterans of the series. Fell outfor a little while, came back.
(23:51):
But six new teams, a lotof names you've heard of. Spiro Motorsports,
a Cup Series team, the virtualreturn of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, which
is really cool if you've been followingNASCAR over the past couple of decades.
Kevin Harvick always did so much inthe X Findy and Craftsman truck series,
and now we've got Virtual KHI,which is awesome. Multiple esports teams M
(24:17):
eighty Oxygen Esports which is local ourfriends at BS competition, and then a
project that I have been working onfor a few years behind the scenes.
Nitro Circus now has an e NASCARteam, which is a really cool bit
of crossover and trying to get Travisand the entire Nitro team involved a little
bit more this year. So reallyexciting to have some new faces there.
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It meant that free agency just wentcompletely bonkers, and I think it was
about one out of every four driverstayed in place from last year. Everybody
else changed up. Oh, veryexciting. Exciting to see all the new
teams and once again you hit onthis. You know, some of the
biggest names did stay in place,you know, Ottenser Zolensky, Keegan Ley.
(25:03):
Uh, there's there's a lot ofpeople in the that did stay and
they were starting to kind of buildrelationships and brands. And I mean,
isn't that, you know, Kevinmaybe talk about the you know, is
the goals of this of this ofthis series. Yeah, I mean you're
exactly right, trying to build brandsand relationships and and you know, get
these drivers more known, right,so that they can do more both in
(25:25):
this series and other things that theychoose to do in sim racing. But
you know, the new teams thatcame on board are super excited, right
they're they're already doing a ton ofpromotion. You see it all over social
Shout out to Florian from BS Competitionbecause he's the most excited guy I've ever
talked to about having a team,So that's awesome. Well, what else?
One other thing to note is thatthe series races are at a different
(25:48):
time now, So if you're inthe US on the East Coast, they're
eight pm instead of nine pm,which is awesome for me because never getting
late for me and as I getolder, as past my bedtime. But
hopefully, well we'll change some getsome better viewership. I know it's a
little early if you're in California,but it'll be all right center four thirty,
just in case anybody's wanting anyway.It's just something to note, so
(26:10):
if you're going to tune in,it'll be an hour earlier than it was
in the past, And if you'rewanting to participate and not just watch E
nascars I step all over Cisco rightthere. We do have the I Racing
Daytona five hundred coming up in acouple of weeks, the week of February
thirteenth. Through the nineteenth standard inI times kicking off the year, So
yeah, very exciting, one ofour biggest special events of the season.
(26:34):
Yeah, I did want to jumpin and say you were mentioning partnerships.
Kevin one of the drivers that changedteams this year. But it's actually kind
of a cool story. Colin Bowdenone of our more outspoken and social drivers
in the series. He actually workson submarines as his day job and moved
over to RFK racing over Rash FenwayKeselawski and it's going to be driving the
(26:57):
build submarines car this here, Soit sort of works out another one of
those very serendipitous sponsorship opportunities. Doyou think he'll actually race from inside a
submarine because that would be a heckof a story. How would you get
the how would you get the Internetout of the submarine? I feel like
can't talk about that. Yeah,I feel like you have as long as
(27:19):
you're not using a knockoff GameCube control. Probably can't force him to use a
camera though when he's doing that.So Chris went there, moving on Porcha
tag East Sports super Cup. We'vegot the season kicking off, I believe
this weekend right Kevin Saturday kicks off. We have a All Star series again,
(27:41):
which is awesome, a lot ofbig name streamers that you'd recognize.
The All Star Race is always superfun to watch. It's a little bit
more casual, a little less seriousthan the guys like to have fun with
it, so that'll be awesome.And then that's followed by the round one
of the Sports Super Cups here whichhas I guess, kind of like Coke,
(28:02):
some changes this year, so theformat is changing. We're fewer events,
but we're doing kind of a midseasontournament, extra points on the final
round, things like that, justto mix it up, make it a
little bit more exciting. That's theidea, trying to put on a good
show, right. Prize pool stilltwo hundred thousand plus some pretty awesome prizes
(28:23):
from some of the sponsors, soover two hundred grand awesome partnership with Porsche,
Tag, Hoyer and all the othersponsors. So excited to kick that
off. The race on East Coasttime, I believe. Also, our
race is one pm on Saturday,with the main event kicking off at two
pm, so hope you guys cantune in. It'll be on our twitch
(28:45):
porsa twitch YouTube Facebook every place thatCisco can put it right Cisco, yeah,
exactly. And one of the bigchanges Kevin as well is the fact
that our opening race has changed forthe first time, and I think three
years now, it's no longer Hockenheim. We're going into the Daytona road course.
So gee, if you haven't hadenough Daytona yet, we got more
Daytona for you. That's a goodpoint. And it'll be the first rolling
(29:07):
start we've had as well. RYes, so we didn't want to do
a standing start on the angled bankingat this time. That would be that's
bad, that would be a disaster, be fun to watch, but but
it would end the race pretty quickly. So rolling start first time. We'll
have that in this series. Soall starts are driving the prototypes too.
We're pumping the prototypes right. Wepossibly go wrong, go big, or
(29:32):
go home right, So it shouldbe good. It's interesting to watch,
you know. The the the actualEsports series is some of the best road
racing you will see period. TheAll Star race is some of the most
fun streaming you will see period exactly. And so they compliment each other really
well. I think what was itSPA that last year. Year before last,
(29:52):
we had all there was like therewas Kerwin, Matt Malone, who
else any there on the yeah corkon the last lap, they're all talking
to each other and talking trash alittle bit and you know, door banging
all the way around the last lap. That was a ton of fun to
watch. So yeah, tune innext. I Racing Thrustmaster World of Outlaws
(30:17):
Sprint Car Series. That's a longone. That's a really long one.
Handing that one off to Chris becauseit's on dirt. I don't know if
you guys know this. Chris likedirt. Forget the fact that it's on
dirt. Let's not bury the lead. This championship came down to a tie.
And not only did it come downto a tie with the tiebreaker which
is feature victories, it literally camedown to a single lap. Ryan Avila
(30:41):
Aiden Forster teammates front runners all year, just incredibly consistent all season long.
They kind of had to swing abig swing on points in the penultimate round
of the season. Cisco used serendipitous, so I had to match with another
you know, ten cent vocabulary word. There's scrabble today we are, So
(31:03):
Aiden comes into the final race,twenty one point lead. Justin Malilla's recap
has all the details and all themath and everything. Aiden gives up a
few points in the heats because they'rein the same heat, and Ryan comes
off much better. Ryan's towards thefront of the field the entire race.
Aiden Forster's got to claw his waythrough from sixteenth on a grid to twenty.
(31:26):
When the checkered flag finally falls,Logan Ramsey's up front takes the checkered
flag, but Ryan Avila Aiden Forstertied for the championship on points. It
comes down to a race at Fairburywhere Aiden Forrester only led one lap,
but it was the most important one, the last one. Took his only
victory of the season. That wasthe tiebreaker. That's the difference between taking
(31:48):
home ten grand and about forty fivehundred bucks. So big, big swing,
you know. Sometimes that's all itcomes down to, though, is
over the entire course of a season. So congratulations to both of those guys.
They both put on a hell ofa fight. Logan I believe,
jumped up to third in points withthe victory. Alex Bergeron won half the
(32:12):
season, but you guys know howit goes. Sometimes you can win a
lot of races, but if youdon't have luck in the ones you don't
win, it doesn't come down toit championship. I feel like Bergeron's won
his fair share races on iras.I feel like he will be back for
more. Let's be honest that hecan wheel. But yeah, it was
incredible that it came down to thewire and once again the tie. That's
(32:35):
I don't stab boy. We've neverhad that happen, right. This is
the first time where we had atie and it came down to the driver's
side by side and whoever could edgeout who they're in front of. Uh,
and that coming down to the pointsvictory, which, let me tell
you, that's not fun to broadcastbecause I really wanted to show Logan at
the end crossing the line for therais. I'm like, I can't leave
(32:55):
this because they're literally side by sidefor the championship. Get good, Cisco,
get good? All right? Movingon, I racing New Year's Resolutions.
This is part four for those thatare keeping score at home. Actually,
I'm gonna go back just for amoment. You guys are talking about
your Scrabble Awards, Chris I saiddisingenuous format outlined formatting. I didn't get
(33:17):
any points for disingenuous. We weren'tplaying. This is an educational there's too
many letters in that for that tobe a scrabble award. I don't think
you can make that. I don'tknow. Super col fragilistic, xblidocious indeed
(33:38):
also too long to play. It'sa double scrabble, Kevin, when you
have two boards at the same time. Oh gosh, all right, I
racing New Year's resolutions. What arewe planning on getting better at this year
participating? I'm gonna go with participationnumber one. Also, Kevin and I
(33:59):
are going to do a special eventtogether that we did agree. We're going
to do seabring. What car arewe driving? Not GT threes? Please
one of the prototypes? One ofthe prototypes. I figure you'd want to
do the Porsche GTP. I don'tknow. I might that car Cadoc sounds
(34:21):
good. Cadillac. Maybe maybe we'lljust maybe we could do a poll and
our our four fans could pick thecar we drive. Who would actually comment
comment below on what you think thatwe should race. I just I like
being in the fast class. Becauseyou decide when the stupid overtake attempt is
the only way I can pass anybodywell, and it makes it more entertaining.
(34:42):
I can be three seconds off thepace, but I feel great passing
all those GT threes. So butyeah, comment down below what you think
we should race. But yeah,just racing more. We have a lot
going on this year, a lotof really cool stuff coming in the build.
Looking forward to talking about that probablyon our next podcast for honest.
But yeah, there will be moreopportunities to participate for a lot of different
(35:07):
types of ey racers, and thatis is very exciting. Agreed. I'm
also gonna work on my golf swingthis year. So for whatever, you're
always gonna work on your golf.I know it's gonna get any better.
Sometimes it's gonna get work. It'slike me saying I'm gonna lose weight.
It's the perpetual resolution. But howmuch progress do you really make? Chris
didn't lose like a lot of weight. Yeah, it's been a couple of
(35:29):
years. Well we've tried him.Yeah, well it's not it's not so
much new year, new me thathasn't worked for so well on that.
Thanks, We gotta give a shoutout. Hold on, shout shout out
to Sean who's working the soundboard forYeah, the Weekly. I have to
turn the monitor and lean over.Yeah where set there is? Also?
(35:53):
Are we gonna let Chris off withouttalking about his road rating and his road
license? I thought that was awhole thing. Yeah, I was appointed
in all of you for I didn'tput it in the outline more time making
a professional outline. You forgot thedepth. I forgot to throw myself under
the bus. Figure you guys woulddo. Greg, you don't even stick
(36:15):
to the outline half the time.I thought you'd do that on the fly.
No, I like to have itorganized. Then I know what to
mess around with. Yes, Ididn't even prepare anything for this. Usually
he's got nice graphics and whatnot.He's like, no, I's just gonna
go away anyway. And then itwas because we had a broadcast. It
wasn't because we had a broadcast oranything last night, Greig or you know,
(36:36):
it's the first, Yes, Chris, Chris is supposed to have at
least a d license and something.By now I have a B in dirt
road. No, sorry, somethingthat's paved, something that people play I'm
not going there? Does that count? Does that count as the first uh
(36:57):
mention? Can I do? Yeah? You can use the counter well Travis
earlier he did say, yeah,there's two. There's two of my secret
words. Can we get like thePeewee's Playhouse and just have everybody shout and
scream from now on? No,I feel I'm going to go with no,
that's that's too high budget. No. My resolution is to finally get
(37:21):
somebody to commit to doing that developmentlevel off road car with us. If
you're listening, sign the licensing deal. Please? Wow, that's direct,
Please Chris on the podcast, it'sa tactic. We'll put it that one.
Yeah, yeah, No, we'rewe're having to shift directions in how
(37:43):
we do this year. I guessNew Year knew me. That's a little
more direct than I usually am.Well, thank you listening to this edition
of the I Raising Downshift. Don'tforget to rate, review, and subscribe
or unsubscribe Apple anywhere else Chris putsthis thing, or Cisco whoever puts it
up these days. For We've gota lot of people on the on the
(38:06):
team. Now we've got for KevinBobb at Chris Leone Cisco and Sean.
I am Greg West and we'll seeyou on the track at Daytona
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