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Q2 2025 HOT! Sim Racing Hardware

• Track Ghost Sim Racing • Episode 60

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Venture beyond the conventional simulator experience as we explore alternative racing games perfect for travel and the latest hardware innovations in sim racing. From the neon-lit highways of Tokyo to the wooded hills of Alabama, this episode offers something for every racing enthusiast.

We kick things off with exciting news about the F1 movie releasing June 26th, exploring how it might impact the sim racing community and hoping it showcases how professional drivers use simulators for training. The conversation then shifts to Tokyo Extreme Racer 2025, a refreshing arcade-style alternative for when you can't access your full rig. Set entirely at night on Tokyo's iconic highways, this game features 50 licensed JDM cars, extensive customization options including engine swaps, and remarkably, zero microtransactions – a welcome departure from today's gaming landscape.

SimMagic continues to expand their hardware lineup with a new $40 haptic pedal reactor designed specifically for throttle pedals, alongside pre-configured wheel options based on their Neo hub. Meanwhile, newcomer Conspit challenges established brands with their GT300 carbon fiber wheel, offering premium materials and a built-in display at a competitive $400 price point. We analyze how these offerings stack up and what they mean for consumers navigating the increasingly diverse mid-range sim racing market.

The episode concludes with our Track of the Week segment featuring Barber Motorsport Park – an extraordinary facility born from one man's passion for racing and collecting. What began with a dairy business transformed into a world-class racing venue housing the largest motorcycle collection on Earth, certified by Guinness. The 2.38-mile track weaves through sculptural artwork and forested hillsides, creating one of America's most unique and beautiful racing destinations.

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Jason:

This episode is brought to you by Trophyai. We discuss all things in the sim racing world. I'm your host, jason Rivera, and I'm joined here by Mr Eric Kelly and Jeff Smart. How's everybody doing this week?

Erick:

Doing good man. How about yourself?

Jeff:

Dude, it's the highlight of the week, but we're just clicking these weeks off, aren't we?

Jason:

I'm telling you we are it's mid-June already or sometime or probably end Coming close to the end here, yeah three quarters of the way through the month.

Erick:

Yeah, june's flying by, man. You know what that means. Oh yeah, yes, sir, a little bit closer Tim.

Jason:

Gaming Expo.

Erick:

Oh, yeah, coming soon.

Jason:

You know, speaking of that, george hit me up the other day and said that we still have the highest sold tickets. They keep selling. So I mean I told him highest sold tickets, they keep selling. So I mean I told them I don't make sense, I don't want to profit, I really I don't want nothing, I just want people to go. So it's not too late, guys to use that code, chicane 10. It's still active.

Jeff:

You can still use that and I see he commented on our recent video, noting that we have 79 days left till the show, which, by the time you guys are listening to this, it's probably like 72. Yep.

Jason:

Right, it's getting up there, man, it is. I'm trying not to think about it, just let it come, and as soon as we hit September, I'll start getting. Well, actually, september, it might be too early, I think end of July, that's when I'll start gearing up for like, okay, here we go, we're going over here, so but yeah overall man, I'll tell you guys, been a tough last week.

Jason:

I'll tell you now I'm in a better mood today than ever and I contemplated bringing this up on the show. But my little dog passed away and it was very sudden and she left me a goodbye gift and that was sitting on my thousand dollar pedals. I have to joke about it, but I was really in a tough spot and the guys here they called me up and checked on me. So I have to put it out there because people might ask for an update on. I don't know if I damaged my pedals or something, but she lived a long life and she was a piece of me, went with her.

Jason:

So I haven't had much sleep and it's not a sob story at all. I don't want nobody feeling sorry or anything, but I do appreciate the um, the warm, I guess, the support I've had. You know for for the ones close to me, so really appreciate that. So that's how this week um has gone for me. I have not been in the rig at all because, believe it or not, that's that was her favorite place, because every time I sat in that rig she, she sat on my lap with me. So I don't know how she did it with the wind simulator blowing all kinds of noises and stuff, she would fall asleep there.

Jason:

So that's how my week went, and it's a part of life, right, so I have to man up and just life moves on. So, eric, how was your week, sir? Oh, by the way, happy Father's Day, guys.

Erick:

I think we're a little past that. Thank you, thank you Happy.

Jason:

Father's Day to all the fathers out there, all the sim racing dads too, yeah yeah. How was your week, Eric? Start with you, brother.

Erick:

Yeah, my week was good, Flew by. We wrapped up a couple of things with the girls. Dance is officially wrapped up, had recitals this past weekend. So that was great. Girls did wonderful, had a good time. So happy to have that out the way Week freed up a little bit more Another season down. Shout out to all the dance dads and dance girls out there.

Jason:

That's what's up, man. What about you, Jeff? How was your week, sir?

Jeff:

Dude, it flew by. No, it was good. I got a little bit of driving in in the sim, but I mean, father's Day was spectacular. I mean, if you're listening to this it's a week later, so we can't be held responsible for spoilers. So my Mercedes did fantastic in Montreal.

Jason:

Oh, they did.

Jeff:

I was walking a little taller today in the last couple of days seeing the race as George came out on top, so that was good. But, gentlemen, also I think we'd be remiss if we didn't bring up F1. The Movie comes out on the 26th of june, um, and I think I just want to say, like, if you're not even an open wheel guy, as long as you're, if you're just a racer, they say that the racing scenes on it are just spectacular. So I'm gonna go see it. But everybody that listens to this show already knows that I'm an open wheel guy. So, um, I think you should go. I'm gonna go give it a go. Um, I am interested to see if it's gonna bring more attention to sim racing. I mean, that's what got me into. It is f1 you know from, uh, the netflix drive to survive and then it articulated into sim racing. But I'm curious to see.

Jason:

I hope they have like a like a segment in the movie that'd be dope because they do do have simulators that help them test and build setups. So I hope they show some of that.

Jeff:

That will definitely spike the halo and it better not be on the halo of F1 the game, oh my gosh you know it's going to be on there, you know it. That would just be like thanks, Rob Markman. That would ruin it completely. Rob Markman.

Erick:

I guess you got to. Hey, beggars can be choosers. I guess, though, rob Markman, that's fair.

Jason:

Rob Markman, I think we were talking about it. I think the what is that? The premiere's out and by the time you guys see this, the reviews will probably most likely be out already, and they were saying good things about it. So I have high hopes. I want it to do well. I'm a fan of the sport and having Lewis Hamilton the seven-time world champion or eight-time world champion, depending on who you ask he's played a big role in the creation of the movie and I just I can't wait to see what a modern, you know F1 movie looks like, if that makes sense. So I think the last F1 movie we've had was what was it? Is it Crash? I forget what it's called, and that was quite a while ago. It was the story of Niki Lauda and James Hunt, I believe, which was a great movie.

Jeff:

Rob Markman. Yeah, it's the same director, is it James? I forget who? Jerry Bruckheimer, I think that did the new Top Gun movie and they said they used a lot of the same Rob Markman.

Jason:

Oh, it's going to be good.

Erick:

Rob Markman.

Jeff:

A lot of the same camera angles and camera.

Erick:

yeah, so can't wait, fellas, can't wait. All right, that's going to be legit, all right? I sure hope so.

Jason:

Well, let us know in the comments if you're going to go watch the F1 movie, if you've seen it, and let us know your thoughts, without spoiling, please.

Erick:

Yeah.

Jason:

Careful reading these guys. Make sure you go to the movies first and then read the comments. But today, a little bit more relaxed, I have for the first topic of the day, main discussion. I want to talk about Tokyo Extreme Racer. It's not really a simulator, it's more of an arcade racer. But I'm thinking it's summertime, a lot of families go on vacation and or some of you may travel, and I'm always looking for ways to have something on the go. I guess you know I have a big trip coming up and it's a lot of hours on an airplane, you know, and everyone seems to fall asleep around me every time I get on the plane, every time I get on the plane. So I have a good option for you, for those that have a handheld PC or hell, even a simulator, because you can still hook up wheels and pedals to it.

Jason:

But Tokyo stream racer, it's, you know, it's the new. I think the last one was back in 2007. So we've been waiting for quite a while for a new one and it was supposed to launch. It came in open. What is that? Uh, early access, and it was supposed to launch like around this time, maybe may time frame, and something happened that they delayed it to september. So I just want to you know, let you guys know that I purchased the game months ago and I've been playing it and it's really good. It's not nothing like any other early access games that we have access to that are just straight up broken, but this thing works. I mean, granted, it's not a sim, but I'll give you some notes I have here. It's set on the iconic Shutoku Expressway and Wangan route, of course the Tokyo Highway, iconic shutoku expressway and wangan route, of course the tokyo highway. So that's kind of how it it gained its fame. It's, it's. The entire game is at night. The entire game is racing on the highway and you have to flicker your lights behind the car yeah, you do you invite the guy to race and then oh, okay

Jason:

after about like 10 rivals, uh, their class leader shows up and he flashes the lights on you and you got to beat him. And then that's how you unlock mufflers. You could do engine swaps on this thing. I had a oh that's cool. I had a Civic with a Supra engine in it, like a 2JZ in it. It was stupid back then. Oh, that's crazy. It was stupid back then, that's crazy. So it has 50 licensed Japanese cars, from the classic JDM Iconics to the modern stuff. It has 216 name rivals. I mentioned About 110 miles of road, and when I mean 110 miles, I mean like real 110 miles, like for you to do a loop around. This thing is going to take. Well, it depends how fast you're going, right.

Jason:

Take an hour change depending how fast you're going if you get to stop. It's built on yeah man, it's built on the latest Unreal Engine 5.4. It's super smooth, runs at 4, 4k 60, has a great soundtrack. And here's the thing, guys, ea, are you listening? It has mouse support that's one it has mouse support and it's a game built for consoles.

Jason:

Really, what a novel idea and it has zero microtransactions Zero, so it has no microtransactions. It's purely single player based. It's been in early access for four months now and yeah, that's kind of it.

Erick:

Yeah, go ahead.

Jason:

Eric.

Erick:

So you say it's console based. Which console are you planning on?

Jason:

So right now the early access is pc only uh okay, pc okay but it's planned to release on all major except for the switch.

Jason:

I I would say xbox and playstation, but the one back in 07 was a playstation um release and then later, I believe, it came to dreamcast or xbox or something like that. I know, wait, excuse me, 2007 was the latest installment, but the first games came out in PlayStation 2 era and the Dreamcast era Dreamcast, dreamcast. So it's a company called Genki. They're out of Japan and, yeah, it's a lot of fun. You can hook up the cards, you can drop them, you can install different parts. Have you guys ever been to an arcade where it's like a Japanese racer and then it'll spit out an identification card and every time you go to the machine, you put that identification card and it had all your car, your setup and everything. It's kind of like that. Okay, yeah.

Erick:

That sounds cool, man. So imagine having Try that out.

Jason:

Yeah, imagine having. You can have it on the go, but then imagine having one of those rigs or arcades right here. If you just want to have fun, if you're not worried about lap times or anything like that, I mean it's not really a lap time game, it's.

Jason:

It's more about I'm in front of you and yeah, I mean a casual racer like yeah okay, seems like a perfect game to just, you know, kind of pass the time and you know yeah, if you yeah, like you're saying if you're getting on a plane or something yeah, if you're getting on a plane or you're super bored or you go on a business trip and you can't bring your simulator with you, I mean, and even if you could, are you really going to race on a controller and just ruin your progress? You know you want to take a break from everything and just either go out, watch a movie or just say, hey, you know, like I know, some people take their VR headsets and they'll watch movies and like a hundred and screen or something like that. Or F1, I've heard, I know Jeff sometimes watches F1 in a virtual space, but yeah, it's awesome.

Jeff:

This is a good option it's.

Jason:

it's a great game. I highly recommend it. Um, a lot of people have been waiting for it. It looks beautiful and it runs on virtually game. I highly recommend it. Um, a lot of people have been waiting for it. It looks beautiful and it runs on virtually anything. I have a Legion go and that's a portable handheld PC and it runs great. So I mean any potato PC out there can run this thing.

Jason:

So and that's a Tokyo extreme racer 2025, a lot of us been waiting for it. So that's my topic for today and let me know what you think. If you picked it up, let me know what you think about it. It's good, I like it. It's fun. Again, very. This is sim racing podcast, but again, we can't sim race everywhere, you know.

Erick:

At least I can drive these cars on the toilet, you know while I wait for my next stint, not mess up your R rating, huh.

Jason:

That's it. Yeah, man, and I want to add in one more thing and I'm done, finished with the topic. But this is going to be a shocker. But I want to try my hand at oval racing. So I bought an Arca series car, I don't know, I bought the.

Erick:

Toyota Camry. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.

Jason:

Yeah, it's a D class. But then I started looking at the tracks, bro, and I added all the tracks to my cart. It was like $300.

Erick:

I was like damn, oh, yeah, yeah card, it was like three hundred dollars.

Jeff:

I was like, damn, oh yeah, you could. Yeah, I mean, it's some of those d class and rookie. Uh, that's right. Are you out of rookie? Yeah, I am not out of laps um laps, and rookie can be under like 20 seconds yeah they're yeah, quick yeah quick. It's like spinning laps in your living room.

Jason:

I don't know. I felt like trying something new.

Jeff:

It's totally different.

Jason:

Yeah, test out that different side of the sim racing, right? Because I keep reading about updates and improvements, enhancements to NASCAR, and I'm like, well, damn it, let me try these freaking. Can I get some of these? We got the GT3 model, the tire model, which is awesome. That's about it. Everything else went to. Nascar yeah.

Erick:

Yeah, I'm interested as well I don't know if it's Jeff, jeff, just seems so excited when he's talking about it.

Jeff:

Like he's having a blast.

Erick:

I'm like I might need to try that.

Jeff:

My recommendation is don't do like legit NASCAR until you're out of D class. I did it once. Think of like F1 or F4 at the first corner times like a million Because, like you're driving, you didn't move the wheel and you just like switch lanes. You know like just because you like drift, drift, you know the wind and stuff and the drift and, uh, making it through one of a ad class like nascar or truck series race is a crapshoot. I know it's wicked fun. I'm in, it's wicked fun, let's do it.

Jason:

I'm in for it.

Jeff:

Swear to god it's coming, so interested to hear about your progress as you do it.

Jason:

Hell yeah, man, I will keep everyone up to date here and tell you when I rage quit, because that's probably what's going to happen sooner than later. But that's it for me today. Over to Eric the big boss. What's going on?

Erick:

Hey, what's going on? Man's going on, man. So, yeah, um, today got an old, tried and true um, you know company that we mentioned on the channel here. Uh, my favorite, and jeff's as well, sim magic, is back at it again. They got some new hardware here, so I just want to share what they got cooking for you guys. Um, and to be honest, well, actually all of it's technically new. I was going to say one piece of it is kind of just like a reconfiguration, but we'll start out with the totally new piece. Another reactor All right, so they come out with another.

Erick:

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Erick:

So this one slots in between. I don't know if you remember they came out with the little Neo like $16 haptic a while back.

Erick:

Yes, they have their original kind of like $70 haptic. The bigger one, this one slots kind of right in the middle there, so it's $40. It's a linear haptic pedal reactor and they actually kind of give you like a scenario for it, like which pedal, like it's almost like a they kind of intended for like the throttle. So I guess they noticed most people weren't buying like three of the bigger haptics or two of them, because really with the bigger one mostly you get the best effects on the brake pedal, because on the throttle there's not really much going on, especially if you got bass shakers.

Erick:

But this little one, I guess, with it being a little bit less expensive, um, they kind of wanted to put something out there for the throttle pedal. So, um, you can see the guy has it on his throttle there in that pick, and I thought they had another image. Uh, yeah, this one right here. So, as you can see, on the break down here at the bottom, they have the bigger haptic and they have two of the little, uh, these little mid-tier haptics on the clutch and the throttle pedal. So, um, I don't know, it seems to me like the little $16 one. It's kind of too good to be true. I don't know if it just wasn't received well, so they were like we need to do a little bit better quality.

Jason:

Nothing I've never heard. I even forgot about them. It's wild right.

Jeff:

We didn't even hear that they were terrible or they were great, it's just silence.

Erick:

I'd be surprised if people just couldn't get them. I mean $16 final product. If mean $16, like final product. It's like if you're ordering, something you're like ah, $16,.

Jeff:

throw it in, yeah.

Erick:

And yeah interesting.

Erick:

Yeah.

Erick:

I guess you got to make money somehow. But yeah, full of SimHub support. You know they kind of mentioned some, you know, extra parameters here, Mounting options here yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jeff:

So you went out. So, basically, without probably 3d printing stuff, it looks like it's just well they're. They're just saying it's uh, simagic pedals, but I'm sure it's with a simple 3d print, something you could fit onto other stuff oh, definitely.

Erick:

Yeah, pretty much the same way with the other ones, and if you got the little box already for the other pedals, add this one on and plug it up and oh, the same, the same adapter okay for power.

Erick:

Yeah, so nice, yeah, I think this is a nice, nice addition. Um, I guess 40 bucks maybe, if you've kind of got all the other you know wishlist items on your rig. You're looking for something to add a little extra razzle, dazzle, you know, throw this in your clutch and your your throttle, you know. But yeah, so that is the haptic. And so now we'll take a look at something else that they have been cooking up. So a little while ago, in the spirit of the Neo, they came out with their Neo wheel hub a while back and this was like a universal hub that allows you to take pretty much, you know, not any wheel, but a lot of variety of wheels and have a SIM hub, compatible hub that you can kind of bolt onto them. You can add clutches and you know you get funky switches and a lot of other inputs and stuff and you can do your. You know Daniel Newman racing LED profiles on it.

Erick:

And so now they've actually come up with some pre-configured options.

Jason:

Oh cool.

Erick:

And some new wheel types.

Jason:

Oh, that looks a lot better than the first picture.

Erick:

Yeah, yeah.

Jason:

What's going on over there? Yeah, I see this.

Erick:

So this is. They got kind of like their little naming convention here. This is the 330T option and they have a couple others. Here they have the 310G, which is a I don't know what you call this style wheel. That looks pretty sporty.

Erick:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm thinking about getting this, just because right now all I have is the Neo and I have the GT1. Whatever SimMagic's little kind of leather round wheel is, but obviously the hub on that isn't SimHub compatible, and so they got some other options. This is another one, so this is almost like the updated version of my wheel, just with a SimHub compatible hub on it.

Jason:

So you see where it says 330? That's the, the millimeter. Yeah, yeah, the diameter. So the r for around w, for the click on the w. I'm just, uh, or maybe, maybe I'm, maybe I have it wrong here yeah, so this one, I know what this one in particular.

Erick:

I think this is supposed to be more like a drift style wheel yeah, it's dished, it's, yeah, it's dished yeah and um, because people talking about different configurations with just the hub when they first came out, and some people were, you know, coming out with different ways. You can mount the hub on a dish wheel, and so I guess somatic said, hey, we'll give you one out the box I don't like, I don't like the way this looks at all.

Jason:

The other one looks way better when you, when you put the plate, when you put the actual wheel in front of the plate oh yeah, not have the um is it like you know the the? You know, yeah, because then it hides it kind of meshes with the wheel.

Erick:

Yeah, it gives you that kind of flush right there. Yeah, and I don't do any drifting, so I'm not sure. Well, for drifting you don't really need buttons.

Jason:

man, honestly, you need a clutch and you need a e-brake. There's really not many buttons other than your headlights, which I can see. There's a headlight thing there, but there's not really much to do to the car, you know. Oh, here it is. There's the details right there.

Jeff:

We're talking about new Simagic gear, whether it be haptics, a wheel or base or something. I'm not sure there's any company that pushes out products as quick as Simagic does. Yeah, and a lot of this is just you know it looks like similar bases, you know with different wheels plastered on, you know mated to them, but nonetheless it's still just continuing to push out stuff.

Erick:

Yeah, it's in my mind. They're catering to their audience, which, at the price point they're selling this stuff at, especially with the steering wheels, kind of more entry-level stuff, and so people that might not have the knowledge to just buy a hub and buy a wheel and go through that process. They kind of give you some out-the-box stuff Right, which I think is cool.

Jason:

It depends what you're looking for, right A hundred percent.

Erick:

It depends.

Jason:

Yeah, but I'm curious about this Because you have Rally style right, which is, I would say, it's hard to say just by looking at them. I'd love to try them.

Erick:

And that's the thing too like for the price, because the Neo X Hub by itself is $200. And so when you look at the prices of these wheels, like the wheel in the hub, you know leather-wrapped CNC aluminum, you know leather wrapped um cnc aluminum, you know they're not, you know, crazy, especially if you just want to try something this is probably going at the people like oh, I don't know if it's compatible, this is just, I can click this and it'll work.

Jeff:

I don't have to worry about mating it. You know adapters or anything. You can just click it, it's at the house, hook it up and you go there's. There's no like learning curve, if you will, when it comes to compatibility.

Erick:

Yeah and you're. You're in that ecosystem. So if you got a sim magic you know base already you got some magic pedals. The more options they give you, the more opportunities you have to stay in that ecosystem as well. So you don't have to worry about compatibility. Or you know what hub do I have to get, or you know stuff like that. I think it's you know they got a good business model.

Jason:

I think you get a leg up by using a SimMagic hub. If you want to stay in the ecosystem because the hub is powered, so then there's no wire, right, Unless you wanted to use. They need to figure that out. Unless you wanted to use SimHub, then you would need to plug in the USB. Talk to me.

Erick:

Eric.

Jeff:

Talk to me.

Erick:

So I don't know when this feature is going to enter the final stages, but on the new set of bases that came out they did say that they are working on wireless connectivity for wireless PC connection for the wheels. So you would need the Mag, Not MagSafe.

Jeff:

MagLink.

Erick:

Yeah, you would need the.

Erick:

MagLink.

Jason:

So there is wireless wheels out there. I know asher makes some semi-cube, has some prices gotta go up, though yeah no, actually the price is very, very similar. It's like close to the same it's. The problem with wireless wheels is that they run off bluetooth and bluetooth can be interfered. There could be some interference with it and they're battery powered. So I mean that's another thing that you have to charge, which I'm not a fan of, rob Markman.

Erick:

Oh, the wheels are battery powered. Oh, so they don't get enough power from the base to run the wheels.

Jason:

If I'm not mistaken, the wireless antenna is wireless, but it needs to be charged you know and if you plug it in, then that just defeated you, just defeated the purpose right there by plugging it in you bring up a great point, yeah, yeah. So if you're racing a 24-hour race, I would be nervous as shit. Running a wireless wheel, you know, rob Markman, oh yeah.

Erick:

That'd be wild. Rob Markman Checks out.

Jason:

Rob Markman yeah. Any glitch in the wheel or any opportunity for the wheel to just have a momentary disconnect can be catastrophic. Rob Markman yeah.

Jeff:

That's nothing to be scared of, rob Markman, it's not something to be thinking about, rob Markman.

Jason:

Yeah, there's nothing to be scared about, rob Markman.

Erick:

Yeah, rob Markman, I'm like man, I'm nervous just thinking about you doing that race. And Rob Markman, after like $18.

Jason:

Rob Markman, those are my thoughts, though those are my thoughts. I'm pretty sure someone watching this has a wireless wheel and they're going to fight me to death saying that that's never happened to me before and I've been sim racing 25, 100 years, rob years.

Erick:

That's right.

Erick:

And it's never happened to me. And more power to you.

Erick:

Yeah let. Jason, have it in the comments. Let him know what your experience has been.

Jason:

I'm ready.

Erick:

If it's been great or if it's been terrible. Let us know that as well. All right, yeah, but that pretty much wraps up the Sim Hub. I mean the Sim Magic show. I did the Sim Magic show. I did have another little small topic to discuss. You know LMU is having. You know, have a little time right now before, you know, iracing comes and steals all their, all their glory. But they are going to be leaving Early Access on July 22nd and they're going to be giving a couple of little goodies. They're going to be releasing a couple new cars the Mercedes AMG LMGT3 and the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR, lmh. That's a mouthful.

Jason:

Yeah, so that's good, that is a mouthful man. What good that is a mouthful man, what?

Erick:

yeah, it is good and the the car is a beast, um, at least visually. Anyway, I'll say that, and so we'll put up a picture of the car. They didn't have the gt3 mercedes on their site, they just had like a. I was like a clay model of it or like a non-textured, non-finished model of it, but I do have a picture of the valkyrie which looks badass. That's the only way to describe it really.

Jason:

So get that pulled up for you guys, and I'll tell you the LMU right now is not doing too well. They updated their tire model. They did something to their physics. I tried it the other day.

Erick:

Oh yeah, so it wasn't just me. Then I don't feel bad.

Jason:

I'm not a fan. Guys, I got to be honest with you I'm not a fan of this sim. I got to be honest with you I'm not a fan of this sim. Go iRacing, be yourself, baby.

Jeff:

That thing is wicked looking.

Erick:

Yeah, Like I said it's a mean looking vehicle.

Jason:

Oh yeah, aston bro, aston Martin shirt. Right here, let's go.

Jeff:

Yeah.

Jason:

That green and neon, they got that color scheme down.

Jeff:

That color combo is clean.

Erick:

Yeah, definitely looks good and kind of piggybacking off your experience with LMU. I've heard great things about it. That was why I kind of wanted to check it out, but for me the force feedback has been great, right, I think a lot of people oh, yeah, force. Feedback is awesome Force feedback is but just kind of the I don't know how to describe it, but just like the racing never really.

Jason:

I think to me.

Erick:

I don't know if it's different, because it's a different style, different cars. To me it's the braking.

Jason:

The braking. Is really? This game wants you to be overly aggressive on the brakes and it doesn't. I think Morad, daniel Morad he covered this on a video he made a few months ago or weeks ago, and he said that he said that same thing. I'm feeling and I'm not taking it off of the guy's mouth or anything but I went in there with a blind, like you know, a clean slate and said all right, let's see what the game is like after a few months, because now you're telling me that the game is ready for prime time. So now I'm gonna expect a full product very soon and everything needs to work. Every single thing needs to work, you know.

Jeff:

So we'll get back to you on this, I promise those people that, like lmu, though, will go down swing it. They, they love it oh, I'm telling you it's people that you're. It's kind of like you're all in or all out? Yeah, yeah.

Erick:

And I guess, kind of talking about the point of just the different cars and this might just be my lack of experience what other I guess, if you like racing those types of cars, what would be another sim that you could kind of get that same experience in?

Jeff:

Like prototype. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah, iracing has prototypes.

Jason:

It has all of them.

Jeff:

Do you have to be what class? Do you need a B license to drive prototypes? I?

Jason:

think A.

Jeff:

Yeah A, so that's going to keep a lot of people a barrier.

Jason:

Don't quote us on that. There might be an event here and there that allows you.

Jeff:

Does AMS too have some prototypes?

Jason:

No, but we have IMSA bro, we have IMSA series in iRacing, which is essentially what we're looking at here. And yes, the answer is yes, I think AMS2 does have prototypes in there, and AC content manager. There's not a car you can't race in AC.

Erick:

I've been driving the hell out of it lately. I've seen it in the background bro.

Erick:

Oh yeah, With mouth support, huh With mouth support.

Jeff:

They bought like a decade ago, that's it, I think.

Erick:

Gran.

Erick:

Turismo has hypercars, so there's really I'm having a hard time Shout out to. Gran Turismo has hyper cars. So there's really I'm having a hard time Shout out to Gran Turismo. I appreciate that Jason?

Jeff:

Who said that I can't?

Jason:

believe.

Erick:

I said that.

Jason:

You know I take that back 100%. I'm not all there to this week, guys. You already know I'm not all there, oh man.

Erick:

But yeah, so that's the end of the good news for the update. So they did say they're coming out with a single player career mode. They said they're going to have sponsors, driver ratings, cash, media options and some form of insurance. And that'll come, they say right now, Q1 2026. Damn, so the game's not finished. So what are?

Jason:

you talking about.

Erick:

Is the game finished or is it not finished, like?

Erick:

Make up your mind bro. Look, when you kind of mentioned like hey, I'm expecting a full finished product, Right, it was kind of like in my head like wait till you hear this. And then they say they're working on a console version, but that's at least a year away.

Jason:

Listen bro you go to a restaurant. You order food and they say the food's ready, but they ain't got steak. And they tell you when the food? Yeah, we got your food, but the steak is going to take two weeks.

Erick:

I'm going to go catatonic on you, bro. That's it.

Jason:

You just told me that the food is ready. Make up your mind.

Erick:

Two weeks. No, we're still raising the cow. Yeah.

Erick:

That's raw, it's not even butchered.

Jason:

The cow is 100% grass-fed, so we got them back there, but the food's ready.

Jeff:

That's funny, your potatoes. We got those coming right up.

Jason:

We got those coming right up. That's wild. I tell you that is the funniest shit I've heard in this entire week. It has to be, because you can't tell me that something's done and then plan. You know what it is. Is the sugar coating? Um, what do you not sugar coating? Give me the word, er Eric. What is it?

Jeff:

It's gaslight Shit pushing.

Jason:

You know, when somebody feeds you and they keep you coming and it's a little bit and a little bit and a little bit, oh, kind of spoon, feed you Spoon, yeah, like a slow drip, here you go son.

Jeff:

Just enough to keep you around.

Jason:

We got the good shit the applesauce, your favorite but that's coming in Q1 of 2026.

Jeff:

Yeah, we're going to catch hell.

Erick:

We're in a drought.

Jeff:

Right now we're in a drought. We're going to catch hell from the LMU users here Come on.

Erick:

Oh yeah, I'm telling you, I am ready, I am ready.

Jason:

Arms out, eye racing, full toe. We got everything, man. We got it there. It's been there. I don't know, we got to add a little spice to this, guys. Chicane Podcast is straight, no chaser, so please leave hate below.

Erick:

Yeah, we're people, we got opinions, so that's just kind of where we are.

Jason:

Okay, if I'm going to say a good thing about it. I think the sound of the cars is great. I think the graphics are awesome. I think there's many things that they can improve on. If we're going to compare LMU to how iRacing started, then that's not a fair comparison, is it? But LMU has the potential to be way better than what it is. I will say that. I will say that the game's not utter trash, don't get me wrong. But if I'm going to put time into something, then I want it to be as realistic as possible and I want those skills to translate to other Sims, if that makes sense. If I'm just just gonna waste my time, we're driving these cars that feel off, they don't feel realistic, and we're getting information from real like drivers that drive because none of you most of you have never been in a racing car.

Erick:

Let's just be honest with each other, jason you never drove a prototype you never drove I'm telling you, my brother has one man making, just making assumptions out here. Man, that's his commuter, bro.

Jason:

So it's all fun and games, guys, but listen, at the end of the day I got to end it with a positive note Drive what you like If you love LMU. If you're married to LMU, then stay married. I'm not telling you to do anything, but iRacing is a great sim. Acc is a great sim, and if you're married to LMU, then stay married. I'm not telling you to do anything, but iRacing is a great sim. Acc is a great sim. Ac awesome sim. Unlimited content. Tell me that there's a limit with it, because there is none. So unlimited content. You'll die before you have to. You could try everything.

Jeff:

Or you'll run out of hard drive space your computer.

Jason:

Computer's gonna explode by the time you're done transferring everything. So, um, yeah, well, thanks, eric. I really appreciate that and we'll move over to the next topic. Jeff, what's up what you got for us? Man want to have a live coach available on demand. With Trophy AI, you'll be able to practice with Mansell AI at your convenience A real-time coach in your headphones to navigate and guide you through the track, helping you achieve race pace. This tool is awesome as it provides full brake, throttle and steering telemetry on screen, with a live review getting you ready for your next big race. Check links to Trophy AI in the description and also use CHICAIN12 in all caps for a 12% discount.

Jeff:

All right, I think this is kind of a great segue, with Eric talking about Simagic and a lot of More hardware okay.

Jeff:

Yeah. So Simagic, like we just brought up, is kind of addressing a lot of that entry-level market when it comes to price point and what you're getting. So I was on the Facebooks this week and I think it was Facebook or Instagram where I saw a Dan Suzuki video where he was talking about he got himself a new wheel and I'm going to share it here because I thought it was super interesting. Because I thought it was super interesting. So it is Conspit. They have a bunch of other products, but this is the one that kind of caught my eye that Dan Suzuki was talking about and this is very, you know, neo-esque, if you will.

Jason:

What is that? The 300? What is it called again?

Jeff:

Yep, this is the GT300. It's their new wheel that they just released. And the reason I'm going to come out right out the gate and why I say that this is going after the neo is how much do we say the name the neo is 300 round 280 but then if you want, you know, if you want sim hub support for the full 300, I guess okay call, okay, call it even so. And the Neo is molded plastic or injected plastic, abs or whatever we want to call it.

Jason:

Yes. So there's some carbon in there, but it's not really you know what I mean. It's not 100% carbon, yeah.

Jeff:

So this wheel no plastic, it's a carbon fiber base with the screen and ready, 400 bucks, wow. So you get your butterfly wheel and a small screen LED bars. You got four rotaries, and I'm going to scroll through here and kind of talk to a little bit more, but just kind of give everybody a good look over this thing. But this is actually like a real carbon fiber, which is fairly surprising for a, a um I do like the rotaries man.

Jason:

You see that rotary on the, on the grips yeah, it's a huge fan of that, yeah um, and you know it's.

Jeff:

You'll see it's got the three rotaries in the middle or the excuse me the Multipositional switches. Multipositional switch and the middle one when you switch it Jason, help me out here when you switch it, and then you can use the rotaries to work through different menus.

Jason:

Yeah, so it doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't act like an input, it acts kind of like a toggle. So it will toggle one button, it will toggle one switch. There's a word for this, but I want to break it down, because this is, this is our show I want to break it down so you know what you're doing. So if you turn once, if you have your switches, you basically have that. Looks like a 12 position, right yeah?

Jason:

I believe it is yes so 12 o'clock and then six o'clock on the bottom, whatever. So if you want the second dial to control abs, then two other buttons open up for that mapping. So that's basically what this is doing. It's kind of like what my asher um does, and I think the neo actually got an update later on in its life to be able to do this type of functionality. But the thing is that by using that middle switch you lose functionality with that switch. That switch is just. It becomes a permanent, basically a toggle. It becomes like a mode switch like it says alright, this is mode 1, ab, mode 2, ab and etc. Etc. So I love this setup. It becomes like a mode switch Like it says all right, this is mode one, ab, mode two, ab and et cetera, et cetera. So I love this setup a hundred percent, more than just having a dial that's locked into one thing. You know what I mean that you may or may not use often.

Jeff:

Right, yeah, so um, it comes with two funky buttons on each side or a funky switches, funky buttons, led bar on the cross. You do not get any ones on the side.

Erick:

Um, and also keep scrolling here there's no speak of the diameter of what you get, so it does look quite narrow.

Jeff:

I don't know it's. It's hard to tell, you know, uh, in the picture it could, yeah, it could be any of those.

Erick:

But it doesn't look a little cramped. I don't know how big those dials are on the bottom, but just thinking about kind of like on a NIO but at the 300, it's probably 300.

Jeff:

But the finish for a wheel of this price point is pretty solid here, gentlemen. I mean, this is carbon fiber inlets and they're going to go down too. But here's the part that I want to kind of talk to. Here is what do they not show here? No SimHub compatibility.

Jason:

No way. So it's. Oh, what a fail, man. When are people?

Jeff:

I don't want to say I'm not gonna say it's not, but I can't, I couldn't find it, it sucks.

Jason:

But can someone please confirm? If it is yeah?

Erick:

I would love to test the hardware.

Jeff:

I just don't have it and that's a showstopper for a lot of people, right, but they really are a lot. They're selling this carbon fiber like legit carbon fiber, base and model and stuff, or the base and the faceplate.

Jason:

You know here more, more about the well, honestly, jeff t300 300 might stand for. I mean, I may be wrong, but it might stand for 300 mil, you know, because that's oh, fair enough gt wheels are typically ideally in the 300 range, you know plus or minus perfect 10.

Jeff:

Yeah, I mean that's pretty cool, as you know that you don't see that at the price point for that. Yeah, so that in aluminum you got your base I think that's cool man, because even though the screen is tiny, I mean it.

Jason:

You still have a screen for under for the price. I mean I don't. You can't really beat that for simple info, and that's kind of why it may or may not be-.

Erick:

Simplified compatible.

Jason:

Yeah, proprietary. Because they wanted to build a custom dash for it to fit those elements in there, if that makes sense.

Jeff:

And that ratio of screen is not one that you see often no, you know what are we talking maybe an inch and a half, by four maybe that looks like you know one of those.

Jason:

I have one of those lap timers or race logics yeah, oh yeah and if that's what that's on there, that's really. That's really small, even with 20 wait.

Jeff:

Oh hold on this. I missed this. I apologize.

Erick:

Team here okay, you think you put this all over the place you, just you, that's we've

Jeff:

been sorry man why would they hide this at the bottom?

Erick:

yeah, I don't know. Well, you need, you need the, you need the link.

Jason:

You see that, yeah, which is probably the standard.

Jeff:

You know link that most of us are running. It does, I'm sorry, I have seen it. It's the nice cable that you screw on the back and then it works a coil and then it goes into the PC via USB.

Erick:

So one thing I'll say here that they're saying with the SimHub support, is it just the leds? It didn't say screen, did it? Yeah, it just said leds and telemetry.

Jason:

So I'm pretty sure.

Erick:

Look at that yeah so look at those look at those.

Erick:

Um are those encoders like specific to control the screen?

Jeff:

I there's probably like menus and, and you know, sub menus, that button click and you can roll menu, Cause I think it said it comes with six different dashes built in. You know, similar to my soul pack has. I don't use any of them, but it has the option for them. You can always.

Erick:

Yeah, that's how they're saying purpose them, yup, yeah.

Jeff:

So, but I think this is awesome.

Erick:

This is a decently priced wheel with a lot of tech built into it at a good price. The more competition, the better.

Jason:

Honestly, conspit is already known for quality stuff, so this might be the Neo killer.

Jeff:

You have a three-inch display, yeah.

Erick:

Which is Five bash pages and more to come.

Jason:

Which is better than nothing. I mean, you get carbon fiber paddles, you got the-.

Jeff:

So it just keeps going on and I'm going to go back up to the one of the pictures just so we can kind of chat about it. But uh, yeah, this is what I've kind of have chalked up to being like the, the neo competition there for 100 bucks more. Is that a data point that people are going to be like?

Jason:

oh you know, I would pay I would pay the hundred dollars more if I was shopping for a product like this, just because of the dials on the grips and I believe that on the backside of the wheel there's buttons, so you see where the exit button and the pink button is. There's actually touch buttons on the back that you could map as….

Jeff:

Like DRS or whatever you wanted, right push to pass drs uh battery. Whatever it is you want to do, because there's 110 buttons that you can map obviously different go ahead. Sorry, different combinations, like you were saying with yours that you can you can, oh man it's endless, endless. So anyways, I thought this was a fairly. I had never heard of Conspit, the company here, so I just figured I'd bring it to everybody's attention here. And a great alternative to the Neo. A little bit of extra cheddar, but nonetheless interesting.

Jason:

All right man. So, conspit, if you're listening, I would love to. Any of us would love to review this wheel and check it out here in the studio. But I mean, at this point that's really good, man. We're seeing more stuff, we're seeing more hardware come out.

Jeff:

I mean Send one to Daniel Newman too, so he can build a profile for it. There it is, immediately there, you go there it is.

Jason:

If it's not supported, already shout out if it's not already yeah so all right, guys. Well, it's that time, man. What time it's that time that we skipped last week let's go but it's that time for track of the week and it's yours truly. So let me go ahead and share my screen and get my notes up and get the-. Rob Markman.

Jeff:

What you got for us this week big dog.

Jason:

Rob Markman. I will tell you now. I have my notes here. Let me share it. Once I share it, you shall see. But it is Barber Motorsport and this came by request, you know. So by request of a follower. If you guys would like a specific track of the week, then send us an email at thechicanepodcast at gmailcom and if we haven't covered it or planned, we might take that into consideration. Yeah, happily, 100%. So let me my rig is going crazy, I know Before you get into this.

Jeff:

What does this one look like? Because I have a clue what this one looks like.

Erick:

Hmm.

Jason:

I usually, you know, I flip my head.

Erick:

I don't know.

Erick:

This one's kind of rough.

Jason:

I don't know this one's rough man. It is kind of rough, isn't it?

Jeff:

Looks like Barber Motorsports. That's what it looks like.

Jason:

Looks like a bone or something.

Erick:

I don't know, All right, oh yeah, I know, let's get it.

Jason:

Let me just skip ahead here.

Erick:

Make sure my have a little seizure over there.

Jason:

My rig is going to be jumping up and down. It is what it is. So, all right guys, welcome to Barber Motorsport, a world-class racing facility born from the single-minded vision of an extraordinary man called George Barber. Barber wasn't just a businessman, he was also a passionate racer. In the 1960s and early 70s he competed in Porsche racing, all while helped run his family dairy business in Birmingham, alabama, alabama.

Jeff:

I might know somebody that lives there.

Erick:

I know right.

Jason:

Okay, but George didn't stop racing. So he had his dairy business, but he was racing on his own time. His company had begun refurbishing their dairy trucks and at one point Barbara thought why not restore cars? And the experiment didn't go as planned. As he put perfect to a truck mechanic is not the same as a restorer, so the experience, however I was going to say that's a direct path, right.

Erick:

Dairy trucks to race cars right.

Jason:

Very straightforward here. The experience, however, led him to an idea that would change everything. A friend suggested motorcycles instead, and Barber took it to heart. It's like by mid-90s, george Barber had already begun collecting motorcycles not just a few, but hundreds with a vision to create the largest motorcycle collection in the world.

Erick:

That's a jump.

Jason:

That is quite, you know, kind of crazy. And more than that, he dreamed of building a museum that could become a tourist destination for Birmingham. In 1995, that dream started to become real. 1995, that dream started to become real. Barber opened a small public museum in a warehouse in Birmingham's Southside District. It showcased 325 motorcycles and a few vintage cars. But even then, it was clear this was just the beginning. The turning point came in 1998, when Barber sold the family business, the Barber Dairies if I'm saying that correctly and donated $54 million to his nonprofit foundation. That funding allowed for the construction of a state-of-the-art museum and a racetrack, a place where his bikes and cars could run as well as rest. By 2002, a stunning 740-acre site had been secured in the scenic wooded hills just east of downtown Birmingham. Barber enlisted legendary track designer Alan Wilson to create the course, and the result? Well, you already know One of the most technically refined, beautiful landscape tracks in the world. Excuse me, wow, the Barber Road course is two point and it hasn't changed at all.

Jeff:

You see this, this is just one layout, a little baby compared to some of the other tracks.

Jason:

It's tiny.

Erick:

I mean like young, it's young.

Jeff:

Yeah, yeah, well it. Some of the other tracks it's tiny, I mean like young, young, yeah, yeah, well it's. I mean it doesn't have like world war ii heritage, heritage.

Jason:

I mean, the track is technically tiny because it is long, but it's compact yes, exactly, it's not really length lengthy wise but it's 2.38 miles long, with 17 turns and over 80 feet of elevation change. It flows like a ribbon through the forest okay, okay, well, undulating complex and and thrilling to drive. There are two additional shorter layouts used for training and club events. So this is this is what they are. So you just take this out and now, now, this looks like a fake foot. You know one of those fake prosthetic foot, rob Markman.

Jeff:

Okay.

Jason:

All right, rob Markman, see the connection point and the boot. I don't know, rob.

Erick:

Markman yeah, either that or a funky looking guitar, maybe.

Jason:

Rob Markman oh, maybe, yeah, Some Jimi Hendrix or something. And then you have the club circuit, which is it kind of looks like the Canada GP to me Shots. I love my Canadians, so let me, let me. Let me continue before. So there are two additional shorter layouts used for okay.

Erick:

Unlike traditional circuits.

Jason:

There are no grandstands, guys, guys, there are no grandstands lining the main straight. Instead, spectators gather on grassy embankments and wooden slopes, especially around turn 8 and 11. So that's around here somewhere. 8 and around here. So this is where people like. This is the chill spot, right here and inside here, or or behind it I'm pretty sure it was behind it, um where the view spans multiple sections of the course. It's a circuit when nature, art and speed all collide. Barbara motorsport park is home to a sculpture trail scattered with oversized excuse me with basically rare pieces, it says here, from giant spiders and dragonflies to stone lions and a mythic figure rolling a boulder the huge spider sculpture near turn five and six, which is right around here.

Jeff:

I didn't know there was a museum built around this thing.

Jason:

Yeah, it's a museum, it's a park, it's kind of and you live, eric. You need to go over there, bro, you might not be too far.

Erick:

He probably hears I'm running. Look, I'm an hour and a half from Birmingham. Man, I didn't know that was down there. I need to get out there yeah.

Jason:

So it says that, um, the huge yep, I covered that. And it says the, the, the spider, the huge spider. That's, in turn, five and six even inspired the nickname charlotte's web for that corner, and at the heart of it, all of it is, you know, the museum. It's spanning five floors and 141,000 square feet. The Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum is certified by Guinness as the largest motorcycle museum in the world. Wow.

Jeff:

Sounds like a day trip.

Jason:

Eric, take the fam out there.

Jason:

You got some Guinness world record an hour away from you, bro's easy. Over 1200 motorcycle cycles from 20 countries and over 100 years of history are in the collection, with up to 600 on display at any time. But motorcycles aren't the only stars. The museum also boasts the largest collection of lotus race cars anywhere in the world, including a replica of the Lotus Mark I and the final Formula One car, the brand that. The final Lotus Formula One car, the Lotus T109. And nearly every vehicle in the building is ready to run, meaning they'll start.

Erick:

They're maintaining them too. That's big money.

Jason:

Rob Markman Jr. That's a lot of maintenance, bro, Imagine. Yeah, Barber's vision didn't stop with collecting. He wanted the machines in the museum to live and breathe on the track. So it's no surprise that racing came next. Motorcycle series like AMA and WERA were among the first to compete here. Over time, the circuit expanded to host Grand Am sports cars and, following successful test sessions, IndyCar made its debut in 2010 and never looked back. So that's part of the IndyCar lineup. Barber is also a hub for driver education and racing schools. They have the Porsche Driving Experience, they have the Keith Code California Superbike School, the Jamie James Yamaha Champions Riding School and the Kevin Schwantz Suzuki School. All call Barber home. So, whether you're a racer, a fan or a collector, or just someone who loves the raw of an engine and the curve of a perfect turn, Barber Motorsport Park as a tribute to passion, position and one man's dream of something truly extraordinary. So that's Barber Motorsports Park.

Jeff:

All right, all right, wow, I got a comment yes see we have lap times, this, this. Let's just back up a second here because this is worth noting. This dude delivered milk yes, he did and a couple years later he donated $28 million $42 million.

Jason:

It says here.

Erick:

Something's not checking out $54 million.

Jeff:

sorry, this dude's delivering something else.

Erick:

Hey look. So I was going to say that story sounded very familiar to another story I know about a whiskey maker named Clyde Mays. Oh yeah, I like Clyde Mays, bro, that's good stuff and how he started out doing the illegal whiskey runs.

Jeff:

Basically he's doing some moonshine runs yeah so On a little money well on the side off the table, so I'm going to or under the table. That's a cool story man, yeah, I A little money all the side off the table, so I'm going to or under the table. That's a cool story man, yeah, I'm going to. Somebody said hey, you should start collecting motorcycles. And this dude turns around and just buys 100 or 300 something motorcycles, doesn't it sound like us though?

Jason:

Sim racing. You should start sim racing and then all of a sudden, we spend. We're not spending nowhere near this guy. This is it right here, barber. See the museum and the structures all around the track. This guy is living the dream. He's got over 3,000 vehicles in this freaking place.

Jeff:

Hey Mike, what do you want to go drive today? I don't know how, about a 1972 Lotus?

Jason:

How about a 59 Ducati bro?

Erick:

And they're ready to go.

Jason:

That's crazy. Ready to go?

Erick:

The maintenance piece is Impressive. Yeah, that's really Look at this.

Jason:

Look at this. Look at this Dude. Look at this. You're an hour away, bro. I want to see pictures to see pictures.

Erick:

Look at them all, Bro. That's crazy.

Jeff:

Bro, it's like a 1982 ninja right there. Wow, look at them all. That is badass you know what?

Jason:

Let's see, you got events here. You could probably get like a membership. There's a membership option right here. I knew it.

Erick:

I am two hours away.

Jeff:

Look at that open wheel down there. It's on top of the elevator. Bro, you could spend like two days there and not see the same thing. I'm telling you they look fake. They look like toys. Yeah, they do have a little toyish feel to them, huh.

Erick:

Yeah, it looks like this little Hot Wheels thing I got my kids. The stores are little cars, all these different slots and all that stuff.

Jason:

That's crazy they got the Barber Vintage Festival that's happening in October, man.

Erick:

MW Motor Days.

Jason:

Isle of Triumph. So guys, check out. This was a shout out to I think. I don't want to mess up his name. I think it's Papa Tonto that recommended this track for us. He's in the Global Racing League, so shout out to you. This was interesting. We actually raced in Barber and my PC is having a heart attack. So check out. I'll leave the link in the description so you guys can check this out. But that's track of the week this week. That's Barber Motorsport. Thanks.

Jeff:

Jason Cool story.

Jason:

I think, yeah, man, I mean listen, you can't knock on the guy. We don't know where all this money came. I know where it came from. But come on, Barry man, Shoot straight with me, bro. He went and bought 100 motorcycles, God Easy.

Jeff:

After donating $40 gajillion.

Jason:

Yeah, I'm like $54 million man Come on.

Erick:

So the thing that's kind of got me he donated the money and they built the track, but who did he donate it to? He said he donated it to some nonprofit.

Jeff:

Yeah his nonprofit To build a track it's to himself, bro.

Erick:

It's questionable.

Jason:

He donated the money. That was kind of part of the joke here.

Erick:

He donated the money.

Jeff:

Because they didn't have to pay taxes on it or something like that. Probably Good for him.

Jason:

Come on, don't give out the secrets here, man. Good for him. It's non-taxable, bro. It's a donation. What are you talking about?

Jeff:

And tax deductible. Yeah, man Deduct that from your income.

Jason:

That's it, don't tell me that's it All right, gents, that's track of the week. I always love doing these. If you guys have any suggestions, we're open to those. Send us an email at thechicanepodcast at gmailcom and we'll roll into our final roundtables Anybody have anything else before we close this episode?

Jeff:

Nothing here man. Nothing here man.

Jason:

Drive fast and break late. That's what's up and, guys, stay tuned. Nim cross has confirmed that he will be attending the chicane podcast sometime in july, so just hang tight, he's very busy. He told me yeah, I'm super busy, man, I'm going to the, to the glen, so I can't make it. I, I was like I wish I was going to the Glen, bro. So, nymcross, thank you so much, and we do have. I do want to add one more thing before we give a hard shutdown here. We've got an email from Chris. David Bezelkit and stuff is the title of this email and it says jason, thanks for a great podcast. Well, thank you, sir.

Jason:

I'm following you guys on youtube and I'm curious how you get triple screens ad linked together. Perhaps you've covered it on the show. I'm racing mostly gt7 and ACC on console, but starting to get a basic setup to seat IR racing, add ACC on PC. So he's basically transitioning or he wants to transition to PC and run at triples. There are so many questions I have, but I'm getting there as I watch the show. Thanks again, greetings to Eric and Jeff. Chris, so how do we knock this one out, guys? How do you connect? How do you get triple screens to come together, so you need a stand, you need a monitor stand and I would highly, highly, highly, highly highly recommend the SimHub Varios. They will make your life a dream.

Jason:

Yes, yeah, 100% Because there's probably something else out there as well, but I mean, I've pushed two folks already over to SimHub excuse me, simlab and they've been great. They're also a Mercedes partner too, yeah they are. So they're a patronus part of the patronus family. So, Chris, thank you so much for your email. If you want any more specifics, just hit us up and. I'll be glad to walk you through.

Jeff:

You want to have the bezel kit real quick for him. The bezel.

Jason:

Oh, yes, the bezel kit, um, so you have many options right With the bezel kit and without mentioning names. One of us tried to go the Etsy route and found out that sometimes it's better to spend the money you know first go. But they are really expensive for what they are.

Jeff:

It's unbelievable for what you get, but just buy the expensive one first. As somebody that tried to save some money with the bezel free kit, it's right here. You can see it on my rig. It doesn't look good unless you're sitting in the rig, like Jason has a better angle on his rig over his shoulder. It's your eye angle is what it does.

Jason:

And the camera is still. When you look at things on camera, it looks different. When you find there's a parallax effect too, depending on the angle.

Jeff:

It's all magic, how it works. Right, so get ready, because that is the biggest pain in that it's like half a millimeter of distance that the thing has to just sit perfect in, and then it's like seamless.

Jason:

Yeah, but if you breathe?

Jeff:

wrong. You can start to see the seam. You clean the rig or something.

Jason:

Your kid maybe tapped the monitor very lightly. The whole thing is screwed up, but it is cool.

Jeff:

It is cool, yeah, it is.

Jason:

So, chris, if you have any more specifics, just let me know. Let us know, email the show or drop a comment below. We'll be glad to point you in the right direction. There's also Sim Racing Setups on Facebook, which is a group that I highly recommend you join if you're expanding on your setup and then you can kind of get ideas from other sim racers out there. You know it's about 140,000 of them, so yeah, a couple guys in there.

Jason:

There's a few people in there. All right, guys, and with that, thank you so much and have a great start of your week. Thank you.

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