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Screen to Speed No.21: Emma Galasso (@bullissemma): Sim Racing and Global eSports Games · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Welcome to Screen to Speed powered by INIT eSports.
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  In this podcast, we dive into the journeys of remarkable individuals
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  making waves in sim racing and bridging the virtual with the real.
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  From the thrill of digital circuits to the roar of real life racetracks, we explore
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  the passion, Dedication and innovation that drives the world of motorsports.
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  We'll hear from athletes, creators, and pioneers sharing their stories,
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  insights, and the powerful ways sim racing is connecting communities and
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  creating pathways into motorsports.
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  So buckle up, Screen to Speed starts now.
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  I see many people here joining.
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  Welcome everyone.
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  Welcome to the 21st episode of Indie Talks.
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  Oh my God.
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  Very nice to have you all here today.
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  I'm Els, the host, and today we have a special guest.
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  Why I'm saying it's special because, uh, we have Emma right now and
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  she is, um, currently competing in the US online qualifier for the
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  upcoming global e sports games.
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  Guess what?
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  Global e sports games.
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  Hi.
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  Hi Emma, hi hi, very nice to have you here today in the Indie Talks.
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  Thank you so much for joining us today.
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  Yeah, thank you for having me.
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  I'm happy to be here.
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  I'm super happy.
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  So, how are you doing today?
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  Happy almost weekend, by the way.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  It's a good day.
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  Busy day.
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  I'm actually like taking this on my lunch break, so it's still work to
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  do after this, but it's a dreary day outside, so glad to be here doing this.
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  Something exciting.
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  Oh, wow.
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  Okay, so she's having an interview during the lunch break.
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  Okay.
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  That's very efficient.
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  Yeah, you know.
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  That's very efficient.
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  Okay, I will try to turn it up.
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  And let me know if my sound is slightly better now.
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  So I put my microphone a little bit closer to my mouth.
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  A very good lunch break.
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  Like, imagine guys, doing a podcast while having a lunch break.
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  I don't know if I could ever do that.
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  It's all good.
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  Oh my God, by the way, DTR underscore cars, by the way.
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  Hi, hi.
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  Welcome to in the box.
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  Very nice to have you here today and ash.
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  Hi.
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  Hi.
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  Welcome in.
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  Welcome in ash.
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  Welcome.
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  I have a new friend joining the unit box today, Emma, and
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  she's playing a lot in ACC.
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  So disclaimer, this unit box will be all about ACC and we will talk
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  more about Emma, what she does in simracing, and maybe you can tell me a
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  bit about what you do on daily basis.
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  Like, are you like a full time simracer, or are you like having
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  another things to do outside, outside the gaming world, I must say.
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  Oh yeah, I'm definitely not a full time simracer.
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  I would say it's very much a hobby for me, but something that I've been doing.
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  Pursuing about every day.
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  I definitely drive every day for like the past three years or so.
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  Um, but I do work in the automotive industry.
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  Now I originally worked in the film industry, though I made the
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  switch actually a couple months ago.
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  So now I work, um, as a brand partnerships coordinator, um,
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  with an automotive company.
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  So I get to work with cars every day, which is pretty exciting.
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  But, um, I got into sim racing.
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  I originally did Formula One 2021, which I would not recommend,
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  uh, learning how to sim drive on that game, but that's what I did.
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  And that's how I got the bug and, um, I've just been playing ever since.
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  And I've been very lucky to make a lot of friends in e sports, a lot of
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  friends in the motorsport world that has all just kind of helped, um, this
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  become something that I like to pursue.
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  Yeah.
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  So every day.
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  Your world is all about sea racing, motor sport from the day you wake up and until
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  the day like you're going to bed, you're about to sleep every day, every time.
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  It's all about cars.
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  I must say.
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  It's all about cars now, which is, which is pretty exciting.
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  So I get the opportunity to drive a lot of cool cars and talk to people about cars.
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  I'm certainly not a petrolhead myself.
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  I I really try appreciate cars.
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  I love them a lot.
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  Um.
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  But it's really cool to work at a place where everyone else is Incredibly
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  knowledgeable and passionate.
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  So yeah, I feel like sim racing and motorsport is like a great place to
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  be Like it's a really great community.
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  Everybody is like very helpful if you have question even even if it's a dumb
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  question people will Oh, yeah try their best, you know to help you Probably
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  two years to figure out How to actually communicate, like break bias stuff.
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  Right.
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  The percentages, it just, it didn't make sense to me.
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  There's a lot of stuff that still doesn't make sense.
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  I'm still learning every single day, but I have found the sim racing
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  community to be extremely welcoming.
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  I was a little bit nervous about that at first, um, because I, I
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  used to play a lot of call of duty.
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  And it wasn't quite a great place for women at the time.
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  Um, but so I was a little bit nervous coming to sim racing, but I have.
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  Just absolutely met some of the best people, um, I'm in like the, one of
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  the best leagues I could possibly ever imagine having found, um,
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  And it's just been a blast so far.
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  Right, yeah, um, at first when I want to switch my career path, I must say,
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  getting into the gaming industry, I was, I was like really really nervous.
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  I was so afraid because everybody knows that This industry is all about boys.
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  It's a man's world something like that, you know, and it kind of scares me at
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  first but yeah throughout the time I feel like I found a lot of great people
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  and Surprisingly, I found like a lot of girls here like who likes to play and
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  I was like i'm feeling more safe That's how I feel, you know, not that more safe,
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  but it's more like welcoming You And I like about sim racing is so much of it.
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  Um, you have to build your own community in a way.
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  I did a lot of like pot lapping and just as you know, driving by myself, but
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  you're not going to be as good of a racer if you're not actually racing everyone.
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  So I had to kind of branch out and find my own league.
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  Um, and you know, there's plenty of leagues that I just knew
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  were not going to be for me.
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  And then I found the one that I'm in and I've raced with other people now,
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  and it was just a great place to.
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  To get started, um, one that was rookie friendly because I was
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  terrible when I first started sim racing, it was really bad.
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  Um, and you know, it's been cool to see the growth of not only my own driving,
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  but everyone in my league as well.
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  Yeah, same here.
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  Trust me, when I first got into this, I have no idea about a racecraft.
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  I don't understand the concept of understeer, oversteer.
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  I'm like, what is that?
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  Yeah, I mean, it was like learning a whole new language, like literally
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  and figuratively you have to learn so much about yourself and how you drive
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  and how, like, I'm a notoriously late breaker and you'll see in my telemetry
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  all the time that I'm really fast on entry and terrible on exit, which
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  is not how you're supposed to drive, that's how I instinctually drive.
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  Um, so it's a lot of analyzing yourself and analyzing your own data.
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  But then there's also other people on track, so you can't hit other people.
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  Um, so yeah, it's been a great, an amazing learning experience and
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  I'm so glad I started doing it.
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  Yeah.
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  Cause I feel like sim racing is one of the hobby that is like that.
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  I don't know.
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  I feel like sim racing has a deep learning curve, so it takes time for
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  everyone to actually get good at it.
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  So maybe that's also the reason why I'm staying in this hobby for it.
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  quite a long time, like four or five years now, I think.
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  Because every day, like, I'm learning something new.
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  Every day, I feel like I'm a newbie.
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  I'm learning something.
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  Oh, this is new, you know?
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  Yeah, like every track, you can always just try a new track you've never
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  driven before, and there's something you're gonna learn about the track.
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  You can always just change cars.
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  It's, it's really cool.
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  Yeah.
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  And speaking about the sim racing part of your life, um, which, uh,
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  which game or sim that you play most?
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  Um, driving time definitely be the original Assetto Corsa.
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  My league is all on Assetto Corsa, but recently I've also been doing ACC a lot.
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  Um, so I did the Ferrari Esports Series.
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  Um, and I, I didn't make it past the qualifier for the U.
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  S.
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  I made it past the hot lap portion, which was a, uh, A huge achievement for
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  me because I'm not that fast, but um, and it was good in the race I finished
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  p7 in both of my races, but only I think the top Two from each one went.
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  I definitely didn't make it, you know, but it was good to, that was my
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  first real taste of being competitive on ACC and Apparently ACC just
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  suits my driving style a lot better.
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  I do have iRacing too, but I am just not, I'm not a fan of the MX 5 and I
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  know I have to like get through that stage to get Further in iRacing, so it's
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  been, and I have my league races every week, so I focus on my league races
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  when I have time, or if I'm doing a competition like this, I focus on that.
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  So, iRacing's definitely there.
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  I was lucky enough to, actually the Canadian eSports Federation, I think
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  they're still doing it actually, US citizens and Canadians can get iRacing
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  for a year for a 10 donation to the
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  So I just donated 10 and got free iRacing, free, free iRacing for a year.
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  Um, so it's been great to just be able to try it out.
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  And I definitely want to get more into it, but it takes, it takes a while.
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  Yeah, because I think for me, it was quite a challenge to switch
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  from ACC to iRacing back and forth.
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  I cannot do that.
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  Yeah, I think that, I mean, The way that I approach it, I just
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  am kind of just assuming I'm not going to be great at either.
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  So I just enjoy a different game.
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  There's definitely stuff to learn.
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  Like I, I'm not good with tires and I racing at all.
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  I will pretty much, I'm so used to just like stomping it out of the pits and AC
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  that the first time and I just destroyed my tires before I even left the pit lane.
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  Um, so yeah, I'm, and I definitely don't race enough to, to be able
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  to speak on it, but it's right.
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  Moving from AC to ACC is a huge switch, too.
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  Um, because AC you're dealing with very old stuff, even with mods,
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  which I have plenty of mods in.
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  Um, but I don't know, something about ACC just kind of clicks with my driving.
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  But, yeah, I drive AC more.
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  More on AC.
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  Right, right.
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  And here even still very good, the result.
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  Yeah, I mean, I don't know, um, I know some drivers are getting into a leak race
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  or a big Event trying to win but I like to Take it as one step at a time, you
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  know Oh, yeah, I when I started sim racing I knew I'm a lot I started three years
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  ago from nothing So it was like I knew I was not going to be winning any races I
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  didn't even know what a racing line was.
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  I had a general idea I've been around racing kind of but I would watch
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  Formula One as a kid And it was like, oh, that's really cool You But I didn't
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  pay attention to any of that stuff.
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  I could not tell you Monza T1.
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  I didn't know anything about that.
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  Nothing.
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  Um, so starting sim racing has really been, it was a humbling
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  experience for sure, because I don't like to be bad at things, but I had
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  to be bad for a really long time.
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  And honestly, my goal was always just finish the race for the first three
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  or four seasons of my racing league.
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  All my focus was finishing.
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  Even just finishing the race, I was still picking people off because some
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  people would just like quit or just not finish the race for whatever reason.
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  Um, I've only not finished one race and that was because, um, I
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  accidentally got my connector cable between my, um, direct drive wheel and
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  my pedals caught between the pedals.
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  So every time I put on the brakes I was trying to sever the brake.
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  So that didn't work.
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  I had a mechanical failure in real life.
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  So yeah, I just always tell people, like, don't, don't worry about winning.
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  Like, that's why my league is so cool.
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  Just because the community is so great that we're just having a good
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  time racing, you know, it's just fun and exciting and it's still, still
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  very competitive, but it's not crazy.
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  But honestly, I don't know.
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  Yeah, it's nice to set the goal as finishing the race, especially
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  if you just start getting into it.
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  Because I feel like a lot of people are focusing a lot on the win,
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  even if this is a new sim for them.
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  It's a new game, it's just released and they just like focusing on that.
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  But yeah, focusing on finishing the race is a great start to step up your game.
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  That's how I see it, you know.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  And I, my other goal was don't crash anyone out.
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  And then my very first league race ever, I, I thought I was on the
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  racing line, but apparently I wasn't.
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  We were at Laguna Seca.
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  And I was getting lapped, and the two guys in the lead were fighting,
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  and I accidentally got in their way, and I wrecked one of them out
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  and took away his only win, so.
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  Oh my gosh, yeah.
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  But everybody made mistakes, okay?
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  Everybody.
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  Yeah, yeah, and I was just like, and that was like, I was like, I
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  am so sorry, I can't believe I did that to you, and we still joke about
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  it now, three years later, like.
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  We still joke about it.
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  Oh, here, Ash is asking in the chat, favorite car to drive on ACC?
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  That's a good question.
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  For me, it's definitely the Ferrari.
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  I got so used to it from the Ferrari E sport series that, I
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  don't know, I really like it.
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  Um, the Mustang has been interesting to, I had to completely kind of
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  relearn my driving style for that car.
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  It's very interesting.
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  Same.
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  And I would say probably my least favorite is the McLaren, just
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  because for whatever reason it just does not work for my driving style
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  very well, so Ferrari for sure.
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  Or the Porsche.
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  I like the Porsche.
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  Yeah, I like the Porsche.
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  Yeah.
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  But I haven't, I haven't actually like tried driving fast the Mustang, and yeah.
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  It's interesting.
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  Yeah.
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  It's definitely interesting.
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  I only drive the Mustang on iRacing, and Well in I racing, I feel like the
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  Mustang is so dead in the rain, but I don't know how it drives in, in a CC.
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  Maybe it's a good car.
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  Maybe it's, to me, I just came out of A-A-T-C-R series and a set of corset
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  and the driving style is similar enough to TCRs actually, for me anyway.
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  Right.
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  But I, that's how I've been able to kind of like get a hold of it a little bit.
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  But it's very different.
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  It, it's been a, a steep learning curve.
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  'cause I've never driven the Mustang before this.
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  Is it like a big challenge for you for now?
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  Cause for the US online qualifier, I believe we'll be
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  driving the Mustang in Kota.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, yeah, so it is, is Mustang and Kota.
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  So, um, yeah, I just, you know, I was actually practicing Kota in the Ferrari
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  and then when it was announced that it was a Mustang had to make the switch.
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  So it's worked out.
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  I mean, I'm definitely now I'm faster in the Mustang than I was
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  in the Ferrari on this track, but I haven't done a lot of Kota.
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  Uh, Hot lapping in ACC, but I thankfully already knew the track because we raced
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  it a bunch in my league So it was nice not to have to, you know, kind of learn
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  the track as well Yeah, it's it's come around and once you get the hang of
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  it You can kind of adjust your driving style to suit it a little bit more
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  Which is what I'm still trying to do and still trying to find Plenty of time.
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  There's plenty of time to be found.
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  Yeah, I mean looking at the pro driver You Like the pro eSports
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  driver, they spend like 10 hours in the sim, like doing like a lot of
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  drive, hundreds or thousands of laps.
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  So, yeah, we'll get there eventually.
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  Everybody, all of us will get there, guys.
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  All of us will get our pro license one day.
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  Mm hmm, for sure.
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  It's all about, like, to me, it's like, you can always improve, and
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  that's the cool thing about sim racing.
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  Even the guy who is Or girl.
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  Hey girl.
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  In the first place, period.
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  Could always find time.
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  Um, there's always a way to find the new limit.
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  And you know, ACC, every time there's a new patch, you gotta
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  get your time set to see if you're still the fastest in that car.
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  So, interesting.
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  Yeah.
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  The updates is kind of like stressing the drivers sometimes.
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  Especially like, I know someone, um, who compete in the past.
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  In the first screen to speed.
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  Okay.
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  So basically we were having the screen to speed in Las
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  Vegas two years ago, I believe.
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  And yeah, it was like basically the first event for the girls to
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  have like an offline event, like you're racing on the side with the
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  same racing setup and everything.
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  And I know there's like one girl who is like really quick on ACC.
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  She's more like an ACC driver.
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  And yeah, she was like, she told me like, um, You know what?
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  I'm so stressed out.
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  Every time I'm having this, um, big event, like big, big event on ACC
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  coming, and then there's a patch update, everybody will stress out.
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  Like, they need to redo the setup and everything.
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  Like, oh God, it's so stressful.
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  Yeah, that's where it's like when you're pro level, you know, every single little
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  setup change can make such a difference.
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  And, um, When you're not as good, you can just, you know,
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  there's so many fundamentals.
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  If you just have the fundamentals down, you can get a pretty good lap time.
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  And then the fine tuning stuff is where you can really get thrown off by that.
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  Cause I did the Porsche e sports challenge as well.
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  Um, and that was an in person, they had online qualifiers,
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  but it was also in person.
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  So you had to go to the Porsche experience center and they had, um, a PS4 set up
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  with Gran Turismo, um, and a Fanatec set up, and you had to just, Um, and
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  then you can just jump in the rig and try to set your best time on basically
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  new equipment or unfamiliar equipment.
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  So I encourage people if, if there's any like free events like that around you to
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  try that because it's really good to like practice being in high, I guess a high
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  stress, high excitement environment and still see if you can set the laugh time.
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  Cause it definitely affected, I was two seconds faster at my house and then I
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  went and I was a lot slower, but um, eventually, you know, got around to it.
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  But.
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  Right.
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  But I think you, me, and everyone who race in the script to Speed Vegas are
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  lucky because we get to experience that.
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  Because it's not like every day you get like an offline event or
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  we can go to an offline event.
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  And what I learned in this offline event is that the game is not
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  just about driving fast, but who can adapt to the setup quickly.
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  Absolutely.
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  Like, that's more like the game than just trying to drive fast for me.
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  And I feel like I'm so noob on that.
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  Like, I have more experience.
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  It's the same with kind of, like, hot lapping versus racing as well.
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  Like, I started and I was only doing hot laps.
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  You know, I really thought I was getting good and whatever.
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  And then I joined my first race and as soon as there's other cars
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  or other actual people are driving them, I It's completely different.
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  So that's why people always told me join a league as fast as you can And I was
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  like, no, I have to be faster first And if I could put up anything like don't wait
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  just join a league You will learn race craft and you'll also be getting faster
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  and it'll really help you in the long run.
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  That's it Yeah, I couldn't agree more on that like really at first I was like too
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  afraid to race against people because I was like having this mindset I got to be
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  fast first to be able to race You know, but trust me everyone here in the chat.
• 20:24
  It's not the right mindset sometimes you just have to throw yourself into
• 20:27
  the race because in the end the The experience that you get on the track
• 20:32
  when you're racing is the most important It's more important than just doing
• 20:35
  a hot lap in a solo practice you Yep.
• 20:39
  Absolutely.
• 20:40
  And like what it's a tire dag and stuff like that.
• 20:43
  Like we've had races where it was so much fun because everyone's
• 20:46
  tires were absolutely gone.
• 20:48
  So hiding around, you had to just see who was going to survive the race.
• 20:52
  And it just adds another element to it.
• 20:55
  Right.
• 20:56
  And by the way, I want to get back into our conversation earlier, because you are
• 21:00
  saying that you're starting from F1 2021.
• 21:04
  And then you're, you're saying that it's not really recommended
• 21:08
  for everyone, um, who wants to get into sim racing kind of thing.
• 21:12
  But I think in my, cause I'm starting from Gran Turismo event.
• 21:16
  So basically both of us, we can say that we are starting from the sim cave and
• 21:20
  then we are moving to the sim, let's say.
• 21:23
  Yeah.
• 21:24
  And I feel like the sim cave can be a great start for everyone.
• 21:31
  Yeah.
• 21:32
  Like, yeah, I, I agree with that.
• 21:34
  I think that, um, I honestly think that Gran Turismo could be better than,
• 21:40
  I mean, it depends, I mean, I, I got into it as I liked Formula One, but
• 21:43
  at the same time, I have not driven a Formula One car in a race sense.
• 21:49
  Um, I think it's just helpful to like, I don't know.
• 21:53
  It's whatever you want to do.
• 21:54
  Whatever's going to motivate you.
• 21:55
  Cause it's time in the seat.
• 21:56
  I mean, I remember I wanted to get good at every single Formula One track.
• 22:00
  And I wanted to be, they had like the online leaderboard and it was
• 22:03
  like you could be in, it would tell you what percentage you were in.
• 22:06
  I was like, I'm going to be top 50 percent for every single track.
• 22:09
  And then I want to be top 40.
• 22:10
  And then I want to be top 30.
• 22:12
  And I kept doing that.
• 22:14
  And I went about my training, I guess all wrong.
• 22:18
  Like I literally was like, I'm going to do turn one of Bahrain.
• 22:21
  100 times in a row and like see if I could do it and I literally had
• 22:24
  a whiteboard and I was like writing down My time every single time.
• 22:28
  Oh my god So like it doesn't help you like you need to do the whole track
• 22:31
  because part of it is flow and like all this stuff But you know, I was still way
• 22:35
  more like I was so motivated to do that So it was it ended up being a good thing.
• 22:39
  So I would say if there's whether it's a simcade or like it's a You know
• 22:44
  something like iRacing or something It's whatever motivates you to to get in the
• 22:48
  seat and drive can be useful for sure because the fundamentals don't change
• 22:52
  I mean you either know the racing line or you don't and it doesn't matter what
• 22:56
  game you're playing You're gonna be pretty fast either way It's true as long
• 23:00
  people as long you're having fun in it.
• 23:02
  That's the most important thing It doesn't matter like if people say
• 23:06
  like on the internet outside They're like saying this game is better
• 23:09
  that game is better in my opinion.
• 23:11
  Just do what you want just, and so many equipment too.
• 23:15
  People, so many people that I've talked to are like, oh, I need a good setup.
• 23:19
  I need to have X, Y, Z before I start.
• 23:22
  You def, I mean, it definitely helps.
• 23:24
  Like I started with a, a Logitech G 29 and that was my, my wheel and I
• 23:29
  had like a really basic, basic setup.
• 23:33
  Mm-hmm . And then I was lucky enough that, um.
• 23:36
  My, actually my co workers gifted me a Fanatec setup, so I didn't even
• 23:40
  have to pay for it, which was amazing.
• 23:43
  Can I be friends with your co workers?
• 23:46
  I did not expect that at all.
• 23:47
  Yeah, yeah.
• 23:49
  Oh my god, your co workers.
• 23:51
  Since then, it's been like, you know, as soon as you get a load cell pedal,
• 23:54
  that's what I always tell people.
• 23:55
  If you're going to upgrade anything, a load cell pedal is the, load cell
• 23:59
  brakes is the best thing to start with.
• 24:01
  But, people are like convinced that they're not fast because they
• 24:04
  don't have You know, the top of the line SimCube setup and stuff.
• 24:08
  And I'm like, it doesn't matter.
• 24:09
  There are people who are e sports professionals who are
• 24:13
  racing on a Logitech G29.
• 24:16
  I know one of them who won like a competition just with a Logitech G29.
• 24:20
  You can do it.
• 24:21
  You just, you got to learn it.
• 24:22
  It's like anything else.
• 24:23
  I mean, every Sim has things that aren't realistic to real life.
• 24:28
  Um, you kind of have to exploit those.
• 24:30
  And it's the same with the equipment.
• 24:31
  Like you can make it work.
• 24:34
  It's the motivation.
• 24:34
  That's all it is.
• 24:36
  I agree with you on that.
• 24:37
  Like, yeah, I mean, when I first won my championship on ACC, I was pretty
• 24:44
  much using like, not like a budget wheel, but pretty much an entry level.
• 24:49
  I was using the Thrustmaster T300 and I mount the wheel to like a
• 24:54
  hospital tray that I bought on Amazon.
• 24:56
  Like I'm just trying my best to make it work because I want to race in the end.
• 25:01
  And I won my championship then.
• 25:04
  It's more like, I'm proving it to myself like, yeah, you don't need an expensive
• 25:09
  or fancy equipment to win a race.
• 25:11
  It's just, I don't know, it sounds like an excuse to me.
• 25:15
  I'm sorry.
• 25:16
  Not like excuse, but yeah, you know.
• 25:19
  Sure.
• 25:21
  My mentality when I started was like, I just needed I mean, some people do
• 25:25
  it with controller too, but for me I wanted to actually learn like the Not
• 25:29
  everyone can afford even, you know, a Logitech G29, so don't get me wrong there.
• 25:32
  But, I would say like if you, if you can, like having a wheel and pedals
• 25:37
  is actually teaching you stuff.
• 25:38
  Because then when you go to real track experiences, It's kind of crazy because
• 25:43
  even though the feeling is not the same, because obviously the g forces are
• 25:46
  really there and stuff, it looks pretty much the same out the dashboard window.
• 25:50
  And so your brain just kind of like registers it similarly
• 25:53
  to when you're in the sim.
• 25:55
  Um, and then your hand eye coordination kind of goes with the steering.
• 25:58
  So I found it to be pretty helpful when I did, I did one track day.
• 26:02
  So, yeah, yeah.
• 26:04
  In real life, um, yeah, there's a lot of things that cannot break my focus
• 26:10
  in real life because I tried life.
• 26:12
  Not like a track day, but I tried like driving around the track
• 26:14
  sometimes, or one or two times.
• 26:17
  Sometimes I feel like, yeah, you can feel the g force, which
• 26:20
  for me, kind of helps me to feel the speed going into the corner.
• 26:24
  While in sim, I have to rely on my eyes to see if I'm fast or not.
• 26:29
  Which, yeah.
• 26:30
  But, sometimes I feel like the movement when I'm like driving fast, the
• 26:35
  movement is kind of breaks my focus.
• 26:36
  You know what I mean?
• 26:37
  Like, the g force, everything.
• 26:39
  I don't think about it, but when I'm driving in my sim, I lean at the turns.
• 26:45
  I really hate that I do it still.
• 26:47
  I don't know why, but you can tell when I'm getting frustrated because
• 26:49
  I really start to lean over when the turns don't work and instead of just
• 26:53
  like adjusting my braking and not getting understeer, I just assume that
• 26:57
  leaning is gonna just really help.
• 26:59
  Really helps you in the sim.
• 27:00
  Yeah.
• 27:03
  Winning is a, is a state of mind.
• 27:05
  Yeah.
• 27:05
  I feel like.
• 27:07
  There's a lot of aspect in racing.
• 27:09
  I feel like the more I'm doing race, doing a race, the more I
• 27:13
  realize it's not just about winning.
• 27:15
  There are one race that you just focus on learning how to drive around the track.
• 27:19
  There's a race that just goes wrong.
• 27:23
  Everything just wrong.
• 27:24
  So you just focus on survival, crossing the finish line.
• 27:27
  So like, there's like a lot of aspect in racing and maybe some people can win every
• 27:33
  time, but to me, you can't win every time.
• 27:36
  Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 27:37
  Like, we've had, we had an endurance series, so we did the 2.
• 27:43
  4 hours of Le Mans.
• 27:46
  Just being able to complete that race, like, it was a work night, whatever,
• 27:52
  just got home and I knew I was going to be driving for the next two plus hours.
• 27:56
  Um, I don't even remember what I placed in that race.
• 27:59
  I probably did pretty close to last, but it was still, like, an accomplishment.
• 28:03
  I was still, like, Gross and like finish the race.
• 28:07
  And I was like, that was pretty cool.
• 28:12
  I mean, like in my league, it's not even, it's not usually the same winner,
• 28:15
  but there's like the same five or six guys who win every time and it's really
• 28:19
  fun for them, but also back in the mid pack, like we have an am championship
• 28:24
  and stuff like that, so we're just, we just make it our own kind of competition.
• 28:28
  And I'm pretty competitive, but I know my, I know I'm not gonna
• 28:32
  win in my league right now.
• 28:33
  I need to get a little bit faster.
• 28:35
  But it's still, things can feel like a win that aren't actually a win.
• 28:39
  Yeah, things can feel like a win.
• 28:42
  'cause I've won a race and I've messed up my race.
• 28:48
  Okay.
• 28:48
  I've had a good race, I've had a bad race.
• 28:50
  When I, when I win a race, I'll be happy for one hour, two hour,
• 28:55
  like celebrating like, oh my God.
• 28:57
  Feeling ecstatic like that.
• 28:59
  But after that, okay, that's it, you know, but I feel like when I had a
• 29:04
  good race a good battle It feels more memorable To me than winning the race.
• 29:10
  I don't know.
• 29:11
  Yeah, I don't want to win Yeah, like I think about I'm thinking we had a race
• 29:18
  at Watkins in GT4s And I was just racing against, um, one of my friends in my
• 29:24
  league and I was pretty new and I had never been able to match his pace before,
• 29:29
  but we had like an amazing battle all through Watkins for like lap after lap.
• 29:33
  And it was so much fun.
• 29:34
  And it was like, I still think about that battle all the time.
• 29:38
  And it's just like, I don't know.
• 29:39
  I don't even remember what we placed.
• 29:41
  It doesn't matter, but I don't even remember who won the fight, honestly,
• 29:44
  because it was just so much fun.
• 29:46
  Afterward, we were both just like, we both really learned from it, which was.
• 29:50
  The win for us, we were both like, that was an awesome fight.
• 29:53
  Like it was great.
• 29:54
  And um, so yeah, we took our win there.
• 29:57
  It didn't really matter what happened on track.
• 29:59
  Yeah, exactly.
• 30:01
  Remember you go faster when you lean forward.
• 30:03
  A hundred percent.
• 30:04
  Trust me, bro.
• 30:05
  No.
• 30:06
  In simracing, you will go faster when you push your wheel.
• 30:10
  Okay, question.
• 30:12
  When you guys simracing, do you push your wheel or do you guys pull your wheel?
• 30:17
  It's a question for everyone.
• 30:18
  And that's for you, Emma.
• 30:20
  Do you feel it like when you're driving?
• 30:23
  I don't know.
• 30:24
  I mean, I have a play seat, so I have, like, a direct drive wheel
• 30:28
  stuck on a play seat, so it's, like, very I wouldn't call it unstable,
• 30:32
  but it's not the most stable thing.
• 30:33
  I probably push on my wheel more than pull.
• 30:36
  Yeah, I think I'm pushing.
• 30:39
  Yeah, I push more than pull.
• 30:41
  Right, right, right.
• 30:42
  Yeah, I see on your TikTok.
• 30:44
  Oh, by the way, guys, Emma is on TikTok.
• 30:46
  So if you want to see a simracing content, and she's
• 30:49
  also posting her simracing setup.
• 30:52
  Right?
• 30:53
  I think it's been on your TikTok, I believe, when you're
• 30:55
  like, on top of the post.
• 31:00
  Yeah.
• 31:00
  If you guys want to see more simracing content on TikTok, or if you guys
• 31:05
  want to see, like, who are the female content creator, simracing content
• 31:09
  creator on TikTok, Emma is one of them.
• 31:12
  So give a follow.
• 31:13
  Emma, can you share your TikTok?
• 31:15
  Do you mind sharing your TikTok to us?
• 31:18
  Yeah, I actually have to remember what it is.
• 31:21
  I created my TikTok so that I could just document my sim racing journey.
• 31:26
  True.
• 31:26
  Um, so I think Just using TikTok like a diary, like a sim racing diary journal.
• 31:32
  It's really cool because I will forget what I did and then I go
• 31:35
  back and then I'm like, oh, wow, I was really slow back then.
• 31:39
  Um, I don't know if I, if it's going to be able to be visible on
• 31:42
  the screen, but it's Belissima.
• 31:43
  So, B E L I S I M A.
• 31:46
  S S E M M A dot racing.
• 31:51
  Bellissima dot racing.
• 31:54
  Yeah, so that's the TikTok.
• 31:56
  It's not a website, guys, that's the username.
• 31:58
  So if you guys wanna follow Emma on TikTok, that's the username.
• 32:02
  And yeah, she's posting her simracing setup.
• 32:05
  She's sharing a lot on TikTok, more than me and everyone else, I feel like.
• 32:10
  Cause, I don't know, I don't get the TikTok.
• 32:13
  Why are you choosing TikTok?
• 32:14
  Um, I don't like, I tried to do Instagram too, and I just don't like it.
• 32:22
  Um, I can just record it and overlay my video and be done with it.
• 32:27
  And if there's like a more of a casual, I mean, I personally don't even use TikTok.
• 32:33
  Actually, I don't watch videos on TikTok.
• 32:34
  Um, I just upload there.
• 32:36
  Like I, I'm pretty, I'm not an advocate for TikTok actually.
• 32:40
  But I just make my videos and post it there and I can
• 32:43
  talk about whatever I want.
• 32:44
  If I wanted to do, I used to, like, I was gaining a lot of momentum last
• 32:49
  year on TikTok and I stopped doing it because the work kind of got in the way
• 32:53
  and then, you know, fell off a cliff.
• 32:54
  But I was posting videos where I was just talking about my laps and didn't
• 32:58
  even have a lap overlay or anything.
• 33:00
  And people weren't moving with that just as much as they do when I show
• 33:03
  my laps, um, which I don't think would be the case on Instagram.
• 33:08
  And YouTube takes a lot of editing time, stuff like that.
• 33:10
  TikTok, I've got it kind of down.
• 33:12
  Um, and there's just so much, I just feel like you have to be so involved
• 33:17
  with other social media platforms.
• 33:18
  And my goal isn't to be like a content creator necessarily.
• 33:22
  Like I just wanted to document my journey because when I was
• 33:26
  searching for Sim drivers, it was always people who are really good.
• 33:30
  And like, you're watching someone do like a crazy lap and you're like, okay, cool.
• 33:34
  And then you try it and you're eight seconds slower.
• 33:36
  And it's like, well, then I must just not be cut out for this.
• 33:39
  So I wanted to create a channel that kind of shows the progress.
• 33:44
  Like, you will not see me winning races on my TikTok, sorry.
• 33:47
  Maybe someday, but I'm always just, like, trying to beat my own best time.
• 33:52
  You know, I'm definitely comparing my time to other people and stuff, but
• 33:55
  it's just focusing on my own growth and documenting my races in my league
• 33:59
  that nobody knows about or really, you know, cares about because it's not
• 34:03
  like a major esports thing or anything.
• 34:05
  It's just my friends.
• 34:06
  But a lot of people seem to really enjoy it, um, and there's definitely I feel like
• 34:12
  there's just not too many female creators in the motorsports space in general.
• 34:16
  It's a very small kind of group.
• 34:18
  And so I'm also just an advocate for women in motorsports.
• 34:21
  So the more visibility, the better.
• 34:24
  Um, so I kind of created the, the TikTok just so I could have something for
• 34:28
  myself, mostly for myself, just to look back on, but also if other people can
• 34:33
  enjoy it and find inspiration in it.
• 34:35
  Like people are always trying to beat my time, which isn't that difficult.
• 34:37
  So.
• 34:38
  Please do.
• 34:39
  But, um, yeah, it's just cool to see.
• 34:42
  And then I talked to the same people and they helped me out with labs and stuff.
• 34:45
  So it's just another way to build the community.
• 34:48
  Yeah.
• 34:48
  I feel like, I don't know.
• 34:51
  I feel like the way you explain, like, why are you making a TikTok account?
• 34:55
  Why are you posting a video?
• 34:56
  It makes me feeling relatable, you know, cause yeah, you see a lot of good drivers,
• 35:02
  but you should remember that those top drivers are the top 1 percent of Millions
• 35:07
  of people who got into sim racing.
• 35:09
  So it means that most of us, we are quick.
• 35:13
  We know how to drive, but it's different, you know, like it's on a different level.
• 35:18
  So sometimes people are stressed out about the race.
• 35:24
  You know what I mean?
• 35:24
  Like, Oh my God, I'm not fast.
• 35:26
  I'm not a pro.
• 35:28
  Something like that.
• 35:29
  Cause yeah, I don't know.
• 35:30
  For me, just making like.
• 35:32
  Yeah, everyone feels relatable because in the end we're like, we are messing
• 35:37
  up our race and yes Everybody is on their journey to become a pro.
• 35:42
  Like you'll see clips on my tiktok of me just Spinning out like I don't spin out
• 35:47
  Even that's cool because I can go back and be like, wow, I couldn't even finish
• 35:50
  a lap before and now I like You know, I just totally messed up in this race
• 35:54
  and I, I don't have like the cool, like, Oh, it overtook two people in one corner
• 35:58
  thing like that doesn't happen to me.
• 36:00
  I just like happened to avoid people spinning out in front of me or something.
• 36:04
  And, um, that's another thing I always encourage people to do is like, just
• 36:08
  try to have a clean race, because if you can just have a clean race, you can
• 36:11
  pick off everyone who, even if they're two seconds faster than you, every
• 36:14
  lab, if they're two seconds faster than you and they spin out and they're out
• 36:18
  for 30 seconds trying to get back on track, like you still beat that person.
• 36:21
  Yeah.
• 36:23
  That is super true Clean racing is yeah, because it doesn't matter if
• 36:27
  you're fast and then you mess up the next lap Everybody is gonna pass
• 36:31
  you anyway Yeah For your fastest ferrari setup visit melissimondo.
• 36:38
  racing That's so hard.
• 36:41
  They're making it sounds like it's an ad Yeah, I definitely probably
• 36:47
  wouldn't trust my Ferraris.
• 36:51
  I definitely, I'm trying to think of it right now, because right now I'm
• 36:55
  in the Mustang zone and I'm just, I can't even remember my brake bias.
• 37:01
  The most useful thing for the Ferrari for ACC that I can remember is to
• 37:05
  set your steering, uh, Setting 16.
• 37:09
  Yeah, the steering ratio to 16 and then your wheel, um, degrees 800.
• 37:14
  Oh yeah.
• 37:15
  Oh yeah, I forgot.
• 37:17
  I think ACC has like a different wheel angle or, or wheel rotation kind of thing.
• 37:23
  It's very for, big apparently, like I really, like I had to change my mind
• 37:27
  a lot for the Mustang and I was like, wow, I can't get the car to turn in.
• 37:31
  And my friend was like, yeah, what's your, what's your, what's your, Real
• 37:34
  angle and I was like, oh, it's 800.
• 37:36
  He was like, yeah, that's way too high.
• 37:37
  . So there's like stuff you have to change.
• 37:40
  But like I said, I'm not a pro, I don't sit like, I mean, okay.
• 37:43
  I shouldn't say that.
• 37:44
  I do tweak my setup as I go.
• 37:45
  Mm-hmm . Most well, like when I have been getting a certain lap time and
• 37:50
  then I'm not getting it anymore with the same setup and then it makes me
• 37:52
  mad, then I like change something kind of, I, I do it a little bit too
• 37:56
  drastically, but I change something.
• 37:58
  So just to get my brain in the mode of like, I have to learn how to be
• 38:02
  fast again, because it just helps me.
• 38:06
  Like if I, you know, mess with the anti roll bar or totally mess with
• 38:10
  the brake bias, and then I have to like, all of a sudden the car is not
• 38:13
  behaving the way it was before it gets my brain into the sense of like, okay,
• 38:17
  you're still learning, like you have to get into like an absorption mode.
• 38:20
  So I usually do that and then get mad again and then switch back to my
• 38:24
  original setup and it kind of works.
• 38:27
  Uh, wait, Jacob.
• 38:31
  Hey, by the way.
• 38:31
  Hey, Jacob.
• 38:32
  I didn't see you there.
• 38:33
  I'm sorry.
• 38:33
  Hi, Jacob.
• 38:34
  Very nice to have you here today.
• 38:35
  Welcome to Innit Talks.
• 38:37
  So, you're saying the only race that ever truly matters is the
• 38:40
  one you run is against yourself.
• 38:43
  True.
• 38:44
  To be that little bit better than you were yesterday.
• 38:47
  It's more like trying to beat yourself.
• 38:49
  That's how I feel.
• 38:50
  It's all in your mind.
• 38:52
  Like for the Ferrari E Sports Challenge, we were doing a Hot Lap Challenge
• 38:56
  at Brands Hatch in ACC, and I was trying to break out of the 124s.
• 39:03
  Um, I was at like a 124.
• 39:05
  00, 0 3 4 I think was my time.
• 39:09
  And I was so close, and we only, I was gone visiting friends for like four days
• 39:15
  of it, so I didn't have time in the rig.
• 39:17
  I I was basically learning ACC for the first time too and I was like, I came
• 39:21
  back and I just drove for like hours and hours and hours until my brain just like
• 39:26
  melted and I could not break the 24th.
• 39:28
  I didn't end up breaking it and it was like, it was demoralizing for me.
• 39:32
  It was really tough.
• 39:34
  I was just like, wow, I'm just not even good enough to get in the 23s.
• 39:37
  Like what the heck?
• 39:38
  And then, um, one of my friends is a, he is a new sports driver and
• 39:42
  he was like, we literally, cause I track all my times every day.
• 39:45
  I track my best time.
• 39:47
  And I would suggest if you're getting frustrated with simracing,
• 39:50
  make a Google Sheet and just put your best time every single day
• 39:54
  and you will see your improvement.
• 39:55
  Because if you look at my sheet, even for this challenge, I was starting the
• 39:58
  208s, um, and that was literally the best I could do that day was a 208.
• 40:03
  And now I'm in the 206s, um, and hoping to break the 205s soon.
• 40:08
  Um, and it's just, but to me it doesn't feel like I've improved that much,
• 40:13
  but then I look at that timing sheet.
• 40:14
  And you have to have a clear agreement, like, even if you didn't, yeah, if
• 40:18
  you didn't meet your, your goal, like, I didn't break into the 123s,
• 40:21
  but I started at, like, a 127 or something, managed to break it down, so.
• 40:27
  You kind of have to reevaluate.
• 40:28
  That's why it's good to have friends who race, too, because they can
• 40:30
  kind of tell you, like, stop beating yourself up and stuff like that.
• 40:33
  Yeah, I feel like your friends can be, like, a really good tool.
• 40:38
  Mental coach as in like, yeah, because your friends seeing everything like
• 40:42
  from outside the bubble when you're like focusing on things your friends
• 40:46
  can give you like an input like, oh, you know what you're doing it wrong.
• 40:49
  You didn't realize that in that corner.
• 40:51
  Yeah, you know, and it really boosts my performance in sim racing since
• 40:56
  I'm racing or just even just driving or driving around just being silly.
• 41:01
  Just, you know, like having like silly battle.
• 41:04
  It really boost me a lot in sim racing.
• 41:08
  Yeah, I mean, I have friends in my league who I was so frustrated with Coda.
• 41:13
  I was sector three.
• 41:14
  I just could not get it.
• 41:15
  And I just had one of my friends hop on my onboard and watch.
• 41:18
  And he was like, you just have to be more patient.
• 41:20
  You're just trying to rush it.
• 41:21
  You can't rush it.
• 41:22
  And it feels like you're going slower, but you're actually going faster.
• 41:25
  And I was like, yeah, yeah, everyone says that.
• 41:27
  But then he was in my ear watching me do it.
• 41:29
  And he's like, don't no throttle, wait, just keep waiting.
• 41:33
  And then finally, it started coming together.
• 41:35
  And it was like, Oh, You were right the whole time, but I
• 41:38
  wasn't going to find it myself.
• 41:39
  I had to have someone else tell me.
• 41:41
  Yeah, you need someone else to see from outside to spot like what
• 41:45
  are your weakness in the track.
• 41:47
  Because when you're driving, you'll be focusing on, oh yeah, I need to
• 41:50
  go to this corner, no off track.
• 41:51
  It depends on what are your goals on your driving.
• 41:54
  So you won't pay attention to those, to those details,
• 42:00
  I must say, to other details.
• 42:02
  Yeah.
• 42:03
  Yeah.
• 42:05
  And, by the way, speaking about the preparation, going into this qualifying
• 42:10
  race, how is everything going with you?
• 42:12
  Are you ready?
• 42:13
  Nervous?
• 42:14
  Going?
• 42:15
  I mean, the cool thing about, I race every single week, different
• 42:18
  track, like we do, my league does a different car every season, at
• 42:23
  different tracks all over the world, so I credit my league to helping me.
• 42:28
  Kind of be prepared to just jump into races because we only have
• 42:32
  like a week to prep and then we jump in the race and it's like full on.
• 42:35
  And there's some people in my league who are alien level, just like, okay.
• 42:39
  Um, so for this, it's like definitely, um, I kind of split my practice
• 42:44
  into qualifying practice and then race pace, because for me with ACC,
• 42:49
  especially like somebody that I'll get on ACC and my, like, I can do.
• 42:55
  Um, A two Oh six one on coda.
• 42:57
  And then the next day, the best I could do is like a two Oh seven nine.
• 43:00
  And I'm like, why?
• 43:02
  So it's all about like momentum.
• 43:03
  So I always practice qualifying laps first.
• 43:07
  Maybe it's just a confidence thing in my brain or whatever.
• 43:09
  But as soon as I start setting the fast laps, then all of a
• 43:13
  sudden the time could come down.
• 43:14
  But if I just focusing on keeping it clean and like, I just tend to go slower.
• 43:19
  So yeah, I've definitely been prepping more and then.
• 43:24
  AI races are sort of helpful for ACC.
• 43:27
  I do that a lot for the Ferrari eSports Challenge, um, our race at Spa.
• 43:33
  And I had to like relearn Spa cause I had not raced it in a long time.
• 43:38
  Um, But it was just, I had my qualifying pace and I knew
• 43:42
  what line I was supposed to do.
• 43:44
  But then you have to think about where people are gonna try to overtake you.
• 43:47
  Are you ready to change your line if somebody's in the way
• 43:50
  of your racing line and stuff?
• 43:52
  So I'm just kind of starting into that practice and figuring it all out for Koda.
• 43:56
  But I've raced here a lot before and we did a GT4 series that went to Koda in AC.
• 44:02
  So I'm quite familiar with, uh, The dive bomb spots and all that.
• 44:07
  The dive bomb spots at Cota . Yeah.
• 44:12
  I don't know.
• 44:12
  I feel like Kota is, to me, Kota is like the hardest track in United States.
• 44:18
  It's not difficult.
• 44:19
  Mm-hmm.
• 44:19
  Very technical.
• 44:20
  Like, I don't get the groove around the track.
• 44:23
  Uh, I just, I'm just Okay.
• 44:25
  At that track.
• 44:26
  I don't even consider myself as, yeah.
• 44:29
  I, um, like my first sector.
• 44:32
  Is less than a tenth away from like a 204 lab, but then the rest of it is not.
• 44:39
  So, my focus has been definitely Sector 2, Sector 3 for sure.
• 44:45
  Sector 3 is more technical, or at least for me, Sector 3 is my biggest weakness.
• 44:52
  For sure.
• 44:52
  Like, oh god, I don't, oh god, I'm wishing you good luck, okay?
• 44:57
  I really hope you're winning it, you will win it, and you will represent
• 45:01
  United States in the global esports game, I would love to see it.
• 45:06
  Oh my god.
• 45:06
  We'll see what happens.
• 45:07
  Oh my god, that would be like super cool.
• 45:09
  Okay, Ash, you got another question.
• 45:12
  Can Alma, can Emma tell us her least favorite track in
• 45:15
  ACC and why is it Alton Park?
• 45:17
  She hasn't answered yet, Ash.
• 45:20
  I actually like Alton.
• 45:22
  See, but to be fair, I haven't raced in GT3s.
• 45:26
  We did a TCR series and I've done, I think we also did an MX5 series.
• 45:31
  I liked it.
• 45:32
  I mean, I shouldn't say that.
• 45:34
  It was definitely frustrating, but the races were fun.
• 45:38
  And honestly, I haven't, I haven't done GT3s on a ton of tracks on ECC,
• 45:43
  I've pretty much only done Misano,
• 45:49
  Monza, Spa, and Koda, Brands, Hatch, and then a couple other ones, but
• 45:57
  I literally had to download all of the, DLC for the Ferrari e sports
• 46:01
  series because I Didn't have it.
• 46:04
  So I was really happy to find that.
• 46:06
  I actually had the american track pack for this one.
• 46:08
  So Sorry, I can't give you a better answer, but oh, I should oh, that's
• 46:12
  a lie My least favorite track is paul ricard 100 Oh my god, I had this
• 46:18
  conversation Everywhere and seems like everybody agreed with you with me.
• 46:23
  And yeah, everybody said like How was the LFWM, um, like, license
• 46:31
  track when I was trying to do LFM?
• 46:33
  And I was like, how can I be really fast at brands and then just can't
• 46:39
  even qualify for LFM at Paul Ricard?
• 46:41
  It made me so mad.
• 46:45
  No.
• 46:46
  French counterpart.
• 46:49
  Yeah, it is.
• 46:51
  It's so confusing, I'm sorry, but if anyone here likes Pole
• 46:55
  Record, but yeah, I'm sorry.
• 46:56
  I'm just, let's say I'm so sucks at it.
• 46:59
  I'm sucks.
• 46:59
  Yeah, I'm not good at it at all.
• 47:02
  I haven't even tried it since, like, it was just embarrassing.
• 47:05
  I was like, wow, I'm so bad at this.
• 47:07
  I think in GT3 you can be like, under 2 minutes.
• 47:10
  What's the, what's the fast lap time in Pole Record?
• 47:14
  But, yeah, it's like, I'm not good at it.
• 47:16
  I don't even remember what my times were at Paul Ricard.
• 47:19
  Yeah, I don't even remember.
• 47:20
  I only raced in ACC.
• 47:21
  It was so bad that when I looked it up, it like, didn't even come up as a remotely
• 47:26
  possible time people were getting.
• 47:28
  And I was like, okay, I'm just not gonna look at this anymore.
• 47:32
  The worst French Grand Prix track.
• 47:36
  Is that track still exists?
• 47:37
  I mean, I think people still drive in Paul Ricard for endurance or something, right?
• 47:43
  I don't know about endurance, but yeah, I know people definitely,
• 47:47
  I know people who have actually driven that track in real life.
• 47:50
  I don't have any Is that track is still active technically?
• 47:55
  And maybe we don't need to tell iRacing that Paul Ricard exists so they
• 47:59
  won't add Paul Ricard to the track.
• 48:02
  And I hope, or probably in ACC Evo, we won't have Paul Ricard.
• 48:09
  I'm so But a lot of people don't like Coda either.
• 48:14
  I mean, Coda's really I've been to the Formula 1 race at Coda.
• 48:17
  I went in 2018, so I got to see Kimi Raikkonen's last win in person,
• 48:21
  which is my big goal for that.
• 48:24
  Um, and it's an awesome track to watch a race at.
• 48:28
  It's definitely Now it's a lot more crowded.
• 48:32
  In 2018 It was like pre drive to survive.
• 48:35
  So I remember I walked up to the fan zone.
• 48:38
  I was 30 minutes before the autograph session and I was front row.
• 48:41
  And so I got Fernando Alonso's autograph, just like barely had weight.
• 48:46
  I was at the airport with Stoffel Van Doorn when he was racing for McLaren.
• 48:50
  He was just chilling.
• 48:51
  Nobody knew who he was.
• 48:53
  I was behind Lucio Rubinene in the TSA line.
• 48:57
  Um, I got dropped off in a Ferrari as I was leaving right in front of
• 49:01
  me and my dad was so jealous because he wasn't on the same flight as
• 49:04
  me and I was like, well I'm gonna go hang out with the Ferrari team.
• 49:09
  I'm not like that anymore.
• 49:11
  I haven't even been to Kota since then.
• 49:12
  I've been to IMSA races and even IMSA races are getting super packed.
• 49:16
  I went to Daytona and I went to Petit Le Mans.
• 49:19
  Oh my god, I'm so jealous of you now.
• 49:21
  I didn't even do the gridwalks the past couple times because
• 49:24
  they're so packed now.
• 49:26
  It's cool because motorsports definitely catching on, which is, which is good,
• 49:29
  but it was kind of nice seeing it grow, you know, like grow even bigger
• 49:33
  and bigger because I like the hype and everything, every time I'm going to a
• 49:36
  racetrack, like, oh my God, it's so hard to get a merch, you know, like Jonah, my
• 49:41
  friend had a spot in the Porsche club.
• 49:43
  So we like got to hang out with all the Porsche people and just like, Oh, wow.
• 49:49
  everything and we were right next to the track.
• 49:52
  Um, it was awesome.
• 49:54
  But personally, my favorite is Petit Le Mans in Atlanta.
• 49:58
  So fun.
• 50:00
  Yes, absolutely.
• 50:01
  It's a 12 hour endurance race.
• 50:02
  And actually the first time I went was with my racing league.
• 50:05
  A bunch of us, um, decided to go to the race together.
• 50:08
  So I met them all in real life and we just had like a blast at Petit
• 50:12
  Le Mans and now we go every year.
• 50:13
  So.
• 50:14
  Oh my God.
• 50:16
  I want to go to Petit Le Mans too.
• 50:18
  Um, it's a lot.
• 50:20
  Yeah.
• 50:21
  I wanted, ah, I think I only went to one IMSA race in Road America.
• 50:27
  I was still living in Chicago back then, so it was, it was
• 50:30
  an okay trip to Wisconsin.
• 50:32
  But now I live in California.
• 50:34
  The only option for me is going to Long Beach or going to Sonoma . Mm-hmm . Yeah.
• 50:40
  Oh my God.
• 50:41
  So you've been to date now?
• 50:42
  24.
• 50:43
  Yeah.
• 50:45
  How was it?
• 50:46
  It was a lot of fun.
• 50:47
  I, like I said, I like Petit Le Mans better.
• 50:50
  Um, because Petit, you can stay up for the whole race.
• 50:53
  It's 12 hours.
• 50:54
  So you can just like be part of it all.
• 50:57
  Oh, cool.
• 51:00
  Like it's definitely a different atmosphere and it's like kind of amazing.
• 51:02
  I've never been to Daytona before and I can't imagine what it's
• 51:05
  like for the Daytona 500 because.
• 51:08
  It has got to be crazy for the Daytona 500.
• 51:10
  It was like just seeing how many empty seats there were for the
• 51:13
  Rolex 24 compared to Daytona sold out every year, the Daytona 500.
• 51:18
  Um, it was really cool.
• 51:20
  It was a really fun time, but I was, I have to say, like, I was
• 51:23
  less focused on the racing at Daytona and was more focused on like
• 51:26
  walking around and like doing stuff.
• 51:28
  Whereas petite, like, You can't escape the racing and there's a lot
• 51:32
  of really cool technical points on track where You can just kind of
• 51:36
  see all the action So I love it.
• 51:38
  I bet and especially like you have the You have the gt3 gtp racing in road atlanta.
• 51:45
  Oh my god I actually went to the ferrari challenge race at road atlanta as well.
• 51:51
  Oh It was not very packed at all it was very empty and I got to I actually got to
• 51:57
  sit in a couple ferraris because I just ended up talking to the Ferrari people.
• 52:01
  They had a Puro Sangue there.
• 52:02
  So I was like, Oh, this is really cool.
• 52:04
  Um, and so there's, it was definitely a different vibe though.
• 52:07
  Like it really wasn't all about like, I don't know how to explain it.
• 52:10
  It was just a different vibe.
• 52:12
  So I like it better, but it was cool.
• 52:14
  Like, it was really cool to see the Ferrari challenge in person.
• 52:18
  Around Ferraris is always cool.
• 52:21
  The real race is the MX 5 in IMSA.
• 52:23
  Yeah, I must say, the real race is the MX 5.
• 52:26
  One of the MX 5 races is terrifying.
• 52:28
  Like, I don't know how those guys do it.
• 52:31
  And it is crazy.
• 52:32
  Like, the bumper to Like, they're just Yeah, I can't do it.
• 52:37
  That would freak me out.
• 52:37
  And I would also immediately wreck out the person behind me because
• 52:41
  they'd be trying to draft me and I would brake too early and just Oh no!
• 52:47
  The MX 5 is going like six wide into turn one.
• 52:49
  Yeah, I mean, oh my god at first when I first watching the MX 5
• 52:53
  at Daytona honestly, I was quite skeptical because okay MX 5.
• 52:58
  Okay.
• 52:58
  Let's see what we got and I think it was like 40 minutes race, I believe in
• 53:03
  Daytona MX 5 and it was like full of full of like drafting close racing and
• 53:08
  I was like, wow, I changed my mind.
• 53:10
  I'm humbled bro.
• 53:12
  I'm like, yeah.
• 53:15
  I think it's Erdalina too, 24 Hours of Lemons, where you have your car, it
• 53:20
  has to be under 500, and you just race.
• 53:24
  That one seems fun, I haven't been to it, but a couple of my friends
• 53:27
  wanted to actually do the race.
• 53:28
  And I was like, look, I like sim racing, I don't really think I'm gonna get in a real
• 53:33
  car, especially a 500 car, and actually race people, but people love it, so.
• 53:39
  I would love to, lowkey I want to get into that.
• 53:43
  Lowkey, I wanna build a Lambo.
• 53:46
  Yeah, people make some amazing cars.
• 53:48
  They decorate them really cool.
• 53:50
  That's how actual racing is, because half the time you're just trying to
• 53:53
  keep your car alive till the end.
• 53:55
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have to keep your car alive, true.
• 53:59
  And, Ash, guess what?
• 54:01
  Yeah, you're saying, by the way, you're saying like, yeah, this MX 5 going
• 54:04
  six wide into turn one in Daytona.
• 54:07
  And you should see the MX 5 going five wide.
• 54:11
  Into the SS at the Glen.
• 54:13
  Oh my God.
• 54:15
  It's just crazy.
• 54:16
  I love, I love watching them.
• 54:17
  It's five days, but I don't like driving the MX five because I'm bad.
• 54:23
  Yeah.
• 54:24
  It's like, like I said, like it was fun.
• 54:27
  Our lead did spec, um, we did spec me out as, and then we did MX five cup
• 54:32
  cars or something, and it was fun.
• 54:34
  My league was doing it.
• 54:34
  Cause everyone, like, I don't know, cause I know all of them and we all
• 54:37
  just have a good time all the time.
• 54:38
  Yeah.
• 54:39
  But iRacing, like, you're, it's a lot more by yourself, and all of my League buddies
• 54:44
  are like, have an insane iRating, and I'm just like, I haven't even attempted to
• 54:49
  work on my iRating, because that's what kind of stresses me out about iRacing,
• 54:53
  it's like, I don't want to do bad in the race and ruin my iRating, and they're
• 54:55
  like, don't even think about it, just, just race, and the iRating will come
• 54:58
  later, but it still stresses me out.
• 55:00
  Yeah, I'm still thinking about it sometimes, and I'm still like,
• 55:03
  sometimes I get mad about it, like, uh, it's not like I'm mad.
• 55:07
  I'm feeling mad to other, to another people, but it's more
• 55:10
  like, how can I be this sucks?
• 55:12
  I can do better.
• 55:13
  It's, you know, that feeling sometimes.
• 55:15
  Yeah, for sure.
• 55:17
  Um, like I'm blaming myself.
• 55:19
  Like if I'm like losing a lot, I'll be like, okay, else your sucks.
• 55:23
  Like, but yeah, it's really easy to get into, like I was in a
• 55:28
  pretty negative mindset two days ago with my hot lapping time.
• 55:31
  I literally thought I was never going to, Breaking the 206s.
• 55:35
  I was like, I can't do it.
• 55:37
  I'm stuck.
• 55:38
  I can't do it.
• 55:39
  And then I got a 206 9 and then the next day I got a 206 7, the next day a 206 5.
• 55:46
  Nice.
• 55:47
  Have to keep Sometimes you do need to step away.
• 55:50
  You have to step away from your rig for a minute and take a breather and come
• 55:53
  back because if you're driving really angry, it's not really gonna work.
• 55:58
  True.
• 55:58
  Actually, I took a coaching session lately.
• 56:01
  Like, I went on I just want to get good in driving the Porsche car.
• 56:04
  That's why I took the coaching session.
• 56:07
  And this is what I learned from my coach.
• 56:10
  Instead of like, you're actually pushing yourself after this coaching
• 56:13
  session, why don't you take a break, go to sleep, come back later.
• 56:18
  Come back in the morning.
• 56:19
  I tried to follow that and I improved more than when I was
• 56:24
  like pushing myself real hard.
• 56:26
  Really.
• 56:28
  It's really, I mean, racing is just such a, like I said,
• 56:30
  it's like learning a language.
• 56:31
  So you got to give your, your brain can't process it.
• 56:34
  Like sleep helps your brain process it.
• 56:35
  So there's all kinds of stuff going on in the background that you're not paying
• 56:40
  attention to because I try to push it.
• 56:41
  When I was driving brands hash, I was driving it like four hours a
• 56:44
  day, trying to get a better time.
• 56:45
  And it was not good.
• 56:47
  I just couldn't get better because I just was pushing too much.
• 56:53
  Luka!
• 56:53
  Hi, hi!
• 56:54
  No, you're not late.
• 56:55
  We're having a chat, but I think we're all maybe like we're like 15 20
• 57:00
  minutes done because Emma, our guest, is currently on her lunch break.
• 57:04
  So we're like kidnapping Emma for this podcast.
• 57:07
  So she got to go.
• 57:08
  Get back to work after this.
• 57:10
  So but you're not late.
• 57:11
  You're not late You still have time to hang out here, by the way.
• 57:14
  Hi luka Very nice to have you here with emma the driver for the us
• 57:19
  online qualifier for the upcoming global esports games Hi luka.
• 57:23
  Hi.
• 57:24
  Hi So emma, by the way Speaking about the racetrack we talk about imsa.
• 57:29
  We talk about yeah, imsa daytona roller planta everything Then
• 57:35
  it got me thinking what are your favorite tracks in real life?
• 57:39
  And why?
• 57:41
  Other than attending the event, let's talk about the track itself.
• 57:45
  I don't know, I think, I mean this is going to sound really
• 57:49
  cliche, but I really like Monaco.
• 57:52
  Just for the history of Monaco, but also when you do a really good lap around
• 57:57
  Monaco, it's a pretty cool feeling.
• 58:00
  Great.
• 58:00
  Um, so Monaco is probably one, and then, I haven't been to it though,
• 58:06
  but my favorite track that I've ever been to probably is Monza.
• 58:10
  Oh, wow.
• 58:11
  What?
• 58:11
  Monza is really cool, and if you ever go, you can go to the old banking.
• 58:17
  And I went to the old banking, and, um, yeah, I was just, it's, it's really cool.
• 58:24
  Um, so yeah, that would be probably my two favorite European tracks, sorry.
• 58:29
  But, but yeah.
• 58:33
  Have you ever been to any F1 race in, in the Europe or not yet?
• 58:37
  Not in Europe.
• 58:38
  I was, funny story.
• 58:40
  I was, my friend, I have friends in Italy who live in Milan.
• 58:43
  Um, actually my friend Lux is the one who drew the Monza poster for
• 58:49
  Ferrari, this for the past race.
• 58:51
  Wow.
• 58:51
  Um, so Lux and I hang out all the time whenever I go to, to Italy
• 58:57
  and, uh, they took me to Monza.
• 59:00
  Uh, I've been to Monza.
• 59:03
  Twice now?
• 59:03
  Yeah, twice.
• 59:04
  And it's just been really cool.
• 59:06
  So, I'm always invited to Monza, but I haven't been able to go.
• 59:11
  Um, I did ask if I could go hang out in the Ferrari, um, hospitality
• 59:16
  with Lux this past time, but, obviously, that didn't happen.
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  Um, yeah, and then I have, uh, friends who live by Zandvoort and
• 59:24
  stuff, so I have friends around, I just have to, like, just hang out.
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  Give a goal, make it out there.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Make a plan and visit.
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  Because it's actually like I went to Coda, I don't mind saying this.
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  When I went to Dakota in 2018, I bought tickets, three day tickets that were at
• 59:39
  turned 15, like mm-hmm . Where all the crowds were happening, and we got to see
• 59:44
  a Bruno Mars concert and it was $500 for the whole weekend . Um, and now those
• 59:49
  same seats are $1,600 just for one day.
• 59:52
  Wow.
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  Yeah, that's unaffordable in the U.
• 59:57
  S., which I really hate.
• 1:00:00
  It's actually cheaper to go to Europe, to fly to Europe and go to
• 1:00:03
  a race and come back than it is to go, to just get tickets in the U.
• 1:00:06
  S.
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  So, I don't think we'll be a European race unless I get invited to a U.
• 1:00:11
  S.
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  race to go for free, because otherwise I'm not paying for it.
• 1:00:14
  Sorry.
• 1:00:14
  Yeah, the price is crazy.
• 1:00:17
  And you're right, I feel like it's cheaper for us right now to travel
• 1:00:20
  to Europe and get the Evo ticket.
• 1:00:22
  One, there's a lot of race in the Europe more than the United States,
• 1:00:27
  and there are like a lot of, or there are some tickets that is affordable.
• 1:00:33
  I think Zandvoort is one of them, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, but
• 1:00:36
  Zandvoort is one of the I know the Monza is actually pretty affordable
• 1:00:40
  still, like, they just, they're upping the prices a little bit every year, but
• 1:00:45
  Yeah, this year my friends were like, oh my gosh, Monza is so expensive, it's
• 1:00:49
  like 250 for the weekend, and I was like Wait till you see Texas, Vegas.
• 1:00:58
  I don't know about Miami.
• 1:00:59
  I'm not sure about Miami.
• 1:01:00
  Miami is pretty expensive.
• 1:01:02
  I had friends who went to the very first Miami race.
• 1:01:06
  Uh, they, I could have bought a ticket for 800 for the whole weekend,
• 1:01:11
  but I was like, um, I don't really like going to Florida in general.
• 1:01:14
  So, sorry.
• 1:01:16
  Las Vegas Grand Prix is out then.
• 1:01:18
  Yeah.
• 1:01:20
  I'm having a mixed feeling about the last Vegas, okay?
• 1:01:23
  First of all, I know everybody been complaining about the policy and
• 1:01:27
  everything, everything that is going on in Vegas during the race weekend,
• 1:01:32
  which everybody hates that, which I understand that, but the race
• 1:01:35
  itself was actually pretty good.
• 1:01:39
  The race was kind of like, paid off to me, at least last year.
• 1:01:43
  So I don't know about this year, quite hoping.
• 1:01:45
  Yeah.
• 1:01:46
  I just wish that.
• 1:01:48
  Formula one wasn't getting so prohibitive, everyone, um,
• 1:01:53
  it's just like, I don't know.
• 1:01:54
  But then it is like weird, like going to the race at Coto was super fun and
• 1:01:59
  it was like an absolute blast, but mm-hmm . I still like watching it at
• 1:02:03
  home 'cause you get all the action.
• 1:02:05
  I mean, rcs even had like the big screen so we could pretty much
• 1:02:07
  watch the whole thing on screen.
• 1:02:09
  But it's different.
• 1:02:10
  Yeah, it's definitely different.
• 1:02:12
  At least for me, going to racetrack, it's like.
• 1:02:15
  Feels like going to Disneyland.
• 1:02:16
  It's more like the experience, like you're walking from, even from the
• 1:02:20
  parking lot to the, to the entrance and then like you walk around.
• 1:02:25
  I know, I know like, yeah, we will see more action on TV, but
• 1:02:29
  sometimes I like to go to racetrack to listen to the sound of the car.
• 1:02:33
  Yeah, the sound is cool.
• 1:02:34
  There's nothing, the sound.
• 1:02:38
  Like, sometimes I'm just like, I don't know.
• 1:02:40
  I just want to sit down and like, Oh my God, just enjoy the car goes fast.
• 1:02:45
  You know?
• 1:02:45
  Oh yeah.
• 1:02:46
  Daytona is really cool for that because you just can't
• 1:02:49
  watch it for 24 hours straight.
• 1:02:51
  Like some people do, but we were just like sitting in lawn chairs, like hanging
• 1:02:56
  out and cars are just like flying by, but you get super dirty because, uh,
• 1:03:01
  like Rubbers flying off the track.
• 1:03:03
  You don't even see it and by the end of the day, you're like wiping your
• 1:03:05
  face off and it's all black Oh my god.
• 1:03:09
  Oh my god First of all gene, thank you so much for subscribing
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• 1:03:17
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• 1:03:18
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• 1:03:22
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• 1:03:23
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• 1:03:24
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• 1:03:28
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• 1:03:29
  Oh my god Very nice to have you all here today.
• 1:03:31
  Meet my new friend.
• 1:03:32
  Emma.
• 1:03:32
  Oh my god.
• 1:03:33
  Hi everyone.
• 1:03:33
  Thank you so much Thank you so much taylor for trusting your
• 1:03:37
  community to this channel.
• 1:03:39
  Thank you so much.
• 1:03:40
  I really appreciate you And hello everyone.
• 1:03:43
  Welcome to init talks.
• 1:03:44
  Oh my god.
• 1:03:45
  We're having a chat with emma right now Oh my god, how's it going, you guys?
• 1:03:51
  How's it going?
• 1:03:52
  So, we are having a chat about, basically right now we are having Emma as our guest
• 1:03:57
  and we are having a chat about ACC F1.
• 1:03:59
  Well, now we are talking about the F1 race.
• 1:04:03
  So, I hope you guys really enjoy your time here, okay?
• 1:04:06
  Enjoy your time here, you all.
• 1:04:08
  I love you guys so much.
• 1:04:09
  Thank you, thank you.
• 1:04:12
  Yeah, by the way, oh my god, I got distracted, but thank you so
• 1:04:16
  much again for all the support.
• 1:04:18
  I really appreciate you guys So I'm by the way speaking about your goal.
• 1:04:23
  Do you what are your goals?
• 1:04:25
  Do you wanna be a race car driver one day?
• 1:04:28
  um, no, that's not I started sim racing just because I saw it as a
• 1:04:36
  completely new challenge, and I just wanted to prove to myself that I
• 1:04:40
  can learn something completely new.
• 1:04:43
  And it doesn't matter how old you are when you start, you can still be My dad
• 1:04:47
  can probably still beat me on a track, and he has been playing Gran Turismo on
• 1:04:52
  controller since like, Playstation 2 days.
• 1:04:55
  Um, And it's just like, there's plenty, there's so many people.
• 1:04:59
  It's like, I feel like there's so many barriers to entry in sim racing.
• 1:05:03
  And I just kind of wanted to show that it doesn't matter when you start, as
• 1:05:07
  long as you dedicate time to it and enjoy it, like you can get anywhere.
• 1:05:11
  So my goal is to be, I mean, obviously I want to win.
• 1:05:15
  There's no question, but, um, I want to win on, on my terms, having documented the
• 1:05:21
  whole journey to get there, just to kind of, I don't know how long it's gonna take.
• 1:05:25
  I remember when I first started I was like, I'm gonna be I wanted to be a
• 1:05:29
  formula one esports like world champion and now i'm like Jarno Otmir pretty much
• 1:05:34
  has that one down so he can Do that.
• 1:05:37
  I will stick to what i'm doing and if I can win a race in my league I'll be set.
• 1:05:42
  That would be a pretty pretty cool thing for me um, maybe Maybe you will be in the
• 1:05:49
  women division in the qualifying race.
• 1:05:51
  We never know Right?
• 1:05:53
  Maybe you will get your win in a few days from now, right?
• 1:05:58
  I think the race will be on 21st, right?
• 1:06:00
  On the 21st and 22nd?
• 1:06:02
  Something like that?
• 1:06:04
  Definitely have to do to get there.
• 1:06:07
  Counting days, oh my god, oh my god.
• 1:06:10
  I really hope you're going to at least have a good result, you know?
• 1:06:13
  And I'm wishing you having a good time.
• 1:06:17
  That's the most important thing.
• 1:06:18
  It's been really cool so far.
• 1:06:20
  It's cool.
• 1:06:21
  The esports community is small, but, um, it's, it's a really
• 1:06:25
  good community to be part of.
• 1:06:26
  So you can really do a lot with it.
• 1:06:30
  Like that's what's been so cool for me.
• 1:06:32
  It's like, I never have a problem reaching out to people.
• 1:06:34
  So like I've talked to the Ferrari esports team.
• 1:06:38
  Um, I've talked to the Porsche esports people, like just, just because I reached
• 1:06:44
  out and was like, Hey, Hey, This is cool.
• 1:06:46
  I'm not any good, but I'd love to talk to you guys.
• 1:06:49
  People are down for it, so.
• 1:06:52
  Right.
• 1:06:52
  Yeah, there's a lot of opportunities.
• 1:06:54
  And we'll see if I can make it a little bit more worth their while.
• 1:06:57
  Trying to get a we'll see.
• 1:07:00
  You know what, sometimes you just have to Well I don't know how to say it.
• 1:07:05
  Sometimes you just have to ask.
• 1:07:07
  Or you just have to start the conversation.
• 1:07:09
  Sometimes Absolutely.
• 1:07:10
  People are Sometimes people are, well, I myself feeling nervous
• 1:07:15
  too sometimes when I'm about to talk to big people in motorsport.
• 1:07:19
  But, you know, people are very nice.
• 1:07:22
  People are very welcoming.
• 1:07:24
  Even if you're a newbie in this motorsport, like, don't be afraid.
• 1:07:28
  Sometimes you just have to ask questions.
• 1:07:30
  Don't be afraid to ask questions and reach out.
• 1:07:32
  You can always ask.
• 1:07:35
  I even have a little story about this.
• 1:07:38
  So that's it.
• 1:07:39
  I signed Sebastian Vettel driver card from when he drove for Ferrari.
• 1:07:43
  And the reason, he sent it to me in the mail.
• 1:07:46
  Because I, he used to have like an address where you could just write
• 1:07:50
  him like a letter or something.
• 1:07:51
  And he was retiring, so my friends and I were just like, oh we'll
• 1:07:54
  just write Sebastian a letter.
• 1:07:56
  So I just wrote him a letter and I was like, hey, like, it was so
• 1:07:59
  great to watch you race in 2018.
• 1:08:01
  Like, I wish I would have been able to get your, um, autograph from Ferrari,
• 1:08:04
  but I never had the chance because I was too busy doing other stuff.
• 1:08:08
  But the Ferrari fan zone was packed, whatever.
• 1:08:10
  And then like three months later, he sent Aston Martin driver cards, but he
• 1:08:16
  also included a Ferrari driver card.
• 1:08:18
  So he actually read the letter and saw that I didn't get his
• 1:08:20
  signature when he drove for Ferrari.
• 1:08:22
  So he sent me that.
• 1:08:23
  So you always just have to ask.
• 1:08:25
  You never know what's going to happen.
• 1:08:27
  True.
• 1:08:27
  You have to ask.
• 1:08:29
  And it's free.
• 1:08:29
  It costs you nothing to ask questions, guys.
• 1:08:33
  All the coolest things that ever happened in my life, I just asked for them.
• 1:08:37
  Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, don't worry, trust me guys.
• 1:08:40
  Even though that you guys see me every week, or almost every day I'm streaming,
• 1:08:44
  and you can see that I'm like, hey everyone, but in real life, I feel
• 1:08:48
  nervous a lot, you know, like, oh god, I'm nervous of this, nervous of that.
• 1:08:53
  But I'm learning today from Emma, like, yeah, don't be afraid to ask questions.
• 1:08:58
  If Emma can do it, we can do it.
• 1:09:00
  Yep.
• 1:09:01
  Absolutely.
• 1:09:03
  Definitely.
• 1:09:03
  If I could do it, you guys could do it.
• 1:09:04
  Trust me.
• 1:09:05
  And again, by the way guys, if you guys are active on TikTok, feel free to give
• 1:09:10
  Emma and Init Esports a follow on TikTok.
• 1:09:13
  Because yeah, we'll be posting like a lot of video, more like a video on TikTok.
• 1:09:17
  Well, on Instagram also for us, on Init Esports and Screen2Speed.
• 1:09:21
  But if you want to follow Emma's journey in simracing, you can
• 1:09:25
  find her on TikTok at Bellissima.
• 1:09:29
  racing Did Emma race in the F1 series?
• 1:09:34
  No, I don't think Emma was racing in F1 series.
• 1:09:38
  Nope.
• 1:09:39
  This is only the second, like, actual, well, I guess third actual
• 1:09:44
  competition thing that I've ever done.
• 1:09:46
  Right, so the USAF qualifier is the third.
• 1:09:50
  Boom, event.
• 1:09:53
  I'm wishing you tons of luck.
• 1:09:54
  Oh my god.
• 1:09:55
  Honestly, I'm sucks at quali.
• 1:09:57
  So if there is like a competition that requires you to do the online quali, I'm
• 1:10:01
  like 70 percent I'm not gonna qualify.
• 1:10:04
  I'm more like focused on consistency instead of like pushing
• 1:10:07
  the pushing the car, you know.
• 1:10:09
  For everyone who passed the qualifying, you guys are so fantastic.
• 1:10:18
  It's definitely, it's a completely different mindset.
• 1:10:20
  And there's a lot of people, like, that's how my friends always tell me, like,
• 1:10:23
  yeah, there's always going to be people who are super fast hot lappers, but
• 1:10:26
  it doesn't mean they know how to race.
• 1:10:28
  So you just have to practice everything.
• 1:10:30
  True.
• 1:10:31
  I guess you need to find, like, what are your weakness and what are your greatness,
• 1:10:35
  as in, like, what are you good at?
• 1:10:36
  And to me, I like to maximize what I'm good at.
• 1:10:40
  And compromise a bit on my weakness, you know?
• 1:10:43
  Like, yeah.
• 1:10:44
  It's more like trying to find a balance instead of like trying
• 1:10:47
  to be good at everything.
• 1:10:49
  I like to focus on Yeah, my race pace in in this case and I'd also say like,
• 1:10:56
  you know when you're just starting out you still have to figure out the
• 1:10:58
  fundamentals, but At some point you do get to your own driving style where
• 1:11:02
  other people's advice won't actually help you get faster um, take it with
• 1:11:07
  a grain of salt because a lot of times people are telling you the right thing
• 1:11:09
  to do but there's been times where One of my friends who is like a professional
• 1:11:14
  esports person that watched me do a line and he was like, I didn't even know you
• 1:11:18
  could do that line, but it's actually just fast, so keep doing it, I guess.
• 1:11:23
  You can, you can always figure out your own thing.
• 1:11:28
  I hear Vettel could be coming back to F1?
• 1:11:33
  I read, I saw like some posts on internet a bit about, about Vettel, but I don't
• 1:11:40
  know if, if he's gonna make a comeback.
• 1:11:42
  to motorsport or something.
• 1:11:45
  I could, I think, I could see him coming back to motorsport,
• 1:11:48
  but I don't know about F1.
• 1:11:49
  I feel like F1 is just such a different sport now that, I don't
• 1:11:56
  know, it's Right, right, right.
• 1:11:57
  I get you.
• 1:11:58
  I get you.
• 1:12:01
  I hope to see Emma around in as many of the STS series as she can do.
• 1:12:06
  Amen to that, Luca.
• 1:12:08
  Amen.
• 1:12:08
  Emma is really fantastic.
• 1:12:10
  If you're on TikTok, again, give her a follow.
• 1:12:13
  Thanks, guys.
• 1:12:14
  I appreciate it.
• 1:12:15
  I actually do have to run.
• 1:12:16
  I just got an email that I have to respond to, though.
• 1:12:19
  Right, right.
• 1:12:20
  Okay, um, okay, so let's say we are down to the last question now.
• 1:12:25
  Um, alright, so, um, let's see.
• 1:12:30
  Okay.
• 1:12:30
  I'm gonna, I'm gonna pick the last question, um, from the, from the chat.
• 1:12:34
  Okay.
• 1:12:35
  So we can feel more.
• 1:12:36
  Oh, related.
• 1:12:36
  Relatable.
• 1:12:38
  Hi Luka.
• 1:12:39
  So F1, ACC.
• 1:12:40
  So what other platforms do you raise?
• 1:12:43
  And is, okay, I will add that to another, I will add the question from Luka.
• 1:12:48
  So if there's like one sim that you want to master, you want to be
• 1:12:53
  very good at it, what would it be?
• 1:12:57
  Um, Well, this is going to sound bad because it's the one I'm least
• 1:13:02
  experienced with, but iRacing, because everything is moving towards iRacing now.
• 1:13:07
  And I feel like I kind of missed the boat on ACC.
• 1:13:10
  ACC used to be like, I feel like the top thing that everyone was driving.
• 1:13:13
  But now it seems like esports teams, um, in general are
• 1:13:18
  like moving towards iRacing.
• 1:13:20
  So I definitely have to get into that.
• 1:13:22
  So if I could master any, it would be that.
• 1:13:24
  But also, an unrelated sim, but Richard Burns Rally, um, which like,
• 1:13:30
  only exists on the, you know, nooks and crannies of the internet now.
• 1:13:34
  Um, if I could ever be good at that, I'd be really proud of myself,
• 1:13:38
  but rally is very difficult and a completely different ballgame, but.
• 1:13:42
  Right.
• 1:13:43
  I'm really looking forward to see you joining iRacing for sure.
• 1:13:49
  Like, so whenever you're Getting your subscription on iRacing and you feel
• 1:13:54
  like you want to race, feel free to reach out to us On discord at init esports.
• 1:13:59
  So maybe we can like, I don't know, even just having like a fun lobby with
• 1:14:04
  friends You know, like having fun being silly around Yeah, we always welcome
• 1:14:09
  you by the way Thank you so much.
• 1:14:12
  Yeah, I love, I would love to do something like that, because iRacing is just a
• 1:14:15
  lot more lonely of a sim for me, so.
• 1:14:18
  You won't feel lonely anymore, don't worry.
• 1:14:20
  You will find Because in eSports, I can say, like, our player
• 1:14:24
  base is really big in iRacing.
• 1:14:26
  So you won't feel lonely.
• 1:14:28
  Yeah.
• 1:14:28
  You will find, you will always find, like, someone to play with in iRacing.
• 1:14:33
  Yeah, I'll definitely hit you up then.
• 1:14:35
  Yeah.
• 1:14:36
  By the way, guys, guess what?
• 1:14:38
  Emma, so, again, Luca, we kidnapped Emma.
• 1:14:41
  So, she's like, in the middle of lunch break, and instead of having
• 1:14:45
  lunch, she's having a podcast with us.
• 1:14:50
  But now I have to let her go because she you need to get back to work, right?
• 1:14:55
  It's not even the weekend.
• 1:14:56
  Yeah Yeah Thank you so much emma.
• 1:15:00
  Thank you so much for your time today.
• 1:15:02
  so much And thank you everyone.
• 1:15:03
  I appreciate all your time and questions.
• 1:15:05
  Super cool Thank you.
• 1:15:07
  Thank you quick emma go it can run on an empty stomach.
• 1:15:10
  Yeah, we need to let emma go guys Thank you so much for hanging today.
• 1:15:15
  I really appreciate you all Thank you for the sub.
• 1:15:18
  Thank you for the for the rate and everything.
• 1:15:21
  I love you guys so much and yeah, I will see you, not I, but we'll see you, we'll
• 1:15:27
  see you on the next episode of init talks.
• 1:15:30
  Okay.
• 1:15:30
  Yes, this is my last one.
• 1:15:32
  So I'm gonna say goodbye.
• 1:15:34
  I'm signing off from init talks, but it was a really nice talk
• 1:15:40
  to having Emma as the guest.
• 1:15:42
  But yeah, I'm wishing you all the best and Yeah, bye bye everyone.
• 1:15:47
  Love you guys.
• 1:15:48
  Thank you so much, Emma.
• 1:15:49
  Bye bye.
• 1:15:49
  Hey guys, thank you.
• 1:15:50
  Appreciate it.
• 1:15:51
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• 1:15:51
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