F-R Racing's Garage Talk

Today's we're joined by our Business Manager, Takato Timmerman because we needed to breakdown the Wednesday Night Dash race from Daytona. Video of this episode will be released at 8pm ET on May 3rd. But first, we briefly break down the news of Arrow McLaren releasing David Malukas from his contract as a result of missing the first four races of the season due to injury. Second, in big brea...

Erik and D.J. discuss the mannequin that fell on the track during the IndyCar race at Barber Motorsports Park and Denny Hamlin's cup series win at Dover. --------- Join our Discord and get involved in our leagues, community races, and other events. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Wednesday Night Dash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  is back! Tune in Wednesday at 10pm ET for the Truck Series during spring and summer! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Right before we hit record, D.J. found out his personal account was banned from Facebook due to copyright infringement claims. He discusses what happened, why Facebook is wrong, and his intent to appeal. Next we jump into the shocking news about Penske Racing's Push To Pass controversy which resulted in the disqualification of St Petes winner Josef Newgarden, Scott McLaughlin, and a big penalt...

We have a special Monday episode of the show this week! Our friend Andy Amendola from Red Racer Books returns to the show to talk about his brand new book, "The ABCs of IndyCar Racing". Erik and D.J. had a small part of assisting Andy with terminology and some of the context in the book, so we kick off the show talking about that process.   Next we talk about how Andy connected with the...

Wednesday Night Dash on  @Stadiumscene  returned this week with the largest field ever in the history of the league! Currently there are 22 drivers registered to compete in the first WND Truck Series since summer of 2022. We discuss the rapid growth of the league and the results of our first week with the much larger field. Next we go back and recap NASCAR at Texas, the history of Hooters as a NAS...

Erik and D.J. are back with another episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk Weekend Recap. Only NASCAR on the schedule this weekend, but we had a great run of races at Texas! We recap the weekend. --------- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Wednesday Night Dash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  is back! $40 for 10 races broadcasted with the rest of the cash outside of the broadcast fee thrown into the prize pool. We will pro-rate yo...

We're back and we kick the show off by discussing the state of Formula 1 after Max returns to his spot on the podium (ha ha). Is Daniel Ricciardo's seat in jeopardy? Next, we discuss the IndyCar schedule, oval racing, and Kyle Larson's performance during test day. Is Kyle the best all-around driver in the world right now? No matter what kind of car he steps in, he does it extremely wel...

D.J. finally got his first win during the Indy Racing World Series at Auto Club Speedway last Tuesday. A very bold fuel strategy gamble allows him to hold off the rest of the field and snap his iRacing winless drought. We spend the first part of the show breaking down the race on  @Stadiumscene  and D.J.'s mindset during his extreme fuel-saving methods over the last 30 laps of the race. Next,...

Did D.J. jinx Max Verstappen at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix? You decide and we discuss. Also check out our LIVE Raceway live stream from the event last week and judge for yourself! We recap the race, Carlos Sainz's dominating win, the odd penalty given to Fernando Alonso after George Russell wrecked and more! Next we move on and discuss the Thermal Club $1 million dollar challenge (eve...

Erik is on the road this week and missed Wednesday Night Dash, but D.J. recaps how what started off as a promising evening at Kansas Speedway ended up in a big wreck and ended his chances at a top three season finish. We also recap how the season went and congratulate back to back Cup Series champion, Colton Gardner on his dominating performance. Next we move on and discuss the tires at the NASCAR...

The star of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway today was the tires! Tires were going bad after 50 laps, NASCAR had to approve an extra set for teams, and teams were still concerned they would not have enough to get to the end! We discuss this in this week's Weekend Recap. --------- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Wednesday Night Dash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  is back! $40 for 10 races broadcasted with t...

D.J. visited Phoenix Raceway last weekend for the spring Xfinity race, visited the garages, ran into Brad Keselowski, and saw Josh Berry's qualifying wreck up close. How was the overall experience? Watch and find out. We move on and re-cap the weekend in racing, where the highlights were pretty limited outside of Ollie Bearman's impressive debut for Ferrari (and having to return to school...

It's our first weekend with Formula 1, IndyCar, and NASCAR in the same weekend! We briefly recap the Formula 1 weekend highlighted by Oliver Bearman's impressive performance filling in for Carlos Sainz. Next, we talk about Penske's impressive season debut for IndyCar at St Petersburg and the "off" (for their standards) day for Ganassi. Finally, we close out the show talking a...

We have a packed show this week starting with the long awaited release of the iRacing Tempest weather system (rain). We ran a test session earlier in the week from Daytona in heavy rain to experience what the driving was like and came away very impressed. The reviews so far have been largely positive and we'll see how this impacts the endurance events moving forward. Next we discuss Wednesday...

On your Monday morning racing weekend recap, we look at the return of the Formula 1 season and NASCAR's trip to Las Vegas. ------ Wednesday Night Dash is half way through its 8th season! Tune in on Wednesdays on Stadium Scene TV at 10pm ET for action from your favorite NASCAR tracks. Indy Racing World Series runs Tuesdays at 10pm ET on Stadium Scene TV . The entry fee is a $10 broadcast fee. L...

We're back with another episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk! We're excited to announce that today our friend Andy Amendola has released a new book in the  @redracerbooks9661  series, "The ABC's of IndyCar Racing". We talk a little bit about the book and our involvement in the writing of the book. We'll save the bulk of this discussion for when Andy appears on the show...

NASCAR moves on to Atlanta and we primarily discuss the cup race. From the big accident on lap 2 to Joey Logano's up and down weekend and penalty, to the exciting finish! ------ Wednesday Night Dash is half way through its 8th season! Tune in on Wednesdays @stadiumscene at 10pm ET for action from your favorite NASCAR tracks. Indy Racing World Series kicks off February 20th at Chicagoland Speed...

We kick off the show this week re-visiting the end of the Daytona 500 and discussing the numerous accidents over the week in ARCA, Trucks, and Xfinity as well. Next, we move on and show off our newly acquired registered trademark. In December of 2021, we submitted our initial filing to register the trademark and logo of F-R Racing. After a little over two years we have received our trademark. We r...

Welcome to the first of our five minute weekend recap shows! We're going to cover the big racing events from the weekend on your way to work in about five minutes! Normally this episode would be released on Monday morning, but because of the rain outs in Daytona we postponed the debut until Tuesday! In this week's recap, Erik and D.J. look back at the Daytona 500, the good, bad, and ugly....

A little over a year later we are finally getting our broadcasted IndyCar league! As we've discussed many times the divorce between iRacing and IndyCar was messy, but that is all resolved now! We currently have 18 drivers registered for the league. Tune in Tuesday at 10 pm ET on @stadiumscene Next, we get into the IndyCar exhibition race we ran at Kentucky Speedway with 12 of the league driver...

A lot of news in the world of Formula 1 starting with Lewis Hamilton's shock announcement that he's leaving Mercedes for Ferrari, and could Christian Horner be on his way out at Red Bull for his "conduct"? Time will tell. We discuss. Next, we get into the mess of a weekend for the NASCAR Busch Clash including talking about NASCAR Mexico, the Ricky Bobby-esq numbers on the windshi...

We kick off the show this week by recapping the AFSP 200 charity race for the AFSP on Apex Racing TV   last Saturday night. It was a fantastic event with 23 very talented drivers (plus D.J.) competing and put on a great show for 100 laps around Michigan International Speedway! In the end, we raised $1450 for the AFSP, gave away some awesome prizes, and overall had a great night! Thank you to all w...

On this week's episode of @frracingonline 's Garage Talk Garage Talk, Erik and D.J. recap the wild finish to Wednesday Night Dash at Talladega Superspeedway and the first dual podium for the team since fall of 2022. Next we move on and recap the 2024 iRacing Daytona 24-hour race. F-R Racing had two entries into the event, a GTP car on Friday night's session and the LMP2 entry during th...

We have a very full house on today's episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk! Erik and D.J. are joined by not only Wednesday Night Dash drivers, but F-R Racing Endurance Team members, Tyler Vickery, Colton Gardner, and Hunter Hughes (by phone). F-R Racing will be entering two teams into the iRacing Daytona 24 this year and we talk to the drivers about the upcoming weekend. The primary team wil...

Hope your 2024 is starting off well! Erik, D.J. and Taka are back with the first new episode of 2024. We kick off the show by announcing that Taka has now become our Business Manager at F-R Racing. Taka has been working with us providing social media updates during Wednesday Night Dash and working behind the scenes to help grow F-R Racing to what it is today and he's ready to step in to help u...