F-R Racing's Garage Talk

Now that the Formula 1 season is done, it's time for us to take a little time off from the show, but we'll be back in early January! Erik and D.J. kick off today's show talking about the end of the Formula 1 season, how Max Verstappen's dominance will go down in the history book + TV ratings if he keeps it up, Alfa Romeo's brand out the door, and Monster Energy leaving Mercedes...

D.J. is back from his illness last week (mostly).  We kick off the show talking about D.J. taking on the flu and food poisoning at the same time and how at one point his wife had to call 911 and have paramedics come to the house because things got really bad. After a brief discussion about safety, SAFER barriers, and deaths during the 24 hours of Le Mans in the 50s and 60s we go on and talk about...

Erik and D.J. kick off this all new episode with some trivia! Now that Kevin Harvick has retired, who are the five most experienced drivers (based on debut date) in the NASCAR Cup Series? Listen and find out! First off, time to recap the entire championship weekend starting with the disaster of a Craftsman Truck Series race on Friday Night that resulted in several overtime restarts, Corey Heim see...

Erik and D.J. are back with another episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk! We kick off the show discussing the events at Martinsville from Ryan Blaney winning, to Richard Childress's No Good Very Bad Day. D.J. defends Sheldon Creed and his actions (his car "broke" during his "check-up" which has since resulted in a public apology from Andy Petree) and criticizes Petree fo...

In today's F-R Racing's Garage Talk, Erik and D.J. are joined by F-R Racing's Social Media Specialist, birthday boy, and newest Race Control guy, Taka Timmerman. The three talk about the Wednesday Night Dash end-of-year "fun race" where we thought it would be a good idea to mix Craftsman Truck Series Trucks on the same track as the old NASCAR Gen 4 cars at the old configurati...

Erik and D.J. are back this week to close out the 2023 Wednesday Night Dash season with a year in review discussion of the ARCA league. We talk about the many lows and how one coaching session with iRacing ARCA Legend, Justin Yee turned D.J.'s season around and gave him a lot of confidence moving forward. Before getting into that season, D.J. discusses why his current state as a hockey fan is...

A big week for iRacing content on this week's F-R Racing's Garage Talk! We kick off the show by recapping the iRacing Petit Le Mans 10-hour endurance race from Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in the LMP2 class. Erik recaps his 2.5-hour racing stint and the challenges of remaining focused during that time. We talk about great runs from Ian Miller (who led our first-ever endurance laps), Hunte...

Erik and D.J. are airing this episode at an earlier time this week due to the iRacing Petit Le Mans starting at 6:30pm eastern time on Stadium Scene TV. The live broadcast will run from 6:30pm to 4:30 am (as long as the team is still in the race. We spend a bulk of the time talking about the event, competing in the LMP2 class for the first time, and what to expect having to deal with the slower GT...

Thank you once again for tuning into F-R Racing's Garage Talk! In this week's episode we recap the week in our iRacing Leagues, first with the Behind Closed Doors IR-18 IndyCar league heading to Belle Isle, Erik's 2nd place finish, and D.J.'s even more shocking 3rd place finish. Next we move onto discuss Wednesday Night Dash (on  @Stadiumscene  ) with a trip to Nashville Superspeed...

Thank you again for listening to F-R Racing's Garage Talk! This week we start out talking about the Bristol night race and how Denny Hamlin has taken on the role of "NASCAR Villain" this season. It's clear he's enjoying and embracing the role with this "I beat your favorite driver. All of them." line. Next, we briefly touch on the world of IndyCar now that the offse...

We kick off the show this week by doing our iRacing Weekly Review: Behind Closed Doors (IR-18 IndyCar league) at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Wednesday Night Dash (ARCA League) at Irwindale Speedway. We talk about our struggles, fuel mileage strategy issues, and other problems. Next, we talk about the IndyCar finale at Laguna Seca and the struggles that the drivers went through on a newly paved...

Today's episode is a little different as you can tell from the video preview. D.J. is sitting at his sim rig and pulls up iRacing to look at race replay from Wednesday Night Dash at Michigan International Speedway to try to break down why he's struggling so badly in the ARCA car this season. We critique his iRacing skills and look back at the replay at some of the better moments from that...

Thank you again for tuning into F-R Racing's Garage Talk with more than 3500 listeners strong! Please hit the subscribe button on your favorite podcast platform. We really appreciate your support! We're back and we're talking about the week in iRacing, first with Behind Closed Doors at Chicagoland Speedway followed by Wednesday Night Dash at Michigan International Speedway. Two complet...

Erik and D.J. are back this week and we kick off the episode by talking about the week in iRacing, first D.J.'s (brief) surprise appearance on Tuesday's Behind Closed Doors series at his arch-enemy track of Laguna Seca and then the struggles we both had on Wednesday Night Dash at Watkins Glen. There's a lot to discuss and review after a bad week. Next, we move on and discuss IndyCar si...

Erik and D.J. are back this week with an all new episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk! In this week's episode we talk about week 2 of the iRacing Behind Closed Doors Dallara IR-18 Series and D.J. making an appearance during the Iowa Speedway race. We talk about Erik's dominant day, D.J.'s podium despite his mediocre day, and we talk turn 3 and 4 strategy. Next, we move on and talk a...

Erik and D.J. are back with another episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk! In this week's episode, we talk about our experiences this week with Wednesday Night Dash on  @Stadiumscene  from Dover Motor Speedway. Erik and D.J. had completely opposite experiences. Erik also recaps the first week of the Behind Closed Doors IR-18 iRacing series. Next Erik shares his experience with visiting Michi...

Erik and D.J. are back and talking about why D.J. missed Wednesday Night Dash (spoiler: parenting) and Erik's rough night and run-in with not one, but two black flags. We talk about Colton Gardner's big win racing in memory of his father who passed away recently and talk a little about the upcoming race at Dover next week. We also briefly discuss the Behind Closed Doors season that starts...

Erik is back from Newton, Iowa and he has a lot of stories to share about his experience at Iowa Speedway. We talk about how he acquired one of the official event signs, his experience at Hy-Vee the big sponsor of the event, the race itself, a surprise heavy rain storm, and the Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood concerts at the event. Next, we move on and talk a little Formula 1 and Denny Hamlin&#...

Erik and D.J. are back and talk about the Wednesday Night Dash exhibition race at Auto Club Speedway and hype the upcoming season in the ARCA Menards cars (see below for a link to join the league). We also unveil the new play-by-play announcer and it's someone you already know if you've ever watched Wednesday Night Dash! During the segment, we talk about Erik having to protest someone on i...

Erik and D.J. are back with a lot to talk about this week! Formula 1 has a familiar face returning to the grid after a driver was unceremoniously fired after ten races. We talk about McLaren's significant improvement, Alex Albon overachieving at Williams, and why does Checo keep having bad qualification runs? Is he being sabotaged by his crew? Put on your tin foil hats! Next, we talk about Ind...

We broke the 3000 all-time podcast listens threshold last week. Thank you again for all your support of F-R Racing and F-R Racing's Garage Talk. When we decided to release a podcast casually talking about auto racing and our iRacing experiences we had zero expectations that anyone would listen. This week we kick off the show by talking about the drama at the Red Bull Ring and how there was a s...

D.J. is back from vacation and we have a lot of milestones to celebrate (hence the long episode). First, this week is the two-year anniversary of the formation of F-R Racing, LLC. We're celebrating breaking 1000 Instagram followers and having a big surge on TikTok. Next, we're celebrating a successful completion of the Behind Closed Doors IR-18 series featuring an Erik win at Las Vegas, Er...

D.J. is out of town this week and F-R Racing Social Media Specialist, Taka Timmerman fills in for him. Erik and Taka start off the episode talking about Max Verstappen winning once again over the weekend in Canada and they discuss Road America and the interesting weekend there for IndyCar. The episode is closed out with a recap of the Wednesday Night Dash GT3 league season. Congratulations to Mark...

Erik and D.J. are back with another all-new episode of Garage Talk! In this week's episode, we kick off the discussion about our Wednesday Night Dash league at iRacing Rudskogen Motorsenter. The GT3 cars have been a challenge for our inexperienced driving and we agree that we can't wait for this season to end. We get into the discussion of the changes to the ARCA Menards series car in iRac...

Erik and D.J. are back with a new episode. There were some interesting moments with NASCAR at Gateway and F1 in Barcelona (like a double podium for Mercedes), but probably the most interesting part of the weekend was racing in Detroit. Both IMSA and IndyCar returned to the streets of Detroit and the results were very mixed. One thing was obvious the course was strategically placed so you could see...