F-R Racing's Garage Talk

Taka is back from Japan and joins Erik and D.J. for an all-new episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk! We spend the bulk of the time this week breaking down the Garage Talk LIVE Raceday from over the weekend, first with a brief recap of the Monaco Grand Prix. We move on to the Indianapolis 500. During that discussion, we talk about how the first half of the race was pretty uneventful outside of G...

Indy 500 qualification was full of drama, successes, and failures. You either had a great weekend or an absolutely horrible weekend. There was no middle ground. One of the teams that had the worst weekends was Rahal Letterman Lanigan (RLL) which ultimately resulted in Graham Rahal missing the field....or did he? We break down the weekend in qualifying and how exciting it was. We touch on NASCAR&#3...

We kick off this week's show by discussing Erik's trip to the GMR Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The discussion spins off to talking about being caught in rain storms at the motor speedway, hiding under the metal bleachers, and how looking back on that doesn't look like the smartest place to hide from a thunderstorm. We get back on the discussion again on does IndyCar need...

Erik is back home again in Indiana this week as he prepares to head down to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the GMR Grand Prix. Before we discuss the race and the events going on in Indianapolis during the month of May (Indy Mini Marathon, parade, etc) we talk briefly about Wednesday Night Dash GT3 iRacing series at Watkins Glen International. Erik was not in attendance, but D.J. had an ok nig...

We start off this episode by introducing the show, then forgetting if we introduced the show after our impromptu camera positioning changes and tribute to Wayne's World. Once the show is actually underway, we talk about the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Ocon's near incident with the group of reporters on the track during the race, and give a brief look ahead to Miami. Next, we talk about the week...

Erik and D.J. recorded this episode after completing the Wednesday Night Dash iRacing GT3 league at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. It was a tough night for both drivers, but it went much better than Lime Rock Park! Hear the breakdown of what we've learned so far driving in a GT3 series. Next, we move on and talk about NASCAR and the weekend at Talladega. The wild ending, Kyle Larson's roll...

Erik and D.J. return this week and recap the season premiere of Wednesday Night Dash iRacing league, the challenges of switching from NASCAR to GT3 racing, and our race struggles. In addition, we talk about some strategies to get back to the basics of road racing down to the Toyota GR86 and the Mazda MX-5 cup. In the second part of the show, we talk about the NASCAR weekend at Martinsville, the Cr...

Erik and D.J. just finished the Wednesday Night Dash GT3 Sprint Series recruiting race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and there's a lot to talk about with this drastic shift in the WND schedule. D.J. talks about the event being his first league-type race (not counting the Daytona end-of-season race last year) and Erik's struggles with going from a primary oval car over to the GT3 class. We...

On this week's episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk, we talk about the Richmond NASCAR Cup Series race and generally how boring it was for the most part. The conversation expands into whether Stage Racing is even necessary and is the races are too long for our short attention span society? Next, we move on and talk about the IndyCar race in Texas and how the use of the upper racing line add...

Erik is on the road this week coming to you from Gulf Shores, Alabama as we discuss the week in NASCAR including penalties, Daniel Suarez's retaliation at COTA, was the announcers' was booth too crowded, and too many green-white checkers at COTA. D.J. also pulls out a copy of January 2023's Racecar Engineering to show how poorly the article about McLaren's F1 team has aged already,...

Erik and D.J. are joined by Wednesday Night Dash Season 5 Champion, Colton Gardner. Colton was the winner of Season 5 of Wednesday Night Dash in the NASCAR Next Gen Cup Series cars. We talk to Colton about the season, his preparation, and his success late in the season after a big accident in Atlanta. We also go further into the infamous extra caution flag thrown at Darlington Raceway earlier in t...

D.J. starts the show by cracking open a Michelob Ultra and talking about how he had a near-panic moment when he thought he had broken his brand new Simagic FX Pro racing wheel already (spoiler: he didn't).  He recaps what happens and the importance of not storing a racing wheel that uses magnets on the paddle shifters on a magnetized metal shelf. Don't forget to tune into Wednesday Night Dash...

A busy weekend in motorsports as Formula 1 returned with a snooze fest in Bahrain, IndyCar had an exciting event in St Petersburg, and William Byron came out on top in Las Vegas.  We talk about the importance of sponsors like HyVee to the IndyCar series despite not understanding why a regional chain store would spend so much time and effort to become nationally known. Next, we move on and dis...

Erik and D.J. both had bad nights at Atlanta Motor Speedway.  Erik discusses his lousy start followed by a black flag and D.J. who was running well had a PC crash during the race.  Hear the details and some of the technical issues with his computer that D.J. is troubleshooting. You might learn something to avoid that same problem. We talk about the end of Auto Club Speedway as we know it...

Erik and D.J. are back after a week off and joined by F-R Racing Social Media guy, Taka Timmerman.  We initially start to talk about the Wednesday Night Dash iRacing Chicago Street Circuit visit, but get back on topic and recap the Daytona 500, Ricky Stenhouse Jr's first win since 2017, his post-race Waffle House trip, and some obscure winners of the 500 over the years. We actually recorded t...

A lot to unpack with the NASCAR season coming up.  We kick off the show by talking briefly about Kyle Busch's legal troubles after a vacation to Mexico and sharing our thoughts on the questionable decision-making to have the Clash at the Coliseum again.     A discussion goes off-topic when the Daytona Xfinity race name gets brought up and as a result, we decide to walk through...

No Wednesday Night Dash this week, but we are talking Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum and recapping the Rolex 24!  D.J. and Erik recap watching the Rolex 24 at Daytona and recap the highlights of the event, the colder weather at night time, and some of the participating drivers in the event. In the second half, we talk about the Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum for NASCAR this weekend and...

Erik and D.J. recorded this episode after completing Wednesday Night Dash on January 25, 2023, at Darlington Raceway.  From technical problems with iRacing, a big crash at the green flag, and a questionable DQ by the service, there is a lot to unpack from this race.   Next, we recap the iRacing Daytona 24 event from last weekend.  Erik led the team and D.J. led the 24 hour live stre...

Erik and D.J. are back this week recapping the first two weeks of Wednesday Night Dash iRacing Series and breaking down Erik's two wins so far.  In addition to what we look at that went right, we look at what's going wrong with D.J. so far this season.  We talk about D.J.'s poor tire strategy that cost him at Michigan and while he generally avoided the big mess of wrecks at Talladega, hi...

We know Wednesday Night Dash debuted this week, but instead, we're airing a special edition of F-R Racing's Garage Talk where we are joined by the Wednesday Night Dash Season 4 champion, Tyler Vickery.  This episode is extra special because Tyler is coming to us from New Smyrna Speedway, which doesn't mean a whole lot for a podcast, so check out the video on YouTube as he shows us some of the...

We kick off our first show of 2023 by talking about our holiday downtime and a purchase D.J. made over Christmas after a party with him and his buddy "Jack".   In addition, we close out the discussion of the iRacing/IndyCar licensing controversy by talking about our "Farewell to IndyCar on iRacing " live stream from Indianapolis Motor Speedway and D.J.'s CART US 500-Esq start. Finally, w...

This was supposed to be an end-of-the-year highlights show, but the surprise notice that iRacing lost its IndyCar Licensing as of January 1, 2023, needed to be discussed.  Erik and D.J. call the emergency podcast to discuss what it means for the future of the NTT IndyCar Series in iRacing, how the licensing impacts the schedule, future updating, and a shock update to the next season of Wednes...

D.J. and Erik start the episode with some breaking news about the IndyCar Marketing lead on the way out!  It leads to an unplanned extended discussion about the marketing struggles with the IndyCar series and the declining popularity of the sport, despite the fact that the series runs one of the strongest fields in recent memory.   Next, we move on and review our iRacing Class C IndyCar...

Since the offseason for racing is in full swing, we're changing up our content a little bit in our first of hopefully many interviews, we sit down with author, Andy Amendola from Red Racer Books.  Andy has written two excellent children's books, "ABC's of Racing" and "All About Race Cars".  Both books are a great introduction to Formula 1 for both kids and adults.  It was actually o...

Erik and D.J. tested the iRacing Xfinity cars at Las Vegas Motor Speedway last weekend with the replay over at Twitch or YouTube.  First, they discuss the drama from last weekend's Formula 1 race at Interlagos.  There was drama between Kevin Magnussen & Daniel Ricciardo, Charles LeClerc and Lando Norris, Max and Lewis, and Max and Checo?!  Mercedes is the big winner with George...