F-R Racing's Garage Talk

With the Wednesday Night Dash season officially over, we ran an end-of-year "party" for the drivers in the form of an iRacing GT3 race at Daytona International Speedway's Road Course.  Our old friend Chad Winstead stopped by to join us and we break down how that went and the interesting situation that iRacing pulled when the race winner went to celebrate by doing donuts. Next, we quickly shou...

Erik and D.J. had a bad finish to the 2022 Wednesday Night Dash season, but they're proud of what they accomplished and talk about the people they met and things they learned about running an iRacing league.  We recap our struggles at The Milwaukee Mile, talk about where we go next in January, and pitch recruiting more drivers for next season. We of course have to move on to the biggest NASCA...

Erik and D.J. are back talking about the Wednesday Night Dash event at iRacing Iowa Speedway.  Both drivers had an off night but due to some luck they walked away from Iowa with a 4th (Erik) and a 5th (D.J.) place finish!  It's the Halloween episode of the show and D.J. talks about why he's dressed up as Ryder from Paw Patrol (hint: his kids picked the costume) and Erik talks about playi...

Erik and D.J. are back and we're talking about why D.J. didn't show up to Wednesday Night Dash at Michigan International Speedway this week. We break down the race and Erik’s strong first half, but struggles during the second half. In addition, we also talk about Bubba Wallace’s Las Vegas incident and suspension, the rest of the playoffs, and this weekend’s US Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas...

We're recapping the  North Wilkesboro Speedway ARCA race for Wednesday Night Dash on Stadium Scene TV and how bad it went! During the episode, we also break down our struggles, the challenges of driving on a short track, and learning from our mistakes for the next time.  You're also probably wondering why the schedule says Concord Speedway, but instead, we go to North Wilkesboro.  W...

Erik and D.J. are back this week with a special announcement about next week's Wednesday Night Dash ARCA league race!  Since there was no Wednesday Night Dash race to break down, we skip right to talking about last week's NASCAR racing at Talladega from Truck, Xfinity, and Cup Series!  We talk about the Singapore Formula 1 race and the late/early start of this week's race in Japan. &nbsp...

Erik and D.J. (along with Taka) had a completely different plan coming into this week's episode, but that was thrown out the window because we spend the entire episode breaking down the amazing race during this week's Wednesday Night Dash ARCA iRacing League.  Spoiler Alert:  Erik finished P1 (by 0.003 seconds) and D.J. finished P3 (by 0.055 seconds).  It's the first dual podium fin...

Can you believe we've been streaming for a year?  Our stream was originally inspired by the iRacing Dallara Dash series, but using different cars has gone from Erik and D.J. racing by themselves each week to a league with 15 drivers, broadcasted on Stadium Scene TV, and a prize purse.  For this episode, we start off with the race recap of the Wednesday Night Dash iRacing League ARCA seri...

We're back and talking Wednesday Night Dash ARCA iRacing League at Kansas Speedway with special guest, Taka Timmerman.  Taka is our social media specialist who you have seen live Tweet Wednesday Night Dash.  You've heard Taka on our live broadcast for our Mid Ohio iRacing endurance race, and now you get to see him!   We start with a rundown of the end of the IndyCar season, TV ratin...

Erik and D.J. are back this week discussing the iRacing ARCA livery update, the world of NASCAR at Darlington Raceway, Scott McLaughlin's dominant day at Portland in the IndyCar Series, and Max Verstappen's win at Zandvoort (where have we heard that before?). We move on and discuss in more detail our switch to the ARCA Menards series car for this season of Wednesday Night Dash on Stadium Scene TV...

Erik and D.J. are back and discussing the Wednesday Night Dash iRacing League Races (ARCA series) that start on September 7th, but first, we talk about the first entry into the GT3 Endurance Series three-hour race at Mid Ohio Sports Car Course and the technical and performance issues on the track that plagued the team.  Between the Internet issues for one driver, and Erik being rammed off the...

Erik is mostly moved into his new house, but he's missed all the action on TV! D.J. had to fill him in on the NASCAR weekend at Watkins Glen and David Malukas and his amazing run at St Louis on Saturday night.  The conversation turns to how David Malukas is an amazing talent and will be the future of IndyCar for a long time.  We break down how IndyCar can get back to its roots with drive...

We're back after an unexpected week off! Erik has big news to share about his family!  Next, we move in and briefly talk about the drama with F1 contracts during the off weeks, move on and talk about Kevin Harvick snapping his race winless streak, and Scott Dixon winning in Nashville.  The discussion shifts to reviewing the last race of the Wednesday Night Dash Truck Series season, discu...

We're back with episode 8 of F-R Racing's Garage Talk!  In this episode, Erik and D.J. talk about Ferrari's rough day in France, the on-track (Hamlin vs Chastain) and off-track (Hamlin/Kyle Busch DQs,  drama at Pocono, and Jimmie Johnson driving an IndyCar like a stock car at Iowa Speedway during our segment discussing real racing.  We get into a brief discussion about NASCAR's mark...

Today we're joined by the Wednesday Night Dash series leader, Kaden McAreavy Jr.  We talk about Kaden's dominant run of five podiums in six races including two wins, and the strategy behind his preparation before the race.   We jump in and discuss the upcoming season of F1, the influence of "Drive to Survive" then move onto NASCAR and talk about the weird on-track incident between Brad K...

We jump right into the show and give a brief update about last week's NASCAR race in Atlanta and DID YOU KNOW CHASE ELLIOTT IS FROM GEORGIA?  (Yes, that was sarcasm).  We also talk about Carlos Sainz's rough day at the Red Bull Ring and Erik gives some NASCAR and Indy trivia to D.J. We spend the majority of the time talking about last week's Wednesday Night Dash on the iRacing platform a...

We didn't have a Wednesday Night Dash officially this week, but we held an exhibition race at the new Atlanta Motor Speedway configuration.  We talk about how that went, the amazing finish between Colton Gardner and Hunter Hughes, and how a couple of trolls tried to ruin the race at the start. Next, we do a quick discussion of the NASCAR and IndyCar races last week at Road America and Mid Ohi...

I know we promised to keep the episodes at 10-15 minutes, but we're celebrating the one-year anniversary of the formation of F-R Racing.  We start the show talking about that and taking a shot of Jeppson's Malört .   Next, we discussed our travels last week to Rockingham, Darington, Daytona for Erik, and Long Beach for D.J.  We talk a little about the tracks and pitch the idea of br...

Thank you again for listening to F-R Racing's Garage Talk.   In part 1 this week we talk about Daniel Suarez's first NASCAR Cup Series win and do some trivia about other non-US-born Cup Series race winners.  We move on and briefly discuss last week's F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and IndyCar's trip to Road America.   In part 2, we discuss the latest edition of Wednesday Night Dash at Ch...

Thank you for listening to and subscribing to F-R Racing's Garage Talk. We made it to episode 2!   In part 1, we talk about Ross Chastain's unfortunate weekend at St Louis and his dust-up with both Denny Hamlin and Chase Elliott, talk about the IndyCar race at Belle Isle (mainly more about Belle Isle itself and the unique setup for a race circuit).   In part 2, we move on to iRacing and...

Welcome to the pilot episode of F-R Racing's Garage Talk!  F-R Racing co-founders D.J. Fluck and Erik Richardson give you a brief recap of the world of racing (typically F1, NASCAR, and IndyCar) followed by an iRacing update with our racing series Wednesday Night Dash. In today's episode, we introduce F-R Racing and the show along with discussing Erik's recent trip to the Indy 500, which is t...