The Simon Racing Report

Jonathan Simon is joined by Virtual Racing School driver coach, and open wheel extraordinaire Julian Dunne who drops by to talk about his involvement with Virtual Racing School as a driver coach, the nuances of the Pro Mazda in comparison to the Dallara F3, Julian’s sim racing history, setup tips, Pro Mazda, open wheel racing, Formula 1, iRacing’s new tyre model (NTM v7) and more.

Jonathan Simon is joined by Logitech G Altus Esports driver and Australia’s #1 ranked iRacing Rallycross talent Beau Albert — previewing the 2019 Thrustmaster iRacing Rallycross World Championship. Guest drivers include Steliyan Chepilevski, Josh Fox, Jon Robertson and Yohann Harth.

They preview all 2019 licensed drivers, the series calendar for 2019 (including Atlanta’s introduction to the schedule), the results of ‘The Drivers’ Survey’ where the 2019 field were able to voice their opinion on their peers, flashbacks to the greatest moments of the 2018 season, as well as looking at some fun ‘Fake Vegas Bets’.

The 2019 Thrustmaster iRacing Rallycross World Championship will commence on the 5th of October where we head to the Atlanta Motor Speedway for the first time in the series. Coverage will begin at 5:45pm GMT and of course, will be on RaceSpot TV, streaming live on the iRacing eSports Network.

The first ever live, in person podcast of The Simon Racing Report was recorded from the home of Motum Simulation in Melbourne, Australia. Jonathan Simon is joined by Logitech G Altus Esports driver Simon Feigl to talk Daniel Ricciardo and other notable racing car drivers who have driven the motion sims, the origins of Motum Simulation and services they offer, the evolution of Logitech G Altus Esports, driver lineup of the team, Simon’s GT Academy experiences (2010 and 2015) and more.

Jonathan Simon sits down with fellow sim racing commentator Jake Sparey to talk memories of Jake’s early commentary days, the status quo of sim racing broadcasting, memories and goodbyes, the Sim Racing Observer, and Jake’s new broadcasting company 4ever Sim Racing.

Jonathan Simon sits down with Thrustmaster Mivano Racing driver Josh Thompson to talk karting, how kart setups can help in sim racing, Josh’s karting history, trash talk stories, teammates at Mivano, the VRS GT iRacing World Championship, whether sim racing or karting is a better training tool, and more.

Jonathan Simon joins Apex Racing Team members Alex Simpson, Kevin Ellis Jr, Michele Costantini and Zac Campbell to celebrate Kevin and Michele’s race victory in the iRacing 6h of the Glen, Zac and Yohann Harth’s technical issue that retired the car, a brief look at Jamie Fluke’s and Riley Preston’s event, talking on the merger of Apex Racing UK and the Evolution Racing Team, setup and track temperature conditions around Watkins Glen, different driver strategies between different teams, a fun speed round with the drivers, and upcoming events.

Veloce eSports driver and 2019 eROC champion James Baldwin drops by to discuss the upcoming F1 Esports draft, as well as the difficult in adapting to different sims, being an apprentice mechanic in Formula 3 and setting up cars in sim racing, who Veloce are and what their involvement is in sim racing, Jean-Eric Vergne’s involvement with Veloce, the 2019 eROC Final, the JMR scholarship competition, and more.

Jonathan Simon sits down with Williams Esports and F1 Esports driver Isaac Price to talk Williams Esports and how it feels to be contracted to a Formula 1 team, how the teams Isaac has raced for show how sim racing is growing progressively, whether sim racing still enjoyable despite the extra pressure, racing for Fernando Alonso at G2 Esports and leaving CoRe SimRacing, going undrafted in the 2018 F1 Esports Pro Draft, does the dynamic in Williams Esports work the same as a typical sim racing team, should iRacing have killed off the open wheel world championship scene completely, guessing Isaac’s iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series career statistics, and more.

Jonathan Simon sits down with 2018 GT4 European Series runner up, and Thrustmaster Mivano Racing driver Will Tregurtha to discuss Round 1 of the 2019 VRS GT World Championship (6 hours of Spa), racing in the 2019 VLN Endurance Championship, Will’s three-way tie for the championship in European GT4, karting, driver coaching and driving styles, whether simulated race tracks replicate the real world well, Will’s helmet, and more.

Jonathan Simon brings on Paul Smith to recap Jonathan’s ‘fan experience’ at the 2019 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, discussing topics such as merchandise costs, walking the track for Friday practice, what the liveries look like in person, ranting on track commentary, general admission fan spots, and video screens, track evolution during qualifying, Valtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton, and the start of the race, Mercedes’ Hamilton strategy, the reintroduction of points for fastest lap, Haas F1’s bittersweet event, Renault, McLaren and Lando Norris’ terrific debut grand prix, Lance Stroll’s points finish, the high grass length where Ricciardo’s incident took place, and meeting drivers, team members, journalists and more while leaving the track (including a lengthy conversation with David Croft).