Being in the sim racing community around those early days sounds like it must have been so cool. Wish I was a part of it instead of being busy with being like 2 years old

@DJYeeJay

13 күн бұрын

2 year old you needed to git gud

@thetechfromheaven

13 күн бұрын

@@DJYeeJay Tony Stewart was already winning in go karts at that age 💀

@poobird3606

13 күн бұрын

I wish I was alive lol

@caledonianrailway1233

10 күн бұрын

Forza is like that rn as most groups and series are unofficial

@SHIZURAKU

8 күн бұрын

2 year old? bruh you were already supposed to invest and buy a house, what a waste of time simracing as 2-year old, when you should have already made your first million by then. (for all mental athletes, i'm obviously joking).

One of the OGs. Also one of the smartest guys I’ve met. Him winning that Fontana race was epic.

@DJYeeJay

13 күн бұрын

One for the good guys! 😁

I still cant get over what we play right now is just a very fancy NR2003.

“Drivers before then”…I built my own wheel controller in 1995 with a kid’s toy and a radio shack potentiometer. I wanted to see if having a wheel helped before I bought a “state of the art” wheel with bungee cords inside it for feedback. There was some F1 game out, but I spent most of my time in Sports Car GT

I love these sim racing stories. people always say you're just behind a makeshift steering wheel in front of a computer, but the racing and the emotions are absolutely real!

@daboss117fly

11 күн бұрын

Right! But, the people who say that don't understand that even professional race teams, use Sim racing in training drives. F1, Nascar and I m sure many more!

I love seeing that old Steel Horse Racing Screen Print Dept truck with Bart Simpson on the back! I painted that truck! 🤣Bob and I were teammates for so many years, and I was always in awe of the things he could do behind the wheel. He talks a lot about race craft, and I regard Bob as the GOAT in that department. Great video!

As someone that still plays in NR2003 leagues, I love learning about DMP & the guys that started there. Great video in general

These are the most entertaining videos about a sim. This channel made me start playing and I just got my 5th win in formula and now in d class, I’ve been playing for 2 weeks

@DJYeeJay

13 күн бұрын

Welcome to the cult!

@alexcoxe4303

13 күн бұрын

Five wins in your first two weeks??

@OutlawsRacingNetwork

13 күн бұрын

@@alexcoxe4303he sounds like he’s gonna be a good driver once he’s up in the big leagues

@F7INN

6 күн бұрын

5 wins! I made it to A class within my first season and on the way accumulated a grand total of 0 wins!

Nice video, love learning about the sim racing legends. Kevin King was in my A fixed race last night. Never knew he'd been sim racing for so long.

@DJYeeJay

13 күн бұрын

Yeah I’ve raced against Bob in arca before and I don’t think I’ve ever beaten him lol

@polycube868

4 күн бұрын

I remember reading an article about Kevin King in NASCAR Illustrated in 2006...they showed Dale Jr's car he ran in an NR2003 league which was a white number 3 Mom N' Pop's Chevy based on one of his lats models.

One year a guy named Brian started releasing some modded tracks where the grip up top was a lot more, DaleJr liked that so the DMP server would run them a lot. So the modded dega was called TalladegaBR. B for Brian. Anyway this somehow got to Mike Joy but he didn’t understand it completely, and he brought it up in an interview with Truex I think and asked him about ‘the video game you’ve been training on, TalladegaVR’, and that’s the story of the biggest nr2003 cringe of all time.

@notyou2935

10 күн бұрын

Yeah the BR stood for Brian Ring.

@jwm2588

10 күн бұрын

Those were fun tracks to race on.

From a KZread channel, to a full on documentary…. Awesome job! The interviews, the research, the b-roll footage…it’s hard not to be entertained with everything you’re putting out. Now you’re releasing movies lol…..Amazing work!

As someone who has always enjoyed racing video games, but knows little about the competitive sim-racing scene, this vid was a really cool glimpse into that world. Bob seems like a likable guy...... glad he saw some success.

It's important you're preserving and highlighting stories like this that may otherwise be lost to time! Love it and thanks for all the track guides and laughs over the years. Huge fan!

The team I am on competed against bob, and I promise you he was highly respected and watched every week by our team. We were just talking about him 5-6hrs ago today lol

TOCA 2: Touring Cars is what got me in to racing games but at that time I used a joystick to race but I wanted a Thrustmaster Formula T2 but parents wouldnt buy me one as they said I already said I had the joystick 🤦‍♂😅

@SaabJitsu

13 күн бұрын

Same here. Mr and a friend would play on line after the wives went to bed. He still has a wonderful wife and I have a fantastic sim rig lol

Wow it's amazing how Kyle Larson saying that thing we all know he said, affected this timeline. I always wondered what if none of that happened and he ended up in SHR or staying with Ganassi like Chastain when they transitioned to Trackhouse 🤔

@DJYeeJay

13 күн бұрын

Landon Cassil hosts an iracing race --> some things --> Ganassi sells his team to Pitbull

@thetechfromheaven

13 күн бұрын

@@DJYeeJay Oh I wonder what our good ol' budy "Cryptoboy 🪙🤑" is up to lately, wondering why he hasn't raced in a while.

@polycube868

4 күн бұрын

So it's all Landon Cassil's fault!?

I'd love to see a Vid on Charles C. Wooton, the zero iRating master.

As someone who got into sim racing this year, these videos are a great look into what I missed and makes me wish I started racing earlier!

Wherever you get all this B-Roll from is just as impressive as the story itself. Keep at it!

Pretty cool, met Bob back when we were racing at OnlineRacing back in the day. I painted him up a car when NR2003 came out, a Red and White CompUSA Monte Carlo. Glad to see one of the group do well in sim racing!

Its super cool to see the guys I used to run with in NR2003 get up to the Coke Series. Never ran with Bob, but I ran in Derek Justis's league with both him and Isaac Gann for a while. Derek was chill always a super helpful dude when I was just starting out, even started a series for rookies so guys like me can get more experience. Don't remember Isaac too well, he was just starting with the league when i ended up stepping away.

wish i could afford iracing

@Faffel

13 күн бұрын

Same. Doesn't stop me from playing it all the time.

@Skeeeewoah

13 күн бұрын

There's always NR2003. It still has a thriving online community. It's not Iracing, but it's very fun & competitive

@connorbingel7134

13 күн бұрын

I think of it like any other subscription. If I use it enough to justify the price then I think it’s totally fine to spend the money. The minute I stop using it though in a month’s span I’m axing it. I think the racing experience I get is worth it though. It’s really fun too.

@duo293

13 күн бұрын

Use your wishes as motivation, brother

@Sethsimracing

13 күн бұрын

I suggest canceling your TV subscription(or streaming service like Netflix or whatever) to afford iRacing. Totally worth it. 👍

Shout out to Parker for Picking Bob up like that, no particular reason.

I race on console but this is exactly why I go from mid pack to dangerous in long races at the right tracks. RIP Auto Club

Dude I love these iracing lore stories you do so fucking much

"I didn't have the speed, i never had the speed" - iRacing's Hidden Boss on why he retired

@DJYeeJay

4 күн бұрын

Hidden boss refers to his status in the community throughout the years, not to his status in the coke series. Besides, everyone in that series is a boss to even get there

@almightyIrie

4 күн бұрын

@@DJYeeJay it's all good, wasn't meant in a negative way. Just thought it was funny to me

This is Speed Network level quality content, thank you for making it

I'm loving this series of showcasing legends and underdogs of the sim racing world, great videos like always!

Love these videos bro, there are so many interesting stories that I would never hear about if it wasn’t for you

Great video as always! Small request, could you or anyone in the know do a deep dive on why Atlanta still to this day has never had functioning lights for night racing? It’s a very perplexing unsolved mystery that the devs never address.

Man, incredible work. This feels like a good sports doc. Super interesting. I've only ever done the road racing side of iRacing but I respect oval racing more and more as I learn about from the outside. It really is a special kind of racing in how strategy applies to it. The nuance is insane and executing a plan is so difficult to do. Only criticism I'd have is that you mentioned that Bryan was gonna win before finishing the story of the race. I didn't know he had won and I'm sure a lot of future viewers of this video will be in the same situation. Just lifted the tension some, is all. Looking forward to more stories like this! If I could request any, it'd be a deep dive into Greger Huttu.

@DJYeeJay

Күн бұрын

Great point about knowing if he’s gonna win. I mulled that over quite a bit and I think it came down to the idea of “the how is more interesting than the what” and some interview snippets mentioned the win that also had things I wanted to include And I’ve tried reaching out to Greger but he’s not easy to get a hold of 🤣

@kojacked

Күн бұрын

@@DJYeeJay totally fair. I didn't realize about the earlier snippets somehow. The lead up to the win is definitely the most interesting part as you say. Greger is interesting for sure. Maybe it could also work if you got it going by interviewing Huis and some other OG Redline guys first to get the ball rolling. Then they could kinda help get to him. Anyway, if he's too difficult to get a hold of, I'll watch anything you put out with this sort of quality. Thanks!

i love these documentaries you're doing! great stuff

Been waiting for another vid like this. Awesome content!

keep making these they are truly amazing great work!!

Some of the best iRacing content on youtube, great work!

@autoprefecture6591

7 күн бұрын

I had a nice sim and played iRacing for many years, i sold my setup a few years back and left sim racing, your videos are giving me a serious itch to come back, i use to hold a A road license 😅

love this video format from you!

Love the content. How is drivesmart with dgm going?

Great story, really enjoyed it. Must see tv for me when these minidocs drop

Great vid, great story! Loved it.

Hey at 7.28 that picture of that kid in the truck drivers seat is ME!!! That's crazy 😭💀🤣

This is an esports documentary! Cheers Bob!

what a video dude, you killed it again 🔥🔥🔥

ive been loving these videos

Need more of these!

Sounds like the "certain incident" that ended Kyle Larson esports needs to have a video made.

NR2003 was a ton of fun. It was also full of physics holes and exploits.

I used to run with Bob all the time on nr2003! Amazing days. DMP was where it was at

Our former eSports driver :D We love Bob!!

I had something similar that ended in a epic fail i was proud of. GTA San Andreas 100 cab missions in a row at a friends house i ended the 100th on my roof crossing the line with a epic fail, the friend jinxed me and said slow down 5 second before i crossed the line. we were also drinking. he was pissed but me and his wife found it hilarious.

love these type of vids

Nice success story ! Good post !

The next NASCAR game should have Bob Bryant as an unlockable

Showing tyloo instead of mongolz is wild for the counterstrike hidden boss

I wish you described more terms like what "clutching" is and how it enables more "tape", and what "tape" is in this context. 15:51 For anybody else who doesn't know: Tape is used to cover up the grille on the car to improve aerodynamics at the expense of reducing the radiators effectiveness and risking overheating. "Clutching" is putting in the clutch and coasting to save fuel and reduce engine load which reduces heat produced and enables more tape to be used.

@teebob21

Күн бұрын

The clutch is the pedal in a manual transmission car that isn't the brake or the accelerator. Pressing the clutch disconnects the motor from the transmission, effectively putting the car in neutral. Tape is tape, like duct tape or gaffer's tape. They put it on the radiator.

@pchris

Күн бұрын

@@teebob21 that doesn't really clear much up. :P I'm very aware of what a clutch is. I own 2 after all. That doesn't help me understand what "clutching" is in this context thought. With enough googling I figured out what the tape was about. I gather they put it on the grille - not the radiator - to reduce drag at the expensive of head dissipation. Not sure how "clutching" enabled them to do that though.

@teebob21

Күн бұрын

@@pchris How much fuel do you burn when you are coasting with the clutch engaged?

@pchris

Күн бұрын

@@teebob21 is that what that's supposed to mean? How does that enable someone to use more tape?

@teebob21

Күн бұрын

@@pchris More coasting is less fuel burned. Less fuel burned means lower engine heating. Lower engine heating means you can get by with less air flowing through the radiator and still not blow up the engine. That's where the extra tape can be used. Too much tape will mean you burn up your engine.

From the thumbnail, I thought this story was going to be about The Stig.

i love these stories.

are there no such storys for road racing?

@DJYeeJay

13 күн бұрын

There are but it’s less accessible to me but I have a couple stories I’m trying to cover

i love your content ♥

@williamg2620

10 күн бұрын

and i'm not a spamming bot lol

Bruuuh, I completely forgot to sub I guess. lol cool video.

Great story!

Love this

Wish I could afford to get into this I just don't want to pay so much money weekly or monthly just to sim race when I can just play BeamNG that's already in my library I don't got the money to buy a full on sim setup nor pay for Iracing

Awesome story 😀

I might start playing I-Racing

I made it into one of these videos! Yayy

I had no idea nascar drivers were doing sim racing in the mid 2000s wtf

What is clutching?

@Mr_Bedlam215

3 күн бұрын

Holding the clutch in at speed disconnects the driveshaft from the transmission, allowing the engine to go back down to idle RPMs... less RPMs mean less fuel burning off, so you can see how it was used to help Bob's fuel strategy. *edited for spelling.

Has anyone here grow up playing NASCAR Legends from Papyrus also? Think it came out slightly after I think I remember the graphics being better then NR2003

@jwm2588

10 күн бұрын

Legends came out in 1999 after Nascar Racing 2. All the Papyrus racing games were fun.

I think the younger folk in the comments should know that today is a good era, just because those early 2000s PCs cost like $4000, in 2000 money, and the monitors were just as bad. Now? I'd say $800 worth of PC will get you on track and winning, then you can spend the rest on monitors and wheels and stuff. Your car looks like a car, not like a crumpled Doritos bag with wheels. It is a good day to be a sim racer.

cool

3 views 6 likes 1 minute ago, damn justin fell off :( (btw i love these types of sim racing story videos)

@DJYeeJay

13 күн бұрын

I fell off

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Kyle Larson's "incident" could have been referred to more explicitly without sacrificing the message of this video. He used a racial slur on a live stream, and there was good reason for his team to fold. As a Kyle Larson fan, you have even more reason to hold him accountable.

@sprolyborn2554

12 күн бұрын

You're walking the walk by petitioning Nascar to ban him from competing right?

I canl;t stand this 'Boss' crap.

Great story. Thanks

It’s just the beginning! That was REAL reality TV! 🫡