• 00:00 Introduction to Screen to Speed
• 00:54 Meet Victoria Thomson
• 01:15 Victoria’s Sim Racing Journey
• 02:38 First Professional Sim Racing Gear
• 03:39 Transition to High-End Equipment
• 05:51 Practice Routines and Preparation
• 09:25 Endurance Racing Insights
• 12:03 Memorable Endurance Race
• 14:50 Winning Screen to Speed at Sim Racing Expo
• 19:49 Real-Life Racing Experience
• 30:11 Sim Racing vs Real Racing: Skills Transfer
• 31:22 Affordability and Accessibility of Sim Racing
• 32:29 Competitiveness in Sim Racing
• 33:13 Sim Racing vs Real Racing: Viewer Experience
• 36:22 The Fear Factor in Racing
• 39:22 VR vs Triple Screens in Sim Racing
• 43:27 Female Representation in Sim Racing
• 48:18 Encouraging More Women in Sim Racing
• 51:52 Future Plans and Content Creation
• 57:31 Advice for Aspiring Sim Racers
• 58:36 Conclusion and Farewell

Crew Chief Brad: [00:00:00] Welcome to Screen to Speed powered by INIT eSports. In this podcast, we dive into the journeys of remarkable individuals making waves in sim racing and bridging the virtual with the real. From the thrill of digital circuits to the roar of real life racetracks, we explore the passion, dedication and innovation that drives the world of motorsports.

We’ll hear from athletes, creators, and pioneers sharing their stories, insights, and the powerful ways sim racing is connecting communities and creating pathways into motorsports. So buckle up, Screen to Speed starts now.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Welcome in everybody. Happy to see you on any talks today. Hope you’re doing well. Uh, we have in today, Victoria Thompson with us. Uh, she’s a sim racer. Uh, she [00:01:00] won screen to speed at the Dark Sim Racing Expo. So welcome Victoria.

Victoria Thomson: Hello. Thank you. Thanks for the invitation.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. Thank you so much for taking your time and, uh, I have this, uh, wonderful stream with us.

Um, so let’s start with, uh, how do you get into sim racing? How you start?

Victoria Thomson: Well, um, for me, I would say I started with a set a course of one kind of, I mean, what, what actually is sim racing? When I would say I started more. playing video games on computer than maybe it was Gran Turismo 4, I think, on the PlayStation, a few years ago, actually.

But I would say really into simracing, um, AC1, when I at least got a more professional simracing wheel. And I really started simracing basically with ACC like in 2019, 2020, something around that. Joined a community and Well, [00:02:00] from that time on, SCC, at least for me, I know there’s differences between SCC iRacing and other simulators, but, um, on SCC I felt like home on the very first day, and for, like, four years ago, my simracing career kind of started.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s great. I remember that I, uh, also kind of started from Assetto Corsa, uh, the first one. Uh, but before that, I also did some, you know, racing games, uh, also racing race 07. That’s the old Air Factor 1. So I’ll prepare for some racing game, uh, racing, um, events, uh, on this one. Um, you mentioned that you get your first wheel.

Can you tell more about it? What was it?

Victoria Thomson: Yeah. Um, I think my first more professional wheel basically was a complete Fanatec set. Um, it was the Club Sport wheelbase V2. 5 with the bigger BMW rim and I think the V2 or V3 [00:03:00] pedals. And basically it’s never really changed in that last 10 years. I think I got it like 20, 12 to 15, somewhere around there.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm-Hmm. .

Victoria Thomson: And before that, I mean everyone had like that Logitech one. So, um, on AC one I raised with, I think I ruined two G 25 wheels and the G 27. And after the, the G 27, I moved to the Fantech rims and I think 20 20, 21, something around there. I moved to the podium set from Fantech and that’s basically my set right now.

So I’m still with Fanatec.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s great. Uh, how do you feel to switch from, uh, like entry level equipment to the, uh, high end equipment? How was it for you?

Victoria Thomson: Um, Um, a lot think with high equipment, more pace or something is coming, I would say even on a G25 or 27 or something, you can be [00:04:00] very quick with entry level sim racing gear.

Personally, I would say with, um, for example, now a DD2 or the bigger, um, direct drive wheels, I just got more consistency into the races. So I was able to just pull out every lap the same lap times or nearly the same lap times. And with that consistency, I think even more speed was coming. But I wouldn’t say that I’m much faster or that I was faster with, um, entry level wheel or that I’m faster right now with, um, higher equipped wheel.

Um, So I would say I love my wheel it really gives I love the strength. So right now I’m at 15 12 to 15 newton meters something around there and the races which is physically Kind of hard to to race more than like four hours a few weeks ago. I did Uh four hours race on the nordschleife Um in a row so without the brakes and I would say after four [00:05:00] hours with 12 to 15 newton meters It’s kind of heavy, but it’s also that Typical thing like, um, it’s not a real workout, but you you just love to have more than the typical two and a half To five newt meters, but um still it’s it’s not making me fast.

It’s just more immersive stuff That’s what’s the kind of worth for me the price

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s a really cool thing that you, um, noticed that you didn’t, uh, feel that you’re, like, a lot faster, you’re more consistent with the higher end, uh, equipment, but, uh, definitely, it’s really good to start from something, uh, we’re talking on Unitalks a lot about this, uh, that everybody should have an opportunity to jump into our, uh, like, to sim racing, yeah?

And, uh, with whatever equipment they got, and I think it’s a really important thing. Um, what are you doing, uh, with, uh, so what’s your routine for the practice when you, um, Uh, [00:06:00] preparing for events, for big events in sim racing.

Victoria Thomson: Depends on what kind of races. Um, usually depends on the, the race that I’m racing and the duration I’m double to three times the time the race time is, um, I put into practice.

So if we’re racing a 24 hour race, I’ll have, um, somewhere around 48 hours plus on practice before the actual race. And I’m trying to, well, I’m trying to have a setup that’s feeling comfortable. I know that sometimes you just can min max the settings or something that you have like some tweaks that makes you extremely fast.

But for me personally, it’s a lot more important to have a car that just feels comfortable that every lap I know, even if I’m not on the like, mental top state right now in the lap, if you’re racing for an hour or two, maybe double stinting, and you’re doing a small [00:07:00] mistake. Um, I need to set up that, uh, knows that I can excuse that for example, um, that’s not completely on the edge.

And from that point on, I’m trying to get up my consistency. So I’m trying to have, um, practice evenings. I’m trying to, um, redo all the practice conditions if we know them before, otherwise I’m trying to, um, do some races. And even there, if I know it’s an endurance race, I’m more practicing on my own because I’m trying to get just in my routine.

Teen in my flow and if I know it’s sprint races then i’m trying to do a lot like public lobbies to avoid the the Yeah, the mock ups in the, in the beginning, the, the chaos, um, because in sprint races, if you spin out in T1, then you don’t have the time to gain the time again in the, during the race. So, um, it depends on what I’m racing, if I’m doing more like casual lobbies or if I’m practicing for My own, or for example, with teammates, um, to have a little bit, um, [00:08:00] dirty air, also multi class racing, also different, um, because then the pace difference in the cars is what we are trying to simulate.

So a friend is joining the slower car, depending on the corner. We’re trying to practice that, but how it’s a, basically it’s. Just like having fun. That’s the most important thing. And even in the practice times, I’m pretty sure if some of my teammates will see that, um, maybe afterwards, um, they know that I can get emotional while training, but it’s like letting all emotions out before the actual race and in the race.

I know it’s also, I mean, sometimes we have emotions, that’s completely normal for racers, but, um, I’m trying to just push me to Every race before the actual race is starting to more than a hundred percent to have like my a hundred percent performance in the race. That’s basically kind of the practice I’m doing before and also to get a mental state on.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s a good thing. Uh, I also try and to [00:09:00] still stay cold blooded when I’m doing races, uh, like official races or big events. Um, of course everybody can be emotional, as you said, I think it’s absolutely okay. Um, What do you like the most in endurance races because you mentioned that you’re doing endurance races and sprint races as well So would like to know what you prefer in endurance races.

What’s the best about them?

Victoria Thomson: Yeah,

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: well

Victoria Thomson: as as you said, I’m personally I prefer endurance races Because, uh, it’s not about always being the quickest person. It’s about the being the consistent person over a very long time, being one with the car for more than just 30 minutes. And I mean, I also do strength races.

They are also a great competition, even a higher competition than endurance races. But, um, I mean, even if it’s sim racing and the car is not really breaking down, sometimes you have like technical issues, everything that’s bringing sim racing with you. But for me, [00:10:00] it’s driving hours for hours, the same pace or nearly on being focused for over a long time.

That’s, um, Something I personally love also with um having the time with friends for example doing the spotting for guys doing the setup work Doing the strategy even the complete thing about strategy in endurance races is something that I completely could Go into detail because I really love doing the strategy and for the rest, it’s Just keeping your focus for such a long time on a state where you say it after that, you, you seem like, or you, you feel how you’re getting exhausted without getting to know that you’re exhausted after a few hours.

And for example, I personally loved, uh, the night stints and in real time between two and 5 AM, when the happy time is going to start, like everyone’s tired now. Um, usually you’re, Sometimes alone on the rig, or we [00:11:00] at least try to be two with one backup in the rig or in the race. But, um, you’re basically alone driving through the night, everyone’s starting to do mistakes because you’re getting, you’re zooming out because you’re doing the same thing like for 14 to 16 hours.

But still, I don’t know that to keep there the maximum performance, um, to like every time you’re tired as fuck, whatever, it’s still And that’s what is endurance racing for me.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Endurance is really special. Uh, and I think the endurance racing, uh, also bring a lot of people into some racing because, uh, many people like they not doing any official races or leagues.

They just jumping into special events, like in a set of course, competition in, in iRacing, for example, as well. Um, so what was your highlights? Uh, Endurance event for you. What was the best result, the best race, which you [00:12:00] remember?

Victoria Thomson: Well, the best race, it wasn’t the best race that I remember, but I really remember one race that kept in my mind for still for today. Um, it was, I think two to three years ago, um, when sim racing was just coming up in Corona and all that stuff. Um, I did a race with a few friends with Chris Samir and Jadia and, um, it was my first time with Jadia in a car and we had, um, I think two and a half thousand live viewers.

Right now and I was a little bit nervous And the first thing I did was I got out of the box tires were cold and I just smashed the car into um after radio and Into the world in front of two and a half thousand people that for me It was a moment that um, I mean you need to get back in the car And I even had two hours of stints in front of me, but I know I [00:13:00] crashed the car.

I messed up p1 But A few people were watching, few, and to get up there, the, the, the, like emotional stability. Um, that was something that I remember until today because you still need to get back into the car. You need to be, um, you, we can’t just stop. We repaired the car. And after that, I just needed to drive again because it was the only person who was driving right now.

And. Knowing that you have a lot of people watching you knowing that you messed up the p1 for the team I think in the end we made p2. Um in a I think it was a 24 hour race in Maybe sim grid. I’m not sure which race it was But the 24 hour race in spa and I mean like two years ago three years ago still a great experience and I would say that race to keep up there the the mentality and still get back in the car to [00:14:00] trust the car in every Eau Rouge and Radeon when you’re entering that and you know you just smashed it once.

Make it simple and as we all know if you lift the car there, shouldn’t, shouldn’t be the best way and um, if you get scared for something, even if it’s sim racing, then um, you’re getting slow. and well as I said again the the endurance races that Type of racing the type of mentality that you need there.

That’s what really brought me forward and which still is in my mind

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: so endurance is like Push you to go because you got a team next to you And you also like even if you crash you really want to finish the race because you learn everything other people plan This race to do it with you. So yeah, I fully understand you in this So speaking about sprint events, and I know that you recently Won the screen [00:15:00] to speed at the Dark Sim Racing Expo.

Can you tell me more about this event? How was it for you? How did it feel? That was, uh, uh, to be a part of the big sim racing expo and of this event as well. And how was it for you to take a part in sprint event?

Victoria Thomson: Absolutely. Um, I mean, um, we were talking about endurance races and now we’re switching to the sprint races.

I’m completely not common to sprint races, but it was more than just an honor to race into that race. And even to, to win that, I, I never thought about it and still until now, I, if I would tell myself, um, you’re going to race it again, I would say I’m pretty sure I won’t, uh, win that again, because iRacing is not my, my main simulation.

Um, I have like two race, two rank races in iRacing, I have an account, but it never felt like the simulation that I want to race because I have no content. Um, I had. No licenses and stuff. And, um, when I [00:16:00] got asked if I want to race there, I was like, okay, I need to practice. I need to download the iRacing. I need to download everything around it.

And then I started to practice, as I said, um, for, for the sprint stuff. So I tried to do some, um, open lobby races. I tried some practice runs and getting there is, I don’t know. Everything was kind of overwhelming. I, so far, I haven’t done any races, um, live on a stage or at least on. somewhere and the complete situation was new.

It was, as I said, overwhelming, but, um, it was more than just a great experience because I know that from all the experience that I’ve made in the last years over the time and in sim racing, um, I could use it because. In the SimRig itself, I, like, I was in my own zone. I could cancel out everything that was around and just focus on, on the car, on, on the girls next to me, even knowing they were [00:17:00] actually really sitting next to me and you could look over to them, like, um, what are their feelings right now?

How are they feeling? How are they driving? Um, How will the race end, for example, in the next minutes? But, um, still right now going through that race, it’s

Because I never thought with the, like, circumstances that I had On site race, iRacing completely new to me Formulkas, I’ve never done a Formulka race I think, even in the first race, it’s Maybe some some noticed it when it got into the the grid I realized that i’ve never practiced a standing start with the formal four with a clutch And we didn’t have the clutch pedals on on the steering wheel.

So with like the real clutch on the foot and I was just standing there like, uh, okay, how, how to do that? I know what I should do with my double clutches at home. But when, when I came there, it’s like, [00:18:00] okay, shall we just smash it? Then I had to wheel spin as hell. And I saw that the other girls just coming up because they, I’m pretty sure they then they’ve done in their practice sessions, at least some race starts.

And I took the second race. Or the practice for the second race, also to practice some race starts, but that was like, I’ve never thought about practicing, um, the start actually from the starting grid or the standing start in a Formula Four, because it’s not my, my sim or not my, my cars. And I know there’s, um, I think a safety car in, in Irising where you have the rolling starts.

If they would have done that, I had no idea what to do. That would be some very, uh, Let’s say some interesting stats, but good thing everything worked out. Um, in the end I worked I won by points at the first race. I won the second race. I think I made third Still awesome races. I’ve never thought that it got so close on on the [00:19:00] first three to four people Um because I never saw myself somewhere in the front And I really got It.

I’m, I mean, those were really great races. We had very close fights. Um, we had a little context maybe due to, I was not used to the mirrors and the, the completely I racing views. Um, I had my spotter turned off because I, I’m new to I racing, I’m sorry, , but still, it, it worked out. I had fun and right now let’s see what, what the future brings and maybe it opens some doors for some other races.

Uh, yeah, let’s see.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, once again, congrats with P1 in this event, uh, as there was really huge, the biggest event in sim racing, uh, which we got. Um, uh, I know that you’re going to get the testing at Nordschleife as your prize and can you tell me, are you excited about this? Maybe you’re thinking how [00:20:00] it’s going to happen and did you have any in real life experience in racing?

Victoria Thomson: To be honest, um, I can’t wait to race. Race car. I’m not, uh, having any information or most of the information is still pending. Um, so we are in the discussions when it will happen because right now going to the Nordschleife is like, I’m pretty sure it could be a little bit dangerous. Um, even in a normal street car, maybe, I don’t know what’s, what’s going to be there, but, um, I I’m happy about it.

I can’t wait for it. And, um, for the real racing experience so far, I’ve raced in an AMG. Um, the Shiroko Cup R and a few Audi R8 V10s with, um, street tires and slicks, but not, um, build up there. It’s the, the highest thing I’ve driven was the NG GT4. Um, so I have some experiences, but [00:21:00] as everything was on a private racetrack or airfield, um, I wouldn’t say that I’m really experienced in high competition cars or in real car racing, but, um, I’m doing cart racing, um, also did there a real life 24 hour race with the team and experience at least some kind of 24 hour endurance races, also did the sprint races, um, and the last company I’ve worked at, we had a, um, karting competition over the completely year where I, basically also won against 51 other guys and um still was able to to get the crown but we had also like that all kind of um racing rules with 85 kilos as ballast of performance so if you’re lighter and a few of us were lighter you’re getting ballast into the cart that we are leveled out with that so we really try to have a very high competition and as in sim racing it’s outstanding to to be part of Real racing sim [00:22:00] racing, it’s kind of the same thing, having the racecraft from so many thousands of hours in a CC, it’s, I love racing and I can’t wait to have the, the opportunity thanks to screen, to speed and, and in it and all the people working here, um, to, to get me into the car and let’s see what’s, I mean, it’s a notch life Who don’t want to race on the notch life and a race car?

Not sure.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: So, uh, you, you race Nordschleife, I’m pretty sure in the SED Corsa, yeah, um, is it your favorite track or not really? Because, uh, you know, for me, Nordschleife, uh, that’s the track where I can, uh, spend some time because I was working in, um, a sim racing center as a coach and as a manager of the location.

And I remember that I was spending, uh, you know, just, uh, To spend some time on Nordschleife because it’s really long and you just like can be here for 15 minutes 20 or something like this So do you do free laps and then go home? So how is it for you? [00:23:00] Do you like this track or do you? Like not really your favorite.

So we got other track as your favorite one. Mm hmm.

Victoria Thomson: Um,

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: I would

Victoria Thomson: say It is one of the favorites, but not the favorite racetrack. Um, as favorite racetrack, don’t ask me why I’m personally having Brands Hatch because I love the techniques there. It’s like a small Nordschleife, but, uh, as a German, as the most extreme racetrack that you can have somewhere, I would say Nordschleife is the racetrack to, to practice the most.

You’re learning so much At the Nordschleife and it’s also so dangerous that to be honest I’m a little bit frightened to to be there knowing you’re racing a race car Um, you know the track from the simulator, you know, if there’s something going to happen you basically as everyone says Um, you just hit escape and [00:24:00] go back to pits and start again in real life.

It’s something different but I would say the um You The, the elevation that you can have on the Nordschleife, everything that you have there is like, it’s, I would say that the best race track, but personally, I haven’t driven there on the real race or on the real Nordschleife in real life. So, well, also not in Brands Hatch, but I don’t want to judge which one is the very best.

Personally, I love the Nordschleife, but I think, um, for example, Silverstone or Brands Hatch are tracks that I could also race the whole day. Don’t ask me why. Yeah.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: I think that Brands Hatch is one of the best tracks, to be honest. I’m a big fan of, you know, narrow tracks with elevation changes. Like, Road Atlanta, I really like this track.

Many people on stream are joking about this, because I just, I really like to race this track. And they’re like, oh, you again at Road Atlanta, oh no. Something like this. [00:25:00] So yeah, I fully understand you with Brands Hatch, I think it’s a, it’s a great track to race, especially with GT3s and in a set of course competition, it’s really fun track.

So that’s cool.

Victoria Thomson: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. So would you say, um, is, is, um, if you could decide on one racetrack, I’m not sure which um, uh, real life experiences on your side are, but. If the experiences that you’ve maybe made from, um, real car racing, sim racing, um, the instructor you did on the Nordschleife, um, which car track combination would you say is something that you would live for?

If you could wish yourself something, what track and car combination would you like to race and what type of race?

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Oh, that, that will be, uh, Porsche Cup, uh, and Road Atlanta 100 percent because I real life Porsche Cup in a racing, I would love that. Love to try it in real life if I ever going to have a opportunity for that.

[00:26:00] And road Atlanta for me is like one of the best track on this planet. And I really like it. Uh, speaking about in real life experience, I race, uh, four more cars. Uh, so I’m not really into. GT cars. Um, so yeah, I think that would be a great experience to, to have an opportunity to race maybe Porsche Cup one day, something like this.

Um, can you tell me, you, um, mentioned that you race, uh, in real life, uh, some cars. Can you tell me the feelings? How can you compare them to what you, um, feeling in sim racing? Is it really close or not? Because, you know, just many people, uh, that’s like. Top question for everybody. I think they asking all the time about this.

Victoria Thomson: Yeah, I would say it depends, um, what you’re trying to compare. I mean, as we all know, you don’t have the G forces in the simulator. You can have like that, uh, actuaries are ultimate. Stuff where you have a five axle thing where [00:27:00] you really can feel drops and something like that, but pressing use In into the seat belts when braking a car like the ng gt4 or also the audis Um, it’s something that you don’t feel in Uh in the simulator But on my first days, when, when I got an instructor next to me, I’m racing in that, um, R8 V10 that was a street car, basically with, um, the crashing frame and slicks, uh, for example, on, on the second one where we had to, uh, rear wheel drive, um, the person next to me, uh, which was a former DTM.

Driver asked me after like three laps. I mean, we, we went out to the track and I didn’t know the car. I’ve never driven a car with over 600 horsepower and I got overwhelmed by the speed that you gain in a very short time because it’s not the monitor. It’s you really getting pressed into the seat. But, um, after getting the, the.

to know the car like a few corners, [00:28:00] um, everything’s pulled in the head, like, like in the simulator kind of. And the instructor sitting next to me was after three laps, like, he just sat there, watched me and was asking, and you’re really just doing sim racing, do you? And I was like, yeah, why, uh, what am I doing wrong?

And he was like, n nothing. The, the thing is you’re breaking the car, you’re steering into the corner and then you are holding the steering angle and you’re just turning the car by throttle and brake inputs. And that’s driving styles that guys are, that people have with cutting experience for 15 years or more.

And I’m just doing sim racing, but I have also like. Hours and years of practice, um, recalculated kind of for, for real racing. It’s just that you feel everything by the steering wheel. I mean, we are used to steering wheels and I even told the person that i’m not really Interested in what the car is giving [00:29:00] me through the seat or what the car really is doing Um behind me or in front of me I feel like everything in the wheel because we are trained to feel everything in the steering wheel And I would say it’s for sure you can’t compare real racing and sim racing and I would also say it’s It’s not good to compare those as the same thing or something that you want to compare.

I would say it’s completely two But it’s two different. Um Botch categories, maybe two different things But everything that you learn in sim racing you can somehow compare in real racing or you can use The the race intelligence, you know, the the Um, if you, if the car, for example, is slipping, if you have a slip angle, or if you’re close to a spin, you know instinctively what to do with the wheel.

So you have something that you’ve practiced as a routine over years and hours in sim racing, and you can use that in real racing. At least I would say. I [00:30:00] mean, if we look in Formula 1, Max Verstappen is also a very good sim racer, and I’m pretty sure that everything that he’s practicing in sim racing, he can bring into real racing and the other way around.

So, um, the conclusion I would say is, you can’t compare both, but everything that you’re learning is usable in both situations, if that’s kind of answering it.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, I absolutely agree with you. So you got really good, uh, base skills, which you learn in some racing and, uh, you can transfer them to real life racing, uh, without any issues.

I think you just need some time to get used to, uh, G forces. Yeah. That you like moving in the real car. Uh, but, uh, yeah, you know, articles, which I read about some racers who first time get into, uh, the racing track, uh, absolutely the same as you said. So just, uh, You know what to do, actually. You get into the car and you already know how [00:31:00] it’s working, and that’s the main thing.

So you don’t need, like, a lot of time to get used to everything. And it’s really cool about sim racing, and really nice that for some people that sim racing can be the starting point, like karting was for me, for example. Um, so it’s cool, because it’s more open for everybody as well. simracing. com

Victoria Thomson: I mean, sim racing is affordable.

It’s, I would say that the better, or it’s the other wave of motorsport. Motorsport is expensive and dangerous. I would say just, but if we put all that on renewable, sustainable topics, On the side, I would say that the main thing in sim racing is, it’s not dangerous and it’s more affordable for nearly everyone.

Even knowing that sim racing is a very expensive sport compared to, I would say, usual sports or usual eSports, where you need the keyboard, a [00:32:00] monitor, gaming PC you already have. But in sim racing, I would say you can put in so much money, But still, it’s way more affordable than a real car. Because if you crash your real car once, you have a crashed car.

Sim racing, it’s a little bit cheaper, I would say.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, crashes are free. That’s the main thing. Uh, and definitely you can get into sim racing. So entry level is a really low with a budget, of course. And I would like to say that I noticed that races in sim racing, which I’m doing in a racing, I’m usually racing top split and they more competitive than races, which I had in real life.

Uh, just because in real life you’re really limited, not a lot of people getting into the series and it’s not that competitive compared to sim racing and because we’re getting a lot of people here is just, you know, can be, uh, for example, Porsche championship, which got in a racing and, uh, [00:33:00] everybody like 20, 30 people, they want in one second to everybody that that’s crazy.

Victoria Thomson: Funny thing, um, that’s something I also recognized. Um, two weeks ago. I was at the FIA motorsport games in Valencia and I also saw there, um, the sim races and the real races and personally or my personal opinion on the real races was I mean that’s very easily said and I know, um, I don’t want to be too provocative, um around them But I would say the sim racers had The more interesting races to watch even if they were looking more Like more perfection.

They were racing just car by car and no mistakes in the real races Um for sure you had a few guys that were leaning on each other even in the gt cars It’s a different type of racing, but it felt more like a a Kind of a childish racing as the race intelligence was [00:34:00] different compared to the sim racing I have no idea how it is in the car And I’m pretty sure I would also drive a lot worse in a real race car than I would do in a simulator but um the the races itself to watch how The guys are racing how they’re leaning on others Um, I will personally say some stewards in simracing would even kick you out of track if you are behaving like that, what I’ve seen on the real races.

And I really appreciate every real racer that is doing that. But I also want to say to, to all people watching, kind of give simracing a chance and try to step into that perfection of racing that you’re seeing there and appreciate what they are actually doing. It’s that that was a very big point for me to see that in valencia.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, it’s a really high level right now It’s racing as you mentioned. I absolutely agree with you and Just because uh, it’s competitive. We got a lot of people. Uh, it’s also really high level [00:35:00] So no wonder if we would have um Like, the same amount of people racing in real life, we would have the same kind of level and the same competitive races as well.

But unfortunately, not everybody got the opportunity to get into real life racing because it’s just crazy expensive and it’s really hard to get into it. Get sponsors to get it. Uh, like even if you’re getting good results, that’s not, uh, Not mean that you’re going to get sponsors to sponsor you for your career and you’ll get forwards into the racing Um, so yeah, it’s a kind of sad thing About racing.

Uh, but uh, on the other side we got some racing where we can, um, race and, uh, have fun. And also I really enjoyed to watch, uh, broadcast, uh, some racing races. Uh, they’re really fun to watch, like everybody, uh, really close with the gaps and doing the same lines, the same breaking points. It’s, uh, it’s wonderful.

I [00:36:00] agree with you in this.

Victoria Thomson: Yeah, absolutely. And still, I also love the real racing topic. And, um, if I could choose between both, or at least I never hope to choose between both because I would love both categories in sports. But, um, as you said, I mean, real motorsport is in the first point for me, it’s dangerous.

And it can hurt you a lot if something’s going wrong, and I really feel that that kind of fear is for sure in simracing not, not the main topic, but even then, it’s more interesting to see that the simracers are so much on the edge and still racing like hell. I mean, they also crashing sometimes, but, um, to see that.

That kind of difference in in the skills in in real racing with fear and I really have deeply respect for those who can Kind of get off that kind of fear in the car and really race like a sim racer would do. Um [00:37:00] And right now we’re again compare, um comparing real racing and sim racing But it’s just it’s two so so outstanding types of sports that I still love both and I couldn’t could talk about ours

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, true.

I agree with you. So I still remember how I get into the car thing. I was like 10 or 11 years old and I was like, Oh my God, I’m just, I’m so afraid of the speed or something. Uh, it was, uh, yeah. Uh, so you just, uh, trying to, um, make the step forward, you just trying to get through this fear and, uh, then you getting fast lap times.

But on the same side, I can tell you that sometimes I got situations in some racing where I’m feeling like, my God, like, you know, I’m just feeling like I’m like, it’s happening in real life. It’s, it’s crazy. So your brain thinks like, We go into crash or someone go into crashes, something like this. So, and you feel, [00:38:00] uh, the same fear as in real life.

So it’s, uh, kind of interesting.

Victoria Thomson: Yeah, absolutely. As I said in the beginning, in the first story, like, um, when I crashed the car, um, and the judges dream after that, I really was frightened about that. Corner combination. I really was scared to go flat out through a rouge. And I mean, it’s sim racing. If I crash again, who cares?

It’s not hurting me, but the mental issues or the pressure to know that you have a team behind you that have practiced for it, that you don’t want to, um, I don’t know, you, you don’t want to let them down. You don’t want to get the car into repairs for hours. That’s something. I would say a completely different level of fear, because there are a lot of people hoping for you, knowing that also in a real race car, there is a complete team setting up the cars, they are flying there, they have spent a lot of money just to get the car there, and you know, crashing into the [00:39:00] wall, it’s like wasting so much money.

But still, the pressure and the fear and I’m sometimes I’m really scared even in sim racing, if you’re really getting into it, have a triple screen or even VR players in VR, if you’re racing, or if you’re crashing into the wall, pretty sure that makes something with you.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. You know, I got triple screen and even it was triple screen sometimes like, I really, you know, just into the race.

So I just, uh, Yeah. Kind of, uh, don’t, don’t feel like I’m sitting in a room or something like this. So I’m really into this racing car and yeah, it can be, uh, really, really scary sometimes, and, uh, I can imagine that people in VR got really, um, you know, good impression, uh, with the crashes, with everything which happening in some racing.

Victoria Thomson: Absolutely. I mean, I also got triples and I tried VR a [00:40:00] few years ago. I think I had the Oculus, uh, the CB1. Back in the day in the days. That’s like really know a few years, but I stayed with triples. Um Because I always have the feeling it it still gives me enough for sure You don’t have that distance checking that you have in VR and that you really can feel like being into the car But then you also have like expensive wheels They are flashing and you have all that information that I wouldn’t see if I’m racing in VR So I think it’s Type of something that you personally like the preferences, but I also would like to stay with with triples and so far I’m not planning to go to VR Maybe also being scared of driving into the wall and getting even more scared.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, also as you mentioned you doing A lot of endurance races, yeah, in my opinion, uh, VR is more for the sprint races, uh, because, um, you know, you’re going to sweat and it’s not going to be comfortable to race, uh, [00:41:00] for, for hours. Um, so personally, I absolutely agree with you, the triple, uh, in that, Circumstances a lot better, um, as you can do long scenes without any issues and, uh, you don’t have to worry that your eyes are going to be tired and you will sweat in the VR headset.

Um, but the VR give, uh, really good, um, you know, just feelings, emotions. It’s really cool. I tried once there was the Oculus Rift, uh, the first version of it. Um, it was really nice. So my dream is one day to try a better VR. headset and iRacing, maybe, because I didn’t try VR and iRacing. I’m just really curious about this.

Victoria Thomson: Yeah, me too. Can’t wait. I tested Apple Vision Pro a few weeks ago and I mean, technology is awesome. I know it’s not a VR headset for racing and all topics, but But, um, I would love to see a [00:42:00] headset, uh, VR racing that’s still just letting out exactly our wheels, our hands, so that we really sit into the car.

So it’s kind of a mix of an AR. Um, headset that’s allowing to see what you need to see, getting everything, um, else that you don’t need rid of, but, um, not that complete throughput that you have on, I think the, what is that Rift 3 or something, um, Quest 3, um, I think they, a few of them, of the modern ones have the, the, um, the throughput, but, um, then you see everything around.

And I would love to see something that’s, like, if you’re wearing some special suit or something, that just that is in the simulator. If that’s already possible, I’m sorry, I don’t know everything, um, but that would be something I really want to test. That would be cool, I think.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, kind of mixed reality I think will be awesome, uh, because as you said the VR, uh, unfortunately cutting the [00:43:00] opportunity to see your real, uh, wheel which you got and sometimes you got really expensive like a Fanatec wheel or, um, I don’t know, GSI, something like this and you really want to see this buttons and everything, uh, so yeah, and unfortunately VR cut this opportunity from you.

Yeah. I

Victoria Thomson: mean, you’re paying so much for a wheel with the display and then you can’t see the display. It’s like, I don’t know, maybe stay with triples.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Oh, yeah. So moving forward, can you tell me, how do you feel to be a female sim racer in male sim racing? So how do you feel about this? Is community friendly to you?

Or you had some toxic moments or something like this?

Victoria Thomson: Um, basically. I would say I had no toxic moments being a female or being male um in in one big family I would say. It’s like being toxic between [00:44:00] racers because under the Heimat I would say we all are just racers in Every kind of way. Um, I see that we are quite less women in In sim racing, but um, I think it’s also cars and uh car enthusiasts Is not that a female dominated thing but um I love to see if women are around how supportive they are to Each other because there are not much and we are supporting each other.

We Show that we are in sim racing and for sure it’s a male dominated world But in the end everything everyone before the computer I would say I don’t see If we wouldn’t have our cameras on, um, I wouldn’t see if I’m racing against a male racing against a female, I’m just racing against a person and that’s what I also love in sim racing because there is not that, um, I would say physical differences like in real racing that, um, maybe some are stronger, some are [00:45:00] weaker, but But, um, I would say I, I love the, the female empowerment kind of, if you see another girl on the street, even for example, I’m racing or I’m driving a motorbike in real life.

If you see another girl, um, biker, you’re just waving, you’re happy, you just enjoy the moment that you’ve seen someone like you on a motorbike or in sim racing on the karting track. But what I also see is. If you are an, um, in the minority on the race track, um, you also see that, uh, the competition between the persons that are racing there, or that are in that competition is also a little bit higher or more tense because there are not much.

So you’re competing also in a, um, smaller group of people. And then you have a kind of different competition. I would say, even if we have like the big competition, the big race. Um, but so far I would say, um, um, Pressures everywhere, um, you [00:46:00] have moments of panic. toxic relations in every kind of sport, in every kind of gender, in every kind of car and team.

So I would say that’s, that’s motorsport. Everything is kind of emotional.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s true. I agree with you. Also had some, uh, Toxic stuff in, uh, in the racing races sometimes and, uh, but most of the stuff which happened with me in SimRacing, uh, especially I’m talking about the racing because most of the time in this, uh, in this simulator, um, People really supportive.

They really try to help you with some advices. Uh, they’re really really nice and it’s it’s really cool because um, We can have the same thing like in other esports. Yeah Uh, so other esports can be a bit more toxic compared to some racing So we’ve been talking about other communities in the set of course competition [00:47:00] and other simulators also And Everybody like trying to uh, guide you through your journey and to show you How to do some racing and help you and you can find team really fast if you want to do endurances You can find like a supporter for almost if you’re doing them.

It’s it’s nice. Yeah,

Victoria Thomson: absolutely I would say sim racing or at least gaming um is And very open world, you can find a home. Um, the thing that is important for me, I would say is being an open person.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: It

Victoria Thomson: doesn’t really depend on what kind of gender you have for sure. It’s important to show which kind of.

People and characters we have in racing. And I’m very glad that we have so many different types and persons and personalities in racing and, or in gaming and racing. And, um, I think it’s also important to stand out. Who we [00:48:00] have, but for me, most of the thing is about the character that a person is bringing into the team, into the sport.

And I would say support that kind of character.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And

Victoria Thomson: I would say that’s, that’s the most important thing to appreciate the characters and support them.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Um, what do you think, how can we bring more girls into some racing into racing as well? Um, so what’s your, your opinion about this?

Victoria Thomson: I would say the girls that want to race in racing, um, we need to see where we can approach them and get them trained up kind of, I mean, as I said in the beginning, under the helmet or in front of the monitors, we all are racers.

And I would love to see if we found a lot of more of these girls, if we can support them, if we are not just pushing them into the market, if we push them into the market, Um, with, with the support that they really can [00:49:00] compete with others. And I would say bringing everyone on, on a very good level. That’s something that we really can do.

And what we are all trying here to, to support the females or to support the women in, in, in racing. And, um, I think even if it’s a male dominated world, um, we have interested girls and we just need to be there to show them that simracing is one of the things that you can do if you want. And if you want, what do you need?

I mean, is it the mentality that you need? Is it the pace? Is it consistency? Is it bringing you in, in racing games, um, overall? Is it, um, about the setup? I mean, in the end, a race is a race, and we just need to get them, like, on pace, and see to, uh, if we can get them competitive with others.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, I think, uh, what do you need doing, uh, for Female, uh, for girls in simracing, it’s, it’s [00:50:00] really cool, uh, because more girls you’re going to see, like, uh, you just I would love to race in SimRacing then, uh, by the end of the day, because you can see all these girls, they’re racing, you’re like, Oh, I want to be like her, yeah, jump into SimRace and, and race, uh, with, uh, whatever person, like, if it’s, uh, guys or girls, it doesn’t matter.

Uh, so I, I would, I I was in the same way as you with my opinion about in real life racing. So when someone asked me about like, how do you feel to be a girl? I’m like, I’m just a person behind the helmet. I’m just a driver and everybody doing the same stuff here. So when we equal because In my opinion, I think that, uh, yeah, physical, uh, thing is not really, uh, important, especially if we’re talking about sim racing, because you can set up the force feedback in the way you like.

And, um, it’s, it’s great. So I think we got a lot of opportunities [00:51:00] now, and I hope we’re going to see more girls and more, uh, boys also in sim racing.

Victoria Thomson: Absolutely. I mean, sim racing for me is. Really personal talking a sim racing is like everything I really love sim racing It’s it’s my passion and I’m trying to get my business related topics to sim racing my private topics to sim racing or at least racing and overall The automotive industry and stuff, but I’m getting Overall speaking, more people into racing, I would love to see if whoever is watching this and sees I want to simrace too now, or maybe I am already simracing, and maybe I can learn something from the mentalities from the stories or anything else, I would love to just bring that to more people.

That’s, that’s my goal. What really is driving me.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Um, so speaking about the future and plans, uh, what plans do you have in the future in the sim [00:52:00] racing? Maybe you’re thinking to make some kind of content, uh, which can bring more people, uh, into some racing as well. And, uh, share your opinion with other, uh, people.

Um, so what’s your plan? And I know that you’re going to take a part in global e sport games. Uh, can you tell me more about this?

Victoria Thomson: Yeah, um about the content thing Uh, I thought a lot of well, I have thought about it. Um several times but uh so far i’ve never got the point or i’ve never got so far to say I really want to be content creator or Bring that points in.

Um but You’re right. I mean in the end to bring People more into simracing and tell those kind of stories. I should do some kind of content But so far, I don’t know why it’s maybe the online world or getting the the criticism of everyone [00:53:00] Maybe the the opening to the world to be a content creator. Maybe that’s something that i’ve never accomplished so far Um, or got into it.

Maybe. Um, I need a support here, but, um, maybe it’s going to start with the global esports games. Um, because in there, um, I will be representing Germany for the female team together with a friend of mine, um, for the male category. So there are two. From Germany going to the global esports games, um, which actually should have been hold now in December 24, which has shifted to early 25, as far as I know.

But, um, I will be representing sim racing there. And it’s, I don’t know what to say. I mean, it’s more than just an honor to race there. I even love to see, um, that they made categories for the drivers or at least, uh, the teams. So far, unfortunately, no information how the race there will be held. If it’s a [00:54:00] combined race, if we have two classes, for example, or if they are separate, um, I just know that we are sending two representatives and as far as I know, e sports, and I think one of the parts is also motorsport also from the IOC got a Olympic, so there will be most likely also Olympic e sport games.

And if I. Can have a chance If I might have the chance, I hope I can also be there and see what’s going to be there So that will be my goals, um to see what we all together can reach in sim racing Maybe just as persona maybe with with different categories, maybe in different cars, maybe in different simulators We’ll see what’s going to happen And I think that the future right now is Well, working.

And next work, a little bit of simracing, practicing for a 24 hour race on the Nordschleife in a full motion simulator, um, the global esports games, and for sure in [00:55:00] my real life experience, the race on the Nordschleife, or the test day, somehow.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: So you’ve got great plans. About content creation, I can tell you that Simracing community is so friendly.

So they go on to support you. Of course you can get some toxic people from time to time if you’re streaming. Um, but you know, we can’t live without these people, unfortunately. But most of the time I notice that community is just amazing. So if you will have opportunity, if you will have like, uh, the wish to make some content and I know maybe stream us at a course competition and one day, I think you just have to jump into it.

Victoria Thomson: Well, I will have a thought about it again. Um, well, let’s see if I see myself on camera, I’m pretty sure I will cringe out. So I’m not sure if I’m going to do that.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Uh, no worries. You know, um, To be honest, I was really shy when I first time started streaming, I was like, you know, really confused, uh, [00:56:00] really close, and also my English wasn’t that fluent as, uh, right now, so yeah, I think it’s okay when you’re starting something new, it’s absolutely okay to feel shy, to feel unconfident a little bit, uh, but then, Just like in simracing, you, um, like gaining time, yeah, and getting better in some corners, uh, you doing the same thing, uh, with the rest of, in your life.

Victoria Thomson: Isn’t it great to see that like, every, um, tip or any hint that we, we are talking about is related to simracing, completely transferred to other real life problem. So kind of do simracing, learn something for life, and. Even if it’s your passion, you will find something that brings you forward. Even if it’s coming from simracing or from real life, somehow both can go hand in hand.

And I love the experience, uh, the examples that you made up, um, with being shy or being on the [00:57:00] racetrack, the mentality that you need to set up for streaming. Maybe I should think about it again.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, it’s, uh, you know, really close to, I think I learned a lot of Uh, things in simracing, in streaming also. Uh, met a lot of cool people, uh, nice people who really dedicate about simracing, about racing and It’s really cool to be a part of this and, um, it’s really nice.

Uh, so before we end up, uh, the stream, I would like to Give you the last question. Um, what will be your advice for people who starting in sim racing? So what, what can you give from your experience?

Victoria Thomson: Pretty simple. The thing is, if you, if you want to start in sim racing, um, I think the worst thing that you can do is think about what do I need for sim racing? As we talked about the [00:58:00] start in sim racing or the entry level in sim racing is, Kind of pretty low. You can start with a keyboard, with a mouse, um, you can then join to, um, switch to, to a gamepad, you can buy a sim rig, you can buy a racing wheel, you can get a direct drive wheel, there is no limit to above, kind of, but if you want to start in sim racing, the first thing that you have to do is like on a real car, you need to start up the car before you can drive a car.

So just get started. That’s, I would say that the main advice that I can give for those who want to be part of the simracing community.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s great. So thank you so much for taking your time. Was awesome. Uh, I had a lot of fun to speaking with you. Uh, everybody, thank you so much for watching. Uh, next CineTalks will be, um, next Thursday.

So we’ll see you. Thank you so much for watching and bye.

Victoria Thomson: Bye.[00:59:00]

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Crew Chief Brad: [00:00:00] Welcome to Screen to Speed powered by INIT Esports. In this podcast, we dive into the journeys of remarkable individuals making waves in sim racing and bridging the virtual with the real. From the thrill of digital circuits to the roar of real life racetracks, we explore the passion, Dedication and innovation that drives the world of motorsports.

We’ll hear from athletes, creators, and pioneers sharing their stories, insights, and the powerful ways sim racing is connecting communities and creating pathways into motorsports. So buckle up screen. The speed starts now.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Welcome everyone. Welcome. Welcome. Happy to see you on talks today. Welcome, everybody. Uh, please welcome Tasha. She’s a sim racer, streamer, and YouTuber. [00:01:00] And as I know, she’s racing in Gran Turismo 7, and is at the Corsa Competizione. So that means we’re going to have a really fun interview today, um, with talking a lot about sim racing, racing, and motorsports.

Welcome, Tasha.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Hi, hi. Thanks for having me.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. I

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): love what you guys are doing with the NA eSports and Screen to Speed. It’s so awesome to be a part of it all.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Thank you. So I feel like sim racing is such a game changer for so many people. So can you tell me How did you get into sim racing? How you started your way?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, my very first foray into sim racing was I was probably five years old on a Commodore 64 playing test drive with the keyboard and the little dot on the steering wheel, telling you where the ceiling steering wheel is pointed and graphics that look pretty much like Minecraft these days. So, wow. I [00:02:00] started out many, many years ago.

I’m 44 in a couple of days. So that’s 39 years I’ve been playing on sim games.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s really cool. So I also, I played in test drive. There was a second one Unlimited. It was really fun to play. I really love it What was your first simulator

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): in the first actual simulator? so we went out and bought a ps4 for the family and While we were there doing it, it was Christmas.

It was gonna be a present I saw Gran Turismo Sports for like five or ten dollars sitting on the thing. I was like, oh yeah, I’ll just grab this, you know, it’s cheap. And I’ve always played racing games and loved them. Like Project Gotham Racing was super fun with motorcycles and cars mixed together. And um, that’s the first place where I ever saw the Nordschleife.

I think they called it, uh, oh, I can’t remember what they called it, but I always mispronounced the Nordschleife because of it. [00:03:00] Um, but we got home. And Christmas comes around, we get everything set up, and the kids play on it, and the kids go to bed, and the next thing you know, I plug in Gran Turismo, and I’m like, oh my god, this is like, this is really cool, I remember Gran Turismo 1, and I was so excited, but Sport is like, game changer.

So, I played on it with um, I’ve played around with like, Race Asylum and a couple other leagues. And everybody was super, um, supportive and like, this is how you get better. And they’re talking to me about how to drive with a wheel. And I’m like, I’m sitting here on a controller. I’m like, this is not nearly as much fun as it could be.

So I went out and bought myself a T 150 and the pedals broke. So I went to load cell TLCM pedals. And then that broke and I was like, okay, this is it. I’m done messing around with these cheap wheels. Started searching around and I got myself a Fanatec CSL Elite from my nephew [00:04:00] and he sold it to me for 400.

Porsche 918 RSR replica wheel, um, load cell, uh, V2 pedals. And I got the rig set up in my room. And my, my daughter moved out, so I actually finally got room for an actual racing rig. And I got it set up in here and it’s non stop ever since. Every chance I get, I’m sitting in here.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s awesome. I really started in the same way.

So step by step, um, also improving my equipment, uh, back in the days I started with a G27, uh, and, uh, then switched to TLCM pedals, uh, the same way as you did, um, So now with the T818, Direct Drive wheel and the same TLCM pedals and a better rig. Triple, uh, started with a single screen. That was an absolute game changer to change to the triple screen, uh, for myself because you actually see more.

Uh, it’s really cool.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): [00:05:00] Absolutely, I can’t wait to go triples and get a PC that’ll run the higher end games. Um, right now I’m working off of a laptop that’s, uh, Eight years old I think and I mean it was a high end gaming laptop when I got it, but not today So, um as soon as I get a chance I need about 12 1300 for all I need is the box I have everything else and Then I can start working into, uh, PC sim racing and

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: go

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): for triples and stuff like that.

I’m super excited. I was warned about drugs when I was a kid, everyone’s like, Oh, don’t do drugs. You know what? I did the whole, we’re in high school, we’re in college and give it a shot. And it’s not worth your time. Right. But then I started sim racing and this is, this is what they should have warned me about because this is where all my money goes.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s a thing [00:06:00] which you actually can start but you never can stop to like improve your rig, improve your gaming room and everything and you just spend a lot of money on this.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, there’s always something else to buy. My wife wanted me to give her a list for my birthday this year and I’ve got neon signs on there, I’ve got um, like the Nordschleife wire track, Lamborghini wire model to put on the wall.

Everything that I have on there is like to improve my streaming space and she’s like you don’t want anything else I’m like I have makeup. I have clothes. I have shoes um I’ve got a Dodge Charger, that one’s pretty okay. No, I need stuff for sim racing.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s cool. My whole

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): life.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: You got the whole list with your wishes for the gaming room.

That’s awesome.

Speaking about upgrades, what do you want to [00:07:00] upgrade next in your gaming room and your sim rig?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): So the gaming room is already getting upgrades because my wife is excited about all the presents she bought me So i’m good on that one for right now What I really need is either the profile rig or a pc that’ll run iRacing and ACC with higher settings and triples.

That’s my next. Let’s go.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That sounds good. So you want to get into iRacing and I’m pretty sure you’re going to enjoy it. And with your experience in ACC already and Gran Turismo, you’ll get used to it quite fast.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Absolutely. No, I was so Gran Turismo was like my gig for a long time because I was on PS4 and like I tried doing ACC on PS4 and it’s just.

Like it’s almost there, but I couldn’t get the feel for it. I didn’t like it. And when I [00:08:00] finally was able to upgrade it onto PS5, I loaded up ACC and I played Gran Turismo. When, uh, DTR, some friends of mine, when they do their series, I do it for the Scaly Punk Charity Racing series because it’s fun to hang out with all of my friends, and we’re raising money for charities and good stuff, but for the most part, if I’m simracing now, I’m on ACC until the I get a PC and I can move on.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm hmm. Yeah, I understand this. It’s really good that we got opportunity like people can race on consoles and they can race on PC as well and can choose Uh, like different simulators to jump into some racing. That’s a great opportunity. Definitely Um, this is where I really like because you know So many people coming to my stream also asking me like can I start from console?

Can I like play ACC there or something like this? You So, yeah, and then the next step when you, um, like upgrading to PC, you’re getting [00:09:00] into a racing, into, um, higher quality ACC, it’s awesome.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, I can’t wait. Like, I’m like dying to put a custom livery on my car on ACC now.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Oh, yeah. Can you tell me more?

You just mentioned the SkellyPong charity raising. What kind of charities did you do already? And I know that you’ve raised kind of a lot of money for this and that’s great. That’s a really good thing which you’re doing.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): So that was a friend of mine that actually started it. And when it was, when it first began, it was called, um, pleb charity racing series, and it went on for a while.

He raised quite a bit of money on it. And then he switched the name up to skelly punk around the same time as my team name changed from a blackout racing to transmission motorsport. And that’s been about a year and a half. We’ve [00:10:00] raised about 1, 200 or so. Through a series and a couple of endurance special events.

And then we get together, we’ve got two different lobbies. We’ve got pro am for the fast drivers and we’ve got pro for the very fast drivers. And, um, last season was amazing. We had a lot of fun doing it. Phil did his first stint doing comms. It was really fun watching him get into it. And I do comms for the pro lobby because I wasn’t fast enough to get into that one.

So Um, that’s how I found out that I love doing comms.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: It’s awesome. Um, but

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): um, we’ve raised money for mind charity rain um equality, texas Cerebral palsy alliance and basically Our next one I think is going to be for breast cancer research, but we just look for the most reputable You Charities that we can and find them on Tiltify [00:11:00] and support them all through the through the season

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: This is uh, this is great that we got, you know, I I know a lot of great events for charity in sim racing and Um some of them in gaming also, but it’s really cool that community supportive for these charities and also we’re getting a lot of people to jump into this races.

Um, that’s great.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): And there’s a lot of fun too, because especially when we’ve got a couple of guys that make custom decals for it. So we’ve always got a range of custom decals that people can put on their cars with their requirements. And Every season we’ve got, what, 20 30 cars that have different liveries on them that they put so much work into and it looks so great.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, custom liveries, uh, that’s a good thing in sim racing also.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I can’t make the custom liveries, I always ask [00:12:00] other people to do it for me because

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): hmm. I’m a driver. I can drive and I can talk. Don’t ask me to do

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: art. Awesome. Yeah, my husband’s taking this from me, so he’s also making liveries for me and emotes for my channel.

So I’m doing driving and talking a lot.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Nice! I tried to get my wife to help me with some things in it, but she’s just No, she plays Sims 4. That’s her simulator. She plays Sims 4.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Well, at least she We’ve

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): got our own Sim addiction. It’s just that they’re completely different.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Well, she’s investing in your wish list for your gaming room.

That’s good.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Absolutely! I’ve invested about 1, 500 in her Sims game. Oh,

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: that’s nice.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): And I made myself, um, my first rig [00:13:00] was. I took a piece of countertop off of a job and some plywood, a couple of two by fours. And then I threw a, um, eight by eight in there because it was just too light and it was sliding around.

And I built myself something that slides in front of the couch with the pedals locked in and the steering wheel on it and mounted a monitor to it. And that was my rig for nearly a year. And every time I got it out to plan, she’s like, well, where’s mine? I’m like, what do you need a rig for? You’re playing sense.

So her birthday rolls around and I went out we had an old table and I cut it up and Murdered it and put it back together into a really nice looking thing where it’s got her keyboard, her laptop and mounted a monitor on it for her. Now she’s got her own little rig for Sims 4.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Really cool that you’re making stuff by yourself. Um, because when we started sim racing, so there was a during pandemic for me, [00:14:00] uh, and we, like, I had to. Oh, the same for you, that’s really cool. Um, so I had G27 and when we switched to triple screen, uh, unfortunately didn’t have opportunity to just buy the, uh, the stand for triple.

Uh, so we made it out the plywood with my husband and it’s still alive. It’s, uh, on the second rig. It’s really cool when you, you know, making, uh, things by yourself and, um, I think people just shouldn’t be afraid to build something by themselves, uh, because, you know, someone, um, like, plywood is, uh, hard enough to, like, to have a really good triple stand, for example, or the rig as well, so at least you can start from something.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Exactly, I mean, anything that you can do to get into it, and if you can’t afford a wheel and you can’t afford pedals, Play on the controller. There are people that are three, four seconds faster than me on controller. Like I, anybody can [00:15:00] do anything. That’s my favorite thing about sim racing in the world is it’s so accessible.

Yeah. I can’t afford to go and buy a real car to race with. I can’t afford to take my real car on a racetrack and destroy it because somebody hit me. So. I can do it on the game anytime I want to. Oh, it’s midnight and I want to go hit a racetrack. Ah, here it is, right here. Turn everything on and I’m there.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And the main thing, the crashes are free in SimRacing.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): And the crashes are free.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. I remember when I did, uh, that was Forza Motorsport, a championship, which I did. I did it on my wheel. And, uh, everybody We’re driving with the wheels, uh, but on the one event, they, uh, invite really fast drivers and controllers.

And as you said, they were faster, like by three, four seconds than, uh, the fastest driver on the wheel. It was really, really cool.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I don’t know how they do [00:16:00] it, like, I, and, there’s a couple of things, okay, so on controller I don’t get it because there’s like, it’s so hard to be consistent with every turn, it’s like, oh, I need to turn the wheel this much, but on the controller it’s like, I need to move my thumb this much.

I can’t stop moving! It’s like, how are you hitting your marks like that? Like, I don’t get it.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. I’m in the same boat with you, I just, uh, I got no idea how to drive this controller, like, I can’t control the car with a stick in the way I’m, how I’m doing this on the wheel.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Uh, right, and then the other thing that gets me is, like, I get it, the kids that are younger, jumping into a racing rig and being like, Just being able to Basically break the rules of physics because you know in the sim racing you can do things you can’t do in real life, right?

so they find the exploits and they’re able to Correct oversteer or save these wrecks and I just don’t get it because like when i’m sitting here I don’t feel the G [00:17:00] slide me over in my real car. Um, I hope there aren’t any cops watching my real car, of course, too fast. Sometimes I want to start to understeer.

I know exactly what to do and how to handle it. I’ve come around blind corners and had semi trucks in my lane. And I’ve had to go into a shoulder that it’s not wide enough for my car. And I’ve been able to skim past them and not get hit. Right. But on the sim racing, it’s like, I can’t, there’s not the feeling.

I can’t quite get them. Get the speeds that they can, but I’m never gonna give up, give up. I’m working on it and constantly improving. So

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: that’s the main thing, uh, to go step by step or as, uh, the same way as you doing with equipment. You doing the same way with your driving. You just, uh, step by step improving.

Um, so speaking about your car, do you ever think maybe to take your car and do the test day or something like track day on the real track? Um, and, um, [00:18:00] what do you think? Will it be possible for you to ever jump into real life racing?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I will promise you I am relentless and stubborn. One day I will be in a fast car on a real track, like it is going to happen.

So my car, no, it’s, I’ve got a lowly V6 2010 Dodge Charger. I mean, it’s, it can be fun if you’ve got like a 25 mile an hour corner and you’re going around it at like 35 or 40.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Great,

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): but um, other than that it’s just a daily driver. I need to get something like even a little Mazda MX 5 or something. I don’t care, I’ll take anything to a track.

But I’m going to be working on getting a car I can take on track.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s really nice. Uh, do you have any racing tracks, uh, where you’re living?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, Portland International.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Awesome.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, you [00:19:00] guys had Ms. KB Anderson on here and I friended her up and got onto her Instagram like instantly and we’ve been chatting and I’ve actually been invited to go and hang out with her on some of the days because she works on the crew in the pits.

It’s my earliest opportunity that she’s going to be there. I’m going to go hang out with her and get into the pits and see how everything is really done and meet some drivers. And, um, hopefully by then I can get a racing license and I kind of goots my way into somebody’s car somehow.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s good.

Um, I’m Do you see that we’re getting more women into motorsports and in sim racing as well? And how do you feel by yourself to be a woman in the, um, you know, of course, the male dominated sim [00:20:00] racing and racing as well?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, my experience has been an interesting one. I expected not only for it to be like the bro scene where everybody is rude to women or you don’t belong here and that kind of thing and I haven’t had that at all and I I’ve met so many amazing people.

It’s a great it’s a great place for getting support like um when I met or not when I met because I heard of Sophie and Yvonne both from race asylum many many years ago three or four But when I actually started getting to know them I don’t like six months to a year ago. I found out about the, in the e sports and screen to speed and the whole community of the, the number of women that want to be involved in it.

It’s just amazing. And I love that they’ve got this welcoming place for us all to go come and join and, um, talk, give each other tips [00:21:00] and find new series to waste against each other with. And I love it. I, I think more little girls would be into it if they had the opportunity.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, definitely. And I

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): just love seeing it grow.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Women

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): in motorsports is

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: nice. Young girls, they’re going to see like more streamers, more sim racers, more girls in racing also. They will have a dream also to get into sim racing one day or into real life racing as well. So that’s great, which in it. eSports doing for us and, um, overall community in sim racing are really friendly.

I noticed that also, you know, I’ve been, um, in, in real life racing and it’s a more toxic community compared to what we got in sim racing. And, uh, to be honest, [00:22:00] I’m so happy that I’m in sim racing right now. And, uh, Twitch community pretty, uh, pretty and, uh, supportive as well. Um, what do you think about Gran Turismo 7 community?

So we just, uh, been talking with, uh, other guests about F1 community. Uh, from my side, I was talking about a racing community. So I would like to know, um, how do you feel in, uh, Gran Turismo 7?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): The Gran Turismo community was Great for it being accessible and teaching me the basics and finding people to surround myself with and Like feel supported and a part of something um, I really wish they would do a little bit more listening to their fan base and you know, maybe some upgrades tracks cars that kind of thing, but it’s It’s not my favorite anymore.

I loved Gran Turismo until I got ACC on PS5.[00:23:00]

Now Gran Turismo is like, I’m gonna relax and play with my friends. ACC is like, I must get faster.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Understand this. We all got that kind of games which we play, uh, like occasionally with friends. Um, and then simulator where you really hard racing with everybody. Um, can you tell me what is your favorite, uh, track in the set?

Of course, competes you on the, and the favorite car as well.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, I don’t really know for sure about a favorite car yet. I’ve only really driven the 992. I think it’s the 23992 Porsche and the Lambo Evo two. So I’m sure there are two totally different cars to drive. Um, and Gran Turismo 7, when I first started, the Lambo just wanted to kill you, the Group 3 Lamborghini.

And the Porsche was super easy to drive. And as the [00:24:00] updates came through, the Lambo got nerfed, and now they almost drive the same, but the Porsche drives nicer than Lamborghini does.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): then, on ACC, it’s like, the Lamborghini is so much easier to drive than the Porsche. The Porsche just wants to murder you everywhere you go.

But I like both of them, they’re both a different kind of challenge to get your times down on the track. Um, as far as track is concerned, um, I really like Imola now that I’ve had a chance to drive it. Silverstone’s a lot of fun, but I really just love the Nordschleife all, every different way you can do it.

The N24, the Nurburgring GP, that’s, it’s where you go to relax and drive way too fast.

One day I’m hoping to make my way over to Germany and at least visit it, but I’d [00:25:00] love to move there.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, I think that many people will be jealous for those people who’s living next to the Nordschleife and got opportunity to like near everyday race here and have a track day.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Oh, I know the jealousy of it.

I know a person who lives there and actually works there.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): like I saw a video of them repaving part of the track. And so, the first thing I did was message her on Discord and be like, What’s this? And she’s like, Oh yeah, I started yesterday and this is what they’re doing and they’re ruining this corner by adding a curb that’s taller.

I’m like, Thanks. You want to sponsor somebody to move down there? Like, I can help you pay rent. I’ll drive you to work. Anything I can do, just get me to Germany. I

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: think that Germany is a really nice [00:26:00] country to live in. Um, so I hope you’re going to have this opportunity in the future to move into your dream country and be close to Nordschleife.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): You know what’s funny too is like living where I do in the United States. I feel like if I did go to Germany, it would be like the same, but they speak a different language from everybody that I’ve talked to over there. I’ve got so many German friends. It’s it’s almost like the same as the state that I live in.

The trees look the same. The weather looks the same. Everything looks the same. And I’m just like, see, I’m, I’m in the right climate. I’m in the right place. geographical kind of location. I’m just not in the right part of the world.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: All right, um, talking about your streams, how do you enjoy them? And do you find hard to drive and talk at the same time? [00:27:00]

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Sometimes driving and talking at the same time is just not my thing. Um, I do my best, but there are times that I’m Like in the middle of a race, I’m trying to go as fast as I can and push it to the limits.

And I see a little chat message pop up over here and I’m like, Oh, who’s that crash? So, uh, it’s been a lot of work trying to find that happy medium of where can I look at my chats and how can I pay attention to my viewers and still not destroy my race? Um, I started streaming just for like prosperity sake, you know, like, Oh, there was an incident I can go back on my stream.

I don’t have to search through a replay or. And my friends could come and watch my laps and stuff like that. It was mostly just to keep track of things and my progress as I was getting better. And then I started getting a couple of followers. I still don’t have many, but I started getting a couple of followers that I didn’t know.

And I’m like, [00:28:00] Oh, this is, this is kind of fun. I like talking to people. And then we had a Commentary person drop out for one of the scaly punk charity races. And I was like, I’ll do it. And I found myself running my mouth for two and a half hours, maybe three. And I was like, this is kind of fun. I like judging other people’s driving and talking about it and laughing with the people on chats.

So I was like, okay, I’m going to make this like a side gig. It’s a good thing for racers to do when they are sim racers to do when they don’t feel like sim racing. Or just to engage with the fanbase. So, that’s when I got into commentary, but I really love it. I’m starting to find my, um, oh, my groove so that I can stream, manage talking with chat, and not completely destroy my race.

Um, early on I had anger and temper issues because I just didn’t have the [00:29:00] consistency, you know, going around the track. Besides the fact that I’m streaming, I wasn’t that great anyway. And so I would get upset and the rest of my race would get ruined. So over the last, probably eight months to a year, I’ve been tempering that down.

So that it’s like, okay, this happened. I missed my breaking point and slid into the grass. I didn’t destroy my car. I’m still in the race and I’m going to keep going until it’s over. And I’m just not going to be mad because what happens when you get mad? You start making mistakes you You’re trying to push over drive the car and the next thing, you know, it’s like oh I can get closer to that sausage No, I can’t There is no closer to the sausage than I was driving before now my car is Balancing off into the wall on the other side of the track.

So, um, Staying calm keeping cool. Just keeping everything smooth. That’s the whole goal of it and And just getting better every day Well, I hope it’s every [00:30:00] day.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Well, it’s really hard sometimes to find this focus, uh, on track instead of focus on chat. Uh, so I’m struggling as well with this, uh, but it just get better with some practice, uh, because you just like, if you.

Okay, I’m going to be focused on the track instead of, uh, focusing on chat. Uh, so just let, let know viewers and, uh, everything’s fine. So everybody really. Understandable in this and it’s really cool because sometimes you can just be in a really hard fight on track and not talk for like, I don’t know, 10 minutes or something like this and everybody going to be silent with you watching your race.

It’s really cool.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Right. I always expect it’s like, okay, I’m, I’m struggling right now. I need to focus and catch up or find my markers again and just like get back into the zone. And I’m always like, okay, well, by the time I’m [00:31:00] done being silent, doing my thing, I’m going to look over and it’s going to be empty.

And it’s not like, they’re not here just to talk to you. Like they’re here to watch. How you’re racing, the lines you’re taking, they’re here to learn from your mistakes, too, because even the aliens make mistakes. I know, um, one of the guys that he hasn’t streamed much, but he just started streaming, um, I met him trying to get into my first ACC league, and I was like, I’m not really very good, but I would love to try this driver swap series thing that they’ve got going on.

I And I found out you can do driver swaps, like, really real driver swaps on ACC, and I’m like, yeah, let’s do it! And he’s like, oh no, it’s cool, just please don’t try to go too fast, don’t run into people, and stay smooth. If you can just stay smooth and focus, I don’t care how things end up, [00:32:00] I just want to see you improve.

And that’s been like, everybody’s attitude that I’ve talked to so far. And I’ve gone from 10 seconds behind the pace on ACC to I’m a good mid pack to tail end of, well above that, tail end of the good drivers and mid pack driver now. And it’s only been two months since I’ve been playing ACC. So Gran Turismo did teach me a lot.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: I’m pretty sure that

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I’m not gonna know Gran Turismo too much.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm hmm Yeah, I’m pretty sure that Gran Turismo gave you a good base for sim racing and to drive in ACC and in racing in the future as well Um, it’s really cool that you, you got this experience and, uh, right now you making good improvements.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, and you know, I’ve, people laugh a lot when I say this, but I’m like, I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now. And there’s been instances where I’m [00:33:00] driving on a real road and it’s wet and it’s early morning. And I live near this highway that, it’s like the most dangerous highway in the state where I live.

Yeah. And I’ve seen literally an accident every other day for a year before on this highway. And one day I’m driving down the highway and I look up, I don’t look up, I’m just like come around the corner and the next thing you know all I can see are these headlights that are about the same height as the roof of my car.

And I didn’t freak out, I wasn’t scared, I was just like oh I need to go around him. And when I was done I was I was like, okay, so I didn’t hit the guardrail on the right side. I didn’t break my mirror on the semi truck. That was 100 percent in my lane coming around this corner. I can’t attribute my calmness or my reactions [00:34:00] to anything other than sim racing.

That’s like the reaction times and being so used to being like stressing yourself out over how you’re driving or how you’re going to take this corner or how you’re going to handle your car in real life. You’re doing a quarter of the speed half the time or less. And so when something dangerous does happen, there’s no thinking involved.

You can react and you know that it’s safe to do this because your car’s not even close to the limit. So why can’t you just like whip it over real quick?

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, in my opinion, uh, people who driving on the road, they should jump into whatever, sim racing or maybe some, uh, like extreme driving to just, uh, teach this reactions.

Yeah. As you said, and it’s really helped me. It’s like, it saved me, um, you know, a couple of times on the road when I was driving the car. Um, and that’s a good thing, which you notice, uh, that sim racing help you in the driving in real life as well. [00:35:00]

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, just knowing the feel of the car, it’s like the first time I ever got understeer in a car that I was driving in real life.

I had never like driven with a simulator, like the wheel and everything. And even if I had, it would have been what, 40 years ago before they had such a thing as force feedback or pedals. It like actually had real, you know, Load cell field to them or anything like that. And when my car started understeering, it was like pure panic moment.

And it’s like, okay, what do I do? Oh, hit the brakes. Oh, that’s not helping let off the brakes. Some I’ll try the gas. Um, let’s try steering less. No, that’s not going to help. And you just don’t know what to do when you get into that situation. And so you’ve like really been there. And what, when you practice it every day, something happens and there’s no question.

There’s no thought. There’s, oh, this is how I handle that situation. [00:36:00]

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, my opinion. So yeah, why

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): don’t they, why don’t they make simulators, like, part of courses for driving, getting your driver’s license?

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, exactly. I think that should be a part of it, uh, because you’re getting really good skills, uh, which can save your car, your life on the road, and it’s, it’s great.

And yeah. Thank you. In my opinion, a lot of accidents which happening on the roads, uh, that just because, you know, people panic and they don’t know what to do in this situation. And that’s it. As you said, like, uh, you was panic a little bit when you had understeer with your car in real life. Yeah. And, uh, this is exactly what happening with people and no wonder because they, uh, absolutely got no, uh, experience in such a sort of situations.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Right, so you don’t know what to do, the first thing you’re going to do is panic and wreck your car. Yeah. Hahaha. So the only real, real life wreck that I’ve [00:37:00] ever been in that, uh, we’re not going to count the one that was half on purpose. I was, I was on that dangerous highway that I was telling you about, this other one, right?

Same highway, and they were doing road work on there, and I pulled up behind this semi, it’s a flagger. And I’m like, I hate this highway, I’m going to give myself one. A semi length between me and the truck. Someone’s gonna come by and hit me, I just know it. And three days in a row I’m stopping at this flagger.

And finally, the third day, I stop, I hit the flashers, I check the mirror. Okay, there’s somebody stopped behind me, I’m safe now. See what time it is, click the phone. As soon as I started reaching towards my phone, I hear this.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I was like, okay, number one, he was speeding number two, we’re all going to get hit.

So I was like, all right, I need to be able to control my car. So I don’t want to have the brakes on too tight. [00:38:00] So I put the car in gear. I let off three quarters of my brakes so that they were just barely holding me in place. And he, he dodged the car behind me. This is awesome because he’s in this giant Toyota Tundra, right?

You got this much space and his truck is this big He bounces off the guardrail completely misses the car behind me Smashes in the tail of my car and if I had reacted any differently I probably would have ended up in the oncoming traffic. That was right flying by like nothing’s happening But instead I was able to control my car and it was like, okay Kept it inside my lane and I didn’t hit the truck because I gave myself space So More things that I’m learning, I’m applying things that I’ve learned to simracing to situations you don’t even experience in simracing.

Because if you hold your brakes too much, how much control do you have over your car? And if you’re spending all of your, um, [00:39:00] traction braking, you can’t turn. And so, the second I knew something was wrong, Those are the thoughts that went through my mind and it was just like, okay, this is how I’m not gonna die

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Returning back to some racing a little bit Um, I want to ask you how do you prepare for your races and what races do you do usually in acc? Maybe that’s some kind of leak which you can suggest to people who’s starring in acc or like that. Just a multiplayer races

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): As far as lazy concerned, um Uh, Dream Team Racing has some great GT7 leagues, an awesome guy, he, the people who started it, one of them is German, one of them is, uh, uh, uh, uh, Irish.

Some of my best friends now, they run usually one season a year, and depending on the number of int the amount of interest they get, they’ll [00:40:00] have, uh, three lobbies going sometimes, four. And so we’ve got skill levels from I just got this game and I’m learning how to drive on it to I’m, not even gonna bother trying to race this person because they’re so freaking fast They lapped me in three laps and like this is just I will learn from them I will watch them, but i’m not gonna compete with them.

Um, so dream team racing is really cool. Uh Scaly punk charity racing is also really cool because we do the same thing We, uh, split up the lobbies by skill level. And it’s usually 40 minute races. It’s pretty much the go to on GT seven. Um, since I started ACC. My first series that I started, I, it was supposed to be like a two hour, two or three hour driver swap thing where it’s like, Oh, I’m going to drive for an hour out of this.

And it turns out that that one got canceled because there wasn’t enough [00:41:00] interest. And then I saw they had another one and it costs a little bit of money to join, but once you pay money, they can’t cancel it. So I started a four and a half hour driver swap series. And so I’m doing that with Phil Hooligan.

And I’ve got my friend Neil DeCiel, Neil Wright. Um, he’s part of Infinity Racing League, IRL. Uh, they’ve got a Discord server also. And they are partnered up with ACC Consoles. Um, I, I’m sure if, if you’ve ever played ACC and you look up the online lobby list, ACC Consoles is like all over it. They’ve got tons of lobbies on there.

They do a time trial. Where they set up the track for the month and anybody can go and join on it. There’s no password and you can see how you stack up against however many people enter it. I was, I think I was 43rd out of 115 the last time. Last one I [00:42:00] was able to take time and do so that’s not bad. I’m like I said, I’m mid to Little bit better than that base um, so those are really good leagues and then There’s another one coming up.

It’s going to be an imsa foreign It’s imsa endurance racing and it’s going to be a mixed class that’s run by acc consoles as well And so i’ve got I want to have an all female team for this one So I asked Yvonne to join me on that one And anybody else who is interested, we can take, I think we can have up to three or four drivers.

So any other ladies out there want to get in on this, let me know.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, so you can message Tasha.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Oh right, it is on PS5 though, it’s not, it’s not PC, unfortunately. But yeah, no, I’m basically, I want to get as good as I can, so I drive everything that I can. [00:43:00] I’m not very, I wasn’t very good at ACC when I first started it.

But I’m not going to be like, Oh, I’m not going to join this series because I suck. I’m going to be like, I’m going to go join this series and see how well I do and see how much I can learn from them. I didn’t progress from. A pleb to where I’m at now, a better pleb by Sitting on the sidelines and not participating jump in Everybody is going to help you out.

If you have questions ask in a discord server ask on the racing server And guaranteed you’re going to make friends and someone who is alien pace is going to be like here Let me help you i’ll teach you a couple of things about this and you’ll be faster And then the other part of it is giving up. I’m never going to give up, right?

Every now and then I get into this position where I start feeling content being like, I’m not going to improve any more than this. This is just going to be my pace. [00:44:00] And that’s usually about the time that I gain a second on my laps.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: It’s

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): like, okay, now that I’m content, all of a sudden, poof, I’m faster. I’m like, whoa.

Okay. So maybe we need to relax while we’re doing this too. This isn’t about stressing yourself out and gripping as tight as you can. This is about. You want to be smooth and learn from everybody. That’s what we do.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, I’m absolutely agree with you. Uh, so good thing, which you said that you, when you relax, you’re like boom gaining one second and it’s, it’s really working because you just stop to push yourself too hard and stop to, um, Like focus too hard on things which you’re doing with driving and you just relax and let your brain to do all things on track and it’s, it’s really working.

Um, do you like endurance racing more compared to sprint racing? And if yes, what do you like the most about endurance [00:45:00] racing or sprint racing if you prefer this one?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Favorite? Yeah, I really do love the endurance racing, especially the driver swap endurance racing, because you’re working together with someone else.

So you’re not going to set the car up for you. They’re not going to set the car up for them. You have to work together and find a setup for the car because you can’t swap it, swap the setup when you get to the pits. Um, the pit stops themselves and trying to communicate with the other driver, set up tire pressures for the swap and stuff like that makes it more interesting.

Um, just being there, having a teammate in your ear. Um, they’re, they can watch you the whole time on ACC, especially in like, if there’s something you’re doing every lap that you’re not catching, they can give you advice on it. You know, I really love the AI on ACC where it tells you, it’s like, Oh, car on the right, Oh, clear on the right.

Don’t ever trust that thing. [00:46:00] Cause half the time, all I did was move over two inches to the right and it’s still there. So you still gotta be careful, but when you have somebody with you, they can spot those cars or, or you don’t have to watch your mirror because they can tell you someone’s coming up behind you.

You don’t have to watch the time so much in the bottom corner, trying to see what the deltas are because. You’ve got someone to do that for you. You can focus and drive. And then my other favorite thing about the endurance races is they last longer. I don’t want to jump in my rig and compete for 40 minutes.

I want to like push myself. I want to be going, I want to be driving. I want to drive for an hour, two hours, three hours, four hours. If I had my way, I would do it for a job and I would probably drive four or six hours a day, but I’m not there yet.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Do you like the part of endurance racing where you’re counting fuel and do some management with the schedule? Are you doing this by yourself or are you more? Uh, like [00:47:00] dedicate this to your teammates.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I’m just starting in it. Like I’ve only done, I can’t remember if we’ve done one or two. I think we’ve only gotten one done so far.

Like I said, I’ve only been doing this for two months and the endurance races run once a month. So the next one is coming up this Saturday. It’ll be streamed on my YouTube and it’s a spa and I’ve got decent times there. So this should be a good one to watch, but Phil and I are working together on a setup and actually I’ve got Neil Wright coming.

To drive this one with me another awesome guy but we work together to find a setup that we can all drive and then When it comes to fuel calculation, it’s you gotta I I enjoy doing it. I’m a math person like I went up to uh math 350 or something like that when I was in college and the only reason I stopped doing it is because My baby was born too early.

And so I had to drop a class lost [00:48:00] financial aid and No more school for me But, I love math, I love physics, I love thinking, so now I’ll look at, um, liters per lap, and how much time is left, and what my lap times are, and do the math in my head as quickly as I can. Usually, right now, I’m doing it all on the fly.

I’m hoping that, like, not this coming race, but the race after and the one after that, I’ve got a better grasp on how it works in ACC, and I can actually plan driver stints. Thanks. And okay, this is, we’re starting with 70 percent fuel, 70 liters, fuel, whatever. And then we’re, this is how much we’re going to fuel each time we come in.

And I like to strategize. It’s a lot of fun. I don’t like to do it by myself because I’m not racing alone. When you’ve got a team of people racing, everybody needs to have input, right? It’s like anything else. But no, I really, that’s another one of the things that I really love about endurance racing is like all [00:49:00] the strategies and, um, balancing ideas off with somebody else, practicing with them and just fine tuning how you’re driving together.

Sprint races are fun, um, as far as preparing goes. Um, I used to practice two hours a day every day before the race, trying to get ready for that race. And I went through about a month where I didn’t have time to practice at all. And I did better. I was like, from now on, my practice is going to be doing whatever I want, wherever I want.

And then on the day of the race, For the sprint race, I’m just going to jump in, do five laps and wing it. And it’s worked for me. I’m, I’m doing better on GT seven, doing it that way, but I’m also putting in more time on ACC. I think the better you do on ACC, the less you [00:50:00] need to try on GT seven. Right. And so I’m getting a lot better at that one.

Um, ACC preparation. I work at that. I’ve got this, uh, I started a one hour series with TJC Gaming, also another great guy, super inclusive. Um, you can join his races while he’s streaming. It’s a lot of fun, but I started joining his one hour races and it’s like, I’ll, you know, I’ll practice for like two hours throughout the week, come up with some kind of a setup and then not worry about it until the day of the race.

And then the four and a half hour races, I’m like fine tuning a setup and working with my team probably once a week ish for a month until it comes up and it’s time for the race. And it’s like, okay, Within three days before the race I do about an hour drive just so I can see what the tires are going to do See what the temperatures are going to do try um [00:51:00] different weather settings because It’s not like gt7 where they tell you the weather settings Usually these guys are like what are the real what’s the real world weather and you don’t even know till The day of half of the time.

I mean you can get a guess I looked up the weather last time and it was like, oh sunny Yeah Nah, it was cloudy and nearly raining, so that’s what our lobby looked like. So, um, ACC I put in a little bit more preparation. Gran Turismo 7 now, like I said, it’s, I just don’t worry about it anymore. It’s for fun, so I don’t prepare at all.

I jump in the day of and it’s like, okay, this is how we’re doing it.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, sometimes it’s really good to have just jump into the race, have fun and not think about anything about practice or, uh, something like this. I can suggest you a little thing about practice, it’s working for me. Uh, I don’t know, you can try it for yourself as well. Um, so usually I’m practicing, uh, [00:52:00] like I know one hour, two hours, uh, and, uh, I’m going to have like another one day before the race.

So I’m not doing the practice, um, on that day. And I know during the night, my brain, like, uh, collects all the info. And, uh, the next day when I’m doing, uh, like short practice, maybe 40 minutes or something like this, I’m just getting faster. And it’s really cool. Um, trying to not do. Not to do a lot of practice during the race day as I’m, you know, feeling tired, especially when we’re doing endurance races.

Uh, you really need this energy and, um, you need a lot of energy for your scenes because sometimes you do, um, in a racing, we’re doing double scenes. Uh, so you like one hour plus driving in the car, two hours sometimes. Uh, so yeah, you can try, uh, like, do. Uh, practice, then relax, and then take, like, little practice to just, uh, settle down things, uh, in your, in your [00:53:00] mind, and then jump to the race next day.

Something like this.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Absolutely. Actually, that, uh, it’s funny that you say that, because, um, the ACC console server, uh, I think it was, um, Kyalami that they had, the time trial going on? And that was also going to be the first endurance race that I was doing. And I’m still brand new with the game. I hadn’t really practiced anything else.

So one night I was like, I’m going to get better in this time trial. I’m going to get my name into the top 50. Right. And so I spent that night doing laps and laps and laps and laps. And, uh, it’s like, okay, I’ve got a good feel for the flow of it and how I’m gonna go, and this is great. Went to bed, and I, like, my eyes shot open at about 6.

30 in the morning, and I had this dream that I had gotten, whatever time, two seconds faster than what I was doing the night before. And I was like, let’s [00:54:00] go get this a shot. Get out of bed at 6 30 in the morning, come turn the rig on. I jumped on and like within two laps, I had, I nailed that two seconds faster lap.

And it was just a processing of, okay, this corner complex I’m coming into. It’s, um, I need to stop worrying about hitting the apex on the way through. I need to stay wide there so that it’s easier to hit the next left hand corner. And it came to me in a dream. As ridiculous as it is. Yes, I was dreaming and I figured out how to drive faster in my sleep.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s amazing. And you know, it’s a lot better to just, when you’re stuck on the, on your lap time, uh, you just go relaxed and then like everything, everything will come to you in the morning and you’ll do like two seconds faster, one second faster, or something like this. It’s working all the time.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): And the other thing, one of the other things that I [00:55:00] use is, so do 300 laps at Kyalami trying to get your time right.

And all you’re doing is frustrating yourself because it’s not, all you’re doing is overdriving the car. You’re not learning anything. You’re not doing any better. What’s a track that you are good at? Go play somewhere else for a little while. Like, I was like, Oh, I haven’t tried the Nürburgring on, or, uh, the Nordschleife on ACC yet.

Let’s go see what that one’s like. Oh, it is not the same as it is on GT7, but I still really love it. And so I go play on the Nordschleife for a little while and go back to the other track. And it’s Oh, oh, this corner looks completely different now. I’m like, all right, I can break another four meters later here.

Let’s do this.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. Sometimes yeah.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Clear the brain. It’s a, it’s like when you’re out tasting wine or tequila in my case, you taste one, you have a [00:56:00] little cleanser and then you taste the other one, right? Switch it up a little bit. It helps you learn.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, sometimes you just need some fresh air to get in and then you just jump with a, um, better energy to the track and you’re like, Oh, yes, I can do this corner a lot better now.

And yeah, it’s working all the time as well.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, sometimes the good break is what it takes. Um, the whole not practicing until the day of, like I said, it came about from a month where I just didn’t have time to practice. And both of the races that came up for that series, it was like, Man, I don’t care if I lose.

I got on, I did like three laps for practice and then qualification started. And I was like, yeah, let’s see how it goes. And you know, they didn’t practice at all. So I qualified mid pack and like, uh, yep, it’s all right. And just don’t hit anybody and try and have clean race and do your best. Who cares what happens?

And the next thing, you know, you’re. second place or leading the [00:57:00] race and it’s like, um, wow, I should relax more often.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Some good advices for people who are jumping into sim racing for the first time. That’s nice. Thank you. Um,

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): and the other and along with that is like, if you’re just getting into sim racing, don’t get on and start trying to go as fast as you can. There’s no reason to you’re not, all you’re going to do is.

Overdrive your car and frustrate yourself. What you want to do is go out and drive it like you’re learning a new neighborhood. Go around it a few times at a safe speed where you know you can make the corners and start getting a flow for how you want to drive it. And as you’re doing this, you’re going to slowly speed up and you’re going to start remembering where you’re at.

Nordschleife took me six months to stop botching three of the [00:58:00] corners because I I was like, Oh, I’m at this corner. Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope. That corner isn’t flat on the track, but you just want to get the lay of it. And as you’re doing this, and as you’re slowly learning the track, you’re going to start going faster and faster, and you’re not going to be pushing or overdriving your car, it’s just your comfort level is going to grow and you’re going to be smooth.

And you’re going to be faster by starting out going slower. That’s one piece of advice that everybody tells you. You never want to believe it, but slow is faster.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Slow

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): in, fast out, hit your apex, hit your markers, and relax.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Exactly, this is what you have to do. Also a good thing to just look at replay and see how wide you go in if you’re using the whole track and if you got opportunity to watch on the telemetry and analyze with Someone [00:59:00] who’s faster. Maybe you got to mate or someone like this that’s also a really good thing to do because you can compare with someone and you see where you Um, maybe doing differently.

Uh, some corners you might do better than your teammate, for example. Uh, some corners you can, um, learn from your teammate. And it’s, uh, it’s a great thing as well about simracing that we got open telemetry. And we got a lot of opportunities to watch other people replays. Uh, this is not what happened in real life in many series, uh, unfortunately.

But we, we just have to use these, uh, tools which we got in sim racing.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Absolutely. That. One of the things I love about sim racing is just the accessibility to all of the information. Um, you’re struggling on a track and you’re, you’ve got a league race coming up and you just don’t know why you can’t get any faster.

Pull up YouTube. Find somebody who’s [01:00:00] faster. There’s a lot of good youtubers out there that you can watch their lap times. You can Um figure out their breaking points. You can figure out what gear they’re in for each corner Um, that’s a big recommendation. I know automatic is easier to Work when you first start sim racing just figure out a way to get a manual in there.

Um, when I was on controller, I used like X and square for shifting and the triggers were gas and brake and steering was the left stick. Uh, now that I got the wheel, of course I got the paddle shifters on it, so that’s nice. But the automatic, you just don’t have the options for gear changes in corners.

Sometimes it’ll have you on third gear when really you need second to get the rotation for the car. But that’s another thing you can learn is, uh, what gear they’re using through corners. What, What are you doing to get rotation from the car and what are you doing to stop the [01:01:00] rotation and get on the power on the way out?

And sometimes you want a lower gear to get into the corner and you want to shift up when you hit the apex so you can get on the power right away and it doesn’t spin you out. It gives you a little bit of understeer and pushes you out to the curb. See, that’s why I love simracing, there’s so much to talk about.

Yeah. There’s so much nuance in it.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s true. Um,

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): speaking of We can pick it apart all day long.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, speaking of We can talk

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): about seating position.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Sorry.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): No, I’m I was half kidding, but it’s like, you want to talk about seating position, I you want to be able to like, set your wrist on fully extended out, and then when you grab your wheel, you want your arms to be about 90 degrees.

Please? You don’t want to be stretched out like this trying to drive, and you don’t want to be all like this where you don’t have any movement. Every little thing about this means something.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, especially driving position is a really good thing. You know, [01:02:00] I was struggling with the trail braking. I was losing a little bit, like, a little bit everywhere to the fastest drivers in the racing.

And the one thing which I did, I just, um, Did my, uh, move my seat backwards by one click and I fixed completely this trail breaking and you know I’m going faster right now and that’s exactly crazy about sim racing like every little things accounting to your better, better lap times on track So I agree with you in this.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): It’s like every stupid little thing affects it like okay, so GT7 I when I was driving I was driving bumper cam because it just makes the most sense really for GT7 Um the way that I have everything set up. I basically have the whole dashboard So my steering wheel is here and then I use the This is where the homemade rig comes in again.

So I [01:03:00] have an actual rig, but I took a different piece of that same countertop and I attached it to my monitor brackets and then I attached it to the wheel mount so that I could adjust my wheel farther back to get my legs farther away from the pedals and be able to adjust my seat more. And so it’s just another aspect of adjustability there.

It’s um, I had this issue though getting into ACC I really wanted to drive cockpit view. I always have it makes more sense. It’s immersion, right? Like you have more reference points in my car I know that if the right hand side of my windshield wiper the little knobby Is touching the white line on the right hand side that my tires are on the white line on the right side I know exactly where my car is on gg7.

It’s like oh it’s about right here on the screen And as long as I have this thing mapped up there that spot is where the edge of it is but when you cockpit view it’s like It’s [01:04:00] always there you have all of your reference marks for the car You can figure out exactly where everything is on it. So With the new seat i’m raised up a little bit more and i’ve got a 55 inch screen that like it goes up to Way too tall so I was I wasn’t able to get into Any other view besides bumper cam on acc even because I would have been looking like this while I was trying to drive And you don’t want that.

You want to be looking straight ahead. Everything matters in sim racing, racing, everything matters. So now that I’ve got a comfortable seat that I feel like is hugging me, I love it, I’m raised up just a little bit higher. I was able to get my settings and now I’m racing in cockpit view. And you know how your lap times always suffer when you first switch views, because you’re not used to the braking markers.

Took me one lap to beat my previous time.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Wow.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I did one [01:05:00] lap and I was like, okay, I see where everything is. I did another lap and I was like, all right, two seconds. I got this.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s always

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): two seconds with me too. I don’t beat it by a half second, I beat it by two seconds.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s what a right driving position is about.

So you just get in a comfortable position, you’re like, Wow, I can be faster, you know, because you, uh, actually just, You got more confidence in your break in, you got more confidence when you’re going on throttle back, and overall you’re just feeling comfortable in Eureka, and it’s, it’s really important.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, one of the next things I gotta, so, this is a huge mess of an organizational thing right here, right now. But one of the next things I gotta do is figure out what to do with this. I mean, when I’m driving, it’s[01:06:00]

But if I have it over here, then nobody can hear me. If I have it over here, it’s my arms hitting it. So, you know, it’s a work in progress. Now, you gotta see this, though. And it’s okay if you laugh. I laugh all the time.

So that’s the desktop that I use. To extend everything.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Oh, that’s nice. This

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): is about my view of the screen when I’m driving. It’s like craning your head way up to see that. So this is my eye level. And this is my streaming setup over here. It’s a mess of a jumble of wires because I have to use way too many devices tethered together to make everything work.

So my 10 year old laptop, I use the, uh, Tablet down here for voice chat.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm hmm

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): on this side I was donated a couple of pieces of the 80 20 [01:07:00] 80 40 rig whatever With the keyboard mount, but they don’t mount on this. So I had to See all the weirdness I got going on down here. I found a way to attach weirdness To my tube whatever rig because you know, I just you can do anything you want.

All you need is To want it start working on it. There’s always a solution. I have a problem. I will find a solution This stupid thing is in my way Don’t worry about it. Give me a couple of weeks. It’s gonna be mounted probably over on my keyboard stand. .

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. That, that’s, uh,

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): that’d be nice if it could sit somewhere, you know, or it was like in front of me, but yeah, no, that ain’t gonna work either.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: No. While we talking, my, my mouse just stopped to work. , I think I can figure it out. Yeah. Just, uh, [01:08:00] not responding. I know why .

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Oh, I love it when that happens.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. You know, uh, it’s really funny when you. You got everything ready, like, you check everything and you’re starting stream. And here’s something going wrong all the time.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I used to prepare everything for my stream the night before, right when I was getting ready to go to bed. Okay, sound check, mic check, screen check, stream, stream labs check. Everything just set up perfectly. And then the next day I would go to stream and none of it would be working. Okay. So, I’ve given up on getting things set up the day before, now I’m just like, okay, whatever.

Um, I can wing this in ten minutes, I got it. Heh heh heh.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, um, I just, I’m so curious, uh, you got this beautiful black, uh, Jackson guitar on your background, uh, so can [01:09:00] you tell me a little bit about it and, uh, you’re playing some music and what kind of music do you play?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I have been a metalhead since the day I was born. Um, at, at first you, it wasn’t the same kind of metal because it was the 80s and you know, it just wasn’t the same.

Um, But I always wanted to learn how to play guitar. I learned about I don’t know when I was 12 years old I think I started actually learning how to play and Been playing on and off ever since i’m not great But my kid decided he wanted to learn how to play bass guitar And what better to motivate him than sitting and jamming with him?

So I went Borrowed a guitar the air quotes aren’t because I stole it. It’s because my You This person, uh, decided that he was going to loan it to me, but he didn’t care how long I have it. So basically he gave me this guitar. It’s a Jackson [01:10:00] with the Floyd Rose. And when I looked it up and figured out how much this thing costs, it’s between seven and 1, 200.

So 900 bucks worth is just about right, but pick around on it a little bit. And what I’m thinking about doing is. I don’t want copyright strikes. I can’t find a way to get good music for intro videos and stuff like that without paying let’s see, I want it in this moment because number one, she’s a goddess number two, she’s amazing, she has an amazing voice and I love her music and the uh, What’s it called?

Uh, the messages behind what she’s singing. It’s like super strong woman powerful Just amazing. So listen to in this moment if you like metal and i’m struggling to find that So my next going to be an audio input so that I can go from [01:11:00] guitar direct into my computer, record some riffs along with a video.

And now I can make my own intro video with metal sounds that aren’t copyright. And I don’t have to search for years and years and years to find something that is.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s, that’s great. Uh, really, uh, cool to see. I actually noticed that people who’s in sim racing, they, uh, also in some other hobbies, like maybe in flight simulators, in music. Um, yeah. And it’s really cool to know you from different side.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, there’s lots of different things I’m interested in, but mostly I just want to sim race and find my way into the real racing world.

Um, I recently. Recently, a year ago, I got injured. I’ve been in construction my whole life. So you want to know how to build something? You need something built. I can basically [01:12:00] do anything. I work with, um, CAD software. I, I can engineer a house. I can engineer a deck. I’ve built everything from running heavy equipment all the way through finishing touches on a house when the homeowner was moving in, I can do it all, but I want to be the best at everything.

And I want to be. the fastest at everything and I want to just be amazing at everything. So I worked myself to death. I now have a back injury. I walk with a cane and my doctor’s telling me that they want me to start walking with a walker. So that is gone. No more construction for me. And I’m currently in trying to change careers.

I’m trying to change careers. transitional period. So, um, finding a way to get into something to do with sim racing, doing commentary, uh, not really [01:13:00] promotions for somebody because I’m not so great with the artwork kind of thing, but working behind the scenes for something to grow women in sim racing. Um, people with different, uh, uh, differently abled people getting into sim racing, because I just have this passion.

If somebody wants to do something, they should be able to. So I’m looking at all these different things that I can try and start doing as a career change and find a way to make money off of it. But um, I forgot why I started saying that. What was that? What were we talking about right before that?

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Oh, we were talking about uh, the um about your guitar music and then you uh, yeah Yeah interest.

Yeah

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): So yeah, i’ve got all these interests and Nowhere to put them now. So I’m spending a [01:14:00] lot of time trying to find my, like scoosh my way into a new career somehow, um, with something that I love and probably going to be spending a lot more time. Luckily, my mother in law lives in Portland and I know most people wouldn’t say, Oh, I’ll go visit.

But I’m like, number one, she’s not that bad. Number two. She lives in the same place as Portland International Raceway, which, if I spend enough time there, you know, I might be able to find my way onto a team, you know? Even if it’s not racing, I could sit behind a TV screen and relay information. I’m really good at talking.

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, we can see this. You’re awesome in this.

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I’m trying to tell, is that an insult or a compliment?

Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: All right, and before we wrap up, the last question for you will be, do you have any [01:15:00] big plans for your YouTube channel and for streaming? Are you planning maybe to expand and stream on Twitch as well alongside with YouTube?

Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, my goal right now is to get monetized to the point where I can afford To not have to put money into things like dual streaming Um, if my streaming was paying for it paying for things like a dual stream Through stream labs, then I would already be going on to twitch So i’m working towards it paying for itself to grow.

It hasn’t happened yet, but it will um besides that most of my streams right now are either comms for other people racing or You know Me racing in a league.

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