The Day iRacing's Hidden Boss Proved Everyone Wrong 

Incredible story! Bob is the man; this was my fondest memory of this period. Bringing Valvoline into sim racing and seeing Bob accomplish this while I was filming a TV show in the middle of the California desert. So epic! Now I consider Bob one of my best friends in the world

People who show up once to a major event, win, and go "I had my fun" and retire immediately are some of the most fascinating people on the planet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

i was teammates with bob for good amount of time and I can honestly say he's a grinder. Always finds small and new ways to look at things, he upped my game to a new level.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great video highlighting this. Was a pleasure to be doing the Kligerman Sport "Radioactive" videos during this time and being able to capture this moment for Bob. I started sim racing in 2011, so it was really cool learning the backstory behind this victory.

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

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

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Somehow I only just got around to watching this. Love it! What an epic day, and there's few guys I'd want to put in the position to pull off what he did there. You did a great job on this video. Don't ever hesitate to reach out if you want to hear an old hand ramble.

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

No interest in NASCAR or SimRacing but Bobs a fascinating guy and the doc was really well made

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

Knowing nothing about Nascar esports you absolutely nailed the direction of this video. I watched every second and found myself rooting for Bob the whole time. Maybe it's me being nostalgic at my older age and seeing a gamer from 2003 make it back to top. Either way this video rules and I'm not just a fan of Bob. I'm a fan of you.

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

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

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

TLDR- FINAL BOSS: fuel gauge. I had no idea this was something to consider.

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

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

I mean his first name is Bob. You already know he's gonna demolished everyone

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

I used to be one of the best on PS3. Hung up my helmet back in 2017. This just inspired me. Look for me in the next few years boys.

Bro that graphic showing the racetrack at the start was all I needed to subscribe, bro got better production then marvel movies

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

I really enjoyed this video and im not a huge Nascar fan. Well done Bob, you come across as a really nice guy and i bet if you've got kids you're an awesome Dad 👍🏼 The video and narrration was really smooth and i could easily listen to you all day.

On nascar being last is best qualifying position bc you get to enjoy passing and working for it

I didn't even know that internet nascar racing was a thing. I don't know why I'm so surprised; maybe it's that the graphics from 2002 actually look pretty good. 😊

wish i could afford iracing

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

Beware the old man in a young man's game! An extremely intelligent driver and crew.

I started in the mid 90s with Papyrus Indyacr Racing and then shortly after Papyrus NASCAR Racing using the first mass.produced wheel.and pedals, the Thrustmaster Formula T1 with no FFB and bungie cord tension. But that system was build solid and when I upgraded in 2000 to a Logitech Wingman Formula Force, it felt like cheap plastic versus the amount of steel components on the TH. I still own physical copies of all the NASCAR games from the first until 2004, which is about the time I stopped. Disappointingly I never used the online racing option at the time. It took until 3 years ago to get back into sim racing, and unfortunately, I do not get the amount of seat time I would prefer.

great job on the vid, i dont watch nascar but your thumbnail and title drew me in and the rest of the vid kept me in nice work

you should do a video essay on parker retzlaff i did a b open race with him earlier and checked his stats afterwards he went from like 200 irating all the way up to 9k and now he races full time in xfinity lol

You are literaly a Wirtual of NASCAR universe! Love it.

Man, I pre-date his racing game career. Holy moly, I'm old. My first racing Sim was Nascar Racing 1999 edition

beautiful bit of strategy, coupled with some serious skill in the last quarter

I remember playing NASCAR 98 on PSone. It was fun because you could make your car, invincible or nearly invincible drive backwards around the track and crush all the other cars head on and it had impressive damage and particle effects for a PlayStation one game

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

It doesn’t matter who is in front at the start. It only matters who is in front at the end.

I ran in a league for a few years with Donny Lia on iracing but never knew he was in that league. I started on Nascar 2003, but we didn't have internet where I grew up 😅

I used to race Nascar with a keyboard and mouse and I even completed races with a joystick xD I never got into early sim racing as my dad wouldn't let me do league racing due to the age of everyone in those leagues, but I got my chance to learn racing in the mid 2000s when G-Force Karts had a IndyCar program where young drivers had the chance to slowly work their way up into open wheel racing. It was a fun experience, but I came in 2nd and only the winner could move on. It was cool being able to wear the same race suits and gear as the real drivers did.

could you elaborate on who the hidden boss is of smash bros i dont know anything about the scene but thats an interesting concept to explore in other games as well

Ferrari's F1 team really needs to hire bob so we dont have to hear "we are checking"

Love the epic stories of sim racing man. Keep them up!

Our former eSports driver :D We love Bob!!

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

i love these documentaries you're doing! great stuff

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

This is an esports documentary! Cheers Bob!

I've been running a G27 for almost 10 years and still don't see any reason to upgrade. Modern wheels rarely come with three pedals and an H shifter, and IF they're available, they're expensive AF

Could almost swear this is just the first half of the gran turismo movie... (Turned out to be a GREAT movie in actuality MUCH to my surprise.)

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

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

I've been video game racing since Atari's Pole Position... In 1998 I was Nebraska state champ in NASCAR Sim racing. I completed Gran Tourismo 3 and 4's career mode. I was a top 20 modder and racer in Microsoft's Monster Truck Madness, and a beta tester for MTM2... On top of that, I've been involved in some form or fashion with most real world motorsports, from sprint cars to drag cars... I only wish I had the time and money for an IRacing rig. Put me in one. Please

keep making these they are truly amazing great work!!

Been waiting for another vid like this. Awesome content!

Me and my buddy Dave joined the league first season. We played Links, NASCAR and Ghost Recon.

With the inconsistency of the team we can kiss goodbye a tittle this year... I hope yamamoto and muncy comeback... Helps the team! We need pitcher that can go 5+ inings and batters getting in base!

The next NASCAR game should have Bob Bryant as an unlockable

Played the old school Nascar games as a kid(my stepdad was into it heavy) glad to see its still around...although I couldn't play now I don't have the understanding of cars or racing games and honestly hate having to go in depth(If I had a team to setup the car and coach me idk rofl I do love driving) 😂

Never even knew this exsisted! I always thought competitive e- racing was an in-person thing.

I need to do Iracing. You will come to know and fear the racer named Cornelius…

Where do I join? Train ? Join ? I’d like to reach with people who don’t slam you into the wall fist turn lap one . Experience on games in arcades and elsewhere in PlayStation …..the tape strategy , wow I had no idea the game had such details …. That’s what’s so cool about gran tursimo , the minutia of details and Chang ability

i love these stories, sim racing needs more of them

"Why is there such an ominous aura coming out of that slow-ass car behind me??"

love this video format from you!

this was a very entertaining documentary, you get my sub good sir

ive been loving these videos

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

random noob here that knows little about NASCAR but it fascinated by this story: what is "tape" please?

Hmm, what a fascinating community youtube has shown me.

So long story short someone went for a 1 stop strat and the rest didn't. Big woop :P

Ohhh one of my college buddies was a big dirt track guy and we'd run the old sim up in the dorm. Pretty sure it was Papyrus.

Thank you for this well made video and great story to highlight.

Where can we find those historical DMP Pro Series standings? And am I reading correctly that drivers were winning millions of real dollars from this?

Having an alliterative name gives you super powers confirmed. Ok seriously what is up so many of these guys having alliteration in their names.

Great vid, great story! Loved it.

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

I wish iRacing wasn't so pay2win. That's literally the only thing stopping me from trying it.