MichaelK79

Date: 2023.06.17 Drivers: #51 Nathan Reynolds, #11 Michael Kral Car: #511 Dallara P217 Class: P2 This is a 6 hour multiclass endurance race at Watkins Glen. We are in the P2 class which is above the GT3 cars but below the P1 class. You will see a huge difference in speed out of each class of car. Makes it very interesting. Lots of action! Nathan starts the race and does most of the driving. In this first video will be Nathan starting the race and then running for two straight hours without incident. Great job Nathan! The second video starts when we do a driver swap and I take over for a while. Please go to the part 2 to watch the remainder. Nathans channel is on...YouTube...gross. Hey, no one is perfect. It's okay though I put a Rumble logo on the car so now its free advertising over there. Jokes on them. Car Inside https://www.youtube.com/live/uSI0lVFrCFg?feature=share

Date: 2023.05.16 Venom Truck Series @ Daytona Intl Speedway Same old story. I got wrecked out. When is this going to change for me? Hope you can enjoy watching until I frustratedly left. Official Race Broadcast (Turn200): https://www.youtube.com/live/VsC64pYgG4k?feature=share Stateline Sim Racing (#9 Ryan Dye): https://youtu.be/H3YN1oCsn1I

Date: 2023.03.14 Venom Truck Series @ Darlington Raceway Look at the thumbnail if you want a summary. Official Race Broadcast (Turn200): https://www.youtube.com/live/-zKiDrf330M?feature=share

Date: 2023.03.07 Venom Truck Series @ North Wilksboro Speedway I have not posted anything in a while. Been in a bad place due to life events and although I was racing my results were not good and my attitude was poor. I don't feel like sharing those. Back in the swing of things. I felt good about the race. This weeks event is our Venom Throwback week. We drive the paint scheme of someone else in the league from any past race or season. I'm driving my buddy Michael Dean #73 Dukes Mayonnaise truck. He is driving my old Babyruth/Crunch truck. I qualified much better than I practiced. I did practice LOL. Also this is a short track and I was able to avoid carnage. Survival is the name of the game. Enjoy the race! Official Race Broadcast (Turn200): https://www.youtube.com/live/MGvuj1F4qlE?feature=share Stateline Sim Racing (#15 Ryan Dye): https://youtu.be/TYd-ShppxZI JKay Gaming (#2 John Kay): https://youtu.be/s2JzGNP4b_g

Date: 2023.02.09 Venom Classic Cup Series @ Dover Meh. I like this series less and less. I don't really enjoy racing eight people only.

Date: 2023.02.07 Venom Truck Series @ Long Beach Tough week for me personally. You can hear it at the end of the race if you listen. I know they expected me to bring the funny but life didn't time out that way for me. Sorry to let you guys down. Hopefully I don't podium again this season. I did run some practice for this one. Last week. I think Wednesday Andy had thrown up a practice. I at least got some laps in. The NASCAR truck is not fun to drive on a road or street circuit. It's not a race car built for this type of racing. For me its the equal to racing in rain. It just feels and looks stupid. Now go watch me kick some ass! Official Race Broadcast (Turn200): https://www.youtube.com/live/V5sQewi5yZg?feature=share Stateline Sim Racing (#15 Ryan Dye): https://youtu.be/rGHuSvS8XTY

Date: 2023.01.31 Venom Truck Series @ Martinsville Zero laps practice. Did not make a complete lap for qualify. Starting at the back. That said. I did make it quite far up the grid in this race to my surprise. Ultimately misfortune strikes. More interesting than the race was the strange reaction I received after the race. First time in my racing career that I have been called out. It was difficult to comprehend. Not due to the poor grammar or spelling, but because I was totally unaware of this person. Below is their "first contact" message to me... "What’s ur deal? I can race u the same…it don’t make no never mind to me…I choose not to tho…but it’s on u" Confusing to say the least. As one of if not the cleanest driver in the league its a bit odd to get such an aggressive and vengeful message sent to me directly after the race. Ultimately, it don't make no never mind to me though. Enjoy the race! Official Race Broadcast (Turn200): https://www.youtube.com/live/XAWDRyf3_CE?feature=share Stateline Sim Racing (#15 Ryan Dye): https://youtu.be/Hf3_ivAzS74

The 12 hour mark. We are halfway there.

Date: 2023.01.20 Local start time 11:30PM Pacific (roughly) First 27 Minutes of our race. I have had issues recording. I have triples now and its more exhausting on my machine. Had to keep tweaking graphics to suite my machine and the amount of cars and the grandstands here. Recording was showing lots of dropped packets. At some point I got everything sorted and rebooted my machine for good measure. Jan was also having internet issues at the start of this race. More videos to follow when I can. Might need to split up some of the larger recordings later. Wow though what a great start to the race. We were worried about it but placed ourselves in a good position at the back of our class so that we had more control over our fate. Jan did an excellent job to kick things off. Due to the start position we did not have to elect to start from pits or anything that would set us further back.

Date: 2023.01.24 Venom Truck Series @ Nashville Superspeedway I almost didn't make the race today. Sort of still burnt out from the 24 hour Daytona race. Sort of forgot it was race day. Oh yeah. I ran the Daytona 24 Hour. What a blast. Sorry I have not uploaded any video in a while I did some computer upgrades and since then the recording software had not been working. I fixed it obviously. Maybe I can upload my race. Need to cut it into more manageable sizes first. Well I got a few laps of practice in before the qualify session. The track was new for me or at least felt unfamiliar but it was not too hard to learn. Good thing because I logged in like 10 minutes before race time. All I can say for my race is "I had a plan and I stuck to it." LOL Enjoy! :)

Date: 2022.12.22 Venom Classic Cup Series @ Bristol Motor Speedway We just ran Bristol dirt in the Venom Trucks Series and I did not post that video so you can imagine how my race went. I did not have high hopes for this race. Bristol is a fun track and I'm a points contender so it's not like I would sit this out. We only have 11 drivers tonight so my chances for a top 10 are pretty good! At the beginning of the race I was just pacing myself and learning how to drive this car here. I just want to finish a Bristol race once! I think for the first half of this race I was running a completely different line and later on when I could see the leaders and what they were doing I adapted to that. What a difference! I mean I was doing so-so before but now I was a serious contend'a! Enjoy the show!!!

Date: 2022.12.13 Venom Truck Series @ Indianapolis Motor Speedway Oval I don't have anything to say. Hope you enjoy pain. Probably best my voice did not get recorded in this video.

Date: 2022.12.15 Venom Classic Cup Series @ Texas Motor Speedway This was a pretty boring race. People don't race flat out. They use "strategies" during pit stops and then the 12 cars or so that we have running on a gigantic track get all spread out and we aren't really racing each other at all. We are just individually driving around a track separated by huge intervals. Its basically a time trial. Very very boring. I assume everyone was just changing outside tires and saving themselves about 10 seconds of green flag stop for very little loss in performance. I'm pretty sure I had a high percentage left on mine. I just find it to be more of a cheat than a "strategy." Much like the "fuel save" in this game its more of a hack than anything. Press a button to kill your engine before corner entry, roll through the corner, depress the accelerator at apex and roll on throttle. Enjoy if you can. It was at least fun to drive the car and hang out with friends. I did like the car and the track combination. Overall unfulfilling though.

Date: 2022.12.09 Insert Coin Racing Series @ WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca ...back in the highlife again...stop singing it! Quotable Moments: Kyle Zit-tell "Nobody gets stiff like the Biff." Ryan Dye: "Jeremy, did you lose it in the cork screw?" Jeremy McKinnen: "Nope!" Ryan Dye: "Did you lose it before the cork screw?" Jeremy McKinnen: "No, I lost it in the cork screw. I just don't want to admit it." These guys make me feel like a God! I will never go back to racing with actual road course drivers ever again. I am the man with one eye in the land of the blind over here! It's a great feeling.

Date: 2022.12.09 NASCAR ARCA Series Cars @ World Wide Technology Raceway We had a 3 year old racing with us!!! AND I BEAT HIM! How cool is that? I think his name was BRAINSLAW. He didn't know what room he joined. Come at me bro! Come at me! Quotable Moments: Kyle Zit-tell: "I'm not going to be dumped by a child." - Please watch full video for context.

Date: 2022.12.08 Venom Classic Cup Series @ Phoenix International Raceway 2008 1987 NASCAR Classic Cup Cars WOW! Almost forgot we had a race tonight! I loaded in with enough time to get in like 2 laps before qualify started. Sheesh! Only 12 of us racing tonight over in this series. Nathan showed up which was pretty cool. Ended up being not so cool later on with like 3 laps left though :unamusedface: Good thing for me this was pretty much the same track we just raced on Tuesday only its the old layout. I really like this layout better. The new one is a mess. This feels more like a proper oval circuit. At one point in the race I was totally going to be in the lead but Steve Vrooman couldn't stand to let me have one dang lap in the lead. What a total POS that guy is. He is basically forcing me to dump him in some race randomly in the future. What a bozo! I don't want to wreck you Steve. You seem like a nice guy. You are forcing my hand. Stateline Sim Racing (#15 Ryan Dye): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzXL4p5IRsQ&ab_channel=StatelineSimRacing

Date: 2022.12.06 Venom Truck Series @ Phoenix Raceway NASCAR Camping World Trucks Had my family tuning in and I was so focused on making sure the stream was up I forgot to start my recording. You are joining me at lap 28 of the race. This is the second caution I believe. I am not sure where I am at for tires. I think I had pit and turned on my Crew Chief then realized back on track that I needed to start the recording. Not the layout I was expecting when I thought of Phoenix. This is the new track with the start finish up around the corner between what should be turn one and two/dogleg. I think I prefer the old. I think I am getting some good luck for once. I haven't done anything drastically different just having the cards land better by chance. Official Race Broadcast (Turn200): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8j0nDZo6Mo&ab_channel=Turn200iRacing Stateline Sim Racing (#15 Ryan Dye): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=162hg95hyfI&ab_channel=StatelineSimRacing

Date: 2022.12.01 Venom Classic Cup Series @ Michigan International Speedway 2009 1987 NASCAR Classic Cup Cars We got another good one for you tonight! Today...whatever time you are watching maybe noon, or after noon? I don't keep track of you. I'm not Google. I seriously cannot believe it. Nothing bad happens to me again in this one. I am on a hot streak! I drove my best and finished in the best position I could and that is all I could ask for. #notgreedy. Hip hip HOORAY for my man Jan van Lier for one of his best performance to date! Insert Coin POWER! He must has had that special golden coin tonight boy howdy! Yeeeeeeehaaaaaw!