Central Alberta Raceways 8/20/23 - Mini-Stock Main Austin Ogonoski 2023-08-21 | 2023 Duel in the Dirt Invitational14 cars entered.Terry wins the overall weekend points while I win the Sunday evening main. This one was spicy.No footage from the Saturday show as the camera was caked in mud.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp Cams13 inch Hoosier Stars MediumBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
Central Alberta Raceways 8/20/23 - Mini-Stock Heat #2 Austin Ogonoski 2023-08-21 | 2023 Duel in the Dirt14 car field, split into two heats of 7.This was a glorified hotlapping session due to starting on pole. Saved it because it's the hardest I've driven the car in these conditions.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp Cams13 inch Hoosier Stars MediumBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
NFS Underground 2 | Cadillac Escalade @ Outer Loop | 1:28.87 Austin Ogonoski 2023-08-13 | I enjoy making the grotesquely large American SUV's in Underground 2, do things they shouldn't.Coil binding works in this game.
RAD Torque Raceway 8/11/2023 | Nathan Sitko Run #1 Austin Ogonoski 2023-08-11 | #629 Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car1965 Ford Mustang"Arctic Traveller"
RAD Torque Raceway 7/15/23 - Mini-Stock Main [Chris Hill] Austin Ogonoski 2023-07-16 | 2020 NAMS Champion Chris Hill fills in for me as a wedding gift. 6 car field. We are struggling with car count this season which is really unfortunate.0:00 Heat 13:11 Heat 26:06 FeatureISO Cam footage from Matt Lamont:youtube.com/watch?v=I5cj5Dqylhw2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp Cams13 inch Hoosier Stars MediumsBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
Central Alberta Raceways 7/8/23 - Mini-Stock Main Austin Ogonoski 2023-07-09 | Terry and I brawl for the win during the Saturday show.8 car field.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp Cams13 inch Hoosier Stars MediumBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick ParenteauTrackside footage here:youtube.com/watch?v=5QCQz3NzE2c
Central Alberta Raceways 7/7/23 - Mini-Stock Main Austin Ogonoski 2023-07-08 | First time trying the Hoosier compound in Rimbey. Huge increase in lateral grip, allowed me to cut down off the high line much more efficiently for those monster corner exit runs.6 car field, the show started early Friday afternoon. Tough to get people to come right from work on a Friday as the track is located about 90 minutes from the Edmonton metro area.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp Cams13 inch Hoosier Stars MediumBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick ParenteauTrackside footage here:youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSrP3eV4Q
RAD Torque Raceway 6/24/23 - Mini-Stock Main [Helmet Cam] Austin Ogonoski 2023-06-25 | This is not compelling viewing as I get lucky with the grid positioning & start on the front row. Second of two nights at Rad Torque before the break for Canada Day weekend. BF Goodrich tires are back on the car after I found the Hoosiers to lose forward bite in any sort of dry conditions. Recorded in 21:9.Speedhive isn't perfect but results are here:speedhive.mylaps.com/Sessions/76648935 car field. These are the 5 fastest mini-stocks in Alberta but I wish we had more people to race with. Just a weird year right now.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp CamsHead work by Alberta Cylinder14 inch BF Goodrich Radial TA'sBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
RAD Torque Raceway 6/23/23 - Mini-Stock Main [Helmet Cam] Austin Ogonoski 2023-06-24 | Friday/Saturday double-header at RAD Torque. First time the backup motor got to stretch its' legs at the big track. Got somewhat unlucky with the grid order, was able to chase down the leaders but ran out of time. New for this evening, 13 inch Hoosier Stars Mediums on the car. Good stuff; tires didn't wear.7 car field, but these are the fastest 7 mini-stocks in Alberta.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp CamsHead work by Alberta Cylinder13 inch Hoosier Stars MediumBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
Central Alberta Raceways 6/10/23 - Mini-Stock [Chris Hill] Austin Ogonoski 2023-06-11 | 2020 NAMS Champion Chris Hill fills in for me as I'm on call for work. This completes the weekend sweep.6 car field. Unsure why there was a small car count. 30+ of these cars exist in the province.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp Cams14 inch BF Goodrich Radial TA'sBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
Mini-Stock | Austin Ogonoski vs. Chris Hill Comparison Austin Ogonoski 2023-06-10 | Two drivers in the same car, on different nights (5/13 vs 6/9), running different engines.Blew up our primary on 5/27 after winning the main on 5/26, which had about $700 worth of head work done to it. Chris is driving our backup motor with just camshafts installed.Did not lose any speed.
Central Alberta Raceways 6/9/23 - Mini-Stock [Chris Hill] Austin Ogonoski 2023-06-10 | 2020 NAMS Champion Chris Hill fills in for me as I'm on call for work. First race with the backup motor in.4 car field. Show had an early start time on Friday evening and a lot of people couldn't get off work in time. This is a glorified test session and not compelling viewing.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp Cams14 inch BF Goodrich Radial TA'sBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
4,680 Austin Ogonoski 2023-06-06 | A sim racing developer partners with a beloved Hollywood movie franchise, but believes the opinions of fringe Twitter activists are reflective of the general population. What follows is a lesson many companies have learned the hard way in recent years.
One-Car Feature Race Austin Ogonoski 2023-06-04 | Unique scenario that played out at Edmonton International Raceway for opening night in 2023. The Hobby Stock division had so few cars, that the main event was run as a green-white-checkered with just a single car on the track.Original video by Matt Lamont. Monetization will be disabled on this video as Matt deserves all the credit:youtube.com/watch?v=0EaDGzlv3j4Speedhive Results:speedhive.mylaps.com/Sessions/7538558
RAD Torque Raceway 5/26/23 - Mini-Stock Main [Helmet Cam] Austin Ogonoski 2023-05-27 | First of two nights at Rad Torque. Main Event only as both heats weren't compelling viewing. Recorded in 21:9.ISO cam from Matt L.youtube.com/watch?v=PVK5QDSzS4oSpeedhive isn't perfect but results are here:speedhive.mylaps.com/Sessions/74747759 car field.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp CamsHead work by Alberta Cylinder14 inch BF Goodrich Radial TA'sBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
Central Alberta Raceways 5/20/23 - Mini-Stock [Helmet Cam] Austin Ogonoski 2023-05-22 | First trip to Fire & Flood Emergency Services Dirt Oval at Central Alberta Raceways with the new car. Swept the Saturday show. Heat A excluded because it's not very compelling viewing.9 car field.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp CamsHead work by Alberta Cylinder14 inch BF Goodrich Radial TA'sBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick Parenteau
RAD Torque Raceway 5/13/23 - Mini-Stock Full Event [Helmet Cam] Austin Ogonoski 2023-05-15 | So I built a new mini-stock and brought back the NFS Shift-style helmet cam for 2023. Heat A is literally my first time in the car, period - never ran testing, practice laps, or even track packing. I drove to the scales and back. That was it.10 car field.2004 Chevrolet Cavalier 2.2L 5-Speed Manual with 3.63 FY1 TransmissionTBG Tuned ECUComp CamsHead work by Alberta Cylinder14 inch BF Goodrich Radial TA'sBuilt by Justin Horton & Rick ParenteauISO Cam footage here:youtube.com/watch?v=6T2X7QsqfsgTransponder results are a little messed up (wrong names, some cars not running transponders) but better than nothing:speedhive.mylaps.com/Sessions/7394099
The Current Facebook News Feed is Bizarre Austin Ogonoski 2023-05-14 | In my most elaborate schizopost yet, I dive into the recent corruption of my Facebook news feed, and wonder if others have the same experience.Everyone is aware by now that Facebook and other sites spy on your activity, feeding you advertisements they think would be relevant to you based on your current interests, or Amazon purchase history. Sometimes, it's kind of cool and useful.What's happened now, is that things have gone totally off the rails and turned into a form of social engineering.An obscene amount of articles regarding Lizzo, the WNBA, Madonna's plastic surgery, anti-capitalist pages, and other irrelevant nonsense with a social justice slant, are being spammed at a rate that feels a little too frequent to be the work of an algorithm gone haywire. No longer is stuff being recommended to you based on your current interest, and the app is seemingly unable to detect any of my online activity, and Facebook's news feed is basically unreadable. To combat this, I run a plugin called FBP on my desktop computer, but browsing on my phone, the old Facebook experience has been replaced by the most blatant astroturfing I've ever seen.
NASCAR Spotter Audio Reveals Extent of Cody Wares Issues Austin Ogonoski 2023-04-10 | Cody Ware's recent arrest doesn't come as a surprise to some attentive NASCAR fans. In the spring of 2021, a chaotic Martinsville race saw RWR teammates Cody Ware and James Davison involved in numerous on-track incidents with each other. The situation which was seen as mildly amusing by fans, highlighting the struggles of an unsuccessful NASCAR team.Avid NASCAR enthusiasts listening to Davison's spotter audio, however, heard a curious exchange, in which the veteran open wheel and sports car racer begged the team to take Cody Ware completely out of the sport due to his numerous mental issues. Davison allegedly remarked Ware "shouldn't be out here", and voiced his confusion at how things were allowed to progress to this point, where an inexperienced and mentally unstable driver was allowed to race at the top echelon of American motorsports, destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment in the process - including his own teammate.The exchange was documented by fans on Twitter, and has provided excellent foreshadowing and context for Ware's recent domestic violence issues off the track.frontstretch.com/2021/04/13/teammates-james-davison-cody-ware-have-lengthy-path-to-mend-relationship-after-martinsville-feud
I have Beaten rFactor | CCWS05 @ Sardian Heights 250 | 1:04.4 Austin Ogonoski 2023-03-04 | I have a period-correct rFactor install with all "big" mods of the era.I play it sometimes.120% AI strength.
KISS is Lip Syncing their Final Tour Austin Ogonoski 2023-03-03 | My favourite boomer rock band is in the process of humiliating themselves. It's quite sad.KISS in my opinion has always been a very underrated band that essentially helped birth heavy metal in North America. Underneath the numerous gimmicks, they were always fairly competent performers and musicians, even into the 80's and 90's when lineup changes were frequent and the band jumped from trend to trend.Paul and Gene have taken a firm stance against the use of backing tracks and openly shit-talk other bands who do so. They will often use press interviews to awkwardly rant about it, sometimes unprompted, and have been able to back up their stance with very tight, well-rehearsed shows. Paul Stanley, at his peak, was probably one of the greatest singers in rock/metal history.The past four years, this seems to have gone completely out the window. Paul Stanley's voice is gone. That's okay! It happens! Yet the band could not retire gracefully when the time was right, and instead hides this behind vocal tracks which are identical almost every night of the tour. Fans are expected to spend hundreds of dollars on what's essentially a faked performance, drawing into question what else is being faked as well. As a consumer, I can only choose to avoid seeing them. I can't give money to musicians who aren't singing, and possibly might not be playing either. We don't know!The band's appearance on Howard Stern to announce their final set of shows, ever, features the exact same vocal track as the opening night of the tour dating back all the way to January 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia. This vocal track is present numerous times during the EOTR tour.
Mini-Stock Garage Tour Austin Ogonoski 2023-02-25 | Re-upload of a video I made in 2017 showcasing a friend's backyard garage. Some footage and voice has been edited out as I'm not comfortable giving free promotion to a certain facility.This is what amateur racing looks like. This place has at least six championships between four different drivers.
Bounty Drag Racing is better than the Official NHRA Video Game Austin Ogonoski 2023-02-22 | Random guy makes absurdly detailed drag racing sim all by himself in Unity, manages to humiliate the officially licensed NHRA game. And it's online. And it's free.This is the funniest thing that has ever happened in sim racing.store.steampowered.com/app/1803390/Bounty_Drag_Racing
AI Synthesized Race Engineer | Demonstration of Concept Austin Ogonoski 2023-02-10 | Not for public use; if you see this and you're not supposed to, someone has been bad!straight4.comaustin@straight4.com
AI Synthesized Commentary Team | Demonstration of Concept Austin Ogonoski 2023-02-09 | Not for public use; if you see this and you're not supposed to, someone has been bad!straight4.comaustin@straight4.com
When a Sim Racer Passes Away Austin Ogonoski 2023-01-22 | William Marsh (April 2nd, 1993 - March 22nd, 2021) was a California-based sim racing content creator, best known for his SimRacingPaddock YouTube channel and accompanying website. It's very likely you've used some of his buyer's guides, as they've hit the one million view mark.While I don't consider myself to have been close with Will, he was an established regular in Assetto Corsa's ranked online racing scene for several years straight. Most North American sim racers rarely venture beyond iRacing, but he was one of the few that did. As a result, I shared the grid with this guy basically every night I raced AC online. Many of my saved AC replays from over the years, Will is in the race. He became one of the guys I expected to see every evening.Eventually, we warmed up to each other and became acquaintances, chatting casually on Insta. Even if us content creators don't always put out the same style of videos or have the same opinions on certain games, most of us chat behind the scenes anyways. It's a niche hobby and not something you can discus with your bros at the sports bar.As the years have clicked off since his untimely passing, I have been more and more affected by it, mourning the loss of a friendship that never was, and his potential to be much more in our little industry.
Angel View | How Do Race Car Drivers See Without Outside Mirrors? Austin Ogonoski 2023-01-03 | getangelview.com
The Indy 500 in Automobilista 2 is Completely Broken Austin Ogonoski 2022-12-29 | The worst sim racing experience I have ever documented.I attempted to run a full distance 1995 Indianapolis 500 in Automobilista 2, using the game's "Racin' USA Pt. 3" DLC. This is the newest content in the game, and I am using the current public build, not a release candidate. I was driving on 120% difficulty and low aggression. I am the current lap record holder at Indianapolis in the 1995 IndyCars.This is an incredibly defective product.- During the first round of pit stops, Pit Crew members started spawning on the racing surface.- At the first pit stop, I set up a pit strategy to change tires and add 133L of fuel. The game did not change my tires and I was forced to come in for an emergency stop, throwing off my pit strategy for the entire race.- Despite falling 90 seconds behind the race leader, the AI is so slow on max difficulty that I made up the gap fairly easily, and was not farther ahead because I opted to repair optional engine damage on every pit stop. In race pace, I was nearly 1.5 seconds faster per lap. The car is capable of a 38.1s lap on low fuel, AI cars never went faster than 39.4's.- Over 75% of entrants retired from the race. By lap 190 of 200 there were just 7 cars of the 28 starters on track.- When AI cars crash out, the game spawns them back in their pit stall, but cars with excessive damage were either upside down or sitting in the middle of pit lane.- If AI cars ever made wheel to wheel contact, they would launch 50 feet, straight up into the air, and generate incomprehensibly catastrophic crashes.- Watching a replay, then returning to the race, placed the game's camera into a random AI car instead of my own, with the AI also taking control over my car. This resulted in my actual car, immediately crashing, 10 laps from the finish in a 200 lap event, and the camera locked to a random AI car sitting in the pits that I could never fix.- The scoring loop during the actual race was flat-out wrong, with cars several laps down being scored ahead of cars they shouldn't have been.I am at a loss.
DOSBox Stops Recognizing Racing Wheels Austin Ogonoski 2022-12-23 | Thanks to guys like GPLaps Jake & Ted Meat, there's been a small revival of fifth-generation racing simulators played on a modern sim rig via DOSBox. And for good reason - when it works, these have aged really well.The catch? At random, DOSBox stops recognizing your racing wheel and nobody's found a way to fix it.
NASCAR in iRacing is Faster than GT3 Cars Austin Ogonoski 2022-12-10 | How do you get it THIS wrong? Seems like actual NASCAR Cup Series drivers are starting to catch on though...
Kanye West - Offensive Mastermind [AI Synthesis / Madden 2001 Menu Music Remix] Austin Ogonoski 2022-12-04 | Kanye West revisits Madden 2001 on a popular Nintendo 64 emulator.Created with Kanye West voice model by JustinJohn-03.app.uberduck.ai/speak#mode=tts-basic&voice=yeLYRICSBooked 'til Sunday but I'm free on Tuesday.Alone at home, bitch gone and used me.Dreaming of times when my shit was simple.Afternoons spent at my Blockbuster video.Buddy says "Kanye, check out emulation."All these fuckin' kids part of Mario nation.I told buddy "thanks, but a princess don't listen."John Madden had my heart since graduation.Shotgun, five-wide, touch the sky."How the fuck he pick that through Shannon Sharpe's eye?!?!?"Can't believe this was my daily grind.Just like Kim, time ain't been kind.CHORUSLate to the game but ain't no expansion team.Please stretch the image to fit my screen.No I will not donate to Project 64.Listen to my shit, call it even or so.Why the fuck are all these quarterbacks so fat?Why the fuck ain't Dilfer starting for my ass?I come from the future, this Leaf kid is gone.Warner and the Rams, gonna miss them ones.What the fuck are all these glitches on the field?What the fuck just happened to my audio?Why are all these textures, fucked and misaligned?Kanye tech support, dial 9-9-9!Dilfer on the field, got this shit in the bag.Collins and the Giants ain't got no swag.So how the fuck does Kerry launch an 80-yard pass?I watched 35, Ravens kicked his fucking ass.CHORUSLate to the game but ain't no expansion team.Please stretch the image to fit my screen.No I will not donate to Project 64.Listen to my shit, call it even or so."Kanye, what you doin, I ain't see you all morning?""I called three times but you just ignoring."I'm back on my bullshit, I'm back on my grind.John Madden left us; can't leave him behind.Miss my Madden cards like I miss my rhymes.Catching 'em all, it's Pokemon time!Kinda bummed that there's no classic teams.Just monsters and mummies and gay shit for teens."Kanye you have important business obligations!"Sorry I pledge allegiance to the four down nation.Spent all this time with Kim, only for her to leave.Load Season, week four, big game out in Philly!CHORUSLate to the game but ain't no expansion team.Please stretch the image to fit my screen.No I will not donate to Project 64.Listen to my shit, call it even or so."Kanye I'm not playing an old Madden with you.""There are more pressing issues in life askew.""They're calling you an anti-semite on the news.""Even Alex Jones has a problem with you."That's cute and all, but I've made a discovery.Back to the board to plot my strategy.Custom playbooks, I'd never considered.It's the league of Kanye West, not for beginners.Shotgun, five-wide, touch the sky.No more bullshit picks hitting Sharpe inside.Hole in the D, Tampa 2 opens wide.Kanye West is an offensive mastermind!CHORUSLate to the game but ain't no expansion team.Please stretch the image to fit my screen.No I will not donate to Project 64.Listen to my shit, call it even or so.What the fuck do you mean "Project 64 Crashed to Desktop???"
NASCAR Track Threatens Legal Action After Drivers Discovered Sending Explicit Images Austin Ogonoski 2022-11-29 | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Racing Simulators are TOO FAST Austin Ogonoski 2022-11-26 | Modern racing sim developers have put so much effort into self-masturbatory physics engine advancements & refinements, that nobody has bothered to check if the cars are turning even remotely accurate lap times.Which, they're not. By a laughable margin.
Assetto Corsa | NASCAR Gen 7 @ Charlotte RC - 1:20.1 Austin Ogonoski 2022-11-08 | There's probably more in it but this made for a nice demo lap. Pole for this year's race was a 1:20.7 so this is more accurate than NASCAR 21 by a significant margin even if it's a Facebook mod.Mod:facebook.com/groups/940405266010495/permalink/5605073056210336(default setups are ass, you will need to pretty much redo everything)Track:mediafire.com/file/sxnr9ecey4mo9mw/charlotte_motor_speedway.7z/file
Assetto Corsa | Dallara IR-18 IndyCar @ Area 27 - 1:40.6 Austin Ogonoski 2022-11-08 | Track by Nukedrop, subscribe to his Patreon here:patreon.com/posts/68691608A secret unsanctioned IndyCar test was held here which, according to Google, nobody knows about or has ever talked about. So uh, keep this between you and I lol.I was flying home from Kelowna after a race in either 2018 or 2019, and one of the security workers noticed my trophy. They mentioned that an IndyCar team had recently come through to "test at the new track in Osoyoos" and either they told me directly who it was, or I pieced it together at the time, that it was Schmidt Peterson Racing.So anyways, this is what the lap might have looked like. I think a 39 is possible. Setup by MRD.This is one of the hardest tracks I've ever driven and is basically the back half of Mid Ohio, all the time. Lack of visual reference markers made it take a little longer than usual to memorize the layout. The cones are very helpful and in the cockpit you basically drive from cone to cone.
Getting Banned from iRacing Made Me a Better Driver Austin Ogonoski 2022-11-07 | Growing up as a NASCAR fan, the concept of iRacing seemed almost too good to be true - an ultra realistic stock car MMO with a surprisingly large and dedicated userbase. Yet by asking basic questions about why the cars seemed to violently spin if you breathed on the accelerator too hard, I suddenly found myself unable to log in to the member site; administrators citing a draconian rule that forbids criticism of their product.As a sim racer, this ended up being the best thing to ever happen to me. I was forced to learn how to road race after surrounding myself with a community who acted allergic to it, fell in love with hundreds of different cars I otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to, mastered car setups once and for all, and learned vital lessons in car control from rival racing simulators that I then promptly and successfully applied to the real world.None of this would have happened if I continued to put up with iRacing's unrealistically difficult handling model, grinding out hyper-aggressive races for trace amounts of Elo rank.
NASCAR 21: Ignition | Gen 7 @ Indianapolis RC |1:28.528 Austin Ogonoski 2022-11-02 | Car model doesn't spawn in the menu.Check out the random bumps in turns 8 & 9 lolWho tested this?
Assetto Corsa | Do NOT Pass on the Outside at Daytona Austin Ogonoski 2022-11-01 | You gonna learn today.Go check out Pasha's channel here:twitch.tv/zer0bandwidth
This Retro NASCAR Game Changed the Outcome of the 2022 Season Austin Ogonoski 2022-10-31 | A goofy fantasy track included in the EA Sports line of NASCAR games from the mid-2000's, which were not intended to be simulators, not only directly inspired an entirely new event on the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series calendar, but influenced the outcome of the championship. And it's absolutely hilarious.They really ran a race at Dodge Raceway Stadium. And a guy locked himself into the championship final using an exploit his little brother showed him when they were twelve years old, goofing around on the game.
How Much Faster is Driving Aggressive? Austin Ogonoski 2022-10-29 | We all kinda know that "getting up on the wheel" is important, but just how much do you gain?
This Iconic Racing Sim, Doesnt Work Austin Ogonoski 2022-10-22 | The AI in GTR 2 doesn't know how to pass, and runs full throttle into lapped traffic, making any sort of long race impossible as the AI end up driving around with terminal damage, well off-pace.Including the 24 Hours of Spa, the selling point of the game and what most of the game's features have been designed around.In light of this, the game sold and reviewed really well. Almost nobody mentioned this was a problem.Did these people even play it?
GTR 2 Fell Apart on Me Austin Ogonoski 2022-10-21 | "Work research" turned into "I am getting mad at video games again."
Bubba Wallace is the Ryan Leaf of NASCAR Austin Ogonoski 2022-10-19 | The late 1990's saw the career of a promising NFL quarterback fall apart almost as quickly as it began, due to a string of public incidents and noticeable attitude issues that overshadowed his college football accomplishments. Nobody in the San Diego Chargers organization recognized the now seemingly obvious signs quick enough, and at the conclusion of the 1998 NFL draft, they were left with a walking PR disaster as their starting quarterback who departed almost as quickly as he arrived.Darrell Wallace Jr's NASCAR career has followed a similar trajectory. The moderately successful Truck/Grand National Series driver has just two wins to his name after six years at the pro level, and routinely finds himself in an impressively wide variety of bizarre, Leaf-like situations. Situations that, seemingly nobody has bothered to connect the dots and spot the obvious pattern spanning close to a decade.Wallace continues to land major opportunities at the top level of auto racing in North America, and even has his own Netflix Series; a carefully crafted marketing push desperately trying to hide that this dude has major attitude/character issues and is basically Ryan Leaf on wheels.
