In Episode 13 of INIT Talks, host Elz Indriani (@elzindriani) welcomes Bel Wells (@StormMalina), a passionate sim racer and streamer specializing in iRacing. Bell shares her journey into the world of competitive sim racing and how she’s built an engaging online presence while mastering one of the most realistic racing simulators.
This episode delves into Bel’s experiences in the virtual racing community, from honing her skills on iRacing to connecting with fans through her streams. She discusses the challenges and rewards of balancing competitive racing with content creation, offering insights into how she keeps her audience entertained while pursuing her racing goals.
Whether you’re an iRacing enthusiast, a streamer, or someone inspired by stories of passion and perseverance, this episode is packed with motivation and valuable tips. Don’t miss this exciting conversation with StormMalina, as she shares her love for racing and her vision for the future of sim racing.
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Highlights
- 00:00 Introduction to Screen to Speed
- 00:34 Meet the Hosts: Els and Belle
- 01:31 Technical Difficulties and NASCAR Chicago Recap
- 02:30 Sim Racing and Streaming Journey
- 05:07 Pets and Personal Life 07:19 Racing in iRacing and Favorite Series
- 24:59 Porsche E Cup Experience
- 32:28 Balancing Streaming and Personal Life
- 42:54 Passion for Racing and Gaming
- 43:29 iRating and Track Challenges
- 46:00 First Wins and Racing Experiences
- 56:48 Streaming and Community
- 01:06:12 Learning and Practicing Tracks
- 01:09:58 Favorite and Least Favorite Tracks
- 01:12:24 Real-Life Racing Aspirations
- 01:21:59 Nervousness and Confidence in Racing
- 01:25:05 Different Streaming Styles
- 01:26:40 Nostalgia for the Past
- 01:27:05 Global Connections
- 01:28:27 League vs. Official Races
- 01:29:18 Screen to Speed Events
- 01:42:44 Building and Learning from PCs
- 01:45:51 The Fun of Sim Racing
- 01:52:22 Drifting and Dirt Racing
- 02:01:52 Wrapping Up and Social Media
Transcript
Crew Chief Brad: [00:00:00] Welcome to Screen to Speed powered by Ennit 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. Hello everyone! Hello
Elz Indriani: Yvonne! Hello everyone! Welcome to the 13th episode of In It Talks with me, Els, and my dear friend here, Stormalina, [00:01:00] Belle. Hi! Belle! Finally, we made it. We made it to the talks. Guys, I’ve been, I’ve been wanting to invite her into this innie talks because I really love her vibes in the stream. Like, I really love you, Belle.
You’re the best. That
makes me so happy.
Elz Indriani: Hi, by the way! Oh my god, Pepsiman! Yes! Oh my god, Pepsiman, you got stuff to do, so you’ll be lurking.
Bel Wells: I do love the lyric, yes.
Elz Indriani: Oh wait, I’m on the wrong microphone, let me see. Hold on. Okay, is it better now? Is it better now? Oh my god. Belle, I even messed up the audio on the screen.
Bel Wells: I understand. It’s probably because I’m here, I’ve cursed it. No, you’re not. The psychological difficulties have passed to you.
Elz Indriani: You’re, you are, you are a blessing in this community, Belle. Seriously. You want me to
Bel Wells: send my husband over? He’ll fix it.
Elz Indriani: Your husband is the [00:02:00] technical. guy behind everything. Oh, is it better?
Okay, awesome. So I was using, okay, so guys, long story short I just come back from Chicago for the NASCAR Chicago, so this is my first day turning on my PC. So if something mess up, please understand. Okay? I just don’t know. So by the way, Val, how you doing today?
Bel Wells: Very good, very good.
Elz Indriani: Very
Bel Wells: good.
Elz Indriani: Have you had a good day?
So, how’s it going? Like, how’s SimRacing? And, how is streaming?
Bel Wells: Uh, pretty good. It’s pretty mellow. I actually like streaming a lot more than I thought I would. Especially for being, like, quite shy. I enjoyed it a lot more than I ever thought I would. And the community that it’s made. Very nice.
Elz Indriani: So how long you’ve been doing this?
Streaming and SimRacing.
Bel Wells: I’ve been doing it since about [00:03:00] 2020, almost, maybe? I took a break for like six months in the middle there, but right around 2020 is when I started.
Elz Indriani: Oh wait, so you’ve been streaming since 2020?
Bel Wells: Yeah, it’s been a while.
Elz Indriani: A
Bel Wells: COVID streamer, COVID iRacer,
Elz Indriani: COVID pride. High five. We are the COVID generation of simracing.
Hi Sharksboy, Bell is so kind and funny, hacker for Razer. I completely agree with you on that. By the way, Sharksboy, hello. Yes, Bell is one of the best. Like, I’m watching your stream sometimes. Like, when I’m working, I’ll be lurking on your stream. Like, I don’t know, like, everyday you’re doing random stuff.
Like, sometimes you’re doing IMSA, sometimes You did the IMSA Vintage, I think, when I was watching you. And then you do, I don’t know. Yeah, that’s my favorite. I do
Bel Wells: love Oval, yeah. I don’t do as much Oval as I used to, but I still like the [00:04:00] Draftmasters a lot.
Elz Indriani: Why do you like the Draftmasters?
Bel Wells: Oval is so fun, and Dirt Oval is also really fun.
I like those in the sprint cars.
Elz Indriani: Oh yeah, Dirt Oval is so fun, but I never got into it. I don’t know why.
Bel Wells: It’s really fun, it’s like a complete different, I started in ovals, I was intimidated by roads, and I couldn’t, I had a hard time memorizing tracks, there’s so many left turns and right turns, and the oval was just like left, left, left, left, I could do that, I could start there, because there’s people all around you, and I was worried about touching everybody.
Small.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, oval, I feel like in oval you don’t need to memorize the track, but it’s more like you’re focusing on your race. Yeah, and like
Bel Wells: momentum more.
Elz Indriani: Yes, momentum.
Bel Wells: It’s definitely different.
Elz Indriani: It’s, it’s a different road to road racing, but I feel like you can bring what you learned in OVO into, into road racing.
OVO.
Bel Wells: [00:05:00] Yeah. Definitely.
Elz Indriani: Uh huh. Fluffy A5. And it’s like vice
Bel Wells: versa, I think, too.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. So, um. Belle’s cat would like to be interviewed too. Hi! Belle’s
Bel Wells: cat! This is Ivan.
Elz Indriani: Ivan! Oh, that’s Ivan. Hi! Oh wait, you have a dog too, right? So you have a cat and a dog. Oh my god, here’s your dog. Can we see your dog? Oh my god, guys.
We have specially
Bel Wells: summoned him. Timmy!
Elz Indriani: Timmy!
Fluffy Ivan. Yes, Ivan is so fluffy. And I wanna see the doggo too now. Belle, I’m sorry I put you into work in this interview. It’s okay. It’s okay.
Bel Wells: This
Elz Indriani: is
Bel Wells: Timber.
Elz Indriani: Timber, hi! Hello! Oh my god. Oh, got a treat. Hi, Timber. Hi, Ivan. Oh wait, they get along together? Like the cat and the dog?
Bel Wells: Um, now, kind of, yeah. For the most part. [00:06:00] They didn’t before. It took about a year.
Elz Indriani: Oh. It took about a year for Ivan and Timber to get along. So, yeah.
Bel Wells: The cat is still really mean, but Denver is
Elz Indriani: fine.
You’re so
Bel Wells: mean. No.
Elz Indriani: Even your profile picture, I think. Your profile picture on Twitch. Yeah, it’s
Bel Wells: Ivan.
Elz Indriani: My new cat. Sorry about the Dutch team. Oh yeah. Wait, what’s happening in Europe right now? Guys, can you guys give me a little explanation about what is happening right now in Europe? Like, is it like the Euro?
Bel Wells: I don’t know what’s happening.
Elz Indriani: Oh,
Bel Wells: soccer? Or football?
Elz Indriani: I
Bel Wells: do believe, yes. I actually was just playing, um, I don’t think they call it FIFA anymore, but I was playing the soccer game on. Oh
Elz Indriani: yeah? Oh yeah? I came
Bel Wells: past with my husband.
Elz Indriani: So I [00:07:00] think it must
Bel Wells: be.
Elz Indriani: The European Championships football. Right, right, right.
Yeah, it’s so Every time I’m checking on social media, like Twitter or something, like, we won’t have someone talking about it, like, to the point, like, what is happening here? Like, I thought there’s, like, a World Cup happening. So, Belle, by the way, um, so, you said that you started streaming. Since 2020, so that is pretty much during the pandemic, Emma, and what was your first game back then?
Was, were you like, got into iRacing directly, or? I
Bel Wells: think it was F1, we probably started with, I don’t remember if it was F1 2018, or 2019, was there a 2019? Or if we started with 2020, but it was definitely the F1 game.
Oh.
Bel Wells: And we had our driving lines on and everything, and we were just playing with the controller.
Mhm. And then we saw, uh, I think Jimmy Broadbent and, like, Matt Malone on [00:08:00] YouTube. My husband likes to watch YouTube videos of people and, uh, saw them racing with the actual wheels and he was like, Oh boy, I think we should try this.
Elz Indriani: I think we should get a wheel.
Bel Wells: Yeah, I think we should try this and I was like, okay, but you have to put it away every day because it takes up a lot of room
Yeah, and I don’t
Bel Wells: think we put it away ever We bought a new one, a bigger one, moved it into the middle of the room
Elz Indriani: That’s my biggest problem with simracing, cause simracing takes a lot of space, like I don’t need a lot of space I think that’s the downside to me speaking about simracing, but other than that, I never regret my decision about getting into simracing, like, really.
Bel Wells: Same. So much joy has come from it. Mm
Elz Indriani: hmm. Yeah, it is. So much
Bel Wells: fun.
Elz Indriani: It is. And, were you, like, I don’t know, like, [00:09:00] How did you get into iRacing at some point? Because you’re starting from F1 game and you said like I
Bel Wells: think just watching the other streamers on YouTube. My husband found the game and Oh I think we just tried it.
Mm hmm.
Bel Wells: He had an account just for himself and I was like, Oh, this kind of looks fun. And eventually had to get it for myself.
Elz Indriani: Uh huh, you got your own subscription, and
Bel Wells: then you just, uh Uh huh, which was kind of nice, he knew all the things I already, like, the tracks that I liked, and the cars I like to practice in, so We bought all that stuff at once and got him at, like, I can’t remember, the 50 piece club or something of iRacing?
Elz Indriani: Oh! Yeah, we
Bel Wells: committed.
Elz Indriani: Wow, you’re fully committed to iRacing. Yeah. I just found a resale. You just wanna race, huh? Interesting, and it got me to another question. So, were you coming from, like, a motorsport family, like, family who’s into racing?
Bel Wells: Not at all. My family is, like, not into [00:10:00] sports at all, not into racing.
Uh, my dad would play video games with me when I was little, but, really not into sports anybody. I really like video games. I think I’m probably, I just played volleyball in high school and that’s really, I’m not that into sports either. I like to participate in them.
Elz Indriani: That’s the only sport that you do?
Bel Wells: Yes, I did track and field, but yeah.
Volleyball really was the main sport I
Elz Indriani: did.
Bel Wells: Racing.
Elz Indriani: Right, right. And what makes you love racing? Like, what makes you really into sim racing? What makes it fun?
Bel Wells: It’s like really adrenaline y. It’s so fun. You race with other people, but it’s also against yourself, which I really like. I love beating my old times.
I like besting myself. I also like seeing, um, how all the people, like different people around the world, you can race with all of them. iRacing is just so [00:11:00] cool like that. I was thinking about the old games that I would play on the Xbox with my dad and you just play like, Side by side with your friends and stuff and now you can play with people across the world and like 30 different people Real people, not AI.
It’s crazy. It’s still hard for me to believe that they’re all real They’re all real? Yeah, it’s so cool
Elz Indriani: Well, Belle, if we are on the same split one day racing, you will see me racing like an AI. Don’t worry, you will meet your first AI ever
Bel Wells: We’ve all been there
Elz Indriani: Hi, by the way, Aaron! Aaron! Transmission! Oh my god!
Ash! Hi, guys! Hi! Welcome to the 13th episode of In It Talks with me, Elf, and my dear friend, Belle. So, we all know it’s just one of her many personalities. Brian. So, Brian is the other personality, I see. Hi, guys. How are you
Bel Wells: doing?
Elz Indriani: Love you, guys. [00:12:00] Thanks for hanging today. Finally, I’m back. So, yes, last week, we didn’t have, we didn’t have an in it talk last week because it was the 4th of July.
I was literally inviting Belle, like, Belle, let’s do it on Thursday. And Belle was like, like, cool.
Bel Wells: Cool. That’s a really great
Elz Indriani: idea, Els. And I look into the calendar and I was like, Jesus, okay, 4th of July. We had to postpone the interview because everybody’s going out, you know. When
Bel Wells: did you get back from the NASCAR in Illinois?
When was that?
Elz Indriani: Um, yesterday.
Bel Wells: Oh my gosh.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I literally just got back. So I kinda extend my stay in Chicago, like meeting people and stuff, so yeah. But it was so fun. Have you ever get into the NASCAR race before? Never? Never.
Bel Wells: Uh uh. I thought about it, we looked into it, and we just never pulled the trigger.
I [00:13:00] would definitely Yeah, I think I would go see something smaller maybe to start, but I just don’t know. Something closer would probably be better, and closest to me is Vegas, I think.
Elz Indriani: Is it Vegas or Phoenix, the closest to you?
Bel Wells: Um, pretty equal, really. It’s probably about six or seven, eight hour drives. It’s not that bad.
Elz Indriani: That’s pretty Well, it’s very
Bel Wells: warm.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. But, I mean, if you want to go to Vegas, I can, I can take you to Vegas. There will be another race in Vegas, like, in October, I think. NASCAR. Yeah, I
Bel Wells: think that’s when it was last year.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, so.
Bel Wells: That’s when it’s not super hot also.
Elz Indriani: No, no, no. I would never go to Vegas like during the August, July.
It’s
Bel Wells: so crazy. Yeah, in the summer.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, summertime is hot.
Bel Wells: Too hot to be outside.
Elz Indriani: Do you get a heatwave in Utah? Oh, by the way guys, Belle is from Utah. Uh, right
Bel Wells: now, yes I am. Right now, for sure, it’s definitely hot, like a [00:14:00] hundred degrees, I think tomorrow’s gonna be a hundred and one, and the next day, and then it cools down.
Oh,
Elz Indriani: Jesus, that’s crazy.
Bel Wells: Yeah, it’s hot. It’s like being a body of water or inside.
Elz Indriani: It feels like you’re like simracing in the oven, like crazy hot.
Bel Wells: Yeah, sim racing in the summer feels much sweatier than the winter. I’m ready for the winter to come back.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. I’d
Bel Wells: say that’s a downside of sim racing too. True.
It’s very hot in the summertime.
Elz Indriani: I just, I just noticed that when I moved to California. Because in Chicago we don’t really have that. Like, it’s not really hot in Chicago. So, I never got this kind of struggle in my life. And then I moved to California. Now you’re like
Bel Wells: dripping.
Elz Indriani: I was dripping so bad. Every time I’m streaming, like, dude, this feels like sitting on a real race car and you’re like, I don’t know, just sweating.
Okay, it’s our practice, Belle. It’s our practice to become a race car driver for one day.
Bel Wells: Yeah, I was sweating. I can’t [00:15:00] imagine wearing like a helmet and full gear and stuff. I can’t even wear gloves. It makes me too sweaty just thinking about it.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, like those Race car drivers are crazy in my opinion, like, yeah, those suits and everything, helmets, balaclava.
And you’re sitting in a race car, it’s not like you’re having an AC inside. You don’t even have an audio player. Adjusting
Bel Wells: your vent to blow on you. Yeah.
Elz Indriani: Adjusting. That’s why I’ve said like, one day if I become a race car driver, I just want a CD player on my car. Please let me listen to a song when I’m racing.
Bel Wells: I do love that. Some people don’t like listening to music when they race. I have to.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, me too. I have to.
Bel Wells: It distracts me in a good way. Do you
Elz Indriani: play music sometimes in your stream?
Bel Wells: Um, I don’t play it over my stream now. I know you can do like a There’s a way you can do it so that you don’t get the copyright strikes, but I’ve never troubled to find it out.
Elz Indriani: Ah. [00:16:00] Yeah, I played sometimes and sometimes my thought got muted. Like, in the middle of the stream or something like that, but at this
Bel Wells: point,
Elz Indriani: I don’t care. Like, if you
Bel Wells: want to be Yeah, right, if you don’t reach the limit, you’re fine.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, as long as we’re not reaching the limit, we are fine. Oh wait, 106 two days ago for you?
That’s crazy! I was like, 101 and I already like, you know what? I’m gonna turn on the stream now, end the stream, and I’m gonna Time
to go. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: time to go. I need to get a fresh air. I’m so crazy. All right, so, Val, bye. Elves only listen to gangster rap when she drives. Yeah, so I can become more brilliant in Dwarf Masters, you know?
Bel Wells: It gets you in the right mood. Yeah, the right music for the right race. See?
Elz Indriani: See? As I always Gives you the
Bel Wells: right mood, the right zone.
Elz Indriani: Good music, good mood, good mood, good race, good race, good stream! So, [00:17:00] yes!
Bel Wells: You understand.
Elz Indriani: I understand the assignment here. Don’t worry, Ash. So, by the way, Belle, So, were you like, struggling getting into Irising at the first time?
Or were you like, instantly loving it?
Bel Wells: Uh, I pretty much loved it right off. I didn’t love it Like, as much as I love it now, it was a slow growth, but I definitely was fascinated with it, and I loved, I kind of like crashing, but it’s kind of a fun thing to do. You can’t do that in real life. I like that you can just be reckless, like, recklessly fast and try stuff, but then also, in the races with people, it’s like, you just tone it down.
I tone it way down in the races. I go from, like, wrecking all over the place in practice to, like, Just following people very slowly, but I like that you can try all of it there and iRacing and it really all feels so real and now with the rain, it’s even better. Do
Elz Indriani: you like it, [00:18:00] rain? It’s
Bel Wells: all so different.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, it is. I don’t know. I still struggle. I don’t, I don’t feel confident driving in the rain in all visuals, yeah? Cause, I don’t know, like, it’s
Bel Wells: weird. It is scary. And it’s different in every car. Like, I was just in a Mazda race the other day and I didn’t expect it to be raining. It was not what I remembered the other cars feeling like in the rain.
The Mazda felt completely different.
Elz Indriani: Very
Bel Wells: spinny.
Elz Indriani: I love that it’s
Bel Wells: also different.
Elz Indriani: Belle is the happiest I’ve ever seen when she wrecked or got wrecked. Were you happy? Like, super happy? Do you like actually enjoy it? Because some people kinda, not like afraid, but they get stressed out when they’re losing eye rating, safety rating.
Yeah,
Bel Wells: I don’t get stressed out about the eye rating loss. If I like reckon to another human person and they’re mad, or if it’s bad and I feel bad. [00:19:00] Really murdered them, makes me feel bad, that’s when I don’t feel good. But if I’m just like, wrecked myself or made a mistake, no biggie, I can try again. I learned my lesson.
That’s the best way for me to learn lessons, is crashing my car.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, sometimes you have to take a risk. Like, yeah. I think my problem is like, I don’t really Brave enough? I don’t, I’m not brave enough to take risks. That’s how I
Bel Wells: feel in races. I’m too scared to take risks in the races because I don’t want to upset anyone.
I don’t want to break the car.
Elz Indriani: Exactly. I don’t want to upset everyone or I don’t want someone to report me to sign a report. Yeah.
Bel Wells: Or like ruin somebody’s day. I don’t want to ruin anyone’s day. I want everyone to have fun.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, me too, but sometimes accidents happen, so I ruin someone’s day sometimes. Oh
Bel Wells: yeah, they pulled me before.
Days have been ruined.
Elz Indriani: I only got mad on the internet. Yeah, I mean, of course, Belle, I [00:20:00] was racing in IMSA, okay? We were in the formation lab, okay? I, I was pretty confident with my result. Like, oh yeah, I got this. And I got disconnected! Like Oh no! Of course I’m mad, Ash. Of course. It’s a good one. Of course.
It’s like, oh my god. So, what’s your favorite series in iRacing? Like, I saw you doing a lot of Insa, so I’m assuming you, the Multicars. I’m
Bel Wells: actually, I’m really afraid of Multiclass. But that’s a new love of mine, the fast cars and Multiclass, because it’s very exciting. It makes the races go by super fast. I also love P Cup.
Probably. That’s my favorite car, so maybe my, I don’t know if it’s my favorite series, but I like to drive that car. I really like all the series. I like to do Draftmaster, Ringmeister is, oh, I love it. Yes. I feel like that was made for me. I love, I love it. It’s so fun. It’s really fun this week too. Have you [00:21:00] ever, speaking of Rally.
And crashing. Have you ever tried the Mount Washington track on iRising?
Elz Indriani: Yes, I did. I did a dirt, like, yeah, like the softbox race kind of thing, like with the skidder. You’re just going downhill, like, oh my god, that’s super fun. That’s super
Bel Wells: fun. I’m very obsessed with that right now. For some reason, I like crashing down the mountain, like,
Elz Indriani: Crashing down the mountain, because, I
Bel Wells: get it.
Just going as fast as you can, and sometimes you don’t make the corner, but when you do and you, like, hit the apex, it’s, It’s so fun. It feels so fun.
Elz Indriani: It’s super, super fun. Yeah, there’s a lot of things you can do in Andersen. Like, you’re not just doing the GT3 race, like the sports car, in road course. You can do a lot of things.
Even just going down the mountains. Like, you can do that.
Bel Wells: And the time attacks and stuff. Sometimes I like to just drive as a ghost in the top splits and follow the fast people and see how fast it takes me to, [00:22:00] right? Trying to keep up.
Elz Indriani: Right, I mean, so you did some practice sometimes, like, you’re driving as a ghost in the top split, and how did you see yourself, like, if you compare yourself to the boys, to the guys in the top split?
Bel Wells: Uh, I feel way slower. I feel way slower, and I can, like, kind of mimic what they’re doing for a little bit if I’m right behind them, but I think there’s a lot of stuff I don’t I don’t understand, like, the techniques, and I don’t know, the, like, details of racing, it takes me a longer time to grasp. I feel like my husband understood Apex a lot quicker than me.
I’m still looking for him. Your husband understands Apex
Elz Indriani: more? I mean, sim racing, I feel like sim racing is not easy, as in like, it takes a lot of time for you to actually learn. Yeah, there’s a
Bel Wells: lot of details like trail breaking and stuff that took me a long time to understand and like oversteer and [00:23:00] understeer and all the little like lingo and It’s just bit by bit as you learn it.
It’s very a slow growth.
Elz Indriani: Yeah Do you see yourself as a fast learner like you’re fast at learning some things in synthesis or?
Bel Wells: Do you feel
Elz Indriani: like it takes more time for you to learn new things? Uh,
Bel Wells: I think it depends on the, it depends. Some things I’m faster at learning, and some things it takes me a longer time to grasp.
If that makes sense, like, Like, uh, it takes me a long time to memorize the left and rights of a turn, but, like, the feeling of a car and having it, uh, like, I cannot describe this. Like, the weight transfer, I feel like I understand that in my, in my body more. And I just, the logistics of, like, left and right of a track and when to accelerate, that’s a little bit harder.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, um, for me But, like, some things
Bel Wells: are much easier to grasp.
Elz Indriani: [00:24:00] Memorizing the track can be a challenge for me.
Bel Wells: That’s so hard for me. Yeah.
Elz Indriani: Like, but I just think it makes everything feels natural. Speaking about driving, that’s how I feel. Like, you can actually feel your tires. And that’s what I like in a sim.
Bye. I need to feel my tires, and sometimes in other sims I don’t really feel it, so it doesn’t feel natural to me. Like, I need to try harder in other games, but in iRacing, I need to try sometimes. I can be a tryhard, but iRacing the sim itself really help you to understand things, that’s how I see it.
Bel Wells: Mhm.
Elz Indriani: Oh, by the way, Luka! Hi, Luka. Hi, welcome in. Welcome to Indie Talks. And yes, Tor Malina is the one who raced in the Porsche E Cup Superstars All Stars. Oh my god! Oh my god, we need to talk about it. I got the, I got the topic in my mind. Like, we need to talk about it. Bel, [00:25:00] how was it? The Porsche E Cup. Like, you were racing with a lot of big streamers, a lot of
Bel Wells: pro gamers.
That still makes me nervous just thinking about it. That is crazy. It made me a lot better though. Talking about sponging people, I felt like I sponged some of them. It helps to watch good people race.
Elz Indriani: Which
Bel Wells: makes sense. It’s like learning.
Elz Indriani: So, how was it? How was the race? And, tell me more about it. Like, how did you get into the Porsche?
Like, did like, uh, contact you? Or like, how on earth? Yeah.
Bel Wells: They con I think they had somebody, a couple people drop out before the season started. And then they contacted a couple streamers to fill in the gaps. And I was one of them. Surprisingly. I was like, are you guys sure? Have you seen me race? I’m like, I could be a 600 iRating, I could be a 2000 iRating, it depends on the week.[00:26:00]
It depends on the
Elz Indriani: week. It depends on the week. And, but, you took the, you took the opportunity. Yeah,
Bel Wells: I’m so glad I did. It made me so nervous. I think it’s good to do things that scare you, though. This thing makes me nervous, too. It’s not that bad. It’s not as bad as the
Yeah, I mean The
Bel Wells: Portia All Stars, but it still makes me nervous.
But I think it’s good for you to I like doing things that scares me.
Elz Indriani: You like doing things that scares you. That’s a really good point, like, yeah. You like to decorate, basically, though. Yes,
Bel Wells: I feel like that leads to growth, usually.
Elz Indriani: Cause, seeing you, I see you as a unique girl. I don’t know how to put that into words, like, I can see that you’re a bit shy, like, Shy in a cute way, okay?
Like, I see you, like, every time I’m watching you streaming, like, Oh, she’s so cute. Like, you’re like shy, but on the other hand, you’re also like brave enough to [00:27:00] crash to take a risk. So, I don’t know, for me, you got the personality that what every streamer got to have. Like, you’re having fun in your stream.
It doesn’t matter whatever they’re doing. Yeah, I feel like
Bel Wells: fun matters.
Elz Indriani: It is. It is, like, really, like, you’re amazing just the way you are, Belle. Like, really. You’re so nice.
Bel Wells: That’s why I feel when I come to your stream, you’re just having fun. I swear you’re always in Draftmaster when I read you.
Elz Indriani: I’m kind of avoiding it now, Belle.
I got traumatized by Draftmaster.
Bel Wells: I’ve been there. I took a break.
Elz Indriani: It’s just, well, Draftmaster is great if you want to learn how to drafting. Like, yeah, okay, the race is not long, 20 laps. But
Bel Wells: Yeah, it’s like trial by fire. You’re like, you gotta learn this, and you gotta learn it quick. There’s no yellows. It’s all, you gotta go now.
Elz Indriani: Yeah,
Bel Wells: go.
Elz Indriani: Don’t use your brain, otherwise you’ll get busted. Yeah, never
Bel Wells: live.
Elz Indriani: Never
Bel Wells: live. [00:28:00] What is a yellow?
Elz Indriani: What is a yellow? Yellow doesn’t exist. But, right now, I’m getting more into the A class phase, I think. I’m getting into NIS a lot. Have you
Bel Wells: heard? Oh, fun. I used to love those. With the pit stops, it really can like change the strategy, especially with the, like, I’m not as aggressive like we were talking about, and uh, that helped with my oval a lot.
That was like playing into my strategy of gentle, gentle tire wear and no wrecks.
Elz Indriani: No wrecks, yeah. It really teach me about taking care of my tires. Like you really do it when you’re like. Killing your tires. Yeah. And the
Bel Wells: ovals. Yeah. And you’re like drifting up towards the wall . Oh yeah. So this
Elz Indriani: car never turn.
This car doesn’t like to turn like Yeah. It really teach you about driving a broken car. That’s how I feel. Oval. Like my cars. Oh. I also
Bel Wells: like doing that. I don’t mind driving with a meatball. Sometimes it’s fun to see like how the cars break and the ones that are completely undrivable. [00:29:00] Yeah. You’re not gonna drive a broken car in real life, but it’s weird to.
I wonder, I’m curious how realistic it is, feeling like artful to the right, when you smash into the wall and get wheel damage.
Elz Indriani: Oh wait, um, you’ve got to change an alternator in my charger. Ooooooh. Good luck have fun, by the way. Good luck have fun! Thank you so much for hanging. Thank you. And, well, by the way, ah, just, so, how is it like back again to the Porsche, to the Porsche event?
When was it? Uh, I think that was Was it like, beginning of the year?
Bel Wells: That was like, I think it ended around February, maybe? Or March? Oh! In the winter, maybe? And then there was like, Twitch Rivals. A lot happened all at once for me there. It all kind of blurred together. Mm hmm, mm hmm.
Elz Indriani: And Wait, [00:30:00] um, so you were racing with Love46, Matt Brody.
Yes, yes,
Bel Wells: and Emery.
Elz Indriani: Oh yeah, Emery too, oh my god. She’s, she’s crazy. It’s kind
Bel Wells: of like, both of them is like, they’re so good. They’re so good. They’re so fast.
Elz Indriani: Emery, Emery is so good. Like,
Bel Wells: she’s so good. She’s good at everything. She knows a lot about cars. I don’t really know anything about cars. I just like to drive them.
Elz Indriani: Huh, yeah, me neither. I don’t know a lot of the cars, but I think Emery, Emery is like, I think she’s racing in real life too, like sometimes. Is she?
Bel Wells: Yeah, she is. Oh, that’s so cool. Uh huh. That is, oh, that’s so cool too about iRacing, like Swaleo. Oh. And he, how he made the transition to real life racing and watching him do that.
Mm hmm. It is so fun. I’m like, proud of him. I’m so proud watching him.
Elz Indriani: And he’s doing really great.
Bel Wells: He’s doing so good.
Elz Indriani: Jesus, like, every time you see him, you see his race [00:31:00] result, like, on social media, on everything. You will see him in the podium, or he will be I know, it
Bel Wells: surprises me when it’s not a podium.
It’s, yeah. It’s just the guy racing now.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I’m, Swellio, he’s really good. I got his He’s really
Bel Wells: good.
Elz Indriani: I got his online course, like, I bought it, like, last
Bel Wells: year. Yes,
Elz Indriani: yes. And it really helps. It’s,
he
Bel Wells: got a really good It really does. He has like the details that I was talking about that my brain just I don’t even think about that stuff like opening corners and
Yeah, he
Bel Wells: talks about it.
Very helpful. There’s all kinds of YouTube videos and
Elz Indriani: There’s
Bel Wells: all kinds of weird resources To help you learn how to drive
Elz Indriani: Yeah, so, um, I feel like you can see a lot of sim racer going fast But it’s not like everybody knows how to teach people And Zoelio can do it He knows how to teach people how to coach people.
I would love to book his coach, like the [00:32:00] one-on-one coach one day, like just to see if he notice something on my driveway. Uhhuh
Bel Wells: and what to I’m sure he would.
Elz Indriani: Yeah.
Bel Wells: I’m sure he would.
Elz Indriani: Ah, he will see. He will see something that I never seen in my life. Like, yeah. Oh, by the way, transmission motorsport, thank you so much for something to storm Melina.
Yes, guys. If you guys got a lot of free time, on the weekdays, you should turn into Stormalina’s Twitch channel. So, are you streaming everyday, Phil?
Bel Wells: I actually only stream Friday, Saturday, Sunday usually, when my husband’s at work.
I
Bel Wells: used to not even, we actually started streaming together like way back in COVID started and we would be like side by side doing ovals and uh he stopped and went back to work and I used to be a nanny and I just never really went back to my nanny jobs because the moms were there now and I just started raising more.[00:33:00]
Elz Indriani: I just started raising more. So like it’s Streaming is like your full time job, or are you still like
Bel Wells: No, I’m a pet sitter and dog walker.
Elz Indriani: Dog walker? That’s my main
Bel Wells: job. Yeah, I do kind of odd jobs all over, but that’s my main job.
Elz Indriani: Ah, I see. Animal lover. Oh my god, you really like animals, like, you love them.
Bel Wells: I do.
Elz Indriani: I see.
Bel Wells: Yeah, I would do that for free, I’m I would do that for free? I’m willing to do this.
Elz Indriani: Oh my God. I mean, I love pets. I really love dogs and cats, but with my schedule, like travelling and stuff, I feel like I just don’t wanna live.
Bel Wells: Yeah.
Elz Indriani: My baby behind,
Bel Wells: they tie you down.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. .
Bel Wells: If I go camping for like one night and I leave Ivan, I’m like, we should go home.
We should go home. Yeah. I gotta go home.
Elz Indriani: That’s make it, that’s what makes it hard for me, like to actually commit to having a path. Because, [00:34:00] yeah, I travel a lot to a racetrack, and I don’t think it’s wise to bring your pet to a racetrack. Like,
Bel Wells: I don’t know if they’d enjoy that. Maybe a dog.
Elz Indriani: Can they actually bring a dog to a racetrack?
That’s the question. Probably. Probably. Probably. But yeah, that’s still my biggest concern about getting a pet, getting a new family member, new addition to the family because I travel. I’ll be your pet sitter. Oh my god, I would love to. If I knew you live in Utah, I should have visited you during my trip from Illinois to Cali because I literally passed Utah.
I was thinking about maybe I should stay, like me and my family thinking like that. Maybe I should stay like, one or two nights in, in Utah, because I love Utah. Utah is really
Bel Wells: pretty. Southern Utah has all the national parks too, like Zion and Bryce. It’s so pretty.
Elz Indriani: Utah is pretty. Like, even one day if I’m old, [00:35:00] and I got this retirement money from the government, I’m gonna move to Utah.
Like, I’m gonna move to Utah and actually enjoy it. Like, so pretty.
Bel Wells: It is really pretty and it has snowboarding. I love it. It has all the seasons of sports and all the fun stuff. Oh, no big masks or tracks. I actually think they do have a Utah motorsport campus or something which has really fast go karts, which I should try.
Because I’ve tried the slow go karts at like, uh, family fun centers, but I’ve never done, like, I think these are really fast go karts.
Oh! I
Bel Wells: can’t remember how fast they go, but I think you have to get maybe a license or pass a test. Which sounds like fun.
Elz Indriani: I think you, I, I’m not sure if you need like a certain license for it, like I’m not sure, but I think if you want to do it like casually or for fun, you can like, you can just go, right?
I mean, karting, with karting.
Bel Wells: I’ll look into it, that would be really fun.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, have you tried karting [00:36:00] before?
Bel Wells: I’ve never done super fast karts. I’ve just done like at mini golf centers. I think they probably top speed is like 30 miles an hour. I’m not sure.
Elz Indriani: Right, right. But do you want to get into it one day?
Bel Wells: Um, I’ve never really like had that be my goal, like into real life racing. Kind of more go with the flow. I wouldn’t say no. But
Elz Indriani: I’ve never really,
Bel Wells: I’ve really never even thought about racing until COVID and we were racing in the Sims like this.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, cause, again, as you said before, like, I didn’t even know it was a thing.
Yeah, like, your family is not into motorsports, not like making you into a race car. Same as me. Yeah.
Bel Wells: Yeah, are you the only one into motorsports in your family?
Elz Indriani: Mm hmm. The first one, in both sides, my mom and my dad’s side, like, I’m the only one who got into sim racing, got into, [00:37:00] um, motorsports, and I would say doing a modern job.
You know what I mean? Like streaming, content creation,
Bel Wells: and stuff. Yeah.
Elz Indriani: I’m the first one in the family, so most of the time, I have to explain what content creation is to my big family.
Bel Wells: Sometimes it’s probably a little rough. Yeah. I tried explaining, like, streaming to my grandma, and she was just like, I don’t think I understand it.
And I was like, okay, we’ll try again next time. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: we’ll try again next time. We’ll try again. It’ll
Bel Wells: sink in eventually.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, so that’s my job right now. Streaming, making a content, and working full time in esports, in gaming industry.
Bel Wells: That’s really so cool. Do you love it?
Elz Indriani: I love it.
Bel Wells: Cause it’s
Elz Indriani: really so
Bel Wells: fun.
Elz Indriani: Right now, you’re not just learning how to play games, or how to be good in video games, but You’re learning a lot. It’s more like you’re [00:38:00] doing your job as a professional like you’re going into the meeting every week Yeah, you have like a day job to do like basically it’s like a not like another job But it’s in gaming so you know like
Bel Wells: and you love it, and you’re like passionate about it, which makes it feel less It doesn’t
Elz Indriani: feel like
Bel Wells: working,
Elz Indriani: you know?
Like, it’s more like, you’re having a fun project every week. Like, oh, we’re doing this! Oh, we’re doing that! Oh, we’re doing something cool!
Bel Wells: A fun project, when you’re interested in doing what you’re doing, learning what you’re doing, it’s great.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, that’s I like learning, after all, maybe. Like, I don’t mind struggle, like, in simracing or at my work.
Okay, just It’s kind of torturing my soul, but I love it. You know what I
Bel Wells: mean? I understand. It’s satisfying.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, it’s satisfying. Like, super, super satisfying. Like, [00:39:00] I love it. I love my job. Until now.
Bel Wells: That’s so great. What did you do before?
Elz Indriani: I was a graphic designer. A UI UX designer. I work in UI and graphic designer.
And then, during the COVID era, I switched my job, I switched my career into a gamer.
Bel Wells: Wow.
Elz Indriani: So we are the pandemic baby, very much.
Bel Wells: Yeah, that’s a huge change. It’s
Elz Indriani: a huge change. Especially back then, like, you know, like, a lot of people like losing their job and stuff during the COVID era. And, I was the one who switched jobs.
So I quit my job. Like, I quit myself. Nobody fired me.
Bel Wells: That takes bravery. That takes a lot of bravery.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, but, but then when I started, like, I didn’t know the way. I didn’t know how to get into where I am right now. I just hit the like button with five viewers per day. Uh huh. [00:40:00] At that moment. Yeah, just doing it.
I don’t know. If you ask me, like, how I got into it, like, just press the live button, like, almost every day. I think that’s what I do. Hitting the live button and rising, getting into championships, and stuff, so, yeah, like, I don’t know. It is what it is. But my mom started to understand. My mom started to understand, yeah.
Like, she likes to tell everyone, like, at her church, and something like, Oh yeah, that’s my daughter, she went to NASCAR, and,
Bel Wells: like, That’s so cute.
Elz Indriani: That’s so cute, but again, like, a lot of her church friends, they’re really like, Oh wait, oh, the racing. They’re like, what’s that? Racing, oh, driving cars? Oh, is she like driving cars?
No, she’s not driving cars fast. Driving cars fast? Like, what? Yeah, I was like It’s kinda, it’s kinda unique. Trying to explain what’s My job, [00:41:00] what I do to my big family, like, they’re like, Oh, you have a very cool job. We don’t understand, but that sounds very cool. I was like, oh yeah, that’s cool.
Bel Wells: That’s pretty much the response I get if I tell people I stream video games.
Like, I don’t get it, but that’s neat. Yeah, I don’t get it, but
Elz Indriani: that’s neat. Yep.
Bel Wells: I was like, I feel the same way.
Elz Indriani: I feel the same way. I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t get it,
Bel Wells: but it’s neat.
Elz Indriani: But it’s neat. I don’t get it. So, Belle, are you? Thinking about maybe one day you want to get into it, like, as a full time, like, do you ever think about gaming as your full time job, or as your career?
Cause you’re shiny, really bright.
Bel Wells: Totally would. I would totally stream more. I probably still would Petsit forever because I like to be around the animals and that really doesn’t take too much time. But usually on the weekdays it’s My husband and I will go snowboarding if it’s the winter or [00:42:00] in summer we’ll go camping or paddle boarding or really I just go do other things right now.
But I would definitely, I probably would stream more. I don’t know. I’ve never, I haven’t thought about it too seriously because it kind of just like sporadically happened this whole time. Just going with the flow. My mom thinks about it like that a lot more, and she’s like, Maybe you should, she like wants to make little emotes and stuff.
She’s so cute. She thinks about the, she thinks about my stream more than I do sometimes.
Elz Indriani: More than you do. Yeah, I mean, aww, that’s so cute. So, you’re coming into Twitch, you’re coming into streaming with, let’s say like, zero plan, like, go with the flow and see how it goes?
Bel Wells: Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. I do, I really like racing a lot and I’ve never thought I would, I don’t know.
Now it’s kind of like changed my plans. I would definitely do something in racing. [00:43:00] I really, really do enjoy it.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. I mean, I can tell you really love playing games, you know, like build up games. When you, when you say like, I love playing games. I can feel it, and I believe, like, Mekis and everyone who’s watched your stream can feel the same way.
Like, yeah. She, she loves video games. She likes to play
Bel Wells: them. I like to play. I like to have fun. Yeah, I like to play games.
Elz Indriani: I like to play games. Yeah, so what’s your, what was your highest I rating in Road to Hell?
Bel Wells: Oh, I don’t know, maybe 2. 5. I honestly don’t remember. There’s a chance it’s gone up to 2. 7, but that might be my imagination.
And then it almost always comes like plummeting back down. It’s always a track specific combo, like car track combo that I just We’ll repeat over and over and over that I really really like and then I’ll get a skewed eye rating and the tracks change and I go somewhere I [00:44:00] don’t know and I’m like don’t even know if the track goes left or right and then it all equalizes and I come back down.
It’s kind of fun to look at my eye rating graph. It’s very like a mountain range.
Elz Indriani: I think I said that we had this conversation like in the previous info. I forgot, was it with Sierra, or was it with Jamie, or was it with Cleo, but we were talking about you back then, like, yeah, Stormalina, Belle, I mean, you will see her, like, rising up, and then tomorrow, she will, like, drop down, but don’t worry, she’ll get it back, she will get it back, once,
Bel Wells: yeah, she’ll, it’s not time to worry yet.
I like it. I feel like I don’t want to go into a track or the next week and have my iRating be like 2. 7 and then I’m in the top split. I like when it comes down because I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know the track. I need to learn it. Put me back in with like the 1k people before you put me in with the top split because that’s scary.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. How was it? I need to learn [00:45:00] it. Never, or I barely got into the top split. It really depends on the time. Were you like hating it, like, in the top split, or?
Bel Wells: I’d get in the top split with weird races. Like, sometimes if I couldn’t sleep, I’d do a Ringmeister late at night. And it would be like single split or something.
Or P Cups at a weird track. Or, um, the Cleos in the PCC are usually top split. Or the Mustangs used to be top split. You really
Elz Indriani: do. I was scared.
Bel Wells: I’m I, I do like to do everything. Everything.
Elz Indriani: Like, don’t, here’s the correct example of using this, using your Irising subscription in the right way. Do everything.
Don’t just do one.
Bel Wells: Try everything. Wreck everything. Yeah, everything. Win everything. And win everything. Yeah. . So that’s a slope. Progress ,
Elz Indriani: I feel. But you’ve got your first win [00:46:00] in Irisy, right? You’ve got it, yes. Yeah, my
Bel Wells: first win was on Nords life. I think it was maybe either in an NEC or just, uh, the life itself, Nords life itself.
And it was in a peak up, I think it was an NEC. It took me a long time to win a road race.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, me too. I just, I just won mine like one week ago, so I think I like Oh really? Yeah. Were you driving? Yeah,
Bel Wells: that’s like how long it took me to get my road one.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, my road, I don’t even know back then when I just bored, I cannot sleep.
So I just turn on my PC and see how it goes. Oh, oh, what’s this? A new track? Okay, I’m gonna try. And then, um, and then I was like bleeding by two seconds. I don’t even know how did I? Like, I was leading the quali by 2 seconds, started in pole, winning it. I mean, I was like, oh, is this even real? Is that even me?[00:47:00]
So I was that good on the stream? Like, maybe I should stop streaming and focus on my race more. If you’re not ranking, are you even trying? That’s a good question. That’s a good point, Ash. That’s a good point, Ash. I mean, if you’re not crashing it I mean, I don’t I’m not encouraging everyone to crash in the race, but sometimes you have to.
That’s how I
Bel Wells: learn in practices, and that’s how I learn my worst lessons. I’m like in first or something, and you go around a corner too fast, and then you bend it, and you’re like, okay, let’s not do that again. I’ve learned my lesson. Learning from our mistakes, yeah.
Elz Indriani: I’ve heard this else person is like a professional driver.
Yes, I do, Matthew. Hi. Welcome. Pro, pro NASCAR driver. I don’t know if you guys see it, but yeah, I was playing a NASCAR video in the background. But, it’s on pause. It’s on pause. I need [00:48:00] to turn it back, but who cares. Hi, by the way, Matthew. Hi. I think that Stormalina person has the most laughs around Lords.
Yeah, she does a lot of Lords.
Bel Wells: You don’t know. I’ve only been here for a short time. Some people have like, 14 years. I can’t believe iRacing has been around that long.
Elz Indriani: Oh yeah, they are. Like, since 2008, something like that. I was,
Bel Wells: yeah, uh huh. I was still in high school.
Elz Indriani: I don’t even know, like, back in the day when you, when iRacing is just released to the market, like, do you guys even play with a steering wheel?
Yeah,
Bel Wells: were they playing with wheels? I was just wondering that. When I was playing on the Xbox, like, Need for Speed and stuff, I had the Mad Catz steering wheel that was, like, this big and it was tiny. And you’d, like, bolt it to the table. It was so small.
Elz Indriani: Uh huh.
Bel Wells: Yeah. Don’t force feedback, but it was entertaining.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I mean, that’s how we all I got introduced [00:49:00] to racing games, to city racing, from the arcade game, from Need for Speed, from Forza, from Gran Turismo. I think I
Bel Wells: started from
Gran Turismo.
Bel Wells: Is that what you started in? I’ve never had a Playstation, so I’ve never played it. But it sounds really, people love it.
Like, very dear to their hearts.
Elz Indriani: Gran Turismo is like, one of the
Bel Wells: The gateway game.
Elz Indriani: Like, yeah, that’s That’s how most people got into racing games, either from Forza or Gran Turismo. Like, the console people play Gran Turismo. It’s like the I must say, like, Gran Turismo is like the main game, like the official game.
So every time PlayStation is, like, releasing the console, we will have, like, this Gran Turismo game, like the official. So, yeah, that’s how I got into it. But, now I don’t know how to play Gran Turismo anymore.
Bel Wells: Like, I dunno how to play anymore.
Elz Indriani: Like
Bel Wells: do you just do iRacing for the most part now?
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I do. And a bit of F1, like right now I’m [00:50:00] competing Inri speed Summer Cup.
So in speed. We are now having it in iRacing in, um, I saw that.
Bel Wells: Yeah. And Grand Tomo.
Elz Indriani: Yes, in grand too. So we’re trying our best to cover every platform, so, you know, because. Yeah, we have a, we have a loyal fan base in iRacing, like, we have a bunch of people, like, a bunch of girls racing in iRacing, but in Gran Turismo, so we are, we want to, you know, get into it, like, finding more girls, and hopefully they can grow, get into iRacing, and hopefully put her in, in a real race car one day.
Yeah,
Bel Wells: make the transition.
Elz Indriani: I would love to put you in a race car one day.
Bel Wells: That would be so crazy, I can’t even
Elz Indriani: imagine. Oh my god, I wish I knew you, like, a lot earlier than now. Cause, one or two years ago, I think it was like, two years ago? No, one. So, Screen2Speed, the first Screen2Speed, we [00:51:00] were having it in Las Vegas more speedily.
Oh yeah, it was like,
Bel Wells: crazy big, with Pennzoil, and it was
Elz Indriani: like, I think they made a
Bel Wells: documentary about it.
Elz Indriani: Yes, and we were on the front page of Twitch, also the broadcast, everything. That’s so
Bel Wells: crazy. And
Elz Indriani: the winner got a chance to drive the Porsche in real life. Oh my god! That’s your favorite car, right?
That’s your favorite car, right?
Bel Wells: I think that probably is my favorite car.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, so we really hope that one day we will have another event like that, like during the NASCAR event or even during IMSA. So I would love to have you back. You have to wait it out. Yeah, just let me know.
Bel Wells: I’ll let my pet sitting clients know.
Yes,
Elz Indriani: I mean, I would love to see you, like, actually racing a real race car. If you like the course, maybe one day you’ll drive the course. And I would love to hear it from you, like, is there anything that [00:52:00] you learned in the simulator that I mean, that’s the feeling that I want to, I want to feel one day. Um,
Bel Wells: I don’t know.
I feel like, honestly, the thing that I’ve taken from sim racing is accident avoidance, which is like I mean, just, like, someone’s parked or a mail truck will swerve out in the middle of the road and you’re just like, With, like, natural reactions, you don’t even, like, even notice, and I was like, That felt like Draft Mastery.
And, like, moments like that in real life can be scary because it really just takes one second to, like, I don’t know, someone’s texting and you don’t see it, and then you get in a big car accident, and so sad. But, I feel like, Iracing has helped me with reactions to stuff like that. Even just like, on my feet too, I notice things.
Like, I notice accidents that maybe could happen. Like if I’m walking dogs and I see, uh, cars driving weird, like I saw a tire fall off of a car. I just feel like I notice weird things now. I pay attention to cars more than I’m used [00:53:00] to. I see cars that are like, I didn’t even used to look at cars. I’m like, ooh, that’s a cool car now.
I, I recognize cars now from the service, like little touring cars. Oh, I also love touring cars. Those are fun to drive.
Elz Indriani: Oh, you like it? Huh. I got the car, but I never really got into it. Is it like super fun?
Bel Wells: Yeah, they’re really fun. They’re different, a whole different thing. Yeah. The Clios are fun too in that way.
Elz Indriani: I don’t have the Clio. I don’t know, like, cause if, I was thinking like, if I wanna drive the Clio, I already, I already got the touring cars, like. The Honda and everything so I feel like Yeah, I was like
Bel Wells: I like the Elantra
Elz Indriani: Oh, you like it, huh I got both of them but I never really like got into it
Bel Wells: I actually end up driving those for endurance races a lot with, uh Some of my chat people from Twitch that I’ve become friends with [00:54:00] And I like the, the touring cars are fun for endurance because you’re the slower class, you know It’s less Press for me because everyone’s going around you.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, you’re just waiting for everyone to pass you. I think that’s Hopefully. Hopefully they make it into the corner. Hopefully and not
Bel Wells: rear end you.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. Hopefully the faster class will pass. Yeah, I think for me, after I’m getting into the multi class, uh, racing, I’ll pick the slowest car because I haven’t got any experience driving, like, the prototype.
Bel Wells: Yeah. I
Elz Indriani: just don’t want to kill anyone.
Bel Wells: I know, it’s a bad feeling. I don’t like that feeling. I like to avoid it as well. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: me too. What do you mean I’m causing the chaos, Ash? I never cause a chaos!
Bel Wells: She would never.
Elz Indriani: The real OG will remember the Mario Kart split screen battle mode. Oh my god, I kinda miss Oh
Bel Wells: my god, Mario Kart.
Elz Indriani: I kinda miss having like, that [00:55:00] feeling, you know? Like, playing video games with a Playing a racing game with a split screen.
Bel Wells: I love
Elz Indriani: it. I love the online competition right now, but sometimes I just miss the old days.
Bel Wells: I know, like local co op and yeah. Sitting side by side with your friend holding a controller.
It’s a fun feeling.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah. That’s what I like. Sometimes I feel like racing games, you have to enjoy it. And sometimes you want to enjoy it for yourself. And sometimes you want to enjoy it with your family. But
Bel Wells: yeah,
Elz Indriani: yeah, yeah. Have
Bel Wells: you had your mom try or any of your family try your rig and stuff like try and drive any?
Is it hilarious?
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I, my dad, um, I, my dad tried out my sim setup, so he was like trying to drive. But what I noticed sometimes, like, when people driving, like, when people who doesn’t come into racing games and they try to drive a simulator, they will turn their wheels, like, in real life, you [00:56:00] know, like,
And
Elz Indriani: sometimes it’s like, no, you have to like, Put it like minimum.
Oh, this is minimum? No, no, that’s still a little bit too much. Oh, you know, it’s so fun to watch like people trying out their sim setup. It’s so fun. Like, oh yeah. It
Bel Wells: really is. Like, is this what I used to look like when I tried?
Elz Indriani: That looks like me in the beginning. So, okay. Yeah, it’s okay. We got hopes.
Everybody got hopes in sim racing as long as they’re
Bel Wells: trying. It’s easy to get hooked. It’s a fun thing to get hooked on.
Elz Indriani: He wants to use all the nine hundred, yeah, ten eighty, more like ten eighty, decreased rotation, Ash, more like driving the truck. So, by the way, Bells, um, I got another question for you. So, you get into streaming, you’re streaming since the pandemic era, have you ever got into, like, some kind of awful situation?
For example, like, [00:57:00] getting into, I don’t know, some toxic people, getting touched? Um.
Bel Wells: When I, I think actually one of the first multi class races I did, I, I definitely wrecked somebody. It was a bad move. I said sorry. But they found my stream after and they definitely weren’t nice.
Elz Indriani: Uh,
Bel Wells: my moderators were quick.
They left. No big deal. And that was it. Honestly, that’s like the worst thing that’s ever happened to me on Twitch and it wasn’t that bad.
Elz Indriani: I’m
Bel Wells: honest. I’m so shocked that it has been So much more positive than I ever expected it to be. I’m very pleasantly surprised.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I mean, I, if you look into some, I don’t know, some articles, some videos on internet, on YouTube, you will see like a lot of streamers getting like, An awful experience on Twitch.
Something like that. Yeah. I’ve
Bel Wells: seen, yeah. I’ve definitely seen it happen to some streamers and like, [00:58:00] it doesn’t matter if you’re a big streamer or a small streamer.
Yeah.
Bel Wells: I’ve seen it happen to a lot of people. Mm-hmm . I don’t think anybody’s immune, yeah. Happened to me. It hasn’t, like I really am surprised that it hasn’t been more issues.
Like I think I can count on one hand the number of mm-hmm . moments of people coming in my chat. Right. Really, people are very nice. I’m quite glad.
Elz Indriani: Awww. Mekis, do you hear that? Mekis, Ash, thank you so much to all of you here, who’s tuning to InidTalks and also to our stream, Belle and mine, like, yeah, thank you for keeping us happy and safe on Twitch.
Like, thank you for creating a, thank you for being nice
Bel Wells: to
Elz Indriani: us. Right.
Bel Wells: It’s nice to have a good chat.
Elz Indriani: It’s nice to have, yeah. It’s nice to have a good chat. My chat
Bel Wells: will, like, cheer me up and just spend four hours telling me jokes. It’s really just a fun time, usually.
Elz Indriani: Haha, yeah. Yeah, there will always [00:59:00] be a negative person online where they can hide behind a keyboard.
Yeah, true. I mean, you cannot control people in the end. Like, you cannot expect everyone to behave nicely or
Bel Wells: Someone with kindness.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. But, I don’t know. Most of the time, I’m just like
Bel Wells: Don’t
Elz Indriani: care. Like, okay, it’s something negative, but you know, there’s a button, there’s a report button. I live it.
Bel Wells: Right, yeah.
Like, I know who I am. I know, I know who I am. Yeah.
Elz Indriani: It’s more like, I know who I am, I know my values, so I’m
Bel Wells: good.
Elz Indriani: You know, like, yeah. But yeah. So, by the way, Belle, um, what’s your goal in life in Sympathy? Like, this year or maybe in five years from now? I don’t know how I would do that.
Bel Wells: I don’t really have like a numbers goal or anything.
I just want to get faster. I want to get better. Hard to like Can’t really put a number on that. I want to get faster. I want to get better. I would love to race everything. The things that I [01:00:00] haven’t raced yet. I know I’m missing some. And I also really, really want to work on like, confidence when I’m racing.
But I know I have to, I have to like, practice a little before I do races, which is weird for me to get the confidence when I’m racing. But I want to be more confident when I’m racing. Because usually people come up behind me and I’m like, Oh my god, they’re so much faster, I gotta let them go. I should just lift right here and just let them go.
Like, no, they’re faster than me. Even, like, they might not be faster. I just get very intimidated. Yeah, I They flash their lights at me, I’m like, You’re right, you should go.
Elz Indriani: No,
Bel Wells: I let you go.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I mean, building your confidence, building confidence, also my kind of struggle in sim racing, like, it’s easier for you to catch someone than Defending your position from someone behind you.
Bel Wells: So bad at defending.
Elz Indriani: I’m so bad at defending. I
Bel Wells: like chasing people down and then when I get to them, I’m like, I don’t need to pass you, I don’t want anyone to pass [01:01:00] me, let’s just hang out right here.
Elz Indriani: Let’s just hang out right here, yeah. I need to practice more on that. Like, yeah. I think most of the time, every time I want to get better at something, I will go to low 46 too.
Like, I will watch a racing like, Ha! That’s how you do it. That’s how you become a racer. Yeah, or overtakes
Bel Wells: and stuff. I need to learn how to do overtakes from a Whenever I watch people who I’ve had a little bit more practice with driving like Quirk or Malone or Dan Suzuki Sam Soyed, you watch them overtake people or Casey Kirwan I was watching the P.
E. S. T. All Stars back and you watch him like go through the reverse grid and
Yeah, yeah, yeah He’s like, he gets super
Bel Wells: dickered He like predicted my slowness perfectly. I was just, everybody is such a good driver. I want to, I want to sponge all of them.
Elz Indriani: Jesse is like, I don’t know, he’s like different. He looks different.
That’s how I, that’s how I describe him. I bet
Bel Wells: his brain just computes it different. I think everybody computes it differently. [01:02:00] That’s what’s so fun is everyone’s so different and unique. Like we’re all gonna race differently and make different mistakes. It’s, it makes for an interesting race every time.
Elz Indriani: So I was. I was racing with, um, so I did the Six Hours of the Glam back in the day, like I don’t know, it was like a month ago probably? I forgot. It was fun, but I was like racing with someone with, yeah, 5k, I don’t think, basically. And I was asking him, like, how does it feel racing in the top split? Like you racing against someone at your level.
And he said, like, Basically, once you’re in the, in that split, in the top split, everybody can read everybody’s mind. So, it’s more like, driving is not really an issue anymore, like, everybody knows how to get fast at this track, so It’s like
Bel Wells: a lot more mental than physical.
Elz Indriani: Yes, it is. So Yeah. It can be tiring sometimes, but people read each other mind in the top split.
It seems like everybody’s like connected, their brain is like connected to each other. They can, like, [01:03:00] actually predict, like, Oh, you’re slow at this corner. I will take you out. I will take you out. That’s what I
Bel Wells: noticed in the PESC. I kept thinking, like, I should just lift for, because everyone was so much faster than me, I would almost get, like, lapped by the end.
So, one of the races, I almost got lapped. And I was like, I should just lift for the leader. And my chat was like, you don’t need to lift. I can’t remember who it was. I think it was Casey. And we were like, he knows what to do. Like, you don’t need to baby him. You’re gonna wreck him if you do anything weird.
Just behave normally. He knows what he’s doing. He’ll drive around you. He’s a pro. They
Elz Indriani: are pro. They know what to do if they want to, yeah. But, you can actually tell a player in iRacing, like, if they, if they got like, I don’t know, like, 5, 10 years into the service, and you can tell, like, why he got, like, why people got, like, such a high iRacing.
And, I can say, like, iRacing kind of tells you where you are, where, yeah, like, where you are standing in the scene. Like, [01:04:00] Okay, like 5K, I know, like, okay, these people can get his 5K, I don’t think, like, well, 46. She’s like 5K right now, and she drives different than me, the one that is
Bel Wells: below 2K, you know? Uh huh.
Everyone’s 5K is different.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. 2K, probably. Probably. The 2K, probably. I
Bel Wells: don’t know. I go from like, I have no idea because mine just goes all over the place and it will be me from feeling like I feel really confident in races and I’ll like race really good and then my I rating will go up and then even if I’m not feeling, if I still feel good, my I rating will come down.
It doesn’t really matter.
Elz Indriani: It goes
Bel Wells: up and down.
Elz Indriani: It didn’t. It doesn’t really matter. As long as you’re still learning. That’s what I learned from Jamie. Jamie Derrick. I don’t know if you know her. Like, Jamie is my favorite. It’s
Bel Wells: fun to watch learn. Yeah. This is how I felt at the beginning. [01:05:00] I was like, what’s the yellow flag?
What’s the yellow flag? What’s to do here?
Elz Indriani: Jamie is so fun. Like watching her, like you’re just vibing with her in the chat. Like, Oh yeah. Okay. She is learning. And Oh yeah. She’s fun. She’s hosting a lot of, uh, a lot of like practices. I like that. Yeah, I like to join. I like to join sometimes, but every time she starts streaming, I would, I’m still working, I’m still at work, so I’m, I cannot like actually like join every time.
Bel Wells: Uh huh.
Elz Indriani: In my opinion, I feel like you could get any ID, you just gotta work for it. That’s true. Same. Yeah. I mean, uh huh. Your practice kinda determines how your race will go. That’s how I feel. Like, I need to get into one level of confidence. That’s
Bel Wells: definitely how it is for me. Maybe it’s different for other people, but that’s how it is for me.
I have to feel like I have to feel confident. I have to practice a little bit. I can’t just go in [01:06:00] there and, like, pretend to be confident.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah. I won’t be on the
Bel Wells: track.
Elz Indriani: I need to do, like, at least 50 laps of just driving in solo. And then after that, I’ll throw myself into the public practice sector.
So, how do you practice?
Bel Wells: Um, I either, I call them practice races. Like I’ll do a race on Monday or something or Tuesday when they first change and people haven’t really done a bunch of them, or I’ll do a ghost race. Like I was talking about if I don’t have very much time or can’t do a full race. Cause I don’t mind doing a race.
I’m like trying to find, follow people and losing eye reading being at the back.
I don’t
Bel Wells: mind doing that as long as I kind of know the track I can. I actually like learning like that, following other people. That’s probably my favorite way to learn.
I used
Bel Wells: to follow my husband around the track, because we have two separate rigs now, because we have the Logitech, and then he bought the, this, direct drive, nice one.
So we can race at the same time [01:07:00] from time to time. And I like to follow him around the track and learn from him. Or my Twitch chat, I’ll follow them around the track. They’ll teach me the line.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. Practicing with other people really
Bel Wells: It’s more fun for me.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. I find it boring right now, if I just do like a solo, when I really need to do solo as well.
Bel Wells: Yeah. It’s
Elz Indriani: boring. Like, you
Bel Wells: know. I’m trying to. It is boring. I’m trying to do like a time trial face off with some people from my chat, and it’s like I hate learning the tracks by myself, but I feel like it’s teaching me a lot too. They’re definitely way faster than me. I was like, whoa, I lean on you guys a lot.
I can’t do this without following you guys. But it’s helping me learn it in a different way. I feel like it will help long term with other, like, learning different new tracks. Quicker too. And I definitely like to start in a slow car when I’m learning tracks
like, oh yeah,
Bel Wells: Mazda or epr RI try an [01:08:00] MP two.
Sometimes we go, whoa, too, too fast. That’s too
Elz Indriani: fast. Yeah. Faster than, I don’t even know the track. Yeah. Yeah. I, I think that’s the reason why I don’t really drive a lot of. Cause that character is so fast, like, I need more time to react in every corner, like, give me some time. I like to do it. They are
Bel Wells: fun though.
Have you tried the LMP3?
Elz Indriani: Oh, I like it.
Bel Wells: It’s a
Elz Indriani: good gateway one. Yeah, I like it. I like the LMP. Oh, you do like it, okay. Uh huh. I like it. At least, at least that character kinda makes sense to me. I don’t get, I don’t know, like, I’m not a fan of LMP2. I don’t know, I feel like I’d rather drive the Super Formula.
Bel Wells: I’d
Elz Indriani: rather drive the open wheel, like Super Formula, I think. Oh, are you, are you into open wheel?
Bel Wells: I don’t, that’s probably the car I drive the least. I do F3s and I do F4s fairly frequently.
Uh huh.
Bel Wells: [01:09:00] And I used to do the F1. Back and they did a new release of it, and I never bought the new version, so I haven’t done that for a while
Mm
Bel Wells: hmm.
Oh and the super formula lights I did a little bit in the rain, but mostly I’ve been doing road cars of recent like since the rain came out But I do go through phases of depends on the track combo Yeah,
Elz Indriani: I’m looking
Bel Wells: more into that
Elz Indriani: I haven’t gotten into like fully committed to one series You know like in iRacing we have our There’s so many options.
Yeah, like, it’s hard for me to commit to one series. Like,
Bel Wells: I want to do
Elz Indriani: this, but next week Cause I look into the race based on the tracks. If I like the tracks, I will do it. More than the money. That’s how I do it. That’s
Bel Wells: how I am.
Elz Indriani: Yeah.
Bel Wells: I’m trying to force myself to do tracks I don’t like. Which, sometimes I’m like, oh, I kinda like this now.
And sometimes I’m like, yep, don’t like it.
Elz Indriani: There’s one track that you will always hate it.
Bel Wells: Do you have a track you don’t like? Oh [01:10:00] yes, I do. I
Elz Indriani: hate the Barcelona. What about you? I don’t love Silverstone.
Bel Wells: I’m trying to like it. I like it more than I used to. But I still don’t love it.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, Silverstone is quite a challenging track for me.
I liked
Bel Wells: Silverstone in the F1 games. I remember loving it in the F1 games, but in iRacing, I don’t know what it is. I don’t know what it is. I just don’t like it.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m not, I’ve never been a big fan of Silverstone, but it’s an okay track for me. Like, I, uh, oh, but I cannot say that because I don’t have it in iRacing, but I have it in another game, so I cannot judge it.
So you know what it’s like. I know pretty much. I used to race it in ACC like two years ago, but the Maggots, Becketts, um, I forgot the other one. Uh huh, it was like
Bel Wells: trick corner. Yeah. I remember liking that one.
Elz Indriani: I I struggle with that in [01:11:00] Silverstone, I think. And also like the chicane. Not like a chicane, like, you know?
Bel Wells: Oh yeah, that’s a hard one too. I
Elz Indriani: forgot the name.
Bel Wells: The walls are so close.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. I’ve never been a fan of it, but Yvonne, um, our community manager, she raised in Silverstone in real life. I don’t know, maybe like two, three years ago, like, yeah. Oh, that’s so cool.
Bel Wells: Yeah,
Elz Indriani: she was raised in Cyprus. I think,
Bel Wells: I thought her partner too, Sophie, also did, um, I think she got to raise brands.
Brands hatch in real
Elz Indriani: life.
Bel Wells: That’s so cool.
Elz Indriani: Wait, wait, is it? Wait, Sophie, were you? Ah, wait, Sophie was in chat. I forgot to say hi. Gran Turismo is the gateway drug. Yes, it is a drug. By the way, Sophie! Were you raising in brands? I know, I know, you fall. I thought
Bel Wells: I remembered you saying that the momentum on that hill that you go down is like, pushes you against the seat like a roller coaster.
I
Elz Indriani: think that’s what I like about real racing and karting. Like, you feel the G force like
Bel Wells: Oh, I can’t [01:12:00] even I love roller coasters. I would probably I think that’s why rally in real life probably feels so crazy. I can’t even imagine.
Elz Indriani: I bet, I bet. Oh, you were Oh, it was just your race license. Oh, oh, were you Were you getting your license back then and you were like testing it at brands?
Oh, that’s so fun. I would love to get my license one day. Like, if I really wanted to get into real racing, I would start thinking about, you know, like, getting my license and So you
Bel Wells: have to get a race license to participate in, like, race races? Yeah,
Elz Indriani: I believe And you do that
Bel Wells: by track days?
Elz Indriani: For track days, I don’t think you need, like, a specific racing license for that, but once you want to get into racing, like, from the different, from the lowest class, you, I believe you already need to have, like, a racing license, something like that.
But karting, as a start, I don’t think you need [01:13:00] a racing license for karting.
Bel Wells: I want to go racing.
Elz Indriani: Yeah.
Bel Wells: So you should join
Elz Indriani: the screen to skip. I would love to have you in Scrinters Pit next time, because I saw you, you were in it. Yeah, the summer
Bel Wells: series. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be out of town for the later ones in August, one of them for my brother’s wedding.
The other ones, there’s a chance I’m working, but I’m not positive yet. I see.
Elz Indriani: I see.
Bel Wells: But yeah, if I’m available, I’m totally in.
Elz Indriani: Mm hmm. I would love for you. What was your last race in Scrinters Pit? Was it the Woman’s Day?
Bel Wells: Yeah, it was the International Women’s Day. Oh yeah. Which was fun.
Elz Indriani: That’s New Phoenix.
Was that in Phoenix?
Bel Wells: Yeah, that was in
Elz Indriani: Phoenix. That’s Phoenix. I
Bel Wells: was not on the simulator even.
Elz Indriani: Hahaha. I was, oh yeah, when that event, when that event is happening, I was on my way to California. I was on a road trip.
Bel Wells: Oh,
Elz Indriani: [01:14:00] wow. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was so fun. Normally for crack days, you can’t get like, Oh, a license for five days.
Okay. I see. Huh, interesting. So
Bel Wells: like drive, drive, drive, like a race car driver. Uhhuh, . Otherwise you have to drive kind of normal. Normal. I have no idea. I
Elz Indriani: have no idea. Like
Bel Wells: So have your own car. I’d be afraid.
Elz Indriani: I would love to do a tech day. One day, like, um, I live very close to Sonoma. Sonoma Raceway. I live like, very close to that track.
Yeah,
Bel Wells: are you by like, Laguna Seca? Or, what else is Sonoma is in California? Yeah,
Elz Indriani: Sonoma, uh, Laguna Seca, we have Baton Velo. But Baton Velo is not on Irizing, so, yeah. I, I don’t know the track. But, the closest one to me [01:15:00] is the Sonoma. So, I would love to. That’d be a fun one. Yeah, that would be fun. From my place to Laguna Seca, it still take like, Three hours I think?
Two hours? Three hours? It’s
Bel Wells: still pretty far. That’s a lot of California. Like half of California.
Elz Indriani: California
Bel Wells: is big. So long.
Elz Indriani: Oh yeah, the Long Beach also. I mean, Long Beach is technically not a permanent track. Not always
Bel Wells: there. It’s not always
Elz Indriani: there. Just like the Chicago street course. I
Bel Wells: do love Long Beach.
I think the GR86s, or the GR86s are there right now.
Elz Indriani: Oh my god. I gained a lot of irony doing the GR86 at Long Beach. Super fun. I love fun,
Bel Wells: I love those. I don’t know why, but they’re very entertaining.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I love it. I think I just think kind of makes me loving in the strict, the strict course. I don’t know.
’cause I used to hate doing the strip course ’cause Yeah, because the walls
Bel Wells: are so close. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: yeah, yeah. It’s like a narrow track and Yeah. But [01:16:00] I dunno, since I’m getting into the Long Beach, I feel like, oh, it’s pretty fun. Being close to the wall is fun. Like, oh, I
Bel Wells: agree. I haven’t fallen in love with Belle Isle yet, but I really like Long Beach quite a lot.
I’ve never done Detroit. We have Detroit on iRacing now, don’t we? Yes, we do. Or Chicago?
Elz Indriani: We have Chicago, Belle Isle, and Long Beach as a street track. So, I think my last street track that I need to buy, guys, is the Belle Isle. I don’t have that. I don’t think I own that track. So that will be the last street course that I need to buy.
It is a fun one. Oh yeah, and Willow Springs! Ah, is that not
Bel Wells: free?
Elz Indriani: I thought
Bel Wells: that was free. I might be wrong.
Elz Indriani: Oh wait, was it
Bel Wells: free? Something’s there this week. I think Imza Vintage is there this week. Oh yeah?
Elz Indriani: Ugh. I like the track in Gran Turismo, but in Irising, not really my favorite, honestly.
Bel Wells: Yeah, I don’t think [01:17:00] I own it, maybe.
If it’s not free, I don’t think I own it. I don’t know what it looks like.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. It’s like Do you have Sonoma?
Bel Wells: I do have Sonoma, yeah. So Cause I used to do just the, like, NASCAR. Uh huh. And that was one of the, one of the few road ones that they would do. That and COTA. Oh yeah. I actually liked it. It’s so small, but, but I like tracks with elevation.
Like, Bathurst and Nordschleife.
Elz Indriani: Oh yeah. I love it. I love track with elevation things. Cause it really teach um, how you break it. But it’s, you know, like, the trans compression kind of thing, I learned that from Surilio. Yeah, going up the hill or
Bel Wells: down the hill, I was like, no, I’ve never thought about that.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, how you brake, when it’s going up, when it’s about to go down.
Bel Wells: Do you think about those things in real life now? I never used to, but now I do.
Elz Indriani: I do now. I do now.
Bel Wells: Like, driving in real life, I’m like, oh, I’m going up the hill, maybe, you know, change the braking.
Elz Indriani: I’m going
Bel Wells: down. It kinda works. [01:18:00] Why am I thinking about this?
This is so weird now.
Elz Indriani: Yep. And it makes me kind of feel smarter on the road right now, like, you have a faster response about everything than other drivers on the street. That’s how I feel. I can, I can like yapping, like, ah, this guy is so slow at this point. Like, ah, I don’t know.
Oh wait, Willow Spring is for sale. Oh my god, go buy it. Yeah, okay, I will work hard so I can buy the track and I will host, I will host, um, a screen to speed event in Willow Spring if I own the track.
Bel Wells: For practice.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, for practice.
Bel Wells: A warm up. For the real life.
Elz Indriani: In North, you can go around without a license, but it costs.
Oh, wait, even if you want to race the Nordschleife, you need a special license for that. So even if you already have like a racing license, if you want to race in the Nordschleife, You [01:19:00] have to
Bel Wells: get Nordschleife specific?
Elz Indriani: Yeah, like additional license. That would be my,
Bel Wells: that’s probably my dream location. If I could pick a track to go to, that’s where I’d go.
Elz Indriani: Nordschleife?
Bel Wells: Yeah, definitely.
Elz Indriani: So, do you actually know the track? Like, do you actually like remember the whole track or not?
Bel Wells: Uh Probably, yeah. I think I could safely say yes. I remember it.
Elz Indriani: I don’t, I don’t remember the time. I still get lost in Nordschleife.
Bel Wells: It took me a long time. That was probably, it was more like a self challenge.
I was like, can I learn this? I was like, I don’t know. And then I, turns out I can and I love it. It’s so fun. Very satisfying.
Elz Indriani: How did you learn the Nordschleife?
Bel Wells: Did you actually,
Elz Indriani: like, Maybe we’re
Bel Wells: on a traffic
Elz Indriani: coordinator? Probably doing
Bel Wells: races and being like, I’m gonna make a lap and then I’d crash like right before the final thing and just learning the hard way.[01:20:00]
I was in a very low I rating land for a long time, kind of going through some growing pains, learning how to drive. And definitely following people has helped so much, like following, um, Most of my chat, most people on iRacing, I feel like, are better than me. And so just following them around would teach me a lot of things.
And that’s really, like we were saying, so much more fun to learn. And they, my chat has given me lots of tips. They, like, can see what I’m doing wrong much better than I can. I’m not watching myself. And they’ll, like, adjust my breaking or tell me when to shift. And sometimes I’ll fix it. It definitely helps me a lot.
Become a lot faster, a lot quicker.
Elz Indriani: And is there any like struggle, not like, not like a struggle, but challenge, more like a challenge. Like what are the biggest challenge that you’ve got in
Bel Wells: Simracing? Uh, [01:21:00] probably technology. Probably when I try and turn on my stream and it’s like not working or it won’t load in, something’s wrong with the triple monitors.
It’s really just technological difficulties and probably that I’m. Well, that doesn’t matter with simracing, that’s with streaming, that I’m shy. Simracing is really, I’m just kinda, I don’t know, I don’t know what the struggle’s been. That I’m a little bit nervous, maybe, but that kind of helps. I feel like it’s good to be nervous.
You can use the nerves if you can. You can harness them. Sometimes I feel like they’re just gonna make me throw up.
Elz Indriani: That’s really true. That’s really true. Like, nervousness is good. I think I learned that also
Bel Wells: from Like a good stress. There’s a good stress and there’s a bad stress. And sometimes I can like, harness my stress and sometimes my stress is just like It makes me want to throw up.
I can’t control it at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Elz Indriani: I was really on that. But now I feel [01:22:00] like, I’ve been racing for two years now. This is my second year. And I still feel that nervous every time I’m trying to, I’m getting into a race. But it kinda, it’s more like something that I can control now.
Bel Wells: Yeah. Yeah, it’s like a free, like, sport excitement now.
It’s less like, I’m gonna vomit and die, and
Elz Indriani: Like, when I first started doing, say what is it?
Bel Wells: Yeah, I could barely breathe when I first started racing. I don’t know, I was, I was so afraid of wrecking other people or having other people be mad at me. I really don’t like upsetting other people.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, me too. I don’t want to ruin someone else’s day, but yeah.
Bel Wells: Yeah, exactly. I would much rather wreck myself because I can get in another race and be like, eh, no big deal.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah. You’re so mean, but now I’m starting to get somewhat, not like ignoring, but things can happen to everyone. [01:23:00] So if I made a mistake, I’m sorry. I’ll be like that.
Bel Wells: Yeah, I’ll say sorry.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, if we made a mistake, we say sorry in chat.
We say sorry. My number
Bel Wells: one used quick text. Sorry.
Elz Indriani: Sorry. Sorry. I have that on my wheel. I have
Bel Wells: that. I should probably put it on my wheel.
Elz Indriani: Oh yeah, it really helps. Cause I don’t like to get into the voice chat. I never, I never. No,
Bel Wells: I don’t either. I never have and I don’t want to. I
Elz Indriani: don’t wanna, like, you know what, sometimes every time I’m getting into the race, I treat myself like, guys, I’m just a ghost.
Yeah,
Bel Wells: nobody sees me here. I’m just an AI racing. Just another AI in the race.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I’m just like, I never talk in the voice chat. Like, Sierra, she’s so bubbly in the voice chat. Like, she can be in the officials and, Hi! I was like, oh look, you’re so brave. I was like, [01:24:00] oh no! Or when somebody
Bel Wells: crash.
Elz Indriani: She will be like, yo, why are you crashing into me?
I was like, wow, she’s so brave. I want to have her braveness in my life. Like,
Bel Wells: she’s so funny. I love how different everybody’s personalities are. I love it. I love all the different collection of, like, iRacing streamers. It’s such a eclectic bunch, but we all have the same love in common. You can tell we all love iRacing.
Elz Indriani: Mm hmm. Yeah, that’s That’s what I like, like, I’ve been interviewing, like, a lot of streamers here on this Init Talks and I feel like, yeah, every girls are different. So, the way you talk and everything is like, Huh, that’s how, oh, that’s how my friend behave. Oh, that’s really cute. Oh, that’s so fun. You know, like, it’s so fun to meeting, like, a bunch of different girls who got into sim racing.
Like, we have the same hobbies, same passion, but our characteristics. [01:25:00] are different. That’s how I see, like, we’re so different. Like, for example, like, me and Love46, our energy is like a totally different person. Yeah, completely different. I’m more like a clown, and Liu, Liu is more like, okay, I’m getting into the race, I’ll be serious, like,
Bel Wells: yeah.
So serious. Cheers. Love to watch you both, and it’s like a totally different experience, both of the streams. I love it.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. So, I feel like if I wanna hang out, like chilling, I’ll be going to this streamer, but if I wanna learn something, I will go to Love46 and Emre, like that, you know?
Bel Wells: Yeah, it’s like what you’re in the mood to I Twitch is so cool.
I was thinking about what a different like when I was a kid, I’d get home from school and like turn on one of the 12 channels I had.
Mm
Bel Wells: hmm. And now it’s like you could come home from school and turn on the internet and there’s so much stuff. It’s so crazy. Yeah. I I don’t even know what I would be doing as [01:26:00] a teenager now.
I think it would be so different.
Elz Indriani: I mean, I love it that now the internet is Keeps, how do you say, like, the internet world, social media, everything is like growing so fast and you have a lot of options to do right now, like, if you’re bored, I can just hang out on Twitch, like, learning, or watching,
Bel Wells: in like numerous different channels or streams, there’s always something going on, it’s like there’s a party somewhere,
Elz Indriani: there’s always a party somewhere, and there’s always something happening, like, if you turn into Madmelon’s stream right now, and you’re still You’re tuning it like later, you will see like something like different.
So it’s like an endless entertainment, but I kinda back again, I kinda miss the old times when you’re like having this local one event, playing with your family, I kinda
Bel Wells: miss that. Like that schedule, you’d look up the TV schedule in the newspaper.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, the [01:27:00] old times, I must say. Kinda miss the old times, like, yeah.
Bel Wells: Yeah, it’s changed a lot. It’s fun, it’s really unique how much we can connect now across all, like, so far. Like, I have a friend in France, I have friends in Germany, friends in England, friends everywhere. Yeah. Friends from, like, sim racing that I’ve met in Utah now. Oh! It’s crazy.
Yeah.
Bel Wells: And it’s like, I never, my friends, when I was growing up, none of them even liked video games.
I didn’t have any girlfriends that would play video games with me.
And it was
Bel Wells: like me and my brother and I could get my dad to play with me. Mm-hmm . So it’s really cool that you can just make these kinds of easy connections and like screen to speed has the whole, like a whole collection of awesome female sim racers, andrs look up too.
And it’s so I really love the Twitch is cool.
Elz Indriani: Did you, did you enjoy your time raising script to spend?
Bel Wells: Yeah, definitely [01:28:00] because it’s like, it’s chill. It’s mellow, but I also, it’s like, it is, uh, what’s the word, it’s like real, much more real than an official race and Yeah, yeah. Uh, iRacing, like I get nervous for that too, but Oh yeah?
From the screen to screen, there’s like broadcast and stuff, my heart is like, It’s a lot, just, uh, league races make me feel like it’s a lot more serious
Elz Indriani: Mm hmm,
Bel Wells: mm hmm. Than official races.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I feel like, I do more of league races than the officials, no? Oh, I do a lot
Bel Wells: more officials.
Elz Indriani: I don’t know, I feel like, right now, I learn a lot in a league race because I got into this league race in Oval and most of the guys are like 5k, 3k, so I feel like I learn things in a hard way.
Bel Wells: So, don’t worry guys, you’ll be fine with me. It’s hard not to learn. Yeah, beat me real hard.
Elz Indriani: So I can learn something, I can bring that to officials. I think that’s my practice right [01:29:00] now, do a lot of race in, in the league race and then Getting to the officials so I can like, beat everyone in the officials.
Yeah, then you
Bel Wells: go in with confidence in the officials. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s the thing. So, I’m thinking like, maybe? It really depends, but if I got the time, I will get into the screen to screen iRacing, because we are racing in F4 this season. The open world, finally. I was
Bel Wells: I saw you doing, um, time attacks too, I think?
Yeah,
Elz Indriani: we did. We did the time attack. So you can go to iRacing, look at the time attack, and we have the script to script. So, yeah, basically we do the time attack before the race. and that the result in the time of night kind of determine like where you stand on the grid so that’s like oh
Bel Wells: fun that’s cool i like that
Elz Indriani: yeah so if you’re free sometimes on this on saturday feel free to join though really i will give you the link after this if you want to [01:30:00] join and i would love to have you racing with us
Bel Wells: yeah send it my way and if i’m free i’ll definitely participate
Elz Indriani: or if you want to get into this uh the upcoming summer party that’s also welcome you’re also welcome Oh, the time attack is separate from the race, right?
So the time attack is separate from the race. But you can do the time attack. I’m pretty sure you
can do.
Elz Indriani: Like, you can score. Just to see, like, just to see, you know. Like, the upcoming one is far.
Bel Wells: Oh, wait.
Elz Indriani: We’re on maintenance right now. Bam! I racing. Bang, bang. We’re on maintenance. We cannot play. Oh, no. Yeah, we cannot read this right now.
Whatever will we do? What we gonna do?
Bel Wells: I’m not going outside.
Elz Indriani: So, on the top 5 ladies in Time Attack, um, will get like a bonus coin. Bell, you should do it, Bell. You can do it, Bell. Guys, do you guys think that Bell can be the fastest on [01:31:00] the grid? So you get, like, an extra point, basically, from the time attack.
And I like it, which is very cool. Like, you know, like, we have our brands, um, We have our brand, the Screen2Speed in iRacing UI, and I don’t know, I just look into it, and I’m like, wow, this is so cool. You know, like, yo, Screen2Speed, so cool in the time attack, yo, let’s go.
Bel Wells: It is cool. I think I’ve seen it when I, um, scrolling down to my mountain time attack.
Elz Indriani: Oh, to your mountain time attack. Right, right. Yeah, it’s on top, so it’s not hard.
Bel Wells: Uh huh, and I saw the little logo. Woo hoo!
Elz Indriani: The logo, the summer, the summer logo. And, yeah, we will have this upcoming, um, screen to speed, I call it screen to speed summer party, because it’s summer, it’s hot, so we’ll be doing, like, a showcase, like I’m, I’m planning to invite all my streamer friends, and I, I invited you.
I will give you more details about it later after this interview, and I would love to have [01:32:00] you race with us, Belle. Please. Please, please, please race with us. Because you’re so fun to be around, and I don’t think I’ve raced with you.
Bel Wells: I don’t remember. Did you do, I feel like you did maybe one of the, was it the Spring Cup I did before International Women’s Day?
I can’t remember what I did before that for Screen to Speed, but I feel like you were maybe in one of the races there.
Elz Indriani: I
Bel Wells: just never saw you.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I, I can’t remember. Because I don’t think I did the Spring Cup. Because the Spring Cup was not on iRacing. Maybe
Bel Wells: it was the fall cup. It was a long time ago.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m planning to get into the iRacing. The iRacing one. Yeah, it really depends because normally, like, the NASCAR thing and stuff, the racetrack, and yeah. I’m so happy actually, like, finally the pandemic is over, [01:33:00] we can go to a racetrack, we can travel, that’s the fun
Bel Wells: part. That is fun.
You’re probably tired from all the travel and fun.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I’m still not feeling well, but I don’t know, like, every time I hit the stream, start streaming button, it’s just like, I cannot, not like I cannot forget about something, but I just become like, ah! And then when I Shut it off. I’ll be like, Oh God, I’m so tired.
Bel Wells: You’re like, Okay, alright, I need a nap.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I need to rest. Okay, my bad. Especially after like 5 hours stream, like racing and stuff, like You’re like, I can’t sit here anymore. Yeah, yeah. Do you like that also? Like, after streaming, like, Oh God, I’m so tired. Yeah,
Bel Wells: and I don’t usually notice. And then I stand up and I’m like, Ooh, my knees, my hips,
Elz Indriani: my back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You won’t notice that until you get up. From your SimRig, like, okay, my bad.
Bel Wells: But then I also get up and I’m like, oh, I want to sit down and [01:34:00] race more. Just like, one more.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah. Just one more race. Just one more race. When you’re in the hype on that, you don’t want to stop, you know? And then once you’re like, okay, the race gone bad, okay, this is, um, a nature call.
The nature calling me to stop. Like, yeah, no.
Bel Wells: You can’t till the adrenaline runs out.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. And Matthew, Matthew, he said, like, you get more nervous in, um, you get more nervous in the league racing. For iRacing. I think I do.
Bel Wells: I felt like I did, because you see them every week. You’re like, you really don’t want to wrong them then.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. Maybe from
Bel Wells: your buddies, kind of.
Elz Indriani: You don’t want to cause any problem with someone you race every week.
Bel Wells: I don’t like drama. I like drama free, chill, nobody be angry, everyone have fun, that’s all I want. Yeah, everybody
Elz Indriani: have fun. Everybody wins in my race. Yes.
Bel Wells: I want everyone to win and everybody to have fun.
Everybody’s a winner! Oh my god,
Elz Indriani: so [01:35:00] funny! Screaming Cheese! Oh my god, you missed it, no? Hi! Yes, and we are with Stormalina. I know, right? She’s so amazing. We are talking a lot about things, and we were talking about, um, how she got into simracing and stuff, but don’t worry, Screaming Cheese, if you missed it, you can follow us on social media at EnidEsports, so you can see a bit of the interview.
Cheese!
Bel Wells: Beauty. It’s all recorded.
Elz Indriani: It’s all recorded. So don’t worry if you miss it, you will see the clips on our YouTube and also on our social media. Don’t worry. You can watch the vlog too. But don’t worry. Don’t worry. I got you covered. By the way, Belle, I remember I had to ask you this question. But I forgot!
Now I remember. So I got to ask this before I forgot again. So what’s the story behind your name? Why Storm Malina?
Bel Wells: Oh! It’s my childhood nickname. Oh! From, like, being a toddler. [01:36:00] My I used to throw a lot of tantrums. I love to yell no and throw stuff. I was a little bit of a problem child. And my parents would say, here comes Stormalina.
Because my middle name is Malina. So like, Hurricane Malina, you know, Stormalina. Come through. Come through making messes, throwing stuff around, crying, wailing. And it stuck kind of my whole life, so when I was being like, annoying as a teenager, my parents would be like, don’t be Stormalina. Don’t
be
Bel Wells: Stormalina.
And I
Bel Wells: don’t know, when I was signing up for my Twitch account, I was just like, this kind of fits. And it’s not my real name, really, it’s just my middle name, so. Right, right, right. It’s Maureen Cognito, which I like. You’re having
Elz Indriani: a Like, Love4T6 also, right? Like, Love4T6. Her name is like, Liu, but Love4T6. I wish I could be more creative on finding a pseudo name for my channel.
Now I’m kind of stuck with Elsinreani. [01:37:00] That’s my real name.
Bel Wells: I think so. It’s, it works. It’s perfect. And you can call you El or Elsie. It really just, it works.
Elz Indriani: I like to make it short because a lot of people kind of, not like hard to say my name, but people kind of like Just say it differently. So I’m just gonna l that’s it.
L. L. Sure.
Bel Wells: Keep it simple.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, keep it simple. Just L keep it simple. L. Can’t mess it up. Yeah, you cannot mess it up. If you’re still messing up, then I dunno what to do with you anymore. Like, okay, we’re working on it together. , LZ. Oh my God. Yeah. Lz. Like L and z. Yeah. Sometimes I like it like that way, like lz, like lz, rowina, rowina.
I like mal. But Stormalina is like, I don’t know your name, like your brand name, Stormalina kind of stuck in my head right now, so every time I’m talking to someone like, for example like, I’m about to interview Belle, but I wouldn’t say your name Belle, I’ll be like Stormalina. Yeah,
Bel Wells: [01:38:00] Stormalina, yeah some people don’t know what to call me, I’m really fine with anything.
Elz Indriani: I mean, if We don’t have to put our real name in iRacing, you can just put your name StormMalina in the race, you know what I mean? I think you
Bel Wells: can. I don’t have my actual, like, government name. I have my, my husband’s name. Like,
Elz Indriani: Felwolf isn’t
Bel Wells: my government name.
Elz Indriani: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. My husband’s
Bel Wells: name is my last name.
So I don’t think they, I think it used to be much more strict with the, I can’t remember how they used to do it. Like, I had to be a name on a credit card, but I know they let you make some adjustments.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah, especially if you’re like a streamer, you can like change it a
Bel Wells: little bit.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, maybe I should contact Iris and be like, just change my name, I don’t know.
Cause it’s just like, I don’t feel comfortable, like, to use like a full legal name. You know Like, I, you know, like, I just like to keep it like, if it’s gaming, just keep it on gaming. Like, I don’t really like to associate.
Bel Wells: Yeah, I like to blend in, [01:39:00] in my little world. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bel Wells: Yeah,
Elz Indriani: I don’t know.
Maybe I will contact Aisling after this. Can I change my name? To my streamer’s name? That’s it. We’ll see. I hope they’ll let me. Nah, they won’t. I hope. I hope. But they would. Yeah. And by the way, Belle, down to the last question. It’s been really nice, by the way, chatting with you and sending you, like, a big hug.
I love you. I finally made it. I’m super happy. Because yeah, your name is like everywhere. We, everybody like, not like everybody talking about you, but we always have a topic about you. Like you’re the one who’s having fun on the stream. And yeah, you, you really enjoy simracing. And that’s what we love about you.
And I wish, I wish I could be like you more. Like actually enjoy it. If I crash, I crash. You know, like, if I crash, I crash.
Bel Wells: There’s definitely moments where I’m like, [01:40:00] ugh. There’s definitely moments where I’m a little upset. But usually, for the most part, it’s just very fun. That’s what’s so great about iRacing.
Like, there’s another race in half an hour. All week. It’s all, it’s there all week. It’s great. Try again later.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I mean, I should be more chill like you, I mean. Cause, again, I started to become a tryhard. Like, argh, I want this. I want that. I want this. Yeah,
Bel Wells: I’ve been through that. I was like, I want this podium.
I’m gonna have to kill you. I don’t know how to overtake, so I have to kill you. I have to, I’m sorry I don’t
Elz Indriani: know how to overtake you safely, but I will do it the hard way for now. I will learn the soft way. Yeah, the hard way.
Bel Wells: We’re practicing, I’m sorry, you have to be part of the struggle.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, you have to be a part of the lesson.
Bel Wells: A part of the lesson, yeah.
Elz Indriani: You’ll become a part of the lesson, though.
Bel Wells: A casualty.
Elz Indriani: So yeah, since you’re like really fun to be around, you love streaming, and [01:41:00] yeah, you have that regular stream schedule, basically, like on the weekend.
Bel Wells: Yeah, I’m kind of all over the place. It’s for like when I’m free, really.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, so is there any streamers or sim racers or Old that you look up to
Bel Wells: your inspiration. Well, I love, love 46 and Emory. Those are like, I would love to be as fast as, they’re just so good. They’re very talented.
Mm-hmm .
Bel Wells: They’re probably the first ladies I noticed. And then the iron dames in real life, they’re always winning stuff.
Like they’re impressive.
They’re, it’s so
Bel Wells: cool to have like an all ladies team and they’re just doing great out there. Mm-hmm . I like when my cat keeps me up to date of them. And then, I also just like the streamers that are having fun, like Matt Malone and Quirt. I feel like I learn a lot from Dan Suzuki.
Every time I break something on the triples or the display, my husband has to watch a Dan Suzuki video to fix it, so. He’s been very [01:42:00] helpful.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, Dan Suzuki, some sort of, like this year, or about the triple spin
Bel Wells: tip, something like that. Very helpful. Yeah. Even I have learned how to like adjust triple settings and like, whoa!
Oh yeah,
Bel Wells: yeah, It’s fun to learn all this stuff. Iracing has taught me a lot about computers, accidentally, because you kind of have to, I don’t know, sometimes troubleshoot some stuff. Right. It’s good though. I feel like I should know more about computers by now.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I don’t think, well, simracing in general is more technical, that’s all I’d say.
Bel Wells: It’s so technical, like you at least have to know how to plug in a USB.
Elz Indriani: As simple as that.
Bel Wells: My mom struggles with that.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. Before I get into simracing, I don’t think I know how to build a PC or how does the PC work. Like, inside the case, like, I don’t know how it works. It’s more like a magic for me, but Yeah, after I’m getting into sim racing and iRacing, I build [01:43:00] my own PC.
Like, I feel like I’m proud of myself. That’s so
Bel Wells: cool! Well done! I wanna build one. I’m gonna take this one apart and try and put it back together. Try and put it
Elz Indriani: back together, like a Lego. Yeah.
Bel Wells: If I don’t stream on Friday, we know what happens.
Elz Indriani: I’m planning to build another PC, like, for streaming. Probably, like, next Friday.
Oh, that’s so cool! So, everything is, like, cheap, on discount. Maybe I’ll get Uhhuh, you know? But Yeah. ’cause building a, building a pc and I don’t know, like
Bel Wells: I would love to do that. I just wanna know. I can do that.
Elz Indriani: It’s fun. It’s really fun. It’s really fun. It’s like, if you know how to build a Lego, you’ll get the logic.
Yeah. It’s like Legos. Yeah. Mm-hmm . You’ll get the logic off building it, I mean. Yeah, well, testing it, turning it on after you put everything is the scariest part of building a PC. And
Bel Wells: then waiting for it to like register on the desktop when it comes to the screen.
Elz Indriani: I need to see the Windows logo. [01:44:00] It’s
Bel Wells: probably such a good feeling though when it turns on.
Yeah,
Elz Indriani: yeah, it is. Like, when I, when I succeed building my PC, building my sim setup and everything, I feel like that is like the biggest achievement for me in sim racing. More than winning the race.
Bel Wells: That’s cool. That’s hard to do. I have no idea how to do that. Did you just learn through YouTube videos or how did you learn?
Oh,
Elz Indriani: trust me. I learned from YouTube University.
Bel Wells: That’s how I learned how to be a plumber. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: that’s how I learned. And also I read some articles on Reddit. Like, yeah,
just reading articles on
Elz Indriani: Reddit. I don’t really like dive deep into it, but just look
on
Elz Indriani: the surface and just to see a little review about what you want.
Bel Wells: Yeah, and then you’re like, here we go, let’s try it, and you did it.
Elz Indriani: Like, yeah.
Bel Wells: That’s awesome.
Elz Indriani: I think to build a PC, you should know what specs do you want in your PC. If you know what you want in your [01:45:00] PC, then finding the piece of it, like going to Micro Center, or like Best Buy or something like that, it’s not that hard, you know.
As long as you know what you want. What you want to maximize in your PC. I think that’s how I do it. For me, when I build this PC, I want to, I don’t care about the rest, because I was focusing on my GPU, my graphic cards. So, for my graphic cards, then I will start like, finding the guide about which motherboard, what RAM, CPU, and everything.
Bel Wells: Nice. Yeah. Build it around there.
Elz Indriani: Uh huh, yeah. That’s how I do it. That’s how I do. Building my PC and learning from YouTube Universe.
Bel Wells: And we go from there.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, we go from there. If we made a mistake, we learn something from there.
Bel Wells: Yeah, we’ll learn from the mistake. I’ll take it. It’s just like iRacing.
Elz Indriani: Just like in iRacing.
Yeah, I mean, after all, like, iRacing is really, like, teaching us about a lot of things. Not just iRacing.
Bel Wells: It’s so good. It [01:46:00] teaches you, like, to fail and keep trying. You’re like, okay, you didn’t win. Let’s try again. It’s not the end of the world. It’s still fun.
Elz Indriani: And it really teach you like, oh yeah, and it’s time for you to actually learn this thing.
Because if you’re not learning, you’re not like, you’re not progressing, you’re not improving, so. Yeah. Yeah, that’s why I’m like, okay, it’s time for me to actually go fast at least, right? Especially like Yeah, definitely.
Bel Wells: If you ever find yourself in like, autopilot days, and you’re just like, what am I doing?
Yeah.
Elz Indriani: I don’t know, am I driving? Am I driving or am I not driving? Who’s
Bel Wells: driving?
Elz Indriani: Yeah. Iron Dames for the win. Yeah, they’re, they’re exceptionally good. Like, yeah. I think they won the Imola. Wait, were they on podium? I think they did. Were they winning the Imola? I forgot, but you will always find her, find this Iron Dames in podium, winning the race.
Oh yeah.
Bel Wells: It’s so impressive. It’s, like, inspirational. I want to be [01:47:00] fast. I want to beat the boys, too.
Elz Indriani: I want to beat everyone. I want to beat everyone, yeah. I want to be fast. I want to be fast and beat everyone.
Bel Wells: I really like to beat myself. I think that’s why the rally has been so fun lately, because it’s just yourself on the mountain and you’re just, like, trying to beat your old times.
It’s very fun.
Elz Indriani: I think you mentioned also earlier, you like the, you like the Richard Burns movie.
Bel Wells: Yeah, that was really fun. I just barely, my husband just barely installed that for me, and it’s, it’s like, oh my gosh, there’s so many different rally cars, so fun, different rally tracks, I would love to get more rally tracks on iRacing.
I was wondering, as I was driving up the canyons by my house, uh, it would be so fun to get, I wonder if you could make canyons, like, how do, how do they make the tracks on iRacing, how do they make the tracks for, Like Pike’s Peak. I want to make the track by my house so I can race them. I wonder how people do that.[01:48:00]
Elz Indriani: Yeah. It got me wonder also. But iRacing did such a fantastic job. Scanning the car and the track. I know for a lot of people iRacing can be pricey because you need to pay the subscription you need to buy the content but I feel like you get what you pay. Like, I feel like okay you need to spend like a certain amount of money and Yeah, you have to, like, pay for something, but you don’t actually get what you pay, so yeah.
Yeah,
Bel Wells: they have options too, like, I love that they do the participation thing if you do. It’s eight races out of the season. You get credits like seven bucks or eight bucks for a class. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do that every season. So it’s like free car. I love it. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. I like that they have that. Very cool.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, the participation program. I love it. Like, yeah, I wish I could be more committed to one series instead of like keep on jumping to every.
Bel Wells: Oh, leapfrogging [01:49:00] around.
Elz Indriani: But my problem is like, I cannot race every race. Like, yeah, that’s That’s my biggest issue with
Bel Wells: commenting. Flavor of the week for me. Not every, I can’t do everything.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah, that’s what I wish. We’ll see, we’ll see. Maybe I will get into more simracing when I’m not traveling after the NASCAR season done.
Bel Wells: When is NASCAR season over? November?
Elz Indriani: The final will be at Phoenix, so I might go to the final. I would love to have you! On the track, let me know if you are planning to go, if you wanna go, seriously, let me know.
Bel Wells: Yeah, if I end up doing my first race, I’ll let you know. I’m gonna do one eventually. I’m like intimidated by the crowds. I really don’t like large crowds and loud noises.
Elz Indriani: I will take you to somewhere nice on the track, don’t worry. I’ll take you somewhere nice at the track where you can sit, there’s not many people around you, [01:50:00] because I don’t like being around a lot of people, like, you know, in the middle of a concert.
Bel Wells: Uh huh, yeah, exactly.
Elz Indriani: Why are you standing so very close to me? There’s the unbreathed air. Yeah. Don’t take my oxygen. Not like that but, Don’t breathe in my air. Don’t breathe my air. That’s my air. Give it back. It’s more like, I love being around a lot of people, but if it’s too crowded with music, people talking, people chatting, like a lot of things happening in one time, in one area, it really stress me out.
I think like
Bel Wells: overstimulated, like the baby. Yeah. .
Elz Indriani: I dunno what
Bel Wells: to
Elz Indriani: look at. . Yeah. And Oh, oh yeah. Sophie said you could make a track on Aceto Ora. We don’t mop. Oh. Do you get into Aceto Ora or not? Not really. Uh,
Bel Wells: I’m pretty sure we have a CC. I don’t know if we have just a set of corset, but I know we have a CC.
Elz Indriani: Ah, [01:51:00] AZA is crazy. Like the community. That’s
Bel Wells: one. Build it on.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. The community is like.
Bel Wells: It’s not usually. I feel like it’s only five bucks on Steam sale usually.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah. Assetto Corsa is like a perfect sim to start. If you want to get into the PC, sim racing on PC, you should go to Assetto Corsa like the best of the best.
I should try more of them.
Bel Wells: I like to see the differences between them all.
Elz Indriani: You should try. You should try Assetto Corsa like one time. ACC, I like it, but ACC is quite limited because most of the time you’re only driving the GT2, GT3, GT4, um, in the track that is like racing in SNO, motorsport event, like, yeah, ACC, I like it, but it’s quite limited, that’s how I describe it.
But in Assetto Corsa, the sky is the limit, well, really. The sky is the limit, like, you can
Bel Wells: find I don’t know, look into that, I love [01:52:00] freedom. I love
Elz Indriani: freedom. You can find lots of freedom in Assetto Corsa, like,
Bel Wells: really.
Elz Indriani: Oh,
Bel Wells: lovely.
Elz Indriani: You can do drifting, if you’re into drifting. Oh, fun. Have you tried drifting? Uh, like, not on purpose.
Not on purpose, but by accident, yeah, sometimes. Going around
Bel Wells: some corners, and you’re like, ooh, that felt fun.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, if you’re interested to get into drifting, I think, um, yeah, I think in screen to script we will have like a drifting coaching program with, uh, ESDA, so.
Bel Wells: Oh yes, I think I saw something about that in the chat.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, so if you want to get into it, like, I don’t know, just try and find out if you like it. Let us know. Yeah. Like we will have coaching. Yeah, we’ll have coaching and stuff, so. Feel free to join if you’re interested, like, let us know if you want to join. If you want to join, yes. Yeah, and for all of you guys also in the chat, [01:53:00] Ash, Cheese, everyone, if you guys want to get into some drifting, we will have a coaching, we will have a coaching program and yeah, let us know.
Maybe I will get into it. I think I never got into it. You haven’t
Bel Wells: gotten into the drift yet?
Elz Indriani: No, not yet. Early in drifting?
Bel Wells: No,
Elz Indriani: I haven’t yet. Spend so much time, so much time into it.
Bel Wells: Yeah, it’s like a whole different, they could have a license for that on iRacing. Yeah.
Elz Indriani: Oh, by the way, have you tried, um, dirt roads?
Bel Wells: Uh, Dirt Road I’ve done a few of, like with the rally jumps and stuff. I went through a phase of that with the jumpy trucks, those are really fun. And then I kind of, I lost interest with those, I stuck with the dirt ovals more. And the sprint cars, the 305s, those are so fun. Oh god, the
Elz Indriani: 305s are so fun. They sound like little
Bel Wells: mosquitoes.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bel Wells: Matthew,
Elz Indriani: Matthew is the dirt oval driver, like he drives in real life. Um, Window TV. He was in the [01:54:00] chat. And yeah, he drives the micro, wait, uh, Matthew, I forgot. Were you driving the, uh, the micro sprint? Like the car in rookie class, you know, the new car in rookie class? There’s like, one of them is
Bel Wells: wingless and one of them
Elz Indriani: has a wing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bel Wells: The wingless one is really hard for me to control.
Elz Indriani: Ah, the wingless is. I don’t know how to describe
Bel Wells: it. A wild ride.
Elz Indriani: But the wing is super fun. Like, that guy likes to scream.
Bel Wells: It’s
Elz Indriani: so fun. And you’re just going in circles. But everybody can, I don’t know, I saw a lot of airborne in the movies.
Bel Wells: Yeah, they roll. They’re fun.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, that’s super fun. Yeah, I used to do a lot of Dirt Oval, like when I got burned out from Oval, from Ruth, I would throw myself into Dirt Oval. Yeah,
Bel Wells: it’s a nice change, it’s fun. They’re really fast too, they are over in like 15 minutes.
Elz Indriani: Oh
Bel Wells: yeah. Some of them [01:55:00] can go longer.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, it’s like 15 20 minutes of freeze, I think, most of the time.
So it’s like, I never got serious, like really serious, into third level. I’m doing it for fun. So, I’m, I’m literally just throwing myself with zero practice and just doing it.
Bel Wells: Yeah, that’s how I feel with all of it. Maybe I want to try and take it all just a smidge more serious. I still want to have, like, all the fun, but I do want to be a little more serious.
Yeah.
Bel Wells: I feel like I understand a little bit more now that it, I can, before it’s, it’s like, I don’t even know what a green flag was, I didn’t know what a yellow flag was, I knew what a checkered flag was.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, all you know is the checkered flag.
Bel Wells: Blue flag, I was like, what’s that, what’s a meatball, I don’t know any of this.
I just understand so much more. I feel like I want to, like, try harder. So I can get better.
That makes sense. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: well, it really depends. Maybe like one day if you got into the, like a league race or something that [01:56:00] is like high competition, high level, then you wanna start to get serious, but in my opinion, as long as you’re doing like officials on daily basis and you are doing it for fun, don’t lose it.
Like, don’t do it. Yeah.
Bel Wells: Yeah. I, sometimes I’ll be, like, racing and I’m like, this isn’t fun, and then I have to take a break for, like, the rest of the day, and then I go back to the next day and it’s fun again. Yeah.
Elz Indriani: Sometimes you have to, like, take a break.
Bel Wells: Like Just need a breather.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. Take a step back, touch some grass in real life, and,
Bel Wells: you know, like,
Elz Indriani: yeah.
Bel Wells: Go pet my dog.
Elz Indriani: Meatball flight means you’re hungry inside the car. Yeah, now I’m hungry. I’m
Bel Wells: hungry, I need a snack.
Elz Indriani: I need a snack, I need a meatball. Oh my god, my first time learning the meatball flight, I learned it in a hard way. So, I was like, doing the GT3 endurance, I think it was at Sebring, I crashed. I got the mid move flag, but I feel like I still can drive this car, so it’s [01:57:00] fine.
I did three laps, I got disqualified. Now I know. No! Oh, no! My car was fine! So funny. I can drive the car!
Bel Wells: This is soft, people! Not that bad! Not that
Elz Indriani: bad! I can drive on it! My wheel wasn’t even I don’t know, my wheel was straight! I got the meatball, I know. But, I was like, what is that? I got that kind of
Bel Wells: meatball.
Nothing’s wrong with it.
Elz Indriani: Just irising. Like, I can do this irising. Take out that meatball flag for me, please. Don’t doubt me. Don’t doubt me. Do not underestimate me at driving a car. There’s nothing different with a car. I learned it in a hard way, so
Bel Wells: That’s so rough. That’s funny though. A good rough memory, but a funny one.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, but at least I learned it. Now, every time I’m getting a meatball, I’m back to pit. Like, yeah, bro, I will fix it. Like, yeah, bro, I will fix it. Okay. Meatball Marinara shop, yeah. Meatball Marinara. Oh my god, [01:58:00] by the way, oh, Jesus. See, I’ve spoken, it’s two hours, I keep on saying it every week to everyone, it will be a quick interview, one hour, we’ll be chatting, and it’s down to two hours now, and my record was with Jamie, I think?
It was like, there was like one talk that is like almost hit three hours mark. What? Time flies. Time flies, I know right. And by the way, before we end the stream, I don’t know if you can see this well and everyone, but this is what I got from Chicago. What is it? Can you
Bel Wells: describe it to me? I
Elz Indriani: got sunburned, Belle.
I got sunburned. Oh, you got sunburned? So bad. This is what I got coming back from Chicago. Ash. A souvenir. A souvenir from Chicago. Like, I was this white and now I am this tan. Like, from two days. It’s two days trip to a racetrack, I
Bel Wells: believe. So I think I’m slightly [01:59:00] sunburned from paddle boarding. Can match.
Ahaha.
Elz Indriani: So next time, if you go to a racetrack, don’t forget to bring your sunscreen. Always sunscreen.
Bel Wells: Always sunscreen.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. Yeah, it’s a 10. Yeah, I know, Ash. Yeah, This is like a milk and a coffee. That’s how my mom say it. Like, you, you look like a milk coffee. I was like, what milk? What? What, what, what? What is milk?
Coffee. You know the white one is milk. This one is coffee. I was like, haha. So funny. It hurts. It hurts. It’s burning right now. I put burn. I put a lot of olive. I touch grass. I touch grass, I touch the McDonald’s bridge, I touch the Nascar Chicago walls, I touch everything last weekend. I’m touching everything.
Oh, it’s so fun. How fun. I touch the tires. I always want to, I, I can obsess with tires, so every time I see tires on the pit lane, I will touch it. I don’t know, I will touch it for no reason. [02:00:00]
Bel Wells: I feel like that makes it more real, more tactile too, when you’re seeing all this stuff on the, the sim in the game, and then you can like touch it in real life.
It’s a pleasure.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, every time I’m going to a racetrack, I got that feeling in me, like, I wanna drive that car. Probably for
Bel Wells: real, like a dream. Mhmm.
Elz Indriani: Like, I wanna drive
Bel Wells: this car one day.
Elz Indriani: That’s what I keep on saying, like, when I was in Chicago, like, Bro, these bro are driving so fast, like the sound of this cop car are so brutal, like brr, brr, brr, you know the sound of
Bel Wells: a stop car.
Like you can feel it in your, in your chest. Yeah,
Elz Indriani: and I want to be a part of that, you know, it gives me that feeling, so hopefully one day I’ll be able to. I’ll be able to, yeah, drive in real life hopefully one day. Yeah, we’ll see about that. Alright, anyway, Belle, thank you so much. Yes, my pleasure. Thank you so much for hanging.
Thank you so much [02:01:00] for, yeah, spending your time with us here in Innitalks. Thank you so much. It’s been really nice to have a chat with
Bel Wells: you. Yes, it was. Not that bad at all.
Elz Indriani: Not
Bel Wells: bad at all,
Elz Indriani: okay. I hope you, I hope like, the question list and everything that I gave to you earlier kind of helps you, like, guiding.
Bel Wells: Totally. It chilled me out. I was actually more mellow about it than I thought I would be. Oh yeah? But I think that helps that it’s you, too, because you are mellow. You’re chill.
Elz Indriani: Yeah, I’m, like, I’m doing my best to, you know, like, make my guests feeling, like, comfortable in the interview. You
Bel Wells: definitely do. I feel like I’m a hard person to make comfortable, and I feel comfy.
You did great. She’s
Elz Indriani: comfy, guys. She’s comfy. Belle’s comfy. I’m comfy. I’m
Bel Wells: comfy.
Elz Indriani: Thank you so much, Belle. Oh my god. Thank you. Thank you so much. And by the way, before we end the stream, before we end the interview, so if anybody wants to follow you on social media [02:02:00] or, yeah, any social media if you have, feel free to, yeah.
I just have
Bel Wells: Twitch. I think I have TikTok, but I don’t put anything on there. It’s really just Twitch and YouTube.
Elz Indriani: Oh, just Twitch and YouTube. I see. So, she’s like, you’re like a real streamer. The channel that you go to. I’m
Bel Wells: not really on that. Like, I don’t do Facebook for my personal account or Instagram.
I’m not really on those. My chat made me make a Discord. I’m a forced social media for Twitch. But I’ve grown to love it.
Elz Indriani: Yeah. But it’s okay. I mean, Twitch is more than enough for now. It is. If you’re focusing on streaming, Twitch is like the best. Like, yeah.
Bel Wells: Yeah, I feel like it’s exactly the realm I need.
Mhmm. Perfect.
Elz Indriani: Later you can move to Instagram. Like you can start posting if you are thinking about Yeah.
Bel Wells: Small steps. We’ll start here. . Yeah.
Elz Indriani: Because it’s not like streaming is not for everyone and
mm-hmm .
Elz Indriani: It’s hard to manage [02:03:00] streaming and content creation at some point. So I’m, I would love to have you on social media, like I would love to see your presence on Twitch.
I dunno, I mean on Instagram, but when, only when you’re ready.
Bel Wells: I’ll let you know when I’m there.
Elz Indriani: Sure. Please let us know once you’re making an Instagram or Twitter, whatever. Let us know and we will give you a follow. We will give you like, Oh my God, Belle is here! You know? So yeah, Belle. Thank you very much.
Once again, it’s very nice to have you and. To everyone here in the chat, thank you so much for hanging, and we have to end the stream for now. We have to end the interview, but don’t worry. If you guys want to see something more from today’s talk with Storm Arlina, don’t worry. We will put it on our socials, so make sure to follow us on Instagram at initesports and at screen2spit.
If you want to know more about the competition, you can go to screen2spit. If you want to see what’s going on on [02:04:00] INIT. So, yeah, you can follow us on Innit Esports. And also, don’t forget to follow Stormalina Belle on Twitch, because she’ll be streaming on the weekend. So, yeah, Belle, I will see you when I see you!
Yes, I’ll see you around! Bye! Bye, everyone! Thank you so much for hanging, and we will see you next week with a new guest. So, yeah, don’t forget to follow us on Twitch also. Tidaki, bye, guys! We love you! Keep up the good workout! Ah, thank you so much, Belle! Love you! Bye. Bye.
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