In Episode 28 of INIT Talks, host Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya (@LoveFortySix) sits down with Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport), the founder of Transmission Motorsport. Tasha shares her inspiring journey in sim racing, competing on Gran Turismo 7 and Assetto Corsa Competizione (ACC) while building a community aimed at empowering women to join the world of motorsport.
This episode explores Tasha’s passion for sim racing and her mission to create an inclusive environment for women in the sport. Through Transmission Motorsport, she has worked tirelessly to provide opportunities and support for aspiring racers, breaking down barriers and encouraging diversity in the racing community.
Whether you’re a sim racing enthusiast, an advocate for inclusivity in motorsport, or simply inspired by stories of leadership and determination, this episode is packed with insights, motivation, and Tasha’s infectious enthusiasm for racing. Don’t miss this conversation about building a brighter, more inclusive future for sim racing!
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Highlights
- 00:00 Introduction to Screen to Speed
- 00:55 Meet Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Sim Racer and Streamer
- 01:30 Tasha’s Sim Racing Journey
- 03:39 Upgrading the Sim Racing Setup
- 09:17 Charity Racing and Community Involvement
- 19:44 Women in Motorsports
- 26:49 Streaming and Commentary
- 32:50 Sim Racing Skills in Real Life
- 37:32 Near Miss on the Road
- 38:31 Applying Sim Racing Skills to Real Life
- 39:15 Preparing for ACC Races
- 44:50 Endurance Racing vs. Sprint Racing
- 51:40 The Importance of Relaxation and Practice
- 57:16 Sim Racing Tips for Beginners
- 58:47 The Role of Telemetry and Replays
- 01:01:28 The Perfect Driving Position
- 01:02:34 Sim Racing Setup and Adjustments
- 01:08:52 Balancing Hobbies and Sim Racing
- 01:11:47 Career Transition and Future Plans
- 01:14:54 Final Thoughts and Outro
Transcript
Crew Chief Brad: [00:00:00] Welcome to Screen to Speed powered by INIT Esports. In this podcast, we dive into the journeys of remarkable individuals making waves in sim racing and bridging the virtual with the real. From the thrill of digital circuits to the roar of real life racetracks, we explore the passion, Dedication and innovation that drives the world of motorsports.
We’ll hear from athletes, creators, and pioneers sharing their stories, insights, and the powerful ways sim racing is connecting communities and creating pathways into motorsports. So buckle up screen. The speed starts now.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Welcome everyone. Welcome. Welcome. Happy to see you on talks today. Welcome, everybody. Uh, please welcome Tasha. She’s a sim racer, streamer, and YouTuber. [00:01:00] And as I know, she’s racing in Gran Turismo 7, and is at the Corsa Competizione. So that means we’re going to have a really fun interview today, um, with talking a lot about sim racing, racing, and motorsports.
Welcome, Tasha.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Hi, hi. Thanks for having me.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. I
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): love what you guys are doing with the NA eSports and Screen to Speed. It’s so awesome to be a part of it all.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Thank you. So I feel like sim racing is such a game changer for so many people. So can you tell me How did you get into sim racing? How you started your way?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, my very first foray into sim racing was I was probably five years old on a Commodore 64 playing test drive with the keyboard and the little dot on the steering wheel, telling you where the ceiling steering wheel is pointed and graphics that look pretty much like Minecraft these days. So, wow. I [00:02:00] started out many, many years ago.
I’m 44 in a couple of days. So that’s 39 years I’ve been playing on sim games.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s really cool. So I also, I played in test drive. There was a second one Unlimited. It was really fun to play. I really love it What was your first simulator
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): in the first actual simulator? so we went out and bought a ps4 for the family and While we were there doing it, it was Christmas.
It was gonna be a present I saw Gran Turismo Sports for like five or ten dollars sitting on the thing. I was like, oh yeah, I’ll just grab this, you know, it’s cheap. And I’ve always played racing games and loved them. Like Project Gotham Racing was super fun with motorcycles and cars mixed together. And um, that’s the first place where I ever saw the Nordschleife.
I think they called it, uh, oh, I can’t remember what they called it, but I always mispronounced the Nordschleife because of it. [00:03:00] Um, but we got home. And Christmas comes around, we get everything set up, and the kids play on it, and the kids go to bed, and the next thing you know, I plug in Gran Turismo, and I’m like, oh my god, this is like, this is really cool, I remember Gran Turismo 1, and I was so excited, but Sport is like, game changer.
So, I played on it with um, I’ve played around with like, Race Asylum and a couple other leagues. And everybody was super, um, supportive and like, this is how you get better. And they’re talking to me about how to drive with a wheel. And I’m like, I’m sitting here on a controller. I’m like, this is not nearly as much fun as it could be.
So I went out and bought myself a T 150 and the pedals broke. So I went to load cell TLCM pedals. And then that broke and I was like, okay, this is it. I’m done messing around with these cheap wheels. Started searching around and I got myself a Fanatec CSL Elite from my nephew [00:04:00] and he sold it to me for 400.
Porsche 918 RSR replica wheel, um, load cell, uh, V2 pedals. And I got the rig set up in my room. And my, my daughter moved out, so I actually finally got room for an actual racing rig. And I got it set up in here and it’s non stop ever since. Every chance I get, I’m sitting in here.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s awesome. I really started in the same way.
So step by step, um, also improving my equipment, uh, back in the days I started with a G27, uh, and, uh, then switched to TLCM pedals, uh, the same way as you did, um, So now with the T818, Direct Drive wheel and the same TLCM pedals and a better rig. Triple, uh, started with a single screen. That was an absolute game changer to change to the triple screen, uh, for myself because you actually see more.
Uh, it’s really cool.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): [00:05:00] Absolutely, I can’t wait to go triples and get a PC that’ll run the higher end games. Um, right now I’m working off of a laptop that’s, uh, Eight years old I think and I mean it was a high end gaming laptop when I got it, but not today So, um as soon as I get a chance I need about 12 1300 for all I need is the box I have everything else and Then I can start working into, uh, PC sim racing and
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: go
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): for triples and stuff like that.
I’m super excited. I was warned about drugs when I was a kid, everyone’s like, Oh, don’t do drugs. You know what? I did the whole, we’re in high school, we’re in college and give it a shot. And it’s not worth your time. Right. But then I started sim racing and this is, this is what they should have warned me about because this is where all my money goes.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s a thing [00:06:00] which you actually can start but you never can stop to like improve your rig, improve your gaming room and everything and you just spend a lot of money on this.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, there’s always something else to buy. My wife wanted me to give her a list for my birthday this year and I’ve got neon signs on there, I’ve got um, like the Nordschleife wire track, Lamborghini wire model to put on the wall.
Everything that I have on there is like to improve my streaming space and she’s like you don’t want anything else I’m like I have makeup. I have clothes. I have shoes um I’ve got a Dodge Charger, that one’s pretty okay. No, I need stuff for sim racing.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s cool. My whole
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): life.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: You got the whole list with your wishes for the gaming room.
That’s awesome.
Speaking about upgrades, what do you want to [00:07:00] upgrade next in your gaming room and your sim rig?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): So the gaming room is already getting upgrades because my wife is excited about all the presents she bought me So i’m good on that one for right now What I really need is either the profile rig or a pc that’ll run iRacing and ACC with higher settings and triples.
That’s my next. Let’s go.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That sounds good. So you want to get into iRacing and I’m pretty sure you’re going to enjoy it. And with your experience in ACC already and Gran Turismo, you’ll get used to it quite fast.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Absolutely. No, I was so Gran Turismo was like my gig for a long time because I was on PS4 and like I tried doing ACC on PS4 and it’s just.
Like it’s almost there, but I couldn’t get the feel for it. I didn’t like it. And when I [00:08:00] finally was able to upgrade it onto PS5, I loaded up ACC and I played Gran Turismo. When, uh, DTR, some friends of mine, when they do their series, I do it for the Scaly Punk Charity Racing series because it’s fun to hang out with all of my friends, and we’re raising money for charities and good stuff, but for the most part, if I’m simracing now, I’m on ACC until the I get a PC and I can move on.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm hmm. Yeah, I understand this. It’s really good that we got opportunity like people can race on consoles and they can race on PC as well and can choose Uh, like different simulators to jump into some racing. That’s a great opportunity. Definitely Um, this is where I really like because you know So many people coming to my stream also asking me like can I start from console?
Can I like play ACC there or something like this? You So, yeah, and then the next step when you, um, like upgrading to PC, you’re getting [00:09:00] into a racing, into, um, higher quality ACC, it’s awesome.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, I can’t wait. Like, I’m like dying to put a custom livery on my car on ACC now.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Oh, yeah. Can you tell me more?
You just mentioned the SkellyPong charity raising. What kind of charities did you do already? And I know that you’ve raised kind of a lot of money for this and that’s great. That’s a really good thing which you’re doing.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): So that was a friend of mine that actually started it. And when it was, when it first began, it was called, um, pleb charity racing series, and it went on for a while.
He raised quite a bit of money on it. And then he switched the name up to skelly punk around the same time as my team name changed from a blackout racing to transmission motorsport. And that’s been about a year and a half. We’ve [00:10:00] raised about 1, 200 or so. Through a series and a couple of endurance special events.
And then we get together, we’ve got two different lobbies. We’ve got pro am for the fast drivers and we’ve got pro for the very fast drivers. And, um, last season was amazing. We had a lot of fun doing it. Phil did his first stint doing comms. It was really fun watching him get into it. And I do comms for the pro lobby because I wasn’t fast enough to get into that one.
So Um, that’s how I found out that I love doing comms.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: It’s awesome. Um, but
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): um, we’ve raised money for mind charity rain um equality, texas Cerebral palsy alliance and basically Our next one I think is going to be for breast cancer research, but we just look for the most reputable You Charities that we can and find them on Tiltify [00:11:00] and support them all through the through the season
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: This is uh, this is great that we got, you know, I I know a lot of great events for charity in sim racing and Um some of them in gaming also, but it’s really cool that community supportive for these charities and also we’re getting a lot of people to jump into this races.
Um, that’s great.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): And there’s a lot of fun too, because especially when we’ve got a couple of guys that make custom decals for it. So we’ve always got a range of custom decals that people can put on their cars with their requirements. And Every season we’ve got, what, 20 30 cars that have different liveries on them that they put so much work into and it looks so great.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, custom liveries, uh, that’s a good thing in sim racing also.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I can’t make the custom liveries, I always ask [00:12:00] other people to do it for me because
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): hmm. I’m a driver. I can drive and I can talk. Don’t ask me to do
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: art. Awesome. Yeah, my husband’s taking this from me, so he’s also making liveries for me and emotes for my channel.
So I’m doing driving and talking a lot.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Nice! I tried to get my wife to help me with some things in it, but she’s just No, she plays Sims 4. That’s her simulator. She plays Sims 4.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Well, at least she We’ve
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): got our own Sim addiction. It’s just that they’re completely different.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Well, she’s investing in your wish list for your gaming room.
That’s good.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Absolutely! I’ve invested about 1, 500 in her Sims game. Oh,
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: that’s nice.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): And I made myself, um, my first rig [00:13:00] was. I took a piece of countertop off of a job and some plywood, a couple of two by fours. And then I threw a, um, eight by eight in there because it was just too light and it was sliding around.
And I built myself something that slides in front of the couch with the pedals locked in and the steering wheel on it and mounted a monitor to it. And that was my rig for nearly a year. And every time I got it out to plan, she’s like, well, where’s mine? I’m like, what do you need a rig for? You’re playing sense.
So her birthday rolls around and I went out we had an old table and I cut it up and Murdered it and put it back together into a really nice looking thing where it’s got her keyboard, her laptop and mounted a monitor on it for her. Now she’s got her own little rig for Sims 4.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Really cool that you’re making stuff by yourself. Um, because when we started sim racing, so there was a during pandemic for me, [00:14:00] uh, and we, like, I had to. Oh, the same for you, that’s really cool. Um, so I had G27 and when we switched to triple screen, uh, unfortunately didn’t have opportunity to just buy the, uh, the stand for triple.
Uh, so we made it out the plywood with my husband and it’s still alive. It’s, uh, on the second rig. It’s really cool when you, you know, making, uh, things by yourself and, um, I think people just shouldn’t be afraid to build something by themselves, uh, because, you know, someone, um, like, plywood is, uh, hard enough to, like, to have a really good triple stand, for example, or the rig as well, so at least you can start from something.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Exactly, I mean, anything that you can do to get into it, and if you can’t afford a wheel and you can’t afford pedals, Play on the controller. There are people that are three, four seconds faster than me on controller. Like I, anybody can [00:15:00] do anything. That’s my favorite thing about sim racing in the world is it’s so accessible.
Yeah. I can’t afford to go and buy a real car to race with. I can’t afford to take my real car on a racetrack and destroy it because somebody hit me. So. I can do it on the game anytime I want to. Oh, it’s midnight and I want to go hit a racetrack. Ah, here it is, right here. Turn everything on and I’m there.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And the main thing, the crashes are free in SimRacing.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): And the crashes are free.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. I remember when I did, uh, that was Forza Motorsport, a championship, which I did. I did it on my wheel. And, uh, everybody We’re driving with the wheels, uh, but on the one event, they, uh, invite really fast drivers and controllers.
And as you said, they were faster, like by three, four seconds than, uh, the fastest driver on the wheel. It was really, really cool.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I don’t know how they do [00:16:00] it, like, I, and, there’s a couple of things, okay, so on controller I don’t get it because there’s like, it’s so hard to be consistent with every turn, it’s like, oh, I need to turn the wheel this much, but on the controller it’s like, I need to move my thumb this much.
I can’t stop moving! It’s like, how are you hitting your marks like that? Like, I don’t get it.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. I’m in the same boat with you, I just, uh, I got no idea how to drive this controller, like, I can’t control the car with a stick in the way I’m, how I’m doing this on the wheel.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Uh, right, and then the other thing that gets me is, like, I get it, the kids that are younger, jumping into a racing rig and being like, Just being able to Basically break the rules of physics because you know in the sim racing you can do things you can’t do in real life, right?
so they find the exploits and they’re able to Correct oversteer or save these wrecks and I just don’t get it because like when i’m sitting here I don’t feel the G [00:17:00] slide me over in my real car. Um, I hope there aren’t any cops watching my real car, of course, too fast. Sometimes I want to start to understeer.
I know exactly what to do and how to handle it. I’ve come around blind corners and had semi trucks in my lane. And I’ve had to go into a shoulder that it’s not wide enough for my car. And I’ve been able to skim past them and not get hit. Right. But on the sim racing, it’s like, I can’t, there’s not the feeling.
I can’t quite get them. Get the speeds that they can, but I’m never gonna give up, give up. I’m working on it and constantly improving. So
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: that’s the main thing, uh, to go step by step or as, uh, the same way as you doing with equipment. You doing the same way with your driving. You just, uh, step by step improving.
Um, so speaking about your car, do you ever think maybe to take your car and do the test day or something like track day on the real track? Um, and, um, [00:18:00] what do you think? Will it be possible for you to ever jump into real life racing?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I will promise you I am relentless and stubborn. One day I will be in a fast car on a real track, like it is going to happen.
So my car, no, it’s, I’ve got a lowly V6 2010 Dodge Charger. I mean, it’s, it can be fun if you’ve got like a 25 mile an hour corner and you’re going around it at like 35 or 40.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Great,
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): but um, other than that it’s just a daily driver. I need to get something like even a little Mazda MX 5 or something. I don’t care, I’ll take anything to a track.
But I’m going to be working on getting a car I can take on track.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s really nice. Uh, do you have any racing tracks, uh, where you’re living?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, Portland International.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Awesome.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, you [00:19:00] guys had Ms. KB Anderson on here and I friended her up and got onto her Instagram like instantly and we’ve been chatting and I’ve actually been invited to go and hang out with her on some of the days because she works on the crew in the pits.
It’s my earliest opportunity that she’s going to be there. I’m going to go hang out with her and get into the pits and see how everything is really done and meet some drivers. And, um, hopefully by then I can get a racing license and I kind of goots my way into somebody’s car somehow.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s good.
Um, I’m Do you see that we’re getting more women into motorsports and in sim racing as well? And how do you feel by yourself to be a woman in the, um, you know, of course, the male dominated sim [00:20:00] racing and racing as well?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, my experience has been an interesting one. I expected not only for it to be like the bro scene where everybody is rude to women or you don’t belong here and that kind of thing and I haven’t had that at all and I I’ve met so many amazing people.
It’s a great it’s a great place for getting support like um when I met or not when I met because I heard of Sophie and Yvonne both from race asylum many many years ago three or four But when I actually started getting to know them I don’t like six months to a year ago. I found out about the, in the e sports and screen to speed and the whole community of the, the number of women that want to be involved in it.
It’s just amazing. And I love that they’ve got this welcoming place for us all to go come and join and, um, talk, give each other tips [00:21:00] and find new series to waste against each other with. And I love it. I, I think more little girls would be into it if they had the opportunity.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, definitely. And I
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): just love seeing it grow.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Women
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): in motorsports is
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: nice. Young girls, they’re going to see like more streamers, more sim racers, more girls in racing also. They will have a dream also to get into sim racing one day or into real life racing as well. So that’s great, which in it. eSports doing for us and, um, overall community in sim racing are really friendly.
I noticed that also, you know, I’ve been, um, in, in real life racing and it’s a more toxic community compared to what we got in sim racing. And, uh, to be honest, [00:22:00] I’m so happy that I’m in sim racing right now. And, uh, Twitch community pretty, uh, pretty and, uh, supportive as well. Um, what do you think about Gran Turismo 7 community?
So we just, uh, been talking with, uh, other guests about F1 community. Uh, from my side, I was talking about a racing community. So I would like to know, um, how do you feel in, uh, Gran Turismo 7?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): The Gran Turismo community was Great for it being accessible and teaching me the basics and finding people to surround myself with and Like feel supported and a part of something um, I really wish they would do a little bit more listening to their fan base and you know, maybe some upgrades tracks cars that kind of thing, but it’s It’s not my favorite anymore.
I loved Gran Turismo until I got ACC on PS5.[00:23:00]
Now Gran Turismo is like, I’m gonna relax and play with my friends. ACC is like, I must get faster.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Understand this. We all got that kind of games which we play, uh, like occasionally with friends. Um, and then simulator where you really hard racing with everybody. Um, can you tell me what is your favorite, uh, track in the set?
Of course, competes you on the, and the favorite car as well.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, I don’t really know for sure about a favorite car yet. I’ve only really driven the 992. I think it’s the 23992 Porsche and the Lambo Evo two. So I’m sure there are two totally different cars to drive. Um, and Gran Turismo 7, when I first started, the Lambo just wanted to kill you, the Group 3 Lamborghini.
And the Porsche was super easy to drive. And as the [00:24:00] updates came through, the Lambo got nerfed, and now they almost drive the same, but the Porsche drives nicer than Lamborghini does.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): then, on ACC, it’s like, the Lamborghini is so much easier to drive than the Porsche. The Porsche just wants to murder you everywhere you go.
But I like both of them, they’re both a different kind of challenge to get your times down on the track. Um, as far as track is concerned, um, I really like Imola now that I’ve had a chance to drive it. Silverstone’s a lot of fun, but I really just love the Nordschleife all, every different way you can do it.
The N24, the Nurburgring GP, that’s, it’s where you go to relax and drive way too fast.
One day I’m hoping to make my way over to Germany and at least visit it, but I’d [00:25:00] love to move there.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, I think that many people will be jealous for those people who’s living next to the Nordschleife and got opportunity to like near everyday race here and have a track day.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Oh, I know the jealousy of it.
I know a person who lives there and actually works there.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): like I saw a video of them repaving part of the track. And so, the first thing I did was message her on Discord and be like, What’s this? And she’s like, Oh yeah, I started yesterday and this is what they’re doing and they’re ruining this corner by adding a curb that’s taller.
I’m like, Thanks. You want to sponsor somebody to move down there? Like, I can help you pay rent. I’ll drive you to work. Anything I can do, just get me to Germany. I
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: think that Germany is a really nice [00:26:00] country to live in. Um, so I hope you’re going to have this opportunity in the future to move into your dream country and be close to Nordschleife.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): You know what’s funny too is like living where I do in the United States. I feel like if I did go to Germany, it would be like the same, but they speak a different language from everybody that I’ve talked to over there. I’ve got so many German friends. It’s it’s almost like the same as the state that I live in.
The trees look the same. The weather looks the same. Everything looks the same. And I’m just like, see, I’m, I’m in the right climate. I’m in the right place. geographical kind of location. I’m just not in the right part of the world.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: All right, um, talking about your streams, how do you enjoy them? And do you find hard to drive and talk at the same time? [00:27:00]
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Sometimes driving and talking at the same time is just not my thing. Um, I do my best, but there are times that I’m Like in the middle of a race, I’m trying to go as fast as I can and push it to the limits.
And I see a little chat message pop up over here and I’m like, Oh, who’s that crash? So, uh, it’s been a lot of work trying to find that happy medium of where can I look at my chats and how can I pay attention to my viewers and still not destroy my race? Um, I started streaming just for like prosperity sake, you know, like, Oh, there was an incident I can go back on my stream.
I don’t have to search through a replay or. And my friends could come and watch my laps and stuff like that. It was mostly just to keep track of things and my progress as I was getting better. And then I started getting a couple of followers. I still don’t have many, but I started getting a couple of followers that I didn’t know.
And I’m like, [00:28:00] Oh, this is, this is kind of fun. I like talking to people. And then we had a Commentary person drop out for one of the scaly punk charity races. And I was like, I’ll do it. And I found myself running my mouth for two and a half hours, maybe three. And I was like, this is kind of fun. I like judging other people’s driving and talking about it and laughing with the people on chats.
So I was like, okay, I’m going to make this like a side gig. It’s a good thing for racers to do when they are sim racers to do when they don’t feel like sim racing. Or just to engage with the fanbase. So, that’s when I got into commentary, but I really love it. I’m starting to find my, um, oh, my groove so that I can stream, manage talking with chat, and not completely destroy my race.
Um, early on I had anger and temper issues because I just didn’t have the [00:29:00] consistency, you know, going around the track. Besides the fact that I’m streaming, I wasn’t that great anyway. And so I would get upset and the rest of my race would get ruined. So over the last, probably eight months to a year, I’ve been tempering that down.
So that it’s like, okay, this happened. I missed my breaking point and slid into the grass. I didn’t destroy my car. I’m still in the race and I’m going to keep going until it’s over. And I’m just not going to be mad because what happens when you get mad? You start making mistakes you You’re trying to push over drive the car and the next thing, you know, it’s like oh I can get closer to that sausage No, I can’t There is no closer to the sausage than I was driving before now my car is Balancing off into the wall on the other side of the track.
So, um, Staying calm keeping cool. Just keeping everything smooth. That’s the whole goal of it and And just getting better every day Well, I hope it’s every [00:30:00] day.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Well, it’s really hard sometimes to find this focus, uh, on track instead of focus on chat. Uh, so I’m struggling as well with this, uh, but it just get better with some practice, uh, because you just like, if you.
Okay, I’m going to be focused on the track instead of, uh, focusing on chat. Uh, so just let, let know viewers and, uh, everything’s fine. So everybody really. Understandable in this and it’s really cool because sometimes you can just be in a really hard fight on track and not talk for like, I don’t know, 10 minutes or something like this and everybody going to be silent with you watching your race.
It’s really cool.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Right. I always expect it’s like, okay, I’m, I’m struggling right now. I need to focus and catch up or find my markers again and just like get back into the zone. And I’m always like, okay, well, by the time I’m [00:31:00] done being silent, doing my thing, I’m going to look over and it’s going to be empty.
And it’s not like, they’re not here just to talk to you. Like they’re here to watch. How you’re racing, the lines you’re taking, they’re here to learn from your mistakes, too, because even the aliens make mistakes. I know, um, one of the guys that he hasn’t streamed much, but he just started streaming, um, I met him trying to get into my first ACC league, and I was like, I’m not really very good, but I would love to try this driver swap series thing that they’ve got going on.
I And I found out you can do driver swaps, like, really real driver swaps on ACC, and I’m like, yeah, let’s do it! And he’s like, oh no, it’s cool, just please don’t try to go too fast, don’t run into people, and stay smooth. If you can just stay smooth and focus, I don’t care how things end up, [00:32:00] I just want to see you improve.
And that’s been like, everybody’s attitude that I’ve talked to so far. And I’ve gone from 10 seconds behind the pace on ACC to I’m a good mid pack to tail end of, well above that, tail end of the good drivers and mid pack driver now. And it’s only been two months since I’ve been playing ACC. So Gran Turismo did teach me a lot.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: I’m pretty sure that
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I’m not gonna know Gran Turismo too much.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm hmm Yeah, I’m pretty sure that Gran Turismo gave you a good base for sim racing and to drive in ACC and in racing in the future as well Um, it’s really cool that you, you got this experience and, uh, right now you making good improvements.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, and you know, I’ve, people laugh a lot when I say this, but I’m like, I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now. And there’s been instances where I’m [00:33:00] driving on a real road and it’s wet and it’s early morning. And I live near this highway that, it’s like the most dangerous highway in the state where I live.
Yeah. And I’ve seen literally an accident every other day for a year before on this highway. And one day I’m driving down the highway and I look up, I don’t look up, I’m just like come around the corner and the next thing you know all I can see are these headlights that are about the same height as the roof of my car.
And I didn’t freak out, I wasn’t scared, I was just like oh I need to go around him. And when I was done I was I was like, okay, so I didn’t hit the guardrail on the right side. I didn’t break my mirror on the semi truck. That was 100 percent in my lane coming around this corner. I can’t attribute my calmness or my reactions [00:34:00] to anything other than sim racing.
That’s like the reaction times and being so used to being like stressing yourself out over how you’re driving or how you’re going to take this corner or how you’re going to handle your car in real life. You’re doing a quarter of the speed half the time or less. And so when something dangerous does happen, there’s no thinking involved.
You can react and you know that it’s safe to do this because your car’s not even close to the limit. So why can’t you just like whip it over real quick?
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, in my opinion, uh, people who driving on the road, they should jump into whatever, sim racing or maybe some, uh, like extreme driving to just, uh, teach this reactions.
Yeah. As you said, and it’s really helped me. It’s like, it saved me, um, you know, a couple of times on the road when I was driving the car. Um, and that’s a good thing, which you notice, uh, that sim racing help you in the driving in real life as well. [00:35:00]
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, just knowing the feel of the car, it’s like the first time I ever got understeer in a car that I was driving in real life.
I had never like driven with a simulator, like the wheel and everything. And even if I had, it would have been what, 40 years ago before they had such a thing as force feedback or pedals. It like actually had real, you know, Load cell field to them or anything like that. And when my car started understeering, it was like pure panic moment.
And it’s like, okay, what do I do? Oh, hit the brakes. Oh, that’s not helping let off the brakes. Some I’ll try the gas. Um, let’s try steering less. No, that’s not going to help. And you just don’t know what to do when you get into that situation. And so you’ve like really been there. And what, when you practice it every day, something happens and there’s no question.
There’s no thought. There’s, oh, this is how I handle that situation. [00:36:00]
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, my opinion. So yeah, why
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): don’t they, why don’t they make simulators, like, part of courses for driving, getting your driver’s license?
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, exactly. I think that should be a part of it, uh, because you’re getting really good skills, uh, which can save your car, your life on the road, and it’s, it’s great.
And yeah. Thank you. In my opinion, a lot of accidents which happening on the roads, uh, that just because, you know, people panic and they don’t know what to do in this situation. And that’s it. As you said, like, uh, you was panic a little bit when you had understeer with your car in real life. Yeah. And, uh, this is exactly what happening with people and no wonder because they, uh, absolutely got no, uh, experience in such a sort of situations.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Right, so you don’t know what to do, the first thing you’re going to do is panic and wreck your car. Yeah. Hahaha. So the only real, real life wreck that I’ve [00:37:00] ever been in that, uh, we’re not going to count the one that was half on purpose. I was, I was on that dangerous highway that I was telling you about, this other one, right?
Same highway, and they were doing road work on there, and I pulled up behind this semi, it’s a flagger. And I’m like, I hate this highway, I’m going to give myself one. A semi length between me and the truck. Someone’s gonna come by and hit me, I just know it. And three days in a row I’m stopping at this flagger.
And finally, the third day, I stop, I hit the flashers, I check the mirror. Okay, there’s somebody stopped behind me, I’m safe now. See what time it is, click the phone. As soon as I started reaching towards my phone, I hear this.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: And
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I was like, okay, number one, he was speeding number two, we’re all going to get hit.
So I was like, all right, I need to be able to control my car. So I don’t want to have the brakes on too tight. [00:38:00] So I put the car in gear. I let off three quarters of my brakes so that they were just barely holding me in place. And he, he dodged the car behind me. This is awesome because he’s in this giant Toyota Tundra, right?
You got this much space and his truck is this big He bounces off the guardrail completely misses the car behind me Smashes in the tail of my car and if I had reacted any differently I probably would have ended up in the oncoming traffic. That was right flying by like nothing’s happening But instead I was able to control my car and it was like, okay Kept it inside my lane and I didn’t hit the truck because I gave myself space So More things that I’m learning, I’m applying things that I’ve learned to simracing to situations you don’t even experience in simracing.
Because if you hold your brakes too much, how much control do you have over your car? And if you’re spending all of your, um, [00:39:00] traction braking, you can’t turn. And so, the second I knew something was wrong, Those are the thoughts that went through my mind and it was just like, okay, this is how I’m not gonna die
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Returning back to some racing a little bit Um, I want to ask you how do you prepare for your races and what races do you do usually in acc? Maybe that’s some kind of leak which you can suggest to people who’s starring in acc or like that. Just a multiplayer races
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): As far as lazy concerned, um Uh, Dream Team Racing has some great GT7 leagues, an awesome guy, he, the people who started it, one of them is German, one of them is, uh, uh, uh, uh, Irish.
Some of my best friends now, they run usually one season a year, and depending on the number of int the amount of interest they get, they’ll [00:40:00] have, uh, three lobbies going sometimes, four. And so we’ve got skill levels from I just got this game and I’m learning how to drive on it to I’m, not even gonna bother trying to race this person because they’re so freaking fast They lapped me in three laps and like this is just I will learn from them I will watch them, but i’m not gonna compete with them.
Um, so dream team racing is really cool. Uh Scaly punk charity racing is also really cool because we do the same thing We, uh, split up the lobbies by skill level. And it’s usually 40 minute races. It’s pretty much the go to on GT seven. Um, since I started ACC. My first series that I started, I, it was supposed to be like a two hour, two or three hour driver swap thing where it’s like, Oh, I’m going to drive for an hour out of this.
And it turns out that that one got canceled because there wasn’t enough [00:41:00] interest. And then I saw they had another one and it costs a little bit of money to join, but once you pay money, they can’t cancel it. So I started a four and a half hour driver swap series. And so I’m doing that with Phil Hooligan.
And I’ve got my friend Neil DeCiel, Neil Wright. Um, he’s part of Infinity Racing League, IRL. Uh, they’ve got a Discord server also. And they are partnered up with ACC Consoles. Um, I, I’m sure if, if you’ve ever played ACC and you look up the online lobby list, ACC Consoles is like all over it. They’ve got tons of lobbies on there.
They do a time trial. Where they set up the track for the month and anybody can go and join on it. There’s no password and you can see how you stack up against however many people enter it. I was, I think I was 43rd out of 115 the last time. Last one I [00:42:00] was able to take time and do so that’s not bad. I’m like I said, I’m mid to Little bit better than that base um, so those are really good leagues and then There’s another one coming up.
It’s going to be an imsa foreign It’s imsa endurance racing and it’s going to be a mixed class that’s run by acc consoles as well And so i’ve got I want to have an all female team for this one So I asked Yvonne to join me on that one And anybody else who is interested, we can take, I think we can have up to three or four drivers.
So any other ladies out there want to get in on this, let me know.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, so you can message Tasha.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Oh right, it is on PS5 though, it’s not, it’s not PC, unfortunately. But yeah, no, I’m basically, I want to get as good as I can, so I drive everything that I can. [00:43:00] I’m not very, I wasn’t very good at ACC when I first started it.
But I’m not going to be like, Oh, I’m not going to join this series because I suck. I’m going to be like, I’m going to go join this series and see how well I do and see how much I can learn from them. I didn’t progress from. A pleb to where I’m at now, a better pleb by Sitting on the sidelines and not participating jump in Everybody is going to help you out.
If you have questions ask in a discord server ask on the racing server And guaranteed you’re going to make friends and someone who is alien pace is going to be like here Let me help you i’ll teach you a couple of things about this and you’ll be faster And then the other part of it is giving up. I’m never going to give up, right?
Every now and then I get into this position where I start feeling content being like, I’m not going to improve any more than this. This is just going to be my pace. [00:44:00] And that’s usually about the time that I gain a second on my laps.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: It’s
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): like, okay, now that I’m content, all of a sudden, poof, I’m faster. I’m like, whoa.
Okay. So maybe we need to relax while we’re doing this too. This isn’t about stressing yourself out and gripping as tight as you can. This is about. You want to be smooth and learn from everybody. That’s what we do.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, I’m absolutely agree with you. Uh, so good thing, which you said that you, when you relax, you’re like boom gaining one second and it’s, it’s really working because you just stop to push yourself too hard and stop to, um, Like focus too hard on things which you’re doing with driving and you just relax and let your brain to do all things on track and it’s, it’s really working.
Um, do you like endurance racing more compared to sprint racing? And if yes, what do you like the most about endurance [00:45:00] racing or sprint racing if you prefer this one?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Favorite? Yeah, I really do love the endurance racing, especially the driver swap endurance racing, because you’re working together with someone else.
So you’re not going to set the car up for you. They’re not going to set the car up for them. You have to work together and find a setup for the car because you can’t swap it, swap the setup when you get to the pits. Um, the pit stops themselves and trying to communicate with the other driver, set up tire pressures for the swap and stuff like that makes it more interesting.
Um, just being there, having a teammate in your ear. Um, they’re, they can watch you the whole time on ACC, especially in like, if there’s something you’re doing every lap that you’re not catching, they can give you advice on it. You know, I really love the AI on ACC where it tells you, it’s like, Oh, car on the right, Oh, clear on the right.
Don’t ever trust that thing. [00:46:00] Cause half the time, all I did was move over two inches to the right and it’s still there. So you still gotta be careful, but when you have somebody with you, they can spot those cars or, or you don’t have to watch your mirror because they can tell you someone’s coming up behind you.
You don’t have to watch the time so much in the bottom corner, trying to see what the deltas are because. You’ve got someone to do that for you. You can focus and drive. And then my other favorite thing about the endurance races is they last longer. I don’t want to jump in my rig and compete for 40 minutes.
I want to like push myself. I want to be going, I want to be driving. I want to drive for an hour, two hours, three hours, four hours. If I had my way, I would do it for a job and I would probably drive four or six hours a day, but I’m not there yet.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Do you like the part of endurance racing where you’re counting fuel and do some management with the schedule? Are you doing this by yourself or are you more? Uh, like [00:47:00] dedicate this to your teammates.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I’m just starting in it. Like I’ve only done, I can’t remember if we’ve done one or two. I think we’ve only gotten one done so far.
Like I said, I’ve only been doing this for two months and the endurance races run once a month. So the next one is coming up this Saturday. It’ll be streamed on my YouTube and it’s a spa and I’ve got decent times there. So this should be a good one to watch, but Phil and I are working together on a setup and actually I’ve got Neil Wright coming.
To drive this one with me another awesome guy but we work together to find a setup that we can all drive and then When it comes to fuel calculation, it’s you gotta I I enjoy doing it. I’m a math person like I went up to uh math 350 or something like that when I was in college and the only reason I stopped doing it is because My baby was born too early.
And so I had to drop a class lost [00:48:00] financial aid and No more school for me But, I love math, I love physics, I love thinking, so now I’ll look at, um, liters per lap, and how much time is left, and what my lap times are, and do the math in my head as quickly as I can. Usually, right now, I’m doing it all on the fly.
I’m hoping that, like, not this coming race, but the race after and the one after that, I’ve got a better grasp on how it works in ACC, and I can actually plan driver stints. Thanks. And okay, this is, we’re starting with 70 percent fuel, 70 liters, fuel, whatever. And then we’re, this is how much we’re going to fuel each time we come in.
And I like to strategize. It’s a lot of fun. I don’t like to do it by myself because I’m not racing alone. When you’ve got a team of people racing, everybody needs to have input, right? It’s like anything else. But no, I really, that’s another one of the things that I really love about endurance racing is like all [00:49:00] the strategies and, um, balancing ideas off with somebody else, practicing with them and just fine tuning how you’re driving together.
Sprint races are fun, um, as far as preparing goes. Um, I used to practice two hours a day every day before the race, trying to get ready for that race. And I went through about a month where I didn’t have time to practice at all. And I did better. I was like, from now on, my practice is going to be doing whatever I want, wherever I want.
And then on the day of the race, For the sprint race, I’m just going to jump in, do five laps and wing it. And it’s worked for me. I’m, I’m doing better on GT seven, doing it that way, but I’m also putting in more time on ACC. I think the better you do on ACC, the less you [00:50:00] need to try on GT seven. Right. And so I’m getting a lot better at that one.
Um, ACC preparation. I work at that. I’ve got this, uh, I started a one hour series with TJC Gaming, also another great guy, super inclusive. Um, you can join his races while he’s streaming. It’s a lot of fun, but I started joining his one hour races and it’s like, I’ll, you know, I’ll practice for like two hours throughout the week, come up with some kind of a setup and then not worry about it until the day of the race.
And then the four and a half hour races, I’m like fine tuning a setup and working with my team probably once a week ish for a month until it comes up and it’s time for the race. And it’s like, okay, Within three days before the race I do about an hour drive just so I can see what the tires are going to do See what the temperatures are going to do try um [00:51:00] different weather settings because It’s not like gt7 where they tell you the weather settings Usually these guys are like what are the real what’s the real world weather and you don’t even know till The day of half of the time.
I mean you can get a guess I looked up the weather last time and it was like, oh sunny Yeah Nah, it was cloudy and nearly raining, so that’s what our lobby looked like. So, um, ACC I put in a little bit more preparation. Gran Turismo 7 now, like I said, it’s, I just don’t worry about it anymore. It’s for fun, so I don’t prepare at all.
I jump in the day of and it’s like, okay, this is how we’re doing it.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, sometimes it’s really good to have just jump into the race, have fun and not think about anything about practice or, uh, something like this. I can suggest you a little thing about practice, it’s working for me. Uh, I don’t know, you can try it for yourself as well. Um, so usually I’m practicing, uh, [00:52:00] like I know one hour, two hours, uh, and, uh, I’m going to have like another one day before the race.
So I’m not doing the practice, um, on that day. And I know during the night, my brain, like, uh, collects all the info. And, uh, the next day when I’m doing, uh, like short practice, maybe 40 minutes or something like this, I’m just getting faster. And it’s really cool. Um, trying to not do. Not to do a lot of practice during the race day as I’m, you know, feeling tired, especially when we’re doing endurance races.
Uh, you really need this energy and, um, you need a lot of energy for your scenes because sometimes you do, um, in a racing, we’re doing double scenes. Uh, so you like one hour plus driving in the car, two hours sometimes. Uh, so yeah, you can try, uh, like, do. Uh, practice, then relax, and then take, like, little practice to just, uh, settle down things, uh, in your, in your [00:53:00] mind, and then jump to the race next day.
Something like this.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Absolutely. Actually, that, uh, it’s funny that you say that, because, um, the ACC console server, uh, I think it was, um, Kyalami that they had, the time trial going on? And that was also going to be the first endurance race that I was doing. And I’m still brand new with the game. I hadn’t really practiced anything else.
So one night I was like, I’m going to get better in this time trial. I’m going to get my name into the top 50. Right. And so I spent that night doing laps and laps and laps and laps. And, uh, it’s like, okay, I’ve got a good feel for the flow of it and how I’m gonna go, and this is great. Went to bed, and I, like, my eyes shot open at about 6.
30 in the morning, and I had this dream that I had gotten, whatever time, two seconds faster than what I was doing the night before. And I was like, let’s [00:54:00] go get this a shot. Get out of bed at 6 30 in the morning, come turn the rig on. I jumped on and like within two laps, I had, I nailed that two seconds faster lap.
And it was just a processing of, okay, this corner complex I’m coming into. It’s, um, I need to stop worrying about hitting the apex on the way through. I need to stay wide there so that it’s easier to hit the next left hand corner. And it came to me in a dream. As ridiculous as it is. Yes, I was dreaming and I figured out how to drive faster in my sleep.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s amazing. And you know, it’s a lot better to just, when you’re stuck on the, on your lap time, uh, you just go relaxed and then like everything, everything will come to you in the morning and you’ll do like two seconds faster, one second faster, or something like this. It’s working all the time.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): And the other thing, one of the other things that I [00:55:00] use is, so do 300 laps at Kyalami trying to get your time right.
And all you’re doing is frustrating yourself because it’s not, all you’re doing is overdriving the car. You’re not learning anything. You’re not doing any better. What’s a track that you are good at? Go play somewhere else for a little while. Like, I was like, Oh, I haven’t tried the Nürburgring on, or, uh, the Nordschleife on ACC yet.
Let’s go see what that one’s like. Oh, it is not the same as it is on GT7, but I still really love it. And so I go play on the Nordschleife for a little while and go back to the other track. And it’s Oh, oh, this corner looks completely different now. I’m like, all right, I can break another four meters later here.
Let’s do this.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. Sometimes yeah.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Clear the brain. It’s a, it’s like when you’re out tasting wine or tequila in my case, you taste one, you have a [00:56:00] little cleanser and then you taste the other one, right? Switch it up a little bit. It helps you learn.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, sometimes you just need some fresh air to get in and then you just jump with a, um, better energy to the track and you’re like, Oh, yes, I can do this corner a lot better now.
And yeah, it’s working all the time as well.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, sometimes the good break is what it takes. Um, the whole not practicing until the day of, like I said, it came about from a month where I just didn’t have time to practice. And both of the races that came up for that series, it was like, Man, I don’t care if I lose.
I got on, I did like three laps for practice and then qualification started. And I was like, yeah, let’s see how it goes. And you know, they didn’t practice at all. So I qualified mid pack and like, uh, yep, it’s all right. And just don’t hit anybody and try and have clean race and do your best. Who cares what happens?
And the next thing, you know, you’re. second place or leading the [00:57:00] race and it’s like, um, wow, I should relax more often.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Some good advices for people who are jumping into sim racing for the first time. That’s nice. Thank you. Um,
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): and the other and along with that is like, if you’re just getting into sim racing, don’t get on and start trying to go as fast as you can. There’s no reason to you’re not, all you’re going to do is.
Overdrive your car and frustrate yourself. What you want to do is go out and drive it like you’re learning a new neighborhood. Go around it a few times at a safe speed where you know you can make the corners and start getting a flow for how you want to drive it. And as you’re doing this, you’re going to slowly speed up and you’re going to start remembering where you’re at.
Nordschleife took me six months to stop botching three of the [00:58:00] corners because I I was like, Oh, I’m at this corner. Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope. That corner isn’t flat on the track, but you just want to get the lay of it. And as you’re doing this, and as you’re slowly learning the track, you’re going to start going faster and faster, and you’re not going to be pushing or overdriving your car, it’s just your comfort level is going to grow and you’re going to be smooth.
And you’re going to be faster by starting out going slower. That’s one piece of advice that everybody tells you. You never want to believe it, but slow is faster.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Slow
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): in, fast out, hit your apex, hit your markers, and relax.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Exactly, this is what you have to do. Also a good thing to just look at replay and see how wide you go in if you’re using the whole track and if you got opportunity to watch on the telemetry and analyze with Someone [00:59:00] who’s faster. Maybe you got to mate or someone like this that’s also a really good thing to do because you can compare with someone and you see where you Um, maybe doing differently.
Uh, some corners you might do better than your teammate, for example. Uh, some corners you can, um, learn from your teammate. And it’s, uh, it’s a great thing as well about simracing that we got open telemetry. And we got a lot of opportunities to watch other people replays. Uh, this is not what happened in real life in many series, uh, unfortunately.
But we, we just have to use these, uh, tools which we got in sim racing.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Absolutely. That. One of the things I love about sim racing is just the accessibility to all of the information. Um, you’re struggling on a track and you’re, you’ve got a league race coming up and you just don’t know why you can’t get any faster.
Pull up YouTube. Find somebody who’s [01:00:00] faster. There’s a lot of good youtubers out there that you can watch their lap times. You can Um figure out their breaking points. You can figure out what gear they’re in for each corner Um, that’s a big recommendation. I know automatic is easier to Work when you first start sim racing just figure out a way to get a manual in there.
Um, when I was on controller, I used like X and square for shifting and the triggers were gas and brake and steering was the left stick. Uh, now that I got the wheel, of course I got the paddle shifters on it, so that’s nice. But the automatic, you just don’t have the options for gear changes in corners.
Sometimes it’ll have you on third gear when really you need second to get the rotation for the car. But that’s another thing you can learn is, uh, what gear they’re using through corners. What, What are you doing to get rotation from the car and what are you doing to stop the [01:01:00] rotation and get on the power on the way out?
And sometimes you want a lower gear to get into the corner and you want to shift up when you hit the apex so you can get on the power right away and it doesn’t spin you out. It gives you a little bit of understeer and pushes you out to the curb. See, that’s why I love simracing, there’s so much to talk about.
Yeah. There’s so much nuance in it.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s true. Um,
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): speaking of We can pick it apart all day long.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, speaking of We can talk
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): about seating position.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Sorry.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): No, I’m I was half kidding, but it’s like, you want to talk about seating position, I you want to be able to like, set your wrist on fully extended out, and then when you grab your wheel, you want your arms to be about 90 degrees.
Please? You don’t want to be stretched out like this trying to drive, and you don’t want to be all like this where you don’t have any movement. Every little thing about this means something.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, especially driving position is a really good thing. You know, [01:02:00] I was struggling with the trail braking. I was losing a little bit, like, a little bit everywhere to the fastest drivers in the racing.
And the one thing which I did, I just, um, Did my, uh, move my seat backwards by one click and I fixed completely this trail breaking and you know I’m going faster right now and that’s exactly crazy about sim racing like every little things accounting to your better, better lap times on track So I agree with you in this.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): It’s like every stupid little thing affects it like okay, so GT7 I when I was driving I was driving bumper cam because it just makes the most sense really for GT7 Um the way that I have everything set up. I basically have the whole dashboard So my steering wheel is here and then I use the This is where the homemade rig comes in again.
So I [01:03:00] have an actual rig, but I took a different piece of that same countertop and I attached it to my monitor brackets and then I attached it to the wheel mount so that I could adjust my wheel farther back to get my legs farther away from the pedals and be able to adjust my seat more. And so it’s just another aspect of adjustability there.
It’s um, I had this issue though getting into ACC I really wanted to drive cockpit view. I always have it makes more sense. It’s immersion, right? Like you have more reference points in my car I know that if the right hand side of my windshield wiper the little knobby Is touching the white line on the right hand side that my tires are on the white line on the right side I know exactly where my car is on gg7.
It’s like oh it’s about right here on the screen And as long as I have this thing mapped up there that spot is where the edge of it is but when you cockpit view it’s like It’s [01:04:00] always there you have all of your reference marks for the car You can figure out exactly where everything is on it. So With the new seat i’m raised up a little bit more and i’ve got a 55 inch screen that like it goes up to Way too tall so I was I wasn’t able to get into Any other view besides bumper cam on acc even because I would have been looking like this while I was trying to drive And you don’t want that.
You want to be looking straight ahead. Everything matters in sim racing, racing, everything matters. So now that I’ve got a comfortable seat that I feel like is hugging me, I love it, I’m raised up just a little bit higher. I was able to get my settings and now I’m racing in cockpit view. And you know how your lap times always suffer when you first switch views, because you’re not used to the braking markers.
Took me one lap to beat my previous time.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Wow.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I did one [01:05:00] lap and I was like, okay, I see where everything is. I did another lap and I was like, all right, two seconds. I got this.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, that’s always
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): two seconds with me too. I don’t beat it by a half second, I beat it by two seconds.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s what a right driving position is about.
So you just get in a comfortable position, you’re like, Wow, I can be faster, you know, because you, uh, actually just, You got more confidence in your break in, you got more confidence when you’re going on throttle back, and overall you’re just feeling comfortable in Eureka, and it’s, it’s really important.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Yeah, one of the next things I gotta, so, this is a huge mess of an organizational thing right here, right now. But one of the next things I gotta do is figure out what to do with this. I mean, when I’m driving, it’s[01:06:00]
But if I have it over here, then nobody can hear me. If I have it over here, it’s my arms hitting it. So, you know, it’s a work in progress. Now, you gotta see this, though. And it’s okay if you laugh. I laugh all the time.
So that’s the desktop that I use. To extend everything.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Oh, that’s nice. This
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): is about my view of the screen when I’m driving. It’s like craning your head way up to see that. So this is my eye level. And this is my streaming setup over here. It’s a mess of a jumble of wires because I have to use way too many devices tethered together to make everything work.
So my 10 year old laptop, I use the, uh, Tablet down here for voice chat.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Mm hmm
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): on this side I was donated a couple of pieces of the 80 20 [01:07:00] 80 40 rig whatever With the keyboard mount, but they don’t mount on this. So I had to See all the weirdness I got going on down here. I found a way to attach weirdness To my tube whatever rig because you know, I just you can do anything you want.
All you need is To want it start working on it. There’s always a solution. I have a problem. I will find a solution This stupid thing is in my way Don’t worry about it. Give me a couple of weeks. It’s gonna be mounted probably over on my keyboard stand. .
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. That, that’s, uh,
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): that’d be nice if it could sit somewhere, you know, or it was like in front of me, but yeah, no, that ain’t gonna work either.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: No. While we talking, my, my mouse just stopped to work. , I think I can figure it out. Yeah. Just, uh, [01:08:00] not responding. I know why .
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Oh, I love it when that happens.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah. You know, uh, it’s really funny when you. You got everything ready, like, you check everything and you’re starting stream. And here’s something going wrong all the time.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I used to prepare everything for my stream the night before, right when I was getting ready to go to bed. Okay, sound check, mic check, screen check, stream, stream labs check. Everything just set up perfectly. And then the next day I would go to stream and none of it would be working. Okay. So, I’ve given up on getting things set up the day before, now I’m just like, okay, whatever.
Um, I can wing this in ten minutes, I got it. Heh heh heh.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, um, I just, I’m so curious, uh, you got this beautiful black, uh, Jackson guitar on your background, uh, so can [01:09:00] you tell me a little bit about it and, uh, you’re playing some music and what kind of music do you play?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I have been a metalhead since the day I was born. Um, at, at first you, it wasn’t the same kind of metal because it was the 80s and you know, it just wasn’t the same.
Um, But I always wanted to learn how to play guitar. I learned about I don’t know when I was 12 years old I think I started actually learning how to play and Been playing on and off ever since i’m not great But my kid decided he wanted to learn how to play bass guitar And what better to motivate him than sitting and jamming with him?
So I went Borrowed a guitar the air quotes aren’t because I stole it. It’s because my You This person, uh, decided that he was going to loan it to me, but he didn’t care how long I have it. So basically he gave me this guitar. It’s a Jackson [01:10:00] with the Floyd Rose. And when I looked it up and figured out how much this thing costs, it’s between seven and 1, 200.
So 900 bucks worth is just about right, but pick around on it a little bit. And what I’m thinking about doing is. I don’t want copyright strikes. I can’t find a way to get good music for intro videos and stuff like that without paying let’s see, I want it in this moment because number one, she’s a goddess number two, she’s amazing, she has an amazing voice and I love her music and the uh, What’s it called?
Uh, the messages behind what she’s singing. It’s like super strong woman powerful Just amazing. So listen to in this moment if you like metal and i’m struggling to find that So my next going to be an audio input so that I can go from [01:11:00] guitar direct into my computer, record some riffs along with a video.
And now I can make my own intro video with metal sounds that aren’t copyright. And I don’t have to search for years and years and years to find something that is.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: That’s, that’s great. Uh, really, uh, cool to see. I actually noticed that people who’s in sim racing, they, uh, also in some other hobbies, like maybe in flight simulators, in music. Um, yeah. And it’s really cool to know you from different side.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, there’s lots of different things I’m interested in, but mostly I just want to sim race and find my way into the real racing world.
Um, I recently. Recently, a year ago, I got injured. I’ve been in construction my whole life. So you want to know how to build something? You need something built. I can basically [01:12:00] do anything. I work with, um, CAD software. I, I can engineer a house. I can engineer a deck. I’ve built everything from running heavy equipment all the way through finishing touches on a house when the homeowner was moving in, I can do it all, but I want to be the best at everything.
And I want to be. the fastest at everything and I want to just be amazing at everything. So I worked myself to death. I now have a back injury. I walk with a cane and my doctor’s telling me that they want me to start walking with a walker. So that is gone. No more construction for me. And I’m currently in trying to change careers.
I’m trying to change careers. transitional period. So, um, finding a way to get into something to do with sim racing, doing commentary, uh, not really [01:13:00] promotions for somebody because I’m not so great with the artwork kind of thing, but working behind the scenes for something to grow women in sim racing. Um, people with different, uh, uh, differently abled people getting into sim racing, because I just have this passion.
If somebody wants to do something, they should be able to. So I’m looking at all these different things that I can try and start doing as a career change and find a way to make money off of it. But um, I forgot why I started saying that. What was that? What were we talking about right before that?
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Oh, we were talking about uh, the um about your guitar music and then you uh, yeah Yeah interest.
Yeah
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): So yeah, i’ve got all these interests and Nowhere to put them now. So I’m spending a [01:14:00] lot of time trying to find my, like scoosh my way into a new career somehow, um, with something that I love and probably going to be spending a lot more time. Luckily, my mother in law lives in Portland and I know most people wouldn’t say, Oh, I’ll go visit.
But I’m like, number one, she’s not that bad. Number two. She lives in the same place as Portland International Raceway, which, if I spend enough time there, you know, I might be able to find my way onto a team, you know? Even if it’s not racing, I could sit behind a TV screen and relay information. I’m really good at talking.
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: Yeah, we can see this. You’re awesome in this.
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): I’m trying to tell, is that an insult or a compliment?
Lyubov Ozeretskovskaya: All right, and before we wrap up, the last question for you will be, do you have any [01:15:00] big plans for your YouTube channel and for streaming? Are you planning maybe to expand and stream on Twitch as well alongside with YouTube?
Tasha (@transmissionmotorsport): Um, my goal right now is to get monetized to the point where I can afford To not have to put money into things like dual streaming Um, if my streaming was paying for it paying for things like a dual stream Through stream labs, then I would already be going on to twitch So i’m working towards it paying for itself to grow.
It hasn’t happened yet, but it will um besides that most of my streams right now are either comms for other people racing or You know Me racing in a league.
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