Turn Podcast #9 - Niels Heusinkveld

Charlie Eastwood is a factory driver with Aston Martin and competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship!

Today I had the opportunity to speak with Niels Heusinkveld who is the owner and founder of Heusinkveld Engineering. Join us as we discuss his modest beginnings, what it's like starting and running a company, sim racing physics, the sim hardware market and more!

Moritz Löhner is a Williams Esports professional sim driver

Jon Armstrong started his impressive career at an early age. Starting rally sprints when he was 13 to his first closed stages at just 17. After moving into European rallying and winning the Rookie title, Armstrong won a seat in the WRC2 class. The tier below the main World Rally Championship. With all things racing, budget comes into play, where Jon made a move to the virtual world. Winning the 2018 Esports World Rally Championship to now working directly with Dirt Rally 2.0 Join us as we discuss the world of rally racing. The specifics of what it takes, how to get started and this continued discussion of merging the gap between sim racing and real world racing!

Today I got a chance to speak with Lindsay Rice who is currently competing in the Canadian Touring Car Championship in the #18 Audi RS3 LMS. Lindsay has always been into cars and naturally gravitated to motorsport. She is the perfect example of hustle brings results. Doing whatever it took to be at the track, volunteering, making her goals and ambitions clear to her colleagues and networking to finally lead to a sponsorship deal for her to start racing.

2019 sees Paul competing in IMSA GTD and GS! In 2018, Holton was named a factory driver for McLaren amidst a MICHELIN Pilot Challenge season with two top-five finishes and three MOTUL Pole Awards. Holton was also the 2017 World Challenge TC champion with one win and three podiums.  

Raffaele is a professional driver for Mercedes AMG. He is currently competing in Blancpain GT as well as leading the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Being a former Ferrari Academy Driver, GP3 Champion, GP2 driver and part time sim racer he is highly experienced with lots of speed and career left in him!

James Pull started karting at an early age and graduated to Formula 4 and then Formula 3 ending the 2017 season as BRDC British F3 Championship as both Vice-Champion and Rookie-Champion. Pull then moved to GT racing competing in Lamborghini Super Trofeo in 2018 scoring wins and ending the Asian series as Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Vice Champion and the European Championship in an impressive 5th place. 2019 sees James 2nd year in GT cars and is racing in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with Barwell Motorsport. Lot's of career left to build from this young talent!

How to find that last second of lap time The future of sim racing Setup and data analysis strategies How to fund a racing career How to find and attract sponsors

How to fund your racing career. How to grow your personal brand and get noticed. How to tell a better story and more! David Perel is a Silver ranked Pro GT driver. He competes in GT Open and Blancpain GT Championships, driving a Ferrari 488 GT3 where he continues his successful climb up the endurance racing ladder!