Garage Heroes In Training
590 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsAn amateur endurance auto racing team hoping to show everyone that they too can participate in performance driving or racing. We are a relatively new team and learning right along with you. Our assumption is that you know very little to nothing about the sport but are interested in learning to drive better and eventually maybe even race in a local event of interest. We will cover all forms of racing and hope to be entertaining as well as educational.
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GHiT 0568: Tom Lomino Was Long Overdue
April 17, 2024 18:15 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBGHiT 0568: Tom Lomino Was Long Overdue Racing with Tom Lomino has been racing with us since we started and long before we arrived. He has a predisposition for VW’s and has raced a few since he started with great success and sometimes with great struggles. We review Tom’s racing history, his VW successes and struggles, and many of the various escapades Tom has been involved with since he began racing and wrenching. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/TomLomino If you would ...
DwD 0569: How to Pass a Faster/More Powerful Car On Track
April 15, 2024 04:27 - 17 minutes - 14.7 MBDwD 0569: How to Pass a Faster/More Powerful Car On Track An article by Randy Pobst in Grassroots Motorsports magazine stirred up this bit of conversation related to passing fast and more powerful cars on track. While this may initially seem to be impossible, it usually the only way we are able to pass cars on track, lol A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/PassingFasterCars We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance ...
DwD 0567: Gripping your Steering Wheel
April 12, 2024 07:30 - 14 minutes - 12.4 MBDwD 0567: Gripping your Steering Wheel We discuss the best way to grip a steering wheel and hand position with a bit more related topics. This may be one of the few times where more is not better. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/HulkNoSmash We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Goo...
GHiT 0566: Elizabeth Jolly – Lap 3, Plus a New Plan for Vicki
April 08, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour - 103 MBGHiT 0566: Elizabeth Jolly – Lap 3, Plus a New Plan for Vicki It had been too long since we had Elizabeth Jolly on the podcast. She was at our first ever All Ladies team endurance race at Thompson and has learned a considerable amount as a driver, a racer, and as a mechanic for her race cars. She has progressed her driving to securing her SCCA racing license and competes in her Spec E30 BMW. We talk about how things have been going and then make a new decision and plan that affects Vic...
DwD 0565: Car Setup Targets
April 05, 2024 07:30 - 21 minutes - 17.3 MBDwD 0565: Car Setup Targets What is faster, setting up a car as fast as it can be or setting it up to maximize driver comfort with the car performance. This gets even more complicated when dealing with a team of drivers for an endurance race. Ben discusses this and provides a few examples of what to do and what will give the best performance for a given race. Did we miss something? Do you have a better suggestions? Please let us know. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl...
GHiT 0564: Johan Schwartz – All About Racing and Car Control
April 01, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBGHiT 0564: Johan Schwartz – All About Racing and Car Control We loved our car control clinic at CMP a few weeks ago and Johan Schwartz was kind enough to come onto the podcast this week. During the episode, we talk about a lot of Johan’s past and how he has progressed to this point in his racing career. We also talk about his car control clinic which was very helpful to us and well worth the trip. Johan also indulges us in going through each of his three World Records in drifting and ...
DwD 0563: Proper Preseason Preparation Performed Perfectly
March 26, 2024 07:30 - 19 minutes - 16.1 MBDwD 0563: Proper Preseason Preparation Performed Perfectly With the season rapidly approaching, we wanted to go over some tips to prepare you and your team for the first event. The reduction in stress from beign prepared can actually make you perform better and safer. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ProperPrep We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: You can subscribe to our podcast on ...
GHiT 0562: Racing Subarus the Best way with Dewey Dewitt
March 25, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBGHiT 0562: Racing Subarus the Best way with Dewey Dewitt Dewey Dewitt, fresh off his 2023 Time Attack Championship with GridLife, joins us to go into the details for properly racing and preparing Subaru’s for racing and track use. We focus on addressing basic upgrades to protect the car during high performance driving. Then look at potential performance upgrades and the potential implications, both positives and potential negatives. If you have ever heard of “Subaru” issues, there are ...
GHiT 0561: Recap of our Car Control Clinic at CMP
March 20, 2024 16:29 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBGHiT 0561: Recap of our Car Control Clinic at CMP At long last, Vicki’s Christmas training gift was here. We attended a Car Control Clinic at CMP’s skid pad with Johan Schwartz. Vicki and Bill both grew as drivers and improved their car control, car recovery, and even a bit of drifting was had. A great event that we try to summarize for you. If you can attend one of Johan’s events, you definitely should, and it will benefit all levels of drivers. A link to the episode is: https://ti...
DwD 0560: What Not to Do Before Going on Track for the First Time
March 19, 2024 07:30 - 13 minutes - 25.3 MBDwD 0560: What Not to Do Before Going on Track for the First Time There are several things that can affect your starting up driving on track or autocrossing. In this episode, we go over many of the things that you should not wait far. Its almost a Jeff Foxworthy skit episode but in reverse. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/WhatNotToWaitFor We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: You can s...
GHiT 0559: Trailer and Towing – Part 2 of 2
March 18, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBGHiT 0559: Trailer and Towing – Part 2 We start off with a quick review of some listener feedback. Apparently, some of our listeners have created some pretty amazing trailer and towing setups and we would love to see them and share with everyone. We would love nothing better than to help prevent any accidents, or even close calls, and hopefully improve everyone’s trailer and towing game to the point where we all can enjoy our time with our fellow racers and track day friends and soon to...
DwD 0558: Listener Question: What is the difference between a “better” driver and a “faster” driver
March 12, 2024 07:30 - 21 minutes - 18 MBDwD 0558: Listener Question: What is the difference between a “better” driver and a “faster” driver In an earlier podcast, we talked about how Bill is looking to become a faster driver as opposed to becoming a better driver. A few listeners have written in and asked why he said that and if they are the same. While we agree with trying to improve as a driver and getting faster, they can often be the same, but are two distinct aspects of driving and racing. A link to the episode is:...
GHiT 0557: Scott Robertson on Racing Car Setups and Optimized Data Interpretation
March 11, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBGHiT 0557: Scott Robertson on Racing Car Setups and Optimized Data Interpretation Scott Robertson is the co-host of the Track Walking podcast and team member of Robertson Racing. With Scott hosting an upcoming webinar on data interpretation, we couldn’t pass up the chance to talk with him ahead of time. While we hate to impose on fellow podcasters to come on our podcast, every time we talk with Scott he sheds a light on a new aspect of racing and especially race car setups. This episod...
GHiT 0556: Rally Master Jeff returns to Review the Virginia is for Clunkers Rally and Preview the upcoming Route 66 Rally
March 07, 2024 21:16 - 46 minutes - 39.3 MBGHiT 0556: Rally Master Jeff returns to Review the Virginia is for Clunkers Rally and Preview the upcoming Route 66 Rally Jeff Stobbs, Lemons resident Rally Master, returns to review the recent Virginia is for Clunkers rally and all the goings on for the first rally to occur in a single state. Several great entries and several teams are still missing in action. Then we shift over to the upcoming Route 66 rally that is still open for registration. Route 66 is one of the unofficial high...
DwD 0555: Listener Feedback on Towing and Best Pizza
March 05, 2024 08:30 - 22 minutes - 19.4 MBDwD 0555: Listener Feedback on Towing and Best Pizza We received a bunch of emails and comments related to our Pizza episode and our Towing episode part 1. Ben loves nothing more than passing everyone, but number two may be listener feedback. So, we made a number two episode. I should probably rephrase that. Oh no, too late, its posted. Lol. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/TowingAndPizzaFeedback We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow...
GHiT 0554: Waka Motorsports with Rich Russo
March 04, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBGHiT 0554: Waka Motorsports with Rich Russo We were instant fans of the Waka Motorsports YouTube channel and first met Rich Russo and teammates at NJMP and then Thompson on their initial scouting trips to Lemons racing. They race an almost identical car to our Honda Civic and have had quite a few stories in such a short time. We also talk about the upcoming karting contest between our two teams. So if you have ever wondered what a Waka is, its detailed in here and we bet you didn’t gue...
DwD 0553: Brakes: Rotors, Pads, and Bleeding
February 27, 2024 08:30 - 36 minutes - 28.4 MBDwD 0553: Brakes: Rotors, Pads, and Bleeding We have already gone deep into the area of brakes, brake pads, fluid etc. with Wendy from Porterfield’s a few years ago but we thought that it may be beneficial to go into the maintenance and replacement of these components and options that you have to replace and service the braking system. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/BrakesPadRotorsAndBleeding We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow o...
GHiT 0552: Anthony Magagnoli – Record Setting Racing Driver
February 26, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBGHiT 0552: Anthony Magagnoli – Record Setting Racing Driver Anthony Magagnoli is a unique combination of racing driver, racing coach, and working for various OEMs on vehicle dynamics and set up. In addition, he runs and owns a coaching service that focuses on improving driver’s performance centered near Michigan. Having set several track records, including at Mid-Ohio, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get into several areas of driving MidO and what he thinks will be the result of ...
DwD 0551: Arrive and Drive – The Hardcore Way
February 20, 2024 08:30 - 25 minutes - 20.8 MBDwD 0551: Arrive and Drive – The Hardcore Way Taking a note from the Mighty Car Mods YouTube channel, we take a stab at what we would do for a heroic arrive and drive. On their episode they entered a 24 hour endurance race in another country by building their race car from scratch after they arrived. We decided that sounded like a challenge, so we begin planning how we would do the same. Did we miss something? Do you have a better suggestion? Please let us know. A link to the...
GHiT 0550: Celebration with Ross Bentley Helping Our Team Drivers Improve - Santa Style
February 19, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBGHiT 0550: Celebration with Ross Bentley Helping Our Team Drivers Improve - Santa Style Ross Bentley returns to help celebrate our 550th episode. Ross indulges us in helping refine Vicki’s racing improvement plan for the upcoming season and then helps each of our drivers refine their driver goals and plans for 2024. Since each of our drivers is at a different point in their driving/racing journey, these can be examples of what everyone can take into account to self-assess and then devel...
GHiT 0549: ST-4 with Griffin Gamcsik-Uly
February 13, 2024 13:23 - 58 minutes - 48.3 MBGHiT 0549: ST-4 with Griffin Gamcsik-Uly Griffin Gamcsik-Uly is the Super Touring Director and races in the ST-4 group with NASA Northeast. During this episode, we finally start to break down the various run groups in wheel to wheel (ST) and time trials (TT) as well as what the numbers mean in terms of cars and performance. It turns out that Bill may actually have a car ready to compete in ST and we may be out there with Griffin this summer. Unfortunately, Griffin may have a bit more f...
DwD 0548: The Pizza Episode – Where is the best pizza, where is the worst pizza, and where is the worst pizza?
February 12, 2024 12:32 - 22 minutes - 18.5 MBDwD 0548: The Pizza Episode – Where is the best pizza, where is the worst pizza, and where is the worst pizza? We welcomed Ben back with one of the most technical question we have ever had. We asked Ben where to get the best pizza? Where is the worst pizza? And finally, what is the most overrated pizza? We did go into pizza types and specific pizza stores. Obviously, you may have a different opinion. If so, please let us know. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/BestP...
GHiT 0547: Towing and Trailering for Racing-Part 1
February 08, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBGHiT 0547: Towing and Trailering for Racing-Part 1 While we love almost everything about racing, one thing that is at best a necessary evil is towing. When we started, we knew nothing. If you look at our past towing exploits, we prove that over and over. Besides being expensive, towing errors can be dangerous. This is part one of the episode we needed. We start off with the tow vehicle itself and then start to go into the varieties and needs of the trailer in this part 1 of two(?), s...
DwD 0546: You Are The Stig – How Would You Teach the Guest of the Week
February 06, 2024 08:30 - 11 minutes - 9.88 MBDwD 0546: You Are The Stig – How Would You Teach the Guest of the Week This question originated from a listener comment. The premise is that you are the Stig and part of your responsibilities is to teach this week’s guest for their hot lap. What would you do? We discuss. Did we get it correct or do you have a better plan? A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/TheStigTeachesHow We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performa...
GHiT 0545: Randy Bish Returns for His Second Lap
February 05, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBGHiT 0545: Randy Bish Returns for His Second Lap Randy Bish has been a friend for many years, even after his rally car broke down at the starting line near our home and he stayed to “fix” it for longer than the rest of the rally. On this episode, we catch up with how things have been going, what the team The League of Legitimate Nigerian Businessmen have been up to and why he, well so many items always start with “why” with Randy. If you listen, you will understand. A link to the epi...
DwD 0544: Listener Goals for 2024
January 30, 2024 08:30 - 36 minutes - 30.2 MBDwD 0544: Listener Goals for 2024 We love goals and apparently it is rubbing off on our listeners. We had several write in with their 2024 goals. We congratulate everyone on their goals and add a few suggestions to help with each of the goals mentioned. If you have goals for this season, please let us know. Hopefully this is part one of many. BEST OF LUCK MARY!!!! We are rooting for you every day! A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/2024ListenerGoals We hope you e...
GHiT 0543: Spec3 Racing with Taylor Johnson
January 29, 2024 08:30 - 56 minutes - 43.4 MBGHiT 0543: Spec3 Racing with Taylor Johnson We love talking all thing racing and about as many series as we can. Today, we talked with Taylor Johnson about the Spec3 series and how this may be the just the things for your E36 BMW. The series started a few years ago but has recently been seeing significant growth in many areas of the country. It is a very competitive series and has a high level of performance for a low price in terms of both the car build and the consumables. If you ar...
GHiT 0542: Ben Marouski on Racing Mini Cooper’s and FCP Euro
January 24, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBGHiT 0542: Ben Marouski on Racing Mini Cooper’s and FCP Euro Ben Marouski races his Mini Cooper in Grid Life’s GLTC series and is the Director of Creative Services for FCP Euro. During this episode, we talk about all things racing related in Mini Coopers, GLTC, and FCP Euro. If you haven’t seen the Mini Cupper series on YouTube already, we highly recommend the series to show what is possible prepping a car for GridLife’s Sundae Cup series from scratch during the race weekend at Lime...
DwD 0541: Revving out the Engine: What it is, Why, and Why Not
January 23, 2024 08:30 - 21 minutes - 17 MBDwD 0541: Revving out the Engine: What it is, Why, and Why Not On this DwD, we go into what it means to rev out an engine. We also go into the reasons why you would do that from a performance perspective. We then go into some of the factors that may affect whether you want to do this routinely or whether you would prefer to shift a bit earlier or only go to the redline for special occasions. Plus we get into a quick discussion on gauges, especially in a new to you car or an arri...
GHiT 0540: Lara Vernon Returns with Tons of Exciting News
January 22, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBGHiT 0540: Lara Vernon Returns with Tons of Exciting News It has been a while since we had Lara Vernon on the podcast. Since our last episode, she has been racing with tons of cars and in a wide variety of series. We were long overdue for an update and always love to catch up with Lara and her exceptional racing exploits, including her new race car and recent testing in her first open wheel car. We remain jealous, lol. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/LaraVernonRacesOn ...
DwD 0539: Passing: On the Inside vs On The Outside
January 16, 2024 08:30 - 20 minutes - 16.2 MBDwD 0539: Passing: On the Inside vs On The Outside One a racing driver we know has a favorite aspect of racing. His name is Ben and he is our resident expert and namesake for Dominating with Dawson. As a gift, we let him talk about the details of passing in a turn and aspects that differ when passing on the inside versus passing on the outside of a turn. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/PassingInsidevOutside We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help...
GHiT 0538: Mechanical “Saves” or What to Do When Things Go Sideways
January 15, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBGHiT 0538: Mechanical “Saves” or What to Do When Things Go Sideways How many times when you are working on a car have thing gone as planned? One of the things we have noticed is that as you grow as a mechanic, you learn more and more ways that things can go poorly and that one of the things that the great mechanics know is how to get out of the problem in an easy way and save a ton of time. Since we are still fully in training, we have Chriss Abbott from the Everyone Racers podcast and ...
DwD 0537: Jargon 101: What is Car Handling and What We Prefer
January 09, 2024 08:30 - 18 minutes - 15.1 MBDwD 0537: Jargon 101: What is Car Handling and What We Prefer We realized that we talk a lot about the handling of a car and have never really defined it. So We do. Jargon 101 is back! Plus we talk about what type of handling we prefer or would like to have when the car is refined to our preferences/liking. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/PreferredCarHandling We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving ...
GHiT 0536: Adam Jabaay – Discusses GridLife 2023 and 2024
January 08, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 56 MBGHiT 0536: Adam Jabaay – Discusses GridLife 2023 and 2024 Adam Jabaay returns to talk about what a great year 2023 was for the GridLife season and all the changes going forward for 2024. If you haven’t tried a GridLife event, you should not miss one that’s local to you. The original goal for GridLife was to hold the racing events that they wanted for all their friends. With the season passes selling out this year in 80 seconds, it appears they have succeeded. But don’t worry, there ar...
GHiT 0535: Goals: 2023 Review and 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come
January 04, 2024 08:30GHiT 0535: Goals: 2023 Review and 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come In this episode, we talk with Nick Fontana and Armin Mejia about the Northeast GT Racing series. The series is based on having multiple classes racing based on power to weight that will compete in endurance races throughout the year leading up to the championship weekend at Watkins Glenn. Being endurance races and located mostly in the northeast, this was a natural one for us and we hope everyone enjoys the new series thi...
DwD 0534: Maintaining Your Tires in Amateur Endurance Racing
January 02, 2024 08:30 - 18 minutes - 15.1 MBDwD 0534: Maintaining Your Tires in Amateur Endurance Racing Anyone who watches Formula 1 hears all about the importance of maintaining the tires during the race and the strategy implications. However, does this matter in amateur endurance racing, especially when racing 200 tread wear tires. Fact or Friction. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/TireMaint We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing:...
DwD 0533: Rubbin’s Racin’ – Welcome to Ben’s Soapbox
December 27, 2023 08:30 - 21 minutes - 17 MBDwD 0533: Rubbin’s Racin’ – Welcome to Ben’s Soapbox In this week’s Dominating with Dawson, we go into the old saying that rubbin’s racing, and out thoughts on where this belongs in amateur racing. Many long time listeners knows where this will go, but the soapbox discussion was fantastic. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/RubbinsRacin We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: You can subscri...
GHiT 0532: Goals: 2023 Review and 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come
December 26, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 65 MBGHiT 0532: Goals: 2023 Review and 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come Pre-Podcast Question: How was YOUR 2022 season? In this episode, we talk about how our team did over the 2023 season. We also go into what we are targeting for 2024. The upcoming year is going to target quite a bit of growth as drivers and racers. As always, look back and see that we are still “In Training”. (always will be!) A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/GHiTReviews2023and2024 If you would like t...
DwD 0531: Options to Balance Risk vs Lap Time
December 19, 2023 08:30 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBDwD 0531: Options to Balance Risk vs Lap Time When on track, there is always a certain degree of risk. During this episode, we cover some of the aspects where the initial assumption would be that faster lap times increase the associated risk. However, this may or may not be the case and also there are ways to take small risks and still push the limits towards going significantly faster. We also go into areas where you can take a small risk with little consequence vs taking a risk wit...
GHiT 0530: Garage Update - Cage Party and Replacing an Engine
December 18, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 50 MBGHiT 0530: Garage Update - Cage Party and Replacing an Engine It was a very productive series of weeks at the GHiT Garage. During this episode, we go over our latest cage party, where we helped our friends with caging their 1993 Honda Civic. We go over the process and what we have learned working with our friends at the Three Pedal Mafia/Everyone Racers Podcast. We then also went into the process of changing the engine on our Toyota 86. Surprisingly, things went really well, we didn’t...
DwD 0529: Burnout – How to Know and How to Avoid
December 12, 2023 08:30 - 19 minutes - 13.9 MBDwD 0529: Burnout – How to Know and How to Avoid We start with two different definitions of burnout that are related to racing. We then focus on what happens with “too much” racing, how to identify when this occurs and what you can do to avoid this or recover from this. This can take all the fun away from racing and that is just wrong. We then return and end with some tips to help you with the much more fun type of burnouts. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/BurnoutI...
GHiT 0528: Club Spec Racing with Heyward Wagner for the SCCA
December 11, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBGHiT 0528: Club Spec Racing with Heyward Wagner for the SCCA When we first started, we were looking for one car to race in every endurance racing series. Obviously, Heyward Wagner is a long time listener who never misses an episode and wanted to help us with this but take it even another step further. (Tongue firmly planted in our cheek) With the Club Spec Series, the SCCA is trying to get a spec series car that is capable of racing in autocross, hill climb, time attack, and even event...
DwD 0527: Breaking Plateaus or Getting Out of a Rut
December 05, 2023 08:30 - 24 minutes - 14.9 MBDwD 0527: Breaking Plateaus or Getting Out of a Rut As a high performance driver or a racing driver, many drivers will reach a point in their progression where the improvement ceases and you can find yourself stuck at a certain level of performance or even stuck in a performance rut. In this episode, we try to cover a few of the ways to break out of this and continue on your individual path of improvement. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/BreakingPlateaus We hope you ...
GHiT 0526: Dion von Moltke – Author of “Send It – The Art and Science of Racing Cars”
December 04, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBGHiT 0526: Dion von Moltke – Author of “Send It – The Art and Science of Racing Cars” Dion von Moltke has been a professional racing driver and is created and is currently coaching using the Blayze platform to personally coach drivers across the world, including several members on our team. And then last week, we saw that he had written a book and we ordered it instantly and it has quickly become one of our team’s favorite books in the area of performance driving. Dion manages to break ...
GHiT 0525: Zach Caldwell Returns and We Discuss the Upcoming Vannonball 2024 – Once Wasn’t Enough?
November 30, 2023 08:30 - 48 minutes - 38.3 MBGHiT 0525: Zach Caldwell Returns and We Discuss the Upcoming Vannonball 2024 – Once Wasn’t Enough? or how a $500 race van does 50,000 miles of racing When last we spoke to Zach Caldwell, we were reviewing the inaugural Vannonball Run. He was a bit weathered and had survived the event. Naturally after some recovery and an exceptional example of selective memory, Zach has determined an even more extreme version of Vannonball. This episode is a combination of a psychological test and a ...
DwD 0524: Autocross v Track – Differences and Similarities
November 28, 2023 08:30 - 19 minutes - 14 MBDwD 0524: Autocross v Track – Differences and Similarities We take advantage of Audra and her vast experience at autocrossing to discuss where autocross can help your track driving and several of the differences that may need to be modified when on track. In a future episode, we will talk about translating from track driving to autocross. Cross training can only help your driving skill. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/Autocross2Track We hope you enjoy this episode! ...
GHIT 0523: Our 2024 Gift Ideas for the Driver/Racers and Mechanics in Your Life
November 27, 2023 16:14 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBGHIT 0523: Our 2024 Gift Ideas for the Driver/Racers and Mechanics in Your Life Here are some of our newer ideas for the gifts for the driver, racer, and mechanic in your life. We give a few ideas from stocking stuffers and gifts from the kids to pretty much every budget. If you think of others, please let us know and we can add them to the social media posts. If you have other gift ideas, please send to [email protected] and we can add them to the lists. Have a great h...
GHiT 0522: Gary McCormick – Second Lap (or Few) in our B Spec Fit
November 27, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBGHiT 0522: Gary McCormick – Second Lap (or Few) in our B Spec Fit Gary McCormick flew in for our surprise Vicki weekend at NJMP Lightning and explored his first HPDE with NASA Northeast in our 2015 B Spec Honda Fit. We talk about how the event went, what it is like to HPDE in a super slow car, and compare the event with NASA vs Gary’s usual SCCA group. This episode wraps up our sixth season of the podcast and we can’t think of a better guest to have to end the season. A link to the ep...
DwD 0521: Race Starts – Standing and Rolling Starts
November 21, 2023 08:30 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBDwD 0521: Race Starts – Standing and Rolling Starts Ben is all about saving time and passing our fellow drivers and one of the key areas where this can be accomplished quite easily is at a race start or restart. In this episode, we provide many of the tips that we use to help us save a bit of time and pass a few friends. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/RaceStartTips We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driv...
GHiT 0520: Brad Lee – First HPDE - Finally
November 20, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBGHiT 0520: Brad Lee – First HPDE - Finally Brad Lee has been with our team for about 5 years but it had never quite worked out to get him on the track. Luckily, Brad was able to attend the Vicki surprise weekend at NJMP Lightning with us and get out on track. This is a great example of what its like to get on track for the first time. Plus a ton of story time. This may be the first part in a refreshed How To Start Racing 101 series. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/Brad...