Latest Miata Podcast Episodes
GHiT 0576: Bob Miller – Your Oil Needs for Racing
Garage Heroes In Training - May 06, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 0576: Bob Miller – Your Oil Needs for Racing Bob Miller joins us to talk about motor oil and oil analysis. Bob runs the Racers Oil Analysis Resource that will provide you with oil analysis and recommendations for your particular use case. Are you using the correct oil? Are you changin...
DwD 0575: Car Livery - Part 1: Base Coat/Color Change Options
Garage Heroes In Training - May 02, 2024 14:11 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 0575: Car Livery - Part 1: Base Coat/Color Change Options In our first emergency episode of Dominating with Dawson, without Dawson, we tried to cover an area of racing that we have investigated repeatedly, the livery. In this episode, Vicki and Bill go over several ways to change your...
GHiT 0574: Getting Our SCCA Racing Licenses - We Hope
Garage Heroes In Training - April 29, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 0574: Getting Our SCCA Racing Licenses Vicki, Audra, and Elizabeth went to Thompson for the Thursday/Friday event that if they passed would give them their novice racing license that becomes a full racing license after 5 more races without any incidents. How did the weekend go? Did a...
GHiT 0573: Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 3 Pedal Mafia
Garage Heroes In Training - April 24, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 0573: Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 3 Pedal Mafia Our race season has begun with our kickoff race at PittRace with the 24 Hours of Lemons. We were joined by several members of the National Championship winning racing team, the Three Pedal Mafia. You all know them, they are the team...
DwD 0572: How to Learn a Track As Quickly As Possible
Garage Heroes In Training - April 22, 2024 17:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 0572: How to Learn a Track As Quickly As Possible Bill is about to compete in the One Lap of America and will be visiting most of the tracks for the first time. Ben discusses several ways to learn a track more quickly and may be helpful for you at your next new to you track day. A ...
GHiT 0571: Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 2
Garage Heroes In Training - April 20, 2024 07:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 0571: Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 2 Our race season has begun with our kickoff race at PittRace with the 24 Hours of Lemons. We were joined by the famous Slippery Slope racing team and shared a garage together. The drove their 1991 E34 5 series BMW in class A and made a great sho...
GHiT 0570: Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 1
Garage Heroes In Training - April 19, 2024 15:31 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 0570: Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 1 Our race season has begun with our kickoff race at PittRace with the 24 Hours of Lemons. We had a large team and we over did our theming effort this time. The race was fantastic, until it wasn’t, but we made lemonade out of it in the end. Good...
GHiT 0568: Tom Lomino Was Long Overdue
Garage Heroes In Training - April 17, 2024 18:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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...
DwD 0569: How to Pass a Faster/More Powerful Car On Track
Garage Heroes In Training - April 15, 2024 04:27 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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...
DwD 0567: Gripping your Steering Wheel
Garage Heroes In Training - April 12, 2024 07:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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 episod...
GHiT 0566: Elizabeth Jolly – Lap 3, Plus a New Plan for Vicki
Garage Heroes In Training - April 08, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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...
DwD 0565: Car Setup Targets
Garage Heroes In Training - April 05, 2024 07:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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...
GHiT 0564: Johan Schwartz – All About Racing and Car Control
Garage Heroes In Training - April 01, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 r...
DwD 0563: Proper Preseason Preparation Performed Perfectly
Garage Heroes In Training - March 26, 2024 07:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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 epi...
GHiT 0562: Racing Subarus the Best way with Dewey Dewitt
Garage Heroes In Training - March 25, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 duri...
GHiT 0561: Recap of our Car Control Clinic at CMP
Garage Heroes In Training - March 20, 2024 16:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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...
DwD 0560: What Not to Do Before Going on Track for the First Time
Garage Heroes In Training - March 19, 2024 07:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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 revers...
GHiT 0559: Trailer and Towing – Part 2 of 2
Garage Heroes In Training - March 18, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 pr...
DwD 0558: Listener Question: What is the difference between a “better” driver and a “faster” driver
Garage Heroes In Training - March 12, 2024 07:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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 i...
GHiT 0557: Scott Robertson on Racing Car Setups and Optimized Data Interpretation
Garage Heroes In Training - March 11, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 ah...
GHiT 0556: Rally Master Jeff returns to Review the Virginia is for Clunkers Rally and Preview the upcoming Route 66 Rally
Garage Heroes In Training - March 07, 2024 21:16 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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...
DwD 0555: Listener Feedback on Towing and Best Pizza
Garage Heroes In Training - March 05, 2024 08:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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 p...
GHiT 0554: Waka Motorsports with Rich Russo
Garage Heroes In Training - March 04, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 ...
DwD 0553: Brakes: Rotors, Pads, and Bleeding
Garage Heroes In Training - February 27, 2024 08:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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 ...
GHiT 0552: Anthony Magagnoli – Record Setting Racing Driver
Garage Heroes In Training - February 26, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 c...
DwD 0551: Arrive and Drive – The Hardcore Way
Garage Heroes In Training - February 20, 2024 08:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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 th...
GHiT 0550: Celebration with Ross Bentley Helping Our Team Drivers Improve - Santa Style
Garage Heroes In Training - February 19, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 ...
GHiT 0549: ST-4 with Griffin Gamcsik-Uly
Garage Heroes In Training - February 13, 2024 13:23 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 ...
DwD 0548: The Pizza Episode – Where is the best pizza, where is the worst pizza, and where is the worst pizza?
Garage Heroes In Training - February 12, 2024 12:32 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 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 ...
GHiT 0547: Towing and Trailering for Racing-Part 1
Garage Heroes In Training - February 08, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 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 err...