Latest Miata Podcast Episodes
DwD 0582: Weight Management On Track – AKA Friction Circle Take 6?
Garage Heroes In Training - May 24, 2024 07:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 0582: Weight Management On Track – AKA Friction Circle Take 6? We are looking to improve our track driving and one of the concepts that some of us are still working on is how best to manage the weight of the car on track to maximize grip and minimize our lap times. In other words, manag...
GHiT 0581: Heyward Wagner on his One Lap of America
Garage Heroes In Training - May 22, 2024 07:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 0581: Heyward Wagner on his One Lap of America Heyward Wagner is back after his recent adventure on the One Lap of America in his newly built Club Spec Mustang. As we discussed with Heyward on one of his earlier appearances, the Club Spec Mustang series was created to make a car that wa...
GHiT 0580: Bryan Lanham from the Adrenaline Chunkies
Garage Heroes In Training - May 20, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 0580: Bryan Lanham from the Adrenaline Chunkies Bryan Lanham hasn’t been racing with the 24 Hours of Lemons for a long time, but he and his team have had quite a lot happen in a relatively short time. Once we saw the latest theme, we knew we had to have him on. If you are thinking of r...
DwD 0579: Comp School Stories and Tips
Garage Heroes In Training - May 17, 2024 07:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 0582: Comp School Stories and Tips Ben, Vicki, and Bill talk about their comp school days, how things went, and some tips for attending Comp School. Ben and Bill went to two different NASA regions and Vicki attended hers at a recent SCCA event. Comp School is where you go to get quali...
GHiT 0578: Brad Lee Finally Races Wheel to Wheel
Garage Heroes In Training - May 13, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsGHiT 0578: Brad Lee Finally Races Wheel to Wheel Brad Lee has been working with us for several years to get to race wheel to wheel on track with us. Obviously, he should aim much higher, but we get to hear how his first race went with us at PittRace. This is the last and 4th part of our Pi...
DwD 0577: Tool Organization - At Garage/Home and At the Track
Garage Heroes In Training - May 09, 2024 22:26 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsDwD 0577: Tool Organization - At Garage/Home and At the Track On a Ben-less Dominating with Dawson, we go over one of Bill's obsessions, tool organization. He has tested almost every style of tool organization and evaluated them for use in a garage/home, as well as when travelling to and fro...
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 ...