Garage Heroes In Training

DwD 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!

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

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GHiT 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/BradBabyBird

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Vicki, Jennifer, Audra, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

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GHiT 0519: Vicki's Surprise Weekend at the NJMP Lightning HPDE with NASA Northeast

Another podcast example that the post race weekend hangover is real, but we wanted to cover the big race weekend. This is part one of 3 or so and this event wraps up our 2023 season. As frequent listeners know, we had a big surprise in store for Miss Vicki and now we can go into the event in detail.

As a background, Vicki and Bill had their 25th wedding anniversary in October and postponed the celebration due to life and racing obligations. In addition, Bill had been planning a celebration for many years to say thank you to Vicki for spending/wasting half of her life with him. So Jennifer, Debbie, and Audra helped set up a surprise party on Friday to give Vicki her finished race car. And then Saturday evening, Adam Owens officiated our renewal of vows. Also, we did a lot of racing in the 8 cars we brought to the track.

Thank you to everyone who could attend and those who weren't able to, please contact Bill at [email protected] for another secret surprise that is underway.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/VickisSurpriseHPDE

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Audra, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

DwD 0518: Planning for an Upcoming HPDE – For Vicki

We have a huge event planned for our upcoming HPDE event at NJMP Lightning (Much more on that in an upcoming episode) and we wanted to walk through potential ideas for Miss Vicki to get the most out of the event. The idea was to demonstrate some of the ideas that you may use to maximize the improvement potential for each event that you attend. Things such as plateaus, breaking bad habits, working on specific areas of the track or specific skills.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/VickiOnTheHotSeat

We hope you enjoy this episode!

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

Money saving tips:

1) Enter code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/ for a Sentinel system to capture and broadcast live video and telemetry.

2) Enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order and Apex Pro system from https://apextrackcoach.com/ and you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

GHiT 0516: Race Recap – NHMS 2023 with the 24 Hours of Lemons

We review our busy race weekend and prepping for next weekend's HPDE at NJMP.

(MUCH more to come on the NJMP event next episode)

Racing two straight weekends is not the best idea but it is always a ton of fun. Bill raced in the Slippery Slope BMW E34 5-Series with Max, Audra, and another Bill. The weather was great, until it wasn't, but racing in New Hampshire in Late October is dicey at best. In addition, Jeremy and the boys were racing in the Bad Hombre, El Jeffe race truck, and Alan raced in the MooStang with a new to him engine. We try to cover everything from a great race weekend.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/NHMSRaceRecap2023

If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing:

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

Money saving tips:

1) Enter code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/ for a Sentinel system to capture and broadcast live video and telemetry.

2) Enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order and Apex Pro system from https://apextrackcoach.com/ and you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system

DwD 0517: Pace Laps/Reference Laps

Bill continues to ask questions no one understands, but we do get to the topic, eventually. We discuss the use of reference laps and also the use of comparison laps between our drivers as we are competing. The question eventually leads us to a good discussion on comparing drivers' laps and one way that we use our Apex Pro live telemetry to improve every driver on our team.

Do you have any other or better uses, please let us know at [email protected]

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ReferenceLaps

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, Google music, Amazon, YouTube, etc.

Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate very much. Even better, a podcast review would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would appreciate it.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

Money saving tips:

1) Enter code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/ for a Sentinel system to capture and broadcast live video and telemetry.

2) Enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order and Apex Pro system from https://apextrackcoach.com/ and you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

DwD 0515: Driver Feel: Seat vs Hands (plus)

This one starts off looking like we have nothing to talk about, but eventually Bill asks a question that eventually gets to the topic, lol. Here we talk about the various "feel" inputs that are available, mostly through the steering wheel and your hands and then through the seat and therefore your "seat", but also audible cluses and other senses. So much to discuss when Bill finally asked the correct question.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/DriverFeel

We hope you enjoy this episode!

If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing:

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Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

Money saving tips:

1) Enter code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/ for a Sentinel system to capture and broadcast live video and telemetry.

2) Enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order and Apex Pro system from https://apextrackcoach.com/ and you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

GHiT 0514: NASA TREC Racing with Tim Fokine – Plus a Whole Lot More

Tim Fokine is the co-Chair of the NASA Great Lakes TREC racing series as well as an instructor and part time driver with our team. During this episode, we talk about the NASA TREC series and how this past season went. We then start planning our entry into this years One Lap of America, plus some other fun topics.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/TimFokineOnTREC

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

Money saving tips:

1) Enter code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/ for a Sentinel system to capture and broadcast live video and telemetry.

2) Enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order and Apex Pro system from https://apextrackcoach.com/ and you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

DwD 0513: Driver's Meeting

We have not talked enough about driver's meetings to this point. We try to remedy this on this week's Dominating with Dawson. We cover what is discussed during the meetings. The two primary aspects of the drivers meetings that make them non-skippable events are in the areas of safety and in the area of competitive advantages. We don't miss them and hope you do the same.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/driversmeetings

We hope you enjoy this episode!

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

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Money saving tips:

1) Enter code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/ for a Sentinel system to capture and broadcast live video and telemetry.

2) Enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order and Apex Pro system from https://apextrackcoach.com/ and you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

GHiT 0512: Rich Hromin – 2023 SCCA National B Spec Champion

Rich Hromin recently won the SCCA national championship at VIR. In this episode we learn about his progression towards achieving this goal. He is a great driver and a great person. Too bad for him that he lives so close to us, lol.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/RichHromin

His Youtube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/@romin312

If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing:

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes in Training Podcast and Garage Heroes in Training racing team drivers

Money saving tips:

1) Enter code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/ for a Sentinel system to capture and broadcast live video and telemetry.

2) Enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order and Apex Pro system from https://apextrackcoach.com/ and you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.