Garage Heroes In Training

GHIT 0393: Race Review - Lucky Dog Race at CMP with Read Tull and Ben Dawson

We start the episode with Read Tull who races in the southeast and had Ben as his first HPDE instructor. Read entered his E36 into the last Lucky Dog event in the southeast for the 2022 season and we share some common pain. The weekend was a mixed bag of several highs and lows, but as always, Lucky Dog ran a great event, and everyone had a great weekend. Ben showed up late to this episode and therefore we learn a lot of behind the scenes stories as well as one of Ben's podium traditions and hope to one day make a podium with Ben and be on guard. The stories we get are priceless, lol. We then move into how the race weekend transpired and how the team conquered or was conquered. Domination? Listen and learn.

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

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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

GHIT 0391: Car Control with Nik Romano

There are a few fundamental skills that truly separate drivers. The top two that come to mind are car control and race craft. Nik Romano owns FastSideways and also currently drives professionally for Toyota. FastSideways is a driving school that specializes in holding events that offer personal coaching to focus specifically on improving your car control on skid pads and track through a sequence of drills and tests. During the episode, we talk about a wide variety of aspects of car control and hatch a not so subtle, devious plot to hold the first ever east coast FastSideways car control event. Our team has already reserved many spots, but please let us know if you are interested in joining Nik, his instructors, and us at the event. We cannot wait. Perhaps we can talk him into holding it on a local frozen lake? Vicki is already making the hot chocolate. This episode is an ideal follow up to our recent episode on catching a car where Vicki revealed a specific hole in her car control technique.

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

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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

Highlights for this episode include:

1) We start off with the importance on car control on you driving, your safety, and even the speed that you can drive on track.

2) We talk about the CPR acronym and how Vicki have grown from floating through turns and moved into adding slip angle into her track driving. Listen to the tires sing.

3) The advantages and disadvantages of a turbo when trying to drive at the limit.

4) The advantage of recover vs react in CPR. This is a version of our often covered prediction vs reaction discussion, but better.

5) How to use telemetry to assist in your car control and what to look out for.

6) We define what is meant by car control when driving a car on a track or in a high performance condition, such as autocross or even when trying to avoid a potential accident on the street.

7) The relationships between car speed, horsepower/torque, and wheelbase on a car's car control window and inherent ease/difficulty imposed on the driver.

8) We get Nik's definitive answer to what is snap oversteer or lift oversteer. Is it Bigfoot or is it Nessie?

9) We even have a discussion of Senna vs Prost during the episode. How about those for search words for a podcast? Lol.

10) Nik adds to Bill's car purchasing list. Vicki loses her mind for a few minutes.

11) Vicki and Nik discuss drifting, Formula Drift, GridLife, and Gymkhana. Vicki lost her mind the first time she saw this live at GridLife and has gone down a deep YouTube hole. We hope she comes backout soon, lol.

12) How to adapt your driving technique to a car that is either understeering or oversteering. Note this does not involve having your friend running next to the car and making car adjustments.

13) The effect of the type of tire on car control, especially street tires vs racing slicks. This is especially evident by the slip angle of the tire and the performance window where the tires perform best. We also cover the impact that the tire design and manufacturer can have on this as well.

14) The importance of car control on new and inexperienced drivers. it can literally save their lives.

15) One of the best Thunderhill 25 stories we have ever heard.

To get more details about Nik and Fast Sideways, please follow them at:

Website: https://www.fastsideways.com/

Instagram: @fastsideways

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fastsideways

DwD 0392: Balancing Min Distance vs Max Speed

On this week's Dominating with Dawson, we start a discussion on the competing priorities of maximizing speed and minimizing distance. Obviously, the balance of these will lead to the fastest lap times, but some areas of a track or sequences of a track will be optimized by sacrificing one or the other in certain areas to reduce lap time. This concept is more often spoken about in autocross but applies to road courses as well. This is especially challenging when you are at a track for the first time.

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

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PS2 If you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems. Please enter the code "ghitlikesapex!". You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

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

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

GHIT 0390: Race Update Live for NHMS with Jeremy Hall

We caught up with Jeremy live front the paddock as Sunday morning was starting up Jeremy allows us to live vicariously through him as he provided a quick update to the weekend so far and how things were looking as the race started at New Hampshire Motor Sports this year. Saturday proved to be a challenging day for the El Jeffe Trophy truck team, as well as the MooStang. Details can be found here. It was the start of a three hour tour. A three hour tour.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/NHMS2022Live

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PS If you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with you video, Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are amid installing the system in two of our cars. If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, please use our discount code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/

PS2 Please do not forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40. Just enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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

DwD 0389: Catching a Car – FWD vs RWD – This one goes way, way, way off topic

While we often talk about car control, we have yet to really discuss the differences between catching a car that is front wheel drive vs catching a car that is rear wheel drive. During the discussion, something comes up that Vicki does on track that totally derails the rest of the discussion. We will likely have to come back to this topic in another DwD or a guest appearance. Stay tuned for the first ever intervention on our podcast and the first time Bill is speechless.

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

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PS2 If you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems. Please enter the code "ghitlikesapex!". You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

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

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

GHIT 0388: Phil Wurz From Bimmerworld Returns For a Second Lap

Phil Wurz is the Sales and Operations Manager for Bimmerworld and also races with the Bimmerworld team at track across the nation. We catch up with Phil on what has been going on with the Bimmerworld team's racing team this season. We also go into the SpecE46 series and the cars involved with them. Phil and the team at Bimmerworld had put together a list with several levels of builds for the SpecE46 series that are budget and performance based. One of the great things is that the SpecE46 racing series is number of entries are usually large enough that there are several races within the race that allow for close competition among the different packs of cars. We also go into things to look out for when purchasing and car and the typical maintenance and inspection items for the E46 race cars and donors.

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

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PS2 Please do not forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40. Just enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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

Spec E46 Build Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/14AhC_aKSC8rLYTSSSikt3tS7Is1T5PolHp3CxU4cx3c/htmlview

Other links coming soon

DwD 0387: Responding to an Incident On track In Front of You

Sometimes when you are on track, another car in front of you may have a problem. It could be leaking fluids, losing parts, go off track, or have contact with another car or other object. For this episode, we go into some of the more common scenarios and several options to you as a driver to minimize the potential for making the incident worse. As always, safety is most important and making the least impact on your lap/race is a distant second. We hope we are able to offer some thought processes and potential responses before you are faced with this issue while on a hot track, possibly in traffic.

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

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PS2 If you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems. Please enter the code "ghitlikesapex!". You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

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

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

GHIT 0386: Brandon Wilson – NASA Great Lakes HPDE 4 Group Leader and Grassroots Racer

Brandon Wilson was one of the first instructors to ride with Bill ever and has been with NASA Great Lakes for well over a decade and is now the HPDE 4 Group Leader. During this episode, we talk about how Brandon has worked his way into he driver that he is and where he would like to progress further, both as a driver and racer, as well as for the HPDE 4 group with NASA Great Lakes. We go through the HPDE ladder system and Brandon's vision for what an ideal student would be and where he would like to move the group forward. We also go into the differences between instructing beginning students vs higher level drivers.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/BrandonWilsonNASAGLHPDE4

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PS If you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with you video, Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are amid installing the system in two of our cars. If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, please use our discount code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/

PS2 Please do not forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40. Just enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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

DwD 0385: Tire Mounting and Balancing - For The Track

For this episode, we go over what to do and what to look out for when mounting and balancing your tires, especially for track use. As with most of high performance driving, we are pushing the tire and wheel/rim more than is "normal" and therefore we are more sensitive to certain aspects and maintenance practices than a normal, daily driven vehicle. We talk about several things to look for and look out for when having your tires mounted and balanced or even when doing it yourself. There is one key aspect that we look out for more than any other. (You didn't think we were going to tell you here without a download did you? Lol)

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

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PS2 If you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems. Please enter the code "ghitlikesapex!". You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

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

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

GHIT 0384: Justin Okamoto – JustinCFC on Instagram

One of the highlights of the GridLife event at Lime Rock was finally meeting Justin Okamoto in person after many months of interacting online. Justin is relatively new to racing his own vehicles but has been associated with motorsports for well over a decade. He worked himself through the GridLife HPDE sessions and has recently began racing his BMW E36 3 Series car in their Club TR Time Attack series. Justin has also given back to the series and can be found working in the grid and paddock areas with the GridLife team. In addition to his racing, Justin also started "Cars For The Cure" a 501 C3 nonprofit charity in honor of his mother that is aimed at helping to assist families with dealing with cancer.

For more information on Cars For The Cure: www.CarsForTheCureSC.org

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

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS If you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with you video, Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are amid installing the system in two of our cars. If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, please use our discount code "GHIT" for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/

PS2 Please do not forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40. Just enter the code "ghitlikesapex!" when you order from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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