Garage Heroes In Training

DwD 0315: Driving in the Spring and Cold

In an effort to be timely, driving in the early seasons can often be tricky since the temperature can often be lower than desired. We start off covering what to do to account for the decreased temperatures and then we wander off into other areas that are affected by the temperature and humidity. We start to cover taking care of your hands in the cold and then move into the preparation of the windshield surfaces and the potential ways to prepare the helmet visor and drivers glasses for potential fogging and streaks. We cover our best techniques for the windshield, but we are still working on the helmet visor and drivers eye glass lens. If you have any other ideas, please let us know. It will save Bill a lot of time in the lab. Lol.

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

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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 in the midst of 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.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

GHIT 0314: Audra Tella on Autocross and a Pre-Intervention

It was almost spring, and we were thinking about ways to get out and start having fun with our cars again. We thought it may be great to go autocross'ing, especially to start the season. Since we were thinking autocross, we thought we'd invite Audra back to the podcast to talk all things autocross. Audra is one of the hosts of the Shifting Points podcast and is also one of the leads for the local BMW autocross group near Boston. We talk about what to expect at your first event and what to do and more importantly what not to do to go to your first autocross event. Then we launch our intervention plan. This is part one of the plan. Part two will be revealed in the next episode of the Shifting Points podcast coming out this Wednesday. We started the podcast to get people started having fun with their cars. Audra and her fellow podcast host are already enjoying their cars but, especially after seeing Audra last year at our Thompson race, we hoped we could offer to help them start driving or maybe even tracing on track.

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

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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 in the midst of 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 of our listeners during the checkout process.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, 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) What is autocross? What you need to do to prep for the event and what you should NOT do to prep for the event or prevent you from going. Bill goes full facetious for at least 15 minutes.

2) Why are the cones there, what do they do and why does everyone seem to be angry with them.

3) We break down the lingo a bit and show that your first event will be easy to start and learn. Autocross drivers are very welcoming to everyone and would love to share their sport and all the fun.

4) Audra introduces up to the internet. It is a wonderful way to find an event close to you.

5) How autocross is structured to even out the competition or break it down into groups of evenly matched cars. Some even have special classes for novices.

6) We also find out what vent is Audra's favorite event of the season. We may have to attend. Time to check the season schedule.

7) What is Audra's schedule for the season? Can we add to the festivities? Or are we just bad influences? Still TBD on that one.

8) Why we all started podcasts?

9) The devious plan is devised and launched? Our planning for the Mini Intervention.

10) Audra makes a prediction of the potential livery theme. Is she correct? Tune into the second part of this episode on Audra's Shifting Point podcast, coming soon, hopefully this Wednesday if life doesn't get in the way of editing.

To hear how part two goes, subscribe to the Shifting Points podcast and the episode will be coming shortly.

GHIT 0313: Track Day Recap from our HPDE Event with NASA Northeast at NJMP's Lightning Track

Jennifer and Vicki had their first trip the track this year at the NASA Northeast HPDE event at NJMP's Lightning track. Our event prep had a few issues with our Honda Civic inaugural shake down. The issue is still TBD at this point. Jennifer was in the HPDE 2 group and Vicki was in the HPDE3/4 group. Bill was primarily concerned with instructing two students this weekend, both we on a track for their maiden voyage. The weekend was a mix of highs and lows, many highs and really only one low. We go over our weekend and how everyone progressed. Both Jennifer and Vicki improved significantly over the winter off season, and we go into several of their accomplishments and the details. The post race weekend hangover is real, and we all tried to stay focused and coherent with varied results, lol. Our next event is later this month at Lime Rock Park and then our back-to-back racing weekends at PittRace with AER and then the 24 Hours of Lemons. We also cover some of the trickier aspects of growing as a driver and some of the precautions to be aware of, especially if you have a significant improvement on your speed.

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

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You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate that 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.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is amazingly easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

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 in the midst of 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 of our listeners during the checkout process.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

DwD 0312: Jargon: Tank Slappers – What They Are and What to Do – Probably Part 1 of a few, lol

We ask Ben about what a tank slapper is. Then we go into what is a typical cause for this phenomenon and most importantly, what to do about it when it occurs. There are several strategies mentioned and probably a few more that would work as well. We hope this helps you if you are driving in a situation when a tank slapper happens by having a few options and responses. In addition, we have audience feedback from an earlier DwD episode on shift timing from Tyler. After reading some of Tyler's well thought out response, we all agree that Tyler answered this question better than we did and he is invited to come on an episode of DwD or GHiT. Thank you, Tyler.

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

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate that 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.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is amazingly easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

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 in the midst of 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.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

GHIT 0311: Samir Abid Returns for a Second lap

Samir Abid hosts the Your Data Driven podcast returns for his second lap with us. We take advantage of his history in suspension systems and as a vehicle dynamics race engineer by asking the key question related to tracking data of "what should I keep track of" and how best to do this, especially if you are solo for the weekend as many of us are. We also go into how to collect the data and how to analyze the data and ways of saving time and money, while remaining focused and efficient.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/Lap2WithSamir

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate that 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.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is amazingly easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

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 in the midst of 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 of our listeners during the checkout process.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, 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 begin with a definition of what the "data" is and how it can help you, especially as you progress and improve your driving skills.

2) Initially, we start with nonquantitative data that is free and available to anyone if they pay attention to that aspect of their car and driving.

3) Samir offers great insight in what you need to collect by first looking at the critical question that can bound your problem and simplify what can be a daunting subject "what problem are you trying to solve?". This can not only simplify your data collection, but also save you a lot of time, effort, and money, that can be applied in other aspects of your driving and racing improvement program.

4) Samir offers a logical sequence of how to break a track up into the most useful number of sectors. This aspect alone can really simplify the analysis and capture the pertinent information that would allow you to improve.

5) How to use the data to be collected and then move to the why before assuming the best plan to improve. This will prevent a potential to ignore the core reason for the information that is being collected.

6) We begin to go over the patterns and basic information that is available from the shapes and slopes of the speed trace and what that can tell you, as well as some of the shapes that are typical for certain types of basic corners.

7) Things to look for: The slope of the speed trace when accelerating (and the consistency)(and the length of time for your shifts). The same would apply for the braking or deceleration aspects of the speed trace. Other aspects would include the minimum speed of the turn and whether that turn is a gradual change that forms a U or a sharp change in slopes that resembles a V.

8) A high level review of the G sum plot and the friction circle plot, that are often less intuitive than many would desire.

9) Samir shapes his views on the minimum viable data collection systems and what they encompass, including several technical aspects like sample rate and other aspects that influences their utility. We then look at several incremental steps up in equipment that are available commercially. Since Samir has experience in the highest levels of racing, he has a great grasp of virtually all commercially available systems and their strengths and limitations.

10) We also cover the minimum starting gauges that everyone should bring to the track. We start with a stopwatch and an accurate tire pressure gauge and progress into more advanced measurements and equipment.

11) As always happens, we get into the importance of the tires and how to adjust them to optimize grip and wear on track.

We will be doing a review of many (10+) of these systems that we have tested in an episode coming very soon.

A simple data collection hierarchy could be: Lap Time, Sector Times, Speed Trace (speed vs distance), Lat g vs Long g, then reviewing the G Sum plot, etc.

To keep up with Samir's latest information:

Handy Links:

The Your Data Driven newsletter: https://www.yourdatadriven.com –

Data analysis intro course: https://www.yourdatadriven.com/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-motorsports-data-analysis/

His Book: https://www.yourdatadriven.com/the-motorsports-playbook/

The Your Data Driven Podcast: https://www.yourdatadriven.com/your-data-driven-podcast

If you want coaching from Samir: https://analysiscoach.com

GHIT 0310 Our 300th Episode Trivia Quiz – Review

After three hundred episodes, we wanted to give our resolute listeners a chance to show off with a Top 10 list of trivia questions about the podcast. In our time honored tradition, we thought part of the fun would involve bribing/awarding prizes to those that answered the call. At this time of release, we have not determined who had answered the questions and scored the most points. However, here are the answers along with a bit of nostalgia from the hosts about where we have grown into as drivers, mechanics, and racers. It has been a long and windy road that we need to thank way to many people, but each and every one of you know what you have helped us with and contributed to the team and the podcast. So, before we get all weepy, here is our episode and a sincere thank you to all of you who have listened to our podcast from the beginning, as well as those who have only listened to one or two episodes. As with the rest of our driving and racing, our podcast will always be "In Training"

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/300EpisodeQandA

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate that 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.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is amazingly easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

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 in the midst of 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 of our listeners during the checkout process.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, 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) Answers to our Top 10 Quiz questions with a ton of unsuccessful herding of the cats.

2) Every host answers what our biggest Ah Hah moment so far since we started

3) What are the 3 biggest surprises we learned about driving or racing to this point.

4) We grade ourselves for initial driving skill and current.

5) Super secret surprise question: what are three great things about you co-hosts

DwD 0309: Mirror Positioning and Philosophy

On this episode of Dominating with Dawson, we go back to a fundamental of driving on track and the street. Where to position your side mirror and rearview mirrors for optimal vision, information, and safety. We also go into several mirror options and our preferred placement of our rearview mirror within our race car. It is a bit unconventional but offers significant benefits to the normal center of the window position. Towards the and we also go with a drill and practice suitable to the street to improve your driving proficiency if the mirrors aren't adjusted properly or are "adjusted" on track by another car. This may sound trivial, but we are quite confident that everyone can learn at least one thing on this episode that will help them on street and on track.

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

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate that 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.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is amazingly easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

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 in the midst of 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.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

GHIT 0308: Marlon Sumlin - Racing for Cancer Research (and Fun)

Marlon Sumlin joins us to discuss his racing history and how much fun he has racing and instructing. Marlon is a perfect example of how much fun it can be to drive a slow car fast as he routinely passes many "better" cars in his Mazda 2 across the country. Marlon instructs and races in Grid Life's Sundae Cup and B Spec. This year he is also competing in the One Lap of America in the same Mazda 2. Marlon also races to help support and promote FORCE (Facing Hereditary Cancer Empowered). FORCE is a charity to support cancer research and Marlon has been working with them with his beautiful bride Lauri since she was diagnosed with cancer several years ago. Marlon has continued and will continue to help promote FORCE to battle against cancer and in her memory.

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

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that would be greatly appreciated. Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would greatly appreciate it.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

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 in the midst of 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 of our listeners during the checkout process.

PS2 Please don't forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, don't 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. They are a great system and truly invaluable in safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, 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) If you need nicknames of some of the NASA Great Lakes, Marlon shares a few and has a ton more.

2) Why Marlon loves racing Sundae Cup and B Spec in his Mazda 2.

3) The differences between racing wheel to wheel and time trial races.

4) Tips for first time Sundae Cup and attending a Grid Life event. Highly recommended!

5) Any Great Lakes Attendees coming to Grid Life's Lime rock event this August.

6) What is a Grid Life Festival and another explanation to why they sell out so fast.

7) How the Sundae Cup class has been started in the upcoming One Lap of America. We did not get out Fit in time to enter, but we will go as soon as we can get signed in. We are hoping to do a daily update from this class as the event transpires this spring.

8) Why we, and many of our friends at NASA Great Lakes and beyond, will be installing a particular vinyl decal on all our race cars starting this year to support Marlon, Lauri, and FORCE.

9) Some amazing answers to our fast and furious story time questions.

For more information about FORCE or to make a charitable contribution: https://www.facingourrisk.org/

GHIT 307: Race Weekend Recap: The Entire Team From Lucky Dog Racing at CMP

You have only heard a few of the stories from our Lucky Dog race at Carolina Motorsports Park a few weeks ago. Now we unveil the entire team that went to the race. Car owner David as well as the rest of the team including Alex, Ryan, and Matt. We think we have determined the root cause of the problem we had at the race and a path forward. As always, we all had a great time at the Lucky Dog event and cannot wait to return. There was a bit of feedback initially that sounds like a duck quacking but it ends fairly quickly and we are blaming Alex, lol.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/LuckyDogCMPFeb2022

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that would be greatly appreciated. Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would greatly appreciate it.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

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 in the midst of 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 of our listeners during the checkout process.

PS2 Please don't forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, don't 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. They are a great system and truly invaluable in safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, 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 with the important stuff: who wins the snoring award for the weekend?

2) What we did, what we brought, what happened, and how we ended up.

3) What it is like to assemble a new team from several other teams and how the weekend went, what we learned and what we can learn from this weekend.

4) Our individual thoughts on how the "new to us" car behaved on its maiden voyage to endurance racing and what we each thought of the E36 BMW. Ryan and Alex are long time endurance racers, primarily in the Miata platform. Bill has driven the E36 platform many times but had not been to the CMP track until this weekend. David had also not been on CMP as well.

5) We spend way more time discussing the teams qualifying session than the session actually took. This is called foreshadowing.

6) We then have a recovery/repair plan and get started the race Saturday. Then we go into detail of the entire 8 hour race Saturday.

7) Now the fun begins, as well as the work project for the weekend. Ryan got a ton of really solid shoulder work welding above his head. The post incident CSI that we conduct and summarize also takes more time than our racing laps did in total. Perhaps the first reference of a brake caliper making sweet, sweet love to the rear suspension.

8) We did allow him to rest a bit by welding a friends team shifter that had failed (again). It should be problem solved from here.

9) The details of our parts search and repair program to get the car back on track ASAP or at least for Sunday.

10) We also have a short example of Podcast In Training that couldn't be edited out for your personal enjoyment.

11) Even with a combination of team members with decades of racing experience, there is often growing pains in coming together as a team and operating smoothly and efficiently.

12) With everything going on at a race weekend, we each learned several details of how the race weekend went and how several

13) After a brief trip off the rails, we eventually get to "Oh God, it sings" and we eventually get back to our story. Herding kittens.

14) We have the beginnings of a recovery plan and then (a bit late) cover our roles and skills for and within the team. The importance of roles and areas of responsibilities is so key to the performance of a racing team, it cannot be overstated.

15) Apparently there will be a Cubano vs Meatball cook off. Book your spots early if you want to be a judge. Spots are limited.

16) Ryan shares his parts transport system and Vicki is dumbfounded. Bill has a new project.

17) An accounting of what we did vs what we should have done and what we will do at the next race.

Special thanks again to Kyle Lockrow and Giggles for their help in making the results of this debacle a bit better.

GHIT 307: Race Weekend Recap: The Entire Team From Lucky Dog Racing at CMP

You have only heard a few of the stories from our Lucky Dog race at Carolina Motorsports Park a few weeks ago. Now we unveil the entire team that went to the race. Car owner David as well as the rest of the team including Alex, Ryan, and Matt. We think we have determined the root cause of the problem we had at the race and a path forward. As always, we all had a great time at the Lucky Dog event and cannot wait to return. There was a bit of feedback initially that sounds like a duck quacking but it ends fairly quickly and we are blaming Alex, lol.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/LuckyDogCMPFeb2022

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that would be greatly appreciated. Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would greatly appreciate it.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

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 in the midst of 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 of our listeners during the checkout process.

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Vicki, Jennifer, 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 with the important stuff: who wins the snoring award for the weekend?

2) What we did, what we brought, what happened, and how we ended up.

3) What it is like to assemble a new team from several other teams and how the weekend went, what we learned and what we can learn from this weekend.

4) Our individual thoughts on how the "new to us" car behaved on its maiden voyage to endurance racing and what we each thought of the E36 BMW. Ryan and Alex are long time endurance racers, primarily in the Miata platform. Bill has driven the E36 platform many times but had not been to the CMP track until this weekend. David had also not been on CMP as well.

5) We spend way more time discussing the teams qualifying session than the session actually took. This is called foreshadowing.

6) We then have a recovery/repair plan and get started the race Saturday. Then we go into detail of the entire 8 hour race Saturday.

7) Now the fun begins, as well as the work project for the weekend. Ryan got a ton of really solid shoulder work welding above his head. The post incident CSI that we conduct and summarize also takes more time than our racing laps did in total. Perhaps the first reference of a brake caliper making sweet, sweet love to the rear suspension.

8) We did allow him to rest a bit by welding a friends team shifter that had failed (again). It should be problem solved from here.

9) The details of our parts search and repair program to get the car back on track ASAP or at least for Sunday.

10) We also have a short example of Podcast In Training that couldn't be edited out for your personal enjoyment.

11) Even with a combination of team members with decades of racing experience, there is often growing pains in coming together as a team and operating smoothly and efficiently.

12) With everything going on at a race weekend, we each learned several details of how the race weekend went and how several

13) After a brief trip off the rails, we eventually get to "Oh God, it sings" and we eventually get back to our story. Herding kittens.

14) We have the beginnings of a recovery plan and then (a bit late) cover our roles and skills for and within the team. The importance of roles and areas of responsibilities is so key to the performance of a racing team, it cannot be overstated.

15) Apparently there will be a Cubano vs Meatball cook off. Book your spots early if you want to be a judge. Spots are limited.

16) Ryan shares his parts transport system and Vicki is dumbfounded. Bill has a new project.

17) An accounting of what we did vs what we should have done and what we will do at the next race.

Special thanks again to Kyle Lockrow and Giggles for their help in making the results of this debacle a bit better.