Garage Heroes In Training

It is day two of this years Escape from Moscow rally. We interrupt the festivities at a local Korean restaurant for an update from Jeff Stobbs and two of the teams on the rally. Todays events have been quite lemony. We go through some of the highlights of the days journey and how the teams are coping with the itinerary and we have several teams "succeeding" and gathering a ton of points. We will try to have updates each evening and hope to make you feel like you are part of the event. If you are keeping score at home, you are obviously doing it wrong.

As a "bonus" we hear from Randy, and Alex as they are mid journey to return the Saab for further repairs back home.

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A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/EscapeFromMoscowDay2

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

If you ever wondered about what a Lemons Rally is, this series will cover the daily updates from this years Escape from Moscow rally. This year the rally started with a pre-event kickoff event at the local Circle Drive In theater and then the initial check in was at Montage Mountain ski resort. The end point for the rally is Road Atlanta in Brazleton, Georgia. The route is far from direct and some of these cars may not make it very far. We know of one for sure. We will try to have updates each evening and hope to make you feel like you are part of the event.

If you would be interested in helping grow our sport of high performance driving and our 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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/EscapeFromMoscowDay1

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

If you ever wondered about what a Lemons Rally is, this series will cover the daily updates from this years Escape from Moscow rally. This year the rally started with a pre-event kickoff event at the local Circle Drive In theater and then the initial check in was at Montage Mountain ski resort. The end point for the rally is Road Atlanta in Brazleton, Georgia. The route is far from direct and some of these cars may not make it very far. We know of one for sure. We will try to have updates each evening and hope to make you feel like you are part of the event.

If you would be interested in helping grow our sport of high performance driving and our 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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/EscapeFromMoscowDay1

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

DwD 0265: What to Do In A Turn

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we start off with a poor word choice and make the best of it. The real subject for this episode is what to pay attention to in a turn from pre-turn in all the way through track out. While there are many things to do and even more potential things to possibly do, we try to cover several of the fundamental things to do and look at during this complex series of events and inputs that form the key to high performance driving and racing. This has the biggest shocking revelation in the history of our Dominating with Dawson series. Did it surprise you as much as Bill?

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

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

GHIT 0265: Kyle Lockrow Upcoming Professional Racing Driver

Kyle is a racing driver who has worked his way from a grassroots racing hobby to a professional career that has reached the NASCAR level. We had the opportunity to talk with him about his history and how amateur racing and especially amateur endurance racing has helped him progress and improve to the national level. His story is still being written, but after meeting him, we are huge fans and wish him nothing but the best. If that story isn't inspiring enough, he did this in spite of racing with (our good friends at) Race Bar

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

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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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 from this episode include:

1) We learn how Kyle has transitioned from amateur racing to being involved with NASCAR. Believe it or not, racing our junk race cars has actually helped Kyle progress.

2) What can you learn from amateur racing that transfers to higher levels and even the professional level.

3) Kyle asks us about what our training regimen is and surprisingly, we actually had an answer he liked.

4) Kyle's schedule for 2022 is still to be finalized, but it sounds like a very busy year for him.

5) How amateur endurance taught Kyle how to pass and be passed, as well as sharpens his ability to race other cars.

6) Several of the differences between professional racing and amateur racing. Surprisingly, some of the pro's can even learn a few things from our amateur teams that would help them on a race weekend.

7) Bill rambles through a question to try to quantify what the differences are between the driver pool in the pro series and the drivers in the amateur series drivers. Kyle makes the best of Bill's awkwardly worded question, lol.

8) And then Kyle actually wanted to do our fast and furious story time questions. We thank him for tolerating our little slice of insanity.

9) We lose count of how often we made fun of Race Bar. RACE BAR!!!!!

To find even more from Kyle, please go to:

Website: www.KyleLockrow.com

Instagram: @Kyle_Lockrow

Facebook: KLockrow5590

or on LinkedIn

and someday soon TikTok

DwD 0264: Improving Your Sense of Speed on Track

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we talk about ways to improve your sense of speed on a track. This includes the commonly referred to "butt dyno", but can also include several other ways and several other senses that the driver can use to determine their relative speed as well as their absolute speed. We are sure we left out a few, but please let us know if you use something else, especially as your primary feedback.

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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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

Do you know anyone who always wanted to drive on track but didn't think it was possible?

Do you talk to people about driving on track and they don't understand but you know they would?

Do you want a bigger racing budget? Perhaps the CFO of the house isn't involved in our sport (yet).

Vicki and Bill have attended several Track Night In America events and had a blast. It is a great way to see if you or someone you know would like driving on track without a lot of prep, money, or time required. We have often said that autocross was the gateway drug to high performance driving, but what if you don't have a vendetta (yet) against small orange cones? This may be the best alternative we have found without jumping in with both feet to a full track weekend etc. We will need to have Justin on again to talk about his driving and racing exploits and hopefully subject him to our F&F Storytime segment.

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

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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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

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GHIT 0261: Our NJMP HPDE Event - Part Deux

We had a large group of drivers at the recent NASA Northeast HPDE event at NJMP's Lightning course. Since schedules did not fully coincide last week, we broke our group up into two different episodes. We start off with our usual goals for the weekend and cover how the event went. For this episode, we had Audra on who had never been to this track and was driving her 2017 BMW M2 for the weekend. Adam came to the event and was going to use Bill's M3 but due to mechanical issues, he had to use Vicki's 1999 turbo NB Miata for one of his stints. Elizabeth was trying her new to her SpecE30 on the track. Lisa returns for a second visit on this event and drove Audra's M2 at the event in the Hyperdrive session

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/NJMP2021Part2

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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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 from this episode include:

1) We start off with our personal goals for the event. Each event we try to make sure we each have at least one goal, but no more than 3 for the weekend.

2) Elizabeth had a bit of motion sickness after going out with Bill as a passenger. We may have found a cure for this, hopefully it will prevent motion sickness as well. We will test this again at our next few events.

3) Each level of the HPDE has a download session and some of the levels have classrooms during the weekend. We discuss the benefits of each and offer some suggestions for further improvement.

4) Highlights from the weekend and our traditional Good, Bad, and the Ugly

5) Adam advanced from HPDE 1 to HPDE 2.

6) Audra advanced from HPDE 1 to HPDE 2.

7) Vicki advanced from HPDE 2 to HPDE 3.

8) Elizabeth advanced from to HPDE 2.

9) We also shared a ton of Ahh Hah moments we had at this event. Its awesome to hear how everyone of us progressed.

10) Adam gave a good review of driving the E46 M3 vs the turbo NB Miata.

11)

DwD 0260: Over Slowing for a Turn and A Few Ways to Stop

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we talk through the importance of the entry speed into a turn. One of the potential problems that comes in this area is learning how not to over slow for the turn. There is very little that can be done to make up for that lost time and speed. This can be the result of several different causes including trusting the tires or brakes, habits from street driving where you usually brake for every turn. This has recently become one of our team's bigger problems and one of the largest potential areas for improvement. This will likely be part one of a few.

If you would be interested in helping grow our sport of high performance driving and our 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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

GHIT 0259: Paul Gerrard - Author of Optimum Drive, Professional Racing Driver and Coach, and Top Gear USA's "The Stig"

Do you REALLY want to be a great driver? If so, this is the episode for you.

Paul Gerrard is the author of "Optimum Drive - The Roadmap to Driving Greatness" and he knows what driving greatness entails as he has competed at many of the highest levels in motorsports and coaches many drivers pursuing their dreams. In addition, he was the Stig for Top Gear USA. Resume aside, he has a way of breaking down the pursuit of greatness that applies to virtually all areas of our lives, including racing. When he agreed to come on the podcast it was not an issue of what we should ask him, it was what we needed to leave out. Hopefully this is the first of many episodes with Paul.

And we learn the exciting news of Paul's next book that he is working on to help

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

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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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 from this episode include:

1) We discuss the natural skill vs learned debate about high performance driving and racing. This is great news for most of us.

2) A story about a bad tractor tire idea leads to a great Ayrton Senna story and then to a Jean-Claude Killy story.

3) How to develop a feel for what is fast and probably more importantly, how to improve your feel.

4) What is the key to becoming a great driver. It is a simple answer and the same answer for most aspects of your life.

5) Comparison on learning to be a racing driver at a racing school and a HPDE ladder system for a goal of professional racing

6) How vision skill issues can almost always be traced back to a lack of car control skills.

7) The importance of spending time on a skid pad as well as what to do when on the skid pad

8) Bill has read Paul's book 6 times but still gets things absolutely backwards. Time for a seventh lap.

9) We digress into couples therapy for a few minutes, lol.

10) How the key to improving your driving is the fundamentals.

11) We also go into why a car that is understeering is so difficult to work with and why a car that is below the limit does not help you as much to improve your driving as you would expect.

12) The best brake initiation practice and how it differs from street driving.

13) Potential fallacies of the smooth is fast mantra. As always, Jackie Stewart is an example of the exception.

14) We also go into all of the listener submitted questions from our Instagram and Facebook.

To find even more from Paul, please go to:

https://www.theoptimumdrive.com/

Instagram at: @theoptimumdrive

Facebook at: The Optimum Drive

Paul's blog articles can be found at:

https://www.theoptimumdrive.com/f1-blog-entries

Paul contributes to The Fast Lane Car YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TFLcar

Or email Paul at [email protected]