We conclude our wrap up of our racing at Laguna Seca with the Lucky Dog racing series by summarizing our Sunday race and our overall thoughts and experiences.  We had a great trip out to Laguna Seca and the track is wonderful.  Did our Saturday continue into Sunday.  Yes.  Did our car give it everything it had?  Yes.  Did we finally break the podcast curse and finish a Lucky Dog race?  Well……listen and find out. 

 

Highlights of our review include:

1)  Race car status and prep review

2)  Mental’s first rolling start in a race and our thoughts on tire warming of street tires

3)  Mental’s Stint to start Sunday race day

4)  The setup of our race car and how to drive it optimally

5)  Many of the differences between the Lucky Dog series and Lemons

6)  Vicki’s technique to remove some of the oil leaking into the cabin of the car

7)  A discussion on window nets

8)  Mental seems to have a “new” Miata attraction developing

9)  Performance variability between the series and within some of the car’s by different drivers

10)  Our goals for the weekend and goals for our day/stints

11)  Our primary issue turns were #6, #9 and #1 (and late Sunday any straightway, lol)

12)  Vicki’s thoughts on going through the Andretti Hairpin 3 wide and the aftermath

13)  Our repair efforts, several of them

14)  Erik won an award from the race, with a bit of our help

15)  The joys of a random steering direction on center

16)  Our end of day exploits

17)  Favorite cars we were able to have several great laps of back and forth racing with

18)  Mental completes his full set of competing in all amateur endurance series that use production-based cars

19)  Track thoughts about Laguna Seca

20)  The upcoming Champ Car race at Watkins Glen

21)  Mental takes over hosting and we review our goals going into the race

22)  Bill shockingly overthinks things and wanders down a path away from racing

23)  Bill befuddles Mental enough that he is left without words

24)  We question our training and preparation and Mental

25)  Bill points out a gift that Mental received but wasn’t even aware

26)  Vicki and Mental bond over Veggie/Vegan and Bill will have none of it

27)  Front wheel drive thoughts and the difference between it and the way a car is prepared/set up

28)  Best/Favorite cars of the weekend

29)  Our usual Good, Bad, and the Ugly

30)  Overall trip takeaways

 

Mental was able to get down to a 1:54 on Sunday

Vicki was able to get to a 2:06 on Sunday

Bill was only able to get to 1:59 on Saturday

Fastest lap of the weekend was 1:41 on Saturday and 1:40 on Sunday by the red #97 Miata

 

Overall, we loved our time with Lucky Dog and their team.  Please try to race with them if they are ever near you. 

 

Also, we really want to thank Erik for allowing us to use his car and experience this great track. 

 

Best regards,

 

Bill, Vicki, and Alan Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast and team members in the GHiT Immature Endurance Racing Team

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