Tom O’Gorman is currently racing the Grid Life GLTC series with ASM and has competed and won at some of the highest levels as a professional driver for several teams.  He is also a sought after racing coach for drivers at all levels.   We talk with him about his entire career, remaining goals, as well as his driver coaching.  Far be it from us to not ask him about a few coaching questions.  

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Highlights from this episode include:

1)  How he has grown as a driver by being able to experience a wide variety of cars quickly from a very young age when he was autocrossing.  This cross training has led to his ability to adapt to cars very quickly and race in all style cars as needed.

2)  We take a moment to ask Tom which car he hasn't driven in (yet) that he would like to drive a race in at least once.  We think Adam may have to have a driver shuffle event to complement his field invert race, lol.

3)  It is amazing how early and deeply auto racing “drove” within Tom when he discovered some of the early console driving games.

4)  We firmly believe that if Tom wins both autocross events in the NSX, he should be allowed to keep the NSX.  This could be another example of why we have no sponsors, lol.

5)  Tom even shared a great example of how even for a driver at his level that some weekends just don’t go as well as we would wish and how Covid has impacted his racing.  We also go into his GLTC series racing history and how the Grid Life series has grown and continues to grow.  It is like a spec series in the closeness of the racing without a single car design.

6)  We poke Tom for some Mid Ohio rain tips.  He was nice enough to give a few of the things he has learned at his home track.  Vicki is insistent wet Mid Ohio is like lava.  Bill is starting to piece that together.

7)  The potential of the use of a 200 tread wear tire in GLTC and the potential advantages and disadvantages of a potential switch.

8)  Tom also discussed the Grid Life Sundae Cup series.

9)  We also go into coaching drivers at all levels, the use of in car coaching, as well as video, data, and even coach driving demonstration to help every level driver improve.

10)   Pushing limits and breaking though limits comes up again.  Hypothetically, lol.