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This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Super Gas. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next seri...

This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Super Comp. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next ser...

This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Top Dragster. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next s...

If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back! In maintaining the short form of the Daily Driver, I'm breaking down one points chase per episode. T...

Up to this point I've talked about the 3 winning finish line strategies and ensuring you have situational awareness in your own lane when gameplanning. Now, I want to finish with talking about gameplanning in reference to the opponent in the other lane. 

In part 2 of this 3 part mini series on Gameplanning, I want to talk about situational awareness. When racers think of gameplanning, we have a tendency to think about it in reference to an opponent. I'd argue that 95% of a successful gameplan is focused on what is happening in your own lane. 

In ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE and ThisIsBracketRacing Jr., we focus on three distinct and simple finish line ideas. We call them the fundamental WINNING finish line strategies. In part 1 of this 3 part Gameplanning mini series, let's dive into those three winning finish line strategies. 

The single biggest attribute in my racing today is my ability to hit the tree. A lot of the questions I get are centered around how can you advance that in your racing? How can you make hitting the tree your biggest attribute?  Ready to Let Go Like a Pro? Check out our new starting line course to level up your game on the tree: thisisbracketracing.com/let-go

This week's episode is something I wanted to share from a podcast that I listen to that is centered around the Summer Olympics. And on that episode Summer Sanders, Olympic Gold Medalist, talks about 3 key questions that helped her perform at her best. Why are you competing? Who are you doing it for? Who loves you?  I am sharing this because those 3 simple questions are gold.  

This episode is going to look a little more like the Question of the Week feature than the Daily Driver. A few months back on the Competitive Sociopath episode, I talked about the correlation between of being hyper focused and success. This week is expanding on that correlation into the competitive sociopath line of thinking in regard to families and couples. 

“Plans are useless, but planning is everything.” - Dwight Eisenhower. As most of you know or have probably figured out by now, I am big on planning. Especially when it comes to racing. But what happens when we can't plan for everything. How can we be prepared?

This week's episode is part 2 of The Psychology of Bottom Bulb Racing. In part 1 I started to talk about the takeaways I had from a discussion within ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE and those takeaways were being fearless, having a conservative strategy, cocky swing, and to be like water. This week I want to dive even deeper and look out even more takeaways from that discussion. 

Much like everyone else, I didn't know how to react to hearing about Scotty Richardson passing. I just turned on the microphone and started recording. But what do you say when Superman dies? 

This episode is exclusively for you bottom bulb racers and honestly if this sounds similar, it's because my most recent National Dragster column was on this same topic too. But here within the Daily Driver, I want to expand on it more. I want to dive deeper into the psychology of bottom bulb racing, not just the tangible things but the mental side of things. 

In a world of so much information; so many things that we could (or society tells us we should!) care about, we simply have to choose what is important to us, and… equally importantly: what is not.

There are elements that are crucial to success in our racing. And there are elements that we believe to be crucial to success in our racing. Let's talk about where comfort zones fall. 

'Do the next right thing' is a mantra for many struggling with addiction or can be words to live by for many who have overcome tremendous setbacks. How can we relate it to drag racing? Racing is a difficult pursuit - that’s what draws so many of us to it (and holds our passion - because sustained perfection is truly unattainable). To move forward in racing we must 'Do the next right thing'. 

This seems to come up a couple of times of year, and it's the complaint of staging games. I want to address this, but I’m way past the point of sugar coating it. 

In this week's episode I wanted to look at the correlation between of being hyper focused and success. Is that competitive sociopath mentality the only path to success? Or can we strive to be both focused and have fun?

“In this way you must understand how laughable it is to say, ‘Tell me what to do!’ What advice could I possibly give? No, a far better request is, ‘Train my mind to adapt to any circumstance.’... In this way, if circumstances take you off script… you won’t be desperate for a new prompting.” - Epictetus The above quote is what I am focusing on for this week's Daily Driver episode and it's centered...

On this week's Daily Driver, I'm visiting one of the reoccurring questions that comes up in ThisIsBracketRacing in regards to health. Does diet and exercise impact performance?

This episode comes in right on the heels of the exclusive ThisIsBracketRacing Junior Fest where our members are able to get on the track and implement the things we discuss. Our goal at our live events, be it junior dragsters or even our big car ELITE Fest, is to stretch our attendees. To challenge them. The result is a microcosm of growth in general. 

As a racer you have a reputation among your competitors. They have identified the way that you race; and they use that reputation to gameplan (and to execute) against you. You could live up to the reputation or you could choose to defy it.

This episode will be Part 5, and I think the final installment, of the "How Do They Live The Dream Life?" series here on the Daily Driver. I started out this series by focusing on mindset, specifically a growth mindset. It seems only fitting to close the series out with another equally critical but not often talked about state of mind. The idea of "enough". 

This is part 4 in the multi-part series on "How Do They Live The Dream Life?" and I'm going to hone in on the business side of things in this episode. Full disclaimer, this episode is going to go against our golden rule here on the Daily Driver to be 10 minutes or less but it's worth it!