Garage Heroes In Training

WOOT 0766:  GHiT's Summer (plus) Movie Preview With the recent releases starting to really kick off the summer movie season, we decided to give our thoughts of the upcoming movie and TV schedule for the remainder of 2026.  Did we stay on subject.  Nope.   Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/Movies2026Revie...

GHiT 0764:  GHiT's NJMP Race Weekend - A Bit Late Rumor has it that there was a race a few weeks back at NJ Motorsports Park (NJMP) with the 24 Hours of Lemons.  The racing was great, but the theming was really some of the best we have ever seen.  Oh yeah, we were there too.  Here are some of the stories from the weekend.   Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail...

GHiT 0763:  Apex Anti Heroes (With Vicki) Raced at High Plains Brady is back and with his own team racing at High Plains for their first ever race.  Vicki flew out to help prepare and hopefully celebrate the small wins.  How did their first race go?  What did they do well?  More importantly what did this first time racing team learn from their first event?  Lots of great ideas and items covered in...

GHiT 0762:  Nick Barbato's GLTC at Road Atlanta Gridlife went to Road Atlanta last week and we review the GLTC rces from the perspective of Nick Barbato.  It was a weekend.   Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/RoadATL2026     We hope you enjoy this episode!   If you would like to help grow our podcast and...

GHiT 0761:  Miss Jackie is BAAAACK We are joined this week by Miss Jackie, back by popular demand.  WE catch up with what has been going on recently with her race car build, Honda Challenge and anything else that came up.     Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/MissJackieReturns      We hope you enjoy this...

DwD 0760:  Life Lessons From Endurance Racing Endurance racing is not only incredibly fun but also is a great teacher of things that can apply to your home and work life.  We named a few.  Who better to talk to about this than Ben Dawson.  Let's Dominate!   Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/RacingLifeLes...

DwD 0758:  Race Setup Pro When we first started racing, we always assumed that the car wasn't the problem and essentially never changed.  This error probably held us back for a good 3-4 seasons as we learned.  If only there was a way to address car setup when you don't know anything, or even when you do but you don't have a full time race engineer/setup guru on staff.  Now there is and we can't wa...

DwD 0759:  Racing Pricey Cars - How and Why A recent post on the book of faces had a question:  How can people ever race $50k, $100k, or even more expensive cars on track.  Plus what would be our three cars to require everyone to start with on track.  Who better to talk to about this than Ben Dawson.  Let's Dominate!   Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com...

DwD 0757:  Taking Charge of the Racecar Its a race not a wait.  We hada question related to taking charge of the car and making it do what you want.  Who better to talk to about this than Ben Dawson.  Let's Dominate!   Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/753FlatSpots     We hope you enjoy this episode!   I...

GHiT 0756:  Nick Barbato - A Great Race Weekend at CMP with GridLife GLTC The season has started with Gridlife at Carolina Motorsport Park.  Nick Barbato was racing in the GLTC series again this year and was kind enough to review the weekend and how it went.  Hint:  It went pretty #$@^@ well.  This is another good one as we peak behind he visor with one of the top amateur racing drivers.     Did w...

GHiT 0755:  Jeremy Hall Has Been Very Busy With the recent weather starting to show signs of spring, we catch up with Santa Jeremy and see what his plans are for the season, what he's been working on all winter, and what bad ideas we can come up with for the racing season.     Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyu...

DwD 0753:  All About the Dreaded Flat Spots Flat Spots:  What are they, how to fix them, how to prevent them, and creative judge penalties and more.     Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/753FlatSpots   We hope you enjoy this episode!   If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance drivi...

GHiT 0754:  Adam Jabaay Comes on Talk About the Recent Gridlife News and More You may have seen the headlines with GridLife being sold, even in Forbes Magazine and Grassroots Motorsports among many others.  We wanted to get the details and talk about what the changes mean and what the internet rumors were.  Adam shared an evening with us and we are very excited about the future of GridLife.     Di...

GHiT 0752:  The Costs of Racing with the Ironbird Racing Team We received a question from a listener about an episode themed at the costs of racing and ways to monitor and control them (lol).  We thought it might be a great idea to have them come on and ask anything they wished, so we did.  Welcome to the podcast from Ironbird Racing, Robin and Greg.   Did we miss something?  Please let us know at...

DwD 0751:  What is Full Throttle and More (and We're Back) We resume with a listener question from Code Name Vicki and it is about what is full throttle, wha tit means, when to be, etc, etc, etc.  It seems simple, maybe even trivial, but it has been the cause of some confusion with our listener and several other students we have instructed in the past.  Sometimes the issue is misunderstanding a te...

GHiT 0750:  Ross Bentley Celebrates Episode 750 With Us! Another 50 episodes in the book and we are honored, as always, to have Ross Bentley back on the podcast.  It is the off season around here, so we center on what we can do to improve and prepare for next season.  Plus we wander around and talk about a bunch of other things, as always.      Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageH...

GHiT 0749:  Scott Mattis and MJ Trierweller Jeremey had a great idea and for once it was, lol.  We welcomed long time car enthusiast and instructors Scott Mattis and Mark Jon (MJ) Trierweller to the podcast and we talk about everything and still only scratched the surface.  Can't wait to have them on again.     Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A li...

GHiT 0746:  Mark Petronis is Back Mark Petronis comes back on the podcast to talk about his recent fitness improvements and how it may be able to help you on our off season fitness special episode of 2026.  And we talk racing Corvettes to try to stay on brand, lol.     Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/M...

GHiT 0748:  Adam Jabaay is Back and We Talk All Things GridLife We wanted to catch up with Adam and talk about GridLlife 2025 and 2026 and beyond.  So we did.     Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/AdamJabaay748   We hope you enjoy this episode!   If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-perfor...

GHiT 0747:  We Missed Mental - So He's Back So we invited Judge Mental Ward onto the podcast ot talk about all things racing and many things unrelated.  If you know Mental, you knew that was the case.    Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/MentalisBack   We hope you enjoy this episode!   If you would like...

GHiT 0745:  Our Annual (But Very Late) Goals Review and Our Goals for 2026 Bill loves goals and after many reschedulings, we get this one done in just under the wire.  We review our 2025 goals and how we did.  Then we forecast some challenging goals for 2026.  How did we do?  Not well, lol.     Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode...

GHiT 0744:   Scott Robertson - Year in Review and Our Coach for 2026 It is always great to talk with Scott Robertson of Robertson Racing and the Track Walking podcast, but this year we are going to be working with Scott to improve our skills on track, and off.  For the first section of this episode, we go over Scott's past year and then (smoothly?) transition into what we are planning to do going...

GHiT 0743:   Queers Shifting Gears - Race and Year In Review Our friends at Queers Shifting Gears have come a long (LONG) way in the past year or so and went from knowing what Lemons racing is to KNOWING what Lemons racing is.  We saw them at our race at Summit Point and now we get to see how that race went and how the year of endurance racing progressed.  Will they be back?  Why yes, yes they wil...

GHiT 0742:   Lemons Racing 2025 Review and 2026 Preview with Eric Rood 2025 was quite a season for the 24 Hours of Lemons racing series and we discuss the almost complete 2025 season and preview the 2026 schedule with our favorite Everything Bagel, Eric Rood.    Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com     A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/Lemons20...

GHiT 0741:   Aero for Endurance Racing with Mario Korf We are joined by Mario Korf to talk all things aero, but especially with a focus on the use during endurance races.  We address many of the typical concerns, misunderstandings, and lore in the area of using aero in endurance racing and even using aero with a front wheel drive car.   Did we miss something?  Please let us know at GarageHeroesInT...