Garage Heroes In Training

DwD 0498:   What Spares to Bring the Track Jeremy is stuck in the middle of a family squabble about what spares to bring to the track.   Vicki is worried about space and weight.   Bill is worried about losing track time or an event due to not having what we need and have but did not bring.   Is Bill right?   Does he end up sleeping in the bathtub?   Again.   Does Jeremy escape without losing a lim...

GHiT 0497:   Lemons Judge Series – Judge Corey Dickman The Lemons Judge series continues with Judge Corey.   He is a racer and a judge and is trying to finish his collection of racing at every track that Lemons invades and winning the last elusive prize of the overall win at a race. Please welcome Judge Corey to the podcast. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/JudgeCorey If you would lik...

DwD 0496:   Downshifting in a Turn One of the issues that several of our teams' drivers have had is the proper process and timing when downshifting in a manual car at a turn, especially a high speed turn.   During this episode, Ben goes into a proper sequence of your hands and feet during a turn where downshifting is required.   Hopefully, this will help you as you progress in driving on track wit...

GHiT 0495:   Team Update - Primary Racing Cars in PA We go back to what our podcast started with and provide an update to what cars we have and what our plans are.  In this part one, we go over the primary race cars that are located in PA.  We hope you enjoy this and catch up on what we are up to (and some of the debacles).  If desired, we will have a future episode on the remaining team race cars...

DwD 0494:   Seat Fitment and Adjustment In this episode of Dominating with Dawson, we go over the importance of properly installing and selecting a racing seat.   While many endurance teams are forced into making compromises for all drivers' sizes and shapes, it is more ideal to take extra time and make sure the seat and the installation are perfect for a single driver car.   We do go into some of...

GHiT 0493:   Lemons Judge Series – Judge Craig Ledbetter The Lemons Judge series continues with Judge Craiggers.   He is a racer and a judge and is in need of coming to our garage to help with all of our Honda race cars.   In spite of having been on two times previously, he agreed to come back on for the judge series.   We talked about setting up a seat swap site and then stumble upon the story of...

GHiT 0492:   Fire Laps New AI Data Coach David and Daniel from Fire Laps returned for a second lap to discuss the recent rollout of their AI coaching and data analysis.   It augments the original functionality and retains compliance with many of the top data/telemetry systems.   So, if you are looking for a faster way to analyze data and interpret the data Or if you hate analyzing data Or if you a...

DwD 0491:   The Best Track Car We were recently asked what car we would recommend learning to drive on a track.   In this episode, we go into some of the primary factors we see that would help someone to learn to drive on a track as quickly and efficiently as possible.   So what do you think is the best car to learn to drive on track? A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/BestCarsToLearnOn...

GHiT 0490:   Lemons Judge Series – Judge Shelly McKee The Lemons Judge series continues with Judge Shelly.   She is a racer and a judge and is also involved with the SCCA so we go into that as well during this episode.   If you want to follow along with Shelly and her progress, her Instagram is a must follow @shellieshouseofspeed Please welcome Judge Shelly to the podcast. A link to the episode is...

GHiT 0489:   Race Recap:   Thompson 2023 with the 24 Hours of Lemons Our team had two cars that raced at the recent 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race at Thompson.   This includes the 1984 Mustang GT Turbo called MooStang and the 1991 BMW 535 with team Slippery Slope.   It was a tale of two cars and the results show it.   Post race hangover was fully in place by the two of us who didn't race, lol....

DwD 0488:   Lap Times at The Track We were recently asked how to tell how a teams' car was doing in the race and how to tell what the lap times were.   Luckily, there are several apps available to monitor any car's lap times when at the track and even when not at the track.   We go over two of the more popular options that are used around the world. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/La...

GHiT 0487:  Lemons Judge Series – Judge Sajeev Mehta Part 5 of still growing in our Lemons Judge Series with Sajeev Mehta.   Sajeev is a long time Lemons Judge and racer who is also an automotive journalist.   This sounds like recipe for episode greatness. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/JudgeSajeev If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: Y...

GHiT 0487:  Lemons Judge Series – Judge Sajeev Mehta Part 5 of still growing in our Lemons Judge Series with Sajeev Mehta.   Sajeev is a long time Lemons Judge and racer who is also an automotive journalist.   This sounds like recipe for episode greatness. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/JudgeChris If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: Yo...

DwD 0486:   Minimizing Distance vs Maximizing a Turn's Min Speed In Autocross, it is often correct to minimize distance to improve your time.   On track, it is a bit more complicated due to the longer duration of the turns and the higher speeds and higher variation of speeds.   During this episode, Ben and Bill talk through a few of the aspects of the track that can impact when to minimize distanc...

GHiT 0485:  Lemons Judge Series – Judge Chris Overzet Part 4 of still growing in our Lemons Judge Series with Chris Overzet.   Chris goes way back to original Lemons times and has personally participated in the Peoples Curse and has been racing and judging sine then.   This one has stories. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/JudgeChrisO If you would like to help grow our podcast and hig...

DwD 0484:   How to Tell if You are Under Driving On Track By poplar demand, we have a part two to our earlier DwD.   Ben was concerned with making sure that everyone wasn't under driving just as much as he was concerned about over driving.   We also have a quick listener comment on our earlier podcast episode about driving with bench seats.   Thanks again. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl...

GHiT 0483:  Lemons Judge Series – Judge Bob Griffin Part 3 of 13 (and still growing) in our Lemons Judge Series is with Bob Griffin.   The fun we are having with all the judges is fantastic and this episode is no different.   In addition. The Lemons Judges see the series from their own unique perspective.   We hope you enjoy this multipart series that we hope sheds some light on the, hmm, well on...

GHiT 0481:  Lemons Judge Series – Judge Shawn Rogers Part 2 of Many TBD in our Lemons Judge Series with Shawn Rogers.   While we often talk with drivers about Lemons, we thought that it might be fun to talk with some of the Lemons Judges about the series and how they see it from their perspective.   We hope you enjoy this multipart series that we hope sheds some light on the, hmm, well on somethin...

GHiT 0482:  Recap of Grid Life NJMP 2023 Our First Time Working with a Coach - Miss Jackie What a great weekend we had.  Our team worked with Jackie Andrews as our coach for the Grid Life event at NJMP.  Jeremy and Nick were in the advanced HPDE group in their E46 BMW 3-series street'ish cars.  Jennifer was in our B Spec Fit in HPDE and Vicki was in HPDE in our new E46 race car but switched to our...

DwD 0480:   Air, Spark, and Fuel – Plus Timing On this episode, we go into one of the areas that Vicki and Bill are worst at:   Trouble shooting.   One of the fundamental ways to diagnose a car not running is to look at the supply of Air, Fuel, and spark to the engine.   Once they are all present at the required quantity and time, it is almost magic how the car then starts making that happy noise...

DwD 0479:   Double Sucking What is a DwD without Ben, well we try again here with guests Mental and Jeremy standing in for Ben.   One area we wanted to cover is that there are multiple factors that can affect your absolute and relative performance on track, especially as you progress.   One of the hardest areas we have seen is trying to determine the relative contributions of what part is driver i...

GHiT 0478:  Lemons Judge Series – Judge Janis While we often talk with drivers about Lemons, we thought that it might be fun to talk with some of the Lemons Judges about the series and how they see it from their perspective.   We hope you enjoy this multipart series that we hope sheds some light on the, hmm, well on something, lol. We talked with Judge Janis Jerman after her first race judging, an...

WOoT 0476:  Spiderverse and The Flash – Plus we rank ALL the Spiderman Movies Jeff, Josh, Benny, Alex, Vicki, and Bill go over the latest Spiderverse movie and The Flash, with a splash of a return to the Guardians of the Galaxy 3.   We then end the episode with a ranking of all the Spider Man movies (and related movies).     I think we did manage to squeeze in a car reference, might have been a ro...

DwD 0476:   Racing Classes – Builder's Classes vs Driver's Classes (Jeremy Fill) There are generically two different types of racing series.   One is a builder's class where you can build and enter almost anything that complies with a fairly open rule book.   Other racing classes are more specific on what cars and modification are allowed and focus more on the difference being largely due to the d...

GHiT 0475:  The Great Alaska Rally Wrapup Rally Master Jeff Stobbs joins us again to review the recent Lemons rally that went to the 49 th state.   This was a first time event and easily one of the most memorable rallies that Lemons has hosted.   How did it go?   Did anyone hit a moose or have a moose hit them?   What did the locals think of a Lemons rally?   Did they sacrifice any cars to the Ral...