Garage Heroes In Training

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.   You c...

WOOT Stands for Way Off Our (normal) Topic so this is NOT a driving or racing episode What began as a simple review of James Gunn's new movie The Suicide Squad quickly became a debate of the DC Extended Universe and the MCU from Marvel.  Benny and Alex return to their WOOT origin and feel Bill is biased against the DCEU.  So we rank all the DCEU and the MCU movies to date and discuss the upcoming...

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go over why most of our racing series require the steering wheel lock to be removed from the vehicle and why airbags are not used in race cars.  Apparently, the police were in the area during our discussion, apologies for the sirens.   Neither of these will help you on track in a race car and both can actually hurt you if left in place.

We finally have the whole El Jeffe team together to discuss our all ladies piloted team.  Elizabeth and Audra joined Jennifer and Vicki to talk about the race, how things went over the weekend and if/when the ladies will be returning to the track together.  The results of the race were exceptional.  The only issues we had that were racing related were due to the initial issue we fixed on Saturday....

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we discuss the mutual ideas of adapting a car to a driver and adapting your driving to the car.  Both of these are keys to improving your performance at and especially during a race.  We even have a great time with Vicki and Ben bulldozing each other several times in a row. Lol.  We lost the last few seconds so this one ends a bit more abruptly than we had...

Samir Abid has been a vehicle dynamics engineer for road and racing car suspensions for over ten years.  He then created a sports engineering business to help pro and Olympic teams and athletes to optimize their performance through analytical techniques.  In addition, Samir is also competing himself in club level racing and understands the needs and dynamics of racing at all levels.  In an effort...

Our ladies team came to Thompson and even though the entire prep week blew up in our face, the weekend as a whole went fantastically.  Vicki and Jen go over some of the highs and lows of the race on this episode.  We are hopeful for a part 2 with Audra and Elizabeth, and perhaps even Alan, to go over their thoughts on the weekend.  The El Jeffe race truck stumbled a bit at the beginning of the wee...

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we cover the new to Jennifer term of tossing a car into a turn.  While it seems to be losing popularity, we have heard it a few times at the track in the paddock, so in our pursuit of not looking like we don't know anything, we thought we would cover it here.  We then move into a discussion of driving styles and choices that may help you as well. A link to...

Ryan Power recently graduated from comp school with his racing license and competes in wheel to wheel sprint races in his 2019 ND2 Miata.  Bill had met Ryan and been driving at HPDE's with Ryan for the past few seasons.  While still relatively new at racing, Ryan's results are very good for his rookie season with several podium finishes and race wins.  Unfortunately, Ryan has also experienced a si...

We are planning for our first ever All Ladies 24 Hours of Lemons racing entry at the upcoming Thompson event.  Vicki and Jennifer will be racing in the 2003 Chevy S-10/Isuzu Hombre race truck.  They will be joined by past podcast guests Elizabeth and Audra, for her first wheel to wheel racing event.  Alan will be racing in the 1984 Mustang GT Turbo with his sons Bennett and Quinn, who is joining u...

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go into what is meant by log booking or having a race car that is log booked.  It is really not terribly complicated but it is something that you may eventually need to do and it is always better to not sound uninformed.  Let us do that for you, lol.  (PS It turns out we do have a log book from Lucky Dog, we just didn't know that was what it was.) You ca...

GHIT 0 218 :  Scott Robertson from the Track Walking podcast (Part 2 of Our GLTC Series) For this episode, Scott Robertson reviews a variety of topics including his racing in the Grid Life GLTC series, his multiple One Lap of America entries, being a driving instructor, and his Track Walking podcast.  Scott had an ill timed racing incident earlier this year just prior to the 2021 One Lap of Americ...

Our season highlight is the NASA Great Lakes HPDE event at PittRace and this year was no exception.  Our team attendees consisted of Jennifer, Vicki, and Liam in the HPDE 2 sessions, and Bill was in the HPDE 4 group, as well as auditing several of the HPDE 1 and 2 classrooms and track sessions.  As always, we were joined by our Three Pedal Mafia/Everyone racers podcast friend Chris, Chrissy, Jeff,...

In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go into what is meant by "bedding of brakes" and several ways that it can be done.  Thank you to our listener A. Powers for writing in with this question.  For even more details related to Brake Pads and many other braking components, please go to our episode with Wendy from Porterfields on episode 59.  Quick link:  https://tinyurl.com/WendyFromPorterfie...

As a bonus, here is Alan's original introduction from all the way back on Episode Number 2.  We hope you enjoy getting to know us better and learning where we are (or maybe where we think we are) and where we wish to go in the coming years.   If we missed something that you wanted to know, please let us know on our website or Instagram or Facebook.   You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast...

It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we'd update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our hosts.   Alan joined our team about 2 minutes after Vicki posted something about our first race.  He has been a car guy since birth and is a trained mechanic and worked on real cars for several years prior to joining our team.  Alan has succe...

It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we would update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our hosts.   You can probably blame Bill for most of our team and our podcast, but he does have noble goals, lol.  Bill was essentially a newbie to racing, driving, and pretty much remains so as far as car mechanical skills.  As always, our m...

We have been following the Grid Life series, especially their GLTC series for the last few years and since our schedules don't align this year, we thought we would interview several of the drivers, teams, and hosts for the next few episodes. Tiffany Kelly and Justin Kelly are both top drivers in the GLTC series and have competed as Team Kelly Racing.  In addition, they have a racing school to teac...

It has been several months since we did a WOOT episode where we go Way Off Our Topic of racing and go into another are of our lives, our fandom of virtually all things superheroes.  In this episode , we go over our thoughts about the three recent Disney+ MCU related shows:  WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, as well as the most recent Black Widow movie.  This recording was prior...

It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we'd update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our hosts.   Jennifer was a self proclaimed driver that started racing at less than zero.  She attended our first race and joined the team as a driver at our second race.  She has probably improved the most of any of our drivers to this point and...

It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we'd update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our hosts.  Vicki started from ground zero as a newbie to racing, driving, and car mechanics and has progressed to become one of our top mechanics and an excellent racing driver.  We go over where Vicki is currently in her driving career and what...

Will aerodynamics help your racing car?  We begin to explore the field of aerodynamics with Johnny Cichowski from Nine Lives Racing on this episode.  As an introductory episode, we start with the fundamentals and work our way towards laying out a plan for adding aero to a race car that will result in actually having a faster race car.  We started with the very basics of defining most of the basic...

"Tony Stark" was the obvious lead in to this episode with PGR Racing and their EV racing car that recently competed in the 2021 One Lap of America.  On this episode, Andrew DeKoning and Chad Martin go into the pluses and minuses of racing an electric vehicle in the One Lap of America and racing an EV in general.  We really had no reference to racing an EV, except for those unfounded rumors on seve...

We are all suffering from a serious sleep deprived, post-race weekend hangover, and we are all calling in from across the US with varying internet speed and connections.  It starts with the somewhat normal Race Bar takeover and then we go into the race.  For this event, our drivers consisted of Vicki, Alan, and Jennifer and our two adopted teammates Aaron Diamond from the Saabs of Anarchy racing t...

Budget endurance auto racing is a worldwide passion and Motor Events Racing is leading the way across Australia and looking to grow the sport and share high performance driving with everyone interested or soon to be interested.  The group sponsors two different series for those with different driving skill levels, budgets, and interests.  For those not familiar with the details of the tracks avail...