Garage Heroes In Training

This is part 3 of the series (of ~10) we go over several of the easiest and most popular paths to get your start performance driving and/or racing journey.  This should be considered a starting point to work from and not an exhaustive, detailed list as there are many other potential paths and organizations available across the globe.  We have already talked through several of these areas in prior...

We are getting back to our podcast roots and wanted to start a special series Vicki calls "So You Wanna Racecar" that Bill can't seem to say correctly.  This is part 2 of the series (of ~10). On this episode of Bill is a Piñata, we go into the various safety related items that may be required to get on track or by the racing series.  There are a large number of items and many different options and...

When we started this podcast, we had a list of guests that would compose our school of white whales that we dreamed of getting.  One of the top was Randy Pobst.  He is an excellent driver, instructor and television personality and has seemingly won every race event he has entered, sometimes multiple times.  As good as a driver as he is, he is an even better person.  He routinely attends amateur ra...

We are getting back to our podcast roots and wanted to start a special series Vicki calls "So You Wanna Racecar" that Bill can't seem to say correctly.  This is part 1 of the series (of ~10) where we go over where we started and how things went at our first events.  We then move on to how to build your first race car.  In case it isn't clear, Vicki strongly feels its better to purchase a car that...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

Jacob Simonsen joined us to talk all things NaZCAR which is leading the way in New Zealand for opening up racing to everyone with their entry-level low-cost endurance racing series and he is also starting a series to graduate to for the more serious and faster cars and drivers called NaZCAR Pro.  NaZCAR was formerly the New Zealand affiliate of the 24 Hours of Lemons but has split off to form its...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

We are enthusiastic podcast listeners and found a podcast hosted by our guests called Shifting Points.  Their podcast is also aimed at helping people get started in our sport.  Luckily, they approach it from the perspective of autocross, so we haven't lost our entire audience to them, yet.  Since we all share the same passion, we had to invite them onto our podcast and talk all things cars and dri...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual series if episodes that compiles a...

Brad Brownell is an automotive journalist and is also well known for his involvement with starting Radwood and their newest car festival that is for electrified cars entitled Autopia 2099.  His passion for cars and the people who love them is evident throughout the episode, especially by the excitement he displays when talking about the cars that have come to events in the past and will hopefully...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

We finally broke Aaron down and he agreed to come onto the podcast with the rest of the Saabs of Anarchy team that we race with in many of our endurance races.  They started racing in Lemons many years ago and each have had several Saabs for street use and for some reason they all thought it would be a good vehicle to endurance race.  Stephen and Ryan recently started a podcast called The Autoholi...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

Loni Unser is our guest racing driver for this episode.  She is a fourth generation racing driver and has quickly worked her way up through several racing series in all types of cars and racing.  She has recently announced that she will be driving the Swamp Dragon Hot Sauce car in the MX5 Cup.  She graciously accepted our invitation to the podcast and is easily one of the nicest and friendliest gu...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

Ian Korf was our guest for this podcast.  Ian is an amateur racer and driving instructor when at the track, as well as the author of the book "You Suck At Racing" that is aimed at helping newer drivers progress, as well as his similarly titled blog.  Ian and Ben have raced together for several years on the west coast and obviously have had more than a few stories to share.  In spite of Ian have a...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

We have had a few guests requested and here is one of them, Johan Samanta is a driver that started endurance racing over a decade ago.  In his real life, he is a Neurologist and at the track, he may need one, lol.  Johan travels across US to races from his home in Phoenix.  We last raced with him at the Lucky Dog race Charlotte Roval August 2020 and a great time was had by all.  Johan also shared...

The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve.  One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with.  Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the s...

Andrew Rains joins us for this episode to talk through his racing history and then we went deeply into the Apex Pro telemetry system.  We have used our two Apex Pro's many times this season and everyone has liked the simple interface while on track and the data analysis capability off track is simple and fast, yet powerful.  We have only scratched the surface to this point, but we wanted to make s...

As the year wraps up, we review how our 2020 racing season went and what we would like to do and accomplish in 2021.  Obviously, the year did not go as we had hoped or planned with the COVID pandemic impacting all aspects of normal life and routine, but we did make some significant growth and made the best out of a horrible situation.  Goal making is one thing that is very easy to do, but also ver...

John Lavin and Dean Hesser join us to discuss improvements to our car preparation processes.  This includes before leaving for the racetrack, as well as at the racetrack and after the race.  We learned a ton of things that we should have been doing but weren't simply because we didn't know or hadn't thought of it yet.  We hope that this episode will save you at least one headache at the track or e...

We found several of the original sound files and decided to put this together for a bonus Christmas gift to everyone.  This is the podcast recording sessions that started everything.  We originally intended this to fill in a week gap that the Everyone Racers podcast took for Chris and Chrissy's wedding.  However, it took almost thirty tries for us to get to this point.  In addition, we added an ea...