Garage Heroes In Training

Trey Shannon returns to discuss several options to get in better shape for racing and life that can be done with or without a gym.  We talk through a wide variety of ways to shave pounds off each car you drive by carrying fewer (extra) pounds in the driver seat.  Trey usually works with several pro level drivers and many with professional aspirations.  Podium Performance not only deals with physic...

Adam Jabaay is a co-founder of the GridLife series and was kind enough to come onto our program to talk about GridLife and his driving and racing history.  We were told by several people at the track that we needed to attend a GridLife event and after doing some homework and talking with Adam, we agree.  The series is a mix of high level racing, HPDE, drifting, and a huge social aspect in the padd...

On this Way Off Our Topic (WOOT) episode, we overdo our review of The Mandalorian prior to the season 2 finale and predictions for what we think and/or want to happen in the finale.  We then move into the recent announcements of upcoming movies and television series.  Since we haven't had a WOOT episode in a long while, we went really long with this one.  Our hosts for this episode are Jeff, Josh,...

Craig Watkins joins us for this episode to discuss his driving history, as well as his time spent as an engineer for Flying Lizard Motorsports, among others.  Craig concentrates now being an amateur racing driver and feels the pain of being a single person team.  We also go into his business that started as a tool he needed to help him as a race car engineer and grew into what we know as Smart Rac...

You may know Chance Hales from his work with the Everyday Driver TV Show, Podcast, and YouTube channel, or from his excellent Instagram follow @phattyhales for a ton of great photos of spectacular cars in amazing locales.  With our team finally starting to get things together, we wanted to improve our non-driving related knowledge and skills as well and realized that as much as we like taking pict...

Ross Bentley, world class racing coach and author, was kind enough to join us to help celebrate our 150th episode!  Since Ross has literally written THE book on racing and high performance driving, we always look forward to talking with him any chance we get.  Our team has improved in the almost year since Ross came on episode 100, but have our questions?  You will have to be the judge of that.  A...

Joe Marko was our guest from HMS Motorsport joins us to discuss several of the key aspects of safety for your race car, key aspects to take into consideration, as well as installation guidance, basically a one stop shop, but it was so much content and information, we are sure this is only part one of several more.  If you are going to be working on your car or especially if you are building a car...

Brian Bohlander is a very accomplished race driver having competed for over 30 years and has won the Mint 400 Class 5500 and is a 3-time Thunder Roadster champion.  In his professional life, he is the marketing director for Peak antifreeze and is responsible for all sports and racing partnerships.  As if that was not enough, he is also the Comp school director for NASA Great Lakes.  During the epi...

The latest HPDE with NASA Northeast last weekend completes our season of track driving and instruction for 2020.  We try to summarize it as well as how the COVID 19 impacted racing season went.  And Bill can't wait to start planning 2021.  It was a great weekend on track with fantastic weather, especially for mid-November in NJ.  We came with three cars good to go.  We left with zero.  Seems to be...

We thought we would get a short podcast out to update how the day has gone and what we have been doing today.  Jennifer is in the Soul Red 2019 Mazda MX5 (Miata) ND2 and is in HPDE 1 this weekend.  Vicki is in her first HPDE 2 and, as always is driving her 1999 Mazda Miata with the Flyin' Miata turbo.  Bill finally found an HPDE car that he can fit into that wasn't stolen (yet) by the girls, a 200...

We have finally gotten to our long postponed skid pad event.  Our original event in March was cancelled due to COVID 19 and when John from Safety Third Motorsports was kind enough to offer an invitation to an event at Lime Rock Park using the skid pad and autocross track, we gladly said thank you!  Was it everything we had hoped for?  Should you go to a skid pad?  Did it help us?  Would it help yo...

Colton (aka Train) and Steve (aka Woodchuck) are two of the four hosts of the "B Squad Hotrod" Podcast on to discuss how they have learned and continue to learn to work on their hotrod projects, cars and other related projects, like building a huge garage from scratch.  We also get into some of the current and upcoming projects and goals for the coming few months.  A great podcast hosted by two se...

After a recent HPDE event with NASA Great Lakes at the Autobahn Country Club near Chicago, Bill sent in some video of a representative lap to Racers360 to try their video coaching and see what he could work on to improve.  Dion von Moltke, from Racers360 and a podcast guest from episode #92, evaluated one of Bill's laps and who knew, it wasn't all that bad.  We thought it would be a great discussi...

GHIT Podcast Episode 0142:  Alex Levinson Orchestrates a Coup D'état with Some Friends   We never had control to lose, but we somehow lost it anyway.  You have been warned   It all started innocently enough, Alex Levinson was coming onto the podcast and we had a plan to talk about racing and go karting.  Little did we know there was a devious plot afoot.  It began to dawn on us as he was signing i...

Rachel Baker and Gina Ma from Driving Forward Together joined us for this episode where we discuss the goals and ambitions for Driving Forward Together and where they would like to be in the coming years.  We also get to know Rachel and Gina's driving and racing history as well as getting to know them a bit better.  We hope to see them out at a race next year.  On Dominating with Dawson, we cover...

We cover Bill's first HPDE 3 with NASA Great Lakes at the Autobahn Country Club South Course layout that is near Chicago.  It was our teams first HPDE 3 and it was fantastic.  NASA Great Lakes really shines with their HPDE curriculum.  In addition, we had the opportunity to try the teams new Garmin Catalyst on track for the first time and we were very impressed.  Several notable driving improvemen...

This episode of our podcast is a listeners request, Jennifer, Vicki, and Bill go over what we have been up to and begin to look at where we are going for next year.  Lots of changes, lots of cars gone, still a few to go, and lots of new cars added, most need some TLC.  We think we are on a good path, but you can be the judge of that.  Also, on this episode's Dominating with Dawson, we get into a d...

Lara Vernon is our guest for this episode.  She is a racing driver that is rapidly moving up the ranks of amateur racing.  We have raced alongside her at our last event in Charlotte on the Roval and she just returned from winning the B class event with the true 24 hour race at CMP with the Sorry For Party team, driving in both their Firebird and 944 race cars during the race and posting the fastes...

Danielle Tripp is our guest for this episode with special co-host Ben Dawson coming in as well.  Danielle is a member of the Winsome Racing team with Ben and has quickly progressed from starting our as a car girl who went on a racing experience event, started driving in HPDE events to become a racing instructor and raced in her first race in 2019.  It was great to catch up with Danielle and see ho...

Roland Hahn is our guest for this episode with Ann Moran occasionally chiming in throughout the episode.  Roland has been racing since the 80's and has probably completed more races than we have laps (which is not really that much of an exaggeration).  Some fascinating stories and history that will help you and your team in the next race.    On this episodes Dominating with Dawson, we go over Raci...

Ben Dawson is our guest for this episode where we go over some of his racing history and a lot of how he has progressed to his current level and what he is looking to get into going forward.  It was great to catch up with him and learn a bunch more about him and his driving.  It is also the easiest episode ever to put in our Dominating with Dawson segment where we go over several methods for a dri...

At our recent Lucky Dog race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, we were lucky enough to be in the paddock next to Race Bar.  Yes, they are back.  Jeff/Ron even took a stint in our race truck.  On this episode we go over the entire event from their perspective and how Race Bar helped us throughout the weekend.  As we covered in our earlier race review episode, the entire event was a blast and R...

We were lucky enough to get four of the Lucky Dog team to discuss with us the Lucky Dog series and how their first ever east coast race went at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on the Roval.  Jason Miles, Briana Miles, Chris Wilhelm, and Justin Parcher were our guests for this episode.  Please snug up your racing harness, this one is pretty fun but actually has some good content to learn from and may...

On this episode, we review the entire race weekend at the Charlotte Roval for our Lucky Dog endurance race.  The first race started Friday night and ended Saturday morning.  The second race was a 10-hour enduro that started at noon Sunday.  It was our first time at Charlotte Motor Speedway, our first time at a big oval track, and our first race of the year.  How hard could it be?  What could go wr...

Danny van Dongen is an accomplished racing driver and has started several businesses in Europe and the US, including a racing school, a racing series, as well as successfully starting up Hankook Motorsports that offers tires for racing in the US to nearly all forms of both amateur and professional racing series.  We would like to thank Danny and the team for their RS4's our tire of choice for endu...