Garage Heroes In Training

On this episode, we finally talked Liam into coming on the podcast by making it in the style of one of his favorite shows on YouTube, Hot Ones.  Since Bill has almost zero tolerance for spicy food, Vicki tagged in to assist with the interview and we also took advantage of the opportunity and covered several aspects of teenage driving, driver training, and racing.  If you prefer, there is a live vi...

Sam Smith, Editor At Large for Road and Track and Co-host of the NBC Sports Proving Grounds television show joins us for this episode.  We try to cover Sam's impressive history with the automotive and mainstream media, as well as his driving and racing history, but we only seem to have scratched the surface of Sam's great stories.  You can quickly see his gift for storytelling and ability to recal...

With everyone quarantined or at least social distancing, we have had several requests to re-publish this episode on Sim Racing.    On this episode, we had Scott Barton as our guest.  Scott is a very accomplished racing driver and very knowledgeable in the area of Sim Racing.  We thought we'd learn more about both on this episode.  Sim racing can be great way to get cheap track time, especially in...

Rob Krider who is a driver and managing partner of the Double Nickel Nine Motorsports racing team joins us on this episode.  Rob has a problem in that he and his team won't let anyone else win, lol.  His team is the reigning 4-time national champion in NASA's Honda Challenge series, while also having both team cars on the podium each year.  Our discussion covers not only their team history but wha...

Keith Tanner who has literally written the book on improving the performance of a Miata, actually three books, and works with the team at Flyin' Miata joined us for this episode to discuss his driving history and he was also willing to add to our recent series on the "Usual Suspects" and addresses many aspects of the use and optimization of all four generations of Miata's/MX-5's.  Since we have tw...

Ross Bentley was kind enough to come on as our guest and help celebrate our 100th episode.   Ross is known throughout the racing world as a great driver, author, and coach about high performance driving and racing, where his racing experience at the highest levels is augmented by his passion for learning and sharing to help raise the knowledge base as a whole for the good of our sport.  This discu...

For our 99th Episode, Chrissy Mittura from the Three Pedal Mafia and the co-host of the Everyone Racers podcast was our guest for this week.  Chrissy was one of the key influences that helped us to start our team, so we thank her all the time and blame her some of the time, lol.  Chrissy is not only and excellent driver that we are passed by routinely but has also helped our team immeasurably not...

Ben Liaw from Rogue Engineering was kind enough to come on this week's podcast.  Ben races and also supports his racing clients at Rogue Engineering in Upper Saddle River, NJ, where they not only assist with race car prep and on track support but design and manufacture many parts improvements for many BMW models. Also, on this week's Dominating with Dawson, we went over driving a new to you race c...

Nathan Howe and Mike Howe, who talked with us all the way from New Zealand, are part of the Hooncorp racing team and our guests for this week's episode.  We had to learn about the racing, the tracks, and the amazing roads in New Zealand from some locals.  New Zealand has been on our bucket list and has moved up several spots after this discussion.  The team has been racing longer than many of our...

GHiT 0096:  Eric Rood is our Special Guest Eric Rood from the 24 Hours of Lemons racing series reviews his history and the upcoming Lemons series, especially the rally events. Eric Rood is our guest on this episode where we review his car history, the upcoming 2020 Lemons races and especially the Rally events.  We first met Eric when he was judging one of our races.  Alan quickly knew all about hi...

GHIT 0095:  Nick Pon of the 24 Hours of Lemons team returns to kick off the 2020 season Nick Pon returns to our podcast to discuss the current 2020 season for the 24 Hours of Lemons series and the various new aspects of the series for 2020.  As usual, we digress several times and wander around our subject, but Nick very kindly tolerates us for unknown reasons.  We eventually go into what the serie...

Trey Shannon from Podium Performance Fitness is our podcast guest for this episode, just in time for the local gym to be freeing up from all the failed New Year's resolution people.  This is our second annual episode with Trey, and we go over a variety of aspects of improving your fitness to help improve your driving, especially during the off season.  Trey is located near Charlotte NC and is help...

On this week's podcast, we go over how we did for our 2019 goals and set new goals for the 2020 season.  In addition, our Dominating With Dawson segment goes over most of the flags you may see when driving on a track.  As always, if you have a topic or request for an upcoming show or a Dominating segment, please let us know within a podcast review or an email to GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com . ...

Dion von Moltke is our special guest for this week's podcast. He is a professional racing driver who has won several major races including the Rolex at Daytona 24 Hours and the Sebring 12 Hour among many others.  Dion is currently focused on an excellent online coaching website with several other professional drivers/coaches at Racers360.  Racers360 provides many types of coaching to improve any l...

Jeff Bloch aka "Speedy Cop" was our guest for this week's podcast.  We discussed Jeff and his team's history within racing and building some of the most memorable cars to race on a track of any type.  Jeff and the Gang of Outlaws have been racing for more than a decade and have won 9 IOE's and almost every other award in the 24 Hours of Lemons racing series, as well as success in most other series...

A bit late on this episode, but we cover a ton of the various factors that can improve driver comfort.  This will help with speed, lessen fatigue, and improve safety.  We hope you enjoy this episode.  Topics include:   Pre-race preparation Seat position and size halo/containment seats Seat angle and seat size Seat Height and helmet height Seat range and angle of sliders Additional padding, Foam pa...

For this shorter episode of our podcast we thought it would be helpful and fun to go over our individual lists of the top ten things we have learned in our first two years of low budget endurance racing.  We also had a few items added in from Kate as well as several thoughts from our Facebook and Instagram accounts.  In addition to our top ten list, highlights include: 1)  If its worth doing, it w...

Jim Tramontano is a racing driver primarily in Spec Miata and the creative force behind the No Money Motorsports blog.  He started racing and tries to balance a personal life and a racing hobby within the confines of a real-world budget and time availability.  He has tried many things to save both time and money.  Many have worked, but some, not so much.  He shares our interest in spreading the wo...

On this episode, we had Greg Birch on from the SilverSleeves racing team from the west coast.  We first met the team at Laguna Seca earlier this month but both of us had less than ideal racing weekends.  It was great to catch up with Greg and we look forward to racing with them again.    Highlights for this episode include:  1)  What is a Wolseley Hornet, its history, and how to get one onto the t...

Another Way Off Our Topic (WOOT)) episode this time, where we review 1)  the past year in movies and select our favorites.  2)  We then go into the top movies of the decade.  3)  We also go into the movies of 2020 we are most looking forward to and finally, 4) we cover the worst movies of the past year.  While initially, it does not seem like we have any car talk, we did manage to get a few relate...

On this week's podcast, we had the pleasure of interviewing Amanda Baak of the Faster Farms team who we met at last week's Lucky Dog race at Laguna Seca.  Vicki and Amanda had some very exciting racing for a dozen laps or so until things ended poorly on our end.  Their team races a Plymouth Belvedere, as everyone should.  After repeatedly racing with them Saturday and Sunday, we had to have them o...

We conclude our wrap up of our racing at Laguna Seca with the Lucky Dog racing series by summarizing our Sunday race and our overall thoughts and experiences.  We had a great trip out to Laguna Seca and the track is wonderful.  Did our Saturday continue into Sunday.  Yes.  Did our car give it everything it had?  Yes.  Did we finally break the podcast curse and finish a Lucky Dog race?  Well……liste...

On this episode, Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, Kate and Bill went over our 2019 season and our 2020 goals.  Are we on the same page?  Do we even belong in the same book?  Listen in and find out.  Some of it was news to us, lol.  Areas covered included: 2019 Review: 1)  How did our Team's 2019 go in your opinion, Highlight and Lowlight 2)  How did your personal season go?  Highlight and Lowlight 3)  Thing...

This was  a very quickly done episode by a bunch of very tired hosts and is recorded and unedited live from Laguna Seca after our first day of racing.  Recording levels varied a bit more than normal but we all ended up with one of our sillier episodes.  Hopefully, you will enjoy it as much as we did.     'Nuff Said With Vicki, Bill and special guest Mental Ward

On this week's podcast, we were finally able to interview Kate and Bennett Danvers and share with you a bit of their background and experiences with our team.  Kate shared many words, Bennett, few.  We hope you enjoy the weeks episode.  Highlights from this episode include: 1)  Overall background of each, including driving, racing, and car history of each and the family 2)  How to power oversteer...