Garage Heroes In Training

Alan and Bill got a last minute invitation to Evo Performance Driving Event at Giants Stadium in NJ.  Vicki acts as the interrogator, lol.  We ran it live! Highlights include Alan going off road, Bill committing several acts of car-on-cone manslaughter, and things we learned in our driver education progression.

Greetings from the track.  We reported in from NJMP while we are at our High Performance Driving Education (HPDE) event and review our impressions, things we learned, and things we are still working on.  We hope you enjoy this episode.  Most of it was recorded inside a car at the track with other cars in the area so in some spots the audio quality may vary.    

Vicki and Bill go over what goes on at a high performance driving event, how to prepare for the event, and what to bring etc.  Our season kicks off with a weekend of HPDE at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) in Millville New Jersey this weekend.  We took a page from our friends at Everyone Racers podcast and "ran it live".  We will likely have an update episode from the track this weekend.  If yo...

Spoiler filled and unedited podcast post everyone seeing the Captain Marvel movie at least once this weekend.  It turns out that Benny was the closest in his prediction on our preview podcast last week.  It turns out we all really liked it, even more than we had hoped and predicted on our show. In this episode we discussed: Our initial rating of the movie Listener feedback from Jason H and El Jeff...

NON SPOILER FOR THE MOVIE:  One this episode, Vicki, Benny, and Bill began with a deep dive into the history of Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers in preparation for the upcoming Movie this week.  As usual, we discussed a whole lot more and we hope you enjoy it.  We will cover the movie later this weekend.  Benny is expecting a 9.5 out of 10, Vicki a 7, and Bill an 8.  We all hope Benny is right!

We are very happy to welcome the Hydrocephalus Racing Team to our podcast this week.  They are a great team of friends and family that we first initially met at their first ever Lemons race in Thompson CT.  Unfortunately, Vicki and Bill apparently recorded in the Tube of Mockery we borrowed from Mental, so it sounds like we are huddled up in a cave somewhere.   If you are interested in supporting...

On this episode, we interrupted our Autocross month for a quick update on a recent roll cage installation weekend we attended that was hosted by the Three Pedal Mafia and focused on their new to them Nissan 300Z.  We also cover other work that was done during the Cage Party.  We also reviewed our progress on resuscitating the 1974 Capri and getting it back onto the track this season with a new dri...

Please excuse a few spots where we lost internet recording.  On this episode, Bill has the worst intro of any podcast in history, Vicki stages a coup d'état of the hosting duties, Alan shows up late, and we have recording issues galore so our episode for this week is posting late.  Despite this, Jason Hopkins who is the founder of the Citrus Racers Lounge was an awesome guest and we hope you enjoy...

This week, we welcomed Chris Kamery to the podcast to continue our discussion on Autocross this month.  Chris is an avid and accomplished driver mostly in the upstate New York and neighboring areas.  We cover a wide range of topics related to start racing in autocross and what to do and what not to do.  We also attempt to drag him into the dark side of endurance racing.  We hope to see him out at...

On this episode, Vicki and Bill welcomed Sam Strano to our show to discuss another form of racing called autocross.  This involved timed racing laps of a course that is usually artificially defined by a series of cones in a parking lot, air strip or other paved area.  Sam is a multiple time national champion in autocross and we are now signed up for at least one race and one training session and k...

On our latest episode, we had Chris Abbott of the Three Pedal Mafia and the Everyone Racers podcast as our special guest.  Chris is one of the nicest people we have met at lemons and has probably passed us more times than any other driver in the series, sometimes even in our own car.   On this episode, we talked about a wide variety of topics including:  Our wish you were sponsoring us, Alpine Sta...

We are very happy to have our first guest from our friends at the Everyone Racers podcast and also a member of the Three Pedal Mafia, Christian "Mental" Ward.  While our usual episode is around 45 minutes to a bit over an hour, this one went a bit longer.  We actually had some audio issues so it ended up under 3 hours of a great conversation.  If you listen to us on the way to work, we may have yo...

We first noticed Annika Carter on Instagram where her moniker is Not. My. Boyfriends. Car and that is the best Instagram name that we know of ever.  We then noticed she was going to be racing with us at Road Atlanta for our last Lemons race of our 2018 calendar season.  She has quickly worked her way up and races as much as she possibly can.  She has already earned her racing license through NASA...

We met this team at the 24 Hours of Lemons race in Thompson Connecticut last August.  It was their first race, but we could tell just by talking to them there that they were hooked.  Did they do well at the race.  No.  But they had a blast and we know we will be seeing them again at several races this season.  They are young and learning quickly.  We hope you get to know them a bit better after th...

We continue our team drivers interview series with Jennifer.  She is new to racing and new to driving a manual transmission.  We also added a short section with Mia and Jacob, our youngest team members at this point.  Probably not the best plan with post Christmas and elevated sugar levels, but why not.  At least we saved interrupting Alan and his family over the holiday break.

Benny and Bill try to get in an episode on the road during the holidays to review the latest DC movie release "Aquaman".  We also decided to rank our top 5 DC movies of all time and then also rated our bottom 5. We did have some sound level issues and more background noise than usual, but recording on the road and during the holidays is not our norm.  

Chris LoCurto has been a mentor to most of our team for many years.  It started when he hosted the Dave Ramsey podcast "EntreLeadership" and then when he started his own business and podcast "The Chris LoCurto Show".  We never miss an episode.  Vicki and Bill have also had personal coaching from Chris for several years and gained a tremendous amount of insight into ourselves and each other.  We hi...

Benny and Bill discuss their impressions of the Spiderman:  Into the Spiderverse movie and also cover the super hero movies of 2018.  Our audio went out on one channel.  It is now fixed.  

Alan and Bill cover what their goals are for the 2019 racing season to improve on 2018.

For this podcast, we complete our third day at Road Atlanta with our second day of racing.  Practice and Day one went pretty well.  Recording this episode did not.  We had some serious recording issues and apologize for the delay.  In addition to Sundays race, we also review some paddock and trailer improvement ideas we saw and Alan summarizes what to look for in an engine lift/hoist.      

Our team competed at Road Atlanta today.  It was cold and rainy all of today and likely will be again tomorrow.  What happened, how did we do, what went right and wrong, we may have answered some of those questions, I'm so tired, I'm not sure anymore.  It seemed like one of our better episodes, but you will need to be the judge of that.  

For today's episode, we summarize how things are going so far at our first visit to Road Atlanta.  Its a bit wet and cold, but so far, it has been a blast.  More updates should follow along as the weekend progresses.   

Sadly Late We have been asked more than once why did we start a podcast.  Well, we were listening to our favorite racing related podcast and good friends at Everyone Racers a few weeks back and they needed to skip a week.  We tried to get them an episode in time to help fill the gap.  It took us a bit over 24 times to finally get something presentable.  Largely due to operator error.  No one has e...

In this week's episode, we try to walk you through the process and procedures that are typical at a race day or race weekend, using a 24 Hours of Lemon's race weekend as an example.  We also try to review key areas to help ease any anxiety that may be present at your first (or fiftieth) race.  We hope this helps.  Please let us know if we missed anything or if you have any additional tips or trick...

In this episode of our podcast, Alan, Vicki, and Bill finish going over some of the details and history of the GHiT racing team and several of the things we have learned along the way.    The episode ran a bit long, so we split up our discussion into two parts.    come up. You can find the first part below or earlier in your podcast feed.   If there is anything that you would like to know that we...