An amateur endurance auto racing team hoping to show everyone that they too can participate in performance driving or racing. We are a relatively new team and learning right along with you. Our assumption is that you know very little to nothing about the sport but are interested in learning to drive better and eventually maybe even race in a local event of interest. We will cover all forms of racing and hope to be entertaining as well as educational.
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The Speed Secrets Podcast is all about high performance and race driving. In it, Ross Bentley has conversations with guests, resulting in tips, advice and inspiration you can take to the track. Digging into topics such as trail braking, cornering lines, race track specific advice, data acquisition and video analysis, upshifting and downshifting, handling and car setup, steering techniques, and the skill of using the throttle - all while driving on track - the goal is to not just entertain yo ...
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GHiT 0668: Dewey (Eric DeWitt) Returns to Talk about Qualifying Laps & Time Attack, Plus a Whole Lot More
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1:29:28GHiT 0668: Dewey (Eric DeWitt) Returns to Talk about Qualifying Laps & Time Attack, Plus a Whole Lot More Dewey is back and we really wanted his input on what to do when trying for that one fast lap when on track. This could be when in a time attack competition or when the series you are competing in sets the starting grid by the car's qualifying l…
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DwD 0667: Renting Seats - Tips For Both Perspectives
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23:38DwD 0667: Renting Seats - Tips For Both Perspectives In the latest dominating with Dawson, we are joined by Jeff Wakeman, the namesake for our racing truck "El Jeffe" and member of the Three Pedal Mafia. We discuss various aspects of renting seats, primarily in endurance racing. What to do and not do from both the drivers perspective and the car ow…
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GHiT 0666 Ryan Goodnight and Duckia Zhang
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1:42:38GHiT 0666 Ryan Goodnight and Duckia Zhang Looking to build a race car team from scratch? Duckia and Ryan are starting a team and we try to help with the process to develop their car, their team, their paddock, etc etc etc. Hoping that this one will save you some time and money by learning from us what worked and what didn't. Oh, did we mention that…
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DwD 0665: Learning Racing: What We Re-Discovered When Learning Another Sport
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24:37DwD 0665: Learning Racing: What We Re-Discovered When Learning Another Sport In what may be Vicki's least favorite episode, Bill and Jeremy talk about aspects of learning Chess that directly apply to learning to race and drive on track. It may sound like it makes no sense, but this episode could easily be three times as long and may be the first of…
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GHiT 0664: Roy Dietsch - And Then we Talk Best Brake Pads
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1:05:52GHiT 0664: Roy Dietsch - And Then we Talk Best Brake Pads We subscribed (as you should) to Roy Dietsch's YouTube a few months ago and when his recent episode went into his new favorite brake pads (replacing our team favorite the ST-43's), we knew we had to bring him on. Nothing seems to get racers more revved up online than the best brake pads. So …
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DwD 0663: Fueling for an Endurance Race Weekend - Listener Question
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15:17DwD 0663: Fueling for an Endurance Race Weekend - Listener Question We love our listener questions and for this episode we cover what we recommend for fueling your race car during an endurance racing weekend. This includes fuel containment options in the real world, as well as NJ. We also go into some of the options that may help save your budget e…
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GHiT 0662: Sean Condon - A Listener's Goals for 2025
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1:05:39GHiT 0662: Sean Condon - A Listener's Goals for 2025 Sean Condon was one of our listeners who wrote in after our goals episode and was willing to come on the podcast. We go over his racing history and obviously his plans for the upcoming season. This is the first of what we hope will be an annual tradition. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl…
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DwD 0661: What You Should Be Doing This Offseason
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33:32DwD 0661: What You Should Be Doing This Offseason All race cars have been known to have issues during a race and especially after a full season. We talk about what you should be doing in the offseason to prepare for a great 2025 season.. And if we left anything out, please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com A link to the episode is: ht…
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GHiT 0660: Best Corvette for Racing with Mark Petronis
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1:07:31GHiT 0660: Best Corvette for Racing with Mark Petronis Looking to build a race car from a street car? The best answer for many types of racing may be a Corvette. But which one? What to look for? What to look out for? We get a great run down from Mark Petronis who runs a company that supports improving all corvettes for use on the track and for raci…
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DwD 0657: When to Keep Racing vs When to Park the Car
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21:15DwD 0657: When to Keep Racing vs When to Park the Car All race cars have been known to have issues during a race. We talk about when to drive around the problems (and how) as well as when it may be a better plan to go into the pits. And if we left anything out, please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com A link to the episode is: https:/…
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GHiT 0658: Aric Streeter Knows Racing
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1:13:54GHiT 0658: Aric Streeter Knows Racing We have been long time fans of what Aric Streeter has been doing with racing. We first heard of him from GridLife, possibly from the Slip Angel podcast and since then he has been all over and helping everyone improve in racing, including at the One Lap of America. We had so much to talk about going into the pod…
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DwD 0659: Racing in Slower Cars is GREAT We often hear discussion about racing/driving on track in faster cars. Especially concerning is when the person talking is relatively new to high performance driving and/or racing. Ben and Bill discuss many of the advantages of racing in slower cars. A central point in racing and high performance driving is …
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GHiT 0656: Race Review: NHMS 2024 with Slippery Slope
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55:02GHiT 0656: Race Review: NHMS 2024 with Slippery Slope Our sister team Slippery Slope Racing was able to make it to the 2024 NHMS endurance race with the 24 Hours of Lemons. It was far from an easy event. What happened? Did they recover? How was the 2024 Season as a whole? It is in here. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/SlipperySlope202…
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DwD 0655: Ben Talks Instructing It had been quite a while since Ben had formally instructed on track at an HPDE. As his season ender, Ben was invited to instruct and he did. How did it go? What did his student need and where did they improve? And what car did they have? Its a good one. And if we left anything out, please let us know at GarageHeroes…
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GHiT 0654: Cage Party for Friendsgiving
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1:05:09GHiT 0654: Cage Party for Friendsgiving Having Friendsgiving has become quite the racing tradition since we started racing. This year, we elected to focus primarily on building a cage with a few other smaller racing projects. We had Jeremy and Scott McMichael up for their first ever cage build and we were guided as always by the C&C Racing Factory,…
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DwD 0653: Heel Toe – Part 2 In our first ever two part Dominating with Dawson, we go further into the topic of downshifting and the discussion in the “You Suck at Racing” blog by Ian Korf. If you ever pondered or even argued about downshifting on track, this may be an episode that makes you happy or sad or angry, lol. Base Article: https://yousucka…
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GHiT 0652: Club Spec with Blair Deffenbaugh from the SCCA
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1:34:21GHiT 0652: Club Spec with Blair Deffenbaugh from the SCCA When we first started racing we were looking to build a car that we could race anywhere and everywhere. It did not exist. But now, we are getting closer with the Club Spec series run by the SCCA. Choose which car, make a few minor and easy upgrades and you are at the sharp tip of the field. …
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DwD 0651: Heel Toe – Part 1 We were all fascinated by a recent blog post by friend of the podcast Ian Korf on his “You Suck at Racing” blog that dealt with the efficacy of heel toe downshifting on track. We started off discussing the article and then meandered into a deeper discussion into what heel toe downshifting is and how to do it. I think we …
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GHiT 0650: Sam Smith AND Ross Bentley Help Us Celebrate #650
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1:55:09GHiT 0650: Sam Smith AND Ross Bentley Help Us Celebrate #650 Ross Bentley joins us again to celebrate episode #650. In addition, Sam Smith joins Ross this time. Sam, Ross and (hopefully) future podcast guest Jeff Braun host the amazingly popular podcast called "Its Not The Car" and we were honored to have them both on our podcast. We start off with…
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DwD 0649: Proper Pass Presentation Proper presentation for passing can help in both a race and especially in a HPDE/track day. We discussed why and how. Agree? Disagree? Did we miss something? Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ProperPresentationForPassing We hope you enjoy this epis…
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GHiT 0648: Peter Granberg Peter Granberg joins us this week with Vicki leading the way and Bill calling in from the road to repairing our E46 BMW race car. Peter has been racing and recently focused on competing in GridLife's Club TR time attack series. He has also begun to work with friends of the podcast at Robertson Racing and the coaching and h…
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DwD 0647: Do You Always Use ALL the Track
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12:51DwD 0647: Do You Always Use ALL the Track One of the things that you will often here is that you should use all of the track. While we do not disagree, there are a few situations that we discuss here that may be opportunities to improve your lap time by not using all of the available track. And if we left anything out, please let us know at GarageH…
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DwD 0645: Curbs – Friend or Foe and How to “Use” Them
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22:43DwD 0645: Curbs – Friend or Foe and How to “Use” Them Ben is mildly obsessed with passing and speed on the track. One aspect of the track that we haven’t ever really discussed in detail is the presence of curbs at certain locations around the track, mostly at corner entry, exit and the apex. Some can be friendly, others not so much. We discuss opti…
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GHiT 0646: Gift Ideas for the Racer and Driver
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1:18:46GHiT 0646: Gift Ideas for the Racer and Driver Looking for gift ideas for a driver/racer in your life? We have thoughts and try to avoid the things that we really don't want or won't use. Things that took a little thought and care or at least appear to. We try to save you some time during the hectic season and this year, we even got it our before t…
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GHiT 0644: Data for “Non Data” Drivers with Matt Romanowski
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1:26:42GHiT 0644: Data for “Non Data” Drivers with Matt Romanowski There seems to be two types of drivers (and people): data people and no data people. We have both on our team and we took the opportunity to test this episode with one of our non-data people as a test subject. So, if you are a non-data person or have one you race with, this may be a great …
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DwD 0643: Setting up a Pass What makes Ben’s eyes light up? Talking about passing on track. We make Ben happy by talking abut things to think about when setting up a pass. A special guest drops in towards the end of this one. Live from PittRace. And if we left anything out, please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com A link to the episod…
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GHiT 0642: Our Season Review and 2025 Goals
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1:07:10GHiT 0642: Our Season Review and 2025 Goals With the last race at PittRace with Lucky Dog, our 2024 season is a wrap. How did we do? How many of our goals did we hit? Any? And then we get to what are we looking to accomplish in 2025. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/GoalReview2025 If you would like to help grow high-performance driving…
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DwD 0641: Dealing with Flags and Penalties
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21:52DwD 0641: Dealing with Flags and Penalties Lemons has a unique method of dealing with flags and penalties. We go over a few things to do and many things to avoid. The same can be said for many other racing series, and racing in general. And if we left anything out, please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com A link to the episode is: htt…
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GHiT 0640: Evan McLaren – 2024 Club TR Champion
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2:22:43GHiT 0640: Evan McLaren – 2024 Club TR Champion With the 2024 GridLife season ending a PittRace a few weeks ago, there were two people competing for the top of the podium and it all came down to this weekend. No stress, easy peasy. Well maybe not. We go through the entire season with Evan and as is normal, everything appears easy and he is an overn…
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GHiT 0639 Lena Chin Past to Present and Promising Future We finally met Lena Chin at the GridLife PittRace event a few weeks back. (Thank you Nick) and could not wait to have her on the podcast. In this episode, we cover some of Lena's racing history, how she got involved with GridLife and GLTC, as well as what some of her upcoming plans are for th…
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DwD 0638: Race Review on Dominating with Dawson from PittRace with Lucky Dog
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31:04DwD 0638: Race Review on Dominating with Dawson from PittRace with Lucky Dog We review our first ever race with Ben. And there is hardware involved. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/LDRLHardware If you would like to help grow high-performance driving and racing and maybe even our podcast, lol: You can subscribe to our podcast on the po…
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DwD 0637: Our First Ever LIVE Dominating with Dawson from PittRace with Lucky Dog
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18:15DwD 0637: Our First Ever LIVE Dominating with Dawson from PittRace with Lucky Dog It finally happened, we recorded our first ever in person Dominating with Dawson from PittRace while we were racing with Lucky Dog. It was quite the weekend. Here is our update after our first racing day on Saturday. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/PittR…
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GHiT 0636: Ryan Susca - Upgrades to Your Trailer and RV for Racing (and life)
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1:16:17GHiT 0636: Ryan Susca - Upgrades to Your Trailer and RV for Racing (and life) We catch up with Ryan Susca and interrogate him on what he has done to his trailers and RV's that make them the envy of everyone in the paddock. With the season winding down and winter project season starting locally, this may be the best time to do a little upgrade proje…
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GHiT 0635: PittRace: GridLife Review and Lucky Dog Preview
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39:43GHiT 0635: PittRace: GridLife Review and Lucky Dog Preview Racing schedule for 2024 ends this year with the national championship with GridLife and then the first Lucky Dog race in the northeast. Nick Barbato was/will be with us at both, so we cover a post GridLife and a pre Lucky Dog. Two of our favorite racing series and a time for us to test and…
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GHiT 0634: Tires Age and Feel Like What We had a recent podcast related to tires and maintaining the tires, but upon further review, we did not go into how the tires can degrade and what that can feel like. So we did. What did we miss? A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/TireDeg If you would like to help grow high-performance driving and …
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GHiT 0633: Matt Romanowski on Data 101(+)
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1:22:10GHiT 0633: Matt Romanowski on Data 101(+) A long overdue podcast dealing with data and data interpretation. We are joined by Matt Romanowski and discuss the first few steps in data when driving on track. The focus is on what you can get the maximum benefit from with minimum amount of time, effort, money, and difficulty. This is part one of an almos…
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DwD 0632: What is the Best Racing to Watch on TV/YouTube
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13:24DwD 0632: What is the Best Racing to Watch on TV/YouTube Being racers, many people have asked us what is our favorite forms of racing to watch on TV and/or YouTube. We go into some of our favorites both current and past and then wander into the what are the ones that are driving us crazy and why. There What did we miss? What did we get wrong? Pleas…
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GHiT 0631: Scott McMichael and Bill Drive Pineview Run in an Integra Type S
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1:17:42GHiT 0631: Scott McMichael and Bill Drive Pineview Run in an Integra Type S When Scott asked if we could come to watch a race, we said why don’t you come up and we can go race ourselves. An easy ask for a friend who is one of the webmasters of the Unofficial 24 Hours of Lemons page in the book of faces. Scott and Bill took to the track in a 2024 Ac…
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DwD 0630: Listener Questions & Comments and How to Shake Off the Rust
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26:12DwD 0630: Listener Questions & Comments and How to Shake Off the Rust We had three listeners write in to comment on a few comments on our how to get fast the fastest/bestest. Then we had two listeners with questions. The first pair were not technically racing related (but always welcomed) and the last one was on how to shake off the rust after bein…
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GHiT 0629: Nick Pon Returns from the 24 Hours of Lemons
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1:20:27GHiT 0629: Nick Pon Returns from the 24 Hours of Lemons We always love catching up with Nick Pon from the 24 Hours of Lemons and get a few stories from long ago and a bit of a peek behind the wizard’s curtain. Nick was kind enough to come on and we caught up with him on what is going on and how the 2025 season has been to this point. A link to the …
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DwD 0628: What You Can/Should Feel When On Track
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21:46DwD 0628: What You Can/Should Feel When On Track We realized recently that we haven't ever really gone into some of the details of what you can (and should) feel when driving at the limit on the track. We even take a shot at describing the feeling, what it means, and the potential set of responses that you may need to do or be aware of. No doubt th…
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GHiT 0627: Talking Tires with Samir Abid from the Your Data Driven podcast
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1:10:52GHiT 0627: Talking Tires with Samir Abid from the Your Data Driven podcast We catch back up with Samir Abid from Your Data Driven to try to dig into the key determinate in improving your driving: the tires. Most of our driving is focused on the use, management, selection, and maintenance of those four black cylinders that contact the surface we are…
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DwD 0626: Starts and Restarts Are “Golden Times” In Racing
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25:54DwD 0626: Starts and Restarts Are “Golden Times” In Racing Listener question: Our long time listener Ben D wrote in this morning: What are the benefits and risks of being a bit more aggressive during starts and restarts of races. Nothing makes Ben happier than listener questions, so please keep them coming. And if we left anything out, please let u…
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GHiT 0625: Peter Krause Returns for His Second Lap
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1:50:01GHiT 0625: Peter Krause Returns for His Second Lap It has been way too long since we had Peter Krause on the podcast. It all started out with a very clear set of questions that we intended to ask Peter. As is customary on a great podcast, we ended up talking about none of them. However, the good news is that we both have an excuse to have Peter bac…
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DwD 0623: What Happens After an Accident With our recent racing incident at Thompson, we realized we haven’t ever really covered what to do after a racing incident. There is much more to discuss and at least another episode or few to come. This one focuses on what to do if there is another car/driver involved and a few stories from our past. Agree?…
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GHiT 0624: TomO's Back - Tom O'Gorman on Endurance Racing and a Whole Bunch more
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1:15:16GHiT 0624: TomO's Back - Tom O'Gorman on Endurance Racing and a Whole Bunch more Tom O'Gorman is back on our podcast as his week just got a bit busier with the recent announcement that he will be returning to IMSA this weekend. In spite of having much better things to do, Tom came on this week to talk about the differences in driving endurance raci…
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GHiT 0622: Why Lemons is the Best Racing Series
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1:33:58GHiT 0622: Why Lemons is the Best Racing Series In one of our podcasts that is sure to have 100% agreement on all the social medias, we discuss why the 24 Hours of Lemons is the best grass roots racing org and why you should be out there. On this week's podcast we are joined by Ian and Mario Korf. Each has a blog that will help your racing and are …
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DwD 0621: How to Get Fast the Fastest Listener question: We were asked a very good question: How can I get fastest the fastest. We talk about several ways that will accelerate your driving progression and increase your overall speed on track and decrease your lap time. We also go into whether the fastest is the bestest. And if we left anything out,…
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GHiT 0620: Theming HARD with Eric Kritzler
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1:12:21GHiT 0620: Theming HARD with Eric Kritzler One of the best aspects of racing with Lemons is theming the car and the weekend. We invited Eric Kritzler from the Three Pedal Mafia to come on a discuss themes. What to do. What not to do. How to make it better and better. Who knows, if you listen to this one, you might be able to win the $1,000 for Hall…
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DwD 0619: In Class passing vs Out of Class Passing
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22:35DwD 0619: In Class passing vs Out of Class Passing We take a bit of a deeper dive into the various aspects of passing in multi class racing. Often this can be a big deal, especially in sprint racing. We have thoughts. Agree? Disagree? Did we miss something? Please let us know at GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com A link to the episode is: https://tin…
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