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Garage Heroes In Training
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.
Episodes
- Garage Heroes In Training
GHIT 0252: Tom Suddard from Grassroots Motorsports Magazine
Tom Suddard is the Director of Marketing and Digital Assets at GRM. Tom's first visit to our podcast was with zero notice and was at the invitation of Nine…
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DwD 0251: ABS and Other Driver Aides on Track
In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we discuss when your track car has an antilock braking system. We also discuss the other driver aides like stability…
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GHIT 0250: Ross Bentley Coaches Our Team
Did you ever wonder what a driving coach does for their driver? We were always curious. Ross Bentley was kind enough to show us the start of the process. Ross…
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DwD 0249: Fast Hands vs Slow Hands
In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we discuss the debate between fast hands and slow hands. The natural tendency of each driver varies, often by how they…
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GHIT 0248: The HPDE Junkie Himself Dave Peters
Dave Peters started the HPDE Junkie website to help everyone to find a local HPDE track day by compiling every HPDE event across the United States at every…
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DwD 0247: We finally answer what is Lift Off Oversteer
On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we are finally able to discuss what lift off oversteer is thanks to a recent article that Bill found on the internet…
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GHIT 0246: Our Autobahn Country Club HPDE 2021
GHIT 0246: Our Autobahn Country Club HPDE 2021 Vicki and Bill attended the recent NASA Great Lakes HPDE at the Autobahn Country Club. It was the first time…
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DwD 0245: Throttle Control and On Track Driving
In this Dominating with Dawson episode, we go over how to apply the throttle on a track, what our default habits are and the various reasons for deviating the…
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GHIT 0244: The Hosts of the 91 Octane Podcast - Randy and Jon
The 91 Octane podcast is hosted by our two guests, Randy and Jon. The podcast focuses on car news and car culture, as well as their personal car passion…
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DwD 0243: The If - Then Game Courtesy of Ross Bentley - On Braking
In this Dominating with Dawson episode, we use a recent article by podcast friend Ross Bentley for this first installment of the If-Then Game. On this weeks…
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GHIT 0242: EveryDay Driver's Todd Deeken and Paul Schmucker
Everyday Driver started as one of the early YouTube channels in 2007 and again they started an early podcast in 2014 that Bill first discovered in late August…
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GHIT 0241: Our Garage Weekend with Alex Levinson
Alex Levinson has a ton or racing and wrenching experience, especially with Miatas of all vintages. So when he "volunteered" to come over for a work weekend…
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DwD 0240: Driving Plateaus and How to Break Through Them
In this Dominating with Dawson episode, Ben goes over his personal plateau story and what it means to be stuck at a driving plateau. To this point, our team…
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GHIT 0239: Jaime Garcia from the Race FF Pod
Jaime Garcia started the Race FF Podcast to share with everyone his racing and building progress and to help everyone get started in racing by showing them…
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GHIT 0238: Our Upcoming Ladies HPDE Event with the Shifting Points podcast - A True Good, Bad, and the Ugly
It all started with a great idea, let's go to an HPDE event with the hosts of the Shifting Points podcast. Audra had raced with us at the Thompson race in…
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DwD 0237: Oppo Luck AKA Counter Steer
On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we play our jeopardy jargon game with Ben and go into the topic of (Bill lost his place) oppo lock or counter steer…
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GHIT 0236: Tim Fokine - Pilot/Racer, Instructor and Racing Instructor
Tim Fokine is a commercial pilot and also involved with the training of pilots, as such it was no surprise that he is involved with the training of drivers and…
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GHIT 0235: GHiT Garage, Podcast, and Team Update
The Garage Heroes In Training team has had quite a summer on the track so far and with our racing season beginning to wind down, but far from done on the…
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DwD 0234: Jargon 101: Body Roll - No, not a Jelly Roll
On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go over jargon again and cover what body roll is, how it affects your car, and how it can help and hurt you on…
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GHIT 0233: Ken Hill on Driving and Riding
Ken Hill is an accomplished motorcycle racer and sought after coach. Ken was kind enough to join us for a great discussion on track driving and riding. While…
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GHIT 0232: Breaking News With Eric Rood - On the Saving Saturn Protest and Other Lemons Rally News
GHIT 0237: Breaking News With Eric Rood - On the Saving Saturn Protest and Other Lemons Rally News As part of our journalistic responsibility, we caught up…
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DwD 0231: Breaking Down A Turn - One Approach
DwD 0231: Breaking Down A Turn - One Approach On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go over a way that (hopefully future guest) Ken Hill breaks down a…
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GHIT 0230: Tom O'Gorman AKA TomO from TOMO Racing and ASM
Tom O'Gorman is currently racing the Grid Life GLTC series with ASM and has competed and won at some of the highest levels as a professional driver for several…
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WOOT 0229: The Suicide Squad and Comparing the MCU and DCEU
WOOT Stands for Way Off Our (normal) Topic so this is NOT a driving or racing episode What began as a simple review of James Gunn's new movie The Suicide Squad…
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DwD 0228: Why Race Cars Don't have Airbags or Steering Wheel Locks
On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go over why most of our racing series require the steering wheel lock to be removed from the vehicle and why…
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GHIT 0227: Our Race Review of the Thompson 2021 - Part Deux
We finally have the whole El Jeffe team together to discuss our all ladies piloted team. Elizabeth and Audra joined Jennifer and Vicki to talk about the race…
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DwD 0226: Adapting a Car to the Driver or the Driver to the Car
On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we discuss the mutual ideas of adapting a car to a driver and adapting your driving to the car. Both of these are keys…
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GHIT 0225: Samir Abid from Your Data Driven
Samir Abid has been a vehicle dynamics engineer for road and racing car suspensions for over ten years. He then created a sports engineering business to help…
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GHIT 0224: Our Race Review of Thompson 2021 - Part 1
Our ladies team came to Thompson and even though the entire prep week blew up in our face, the weekend as a whole went fantastically. Vicki and Jen go over…
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DwD 0223: Tossing a Car Into a Turn - Jargon 101
On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we cover the new to Jennifer term of tossing a car into a turn. While it seems to be losing popularity, we have heard…
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GHIT 0222: Ryan Power - Life as a New Racing Driver
Ryan Power recently graduated from comp school with his racing license and competes in wheel to wheel sprint races in his 2019 ND2 Miata. Bill had met Ryan and…
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GHIT 0221 Our All Female 24 Hours of Lemons Racing Team for Thompson 2021
We are planning for our first ever All Ladies 24 Hours of Lemons racing entry at the upcoming Thompson event. Vicki and Jennifer will be racing in the 2003…
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DwD 0220: Jargon 101: What is a Log Book and What Does It Entail
On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go into what is meant by log booking or having a race car that is log booked. It is really not terribly complicated…
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GHIT 0218: Scott Robertson from the Track Walking podcast (Part 2 of Our GLTC Series)
GHIT 0218: Scott Robertson from the Track Walking podcast (Part 2 of Our GLTC Series) For this episode, Scott Robertson reviews a variety of topics including…
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GHIT 0218: Our 2021 PittRace HPDE with NASA Great Lakes
Our season highlight is the NASA Great Lakes HPDE event at PittRace and this year was no exception. Our team attendees consisted of Jennifer, Vicki, and Liam…
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DwD 0217: Bedding Brakes
In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go into what is meant by "bedding of brakes" and several ways that it can be done. Thank you to our listener A…
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GHIT 0216: GHIT Host/Driver - Alan - Original Introduction
As a bonus, here is Alan's original introduction from all the way back on Episode Number 2. We hope you enjoy getting to know us better and learning where we…
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GHIT 0215: GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions - Alan
It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we'd update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our…
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GHIT 0214: GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions - Bill
It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we would update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of…
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GHIT 0213: Tiffany Kelly and Justin Kelly from Team Kelly Racing
We have been following the Grid Life series, especially their GLTC series for the last few years and since our schedules don't align this year, we thought we…
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WOOT 0212: Our Thoughts on Loki, Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision
It has been several months since we did a WOOT episode where we go Way Off Our Topic of racing and go into another are of our lives, our fandom of virtually…
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GHIT 0211: GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions - Jennifer
It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we'd update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our…
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GHIT 0210: GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions - Vicki
It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we'd update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our…
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GHIT 0209 Introduction to Aero with Nine Lives Racing's Johnny Cichowski
Will aerodynamics help your racing car? We begin to explore the field of aerodynamics with Johnny Cichowski from Nine Lives Racing on this episode. As an…
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GHIT 0208: PGR Racing - Racing In an EV in the One Lap of America
"Tony Stark" was the obvious lead in to this episode with PGR Racing and their EV racing car that recently competed in the 2021 One Lap of America. On this…
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GHIT 0207: Our race at NJMP - June 2021
We are all suffering from a serious sleep deprived, post-race weekend hangover, and we are all calling in from across the US with varying internet speed and…
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GHIT 0206: Budget Endurance Racing in Australia
Budget endurance auto racing is a worldwide passion and Motor Events Racing is leading the way across Australia and looking to grow the sport and share high…
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GHIT 0205: Our HPDE at Mid Ohio - Lap 2 for 2021 - With NASA Great Lakes
We went back to Mid Ohio for a second lap in 2021 with Vicki, Jennifer, and Bill attending the May NASA Great Lakes event. It started out as a wet track and at…
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GHIT 0204: Peter Hopelain from the Technik Podcast about Racing and the 25 Hours of Thunderhill
Our second ever non-PG podcast, but it was so worth it. Peter Hopelain joins us to discuss Bill's bucket list goal of racing in the Thunderhill 25 endurance…
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GHIT 0203: HPDE at NJMP Lightning with NASA North East
We review our latest high performance driving education (HPDE) event at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) in Millville, New Jersey. We had four drivers at the…
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GHIT 0202: Andrews Rains Returns to Discuss the Second Generation of Apex Pro
Andrew Rains returned to discuss the new second generation Apex Pro and the new release of the App. This episode was recorded a few weeks ago, but we go into…
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GHIT 0201: Shawn Sampson from Sampson Racing Communications
Shawn Sampson of Sampson Racing Communications essentially started the use of in-car radio system use for amateur racing about 30 years ago. Since then, he has…
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GHIT 0200: Ross Bentley Returns to Celebrate Our 200th Episode
Ross Bentley was kind enough to return for a third time that turned out to be his fourth appearance thanks to the mysteries of podcast recording and his recent…
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GHIT 0199: Eric Kaul and Fred Fox from the Whiskey Tango Fox Kaul Racing Team
We had been planning to have Eric on the podcast for several months but couldn't wait any more after he went to his first wheel to wheel event a few weeks ago…
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GHIT 0198: Ross Bentley on his recent One Lap of America Event
Ross Bentley returns to the podcast to review the 2021 One Lap of America event that finished last week. This was Ross's first One Lap and he seemed to have a…
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GHIT 0197: The Nittany Lemons Formula SAE Team
We met the Nittany Lemons at our recent 24 Hours of Lemons race at PittRace. Their team includes Eric Junker, who gets blamed for any electronics and…
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GHIT 0196: Our First HPDE at Mid Ohio with NASA Great Lakes
Jennifer takes the lead for this episode as we discuss the recent HPDE at Mid Ohio with the NASA Great Lakes group that Bill and Vicki attended as an early…
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GHIT 0195: Elizabeth Jolly
We initially met Elizabeth Jolly at our second ever race at the 2018 24 Hours of Lemons race in Thompson CT. We then listened to her on the first few Shifting…
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GHIT 0194: PittRace 2021 Post Race Review
This is our Post Race hangover Episode Notes. We will replace later with a normal review when coherent, likely later this week. In this episode, we go over how…
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GHIT 0193: The Semi Sentient Centenarians Racing Team
The Semi Sentient Centenarians are a relatively new endurance racing team that are in the midst of an engine swap for their 1996 front wheel drive Buick…