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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
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GHiT 0543: Spec3 Racing with Taylor Johnson
GHiT 0543: Spec3 Racing with Taylor Johnson We love talking all thing racing and about as many series as we can. Today, we talked with Taylor Johnson about the…
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GHiT 0542: Ben Marouski on Racing Mini Cooper's and FCP Euro
GHiT 0542: Ben Marouski on Racing Mini Cooper's and FCP Euro Ben Marouski races his Mini Cooper in Grid Life's GLTC series and is the Director of Creative…
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DwD 0541: Revving out the Engine: What it is, Why, and Why Not
DwD 0541: Revving out the Engine: What it is, Why, and Why Not On this DwD, we go into what it means to rev out an engine. We also go into the reasons why you…
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GHiT 0540: Lara Vernon Returns with Tons of Exciting News
GHiT 0540: Lara Vernon Returns with Tons of Exciting News It has been a while since we had Lara Vernon on the podcast. Since our last episode, she has been…
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DwD 0539: Passing: On the Inside vs On The Outside
DwD 0539: Passing: On the Inside vs On The Outside One a racing driver we know has a favorite aspect of racing. His name is Ben and he is our resident expert…
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GHiT 0538: Mechanical "Saves" or What to Do When Things Go Sideways
GHiT 0538: Mechanical "Saves" or What to Do When Things Go Sideways How many times when you are working on a car have thing gone as planned? One of the things…
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DwD 0537: Jargon 101: What is Car Handling and What We Prefer
DwD 0537: Jargon 101: What is Car Handling and What We Prefer We realized that we talk a lot about the handling of a car and have never really defined it. So…
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GHiT 0536: Adam Jabaay – Discusses GridLife 2023 and 2024
GHiT 0536: Adam Jabaay – Discusses GridLife 2023 and 2024 Adam Jabaay returns to talk about what a great year 2023 was for the GridLife season and all the…
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GHiT 0535: Goals: 2023 Review and 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come
GHiT 0535: Goals: 2023 Review and 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come In this episode, we talk with Nick Fontana and Armin Mejia about the Northeast GT Racing…
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DwD 0534: Maintaining Your Tires in Amateur Endurance Racing
DwD 0534: Maintaining Your Tires in Amateur Endurance Racing Anyone who watches Formula 1 hears all about the importance of maintaining the tires during the…
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DwD 0533: Rubbin's Racin' – Welcome to Ben's Soapbox
DwD 0533: Rubbin's Racin' – Welcome to Ben's Soapbox In this week's Dominating with Dawson, we go into the old saying that rubbin's racing, and out thoughts on…
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GHiT 0532: Goals: 2023 Review and 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come
GHiT 0532: Goals: 2023 Review and 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come Pre-Podcast Question: How was YOUR 2022 season? In this episode, we talk about how our team…
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DwD 0531: Options to Balance Risk vs Lap Time
DwD 0531: Options to Balance Risk vs Lap Time When on track, there is always a certain degree of risk. During this episode, we cover some of the aspects where…
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GHiT 0530: Garage Update - Cage Party and Replacing an Engine
GHiT 0530: Garage Update - Cage Party and Replacing an Engine It was a very productive series of weeks at the GHiT Garage. During this episode, we go over our…
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DwD 0529: Burnout – How to Know and How to Avoid
DwD 0529: Burnout – How to Know and How to Avoid We start with two different definitions of burnout that are related to racing. We then focus on what happens…
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GHiT 0528: Club Spec Racing with Heyward Wagner for the SCCA
GHiT 0528: Club Spec Racing with Heyward Wagner for the SCCA When we first started, we were looking for one car to race in every endurance racing series…
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DwD 0527: Breaking Plateaus or Getting Out of a Rut
DwD 0527: Breaking Plateaus or Getting Out of a Rut As a high performance driver or a racing driver, many drivers will reach a point in their progression where…
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GHiT 0526: Dion von Moltke – Author of "Send It – The Art and Science of Racing Cars"
GHiT 0526: Dion von Moltke – Author of "Send It – The Art and Science of Racing Cars" Dion von Moltke has been a professional racing driver and is created and…
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GHiT 0525: Zach Caldwell Returns and We Discuss the Upcoming Vannonball 2024 – Once Wasn't Enough?
GHiT 0525: Zach Caldwell Returns and We Discuss the Upcoming Vannonball 2024 – Once Wasn't Enough? or how a $500 race van does 50,000 miles of racing When last…
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DwD 0524: Autocross v Track – Differences and Similarities
DwD 0524: Autocross v Track – Differences and Similarities We take advantage of Audra and her vast experience at autocrossing to discuss where autocross can…
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GHIT 0523: Our 2024 Gift Ideas for the Driver/Racers and Mechanics in Your Life
GHIT 0523: Our 2024 Gift Ideas for the Driver/Racers and Mechanics in Your Life Here are some of our newer ideas for the gifts for the driver, racer, and…
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GHiT 0522: Gary McCormick – Second Lap (or Few) in our B Spec Fit
GHiT 0522: Gary McCormick – Second Lap (or Few) in our B Spec Fit Gary McCormick flew in for our surprise Vicki weekend at NJMP Lightning and explored his…
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DwD 0521: Race Starts – Standing and Rolling Starts
DwD 0521: Race Starts – Standing and Rolling Starts Ben is all about saving time and passing our fellow drivers and one of the key areas where this can be…
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GHiT 0520: Brad Lee – First HPDE - Finally
GHiT 0520: Brad Lee – First HPDE - Finally Brad Lee has been with our team for about 5 years but it had never quite worked out to get him on the track…
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GHiT 0519: Vicki's Surprise Weekend at the NJMP Lightning HPDE with NASA Northeast
GHiT 0519: Vicki's Surprise Weekend at the NJMP Lightning HPDE with NASA Northeast Another podcast example that the post race weekend hangover is real, but we…
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DwD 0518: Planning for an Upcoming HPDE – For Vicki
DwD 0518: Planning for an Upcoming HPDE – For Vicki We have a huge event planned for our upcoming HPDE event at NJMP Lightning (Much more on that in an…
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GHiT 0516: Race Recap – NHMS 2023 with the 24 Hours of Lemons
GHiT 0516: Race Recap – NHMS 2023 with the 24 Hours of Lemons We review our busy race weekend and prepping for next weekend's HPDE at NJMP. (MUCH more to come…
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DwD 0517: Pace Laps/Reference Laps
DwD 0517: Pace Laps/Reference Laps Bill continues to ask questions no one understands, but we do get to the topic, eventually. We discuss the use of reference…
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DwD 0515: Driver Feel: Seat vs Hands (plus)
DwD 0515: Driver Feel: Seat vs Hands (plus) This one starts off looking like we have nothing to talk about, but eventually Bill asks a question that eventually…
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GHiT 0514: NASA TREC Racing with Tim Fokine – Plus a Whole Lot More
GHiT 0514: NASA TREC Racing with Tim Fokine – Plus a Whole Lot More Tim Fokine is the co-Chair of the NASA Great Lakes TREC racing series as well as an…
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DwD 0513: Driver's Meeting
DwD 0513: Driver's Meeting We have not talked enough about driver's meetings to this point. We try to remedy this on this week's Dominating with Dawson. We…
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GHiT 0512: Rich Hromin – 2023 SCCA National B Spec Champion
GHiT 0512: Rich Hromin – 2023 SCCA National B Spec Champion Rich Hromin recently won the SCCA national championship at VIR. In this episode we learn about his…
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DwD 0511: Post Race Hangover
DwD 0511: Post Race Hangover One of the things that may surprise you about racing occurs after a great race weekend. Many of us are hit with a post race…
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GHiT 0510: Chris Losiniecki
GHiT 0510: Chris Losiniecki Chris Losiniecki is a racer and instructor that we met several years ago at a NASA Great Lakes event. She is also currently the…
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GHiT 0508: Judge Series with Mental Ward
GHiT 0508: Judge Series with Mental Ward We have had Mental on several times before and if we can get him to commit podultery with us again, we take advantage…
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DwD 509: Gauges for your Race Car and How to Use Them
DwD 509: Gauges for your Race Car and How to Use Them We discuss our thoughts related to the priority of the gauges in a race car. We differ in the relative…
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DwD 0507: Racing the Track vs Racing the Other Cars
DwD 0507: Racing the Track vs Racing the Other Cars One of the issues that several of our teams' drivers have had, especially when they first started was…
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GHiT 0506: Eric Dewey DeWitt
GHiT 0506: Eric Dewey DeWitt We met Dewey for the first time at last year's GridLife event at NJMP and then again this year where he won the Street Mod class…
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GHiT 0505: Fall Failage Rally Review 2023
GHiT 0505: Fall Failage Rally Review 2023 We talk again with Rally Master Jeff about the Fall Failage rally. This time, Vicki entered the rally with Jennifer…
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DwD 0504: The Mythology of Late Apex and Braking in a Straight Line
DwD 0504: The Mythology of Late Apex and Braking in a Straight Line In this episode of Dominating with Dawson, we go over the often heard mantra of always use…
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GHiT 0503: Glenn Robinson
GHiT 0503: Glenn Robinson We first met Glenn Robinson at Mid-Ohio and then he and Bill worked their way up to comp school and instructor school. In spite of…
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GHiT 0502: Fail Failage Rally 2023 – Pre-Rally Update
GHiT 0502: Fail Failage Rally 2023 – Pre-Rally Update The ladies are preparing for another rally in two cars. Vicki, Jennifer, and their mom will be running in…
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DwD 0501: Pit Stops Tips
DwD 0501: Pit Stops Tips As we all know, Ben is obsessed with saving time on track. Equally important though is the ability to save time in the pits. We talk…
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GHiT 0500: Ross Bentley Takes Over Episode 500
GHiT 0500: Ross Bentley Takes Over Episode 500 Ross Bentley takes over our podcast to commemorate our 500th episode. If you miss the classic Speed Secrets…
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GHiT 0499: The Rust Belt Ramble Rally Wrap Up
GHiT 0499: The Rust Belt Ramble Rally Wrap Up Rally Master Jeff Stobbs joins us again to review the recent Lemons rally that toured the central US. As always…
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DwD 0498: What Spares to Bring the Track
DwD 0498: What Spares to Bring the Track Jeremy is stuck in the middle of a family squabble about what spares to bring to the track. Vicki is worried about…
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GHiT 0497: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Corey Dickman
GHiT 0497: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Corey Dickman The Lemons Judge series continues with Judge Corey. He is a racer and a judge and is trying to finish his…
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DwD 0496: Downshifting in a Turn
DwD 0496: Downshifting in a Turn One of the issues that several of our teams' drivers have had is the proper process and timing when downshifting in a manual…
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GHiT 0495: Team Update - Primary Racing Cars in PA
GHiT 0495: Team Update - Primary Racing Cars in PA We go back to what our podcast started with and provide an update to what cars we have and what our plans…
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DwD 0494: Seat Fitment and Adjustment
DwD 0494: Seat Fitment and Adjustment In this episode of Dominating with Dawson, we go over the importance of properly installing and selecting a racing seat…
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GHiT 0493: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Craig Ledbetter
GHiT 0493: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Craig Ledbetter The Lemons Judge series continues with Judge Craiggers. He is a racer and a judge and is in need of…
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GHiT 0492: Fire Laps New AI Data Coach
GHiT 0492: Fire Laps New AI Data Coach David and Daniel from Fire Laps returned for a second lap to discuss the recent rollout of their AI coaching and data…
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DwD 0491: The Best Track Car
DwD 0491: The Best Track Car We were recently asked what car we would recommend learning to drive on a track. In this episode, we go into some of the primary…
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GHiT 0490: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Shelly McKee
GHiT 0490: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Shelly McKee The Lemons Judge series continues with Judge Shelly. She is a racer and a judge and is also involved with…
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GHiT 0489: Race Recap: Thompson 2023 with the 24 Hours of Lemons
GHiT 0489: Race Recap: Thompson 2023 with the 24 Hours of Lemons Our team had two cars that raced at the recent 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race at Thompson…
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DwD 0488: Lap Times at The Track
DwD 0488: Lap Times at The Track We were recently asked how to tell how a teams' car was doing in the race and how to tell what the lap times were. Luckily…
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GHiT 0487: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Sajeev Mehta
GHiT 0487: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Sajeev Mehta Part 5 of still growing in our Lemons Judge Series with Sajeev Mehta. Sajeev is a long time Lemons Judge…
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GHiT 0487: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Sajeev Mehta
GHiT 0487: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Sajeev Mehta Part 5 of still growing in our Lemons Judge Series with Sajeev Mehta. Sajeev is a long time Lemons Judge…
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DwD 0486: Minimizing Distance vs Maximizing a Turn's Min Speed
DwD 0486: Minimizing Distance vs Maximizing a Turn's Min Speed In Autocross, it is often correct to minimize distance to improve your time. On track, it is a…
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GHiT 0485: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Chris Overzet
GHiT 0485: Lemons Judge Series – Judge Chris Overzet Part 4 of still growing in our Lemons Judge Series with Chris Overzet. Chris goes way back to original…