Survive The 25 – Full Update –

2021 Edition

Snapshot

Top 5

Position	Entrant	Podcast	Points
1	Alex L	Listener	55 points
2	Bill	GHiT	37 points
3	Jon	91 Octane	23 points
4	Amanda	Listener	23 points
5	Jeff	E1R	22 points

As of January 13th, 2022

Full Update as of January 2, 2022

Sometimes with a hobby, things can get out of balance. Especially if your hobby is in the least bit competitive and you are a competitive person. This is particularly true of racing drivers. And that is why we are starting the Survive the 25 challenge.

As such, four of the hosts from four of your favorite podcasts have joined together for a 2021 winter challenge.

We have agreed to a contest where hopefully we will all win.

By April 15th, each of us will have

Lost at least 25 pounds (~11.5 kg)
Read at least 5 racing books
Raced in at least 5 karting races or sim racing events for at least 1 hour

We would love it if you would like to join us.

Simply post on Instagram using the hashtag #SurviveThe25 and we will figure out how to get a leaderboard together and maybe some swag from your favorite podcasts.

Survive the 25 Podcast Host Challengers

In the South Jersey corner, we have Jeff Wakeman, one of the hosts of the Everyone Racers podcast

In the SoCal corner we have two podcast hosts.

Joining us from parts unknown, is Jamie, host of the Racer FF podcast.

Also from the SoCal corner, we have Jon who cohosts the NinetyOneOctane podcast.

And from the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, we have one of the hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast.

Who will win?

Who will not win?

Do you have a favorite?

Why aren’t you listening to all of these podcasts?

Please let us know in the comments below.

Last updated: Just started

Competitors	Pounds Lost (1 pt per pound) (2 pt per lb – Sundae Cup)	Books Read (5 pts ea)	Races Completed (5 pts ea)	Total max 75 pt	Winner?
Podcast Hosts AKA Sources of the Swag
Jaime RaceFF Podcast	-3 lb	5 pts 1) Making Sense of Squiggly Lines	10 pts Nov Dec	18	TBD
Jeff Everyone Racers Podcast	-7 lb	5 pts	10 pts Nov Dec	22	TBD
Jon NinetyOne Octane Podcast	-8 lb	10 pts 1) How to Build a Car	5 pt Nov	23	TBD
Vicki Garage Heroes In Training	-1 lb	5 pts 1) Optimum Drive	10 pts Nov Dec	17	TBD
Bill Garage Heroes In Training	-3 lb	15 pts 1) Optimum Drive 2) How to Build a Car 3) Winning is Not Enough	15 pts Nov Dec Jan	37	TBD
Tony Unaccepted Podcast		5 pts	10 pts Nov Dec	15
Listeners Entered
Alex L	-12.5 lb	2.75	15 pts Nov Dec Jan	53	TBD
Amanda T	-4 lb	1) Speed Secrets	10 pts Nov Dec	23	TBD
Dave C	-7 lb		10 pts Nov Dec	17	TBD
Eli V	-4 lb	2		18
Eric K	-4 lb	1		9
Jake	-10 lb		10 pts Nov Dec	20
Justin	-6 lb	1) Race to Win 2) Race Car Engineer	5 pt Nov	21
Patrick C			10 pts Nov Dec	10
Could be YOU

Updated as of: January 13th, 2022

Survive The 25

Survive the 25

Top 5’ish Scoreboard

Current Position	Name	Points Total
1	Alex L	57
2	Bill – GHiT	37
3	Jon – 91 Octane	23
4	Jeff – E1R	22
5	Justin	21
Other	Podcast	Other Podcast Hosts
8	Jaime – Race FF	18
10	Vicki – GHiT	17
12	Tony – Unaccepted	15

	ARE YOU IN?

Scorecard updated December 31, 2021

Our Survive the 25 Podcast Participants

Slip Angle Podcast: New Slip Angle Podcasts are posted every Tuesday and Friday (usually). They cover track days, club racing, autocrossing, and other various driving hobbies. By drivers, for drivers.

RaceFF Podcast: A podcast about road racing in So Cal focusing on FF cars.

Everyone Racers (E1R) Podcast : Everyone Racers is a podcast that focuses on amateur endurance racing from beginner to advanced, as well as the news, tips, and tricks that go along with our hobby. Four friends and often teammates; Chrissy Mittura, Christopher Abbott, Jeff Wakemen and Christian “Mental” Ward discuss current racing trends and news, as well as occasional interviews and guests who are interesting people with different perspectives on racing and car culture. You never know what they’ll discuss each week, but it will be entertaining!

Ninety One Octane Podcast: An automotive enthusiast and a self proclaimed track junkie break down cars, car culture, and everything in between. Randy from Detroit, and Jon from Los Angeles, offer differing and down right wild perspectives that go well past the usual car review dribble you have grown accustomed to.

Garage Heroes In Training Podcast: You are here, so you probably already know, but, we are an amateur endurance auto racing team. We hope to show everyone that they too can participate in performance driving. 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.

DwD Storytime – The One About Fred Lobster

DwD 0271: DwD Storytime – The One About Fred Lobster Trying to Kill Ben and Ann

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we have our second DwD Storytime episode. Here, Ben recounts a recent track day event where he found a peculiarity in the “Fred Lobster” car. This led to a weird issue where the steering and brakes would not respond. If this was a new car, it would likely be a safety nanny programming issue. However, since this car is far from new, the true root cause is still tbd. The story is spectacular and the way that Ben dealt with the issue is something that we all can learn from. You never know when something can break or behave in an unexpected manner on track. Part of growing as a racing driver is being able to deal with an ill behaved car or another car that does something unexpected.

If you would be interested in helping grow our sport of high performance driving and our podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, we would appreciate it. Even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it. That would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on the podcast you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/FredLobster

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS Please don’t forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, don’t forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40. Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order. They are a great system and truly invaluable in safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross etc.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

DwD 0271: DwD Storytime – The One About Fred Lobster Trying to Kill Ben and Ann

Jaime Garcia’s Sonoma Endurance Race Review

GHIT 0270: Jaime Garcia from the Race FF Podcast Reviews their Sonoma Endurance Race

Jaime Garcia from the Race FF podcast returns to review his recent endurance race at Sonoma with the 24 Hours of Lemons. His team prepped their Toyota Corolla for the race for the last several weeks and had a great time at the event. They had a series of good and bad events during the race but ended up bringing home some well earned hardware. Was it a perfect race? Of course not. We aren’t even sure that is possible, but each race you learn a bit more and how to solve a few more problems. The Sonoma race was no exception. Please download and learn what Jaime’s team battled through and learned. They were a great group and really exemplified the true spirit of an endurance racing team. We hope to see them on the track at an upcoming event.

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy. If you go to your podcast library, under shows and click on the podcast you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

Highlights from this Sonoma Endurance Review episode include:

1) How did the prep go for Jaime’s team

2) Jaime learns the joy of actually having to travel to a race track as opposed to his normal local tracks.

3) How did check in, tech inspection, and BS inspection go

4) Why you should listen to the announcements and attend the rookie and drivers meetings.

5) How Saturday go and what did the team have to do after their first racing day.

6) Overall thoughts on the Sonoma track

7) What their team learned and what they are looking to improve.

8) Our traditional Good, Bad, and the Ugly

To follow Jaime and his team, please go to:

Instagram: @raceffpod

His podcast is: Race FF Pod

The teams Vlog is on Kelvin’s YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/user/driftmonsterr

GHIT 0270: Jaime Garcia from the Race FF Podcast Reviews their Sonoma Endurance Race

The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally

Episodes: GHIT 0267: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally

GHIT 0268: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally – Day 2

GHIT 0269: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally – Day 3

Day 1: If you ever wondered about what a Lemons Rally is, this series will cover the daily updates from this years Escape from Moscow rally. This year the rally started with a pre-event kickoff event at the local Circle Drive In theater. The official initial check in was at Montage Mountain ski resort. The end point for the rally is Road Atlanta in Brazleton, Georgia. The route is far from direct and some of these cars may not make it very far. We know of one for sure. We will try to have updates each evening and hope to make you feel like you are part of the event.

Day 2: It is day two of this years Escape from Moscow rally. We interrupt the festivities at a local Korean restaurant for an update from Jeff Stobbs. We then talk with two of the teams on the rally. Todays events have been quite lemony. We go through some of the highlights of the days journey. Next, we see how the teams are coping with the itinerary. We have several teams “succeeding” and gathering a ton of points. We will try to have updates each evening and make you feel like you are part of the event. If you are keeping score at home, you are obviously doing it wrong. As a “bonus” we hear from Randy, and Alex as they are mid journey to return the Saab for further repairs back home.

Day 3: It is day three of this years Escape from Moscow rally. Rally master Jeff Stobbs joins us for today’s update. We then talk to one of the two brothers (Max) from the Great Race team. They are participating in the rally in their ’67 Plymouth Valiant (former) race car. Points are not yet updated to reflect today’s events but who cares anyway? We will try to have a larger update tomorrow evening at the end of the rally at Road Atlanta. We hope to make you feel like you are part of the event.

If you would be interested in helping grow our sport of high performance driving and our podcast:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice. This includes the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating. Even better, a podcast review. We would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on the podcast you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

0267: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally

0268: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally – Day 2

0269: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally – Day 3

2021 Edition

Snapshot

Top 5

Full Update as of January 2, 2022

We would love it if you would like to join us.

Survive the 25 Podcast Host Challengers

Who will win?

Who will not win?

Do you have a favorite?

Why aren’t you listening to all of these podcasts?

Also, any good racing related book suggestions are welcome as well.

Survive the 25

Top 5’ish Scoreboard

Scorecard updated December 31, 2021

DwD 0271: DwD Storytime – The One About Fred Lobster Trying to Kill Ben and Ann

GHIT 0270: Jaime Garcia from the Race FF Podcast Reviews their Sonoma Endurance Race

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

Highlights from this Sonoma Endurance Review episode include:

To follow Jaime and his team, please go to:

Episodes: GHIT 0267: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally

GHIT 0268: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally – Day 2

GHIT 0269: The 2021 Escape from Moscow Lemons Rally – Day 3

If you would be interested in helping grow our sport of high performance driving and our podcast: