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Jaime Garcia Races Wheel to Wheel

Jaime
Race FF Pod
Jaime Dominating
But its not front wheel drive

GHIT 0262:  Jaime Garcia from the RaceFF podcast returns to Talk about his 1st wheel-to-wheel race and upcoming Endurance Racing Prep

Jaime Garcia returns to discuss his first Honda Challenge H2 race which was his first ever wheel to wheel race and satisfied his lifelong goal.  We also talk through his upcoming preparation for his new 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race.  In Jaime’s last episode he was driving back his car after getting the cage installed so we had to see how his event went.  Now we need to figure out how to get a photo of his (short) cross country exploits during the event.  (Jaimie, please send us a shot or a link to where it is)(Christmas is coming you know, lol). 

We also start discussing some of the differences in racing a front wheel drive car vs a rear wheel drive platform.  Vicki is still going through some PTSD from her last race at Laguna Seca with Lucky Dog Racing League.  We also discuss Jaime’s upcoming preparation project for his endurance race. 

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. This includes the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that would be great. Even better is 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, simply under shows. Then click on the podcast you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review. 

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.  The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

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 episode include:

1)  Jaime discusses his recent H4 Honda Challenge race, how it went and what he can improve.  He also goes into some of the car improvement projects that he has upcoming. the goal is to improve his car’s capability and hopefully improve his competitiveness within class.

2)  We discuss potential things we have learned about towing vehicles to the race track and a story of poor dealer service that led to our switching in tow vehicle (and Bill crossing off our local Ford Dealership, even though he is still eyeing a GT 350R longingly)

3)  Tips we learned about renting car trailers from U-Haul.

4)  We walk through Jaime’s endurance race car plans and provide some tips and things we have learned, most the hard way, lol.

5)  Jaime has an experience with the local carp parts store brake pads from his last endurance race.  We try to appeal to his budget consciousness to upgrade to our brake pad of choice.

6)  Our introduction to the anime show “Initial D”.  Time to do some homework.

7)  We discuss the aspects of theming, tech inspection, and bribing the judges to help make up for experience and potential black flags.

8)  Several tips on racing seat installation and making accommodations for a team of different sizes, heights and lengths.

9)  In the past, we have had three drivers have claustrophobic experiences/panic attacks when getting strapped into the car.  We discuss several things we have found to help if this happens.

10)  Critical spares and parts to bring tot he track with you and how to decide what to bring and what not to bring.  We have a bit of a philosophy for each of our cars that dictates what we bring to an event.

11)  Bunches of little tips and tricks for detailing the last few percent of your car.

12)  We start planning a 2022 meetup and race.  Perhaps a honeymoon race?

GHIT 0262:  Jaime Garcia Returns – Wheel to Wheel

Our Intro to Optimizing Your Tire Pressure

DwD 0253:  Introduction to Optimizing Your Tire Pressure

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we talk through the importance of optimizing the pressure in your tires.  No doubt this is of great importance to the performance of the tire as well as affecting the wear characteristics of the tire.  We go through what you should try to target and several methods that can be used to determine the optimum tire pressure.  Each method is a balance of cost, ease, and accuracy.  There is no doubt we will revisit this topic again, probably more than once.  

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 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!

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 0253:  Introduction to Optimizing Your Tire Pressure

Tom Suddard from GRM

Tom at home
GRM endurance Racing Team

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 Live Racing’s Johnny C on episode #209 when we had our first episode on Aero. 

In spite of this, Tom decided to put up with us again in what we hope will be a long list of bad decisions in the future.  What do you ask of a prolific supplier of articles and videos aimed at helping grass roots racers and drivers improve?  Well, we choose to go into a great article that Tom wrote about “10 Ways to Keep Your Racing Effort Disciplined” which is a great article and will help almost everyone to improve a bit easier and more cheaply.  We also covered a few other areas and will provide a bunch of links at the end of these notes for even more information.  We have a ton more questions for Tom and hope to have him on again, as many times as he will tolerate us.  Tom gave so many great tips during this episode, Bill is still taking notes.

Please subscribe to GRM to learn a ton and support the grassroots racing community.  It is the best money we have spent in racing.

GRM

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. This includes the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, could you 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. 

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

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.  The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

To find even more from Tom, please go to:

1)  Grassroots Motorsports:  https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/ 

2) GRM Youtube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/Grassrootsmotorsports 

Articles we referred to for this episode:

1)  10 Ways to Keep Your Racing Effort Disciplined:  

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/10-lessons-to-keep-your-race-e/162737/page1/

2) How to Wrap Your Race Car:  

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/project-cars/LS-Swapped-2003-Nissan-350z/how-wrap-your-race-car-home-project-350z/

3)  Trimming down Your Racing Car’s Harness:  

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/project-cars/LS-Swapped-2003-Nissan-350z/getting-ready-trim-down-wiring-harness-project-ls-/

GHIT 0252:  Tom Suddard from Grassroots Motorsports Magazine

A Garage Weekend with Alex Levinson

  • Lift in action
  • Swar
  • Lift tutorial

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, we quickly lined up everything we could think of to finish up several projects on each of the team’s 3 Miatas.  However, our best laid plans did not come together as we had hoped.  New car lift?  Worked great and a game changer!  Bribe/food prep was as always on point.  Listen and learn about what can happen on a work weekend, especially early on in your wrenching career.

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. 

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

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.  The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

GHIT 0241: Our Garage Weekend with Alex Levinson

  • Alex Levinson consulting
  • Planning phase

Jaime Garcia from the Race FF Pod

  • Jaime Civic
  • Jamie Garcia

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 that it can be done.  Since we have essentially the same goals, it was natural to have him on the podcast.  As his podcast title indicates, Jaime races a Front engine Front wheel drive in both HPDE, time trials, and wheel to wheel.  His current target is competing in Honda Challenge in southern California.  Further parallels between the podcasts is that his fiancé has recently begun sharing the car and working towards her racing goals.  This episode was recorded live from the road on his recent trip back from having his car caged in Washington.

If you would like to help the 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, under shows and click on the podcast. There you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review. 

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.  The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

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 episode include:

1)  We confirm that both podcasts will be racing very similar 1993 Honda Civic’s next year but Bill doesn’t know as much as he should about ours.  Glad Jaime was here to help us know our own car, lol.

2)  A surprise guest bird flew into his window during the episode, actually our second guest bird.  It must be something to do with Honda Challenge racing that we aren’t familiar with.  We will need to talk to podcast guest and friend EJ2 Track Rat or more details.

3)  Jaime discusses one of the often overlooked benefits of instructing drivers in that it helps the instructor as a driver as well, often in very different ways than when they are driving.

4)  Jaime also discusses his transition from HPDE student, to time trial racer and instructor, to wheel to wheel racer into his upcoming Honda Challenge debut.

5)  We also discuss several ways to minimize the expenses related in getting started, even if you have no car and almost zero money.

6)  Jaime helps Jennifer with potential options for her HPDE and learning to wrench and daily driver car hunting.  Any guesses?  Who knows, maybe Jennifer will actually listen to this episode.  Lol.

GHIT 0239:  Jaime Garcia from the Race FF Pod

A Man's gotta eat
Please feel free to eat up this episode
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