Driver Education

Ross Bentley Returns for Episode 350

GHIT 0350: Ross Bentley Returns to Help Us Celebrate Episode 350

Ross Bentley has raced in Indy cars, literally written THE book on auto racing, his Ultimate Speed Secrets and associated books. Ross is the preeminent racing coach for both professional and amateur racing drivers around the world. On every celebration episode since number 100, Ross has agreed to come on to celebrate the “In Training” aspect of our team and podcast. For this episode 350, we had Vicki, Jennifer, Tim, Reese, and Bill asking the questions. Ross not only answered but helped each of us towards an even better and more personal understanding of each. As always, we cannot wait to see Ross again and talk all things driving and racing.

As always, if you have any questions for Ross, please send them in to our email. [email protected] and we will cover them with Ross as long as he still hasn’t blocked our email address, lol.

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, that we would appreciate that very much. Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would appreciate it.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS If you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with you video, Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are amid installing the system in two of our cars. If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, please use our discount code “GHIT” for a 10% discount during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Jeremy, Alan, and Bill

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

Highlights for this episode include:

1) We start off with a simple one, how to improve when your current limit is self-imposed by your natural tendency towards self-preservation and what can be helpful in pushing through this ever so common barrier.

2) When should an instructor move from an instructing role to a coaching role with a student or client.

3) What to look at when looking at your data and video as your driving skill improves. (and overthinking it like Reese).

4) Advice to break through a plateau.

5) What to look at when reviewing your in-car video at a track.

6) The difference between being Smooth vs being Fast and Smooth

7) Using anticipation vs reaction as well as the subtle differences between having an expectation versus anticipation.

8) Some ideas on how to help a student who is lacking confidence or has had a recent bad experience on track.

9) Vicki is still working on getting an understanding of what the friction circle is and several ways for what to look for and how to interpret it best.

As always, we had some great discussion with Ross on related areas and some unrelated areas.

To follow Ross:

Website: https://speedsecrets.com/

Instagram: @RossBentley

Ross’s “Ask Ross” is at: https://speedsecrets.com/ask-ross/

Ross’s Podcast is a: https://speedsecrets.com/speedsecrets-podcast/ and on virtually all podcast apps

Sim racers: www.SimRacerAcademy.com

GHIT 0350: Ross Bentley Returns to Help Us Celebrate Episode 350

Coasting On Track – Allowed or Not

DwD 0348: Coasting On Track – Allowed or Not

One of the often quoted things that may have first come from Ross Bentley’s “Speed Secrets” book series is that you should never be coasting on track, but should either be on the gas pedal/throttle or on the brake. Ross has been on the podcast several times and we have discussed this aspect of racing with him a few times both on the podcast and at the track. We decided to get into it today and with Ben discuss whether there are any scenarios where “coasting” is acceptable or even allow for improved lap times. If you have time before listening to the episode, please take a moment and think of any areas where you would think coasting can be the best option for a certain area of a track and then listen to what is no doubt the first episode of a multiple part series on this topic.

There was a minor interruption by our cat during the episode, we apologize for the distraction. Lol. We then moved onto ways for Vicki (and you) to gradually work on reducing the amount of coasting on track, especially before and at turn in to a corner.

If you have any thoughts related to “proper” use of coasting or why costing has no place on a race track, please let us know in a podcast review, on our social media, or send us an email at [email protected] and we can share it in an upcoming Dominating With Dawson.

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, that we would appreciate that very much. Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would appreciate it.

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS If you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with you video, Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are during installing the system in two of our cars. If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, please use our discount code “GHIT” for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process.

PS2 Please do not forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, do not 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 invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

DwD 0348: Coasting On Track – Allowed or Not

Jeremy Hall from Monkey House Racing

GHIT 0347: Jeremy Hall from Monkey House Racing

Over the past few years, we had met Jeremy at many events, but it was more in passing. Jeremy usually races with his team called Monkey House Racing, but for the Pittsburgh event he was racing with the Skunk Oil Racing team and our team in a 1999 BMW 3 series, an E36 for all the cool dudes. Unfortunately, the event did not go well with two incidents, one Saturday and another Sunday, both at turn 2 of PittRace. Jeremy was driving for the second event and the car may not be repairable. During the episode, we talk about the event, make several blatant attempts to draft Jeremy and his team onto ours. We think he is weakening. This episode was recorded several weeks ago just after our PittRace endurance race with the 24 Hours of Lemons series.

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.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Jeremy, Alan, and Bill

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

Highlights for this episode include:

1) We talk about the event at PittRace and Jeremy’s history in motorsports and instructing for a wide variety of organizations.

2) Jeremy’s philosophy for endurance racing and how it applies to being a successful team, as well as the difference in racing in the first hours versus the last few.

3) How endurance racing is a team event and how the team involves more than the group you are racing with in the same car.

4) What happened at PittRace when Jeremy was driving and what we all can learn from it.

5) Jeremy’s team plans for the rest of the season. Little did we know what would actually come to fruition.

6) We also go over what it was like for Jeremy at his first Lemons race.

To follow Jeremy, you can go to:

His team is found at:

@MonkeyHouseRacing3 on Instagram or Monkeys House Racing on Face Book

@JeremyHall2 on Instagram

GHIT 0347: Jeremy Hall from Monkey House Racing

Track Selection: The Impact on Learning

DwD 346: Track Selection: The Impact on Learning

On this episode of Dominating with Dawson, we wanted to discuss an aspect of racing education that can often be overlooked – track selection. The typical decision path to getting a racing license or going to an HPDE event or a track day is to find the closest track to you. Ideally, there will be an event that fits within your schedule. This is likely to be what you do as well. However, one factor that is neglected in this methodology is the impact that the track design and layout can have on your learning and progression. There are many tracks that have very little run off room or walls, trees, rocks, etc. Especially if they are very close to the track. This can make a small off track event a potentially very large cost event. It can also affect the comfortability of the driver towards pushing the car. This will then change their personal driving limits during the event.

Track Selection

We talk about a few examples of tracks that are very forgiving. Then we review a few that we have been to that have layouts that are not quite as friendly. This is not to say that it is the tracks “fault” because in the end the responsibility always remains within the driver’s seat. It is their responsibility to maintain control of the car and determine when/if they are going to push towards the limit. We love every single track but wanted to point out something that should be taken into account. This is especially as you are in your middle stages of learning and progressing as a driver. As a bonus, for the exact same price, we include a great story of an early HPDE event in Ben Dawson’s HPDE history.

If you have any favorite tracks to work on your skills or push your limits, please let us know. Also, if we missed a few of the higher consequence tracks or turns, please let us know. This can be in a podcast review or on our social media. You can also send us an email at [email protected] and we can share it in an upcoming Dominating With Dawson.

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 we would appreciate that very much. Even better would be to leave a podcast review. This would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would appreciate it.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS If you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with you video, Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are during installing the system in two of our cars. If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, please use our discount code. By entering “GHIT” at checkout, you will get a 10% discount code during the checkout process.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

DwD 346: Track Selection: The Impact on Learning

Bill Goes to Comp School

GHIT 0345: Race Recap: Bill Goes to Comp School

Our first team member is trying to get his racing license at Gingerman with NASA Great Lakes. This is his third weekend in a row and boy does it show. Also, the hazards of prepping a car for a race weekend with a post-race hangover/zombie mechanic. Bill also was racing with Glenn and Tim in his first ever NASA TREC race at Gingerman. All race weekends are great fun but sometimes things just don’t go your way. What are the stories from this weekend? Does anything go correctly for Bill at the event? How did Bill’s helmet grow? Could Bill have survived without the help of Tim and Reese? Tune in to find out.

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.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Jeremy, Alan, and Bill

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

GHIT 0345: Race Recap: Bill Goes to Comp School

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