Driver Education

Shift Timing: When and Why

DwD 0306: Racing 101: When and Why to Shift Your Car On Track

On the latest issue of Dominating with Dawson, we talk about some of the details of both when and why to shift your transmission on track. We start off with a bit of wandering, but eventually work our way towards a great discussion on shift timing. This will undoubtedly be the first of several episodes on the topic of shift timing.

Quick Summary: Ben Dominates. Alex Denominates (but actually has a question related to this topic, alert the press). Vicki starts off answering a totally different question. Bill tries to herd several cats. Sounds like a normal episode.

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 0306: Racing 101: When and Why to Shift Your Car On Track

The Importance of Knowing the Top 10’ish Cars In an Endurance Race

DwD 0301: the Importance of Knowing the Top 10’ish Cars In an Endurance Race

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we talk about why it is important to know the top ten or so cars in an endurance race. There are plenty of reasons to know the top 10’ish cars, especially if you are one of the top ten, but it is also important if you are not. Also, the strategic implications of being outside the overall top ten, but competing for a class win in a race with multiple classes. We each have different opinions and strategies and preferences to deal with this aspect of racing. And we do some serious cat herding during this episode and only wandered a few thousand miles off topic.

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 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, 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!

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 0301: the Importance of Knowing the Top 10’ish Cars In an Endurance Race

Episode 300 – Ross Bentley Returns

to Celebrate Episode 300

GHIT 300: Ross Bentley Returns to Celebrate Episode 300

Ross Bentley returns to celebrate our episode 300 with us. Ross is a world renowned racing coach and has competed at the highest levels of racing, including Indy cars and nearly every endurance racing event of note. During this episode, we try to cover a variety of racing related questions and topics, as well as reporting back to Ross how impactful the coaching he provided to Vicki and Jennifer last time he was on. As always, Ross is one of our (can’t wait and) can’t miss episodes.

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 would be greatly appreciated. Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would greatly appreciate it.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very 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 in the midst of 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 of our listeners during the checkout process.

PS2

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 for this episode include:

1) We start off with a few listener submitted questions. We always welcome your questions. The best way to send them in is on our email at [email protected] or via our social media on Instagram @GarageHeroesInTraining.

2) From Mario: We are all getting older, and I wonder how age has crept up on him. Ask him to rate his speed currently vs how fast he was at his peak. Is he getting slower with age? What is he doing smarter now, that results in a better lap time, and that he’d wished he’d learned earlier? Are there things he was doing at a young age that he can’t do as well now?

3) Ian asked: about his Lotus Elan and why he likes it so much.

4) From Chris: What were the few of the biggest changes that you have had since writing your first speed secrets? Was anything “wrong”?

5) Adam asked for some drills to break a plateau (same lap times no matter what I try)? What should I look to do to get my times lower?

6) From Reed: Breaking mental barriers to carry more speed

7) A shy adult road racer: What order is best to read your books? As they were released or something else?

8) Listener to be “Elon”: Have you or your drivers driven an EV race car? Thoughts?

9) We review our driving and our coaching report back and how Ross has helped each of us from his prior episodes. Things such as: What were the biggest impacts felt (primarily by Jennifer and Vicki) on track and also in their daily driving.

10) Braking and timing of braking and down shifting within a turn, especially when threshold braking. Ross provides some tips and strategies to help with this.

11) We then move to a few Dominating with Dawson questions that we don’t feel that we have addressed well enough so we take this opportunity to gain some additional perspective from Ross and Ben.

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 300: Ross Bentley Returns to Celebrate Episode 300

James Candelaria

GHiT 0299: James Candelaria from Candelaria Racing Products (makers of the Sentinel System) and Hagerty’s The Drive Within with Round 3 Racing

We continue our introduction to Round 3 Racing (R3R) and Hagerty’s “The Drive Within” with another team member James Candelaria. James races with the R3R team in the WRL endurance racing series. Last season James was racing in the #601 Porsche Boxster and this season he will be in their new #609 M4 GT4 BMW. If you watch the series, James was present but his on screen role was slightly diminished a bit as a result of a racing incident which we also discuss during this episode.

In addition, James races in a variety of cars and series, and in his “spare” time he started up Candelaria Racing Products. The lead offering is the Sentinel Streaming System that solves one of our teams issues and allows us to combine the race car data with our in car video and race standings in one simple package. In addition, all of this information is available live through streaming. We are in the midst of installing the system in two of our cars and will cover the installation and use of the Sentinel system in future episodes. If this sounds like something that may help you and your team, James was kind enough to offer a 10% discount code to all of our listeners. Please enter “GHIT” during the checkout process.

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 would be greatly appreciated. Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would greatly appreciate it.

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 for this episode include:

1) What do you do when you find our you are about to have your first child? Well, James goes out and buys a Corvette. We knew we would get along immediately.

2) The story that illustrates what to do on track with a bad “feeling” brake pedal. And also the importance of pre-planning your reactions as a driver ahead of time for as many potential situations as possible.

3) If you want to hear the sound of Vicki’s brain bending, Its here. When James goes into a description of driving a car with aero.

4) A bit more behind the scenes stories of R3R and the Drive Within show.

5) We go into some depth on the Sentinel System. The Sentinel integrates your car’s telemetry data with the current racing results. It also combines this with any in car video and can be streamed live and recorded.

6) Bill and James bond over being robots. And it dawns on Vicki that the data and video she wants may not be exactly what she wants, lol.

7) James has been into Vette’s for a long time, even the super rare 1983 model he had at a young age.

To follow James further:

Candelaria Racing: https://candelaria-racing.com/

Instagram: @CandelariaRacingProducts

The Drive Within: https://www.hagerty.com/media/series/drive-within/

Round Three Racing: https://www.round3racing.com/

GHiT 0299: James Candelaria from Candelaria Racing Products (makers of the Sentinel System) and Hagerty’s The Drive Within with Round 3 Racing

Track Driving – With Nanny’s?

DwD 0297: Track Driving – With Nanny’s or Without

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go into another listener submitted question from Ron Mexico related to driving on track with the car’s driver nanny’s on. First we cover from a high level what a driving nanny is and then we go into our thoughts on driving on track with the nanny’s “assisting” you and when/if there is ever a good time to use the nanny’s.

So what do you do with the driver assistance aides on track? Do you leave them on or do you turn them off? What factors would influence the use of them, like weather and student driving level/experience etc.?

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

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

DwD 0297: Track Driving – With Nanny’s or Without

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