GLTC

GHiT 0506: Eric Dewey DeWitt

We met Dewey Dewitt for the first time at last year’s GridLife event at NJMP and then again this year where he won the Street Mod class in Time Attack. We talk about Subarus and Time Attack, two things we haven’t talked about much on the podcast to this point. If you’ve never been at a track and seen Dewey’s post event celebrations, you really need to come to an upcoming event. Dewey is currently leading in GridLife’s Street Mod Time Attack. Also, since we recorded, Dewey has started his own podcast and we can’t wait to subscribe.

In this episode, we talk about:

Some recent changes to Dewey’s racing performance and several aspects that have contributed to the upward trend.
Recent addition of podium sprint to GridLife’s Time Attack
Is Sundae Cup Time Attack?
Ways to successfully race a Subaru
What Dewey has done to his time Attack car
A great and simple discussion of the various classes in GridLife’s Time Attack series
Dewey’s pre-race rituals
Some of Dewey’s cars names and why

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

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PS Are you looking to stream or integrate your telemetry/racing data with video? Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are 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 at https://candelaria-racing.com/

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 from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

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

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

GHiT 0506: Eric Dewey DeWitt

Recap of Grid Life NJMP 2023

GHiT 0482: Recap of GridLife NJMP 2023 and Our First Time Working with a Coach – Miss Jackie

What a great weekend we had at the recent GridLife NJMP 2023. Our team worked with Jackie Andrews as our coach for the Grid Life event at NJMP. Jeremy and Nick were in the advanced HPDE group in their E46 BMW 3-series street’ish cars. Jennifer was in our B Spec Fit in HPDE and Vicki was in HPDE in our new E46 race car but switched to our Honda Fit when we had a mechanical issue. Bill was also in the B Spec Fit and competed in the Sundae Cup series, securing a solid last place.

If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing:

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, YouTube, etc.

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

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

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

GHiT 0482: Recap of Grid Life NJMP 2023

Tiffany and Justin Kelly On Shifter Karts

– Return for a Second Lap

GHiT 0447: Tiffany and Justin Kelly Return for a Second Lap

We catch up with Justin and Tiffany Kelly and learn all about what they have been up to since we last spoke. Their current focus is on shifter karts and instruction. We had never covered shifter karts to this point on the podcast and the performance of a shifter kart almost demands that you grow as a driver quickly. So if you are looking to improve your driving and get into a vehicle that is close to the performance of an Indy car or F1 car at a reasonable price, shifter karts may be for you. And us. Bill is already shopping.

Keep up with Tiffany’s growth at e karting news: https://ekartingnews.com/2023/02/14/supernats-time-tiffany-kelly-takes-on-las-vegas/

If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing:

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 Are you 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 code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/

Best regards,

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

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

GHiT 0447: Tiffany and Justin Kelly Return for a Second Lap

Adam Jabaay Talks GRIDLIFE

GHIT 0289: Adam Jabaay Returns to Talk All Things GRIDLIFE

GLTC, Sundae Cup, and their HPDE Program

Adam Jabaay returns to talk all things GRIDLIFE. Adam is the co-founder of the GRIDLIFE event series and the series is designed to be the track events that the GRIDLIFE team would want to attend. We had a series on last year that covered several of the wheel to wheel GLTC (Grid Life Touring Cup) series. During this episode, we go over the 2022 series and several of the other events in the series including their time attack (fast lap counts) racing series and the GRIDLIFE HPDE program. We have a plan to attend our first GRIDLIFE event this year and will be participating in the event at Lime Rock. If you haven’t heard of GRIDLIFE, it is definitely not a typical track event and in many ways, the track events are only the beginning of the festivities.

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 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 are:

1) We introduce our favorite master carpenter and the Norm Abrams of racing.

2) Bill gives away one of our upcoming 300 episode listener quiz questions.

3) Adam and Bill share some podcast anecdotes. There is more post episode if you are in need of curing your insomnia.

4) Bill is very jealous of Adam’s upcoming Ice Battle racing event. Where we has been very cold enough but it does not seem to be an option anywhere nearby. Ice racing remains on our post plague bucket list.

5) Ever wonder what is GRIDLIFE? Adam does a great review if you are not already familiar.

6) We had a chance to talk with ADAM about the history that led to the creation of GRIDLIFE and has allowed them to become a very popular sprint racing series that has live streaming viewer numbers that would make many professional series jealous.

7) Adam goes into the recent changes to the GLTS series to a 200 treadwear tire series including the thought process that led to the change.

8) What did Skip Barber think of GRIDLIFE and what will be going on at the Lime Rock event.

9) How GRIDLIFE has grown and how you can participate in the event.

10) How GRIDLIFE organizes their HPDE groups, events, and instructors.

11) Bill cannot wait anymore and we get into the GRIDLIFE Sundae Cup series. Our car is being prepped for the Lime Rock event and several HPDE’s this year.

12) What is coming for GRIDLIFE and how the east and west coast can expect to see events in the 2022 and more in 2023.

13) Bill launches his appeal for a wheel to wheel Sundae Cup race. Logistics are always a concern, but we would be there. Even better for an enduro.

14) We almost got off without going into RV life, but as expected we did not try terribly hard.

To follow Adam and GRIDLIFE further:

GRIDLIFE website: https://www.grid.life/

Slip Angle Podcast: http://www.tracktuned.com/slipangle

Instagram: @gridlifeofficial or @slipangleshow

Facebook: @GRIDLIFEOfficial or @SlipAngleShow

GHIT 0289: Adam Jabaay Returns to Talk All Things GRIDLIFE

Tom O’Gorman

AKA “TomO” from TOMO Racing and ASM

GHIT 0230: Tom O’Gorman AKA TomO from TOMO Racing and ASM

Tom O’Gorman is currently racing the Grid Life GLTC series with ASM and has competed and won at some of the highest levels as a professional driver for several teams. He is also a sought after racing coach for drivers at all levels. We talk with him about his entire career, remaining goals, as well as his driver coaching. Far be it from us to not ask him about a few coaching questions.

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.

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!

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 Tom O’Gorman episode include:

1) How he has grown as a driver by being able to experience a wide variety of cars quickly from a very young age when he was autocrossing. This cross training has led to his ability to adapt to cars very quickly and race in all style cars as needed.

2) We take a moment to ask Tom which car he hasn’t driven in (yet) that he would like to drive a race in at least once. We think Adam may have to have a driver shuffle event to complement his field invert race, lol.

3) It is amazing how early and deeply auto racing “drove” within Tom when he discovered some of the early console driving games.

4) We firmly believe that if Tom wins both autocross events in the NSX, he should be allowed to keep the NSX. This could be another example of why we have no sponsors, lol.

5) Tom even shared a great example of how even for a driver at his level that some weekends just don’t go as well as we would wish and how Covid has impacted his racing. We also go into his GLTC series racing history and how the Grid Life series has grown and continues to grow. It is like a spec series in the closeness of the racing without a single car design.

6) We poke Tom for some Mid Ohio rain tips. He was nice enough to give a few of the things he has learned at his home track. Vicki is insistent wet Mid Ohio is like lava. Bill is starting to piece that together.

7) The potential of the use of a 200 tread wear tire in GLTC and the potential advantages and disadvantages of a potential switch.

8) Tom also discussed the Grid Life Sundae Cup series.

9) We also go into coaching drivers at all levels, the use of in car coaching, as well as video, data, and even coach driving demonstration to help every level driver improve.

10) Pushing limits and breaking though limits comes up again. Hypothetically, lol.

GHIT 0230: Tom O’Gorman AKA TomO from TOMO Racing and ASM