Guests & Interviews

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.

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

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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

Kyle Lockrow Professional Racing Driver

Professional Racing Driver and grassroots racer

GHIT 0265: Kyle Lockrow Upcoming Professional Racing Driver

Kyle Lockrow is a racing driver who has worked his way from a grassroots racing hobby to a professional career that has reached the NASCAR level. We had the opportunity to talk with him about his history and how amateur racing and especially amateur endurance racing has helped him progress and improve to the national level. His story is still being written, but after meeting him, we are huge fans and wish him nothing but the best. If that story isn’t inspiring enough, he did this in spite of racing with (our good friends at) Race Bar

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 episode include:

1) We learn how Kyle has transitioned from amateur racing to being involved with NASCAR. Believe it or not, racing our junk race cars has actually helped Kyle progress.

2) What can you learn from amateur racing that transfers to higher levels and even the professional level.

3) Kyle asks us about what our training regimen is and surprisingly, we actually had an answer he liked.

4) Kyle’s schedule for 2022 is still to be finalized, but it sounds like a very busy year for him.

5) How amateur endurance taught Kyle how to pass and be passed, as well as sharpens his ability to race other cars.

6) Several of the differences between professional racing and amateur racing. Surprisingly, some of the pro’s can even learn a few things from our amateur teams that would help them on a race weekend.

7) Bill rambles through a question to try to quantify what the differences are between the driver pool in the pro series and the drivers in the amateur series drivers. Kyle makes the best of Bill’s awkwardly worded question, lol.

8) And then Kyle actually wanted to do our fast and furious story time questions. We thank him for tolerating our little slice of insanity.

9) We lose count of how often we made fun of Race Bar. RACE BAR!!!!!

To find even more from Kyle, please go to:

Website: www.KyleLockrow.com

Instagram: @Kyle_Lockrow

Facebook: KLockrow5590

or on LinkedIn and someday soon TikTok

GHIT 0265: Kyle Lockrow Upcoming Professional Racing Driver

Justin Barbry about Track Night In America

GHIT 0263: Justin Barbry – Track Night In America

Do you know anyone who always wanted to drive on track but didn’t think it was possible?

Perhaps you talk to people about driving on track and they don’t understand but you know they would?

Do you want a bigger racing budget? Perhaps the CFO of the house isn’t involved in our sport (yet).

Vicki and Bill have attended several Track Night In America events and had a blast. It is a great way to see if you or someone you know would like driving on track without a lot of prep, money, or time required. We have often said that autocross was the gateway drug to high performance driving, but what if you don’t have a vendetta (yet) against small orange cones? This may be the best alternative we have found without jumping in with both feet to a full track weekend etc. We will need to have Justin on again to talk about his driving and racing exploits and hopefully subject him to our F&F Storytime segment.

If you would like to help grow our sport and this 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

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GHIT 0263: Justin Barbry – Track Night In America

Jaime Garcia Races Wheel to Wheel

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!

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

GHIT 0261: Our NJMP HPDE Event – Part Deux

GHIT 0261: Our NJMP HPDE Event – Part Deux

We had a large group of drivers at the recent NASA Northeast HPDE event at NJMP’s Lightning course. Since schedules did not fully coincide last week, we broke our group up into two different episodes. We start off with our usual goals for the weekend and cover how the event went. For this NJMP HPDE, we had Audra on who had never been to this track and was driving her 2017 BMW M2 for the weekend. Adam came to the event and was going to use Bill’s M3 but due to mechanical issues, he had to use Vicki’s 1999 turbo NB Miata for one of his stints. Elizabeth was trying her new to her SpecE30 on the track. Lisa returns for a second visit on this event and drove Audra’s M2 at the event in the Hyperdrive session

If you would like to help grow our sport and this 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

Highlights from this episode include:

1) We start off with our personal goals for the event. Each event we try to make sure we each have at least one goal, but no more than 3 for the weekend.

2) Elizabeth had a bit of motion sickness after going out with Bill as a passenger. We may have found a cure for this, hopefully it will prevent motion sickness as well. We will test this again at our next few events.

3) Each level of the HPDE has a download session and some of the levels have classrooms during the weekend. We discuss the benefits of each and offer some suggestions for further improvement.

4) Highlights from the weekend and our traditional Good, Bad, and the Ugly

5) Adam advanced from HPDE 1 to HPDE 2.

6) Audra advanced from HPDE 1 to HPDE 2.

7) Vicki advanced from HPDE 2 to HPDE 3.

8) Elizabeth advanced from to HPDE 2.

9) We also shared a ton of Ahh Hah moments we had at this event. Its awesome to hear how everyone of us progressed.

10) Adam gave a good review of driving the E46 M3 vs the turbo NB Miata.

GHIT 0261: Our NJMP HPDE Event – Part Deux

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