Garage Heroes (In Training)

Learning as we go. Come along with us and Enjoy the Ride!

Guests & Interviews

Zach Caldwell

Live from the Vannonball Great American Bro’d Trip

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GHiT 0471:  Zach Caldwell Live from the Vannonball Great American Bro’d Trip

Calling in live from GingerMan, Zach Caldwell calls from his fourth straight race weekend in the race van to conclude the 2023 Great American Vannonball Bro’d Trip. Why race in a minivan? Who would race 4 weekends in a row?  Why a 2006 Dodge Caravan is the world’s greatest race car? How tired can one person be?  All this and more in this one. Bill has some terrible ideas brewing.

In summary, the Great American Bro’d trip started off in Detroit and after 2,100 miles race 1 at Thunder Hill.  A swift and easy 700 miles to High Plains Raceway.  A few gallons of gas and 1,700 miles to NJMP Thunderbolt. And a final leg to a surprising entry to GingerMan raceway. To get back home after this, it was only 350 miles that took around 12 fatigue induced hours, lol.

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

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Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate 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 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 0471:  Zach Caldwell Live from the Vannonball Great American Bro’d Trip

Rachel Thurow – Drag Racing and Beyond

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GHiT 0469:  Rachel Thurow – Drag Racing and Beyond

Rachel Thurow joins the podcast this week to discuss her drag racing program and rapidly expanding racing in virtually any discipline.  If there is one thing we love it is cross training and enjoying you car in as many ways as possible.  Rachel is probably the first primary drag racing guest so Vicki gets very excited to investigate something we haven’t done.  Yet.  We had great fun talking with Rachel and see a lot of things in common and potential for future plans (and bad decisions).

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rachel driving

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.

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 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“. This gives you 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. This is 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 0469:  Rachel Thurow – Drag Racing and Beyond

Heyward Wagner from the SCCA

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GHiT 0466:  Heyward Wagner from the SCCA

We are joined on this episode by Heyward Wagner from the SCCA to talk (almost) all things SCCA in what we hope to be a first of many episodes.  Heyward is a life long SCCA member, race driver, and now leads a variety of the aspects of the SCCA related to Rally Solo, and Experiential Programs associated with the having Fun With Cars, including autocross, rally, rallycross, Track Night In America. 

Fun With Cars as a mission.  We couldn’t agree more.

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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.

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 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“. This gives you 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

For More Info:  www.scca.com/fun may be the link to a new life

Prepping for Their First Endurance Race

GHiT 0462:  Prepping for Their First Endurance Race What to Expect When You Are Unsuspecting with Angry Turtle Racing

We love seeing new people and teams getting out on track and driving or racing.  We especially love seeing friends enjoy themselves.  Angry Turtle Racing is a new endurance racing team with two old friends (Audra and Lisa) and several new friends who are about to race in their first ever endurance race with us at NJMP in two weeks.  We thought it might be helpful to go through some of the questions and preparation tips that we shared on this podcast, and we cannot wait to paddock share with them and help them in any way that we can at NJMP.

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/

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/

PS3  Do you collect data and never use it or have time to use it?  Is data analysis almost another job at the track?  Fire Laps may be what you need.  Quick collection & automatic analysis.  Enter “GHiT” and you will get a free 3-months onto your annual membership.  Firelaps.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 0462:  Prepping for Their First Endurance Race What to Expect When You Are Unsuspecting with Angry Turtle Racing

Lisa Keyes

Driving Scholarship Winner From Grid Life, GLTC, and Instructor

Lisa Keys
Lisa Keys and friends
Lisa Keyes at GLTC

GHiT 0455:  Lisa Keyes Driving Scholarship Winner From Grid Life, GLTC, and Instructor

We first met Lisa Keyes at last year’s GridLife event at NJMP where she was competing in GLTC, lead instructor for the entire event, and trying to survive the 100+F degree weekend.  Luckily, we were able to lure her into  a conversation or two over our much coveted Freezie Pop supply.  During this episode, we go into her driving history and how she came to be driving in GLTC and lead instructor for many GridLife events.  We each shared our EG Honda Civics while at NJMP and tried to catch up with how things have progressed and plans for this year and going forward. PS Lisa made it to Watkins Glen GLTC event last weekend.

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/

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/

PS3  Do you collect data and never use it or have time to use it?  Is data analysis almost another job at the track?  Fire Laps may be what you need.  Quick collection & automatic analysis.  Enter “GHiT” and you will get a free 3-months onto your annual membership at www.Firelaps.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 0455:  Lisa Keyes Driving Scholarship Winner From Grid Life, GLTC, and Instructor