Guests & Interviews

We are very happy to welcome the Hydrocephalus Racing Team to our podcast this week.  They are a great team of friends and family that we first initially met at their first ever Lemons race in Thompson CT.  Unfortunately, Vicki and Bill apparently recorded in the Tube of Mockery we borrowed from Mental, so it sounds like we are huddled up in a cave somewhere. 

Topics of discussion included:

• When and how to use the term “Scrutineer”
• How (and Why) to race a prepped minivan in Lemons
• The art of “subtle” racing in a minivan
• How not to prep for your first time racing
• We begin to hatch a plan to get their team CFO onto the track
• Vicki can’t keep a secret to save her life (about the GHiT posters)
• How to learn about cars when growing up and working in a local junkyard
• Our Race Truck Progress – Its ready for Pitt Race
• Math and racing sometimes don’t apply to radiator leaks
• Two or three potential lemons car stashes in the upper Midwest and Alaska, one with hangtime experience
• Effectiveness of our roll cages and safety equipment in an accident
• Fog is not your friend on the track, especially on your windshield
• Gentlemen driver documentary on Netflix right now
• and eventually listen to them ponder why they can’t hear through their microphone, hint, it’s not a speaker, lol.  

We hope you enjoy the episode and please subscribe to our podcast using your podcast network provider of choice, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, etc. 

If you are interested in supporting research in the area of Hydrocephalus, please go to their website to learn more about it and what we can do to support their efforts at:  http://hydrocephalusracingteam.com/ for all kinds of information and links. 

GHiT 0026: Hydrocephalus Racing Team

Please excuse a few spots where we lost internet recording.  On this episode, Bill has the worst intro of any podcast in history, Vicki stages a coup d’état of the hosting duties, Alan shows up late, and we have recording issues galore so our episode for this week is posting late.  Despite this, Jason Hopkins who is the founder of the Citrus Racer Lounge was an awesome guest and we hope you enjoy this week’s episode.

Things we covered:

• Last week’s Facebook conference in Menlo Park California
• The history and goals of the Citrus Racer Lounge
• How many Smokey and the Bandit Movies exist
• Differences between thinking you are ready to race and being ready to race
• Other ways to contribute to a racing team, even if you never drive
• Bill makes several bad jokes about Massachusetts drivers and driving
• Jason shared a ton of great guests we need to have on soon
• Bill begs for all members of the lounge to subscribe to the podcast in vain
• Alan practices juggling bottles in the background several times, I hope I edited them all out
• Lesser know great driving/mountain roads in New Hampshire
• Happy Birthday to Mental (and his hair)
• Dream Lemons builds
• Alan:  Mechanic and Referee

EP 0024: Jason Hopkins of the Citrus Racer Lounge

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So Come Out With Us and Enjoy the Ride

Special Guest Driver from Everyone Racers Podcast and member of the Three Pedal Mafia

Chris Abbott has been a wonderful person and has helped our team tremendously and endlessly since before we were even a team. He co-hosts the Everyone Racers podcast as well as racing as often as possible, usually with the Three Pedal Mafia. Chris is one of the nicest people we have met at lemons and has probably passed us more times than any other driver in the series, sometimes even in our own car.  

On this episode, we talked about a wide variety of topics including: 

• Our “Wish You Were Sponsoring Us”, Alpine Stars
• Alan does a Dalek impersonation
• New car race prep strategy
• Boat racing. Ooops, sorry. Racing a Boat.
• Giraffes and racing

Also as a special surprise to those of you who listen to the Everyone Racers podcast, we made special accommodations and you can actually hear Chris speaking on this episode, lol.  

We have yet to pass him and he is probably the best driver we know, as well as being a tremendous mechanic, equally skilled teacher and a great friend.

Without Chris, our team would be far behind where we currently are and likely would not have continued much past last year.

EP 0021: Chris Abbott -Special Guest Racing Driver