Our Team

Our Race Review of Thompson 2021

Part 1

GHIT 0224: Our Race Review of Thompson 2021 – Part 1

Our ladies team came to Thompson and even though the entire prep week blew up in our face, the weekend as a whole went fantastically. Vicki and Jen go over some of the highs and lows of the race on this episode. We are hopeful for a part 2 with Audra and Elizabeth, and perhaps even Alan, to go over their thoughts on the weekend. The El Jeffe race truck stumbled a bit at the beginning of the weekend, but we were able to work through the problem eventually with a bit of help from our friends in the paddock and we may have solved the intermittent electrical problems that have popped up over this entire season. More to follow next week.

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A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ThompsonPart1

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 from Thompson 2021 Episode include:

1) We started with several of the prep debacles, for once they did not involve prepping the car, but unfortunately it involved just about everything else.

2) Since it was Audra’s first time racing wheel to wheel and Elizabeth’s first time in the truck, they thought it would be a good idea to get acclimated on the Friday practice.

3) Thankfully, this allowed us to start to work on the engine bogging issue. We go through the symptoms and what we tried to solve the issue. We may actually have found the true problem and we also ended up with a lot of spare parts.

4) Our generator issue continues and we aren’t sure if it is us or the rental RV’s. Do electrical problems only occur to teams that aren’t electrically literate? Asking for a friend.

5) We try to cover how the SpiderStang team of Alan, Bennet, Quinn, and Elazar went, but left a lot of the details out for a future episode with them.

6) Thoughts on the track walk and the track in general. The data shows that both Vicki and Jennifer made great strides during the race, each setting personal bests by several seconds. Jennifer may have even conquered her issues on the long straights. We will confirm at our next event.

7) Any guesses on how many black flags for the ladies?

GHIT 0224: Our Race Review of Thompson 2021 – Part 1

2021 PittRace HPDE with NASA GL

GHIT 0218: Our 2021 PittRace HPDE with NASA Great Lakes

Our season highlight is the NASA Great Lakes HPDE event at PittRace and this year was no exception. Our team attendees consisted of Jennifer, Vicki, and Liam in the HPDE 2 sessions, and Bill was in the HPDE 4 group, as well as auditing several of the HPDE 1 and 2 classrooms and track sessions. As always, we were joined by our Three Pedal Mafia/Everyone racers podcast friend Chris, Chrissy, Jeff, and Jim. In total, we had 8 drivers in our paddock area in the HPDE classes and 6 cars for this event.

In addition, our next gen trainees were all over the go karting track there and even raced a friend from the Penn State Formula SAE team from our Lemons races in NJMP and PittRace this year, Eric Junker. As a super special addition to the event, Ross Bentley was also an attendee and was helping out in all areas and levels of the event. We are very sure he is tired from this weekend, but it was great to finally meet him in person.

PS Sorry for Bill’s audio, apparently his microphone did not work during this episode.

PittRace Paddock — Paddock with friends makes this even better

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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. Then you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/PittRaceHPDE2021

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Morning meeting with Ross — **ROSS BENTLEY in Person!!!!!**

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

GHIT 0218: Our 2021 PittRace HPDE with NASA Great Lakes

Alan – Original Introduction

GHIT 0216: GHIT Host/Driver – Alan Introduction – Original

As a bonus, here is the original Alan introduction episode from all the way back on Episode Number 2. We hope you enjoy getting to know us better and learning where we are (or maybe where we think we are) and where we wish to go in the coming years.

If we missed something that you wanted to know, please let us know on our website or Instagram or Facebook.

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.

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

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

GHIT 0216: GHIT Host/Driver – Alan – Original Introduction

Host Re-Introductions with Alan

GHIT 0215: GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions – Alan

Part 4 of our Re-Introduction and Update of Our Hosts is with Alan

It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we’d update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our hosts. Alan joined our team about 2 minutes after Vicki posted something about our first race. He has been a car guy since birth and is a trained mechanic and worked on real cars for several years prior to joining our team. Alan has succeeded in getting all four of his immediate family to race with us, as well as his brother. He has adopted the SpiderStang and is in the midst of preparing it for our upcoming race in Thompson CT. We cannot wait to see it back on track.

If we missed something that you wanted to know, please let us know on our website or Instagram or Facebook.

We have had several requests recently to break the episodes up by segment. So, the original Alan interview will be coming along separately. The next Dominating with Dawson will also be a solo episode.

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. 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.

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

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

GHIT 0215: GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions – Alan

Bill Host/Driver Re-Introduction

GHIT 0214: GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions – Bill

It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we would update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our hosts. You can probably blame Bill for most of our team and our podcast, but he does have noble goals, lol. Bill was essentially a newbie to racing, driving, and pretty much remains so as far as car mechanical skills. As always, our motto of “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing” applies to our team, our cars, and driving education. In most ways, Bill is our team manager and tries to herd the cats as best we can be herded. He usually sets our team schedule and works on our systems, tools, supplies, parts, planning, and organization. Usually, by default, most of our episodes have Bill host.

As a bonus, we included the original introduction we had way back when this all began. (after we had only raced twice and had zero HPDE’s etc.). We hope you enjoy getting to know us better and learning where we are (or maybe where we think we are) and where we wish to go in the coming years.

If we missed something that you wanted to know, please let us know on our website or social media etc.

In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we all share some of our “best” car trailer stories. Which one of our experiences do you think wins the title? Please let us know.

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. 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.

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

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS 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. 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 from this episode include:

1) Ben and Vicki pretend to be interested in Bill for an hour plus. Time to increase their pay.

2) We go into personal and teams strengths, weaknesses and our growth since we started.

3) Bill tries to stay our of “sleeping in the tub” and manages to almost make it 27 minutes before inserting his foot into his mouth, again.

4) Finding the best HPDE group for your interests and goals, as well as using the different groups strengths to augment your learning. For instance some groups have more lap time. Some have better in class or in car instruction. Some may be closer or cheaper, or have a better schedule match to your availability etc.

5) The most shocking thing to Bill was Vicki’s selection of her podcast highlight not being episode #68. In this episode, we give a short summary but leave out many of the details and the carnage. Its worth a listen for the details. Ben was very entertained.

6) We end with a review of Vicki, Ben, and Bill’s opinions on their personal skill levels in a variety of racing skills and scenarios. Alan and Jen will cover this in the next team re-introduction episode with Alan.

7) The All Female GHiT racing team for our upcoming Thompson race is discussed for one of the first times. Prepped, raced, and repaired 100% by our female team members. Hopefully that last part is not needed, lol.

GHIT 0214: GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions – Bill

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