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GHIT 0038 Prepping for a Race Weekend

Race Prep
Race Prep like a billionaire and buy the whole track

On this episode, Vicki, Alan, and Bill discuss race weekend preparation using this week’s EVO School race day and our next Lemons race at NJMP as examples. 

We also have a VERY detailed checklist we use for our race prep that is available at our website or by clicking below.

Race Prep Checklist

In addition. Alan covers his tool of the week, a Quickjack 5000.  No relation to Sunblock 3000.  

GHIT 0038 Prepping for a Race Weekend

GHiT 0035: Pitt Race Review

We had our issues at Pitt Race 2019

Pitt Race
Pitt Race HQ

We reviewed our first race of the year at Pitt Race with the 24 Hours of Lemons series.  We had some issues during the weekend that prevented us recording at the track so we went into some detail during this race review. 

GHiT Flags Flying High!!!
GHiT Flags Flying High!!!

Including:

  • Tech inspection
  • Greasing palms with lots of fake money
  • Virtual Track walk vs Real
  • Practice schedule at the race
  • The awesome race track at Pitt Race (We will be back)
  • Brake fires (yes, plural)
  • Car Spins/Trimming the infield grass with our “Aero”
  • Racing in the rain, again
  • Changing track conditions all weekend
  • Overview of each racing day

We also tried cover how we ran the race and our thought process, post race diagnosis and plans and we ended with our segment on The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, along with the highlight of the weekend, as well as things we learned and changes to continue to improve.

Jennifer and Bill going through BS Tech Inspection

As a special bonus from our website, here is an example on how now to talk your way out of a Black Flag penalty. The video started after our “Tony Stark” had begun with offering to buy the entire 24 Hours of Lemons Racing Series and/or the Pitt Race venue itself to be able to exactly define what is the track, as any billionaire would.

Celebrity Guest Driver "Tony Stark"
Celebrity Guest Driver “Tony Stark” tries to buy Lemons and Pitt Race

How not to get through Black Flag Interrogation successfully

We hope you enjoy the episode and please review the podcast if you have a moment and add any question that you would like us to address in a future episode.

  • Liam and Alan at Safety Meeting
  • Stan enjoying Lemons Prom
  • TR7/TR8 World Championship Contenders
  • He even bought the street
  • Coming back into pit
  • Don’t worry, we will return broken soon

GHiT 0035 Our Pitt Race Review

Episodes 10, 11 & 12: Road Atlanta Race

It was an awesome race, but cold and rainy

Our team went to race at Road Atlanta for our first time.  When you think about Atlanta, we usually don’t think of cold, but for the second year in a row, the weather was cold, rainy/snowy.  Since Road Atlanta is a fast track with lots of elevation changes so learning it in the cold rain was less than optimal.  

We did a total of three episodes for this race.  Friday night we tried a quick update recording from our hotel.  It went to so well (?) that we did it again on Saturday.  These episodes have nearly zero editing and we didn’t have access to our usually microphones. so your mileage may vary.  

We had a blast and we hope it shows on the podcasts.  

We finally posted a final race recap after a week of recording issues.  

If there is anything that you would like to know that we may have left out, please send us an email using the link below or even better would be to leave a review on iTunes for our podcast and in the comments section enter any questions or topics you may be interested in us finding an answer for you.  Thanks again for coming. 

Podcast Episode 0010:  Road Atlanta – Friday Night Review

Podcast Episode 0011:  Road Atlanta – Saturday Race Review 

Podcast Episode 0012:  Road Atlanta – Sunday Race Review 

Episode 0009: Everyone Racers, no, not really or is it?

Everyone Racers Podcast is a must listen 

With our favorite racing podcast taking a week off break, we took a chance to fill the gap.  It took a bot over 24 times to get something “presentable”.  In this episode of our podcast, Alan, Vicki, and Bill try to make a podcast similar to theirs.  As you can guess, their’s is usually much better, but we had a good time and we hope you do too.   Special thanks to getting us racing and podcast must go out to our friends over at the Everyone Racers podcast.  

You can find the Everyone Racers podcast at the link below.  Please subscribe, its well worth it.  

The Everyone Racers Podcast Hosts

Our intended episode for this week (well really last week since we are late) is still in editing.  Due to a few recording issues, it is still not close to ready after 9+ hours of editing.  It may show up soon or we will have to re-record it.  we shall see.  

If there is anything that you would like to know that we may have left out, please send us an email using the link below or even better would be to leave a review on iTunes for our podcast and in the comments section enter any questions or topics you may be interested in us finding an answer for you.  Thanks again for coming. 

Podcast Episode 0009:  Our Everyone Racers FanCast

Episode 0008: Race Day

Alan and Bennett at NHMS 2018

In this episode of our podcast, Alan, Vicki, and Bill try to review a typical race day/weekend and cover what to expect and look out for.  

We used a typical race weekend at a 24 Hours of Lemons race to illustrate many of the processes, steps and procedures that are common at many racing events. Each racing organization will have its own intricacies, but most steps will be similar, if not exactly the same.  Hopefully, this will alleviate any potential anxiety for you at your first race day (or your fiftieth).

If there is anything that you would like to know that we may have left out, please send us an email using the link below or even better would be to leave a review on iTunes for our podcast and in the comments section enter any questions or topics you may be interested in us finding an answer for you.  Thanks again for coming. 

Podcast Episode 0008:  What to Expect When You’re Expecting (To Race)

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