Our Friend from the Everyone Racers Podcast and the Three Pedal Mafia
Jeff Wakeman from the Three Pedal Mafia racing team and the Everyone Racers Podcast joins us for this week’s episode. We had a wide ranging discussion covering many topics including:
- Jeff’s first car
- Some of Jeff and the Three Pedal Mafia early history
- The Wartburg vs the Trabant
- Some of the past few seasons results, and challenges
- Building two new cars for this season
- Three Pedal Mafia team goals for 2019
- How Summit Point led to no stunting and ‘splodin rule
- Track Discussion of the NJMP Lightning track for our upcoming race
- Bill makes the same bad joke and Jeff shows he actually listens
We also tried to be helpful, and we cover in between races maintenance practices
- Fix any broken parts
- Full nut and bolt check
- All suspension bits, end links suspension bolts, shocks, struts
- Oil change every race
- Brake pad check
- Wheel bearing check (12-6 and 3-9, every day)
- Shocks and struts
- Rim check
- Brake Rotor check
- Calipers
- All lugs and lug nuts
- Fire system
- Electrical system
- Clean up and Vacuum
- Brake fluid every season, unless overheated then change immediately
- Tires for flat spots, cuts, bubbles etc.
- Fuel cell foam every season, unless fuel filter clogging etc.
- Exhaust inspection, will rattle apart
- Transmission fluid every few seasons unless issues
- Read tire tread after every day
- Wheel bearing check at 12-6 and 3-9 every day
- What exactly is involved with Dialing In a new car
- What is the exact definition of Mental Extrapolation and an itemized correction list/rant
- Race Car Development guides
- Vicki gets excited about power steering for the SpiderStang
- Street and Normal mechanics vs endurance racing mechanical needs
- Alan takes a few shots to the bow, in a very good natured way
- Vicki has two tickets, Bill only knew about one, until now.
- Jeff is oddly collecting tickets from every state
- Bill makes bad decisions about towing with the new rental truck
- However, Jeff presents his quick summary of what to do and what not to do to related to speeding to avoid speeding tickets book review
- Keep your eyes up
- Speeding ticket story time
- We end with a discussion of Avengers Endgame and many other hero
- Game of Thrones discussion, or how to end a story via Cliff Notes
- Upcoming theories and desires
- Ranking of many marvel movie favorites
- The upcoming Watchman series on HBO
- Monoculture in modern entertainment, is it ever possible again with streaming and bingeing becoming more and more popular
- How Lemons could be the solution to this and everything else
- Upcoming ace at NJMP with Hooptiecon and Radwood as well
- Star Wars discussion and predictions
- Jeff Does a Road Warrior impression
We apologize for being helpful to your racing this time. We will resume our normal uselessness next week, lol.