Garage Heroes (In Training)

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Better Race Starts

race start

DwD 0403:  Better Race Starts

One of Ben’s favorite things to do is pass people and one of his favorite ways to accomplish this is at a race start or at a race restart from a yellow.  In this DwD, Ben is very excited to talk about many of his tips and tricks that he has learned over his years of racing for race starts. 

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS  Are you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with video? Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you.  We are in the midst of 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 will give 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process.

PS2  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.  Please enter the code “ghitlikesapex!”. You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

DwD 0403:  Better Race Starts

Race Review – NHMS 2022 Part 1: The MooStang

MooStang at NHMS 2022

GHIT 0402:  Race Review – NHMS 2022 Part 1:  The MooStang

NHMS 2022 Part 1: Long delayed due to schedule and sickness, here is part 1 of our teams 24 Hours of Lemons race at New Hampshire Motor Sports track in late October.  We had planned to go over the race and how it went for the flying MooStang and the trophy truck El Jeffe/the Bad Hombre but we have now broken this up into two separate episodes.  Part two will release later this week.  In this episode, Alan goes through the entire race weekend for the 1984 Mustang GT Turbo that we affectionately call the MooStang.  In part two, Jeremy will join us to discuss how the race went for El Jeffe.  Which team had a good race?  Who had the most black flags?  Was there any contact?  Who won?  All this and more in this part of the race review.

Favorite quote of the episode:  “You forgot to carry the suck”

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS  If you are 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/

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 0402:  Race Review – NHMS 2022 Part 1:  The MooStang

How to Install Harness Straps

race seats and harness

DwD 0401:  How to Install Harness Straps

On this Dominating with Dawson, we try to go over how to install harness straps in a race car.  It turns out to be quite a challenge to describe this process without the help of any visuals.   We start off with discussing the purchase of the racing harness and then proceed towards the installation of the racing harness into a car.  We include things to do and things not to do.  The installation is much easier than our description makes it seem, lol. 

Please let us know if we missed something or if you have any questions at [email protected]

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

Awesome choice #1:  Subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice and every episode will show up. 

Even Better:  If you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating

Mostest Bestest:  if you would leave a podcast review

We really appreciate it.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS  Are you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with video? Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you.  We are in the midst of 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 will give 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process.

PS2  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.  Please enter the code “ghitlikesapex!”. You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

DwD 0401:  How to Install Harness Straps

Episode 400 with ROSS BENTLEY

Ross Bentley

GHIT 0400:  Celebrate Episode 400 with ROSS BENTLEY

Our streak continues with celebrating every fifty episodes with Ross Bentley returning to the podcast.  During this episode, we have our traditional questions related to improving as drivers, but since it is near the end of the season, we wanted to go over some goals for the upcoming season.  Ross not only assist us in coming up with a goal or two, but he provides a great process for you to come up for your own goals.  In addition to goals, we also go into:

2)  How best to race in transitioning conditions

3)  Skid pad practice and drills

4)  HPDE drills for beginners, intermediate, and advanced drivers

5)  What to do when things go badly, or very badly

6)  Tips on how to self-diagnose your driving and find things to improve

PS Sorry Bill’s microphone was apparently not connected so he sounds like he is inside a tunnel.  Ross more than makes up for it.

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

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  If you are 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/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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

Ross Bentley in and Indy Car

Links to some of the videos discussed are:

Colton Herta and the world’s fastest hands:  https://tinyurl.com/HertaFastHands

Jennifer’s Accident:  https://tinyurl.com/JenAtTheRoval

Vicki’s first stint on track/a display of what not to do:  https://tinyurl.com/VickiWhatNotToDo

GHIT 0400:  Celebrate Episode 400 with ROSS BENTLEY

Why You Need to Improve Driving Off Line

off line driving

DwD 0399:  Why You Need to Improve Driving Off Line

In the beginning, everyone is obsessively concerned with driving on “the line” when on a track.  During this Dominating with Dawson episode, we talk about the importance of driving off line and getting as good as possible at driving off line.  There are many, many reasons why it is important, and we try to go into several of them including that this is the predominant way to pass other cars on track and how driving off line will augment your car control skills, among many, many others.

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

Awesome choice #1:  Subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice and every episode will show up. 

Even Better:  If you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating

Mostest Bestest:  if you would leave a podcast review

We really appreciate it.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS  Are you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with video? Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you.  We are in the midst of 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 will give 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process.

PS2  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.  Please enter the code “ghitlikesapex!”. You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

DwD 0399:  Why You Need to Improve Driving Off Line