Garage Heroes (In Training)

The team is week welcomes Chris Kamery to the podcast to continue our discussion on Autocross this month.  Chris is an avid and accomplished driver mostly in the upstate New York and neighboring areas.  We cover a wide range of topics related to start racing in autocross and what to do and even what not to do.  We also attempt to drag him into the dark side of endurance racing.  We hope to see him out at the track soon. 

Topics covered included:

1. Car requirements and preferences
2. Track design and review
3. Typical struggles of new and first time drivers at an event
4. Several places to look for local autocross and other driving events

We may even have been helpful again this week.  We cannot promise this streak to continue, lol.

EP 0023: Chris Kamery Autocross Driver

Again, this episode continues of focus this month on autocross racing. If you wish, there are other episodes related to autocross as well in our feed.

For your convenience, here is another podcast episode that is focused on similar styles of racing

EP 0022: Sam Strano on Autocross

Anyone Can race a car, even us. So Come out with us and Enjoy the Ride!!!

Multiple National Champion Autocross Driver

On this episode, Vicki and Bill welcomed Sam Strano to our show to discuss another form of racing called autocross. 

Autocross involves timed racing laps of a course that is usually artificially defined by a series of cones in a parking lot, air strip or other paved area. 

Sam is a multiple time national champion in autocross and we are now signed up for at least one race and one training session and knowing us there will be more to follow.

If you are looking for another way to get started or another way to scratch your driving itch, we highly recommend giving it a try.

Also, please stop in or visit Sam’s company at:  http://www.stranoparts.com/ for almost any parts or help with improving the performance of your daily driver or your racing car of choice. He and his team applies all that they have learned winning on the track to help you to get your car to where you wanted it to be, most times even better.

We will be stopping in to say hi to Sam as soon as we can. If you do, please let them know we sent you.

EP 0022: Sam Strano on Autocross

From the Three Pedal Mafia and the Everyone Racers podcast (“Mental” Hours #1, 2, & 3, lol)

Mental is one of our earliest friends from racing. We originally “met’ him online when we had been on one episode of the Everyone Racers Podcast. We finally met Mental in person at our first race at NJMP in May of 2018. Our race went exceptionally well. However, his was not one of his favorite races as we discussed in this episode.

Mental is a very accomplished and experienced driver who has competed in many types of racing series and disciplines as well as being an instructor. He is very skilled but self deprecating and extremely approachable. If you ever bump into him on the track, please say hello. But only if you have a few minutes to talk, lol.

Alan, Vicki and Bill talked with Mental for over three hours for this episode. Unfortunately, some of Alan’s audio was lost so his “English brother Alan” stepped in for him a few times. But, still we ended up with our longest episode by far at just under 3 hours. So if you want a podcast to listen to on the way to work, we may have covered your whole week’s commute with this one.

We covered a wide variety of topics and many, many stories, some of which even applied to racing. We hope you feel like you know him a little better after this episode and we are very happy to call him a friend.

EP 0020: Christian “Mental” Ward – Special Guest Racing Driver

Our Special Guest Racing Driver

We first noticed Annika Carter on Instagram where her moniker is Not.My.Boyfriends.Car (The best Instagram name ever!)  We then noticed she was going to be racing with us at Road Atlanta for our last Lemons race of our 2018 calendar season.  She has quickly worked her way up and races as much as she possibly can.  She has already earned her racing license through NASA and we know she can drive as she passed us many, many times during our weekend together.  Alan, Vicki, and Bill discuss how things have been going as well as upcoming plans and goals.  Please welcome Annika to our podcast as this week’s special guest.   

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We also added in a brief discussion on the upgrades to our Capri/Camaro transplant oil system, going over oil cooling and the differences between a wet and dry sump system. 

Finally, we also discussed whether or not to start a third project race car where we get a low dollar daily driver and convert it into a race car for use on multiple racing series that we are interested in. 

We’d love to hear from you if you would be interested in us starting this project and giving updates and progress summaries along the way on our website and of course the podcast. 

Thanks again for listening and please leave a rating and review on whatever your podcast application of choice is along with any questions or requests for guests, questions, or topics you may have.  

EP 0019: Annika Carter -Our Special Guest Racing Driver