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GHiT 0023 – Chris Kamery Autocross Driver

Chris Kamery - Known Cone Killer
Chris Kamery – Known Cone Killer

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. 

Chirs Kamery

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!!!

EP 0022: Sam Strano on Autocross

Multiple National Champion Autocross Driver

Sam Strano

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.

Sam Strano National Champion in Autocross

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

EP 0021: Chris Abbott

Special Guest Driver from Everyone Racers Podcast and member of the Three Pedal Mafia

The Everyone Racers Podcast Hosts
The Everyone Racers Podcast: From Left to Right, Chris Abbott, Chrissie Mittura, Jeff Wakeman, and Mental Ward

Chris Abbott has been a wonderful person and has helped our team tremendously and endlessly since before we were even a team. He co-hosts the Everyone Racers podcast as well as racing as often as possible, usually with the Three Pedal Mafia. Chris is one of the nicest people we have met at lemons and has probably passed us more times than any other driver in the series, sometimes even in our own car.  

Three Pedal Mafia
2017 National Champions of the 24 Hours of Lemons
Stuffy National Champions? Not our friends at the Three Pedal Mafia

On this episode, we talked about a wide variety of topics including: 

  • Our “Wish You Were Sponsoring Us”, Alpine Stars
  • Alan does a Dalek impersonation
  • New car race prep strategy
  • Boat racing. Ooops, sorry. Racing a Boat.
  • Giraffes and racing
Three Pedal Mafia in the Race Boat
The 3PM Racing Boat / Truck / Awesome!

Also as a special surprise to those of you who listen to the Everyone Racers podcast, we made special accommodations and you can actually hear Chris speaking on this episode, lol.  

We have yet to pass him and he is probably the best driver we know, as well as being a tremendous mechanic, equally skilled teacher and a great friend.

Without Chris, our team would be far behind where we currently are and likely would not have continued much past last year.

EP 0021: Chris Abbott -Special Guest Racing Driver

EP 0020: Christian “Mental” Ward

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

Christian "Mental" Ward
Mental is a great guy, a great racer and always willing to help in any way

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

EP 0019: Annika Carter

Our Special Guest Racing Driver

Annika with her MX-5 Mia
Annika with her Spec Miata MX-5 “Mia”

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.   

  • We wish we drove half as well
    Annika Drives Hard with 4 or Three Wheels!

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. 

Sterling
Annika’s Mustang “Sterling”

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. 

Mid-pack but not for long
Annika Mid-Pack, but not for very long

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

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