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2021 Goals

Our Annual Season Review and 2022 Goals

This Episode Kicks Off Our 5th Podcast Season

Our win at PittRace
We Won Our First Race Ever

GHIT 0278:  Our Annual Season Review and Goals Episode Starts our 5th Podcast Season

We take a look back at how our team and drivers 2021 racing season went and compare it to our planned goals.  We did have quite a year and accomplished quite a bit.  How did we do versus how we wanted?  As always, you will have to listen to find out.  And as always, the episode ends with each of us giving our 2022 goals for ourselves and our team.  We would love to know if you have any 2022 goals that you can share and wish you have the best year ever, both on and off the track.

Bill with Ross Bentley
We FINALLY Met Ross Bentley

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For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy.  If you go to your podcast library, under shows and click on the podcast you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review. 

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS  Please don’t forget

that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, don’t 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.  They are a great system and truly invaluable in safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross etc.  The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

Vicki
Vicki Preparing for her HPDE
The Wilson sisters
Three Wilson Sisters Raced This Year

Highlights for this episode are:

1)  Alan now organizes, preps, and runs his own car, the MooStang.  We learn how this went for his first season and what we are still working on.

2)  Looking back at where we were going into this season versus where we are now, there has been a ton of progress.

3)  While the goals we all had were great, some of the discussion helps us to better define both the progress we made, as well as refining the path forward from here.

4)  We did a great job of getting a bunch of new people to the track and several drivers to the track that raced with other teams.  That is the primary reason we started this podcast and is fantastic!

5)  Guess who says “I’m not just here for the Slurpees, lol”.  Not a big surprise for you long time home gamers.

6)  We all are looking forward to trying as many different tracks and racing series as we can this year and maybe for the first time working with a coach at the track.

7)  We managed to make a Max Headroom reference within the episode.  You never know where we may wander.

8)  Vicki and Alan cannot seem to remember when they each earned their black flags this year.  We also had a few black flags from several of our friends that drive with us this year.  Notably, none of our all ladies team earned a flag a the Thompson event.

9)  Every year we go over what issues our cars had at the track and what we did (or are going to do) to resolve the issue long term.

10)  We have determined a key indicator that implies that a specific spare part is required for our race cars.

11)  Tips we learned on testing and replacing wheel studs for our cars.

12)  Vicki is bored winning???

13)  Our traditional Good, Bad, and the Ugly for the 2021 season.

GHIT 0278:  Our Annual Season Review and 2022 Goals Episode Starts our 5th Podcast Season

shifting points
Training for Our First All Ladies Racing Team (That Kicked Butt!)
The Buillac Trunk
We Painted Amanda’s Awesome Buillac Trunk
Racing with Chris Fix
We Raced With Chris Fix and His Team
Mia learning to drive
Mia Started Learning to Drive
Strong theming game
Out Theming was on point

2021 Goals and Our 2020 Goal Review

2021 Goals and 2020 Goal review

As the year wraps up, we review how our 2020 racing season went and what goals we would like to do and accomplish in 2021.  Obviously, the year did not go as we had hoped or planned with the COVID pandemic impacting normal life routine. But we did make some significant growth and made the best out of a horrible situation.  Goal making is one thing that is very easy to do, but also very easy to skip. However, we have found it to be very beneficial to our growth as racers as well as is our personal and professional lives.  

On our Dominating with Dawson segment, we go over what it means to be driving at the limit, what is the limit, and how to get closer and closer to the limit safely and effectively. 

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and

Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

Highlights from this episode include:

1)  We start of looking at what our goals were for 2020 and how we did

2)  The next segment covers what we want to accomplish going into 2021. (including items that we would like to improve about our driving and our team.)

3)  We then begin to look at things that went well this year and things we could have done better.

4)  It probably wouldn’t be a podcast without our doing a Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, so we did.

5)  The final step was we tried to grade our year and then determine a few things that would define a successful year for ourselves and the team.

6)  We did forget to go into The Mirror that we added to aid us in getting in better shape for racing, so we added it as a bonus section after the credits.

GHIT 0158: Our 2020 Year in Review and Our 2021 Goals

Out 2020 Goals episode can be found here.

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