Dominating with Dawson

Best Car Mods to Go Faster

DwD 0328: Best Car Mods to Go Faster – With Guest DwD Judge Tyler

Ben is joined by honorary guest DwD Judge Tyler for a special Dominating with Dawson where we go over what are the best things you can modify in your car to perform better. Ben goes with brakes pads and brake fluid upgrades. Tyler goes with upgraded tires. While both of these are great additions, Bill and Vicki disagree slightly. If we were playing Family Feud, brake pads and fluid would be #2. Tires a close #3. We always like keeping you in suspense so the correct car mods answer is……..

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

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 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” for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

DwD 0328: Best Car Mods to Go Faster – With Guest DwD Judge Tyler

John Kolesa from AER

GHIT 0327: John Kolesa on AER (American Endurance Racing)

John Kolesa started American Endurance Racing several years ago and we had a great time racing with the series at PittRace. So we had to have him on to officially introduce everyone to the series. Since starting the series in 2014, AER has assumed a position towards the more competitive/higher performance segment of the amateur endurance racing community. The series was desiring to be more open to different cars and modified cars. AER has a simpler classing process that uses qualifying times to initially calls cars and then can re-classify cars throughout the weekend if there are drivers with significant range of skills on a team. The top class is an exhibition class that is based on a power to weight basis. The technology that AER uses during the race weekend is among the best we have seen in amateur racing.

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. That 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“. You will get 10% discount during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

Highlights for this episode include:

1) AER’s history, how the series came to be, and why

2) We clarify the classification process that AER uses to set the different levels for the weekend including the top exhibition class for cars faster than they

3) How they try to control costs and the competitive balance by requiring a certain number of pitstops and a minimum stop duration.

4) The series uses RFID stickers to track the car and the individual driver performance and history. In addition, the Flagger system was a welcome addition to our car. It really helped improve the communication between the series and the individual drivers and cars.

5) Upcoming changes and additions to the upcoming races.

6) AER is currently running a special that allows new teams to enter a race weekend and have a reduced cost or even free.

7) We address several of the criticisms and concerns about the series and hope you will feel comfortable entering one of their races yourself.

8) Challenges the series faces with upcoming events and tracks.

9) We speculate on the effect that modern cars may have on grassroots racing in the future.

To get more details about AER, please follow them at:

Website: http://americanenduranceracing.com/

Instagram: @americanenduranceracing

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/americanenduranceracing

GHIT 0327: John Kolesa on AER (American Endurance Racing)

Driving What You Got

On Track – Two Ways

DwD 0326: Driving What You Got On Track – Two Ways

On this episode of Dominating with Dawson, we go over two aspects of driving on track with the “car” you have. This was originally intended to address the aspect of driving the car you have at the time. Adapting your driving to the car as it is during a weekend or a stint. Most of us are not fortunate enough to have the ability to dial in a car on the fly on track. Most times you have to make the best of it. The discussion also went into going to a track event with almost every one of your daily drivers. Most cars in the current condition and not waiting until you install a blank or add a new blank. In the end, the more seat time you have and the more car behaviors you learn. This allows you to drive and adapt to, the better your skills will be and the faster you will be in a different car or track or weather or tires etc. in the future. Just get started and make the best of any time that you are blessed and able to have on track.

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. This includes 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. We would 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.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

The Return of Two Feet In

DwD 0323: The Return of Two Feet In

We return to the topic of two feet in to make sure everyone is on the same page. Also, why we would be strong supporters of knowing when it is time to employ this technique. The key aspect of this is to get your feet off of the throttle or gas pedal. you then press down hard on the clutch and brake if there are three pedals. If not driving a manual, just jump on the brake pedal if it is a two pedal car. This will reduce the kinetic energy of the car, reduce the likelihood and severity of contact. It also helps other car drivers in being able to predict the path you will be travelling. That sounds like a great technique and please use it as quickly as you can when you get to the point where you know you aren’t going to be able to correct the issue or especially when it is more dangerous to try to catch the car than manage the error and live to fight another day.

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

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 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 result in a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, Ben, and Bill

DwD 0323: The Return of Two Feet In

Our 2022 Lemons PittRace Event

GHIT 0322: Race Review of our 2022 Lemons PittRace Event

Tim, Vicki, and Bill are excited to review our latest race at PittRace with the 24 Hours of Lemons series. It was a great weekend and we were joined by Ben after a bit of intro discussion. This was Tim’s first Lemons experience but he is an accomplished driver, racer and instructor of instructors. We talked about Tim’s thoughts and critiques of the Lemons series and the field of cars and drivers at PittRace. This was our initial shakedown trial for our new to us 1993 Honda Civic race car.

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 would be a podcast review. This would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would appreciate it.

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 for this episode include:

1) Tim’s response to the three primary (false) criticisms of racing in the 24 Hours of Lemons series: safety culture, driver skill, and the quality of cars. The cars are usually criticized for both being junk and for being too racey, a difficult thing to do at the same time, lol.

2) The weather was a series of just about everything except hot. Tim was also exposed to 110 cars on track Saturday during a snowstorm, sleet, rain, muddy track, etc. A true trial by fire in all the best ways.

3) Vicki was out for a quick Friday practice to acclimate to the front wheel drive car and shake off some winter cobwebs. Mother nature thought she was doing so well that she decided to bequeath unto Vicki almost an inch of sloppy snow/hail during her lap. Vicki returned the favor and trimmed some of the grass for her as well.

4) Tim was also able to cross off almost every type of weather during his Saturday stint. However, we still give him a little good natured ribbing about his two black flags.

5) The rest of the weekend was something you needed to be there to truly understand.

PS Tim is desperately looking for a recipe from the pot luck

GHIT 0322: Race Review of our 2022 Lemons PittRace Event

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