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Dominating with Dawson

Tossing a Car Into a Turn

Dominating with Dawson 0223: Tossing a Car Into a Turn – Jargon 101

Tossing a car into a turn

On this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we cover a term the new to Jennifer. Tossing a car into a turn.  While it seems to be losing popularity, we have heard it a few times at the track in the paddock. So, in our pursuit of not looking like we don’t know anything, we thought we would cover it here.  We then move into a discussion of driving styles and choices that may help you as well.

If you would like to help the 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. Even better, a podcast review. We would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ThompsonPart1  

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

DwD 0223: Tossing a Car Into a Turn – Jargon 101

Jargon 101: What is a Log Book?

DwD 0220: Jargon 101: What is a Log Book and What Does It Entail

Log Book

In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go into what is meant by log booking. This is also referred to as a race car that is log booked.  It is really not terribly complicated but it is something that you may eventually need to do. And it is always better to not sound uninformed.  Let us do that for you, lol.  (PS It turns out we do have a log book from Lucky Dog, we just didn’t know that was what it was.)

If you would like to help our 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, we would really appreciate it. Even better, a podcast review would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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

DwD 0220: Jargon 101: What is a Log Book and What Does It Entail

Bedding Brakes

DwD 0217: Bedding Brakes

Bedding Brakes

In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go into what is meant by “bedding of brakes” and several ways that it can be done.  Thank you to our listener A. Powers for writing in with this question. 

For even more details related to Brake Pads and many other braking components, please go to our episode with Wendy from Porterfields back on episode 59.  Quick link to the episode:

Wendy From Porterfields

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. Even better, a podcast review. We would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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. 

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/DwDBrakeBedding

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

DwD 0217: Bedding Brakes

Team Kelly Racing:

Tiffany Kelly and Justin Kelly

GHIT 0213: Tiffany Kelly and Justin Kelly from Team Kelly Racing – Part 1 of our 4 part Grid Life/GLTC Series

Tiffany Kelly and Justin Kelly are both top drivers in the GLTC series and have competed as Team Kelly Racing.  In addition, they have a racing school to teach other drivers and also race shifter karts to further hone their skills.  During this episode, we go over their racing history, including what is GLTC for our listeners who may not be familiar.  The Kelly’s also have a fantastic YouTube channel where they go over many aspects of their racing lives and help show you how they do what they do.  They were even nice enough to stay on and go through our Fast and Furious Storytime questions.  We wish them both good luck in this weekend’s GLTC race at Pikes Peak.  

We have been following the Grid Life series, especially their GLTC series for the last few years and since our schedules don’t align this year, we thought we would interview several of the drivers, teams, and hosts for the next few episodes.

Team Kelly Racing on Grid

In this issue of Dominating with Dawson,

we start with what may be Bill’s dumbest intro ever and then work our way onto the topic of how to exploit chaos on the track to help you improve on the performance of the car and team.  Ben even has a bunch of examples of what he is referring to and how he routinely uses these areas to gain an advantage or pass a few of his fellow competitors.

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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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. 

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/TeamKellyRacingOnGHIT 

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

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.

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)  How and why did they each choose the cars they are racing.

2)  The reasons behind them not doing a K-swap but doing a J-swap to both their cars last winter.

3)  How they both seem to be at an entirely different level with their knowledge of engine/mechanical part swaps and assembly options.

4)  We all try to talk Vicki off the ledge and finally cut the hood of her Miata to add vents to let out some of the heat.

5)  What is it like racing with your significant other, advantages and disadvantages, along with a few tips that they have learned along the way.

6)  Some of the hurdles that come with starting to get fast when racing on a track, how did to deal with them and gain the confidence to push through that limit.

7)  The story of paddock famous Uni the Unicorn.

To keep up with Team Kelly Racing please

Subscribe to their YouTube channel at:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXf_WtojaK6gYmZGb1EXETw 

Or follow them on Instagram at:  https://www.instagram.com/tiffanykellyracing/ 

Also, Tiffany will be appearing on the Discovery Channel on their new show The Getaway Driver

GHIT 0213: Tiffany Kelly and Justin Kelly from Team Kelly Racing

Team Kelly Racing

Jennifer Skripchuk – Intro & Update

  • Jennifer in the Turbo NB Miata
  • Jennifer with Vicki at our first race
  • Our Captain Marvel
  • Jennifer and Vicki with Randy Pobst

GHIT 0211:  GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions – Jennifer

It has been several years since we did our host/driver introductions and we thought we’d update our newer listeners with a bit of background from each of our hosts.  

Jennifer was a self proclaimed driver that started racing at less than zero.  She attended our first race and joined the team as a driver at our second race.  She has probably improved the most of any of our drivers to this point and is now a solid race driver and continuing to improve quickly.  On this episode, we go over where Jennifer is currently in her driving career and what her goals are for the next few years.  As a bonus, we included the original introduction we had way back to episode #14, long before Jennifer was “coerced” into becoming a podcast host,  We hope you enjoy getting to know us better and learning where we are (or maybe where we think we are) and where we wish to go in the coming years.  

If we missed something that you wanted to know, please let us know on our website or social media etc.  

In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we go back into the racing jargon bin and find out what shaving tires means, why you would do it, and what it might gain you on the track.  We haven’t ever done this and don’t see it coming to our team anytime soon, but maybe it will help you or your team.  Perhaps it is more prevalent in a sprint race than our more normal endurance racing events.

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 or even better, a podcast review, we would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

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. 

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/JenniferReIntroduction

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

GHIT 0211:  GHIT Host/Driver Updated Introductions – Jennifer

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