Garage Heroes (In Training)

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Team Status Update

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Added Hammers, I mean Wrenches

GHIT 0368:  Team Status Update

After having a few inquiries at the track and via social media, we begin to review what we are up to and working on as a team and some of the projects and issue we are working on.  This episode is a partial laundry list of some of the more significant near term items we are working on or pondering, as well as a few of our goals going into the approaching offseason.  At this point, we consider these types of episodes a work in progress and expect them to come out less than weekly, but we hope they help everyone.  Also, please feel free to ask any questions on things we are working on or any topic we may be able to help you with.  We hope you enjoy the episode.

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, Jeremy, and Bill

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training racing team

GHIT 0368:  Team Status Update

GHIT 0111: Amanda Tully from the Mome Rath Racing Team

  • Amanda Tully Mome Rath Thompson 2019
    On the way to Win #2 at Thompson
  • Amanda Tully at NJMP for the First Win
    NJMP for First Win
  • Amanda Tully after three peat
    NHMS 2019 makes it Three in a row!

After months of badgering, we finally weakened Amanda Tully enough to where she agreed to come onto our podcast.  After a disappointing 2019 where she finished 2nd, 1st, 1st, and 1st, we couldn’t wait to hear what she was going to do to improve this year, LOL.  Actually, it was a great pleasure to catch up with her and learn about her racing history and how she and her team came to dominate the east coast races last year.  Amanda also discussed with us her recent transition to sim racing and we all shared some of our growing pains, as well as a lot of the fun we are having while home.  Vicki was able to put on her Amanda t-shirt and fangirl for the entire episode.  It was an unintended coincidence that she appeared in episode 111, but it fit with their results from last season.

On this episode of Dominating with Dawson, Ben covers what to do if you have an incident on the track to minimize the effect on your day, and your car.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, Jennifer, and Alan
Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast
and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

Highlights from the episode include:

1)  How we first met Amanda and her team at our first ever race at NJMP in 2018.
2)  How Vicki and Amanda bonded at NHMS in the 3PM overflowing hot tub last year.
3)  How Amanda progressed from full newbie racer with HPDE experience to her current successes in Lemons.  It all started with the lure of the fun $500 race car.  Her experiences indicate that even we may eventually get good at this, we shall see.
4)  Amanda may have helped Bill with the “what spares should we bring” discussions that we always seem to have.  Since Amanda said it, Vicki may finally agree.  We shall see.
5)  We try to dissect the “issues” that led to her low performance of the year at Pittsburgh last year where they “only” finished in second place. But they did win the “I Got Screwed” Award.
6)  How HPDE and especially her past motorcycle HPDE track days may have influenced her driving style, as well as her skill.
7)  We tried getting some more info related to Amanda’s latest car for Lemons.  It’s still super secret, but we know it is coming.  Rumor has it that we may even be able to pass her team once this year.
8)  Amanda and Bill try to help Vicki with her nervousness in joining the races.  Both shared some of their best/poorest i-Racing performances so far.
9)  We also discuss several similarities and differences we are seeing in sim racing and our more normal meat world racing.  Peripheral vision, lack/different G force feedback, tire grip/physics, and various software settings seem to not be helping any of us at this point.  Still having fun though.
10)  Sim racing:  It’s the same, but it’s not.
11)  Vicki displays a story about why testing on Fridays should not be optional, especially if it’s your first time at a track.
12)  Amanda was even kind enough to go into what she would recommend to improve your performance and fun at a race.  It is all fairly simple, but very important things that she has learned from others and through personal experience.
13)  Brandon and Kelly both get a quick shut out.  Kelly, you need to come out on track.
14)  We also continue our continuing discussion on in car data and lap timing.  Amanda is pretty firm in her position and her opinion isn’t going to change any time soon.  Pursuit of a fast lap time has hurt  her team’s performance in the race so many times.  It is far more important to get all your laps similar and all your drivers as close as possible.
15)  Our mutual friends in the Folgers car get another shout out.
16)  Bill bonds with Amanda on spares and tools for the track.  Vicki still seems less than enthused.
17)  Amanda is not a fan of our RS4 tire use but prefers the Azenis 615’s. We think it may be worth a retry at some point.  Maybe she will borrow or test ours.  Once we find a few more BMW 8.5″ * 17″ DSII rims (or DS2).
18)  We need to see if there are any cars that Amanda likes besides her E36
and E92.  There has to be at least one.
19)  We even bond over our poor i-Racing seats.
20)   We joke around about a recent i-Racing event with the Three Pedal Mafia at the expense of our great friends Jeff and Mental

  • Amanda Tully Mome Rath
    Off to a Smoking Start for 2019
  • Amanda Tully Topping the Leader Board
    Topping the Leader Board
  • Champions Get Trophies
    Champions Get Trophies

GHIT 0111: Amanda Tully from the Mome Rath Racing Team

GHIT 0098: Ben Liaw from Rogue Engineering on racing BMW’s

Rogue Engineering
Rogue Engineering at the track

Ben Liaw from Rogue Engineering was kind enough to come on this week’s podcast.  Ben races and also supports his racing clients at Rogue Engineering in Upper Saddle River, NJ, where they not only assist with race car prep and on track support but design and manufacture many parts improvements for many BMW models.

Also, on this week’s Dominating with Dawson, we went over driving a new to you race car and what you should do prior to driving and how best to acclimate to the new vehicle.

Highlights from this week’s episode include:

1)  Stories of how his business grew from designing and manufacturing to mechanical and racing assistance
2)  Some thoughts on car prep for racing
3)  A great discussion of various BMW models that are used in racing, including strengths and areas where you may want to augment the stock parts and systems.  Most 3 series models were discussed including the E30, E36, E46, E92 as well as the more modern F series models, as well as a few 1 and 2 series models and Mini’s, including relative strengths and weaknesses between them.
4)  Our first real discussion about the AER endurance racing series
5)  Potential upgrades for racing our M240i
6)  Spec E46 race cars and priority the addition of upgrades, including the subframe issue
7)  Bill gets into a discussion while Vicki has computer issues
8)  Alan picks Ben’s brain throughout while he also goes shopping while we are recording “for Vicki” lol
9)  Bill put Ben in an unfair spot to compare BMW’s to other typical cars, like Boxsters/Caymans and Miata/MX-5’s etc.  Ben, you have our apologies.
10)  Vicki wanted to appeal to Ben for any assistance with her latest E36 rear wheel hub and bearing replacement project/debacle.  Ben offered his typical preventive maintenance program for hubs and bearings for his AER endurance racing.
11)  We even go into critical spares and critical spare philosophy and the potential tradeoff vs pre-race prep
12)  Several Dante references and a new level called “Wheel Bearing Hell”. Vicki views this as the hidden 8th level.
13)  Rogue Engineering’s incredibly smart wheel studs with a hex end on both ends in case of a sheared stud
14)  Bill finds a brand of power tools where he is fully qualified, and even Alan agrees

To contact Ben and his team or follow along with their various exploits, you can go to their website at https://www.rogueengineering.com/ or follow them on Instagram at Rogue Engineering.

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Bill, Vicki, Jennifer, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast and team members in the GHiT Immature Endurance Racing Team

Rogue Engineering
The Key Is In The Preparation

GHIT 0098: Ben Liaw from Rogue Engineering on racing BMW’s