Garage Heroes (In Training)

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Survive The 25

Survive the 25

Survive the 25

Top 5’ish Scoreboard

Current PositionNamePoints Total
1Alex L57
2Bill – GHiT37
3Jon – 91 Octane23
4Jeff – E1R22
5Justin21
OtherPodcastOther Podcast Hosts
8Jaime – Race FF18
10Vicki – GHiT17
12Tony – Unaccepted15
ARE YOU IN?

Scorecard updated December 31, 2021

Our Survive the 25 Podcast Participants

Slip Angle Podcast: New Slip Angle Podcasts are posted every Tuesday and Friday (usually).  They cover track days, club racing, autocrossing, and other various driving hobbies. By drivers, for drivers. 

RaceFF Podcast: A podcast about road racing in So Cal focusing on FF cars.

Everyone Racers (E1R) Podcast : Everyone Racers is a podcast that focuses on amateur endurance racing from beginner to advanced, as well as the news, tips, and tricks that go along with our hobby. Four friends and often teammates; Chrissy Mittura, Christopher Abbott, Jeff Wakemen and Christian “Mental” Ward discuss current racing trends and news, as well as occasional interviews and guests who are interesting people with different perspectives on racing and car culture. You never know what they’ll discuss each week, but it will be entertaining!

Ninety One Octane Podcast: An automotive enthusiast and a self proclaimed track junkie break down cars, car culture, and everything in between. Randy from Detroit, and Jon from Los Angeles, offer differing and down right wild perspectives that go well past the usual car review dribble you have grown accustomed to.

Garage Heroes In Training Podcast: You are here, so you probably already know, but, we are an amateur endurance auto racing team. We hope to show everyone that they too can participate in performance driving. We are a relatively new team and learning right along with you. Our assumption is that you know very little to nothing about the sport but are interested in learning to drive better and eventually maybe even race in a local event of interest. We will cover all forms of racing and hope to be entertaining as well as educational.

Survive The 25

Survive the 25

Survive the 25

Top 5’ish Scoreboard

Current PositionNamePoints Total
1Alex L32
2Bill – GHiT26
3Jon – 91 Octane23
4Jeff – E1R22
5Amanda T20.5
OtherPodcastHosts
6Vicki – GHiT17
8Jaime – Race FF10
ARE YOU IN?

Scorecard updated December 21, 2021

Slip Angle Podcast: New Slip Angle Podcasts are posted every Tuesday and Friday (usually).  They cover track days, club racing, autocrossing, and other various driving hobbies. By drivers, for drivers. 

RaceFF Podcast: A podcast about road racing in So Cal focusing on FF cars.

Everyone Racers (E1R) Podcast : Everyone Racers is a podcast that focuses on amateur endurance racing from beginner to advanced, as well as the news, tips, and tricks that go along with our hobby. Four friends and often teammates; Chrissy Mittura, Christopher Abbott, Jeff Wakemen and Christian “Mental” Ward discuss current racing trends and news, as well as occasional interviews and guests who are interesting people with different perspectives on racing and car culture. You never know what they’ll discuss each week, but it will be entertaining!

Ninety One Octane Podcast: An automotive enthusiast and a self proclaimed track junkie break down cars, car culture, and everything in between. Randy from Detroit, and Jon from Los Angeles, offer differing and down right wild perspectives that go well past the usual car review dribble you have grown accustomed to.

Garage Heroes In Training Podcast: You are here, so you probably already know, but, we are an amateur endurance auto racing team. We hope to show everyone that they too can participate in performance driving. We are a relatively new team and learning right along with you. Our assumption is that you know very little to nothing about the sport but are interested in learning to drive better and eventually maybe even race in a local event of interest. We will cover all forms of racing and hope to be entertaining as well as educational.

Survive The 25

2021 Edition

Survive the 25

Sometimes with a hobby, things can get out of balance. Especially if your hobby is in the least bit competitive and you are a competitive person. This is particularly true of racing drivers. And that is why we are starting the Survive the 25 challenge.

As such, four of the hosts from four of your favorite podcasts have joined together for a 2021 winter challenge.

We have agreed to a contest where hopefully we will all win.

By April 15th, each of us will have

  • Lost at least 25 pounds (~11.5 kg)
  • Read at least 5 racing books
  • Raced in at least 5 karting races or sim racing events for at least 1 hour

We would love it if you would like to join us.

Simply post on Instagram using the hashtag #SurviveThe25 and we will figure out how to get a leaderboard together and maybe some swag from your favorite podcasts.

Survive the 25 Challengers

In the South Jersey corner, we have Jeff Wakeman, one of the hosts of the Everyone Racers podcast

In the SoCal corner we have two podcast hosts.

Joining us from parts unknown, is Jamie, host of the Racer FF podcast.

Also from the SoCal corner, we have Jon who cohosts the NinetyOneOctane podcast.

And from the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, we have one of the hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast.

Who will win?

Who will not win?

Do you have a favorite?

Why aren’t you listening to all of these podcasts?

Please let us know in the comments below.

Last updated: Just started

CompetitorsPounds Lost
(1 pt per pound)
(2 pt per lb
– Sundae Cup)		Books Read
(5 pts ea)		Races Completed
(5 pts ea)		Total
max
75 pt		Winner?
Podcast Hosts
AKA
Sources of the Swag
Adam
Slip Angle Podcast		–TBD
Jaime
RaceFF Podcast		–TBD
Jeff
Everyone Racers Podcast		–TBD
Jon
NinetyOne Octane Podcast		-4 lb4TBD
Vicki
Garage Heroes In Training		5 pts
Optimum Drive		5 pt
Nov		10TBD
Bill
Garage Heroes In Training		-3 lb5 pts
Optimum Drive		5 pt
Nov		13TBD
Listeners Entered
Alex-6 lb5 pt
Nov		11TBD
Amanda5 pt
Nov		5TBD
Dave-7 lb5 pt
Nov		12TBD
Eli
Eric
Ghomer
Jake
Justin
Tony
Could be YOU
Updated as of: November 17th, 2021

GHIT 0156: Pirate Takeover of Everyone Racers

(from 2018) and the (Horrible) Beginning of Our Podcasting

Everyone Racers Podcast pirate Takeover

We found several of the original sound files and decided to put this together for a bonus Christmas gift to everyone.  This is the podcast recording sessions that started everything.  We originally intended this to fill in a week gap that the Everyone Racers podcast took for Chris and Chrissy’s wedding.  However, it took almost thirty tries for us to get to this point. 

In addition, we added an early snippet of our first GHiT podcast introductions.  I guess we did get better over time, but honestly, we really had to, there was nowhere else to go.

We were such newbies back then.  Hopefully, we can look back three years from now and feel the same ways about our team now vs then.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS  Don’t blame us.  Bill’s editing skills have improved to where this was possible and almost sounds decent.

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)  A few of our best E1R (Everyone Racers) intros followed with our own feeble attempt to follow their episode guideline at the time.

2)  A very brief wrap up of our recent race at Thompson with the 24 Hours of Lemons, our teams second overall race, and Alan and Jen’s first ever race.  The race weekend was very hot Friday and then very wet and humid for the rest of the weekend.

3)  One of our first jokes came at the expense of Jeff.  Very fitting.

4)  The announcement of the team’s newest puppy, a Bernese Mountain dog named Zoe Lemons Fischer.

5)  Even back then, we had prep issues.  Still a focus of our improvement.

6)  Alan had bad internet at the time and was using the local Starbucks internet since it was much faster.  Lol.

7)  When 4-5 psi is an issue on your SpiderStang, a 1984 Mustang GT Turbo, obviously you turn it up to 15 psi or so.

8)  The end of the Capri at Thompson is reviewed a bit.  The project is still ongoing.

9)  Special shout out to Bruce and all his help with fixing the Capri until late in the morning, only to find out our issue was a broken cam shaft.

10)  Our first ever racing trophy was received at the Thompson race.  Unfortunately, it was the
I Got Screwed” award and even more unfortunately, it is still our only reward, but at least we have one, lol.

11)  Alan’s first black flag came this weekend.  But not his last.

12)  Our first ever attempt to help the Everyone Racers podcast with a sponsor reading.  It did not go well

13)  Vicki provides just the tip.  It was on the help of Friday practice.  We would add pre-race prep to this as well.  A lot of this can be done ahead of time with YouTube and various track guides and track walks available, especially our favorites from Ross Bentley and Racers360.

14)  We even discuss our plans for the Capri after the transmission and engine issues at Thompson.  The plan is still the same.  Our skills just haven’t allowed us to get it to the finish line.  Yet.  Stay tuned.

15)  Proof we can have an episode last less than one hour.

GHIT 0099: Chrissy Mittura, Racing Driver and Host of the Everyone Racers podcast

  • Chrissy Mittura Up Close
  • Chrissy Mittura Winning
  • Chrissy Mittura and Miata
Chrissy Mittura is our guest this week

For our 99th Episode, Chrissy Mittura from the Three Pedal Mafia and the co-host of the Everyone Racers podcast was our guest for this week.  Chrissy was one of the key influences that helped us to start our team, so we thank her all the time and blame her some of the time, lol.  Chrissy is not only and excellent driver that we are passed by routinely but has also helped our team immeasurably not only at the track but preparing for the track and our various HPDE events.  With Chrissy finally being able to come on our podcast, we now have a complete set (four of a kind?) of the Everyone Racers podcast hosts.  Now we have to work our way through the remaining Three Pedal Mafia team.  You, our listeners, have been warned, lol.  Chris may even learn something during this episode.

Please Listen to the Everyone Racers Podcast

On this week’s Dominating with Dawson segment we go over racing a “new to you” car, what to look for, what to look out for, and how to begin to get comfortable safely to reduce your lap times. 

Highlights from this episode include:

* Chrissy is in a new position with being able to talk and not being interrupted
* Kate’s recent dream about Chrissy
* Vicki reviews a video of her driving at her first ever race at NJMP
* Alan claims the title of “Cone Clearer” while driving the El Jeffe race truck, unfortunately, not a joke
* Vicki gets all philosophical with Chrissy over here approach to racing in Lemons and racing in general
* A full review of the Trucklet
* We are the second to break some new car news and pick at the gaping wound of the Citroen paperwork one last time
* We come up with a potential solution to the current podcast curse in the Lucky Dog racing series and racing on a Sunday (3 strikes and counting)
* Kate is looking for Chris to help with getting Alan towards any form of clean
* Kate picks Chrissy’s brain for her upcoming season (we hope) where Kate is taking over as Crew Chief at our races
* The Grill Guys of 3PM get a shout out
* Great tips on pit stop coordination and paddock optimization
* A discussion on passing in high traffic Lemons fields and potential sad face aspects of racing
* Many tips and tricks from Chrissy’s many years of racing in Lemons
* Potential herding strategies and a reluctant admission of the impossibility of herding shiny squirrels and the upcoming potential sainthood for Kate
* Pitt Race HPDE with NASA Great Lakes gets a full endorsement from Chrissy, as well as Bill
* Chrissy calls her shot for our upcoming Thompson race in August
* CMP vs Lemans, two things you never thought would be in the same sentence
* What it’s like to race with and learn from your significant other, we may or may not have asked for ourselves, but it is sure to help you as well
* What to do when the cars are running well and there is down time available.  We almost never have that as an issue.
* We discuss the merits of singing while driving with a new demo tape
* Alan breaks news about our upcoming Pitt Race event during our Good, Bad and the Ugly.  Everyone takes it well, well sort of.  Kate takes a very, very glass half full reaction. 
* Alan:  Domination?  Chrissy:  Have you seen me?  Best retort ever
* The Save The Tatas team and car gets several shout outs during the episode

We hope you enjoyed the episode as much as we did. 

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

GHIT 0099: Chrissy Mittura, Racing Driver and Host of the Everyone Racers podcast

Chrissy Mittura and Chris Abbott
Chrissy and Chris, Special Car, Special Day