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GHIT 0261: Our NJMP HPDE Event – Part Deux

GHIT 0261: Our NJMP HPDE Event – Part Deux

We had a large group of drivers at the recent NASA Northeast HPDE event at NJMP’s Lightning course. Since schedules did not fully coincide last week, we broke our group up into two different episodes. We start off with our usual goals for the weekend and cover how the event went. For this NJMP HPDE, we had Audra on who had never been to this track and was driving her 2017 BMW M2 for the weekend. Adam came to the event and was going to use Bill’s M3 but due to mechanical issues, he had to use Vicki’s 1999 turbo NB Miata for one of his stints. Elizabeth was trying her new to her SpecE30 on the track. Lisa returns for a second visit on this event and drove Audra’s M2 at the event in the Hyperdrive session

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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

Highlights from this episode include:

1) We start off with our personal goals for the event. Each event we try to make sure we each have at least one goal, but no more than 3 for the weekend.

2) Elizabeth had a bit of motion sickness after going out with Bill as a passenger. We may have found a cure for this, hopefully it will prevent motion sickness as well. We will test this again at our next few events.

3) Each level of the HPDE has a download session and some of the levels have classrooms during the weekend. We discuss the benefits of each and offer some suggestions for further improvement.

4) Highlights from the weekend and our traditional Good, Bad, and the Ugly

5) Adam advanced from HPDE 1 to HPDE 2.

6) Audra advanced from HPDE 1 to HPDE 2.

7) Vicki advanced from HPDE 2 to HPDE 3.

8) Elizabeth advanced from to HPDE 2.

9) We also shared a ton of Ahh Hah moments we had at this event. Its awesome to hear how everyone of us progressed.

10) Adam gave a good review of driving the E46 M3 vs the turbo NB Miata.

GHIT 0261: Our NJMP HPDE Event – Part Deux

Paul Gerrard

GHIT 0259: Paul Gerrard – Author of Optimum Drive, Professional Racing Driver and Coach, and Top Gear USA’s “The Stig”

Do you REALLY want to be a great driver? If so, this is the episode for you.

Paul Gerrard is the author of “Optimum Drive – The Roadmap to Driving Greatness” and he knows what driving greatness entails as he has competed at many of the highest levels in motorsports and coaches many drivers pursuing their dreams. In addition, he was the Stig for Top Gear USA. Resume aside, he has a way of breaking down the pursuit of greatness that applies to virtually all areas of our lives, including racing. When he agreed to come on the podcast it was not an issue of what we should ask him, it was what we needed to leave out. Hopefully this is the first of many episodes with Paul.

And we learn the exciting news of Paul’s next book that he is working on to help

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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!

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 discuss the natural skill vs learned debate about high performance driving and racing. This is great news for most of us.

2) A story about a bad tractor tire idea leads to a great Ayrton Senna story and then to a Jean-Claude Killy story.

3) How to develop a feel for what is fast and probably more importantly, how to improve your feel.

4) What is the key to becoming a great driver. It is a simple answer and the same answer for most aspects of your life.

5) Comparison on learning to be a racing driver at a racing school and a HPDE ladder system for a goal of professional racing

6) How vision skill issues can almost always be traced back to a lack of car control skills.

7) The importance of spending time on a skid pad as well as what to do when on the skid pad

8) Bill has read Paul’s book 6 times but still gets things absolutely backwards. Time for a seventh lap.

9) We digress into couples therapy for a few minutes, lol.

10) How the key to improving your driving is the fundamentals.

11) We also go into why a car that is understeering is so difficult to work with and why a car that is below the limit does not help you as much to improve your driving as you would expect.

12) The best brake initiation practice and how it differs from street driving.

13) Potential fallacies of the smooth is fast mantra. As always, Jackie Stewart is an example of the exception.

14) We also go into all of the listener submitted questions from our Instagram and Facebook.

To find even more from Paul, please go to:

https://www.theoptimumdrive.com/

Instagram at: @theoptimumdrive

Facebook at: The Optimum Drive

Paul’s blog articles can be found at:

https://www.theoptimumdrive.com/f1-blog-entries

Paul contributes to The Fast Lane Car YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TFLcar

Or email Paul at [email protected]

GHIT 0259: Paul Gerrard – Author of Optimum Drive, Professional Racing Driver and Coach, and Top Gear USA’s “The Stig”

Ross Bentley Coaches Our Team

GHIT 0250: Ross Bentley Coaches Our Team

Ross Celebrates Episode #250 and Coaches US!!!!!!!!!!

Did you ever wonder what a driving coach does for their driver? We were always curious. Ross Bentley was kind enough to show us the start of the process.

Ross Bentley was kind enough to continue our tradition of having him on as a guest to help us celebrate every 50 episode anniversary. And as long as he keeps saying yes, we will keep asking him, lol. For this episode, Ross was kind enough to offer to help coach Vicki and Jennifer. While the exact recommendations may vary between the two ladies, the process that Ross follows could be applied to your own racing/driving and the suggestions Ross makes may be able to help you specifically as well. One thing that we learned during this episode was that we really want to work with Ross as a coach even more now after seeing what he is able to do in this short period of time. We cannot remember a time where Jennifer and Vicki were more excited to get back to the track and try out Ross’s suggestions. As always, when we have Ross Bentley on, this is a good one and we are adding it to our can’t miss episode collection. The way that Ross coaches is so easy to apply, it is amazing.

If you would like to help grow the sport of high performance racing and our 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 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.

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) Ross starts off with what tracks do we like and why. We end up talking a good bit of this episode about Mid Ohio, especially in the wet.

2) What are the first three questions that Ross asks nearly every student he works with?

3) Ross comes up with some great practice techniques that Jennifer and Vicki (and you) can do while driving to break some bad habits and train preferred habits away from the track to improve your on track performance.

4) We learn the importance of even minor improvements and how then can multiply over a lap or a stint and create some very large improvements in the lap time results.

5) Looking for alternatives to braking later or harder?

6) Ross also works with Vicki on several ways to help her (and you) stop over slowing for a turn

7) We also go over goals and ways of handling pressure and using pressure to improve.

8) How being too polite on a track can actually become unsafe

9) Ross also works with what the biggest ahh hah moments were for Jennifer and Vicki this year.

10) We love drills to try, especially at an HPDE or an open track day. Ross gave us some new ones to try. And we will at our next event. We will report back after or NJMP event in early November.

11) After the last podcast with Ross, we missed one of the listener questions related to breaking down a turn backwards. Sorry for the delay.

To find even more of Ross Bentley’s wisdom and information, several of our favorites are available at:

1) The Speed Secrets website: https://speedsecrets.com/

2) His Podcast: Speed Secrets is available at all the podcast platforms that we know https://speedsecrets.com/speedsecrets-podcast/

3) His Virtual Track Walks: https://speedsecrets.com/virtual-track-walks/

4) The weekly newsletter can be subscribed to at:

Speed Secrets Weekly

5) Free Track Maps: https://speedsecrets.com/trackmaps/

6) Free Driving tips: https://speedsecrets.com/driving-tips-2/

7) Free or nearly free eBooks: https://speedsecrets.com/ebooks/

GHIT 0250: Ross Bentley Coaches Our Team

Fast Hands vs Slow Hands

DwD 0249: Fast Hands vs Slow Hands

In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we discuss the debate between fast hands and slow hands. The
natural tendency of each driver varies, often by how they grew up. Go karters and autocrossers usually have a tendency to have faster hands. Ben discusses with us the usefulness of both and what we think of as the
“proper” hand speed.

Also, Ben stakes a very strong claim in the debate between Eric Clapton and Eddie van Halen.

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.

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. The Apex Pro is 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 0249: Fast Hands vs Slow Hands

The HPDE Junkie Himself Dave Peters

GHIT 0248: The HPDE Junkie Himself Dave Peters

Dave Peters started the HPDE Junkie website to help everyone to find a local HPDE track day by compiling every HPDE event across the United States at every track with every organization. He is an HPDE Junkie himself and has even had Ben Dawson as his coach early in his driving progression. The focus of this episode is on what an HPDE is and how to go about finding and preparing for a High Performance Driving Education Event, especially if this is new to you or a friend. It is a great conversation about what to do for a track day and what not to do. Further proof that anyone can go on track if they want to try high performance driving on a track.

If you would like to help grow the sport of high performance racing and our podcast,

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!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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

GHIT 0248: The HPDE Junkie Himself Dave Peters

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