Grid Life

Frank Schwartz

– All About B Spec Racing and More

GHIT 0408: Frank Schwartz – All About B Spec Racing and More

Frank Schwartz is a racer and owner of Grass Paddock Motorsports that rents B Spec Honda Fits and Mini Coopers. He is also known online as the stepfather of B Spec racing. Frank seems to be a proud father to be of a potential new class of C Spec racing for the SCCA. Frank is involved with getting people into the sport at a reasonable budget. We ended up talking a great deal about racing in general, the motivations, as well as what you can get out of racing beyond “winning” the race.

If you are ever interested in trying out B Spec racing, Grass Paddock Motorsports may be a great option. Especially if you are getting started and may be an even better option to stay racing. While we are here, you know we couldn’t help but ask what to do to get involved in B Spec racing and prepare a car. Or two. Well, maybe 3. How about 4. That sounds better. #VickiIsGoingToKillBill

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Best regards,

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

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

GHIT 0408: Frank Schwartz – All About B Spec Racing and More

Kyle Heyer The Voice of GridLife

GHIT 0407: Kyle Heyer The Voice of GridLife

In our totally biased opinions, the GridLife live stream is the best motorsports events on TV/YouTube, and we lose so much time in the garage when they are on for the weekend. Kyle Heyer is the lead presenter and commentator for the GridLife series and has worked hosting other series including SRO on live streams and broadcast television. In addition, Kyle is involved with the GridLife team in setting up the time attack series to improve the presentation on the livestream. We recorded prior to the schedule release at PRI so we talk around the schedule and the recently released proposed rules changes. It was a bit of a change of pace, but if you ever wanted to hear Kyle talk about himself, here is a great opportunity.

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.

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” for a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/

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 from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

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

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

GHIT 0407: Kyle Heyer The Voice of GridLife

Adam Jabaay GridLife 2022 and Previews 2023

GHIT 0405: Adam Jabaay Reviews GridLife 2022 and Previews 2023

Co Head Honcho of GridLife, Adam Jabaay comes on the podcast before the 2023 announcements and talks about how 2022 went for GridLife and what he is looking forward to for 2023. We were finally able to get to our first GridLife events at NJMP this summer and short visit to the Lime Rock event. Adam talks a good bit about the Lime Rock and several stories from the event, as well as several of the other highlights from the season including the first ever Enduro event at PittRace. We were able to talk a bit about the upcoming years schedule and potential rule changes and modifications and the reasoning behind them. 2022 was an amazing year for GridLife and we expect 2023 to be even better.

We aren’t going to be able to attend the upcoming PRI but cannot wait to put some GridLife events on our team schedule. Sundae Cup here we come.

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

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

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

Tom O’Gorman

AKA “TomO” from TOMO Racing and ASM

GHIT 0230: Tom O’Gorman AKA TomO from TOMO Racing and ASM

Tom O’Gorman is currently racing the Grid Life GLTC series with ASM and has competed and won at some of the highest levels as a professional driver for several teams. He is also a sought after racing coach for drivers at all levels. We talk with him about his entire career, remaining goals, as well as his driver coaching. Far be it from us to not ask him about a few coaching questions.

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.

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. 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 Tom O’Gorman episode include:

1) How he has grown as a driver by being able to experience a wide variety of cars quickly from a very young age when he was autocrossing. This cross training has led to his ability to adapt to cars very quickly and race in all style cars as needed.

2) We take a moment to ask Tom which car he hasn’t driven in (yet) that he would like to drive a race in at least once. We think Adam may have to have a driver shuffle event to complement his field invert race, lol.

3) It is amazing how early and deeply auto racing “drove” within Tom when he discovered some of the early console driving games.

4) We firmly believe that if Tom wins both autocross events in the NSX, he should be allowed to keep the NSX. This could be another example of why we have no sponsors, lol.

5) Tom even shared a great example of how even for a driver at his level that some weekends just don’t go as well as we would wish and how Covid has impacted his racing. We also go into his GLTC series racing history and how the Grid Life series has grown and continues to grow. It is like a spec series in the closeness of the racing without a single car design.

6) We poke Tom for some Mid Ohio rain tips. He was nice enough to give a few of the things he has learned at his home track. Vicki is insistent wet Mid Ohio is like lava. Bill is starting to piece that together.

7) The potential of the use of a 200 tread wear tire in GLTC and the potential advantages and disadvantages of a potential switch.

8) Tom also discussed the Grid Life Sundae Cup series.

9) We also go into coaching drivers at all levels, the use of in car coaching, as well as video, data, and even coach driving demonstration to help every level driver improve.

10) Pushing limits and breaking though limits comes up again. Hypothetically, lol.

GHIT 0230: Tom O’Gorman AKA TomO from TOMO Racing and ASM

Scott Robertson from the Track Walking podcast

GHIT 0218: Scott Robertson from the Track Walking podcast

(Part 2 of Our GLTC Series)

For this episode, Scott Robertson reviews a variety of topics including his racing in the Grid Life GLTC series, his multiple One Lap of America entries, being a driving instructor, and his Track Walking podcast. Scott had an ill timed racing incident earlier this year just prior to the 2021 One Lap of America. He was somehow able to get the car back in running shape in time for the OLOA with the help of a ton of help from the racing community. His podcast approaches our sport and driving in general from a very different perspective. The podcast is definitely unique among the racing and driving podcasts that are available. We hope to have his podcast co-host on Seth Lemke on in a coming episode. And we cannot wait to meet his crew chief and co-driver Becky Burton at the track and hopefully our podcast.

Want 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, you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating. Even better, a podcast review would be greatly appreciated. This 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/ScottRobertsonOnGHiT

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) How Scott’s racing career began and has continued to progress.

2) We discover how versatile Scott’s Miata is in its current role, road driven, race car, tow vehicle, and sometimes hotel room and base camp.

3) Vicki and Scott bond over their Miata love for a bit. Scott has a super secret spare stash and upgrade kit that we will get out of him someday. We’d love to get our NB Miata a bit more reliable and sturdy. (and we all know Bill loves upgrading his checklists, lol)

4) Details of his difficulties in preparing for this year’s One Lap of America after his on track incident. It literally took a village (of racing friends) and every last minute to pull off the miracle save.

5) The intertwining of the 2021 One Lap of America and the current GLTC season have impacted each other and how the season has gone to this point.

6) Tips, Tricks, and Do’s and Don’ts that experience has taught Scott over the years of instructing new and soon to be drivers on the track at an HPDE.

7) Prepping for GLTC vs One Lap of America, and especially how to One Lap in a Miata race car

8) Several things Scott got from Coaching with (hopefully our future guest for our GLTC series) Tom O (Tom O’Gorman) but we can also confirm one item that was not part of Tom’s coaching.

9) Podcast goals and perspectives on what they are trying to provide to our sport.

To follow Scott Robertson, you can go to:

@TrackWalkingPodcast on Facebook or Instagram

@RobertsonRacing on Instagram

@RobertsonRacingMaita on Facebook

GHIT 0218: Scott Robertson from the Track Walking podcast (Part 2 of Our GLTC Series)