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GHIT 0084: Our Sunday Race at Laguna Seca with Lucky Dog

Sunrise at the Corkscrew — Our last racing day at Laguna Seca for 2020, unless…..

We conclude our wrap up of our racing at Laguna Seca with the Lucky Dog racing series by summarizing our Sunday race and our overall thoughts and experiences. We had a great trip out to Laguna Seca and the track is wonderful. Did our Saturday continue into Sunday. Yes. Did our car give it everything it had? Yes. Did we finally break the podcast curse and finish a Lucky Dog race? Wellâ¦â¦listen and find out.

Riding into the sunset — Thank you to Lucky Dog and Laguna Seca

Highlights of our review include:

Race car status and prep review
Mentalâs first rolling start in a race and our thoughts on tire warming of street tires
Mentalâs Stint to start Sunday race day
The setup of our race car and how to drive it optimally
Many of the differences between the Lucky Dog series and Lemons
Vickiâs technique to remove some of the oil leaking into the cabin of the car
A discussion on window nets
Mental seems to have a ânewâ Miata attraction developing
Performance variability between the series and within some of the carâs by different drivers
Our goals for the weekend and goals for our day/stints
Our primary issue turns were #6, #9 and #1 (and late Sunday any straightway, lol)
Vickiâs thoughts on going through the Andretti Hairpin 3 wide and the aftermath
Our repair efforts, several of them
Erik won an award from the race, with a bit of our help
The joys of a random steering direction on center
Our end of day exploits
Favorite cars we were able to have several great laps of back and forth racing with
Mental completes his full set of competing in all amateur endurance series that use production-based cars
Track thoughts about Laguna Seca
The upcoming Champ Car race at Watkins Glen
Mental takes over hosting and we review our goals going into the race
Bill shockingly overthinks things and wanders down a path away from racing
Bill befuddles Mental enough that he is left without words
We question our training and preparation and Mental
Bill points out a gift that Mental received but wasnât even aware
Vicki and Mental bond over Veggie/Vegan and Bill will have none of it
Front wheel drive thoughts and the difference between it and the way a car is prepared/set up
Best/Favorite cars of the weekend
Our usual Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Overall trip takeaways

For those who care:

Mental was able to get down to a 1:54 on Sunday
Vicki was able to get to a 2:06 on Sunday
Bill was only able to get to 1:59 on Saturday

The overall fastest lap of the weekend was 1:41 on Saturday and 1:40 on Sunday by the red #97 Miata

Southworst MX-5 — Fastest Car of the Weekend title goes to

Overall, we loved our time with Lucky Dog and their team. Please try to race with them if they are ever near you.

Also, we really want to thank Erik for allowing us to use his car and experience this great track.

Best regards,

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

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Some of our Favorites from the weekend

Two of the biggest big boys. Small stature but big time speed!

Erik, Lonnie and Vicki — Deaf Stig (Lonnie) and Vicki
and Erik makes and appearance

Area 51 was one of the more unique cars we saw

It was a race with constant challenges, mostly internal

GHIT 0084: Our Sunday Race at Laguna Seca with Lucky Dog

GHIT 0082: Laguna Seca With Lucky Dog and Mental

Unedited live episode from Laguna Seca after Day 1 of racing with Lucky Dog. We had a long day or racing and repairing. It was our first day ever on the Laguna Seca and Vicki’s first ever day racing a front wheel drive car.

We made a few mistakes, learned a ton, and loved every second. Most importantly, we think we made a whole bunch of new friends and we were able to catch up with many we already knew.

Lucky Dog is a great series, with great people, and some spectacular cars. Some are spectacularly good, some are spectacularly fast, and some are spectacular in their own way.

A tired crew describes our first ever race day at Laguna Seca with our friends at the Lucky Dog racing series, silliness ensues.

With Vicki, Bill and special guest Mental Ward

GHIT 0082: Laguna Seca With Lucky Dog and Mental

GHIT 0050: Our Lucky Dog Race and Portland International Raceway – 2019

We came, we saw, we were conquered.

Alan, Jennifer, Vicki, and Bill with a few drop ins cover our race weekend with the Lucky Dog Series at Portland International Raceway.Â It starts with a review of practice Saturday morning, then our 7-hour endurance race Saturday and our work to get back out late Sunday.Â

We compare Lucky Dog to our home series the 24 Hours of Lemons.Â While similar, there are differences, pluses and minuses for each, so we compare the two in the continual pursuit of the perfect low budget amateur endurance car racing.

There were a ton of great teams there, most of which passed us on Saturday as we were towards the slower end of the field.Â

We recorded this shortly after we completed Sunday so there is a bit of echo since we were in the pit. However, we did manage to give out our team awards for the weekend.Â Â

Racing Results for those who are keeping track at home:

Saturday:Â We were in 37th place when our engine went away Saturday and ended up at 41st for the day.Â We did not get to participate in the 2 Saturday enduros due to the engine issue.Â Our fastest lap was 1:38.664 by our guest driver Randy Pobst, but we managed to 1:45.870 as our internal team best.Â (Randy was able to get to 48th fastest lap of the day and Alanâs time would have placed us as the second slowest car in the 60 car field that ran a lap Saturday )

Sunday: We ended up getting on track after a long day of engine swapping and rebuilding and finished 3 laps and ended up finishing around 48th out of the 64 cars this weekend and 48th fastest of the 48 cars that ran on Sunday.

Fastest lap of the race weekend was 1:29.932 by Blue Bayou for reference to the relative performance to the field.

We came, we saw, we were conquered.

GHIT 0050: Our Lucky Dog Race and Portland International Raceway – 2019

Lucky Dog Portland – Saturday Night Review

An interesting day

Randy Pobst with Jennifer and Vicki at Lucky Dog Portland — Randy Pobst with Two New Friends

Here is how our day and night have gone at Lucky Dog Portland. Its got a good, bad, and ugly, but what would you expect from us after all. Its live and unedited from the paddock, so sound quality may be less than stellar.

We had a bit of work to do.... — “We” pulled off our first engine swap at a race, barely.

Any questions, please let us know on our Instagram. We will try to cover them tomorrow or tomorrow night if we finish fixing the car.

Thanks again.

GHIT 0049: Lucky Dog Portland – Saturday Night Review

GHIT 0048 Pre-Race Prep for Lucky Dog race in Portland OR (PIR)

Prepping for a race across the country

Well this episode started out as a quick update and we intended to show you some of the planning that goes into a race weekend when you have to travel a significant distance.Â What we ended up with was a bit of what we intended plus a whole lot more.Â We go over a training session using go carts, new ear plugs for racing and a variety of other things.Â Technical issues in the background abound as well, but they will hopefully be entertaining.

GHIT 0048 Pre-Race Prep for Lucky Dog race in Portland OR (PIR)

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