NASA Great Lakes HPDE

Glenn Robinson

We first met Glenn Robinson at Mid-Ohio and then he and Bill worked their way up to comp school and instructor school. In spite of this, he agreed to come on to our podcast, lol. Glenn currently races primarily with NASA Great lakes and is one of the two co-leaders of the TREC endurance racing series there as well. In his spare time, he is the Director of Operations at PittRace International. We were lucky enough to talk to Glenn right after a very successful event where they held the NASA National Championship.

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

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GHiT 0503: Glenn Robinson

GHiT Team Update November 2022

GHiT 0395: GHiT Team Update November 2022

On this latest team update, we go into our recent efforts related to racing and preparing our cars, as well as a few other weird things that have been happening in and around our team. This was recorded after the last Lemons race of 2022 at NHMS where Alan lead the MooStang team and where Jeremy and the boys competed in the El Jeffe race truck. The full race review is coming in another episode soon, as is our last HPDE of the season from NASA Northeast’s season ending event at NJMP’s Lightning track.

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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GHiT 0395: GHiT Team Update November 2022

Brandon Wilson –

NASA Great Lakes HPDE 4 Group Leader and Grassroots Racer

GHIT 0386: Brandon Wilson – NASA Great Lakes HPDE 4 Group Leader and Grassroots Racer

Brandon Wilson was one of the first instructors to ride with Bill. He has been with NASA Great Lakes for well over a decade and is now the HPDE 4 Group Leader. During this episode, we talk about how Brandon has worked his way into the driver that he is and where he would like to progress further. We also look he HPDE 4 group with NASA Great Lakes. Brandon goes into a discussion of the HPDE ladder system and Brandon’s vision for an ideal student. We also go into where he would like to move the group forward. We also go into the differences between instructing beginning students vs higher level drivers.

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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“. It will give you a 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process at https://candelaria-racing.com/

PS2 Please use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems. If you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system. 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/

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Vicki, Jennifer, Ben, Alan, and Bill

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

What is rotation – Part 4

DwD 0351: What is rotation – Part 4 or maybe more?

We are going to take advantage of this week’s Judge Jeremy covering for Ben and go into car rotation for at least the fourth time. We try to discuss what people are talking about when they refer to a car having good or bad rotation or how they were able to get the car to rotate through a turn. The last time we looked, there are several potential axes of rotation, and many/most can result in a poor or expensive outcome. Once again, this is a topic that we may need to revisit in a future episode, lol, but we give it another good try and did a lot better than some of our previous discussions.

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For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is amazingly easy. If you go to your podcast library, look under shows. Then click on this podcast. Here you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS Are you are looking to stream or save your integrated telemetry/racing data with video? Candelaria Racing Products Sentinel System may be the perfect solution for you. We are in the midst of 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“. This will give 10% discount code to all our listeners during the checkout process.

PS2 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. Please enter the code “ghitlikesapex!”. You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.

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

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

DwD 0351: What is rotation – Part 4 or maybe more?

Track Selection: The Impact on Learning

DwD 346: Track Selection: The Impact on Learning

On this episode of Dominating with Dawson, we wanted to discuss an aspect of racing education that can often be overlooked – track selection. The typical decision path to getting a racing license or going to an HPDE event or a track day is to find the closest track to you. Ideally, there will be an event that fits within your schedule. This is likely to be what you do as well. However, one factor that is neglected in this methodology is the impact that the track design and layout can have on your learning and progression. There are many tracks that have very little run off room or walls, trees, rocks, etc. Especially if they are very close to the track. This can make a small off track event a potentially very large cost event. It can also affect the comfortability of the driver towards pushing the car. This will then change their personal driving limits during the event.

Track Selection

We talk about a few examples of tracks that are very forgiving. Then we review a few that we have been to that have layouts that are not quite as friendly. This is not to say that it is the tracks “fault” because in the end the responsibility always remains within the driver’s seat. It is their responsibility to maintain control of the car and determine when/if they are going to push towards the limit. We love every single track but wanted to point out something that should be taken into account. This is especially as you are in your middle stages of learning and progressing as a driver. As a bonus, for the exact same price, we include a great story of an early HPDE event in Ben Dawson’s HPDE history.

If you have any favorite tracks to work on your skills or push your limits, please let us know. Also, if we missed a few of the higher consequence tracks or turns, please let us know. This can be in a podcast review or on our social media. You can also send us an email at [email protected] and we can share it in an upcoming Dominating With Dawson.

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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, that we would appreciate that very much. Even better would be to leave a podcast review. This would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would appreciate it.

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 during 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. By entering “GHIT” at checkout, you will get a 10% discount code during the checkout process.

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. They are a great system and invaluable to safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross, etc. The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system.

Best regards,

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

Hosts and Drivers for the Garage Heroes In Training team

DwD 346: Track Selection: The Impact on Learning