NASA Northeast

Dillon “EJ2 Track Rat” Brennan

Returns for a Second Lap

GHIT 0421: Dillon “EJ2 Track Rat” Brennan Returns for a Second Lap

We are long overdue in having Dillon back onto the podcast. Dillon was one of our early guests and is a staple at the local NASA Northeast events in Honda Challenge and as an instructor. Don’t forget to tune into Dillon’s EJ2 Track Rat YouTube channel and watch and learn how to prep a race car very well, yet quite frugally. During this episode we talk to Dillon about his plans for creating a race car for the NASA Northeast volunteers and friends to get out on track and enjoy racing. We also get into his current projects and preparations for the upcoming national event this summer at PittRace. We will also be going to nationals with some friends to meet and root for a bunch of racing friends.

As a bonus, we go over a stress free way to decide on a baby name. What other racing podcast gives you these kinds of insights? What we do for our listeners, lol.

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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/

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

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

GHIT 0421: Dillon “EJ2 Track Rat” Brennan Returns for a Second Lap

Jackie Andrews – Lo_Buk_Motorsports

GHIT 0413: Jackie Andrews – Lo_Buk_Motorsports

We start the year off with a guest Jackie Andrews. Jackie is not only a driver and a racing coach but also is the Motorsports Director for NASA Northeast Honda Challenge. Some of you may know them better as Lo_Buk_Motorsports on Instagram. During this episode we go into a great discussion of many things related to racing and setup optimization. This is very obviously part one of many.

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

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

Jess Stratton

From the Shifting Points podcast’s- Her First Track Day

GHIT 0338: Jess Stratton From the Shifting Points podcast’s First Track Day

We have an upcoming race at NJMP’s Thunderbolt track next weekend, so we took advantage of the NASA Northeast’s HPDE event this weekend to get a bit of track time for our friends from the Shifting Points podcast who will be racing with us. This will be Jess Stratton’s first ever race and today was her first ever track day and great preparation for the race. Vicki was going to explode if we made her wait any longer for a review of the day, so here is an unedited episode with Vicki and Jeremy asking Jess Stratton about her first time on track. Oh, Bill was there too.

Audra and Lisa will be arriving tonight for Sunday’s events. We will obviously be talking more about this weekend in upcoming episodes of our podcast and perhaps even on the Shifting Points podcast.

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.

Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would appreciate that very much. Even better would be a podcast review. This helps 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 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. Entering “GHIT” at check out for a 10% discount 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, a savings of $40. Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order from https://apextrackcoach.com/

Best regards,

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

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

GHIT 0338: Jess From the Shifting Points podcast’s First Track Day

GHIT 0291: Mark Petronis – Answers of F&F Story Time Questions – Part 2

GHIT 0291: Mark Petronis – Answers of F&F Story Time Questions – Part 2

Mark Petronis has set track many records and won more than his share of races but recently had a very serious on track incident and thankfully it looks like he is in the process winning his recovery battle as well. We talk with Mark about all things racing and how he is a great example for the importance and effectiveness of the current safety equipment that is available to every driver. In Part 1, we go over Mark’s history as a driver, his accident and the safety equipment that literally saved his life. Part 2 will largely be Mark indulging us and answering our fast and furious story time questions.

Mark’s story is another great example of the great people involved in racing

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. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that would be greatly appreciated. Even better, a podcast review, would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving and we would greatly appreciate it.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very 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 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

To follow Mark Petronis further:

AMT Motorsport: https://amtmotorsport.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.petronis

GHIT 0291: Mark Petronis – Answers of F&F Story Time Questions – Part 2

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

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. 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) 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