Daily Driver
The Daily Driver podcast presented by ThisIsBracketRacing.com is a daily podcast dedicated to helping sportsman drag racers become the best version of themselves on the race track. Each day in season 2 (which stretches from November 1 through November 30), 3-time NHRA World Champion Luke Bogacki explores a topic of competition and shares the insights and experience that he’s gained as a racer, teacher, and perpetual student of the game.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 239
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The Responsibility of the Racer
I’ve been a racer for more than 30 years. In a perfect union, racer and race track work together in a sort of harmonious partnership. As a racer, what is our responsibility at the track?
How to balance the rear of my car with Mike Mans
This week's Daily Driver episode is taken from our Question of the Week segment over on the ThisIsBracketRacing Facebook page. The question is "How to balance the rear of my car?".
How experience molds our skill set with Kris Whitfield
For this episode of the Daily Driver, I am joined by one of our regular guest instructors in ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE and accomplished driver, Kris Whitfield. The question I asked him was how his ex…
Day 1
On today's Daily Driver I'm pumped to talk about our new FREE program, Day 1. If you're a racer, you almost certainly remember your first trip down the track. That holds true whether that maiden voya…
Question of the Week: How do I calm down my wheelies with Mike Mans
This week's Daily Driver is featuring a Question of the Week from over on the ThisIsBracketRacing Facebook page. How do I calm down my wheelies with regular guest instructor in ThisIsBracketRacing EL…
Big Buck Footbrake Racing Origins
This week on the Daily Driver, I wanted to talk about the origins of Big Buck Footbrake Racing and my own memories of it starting.
Racing with anxiety with Kris Whitfield
This week on the Daily Driver, I am joined again by regular ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE guest instructor, Kris Whitfield. Kris talks about his battles with anxiety and the ways he has worked with it in…
Coming into the season sharp
A common question I’m frequently asked is, what’s the best way to prepare for racing after the offseason break? I can tell you one relatively simple thing that I still do, 30 years into my racing car…
Staging Routine with Matt Dadas
On this week's Daily Driver, I'm joined by regular ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE guest instructor and highly accomplished big dollar bracket racer Matt Dadas and we jump right to the burning question...s…
How my Corvette made me better
I've been asked repeatedly: Vega or Corvette? What's better? I could make an argument for either but the question should be which has made me better? That answer is easy.
Question of the week: How do I get more comfortable driving the finish line as the slower car (w/ Kris Whitfield)?
This week's Daily Driver is featured from ThisIsBracketRacing's question of the week: How do I get more comfortable driving the finish line as the slower car (w/ Kris Whitfield)?
Revisiting a Title Run
In this week's Daily Driver, I wanted to share my latest piece from the Science of Winning column in National Dragster in which I talked about my experience in detail from last season's championship …
Balancing Tuning with Driving with Mike Mans
On this week's Daily Driver I am joined by one of our regular guest instructors in ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE, a very successful racer and all things mechanical guru: Mike Mans. Our topic today is how…
Recast: Making the Finish Line Simple
As part of our 3-week binge here on the Daily Driver (one episode released EVERY day), we'd like to "Play the hits." Each Friday, we'll recast a prior episode. Today's discussion, "Making the finish …
Listening vs. Doing
Today's world is full of information. This podcast is one of dozens of resources you choose to listen to each day. "Listening" is great, but in today's episode, Luke shares why the best racers are th…
The Argument for the NHRA Lucas Oil Series with Kris Whitfield
Regular ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE guest instructor Kris Whitfield can do just about anything in a race car, and has proven as much. He's been to SIX Spring Fling final rounds. He's won TWENTY-TWO tra…
Question of the week with Justin Lamb: How do I select the best torque converter for my car?
Each Friday, we post a featured Question of the Week on the ThisIsBracketRacing Facebook page. This week, we're giving YOU, the Daily Driver listener an early look, releasing the Question of the Week…
What you cannot be fully prepared for with Mikie Sturgill
Regular ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE guest instructor Mikie Sturgill has found himself in the position that every bracket racer dreams of, competing in the 3-round runoff for the NHRA Summit National Ch…
My favorite piece of advice from Peter Biondo
We all take in advice from a variety of sources. When someone like Peter Biondo speaks, I tend to listen! In today's "Daily Driver" I pass along my favorite piece of advice from "The Terminator."
Open…
Recast: Weather Factors
As part of our 3-week binge here on the Daily Driver (one episode released EVERY day), we'd like to "Play the hits." Each Friday, we'll recast a prior episode. Today the focus in on weather... What w…