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
Make my backhalf door car repeat to 60' with Mike Mans
What's the biggest factor to making a bracket door car "nasty" in the first 60 feet? In today's Daily Driver, we reach out to regular ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE guest instructor Mike Mans to address t…
Question of the week: Who/what is your most feared opponent with Matt Dadas
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…
Performing under pressure with Kris Whitfield
You'd be hard pressed to find any driver in sportsman drag racing who has staged for more high-stakes rounds in pressure situations than Kris Whitfield. He's been in the final round of multiple big d…
Super Class Finish Line Strategy
I get asked a lot about the complexity of my typical strategy. From a strategic standpoint, it can at times be fairly advanced. But in terms of execution, I keep it simpler than you might think. In t…
Recast: Driving Well is Not the Key to Having Fun
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. This one, "Driving well is not the key …
The value of mentorship (w/ Justin Lamb)
For today's episode, we're joined by 5-time NHRA World Champion and ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE instructor Justin Lamb to discuss the value of mentorship in racing.
We're in one of two open enrollment p…
Question of the week: When do you know to adjust jetting?
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…
Are Door Cars at a Disadvantage? w/ Matt Dadas
Matt Dadas joins this week's episode! Not only is Matt one of the most successful (and versatile) big dollar bracket racers in the country, he's also a regular guest instructor on ThisIsBracketRacing…
How to approach the bye run
In today's Daily Driver, we focus on the one round of competition we all agree we can't screw up: Bye runs! Even though we can't lose, there are ways to maximize the value of our solo runs and some t…
Let Go Like A Pro - Practice
In this Daily Driver, we continue on with our limited series to commemorate the launch of Let Go Like A Pro. To this point we’ve discussed routine, we’ve discussed staging, confidence, and physical m…
Let Go Like A Pro - Physical Mechanics
As we continue on with this limited series within the Daily Driver on Let Go Like A Pro, we look at physical mechanics. In my opinion, the physical mechanics of releasing the transbrake button is ext…
Let Go Like A Pro - Confidence
In this limited series commemorating the launch of ThisIsBracketRacing's new course Let Go Like A Pro, we have discussed routine and staging. Today we talk confidence, or I think more accurately, bel…
Let Go Like A Pro - Staging
Last week, I mentioned that we were going to dedicate the next few episodes of the Daily Driver to starting line performance to commemorate the launch of the new course on ThisIsBracketRacing.com cal…
Let Go Like A Pro - Routine
We recently released a new course on ThisIsBracketRacing.com called “Let Go like a Pro”. To commemorate the launch of that course, we’re also going to dedicate the next few episodes of the DD to star…
Pomona Takeaways
I’m less than a week removed from Pomona and I wanted to take this episode to recap and talk about my experience in this years Championship chase.
It's OVA (Comp, TS, SStk)
Continuing on in this episode, I'm recapping the NHRA Championship chase that we had in Competition Eliminator, Top Sportsman, and Super Stock when we landed in Pomona.
It's OVA (Super Gas)
The NHRA Championships are in the books and I wanted to start by recapping what happened at the end of the Championship chase. This week, I'm starting with Super Gas and not because I was involved bu…
Pressure & Gratitude
I don't think I have ever felt more pressure than I have over the past few weeks out here on west coast. This week in the Daily Driver I wanted to share how I have been dealing with this pressure.
4-Wide
Over the past few days we have discussed the 3 categories that have clinched and the 2 categories that are in a 2 driver race in the 2024 NHRA Championship race. Today, we discuss the categories that…
Then there were two...
Yesterday we talked about the 3 drivers that have clinched the 2024 NHRA World Championships, today we focus on the two categories that are down to 2 contenders.