Garage Heroes In Training

GHiT 0528:  Club Spec Racing with Heyward Wagner for the SCCA

When we first started, we were looking for one car to race in every endurance racing series.  Obviously, Heyward Wagner is a long time li…

DwD 0527:  Breaking Plateaus or Getting Out of a Rut

As a high performance driver or a racing driver, many drivers will reach a point in their progression where the improvement ceases and you can f…

GHiT 0526:  Dion von Moltke – Author of “Send It – The Art and Science of Racing Cars”

Dion von Moltke has been a professional racing driver and is created and is currently coaching using the Blayze …

GHiT 0525:  Zach Caldwell Returns and We Discuss the Upcoming Vannonball 2024 – Once Wasn’t Enough?

or how a $500 race van does 50,000 miles of racing

When last we spoke to Zach Caldwell, we were rev…

DwD 0524:  Autocross v Track – Differences and Similarities

We take advantage of Audra and her vast experience at autocrossing to discuss where autocross can help your track driving and several of …

GHIT 0523:  Our 2024 Gift Ideas for the Driver/Racers and Mechanics in Your Life

Here are some of our newer ideas for the gifts for the driver, racer, and mechanic in your life.  We give a few ideas …

GHiT 0522:  Gary McCormick – Second Lap (or Few) in our B Spec Fit

Gary McCormick flew in for our surprise Vicki weekend at NJMP Lightning and explored his first HPDE with NASA Northeast in our 2015 …

DwD 0521:  Race Starts – Standing and Rolling Starts

Ben is all about saving time and passing our fellow drivers and one of the key areas where this can be accomplished quite easily is at a race st…

GHiT 0520:  Brad Lee – First HPDE - Finally

Brad Lee has been with our team for about 5 years but it had never quite worked out to get him on the track.  Luckily, Brad was able to attend the Vicki su…

GHiT 0519:  Vicki’s Surprise Weekend at the NJMP Lightning HPDE with NASA Northeast

Another podcast example that the post race weekend hangover is real, but we wanted to cover the big race weekend.  …

DwD 0518:  Planning for an Upcoming HPDE – For Vicki

We have a huge event planned for our upcoming HPDE event at NJMP Lightning (Much more on that in an upcoming episode) and we wanted to walk thro…

GHiT 0516:  Race Recap – NHMS 2023 with the 24 Hours of Lemons

We review our busy race weekend and prepping for next weekend’s HPDE at NJMP.

(MUCH more to come on the NJMP event next episode)

Racing …

DwD 0517:  Pace Laps/Reference Laps

Bill continues to ask questions no one understands, but we do get to the topic, eventually.  We discuss the use of reference laps and also the use of comparison …

DwD 0515:  Driver Feel:  Seat vs Hands (plus)

This one starts off looking like we have nothing to talk about, but eventually Bill asks a question that eventually gets to the topic, lol.  Here we ta…

GHiT 0514:  NASA TREC Racing with Tim Fokine – Plus a Whole Lot More

Tim Fokine is the co-Chair of the NASA Great Lakes TREC racing series as well as an instructor and part time driver with our team.…

DwD 0513:  Driver’s Meeting

We have not talked enough about driver’s meetings to this point.  We try to remedy this on this week’s Dominating with Dawson.  We cover what is discussed during the mee…

GHiT 0512:  Rich Hromin – 2023 SCCA National B Spec Champion

Rich Hromin recently won the SCCA national championship at VIR.  In this episode we learn about his progression towards achieving this goa…

DwD 0511:  Post Race Hangover

One of the things that may surprise you about racing occurs after a great race weekend.  Many of us are hit with a post race hangover that can occur in the days follow…

GHiT 0510:  Chris Losiniecki

Chris Losiniecki is a racer and instructor that we met several years ago at a NASA Great Lakes event.  She is also currently the only full-time female instructor at NASA …

GHiT 0508:  Judge Series with Mental Ward 

We have had Mental on several times before and if we can get him to commit podultery with us again, we take advantage of every opportunity.  Mental is not o…