Garage Heroes In Training

GHIT 0410:  Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Driver/Racers and Mechanics in Your Life

We are so very late, but here are some of our ideas for the last minute gifts for the driver, racer, and mechanic i…

DwD 0409:  Tire Pressure Optimization to Track Conditions

On this Dominating with Dawson, we try to go over how to adjust the pressure of your tires when on track and the conditions change.  We also …

GHIT 0408:  Frank Schwartz – All About B Spec Racing and More

Frank Schwartz is a racer and owner of Grass Paddock Motorsports that rents B Spec Honda Fits and Mini Coopers.  He is also known online …

GHIT 0407:  Kyle Heyer The Voice of GridLife

In our totally biased opinions, the GridLife live stream is the best motorsports events on TV/YouTube, and we lose so much time in the garage when they ar…

DwD 0406:  Street Driving Practice and Bad Habits to Be Aware of for Track Driving

Most of us are unfortunately unable to be on track as much as we would like and end up with a majority of our drivin…

GHIT 0405:  Adam Jabaay Reviews GridLife 2022 and Previews 2023  

Adam Jabaay comes on the podcast before the 2023 announcements and talks about how 2022 went for GridLife and what he is looking forw…

GHIT 0404:  Race Review – NHMS 2022 Part 2:  El Jeffe  

Long delayed due to schedule and sickness, here is part 2 of our teams 24 Hours of Lemons race at New Hampshire Motor Sports track in late Octo…

DwD 0403:  Better Race Starts

One of Ben’s favorite things to do is pass people and one of his favorite ways to accomplish this is at a race start or at a race restart from a yellow.  In this DwD, Be…

GHIT 0402:  Race Review – NHMS 2022 Part 1:  The MooStang

Long delayed due to schedule and sickness, here is part 1 of our teams 24 Hours of Lemons race at New Hampshire Motor Sports track in late Oc…

DwD 0401:  How to Install Harness Straps

On this Dominating with Dawson, we try to go over how to install and wrap harnesses in a race car.  It turns out to be quite a challenge to describe this proc…

GHIT 0400:  Celebrate Episode 400 with ROSS BENTLEY

Our streak continues with celebrating every fifty episodes with Ross Bentley returning to the podcast.  During this episode, we have our traditiona…

DwD 0399:  Why You Need to Improve Driving Off Line

In the beginning, everyone is obsessively concerned with driving on “the line” when on a track.  During this Dominating with Dawson episode, we tal…

GHIT 0398:  Andrew Purvis and his Coyote Swapped Fox Body

We met Andrew Purvis at our NY Safety Track track day with the brothers Korf.  During the event, Alan was lusting after Andrew’s Coyote swapp…

DwD 0397:  Tweed Motorsports Live from the AER Race at NJMP Thunderbolt

We join Tweed Motorsports live from the season ending AER race at NJMP Thunderbolt.  Gary from Tweed Motorsports raced with us …

DwD 0396:  Post Race Weekend Hangover Minimization

The post race (weekend) hangover is real, and it has nothing to do with what your drink of choice was during the weekend.  It often comes from a los…

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 happe…

DwD 0394:  How to Capitalize on Uphill and Downhill Areas of a Track

In past Dominating with Dawsons, we have talked about the affect that camber has on track driving.  During this episode, we go int…

GHIT 0393:  Race Review - Lucky Dog Race at CMP with Read Tull and Ben Dawson

We start the episode with Read Tull who races in the southeast and had Ben as his first HPDE instructor.  Read entered hi…

GHIT 0391:  Car Control with Nik Romano

There are a few fundamental skills that truly separate drivers.  The top two that come to mind are car control and race craft.  Nik Romano owns FastSideways an…

DwD 0392:  Balancing Min Distance vs Max Speed

On this week’s Dominating with Dawson, we start a discussion on the competing priorities of maximizing speed and minimizing distance.  Obviously, the ba…