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GHIT 302: Race Weekend Recap: Lucky Dog Racing at CMP

GHIT 302: Race Weekend Recap: Lucky Dog Racing at CMP

After a series of failed intros, Bill is interrogated tonight about how the Lucky Dog Racing at CMP went with Skunk Oil Racing. It was quite a weekend and some hardware was taken home from the track. As always, Cathy and the Lucky Dog family had a superb event. We were honored to work on our car in their garage all weekend, lol. This is our fourth race with Lucky Dog and we wish we had raced more. If you haven’t tried a Lucky Dog race, you really should. This was a big weekend. We will have several other episodes reviewing the race with other cars and other teams from the event.

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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 in the midst of 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 “GHIT“. If you do, you will get a 10% discount during the checkout process.

PS2 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. If you do, 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

GHIT 302: Race Weekend Recap: Lucky Dog Racing at CMP

Thank You Three Pedal Mafia

GHIT 0285: Thank You Three Pedal Mafia

We have four members of the Three Pedal Mafia come up to help Vicki and Bill work on the two Honda project cars for this winter. We had originally planned a full cage party work weekend but had postponed it until February or until the COVID spike recedes. What we were able to accomplish with their skills in such a short time was amazing. They came, they saw, and they fixed. Some day we hope to be able to perform at that level and repay them in some way.

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!

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

Highlights for this episode are:

1) Details of the work plan for the invasion by the Three Pedal Mafia visit this past weekend including a surprise visit by Jim.

2) Shut up we are having fun, lol.

3) Driving skill review and training was an unexpected addition to the agenda for Miss Vicki.

4) It was so very cold (for Pennsylvania) that we had to create a micro climate heating area for Miss Chrissy’s feet.

5) Why we had to replace the exhaust on the 1993 Honda Civic since we will be endurance racing the car this season. Mental led the festivities on the exhaust project while we set up several of the other projects.

6) Bill’s planning failure. And yes, this bothers him greatly.

7) How the work went on the Honda Civic radiator and oil cooler installation and required fabrication.

8) While Vicki and I were distracted, the Three Pedal Mafia assaulted the rusting carcass of the Honda Fit that we are looking to race in Grid Life’s Sundae Cup at Lime Rock this year. The Fit has yet to fully grow into the warm spot in Vicki’s heart.

9) We try to describe the depth of the love that Mental has for rust, but may not have fully achieved a full description.

10) As always, Vicki loves to provide wonderful food and drinks as a thank you. We “bribe” everyone who comes over and this weekends was no exception. Bill added in some of the new thermal barrier coating for increasing the heat control of header and exhaust wraps. The coating also creates a protective layer to protect the system from abrasion and water/chemical attack.

11) Bill’s engine disassembly is nearly complete for a replacement engine after being guided by Chris, Our Mr. Honda. Now if anyone knows of any good machine shops in north east Pennsylvania, please let us know. Either by Instagram or via our email at [email protected]

12) Vicki had a bit of a heel toe down shifting discussion with Chris and Chrissy. This should help her with her down shifting, especially at the end of the long straights. Hopefully, she will get to drive and ride with an instructor this season, hopefully with Chris. She also has some practice that she can start with ahead of that while driving on the street.

13) Obviously much more to follow in coming weeks. We need a few parts, some tools, and some machining assistance, but we will keep you posted as we learn.

GHIT 0285: Thank You Three Pedal Mafia

Our Annual Season Review and 2022 Goals

This Episode Kicks Off Our 5th Podcast Season

Our win at PittRace — **We Won Our First Race Ever**

GHIT 0278: Our Annual Season Review and Goals Episode Starts our 5th Podcast Season

We take a look back at how our team and drivers 2021 racing season went and compare it to our planned goals. We did have quite a year and accomplished quite a bit. How did we do versus how we wanted? As always, you will have to listen to find out. And as always, the episode ends with each of us giving our 2022 goals for ourselves and our team. We would love to know if you have any 2022 goals that you can share and wish you have the best year ever, both on and off the track.

Bill with Ross Bentley — We FINALLY Met Ross Bentley

If you would like to help grow our sport and this podcast:

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!

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

The Wilson sisters — Three Wilson Sisters Raced This Year

Highlights for this episode are:

1) Alan now organizes, preps, and runs his own car, the MooStang. We learn how this went for his first season and what we are still working on.

2) Looking back at where we were going into this season versus where we are now, there has been a ton of progress.

3) While the goals we all had were great, some of the discussion helps us to better define both the progress we made, as well as refining the path forward from here.

4) We did a great job of getting a bunch of new people to the track and several drivers to the track that raced with other teams. That is the primary reason we started this podcast and is fantastic!

5) Guess who says “I’m not just here for the Slurpees, lol”. Not a big surprise for you long time home gamers.

6) We all are looking forward to trying as many different tracks and racing series as we can this year and maybe for the first time working with a coach at the track.

7) We managed to make a Max Headroom reference within the episode. You never know where we may wander.

8) Vicki and Alan cannot seem to remember when they each earned their black flags this year. We also had a few black flags from several of our friends that drive with us this year. Notably, none of our all ladies team earned a flag a the Thompson event.

9) Every year we go over what issues our cars had at the track and what we did (or are going to do) to resolve the issue long term.

10) We have determined a key indicator that implies that a specific spare part is required for our race cars.

11) Tips we learned on testing and replacing wheel studs for our cars.

12) Vicki is bored winning???

13) Our traditional Good, Bad, and the Ugly for the 2021 season.

GHIT 0278: Our Annual Season Review and 2022 Goals Episode Starts our 5th Podcast Season

shifting points — **Training for Our First All Ladies Racing Team (That Kicked Butt!)**

The Buillac Trunk — **We Painted Amanda’s Awesome Buillac Trunk**

Racing with Chris Fix — **We Raced With Chris Fix and His Team**

Mia learning to drive — **Mia Started Learning to Drive**

Strong theming game — **Out Theming was on point**

Starting a New Endurance Racing Team

with Tim Bagnall

GHIT 0272: Tim Bagnall – Starting a New Endurance Racing Team

Tim Bagnall recently contacted us looking for any help in starting a new racing team. We thought this could be a great episode and an informal 11th episode in our how to get started series that we had earlier this year (2021). Tim did most of the heavy lifting and asked us a ton of great questions and we answered as best we can at this point in our racing career. We hope this episode can answer some of your questions if you are starting out and may help you with a second opinion if you are already racing. It appears that we have come first circle since we were an early guest asking many of the same types of questions on the Everyone Racers podcast.

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 and look under “Shows”. Then 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

Bill Updated his ridiculous series of checklists at the following links:

Tools for a Race weekend or and HPDE
Paddock/Camp
Car Checklist (Generic)

Excel file

Checklists for Racing

GHIT 0272: Tim Bagnall – Starting a New Endurance Racing Team

Our Ladies HPDE Event

with the Shifting Points podcast –

A True Good, Bad, and the Ugly

GHIT 0238: Our Upcoming Ladies HPDE Event with the Shifting Points podcast – A True Good, Bad, and the Ugly

It all started with a great idea, let’s go to an HPDE event with the hosts of the Shifting Points podcast. Audra had raced with us at the Thompson race in August and Jess & Kathy had visited for moral support and wanted to try track driving. There was a ladies event with MassTuning set for mid September. Sounds like a blast. Until it wasn’t.

In what was supposed to be a two episode celebration of this event, we go into the prep and excitement of going into a track event and how things ended up. We hope Jess and Kathy can look beyond this event and potentially come with us to another event, maybe even this season.

Strap in, this one gets a bit wild towards the end.

If you would like to help the podcast,

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice. This includes the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating. 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. There 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

GHIT 0238: Our Upcoming Ladies HPDE Event with the Shifting Points podcast – A True Good, Bad, and the Ugly

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