Best HPDE Podcasts (2023)

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0520: Brad Lee – First HPDE - Finally 1:49:14

9d ago1:49:14

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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 surprise weekend at NJMP Lightning with us and get out on track. This is a great example of what its like to get on track for the first time. Plus a ton of…

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The Speed Secrets Podcast | High Performance & Race Driving with Ross Bentley | Tips & conversations to help you drive better

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No dumb questions with Jeff Braun: Episode 24 37:12

14h ago37:12

37:12

Welcome back to another episode of No Dumb Questions! We sit down to answer your questions, and we promise – there are no dumb questions, maybe just some dumb answers. This episode is a little different… We introduce a guest “host,” Sam Smith, who we are launching a new podcast in January with. It’s called It’s Not The Car, and is all about stories…

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Speed Secrets Podcast

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No dumb questions with Jeff Braun: Episode 24 37:13

19m ago37:13

37:13

Welcome back to another episode of No Dumb Questions! We sit down to answer your questions, and we promise – there are no dumb questions, maybe just some dumb answers. This episode is a little different… We introduce a guest “host,” Sam Smith, who we are launching a new podcast in January with. It’s called It’s Not The Car, and is all about stories…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0527: Breaking Plateaus or Getting Out of a Rut 24:26

5h ago24:26

24:26

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 find yourself stuck at a certain level of performance or even stuck in a performance rut. In this episode, we try to cover a few of the ways to break out o…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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From Autocross to Pro Racing to Track Day Tire - Johnny Miller 1:03:14

27m ago1:03:14

1:03:14

Johnny Miller is a very accomplished race car driver and he shares so much! The conversation ranges from Johnny's racing career which started in SCCA autocross to why being relevant is important in your racing career (hint: this helps with getting sponsorships for grassroots racing). He grew from Autocross to racing professionally in Trans Am, IMSA…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0526: Dion von Moltke – Author of “Send It – The Art and Science of Racing Cars” 1:28:03

3h ago1:28:03

1:28:03

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 platform to personally coach drivers across the world, including several members on our team. And then last week, we saw that he had written a book and …

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0525: Zach Caldwell Returns and We Discuss the Upcoming Vannonball 2024 – Once Wasn’t Enough? 48:53

1d ago48:53

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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 reviewing the inaugural Vannonball Run. He was a bit weathered and had survived the event. Naturally after some recovery and an exceptional example of sele…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0524: Autocross v Track – Differences and Similarities 19:25

1d ago19:25

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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 the differences that may need to be modified when on track. In a future episode, we will talk about translating from track driving to autocross. Cross tra…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHIT 0523: Our 2024 Gift Ideas for the Driver/Racers and Mechanics in Your Life 1:12:41

2d ago1:12:41

1:12:41

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 from stocking stuffers and gifts from the kids to pretty much every budget. If you think of others, please let us know and we can add them to the social …

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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Finding & Landing Sponsors - How To Build Your Sponsorship Plan (A Replay) 40:20

10d ago40:20

40:20

Here's a replay of Bill's popular sponsorship episode. As we head into the new year your sponsorship planning should be well underway and this episode will help. Bill Snow shares his insights into how to build a sponsorship plan for your racing program. Sponsorships have to go beyond product sponsors if you want to get to the next level of getting …

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0522: Gary McCormick – Second Lap (or Few) in our B Spec Fit 1:23:48

10d ago1:23:48

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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 B Spec Honda Fit. We talk about how the event went, what it is like to HPDE in a super slow car, and compare the event with NASA vs Gary’s usual SCCA gr…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0521: Race Starts – Standing and Rolling Starts 25:02

8d ago25:02

25:02

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 start or restart. In this episode, we provide many of the tips that we use to help us save a bit of time and pass a few friends. A link to the episode is: h…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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Just Getting Started - Camp Teague 22:20

10d ago22:20

22:20

Camp Teague is just wrapping up his first season of racing and he jumped right into wheel to wheel racing with ChampCar. It was through networking and meeting Kyle Lockrow (who was a previous guest on the podcast) that Camp was able to get into racing. He first caught the car bug by watching the Disney movie, Cars. With Camp being so new to racing …

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0519: Vicki’s Surprise Weekend at the NJMP Lightning HPDE with NASA Northeast 58:58

22d ago58:58

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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. This is part one of 3 or so and this event wraps up our 2023 season. As frequent listeners know, we had a big surprise in store for Miss Vicki and now we…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0518: Planning for an Upcoming HPDE – For Vicki 24:26

24d ago24:26

24:26

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 through potential ideas for Miss Vicki to get the most out of the event. The idea was to demonstrate some of the ideas that you may use to maximize the improv…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0516: Race Recap – NHMS 2023 with the 24 Hours of Lemons 1:09:15

28d ago1:09:15

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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 two straight weekends is not the best idea but it is always a ton of fun. Bill raced in the Slippery Slope BMW E34 5-Series with Max, Audra, and another…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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Hard Work Pays Off - Les Epps 1:04:35

29d ago1:04:35

1:04:35

Les Epps who races and works with Hard Times Racing and Round 3 Racing has a smile and personality that would light up any room and truly loves motorsports and racing. At age five his father said you can be an architect or race car driver and you know how Les answered. His dad then bought him go kart and put an asphalt track in their front yard. He…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0517: Pace Laps/Reference Laps 22:50

24d ago22:50

22:50

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 laps between our drivers as we are competing. The question eventually leads us to a good discussion on comparing drivers’ laps and one way that we use our …

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The Speed Secrets Podcast | High Performance & Race Driving with Ross Bentley | Tips & conversations to help you drive better

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No dumb questions with Jeff Braun: Episode 23 37:26

1M ago37:26

37:26

Welcome back to another episode of No Dumb Questions! Jeff Braun and I sit down to answer your questions, and we promise – there are no dumb questions, maybe just some dumb answers. The post No dumb questions with Jeff Braun: Episode 23 first appeared on Speed Secrets.By The Speed Secrets Podcast | High Performance & Race Driving with Ross Bentley | Tips & conversations to help you drive better

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Speed Secrets Podcast

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No dumb questions with Jeff Braun: Episode 23 37:26

1M ago37:26

37:26

Welcome back to another episode of No Dumb Questions! Jeff Braun and I sit down to answer your questions, and we promise – there are no dumb questions, maybe just some dumb answers. On this episode, Jeff and I discuss whether we’d prefer to deal with a driver that is also engineering minded or one that can't speak engineering and therefore wouldn't…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0515: Driver Feel: Seat vs Hands (plus) 18:02

1M ago18:02

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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 talk about the various “feel” inputs that are available, mostly through the steering wheel and your hands and then through the seat and therefore your “seat”,…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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Sim Racing to Wheel to Wheel Racing with Andy Blanchard 1:02:47

1M ago1:02:47

1:02:47

Andy Blanchard joins the Late To Grid podcast to talk about his motorsports journey which includes moving from sim-racing (he repurposes arcade consoles) to a track day with Reed Kryder (here's a link to Reed on the Late To Grid podcast) to wheel to wheel racing with Lemons and ChampCar. Bill and Andy talk about Andy's 2023 season, what's planned f…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0514: NASA TREC Racing with Tim Fokine – Plus a Whole Lot More 1:25:44

1M ago1:25:44

1:25:44

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. During this episode, we talk about the NASA TREC series and how this past season went. We then start planning our entry into this years One Lap of Amer…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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Talking 944 Fest with Travis & Cat 52:24

1M ago52:24

52:24

What started out as trolling 944 Fest on Instagram turned into lots of fun banter and an excellent weekend at Nelson Ledges playing with Porsches and having a great time. It only made sense to have Travis and Cat on the podcast to talk about 944 Fest and their backgrounds. We talk about a lot of different things and we laugh a lot too. They seem to…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0513: Driver’s Meeting 21:44

1M ago21:44

21:44

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 meetings. The two primary aspects of the drivers meetings that make them non-skippable events are in the areas of safety and in the area of competitive advanta…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0512: Rich Hromin – 2023 SCCA National B Spec Champion 1:48:14

1M ago1:48:14

1:48:14

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 goal. He is a great driver and a great person. Too bad for him that he lives so close to us, lol. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/RichHromin H…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0511: Post Race Hangover 15:15

2M ago15:15

15:15

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 following a race. Are they real? What can you do to minimize them? Any tips that you may know of to help reduce the post race hangover? A link to the episode is:…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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How To Make The Most Of Your "Off Season" with Michael Ribas 37:29

1M ago37:29

37:29

The off-season is shorter than we think and Michael Ribas joins the podcast to share some ideas about how to make the most of the off-season. Michael Ribas is a performance coach (business, life, everything) and was a guest in season two of the Late To Grid podcast. Here's his episode. Here are some ideas to get you started in your off-season plann…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0510: Chris Losiniecki 1:35:39

2M ago1:35:39

1:35:39

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 Great Lakes. We talk all things racing, instructing, and hypothesize on several reasons why there is a lower number of females represented at the higher …

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0508: Judge Series with Mental Ward 1:02:00

2M ago1:02:00

1:02:00

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 only a Lemons Judge, but also a racer and co-host of the Everyone Racers podcast. We usually try to summarize the episode, but with Mental, we went in so m…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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Autocross to Time Trials to Wheel To Wheel - Toby Weber Shares His Racing Journey 41:24

2M ago41:24

41:24

Toby Weber started competing in Autocross events in 2014 in a Lotus 7 and has grown his motorsports endeavors to include track days, time trials and wheel to wheel racing. He also works with Xtreme Xperience as an instructor. Toby has had a stellar 2023 season including a first place in class at the 14 hour enduro at Nelson Ledges Road Course. In 2…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 509: Gauges for your Race Car and How to Use Them 21:27

2M ago21:27

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DwD 509: Gauges for your Race Car and How to Use Them We discuss our thoughts related to the priority of the gauges in a race car. We differ in the relative priority but are fairly consistent in the proper use and frequency of reviewing the gauges. What do you think? Did we leave something out? Please let us know. A link to the episode is: https://…

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The Speed Secrets Podcast | High Performance & Race Driving with Ross Bentley | Tips & conversations to help you drive better

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No dumb questions with Jeff Braun: Episode 22 41:29

2M ago41:29

41:29

On this episode, Jeff and I discuss the future of technology in motorsports, specifically around “driver-less” race cars. Is it still “racing” if there isn’t a human being inside the car piloting it - either thru remote control or an AI pilot? The post No dumb questions with Jeff Braun: Episode 22 first appeared on Speed Secrets.…

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Speed Secrets Podcast

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No dumb questions with Jeff Braun: Episode 22 41:30

2M ago41:30

41:30

Welcome back to another episode of No Dumb Questions! Jeff Braun and I sit down to answer your questions, and we promise – there are no dumb questions, maybe just some dumb answers. On this episode, Jeff and I discuss the future of technology in motorsports, specifically around “driver-less” race cars. Is it still “racing” if there isn’t a human be…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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I'm Frustrated. 20:35

2M ago20:35

20:35

In this episode I leave the Atomic Autosports studio and jump into the truck to head to Pitt Race for the ChampCar race. I thought, why not record a quick episode? I share some RX-7 updates (944 Fest, Mid-Ohio, and more), but I also share some frustrations I have. Why am I frustrated? Life. I am not doing the things I want or need to be doing and i…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0507: Racing the Track vs Racing the Other Cars 12:04

2M ago12:04

12:04

DwD 0507: Racing the Track vs Racing the Other Cars One of the issues that several of our teams’ drivers have had, especially when they first started was racing vs the other cars vs racing the track (or themselves). We talked with Ben about why each of these can be correct and how to minimize mistakes in going too far in one direction or the other.…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0506: Eric Dewey DeWitt 1:26:00

2M ago1:26:00

1:26:00

GHiT 0506: Eric Dewey DeWitt We met Dewey for the first time at last year’s GridLife event at NJMP and then again this year where he won the Street Mod class in Time Attack. We talk about Subarus and Time Attack, two things we haven’t talked about much on the podcast to this point. If you’ve never been at a track and seen Dewey’s post event celebra…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0505: Fall Failage Rally Review 2023 51:04

2M ago51:04

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GHiT 0505: Fall Failage Rally Review 2023 We talk again with Rally Master Jeff about the Fall Failage rally. This time, Vicki entered the rally with Jennifer and their Mom. They travelled with Audra and Max, as well as Ryan and Matt. Much fun was had by all. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/FallFailage2023 If you would like to help gro…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0504: The Mythology of Late Apex and Braking in a Straight Line 15:29

2M ago15:29

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DwD 0504: The Mythology of Late Apex and Braking in a Straight Line In this episode of Dominating with Dawson, we go over the often heard mantra of always use a late apex and always brake in a straight line. While these may be useful in some turns, they should not be construed as applicable to 100% of your laps. We go into why these methodologies a…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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Catching up on Rad Air Racing's 2023 ChampCar Season with the Wednesday Night Crew 1:57:04

2M ago1:57:04

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The Wednesday Night Crew comes into the Atomic Autosports studio to share their updates on the ChampCar races that Rad Air Racing competed in and we talk about the upcoming Pitt Race event. Keep up to date on the team on Instagram: Rad Air Racing Looking for track day tires? Bill can save you some money! The Continental ExtremeContact Force 200 is …

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0503: Glenn Robinson 1:06:23

2M ago1:06:23

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GHiT 0503: Glenn Robinson We first met Glenn Robinson at Mid-Ohio and then he and Bill worked their way up to comp school and instructor school. In spite of this, he agreed to come on to our podcast, lol. Glenn currently races primarily with NASA Great lakes and is one of the two co-leaders of the TREC endurance racing series there as well. In his …

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0502: Fail Failage Rally 2023 – Pre-Rally Update 48:38

3M ago48:38

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GHiT 0502: Fail Failage Rally 2023 – Pre-Rally Update The ladies are preparing for another rally in two cars. Vicki, Jennifer, and their mom will be running in our Fit and Audra will be entering this year in another BMW with Max. We talk about some of our preparation for the rally as well as some of the future plans for Audra’s race car, perhaps ev…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0501: Pit Stops Tips 25:58

2M ago25:58

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DwD 0501: Pit Stops Tips As we all know, Ben is obsessed with saving time on track. Equally important though is the ability to save time in the pits. We talk through several things that we have found to save time and remain safe in the pit area. In several series, this can easily be the key to victory. Do you have any other ideas to save time durin…

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Late to Grid - Grassroots Racing

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Renting Race Cars & B Spec Racing with Frank Schwartz 1:08:18

2M ago1:08:18

1:08:18

Renting a race car is a great way to get on track and not worry about the hassle of storing, prepping, maintaining, and transporting you race car. Frank and Bill discuss the rental programs that Grass Paddock Motorsports offers and how it works. Frank Schwartz is one of the driving forces behind the growth of B-Spec racing and many people called hi…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0500: Ross Bentley Takes Over Episode 500 2:00:28

2M ago2:00:28

2:00:28

GHiT 0500: Ross Bentley Takes Over Episode 500 Ross Bentley takes over our podcast to commemorate our 500th episode. If you miss the classic Speed Secrets episodes, this is pretty close. The only downside is that we are the guests, lol. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/RossBentley500 If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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GHiT 0499: The Rust Belt Ramble Rally Wrap Up 42:05

3M ago42:05

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GHiT 0499: The Rust Belt Ramble Rally Wrap Up Rally Master Jeff Stobbs joins us again to review the recent Lemons rally that toured the central US. As always, it was quite a trip with tons of stories Tune in and find out. Same Bat Time. Same Bat Channel. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/RustBeltRamble2023 If you would like to help grow…

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Garage Heroes In Training

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DwD 0498: What Spares to Bring the Track 33:00

3M ago33:00

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DwD 0498: What Spares to Bring the Track Jeremy is stuck in the middle of a family squabble about what spares to bring to the track. Vicki is worried about space and weight. Bill is worried about losing track time or an event due to not having what we need and have but did not bring. Is Bill right? Does he end up sleeping in the bathtub? Again. Doe…

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