GHiT 0573:  Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 3 Pedal Mafia Our race season has begun with our kickoff race at PittRace with the 24 Hours of Lemons.  We were joined by several members of the National Championship winning racing team, the Three Pedal Mafia.  You all know them, they are the team we always refer to as our sister team and they refer to us as “Who”.  Jeff, Jim, and Eric drove with us in our 1993 Honda Civic (EG for the home gamers) and shared in the hilarity of our Over the Top Gun Theme.  Also, Gayle is on the podcast and attended her first ever Lemons rac ..read more

DwD 0572:  How to Learn a Track As Quickly As Possible Bill is about to compete in the One Lap of America and will be visiting most of the tracks for the first time.  Ben discusses several ways to learn a track more quickly and may be helpful for you at your next new to you track day.  A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/LearnATrackFast  We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google m ..read more

GHiT 0570:  Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 2 Our race season has begun with our kickoff race at PittRace with the 24 Hours of Lemons.  We were joined by the famous Slippery Slope racing team and shared a garage together.  The drove their 1991 E34 5 series BMW in class A and made a great showing with much progress over their first year of endurance racing.  We talk with Audra, Max, Larry, and Bill, and make fun of Ryan who was podcast shy. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/PittRace2024Part2 If you would like to help grow high-performance driving and racing and ..read more

GHiT 0570:  Race Recap – PittRace 2024 – Part 1 Our race season has begun with our kickoff race at PittRace with the 24 Hours of Lemons.  We had a large team and we over did our theming effort this time.  The race was fantastic, until it wasn’t, but we made lemonade out of it in the end.  Good racing Saturday was followed by some race ending issues, but we did end up taking home a bit of hardware.  This is part one of the race review and it covers a lot of the theming related activities from the weekend.  And a bit of the racing, lol. A link to the episode is: htt ..read more

DwD 0569:  How to Pass a Faster/More Powerful Car On Track An article by Randy Pobst in Grassroots Motorsports magazine stirred up this bit of conversation related to passing fast and more powerful cars on track.  While this may initially seem to be impossible, it usually the only way we are able to pass cars on track, lol A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/PassingFasterCars We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including th ..read more

DwD 0567:  Gripping your Steering Wheel We discuss the best way to grip a steering wheel and hand position with a bit more related topics.  This may be one of the few times where more is not better.  A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/HulkNoSmash We hope you enjoy this episode! If you would like to help grow our podcast and high-performance driving and racing: You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice, including the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, YouTube, etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating, that we would ..read more

GHiT 0566:  Elizabeth Jolly – Lap 3, Plus a New Plan for Vicki It had been too long since we had Elizabeth Jolly on the podcast.  She was at our first ever All Ladies team endurance race at Thompson and has learned a considerable amount as a driver, a racer, and as a mechanic for her race cars.  She has progressed her driving to securing her SCCA racing license and competes in her Spec E30 BMW.  We talk about how things have been going and then make a new decision and plan that affects Vicki’s season in a great way! A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ElizabethJol ..read more

DwD 0565:  Car Setup Targets What is faster, setting up a car as fast as it can be or setting it up to maximize driver comfort with the car performance.  This gets even more complicated when dealing with a team of drivers for an endurance race.  Ben discusses this and provides a few examples of what to do and what will give the best performance for a given race.  Did we miss something?  Do you have a better suggestions?  Please let us know. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ CarSetupTargetOptions   ..read more

GHiT 0562:  Racing Subarus the Best way with Dewey Dewitt Dewey Dewitt, fresh off his 2023 Time Attack Championship with GridLife, joins us to go into the details for properly racing and preparing Subaru’s for racing and track use.  We focus on addressing basic upgrades to protect the car during high performance driving.  Then look at potential performance upgrades and the potential implications, both positives and potential negatives.  If you have ever heard of “Subaru” issues, there are simple, readily available solutions to give you on track reliability, many of which ar ..read more

 GHiT 0561:  Recap of our Car Control Clinic at CMP At long last, Vicki’s Christmas training gift was here.  We attended a Car Control Clinic at CMP’s skid pad with Johan Schwartz.  Vicki and Bill both grew as drivers and improved their car control, car recovery, and even a bit of drifting was had. A great event that we try to summarize for you.  If you can attend one of Johan’s events, you definitely should, and it will benefit all levels of drivers. A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/CarControlAtCMP If you would like to help grow high-performance driving a ..read more