Updated Nerd Out: Stock & Super Stock!
Updated Nerd Out for Stock & Super Stock after Las Vegas.
Nov 07, 2024•8 min•Ep. 176
Daily Driver
The Daily Driver podcast presented by ThisIsBracketRacing.com is a daily podcast dedicated to helping sportsman drag racers become the best version of themselves on the race track. Each day in season 2 (which stretches from November 1 through November 30), 3-time NHRA World Champion Luke Bogacki explores a topic of competition and shares the insights and experience that he’s gained as a racer, teacher, and perpetual student of the game.
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Updated Nerd Out: The .90 Categories!
Updated Nerd Out after Las Vegas. What changed in Super Gas and Super Comp?
Nov 06, 2024•11 min•Ep. 175
The Nerd Out! Top Sportsman
Continuing on with The Nerd Out series, this episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Top Sportsman. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next series of Daily Driver episodes.
Nov 04, 2024•6 min•Ep. 174
The Nerd Out! What changed in Reading?
In this episode of The Nerd Out series, let's look at what has changed for Stock Eliminator, Super Comp, and Super Gas from the Division 1 finale in Reading.
Nov 01, 2024•10 min•Ep. 173
The Nerd Out! Comp
Continuing on with The Nerd Out series, this episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Competition Eliminator. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next series of Daily Driver episodes.
Oct 30, 2024•11 min•Ep. 172
The Nerd Out! Super Stock
This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Super Stock. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next series of Daily Driver episodes.
Oct 29, 2024•10 min•Ep. 171
The Points Chase
It’s natural to want to know where you stand in a points chase. Obviously, your main focus is on the things that you can control. But that doesn’t mean that we’re not aware of the things that are beyond our control.
Oct 28, 2024•7 min•Ep. 168
The Nerd Out! Super Gas
This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Super Gas. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next series of Daily Driver episodes.
Oct 25, 2024•13 min•Ep. 170
The Nerd Out! Super Comp
This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Super Comp. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next series of Daily Driver episodes.
Oct 23, 2024•16 min•Ep. 169
The Nerd Out! Top Dragster
This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Top Dragster. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back over the next series of Daily Driver episodes.
Oct 21, 2024•8 min•Ep. 167
The Nerd Out! Stock
If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to "Nerd Out" this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I'm running it back! In maintaining the short form of the Daily Driver, I'm breaking down one points chase per episode. Today, we'll kick things off with a deep dive into Stock Eliminator!
Oct 16, 2024•9 min•Ep. 166
Effective Gameplanning (Part 3)
Up to this point I've talked about the 3 winning finish line strategies and ensuring you have situational awareness in your own lane when gameplanning. Now, I want to finish with talking about gameplanning in reference to the opponent in the other lane.
Oct 14, 2024•7 min•Ep. 164
Effective Gameplanning (Part 2)
In part 2 of this 3 part mini series on Gameplanning, I want to talk about situational awareness. When racers think of gameplanning, we have a tendency to think about it in reference to an opponent. I'd argue that 95% of a successful gameplan is focused on what is happening in your own lane.
Oct 07, 2024•5 min•Ep. 163
Effective Gameplanning (Part 1)
In ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE and ThisIsBracketRacing Jr., we focus on three distinct and simple finish line ideas. We call them the fundamental WINNING finish line strategies. In part 1 of this 3 part Gameplanning mini series, let's dive into those three winning finish line strategies.
Sep 30, 2024•6 min•Ep. 162
How to hit the tree
The single biggest attribute in my racing today is my ability to hit the tree. A lot of the questions I get are centered around how can you advance that in your racing? How can you make hitting the tree your biggest attribute? Ready to Let Go Like a Pro? Check out our new starting line course to level up your game on the tree: thisisbracketracing.com/let-go
Sep 23, 2024•6 min•Ep. 161
3 Key Questions
This week's episode is something I wanted to share from a podcast that I listen to that is centered around the Summer Olympics. And on that episode Summer Sanders, Olympic Gold Medalist, talks about 3 key questions that helped her perform at her best. Why are you competing? Who are you doing it for? Who loves you? I am sharing this because those 3 simple questions are gold.
Sep 16, 2024•5 min•Ep. 160
AMA - Competitive Sociopath Revisited
This episode is going to look a little more like the Question of the Week feature than the Daily Driver. A few months back on the Competitive Sociopath episode, I talked about the correlation between of being hyper focused and success. This week is expanding on that correlation into the competitive sociopath line of thinking in regard to families and couples.
Sep 09, 2024•11 min•Ep. 159
Planning is Everything
“Plans are useless, but planning is everything.” - Dwight Eisenhower. As most of you know or have probably figured out by now, I am big on planning. Especially when it comes to racing. But what happens when we can't plan for everything. How can we be prepared?
Sep 02, 2024•5 min•Ep. 158
The Psychology of Bottom Bulb Racing (Part 2)
This week's episode is part 2 of The Psychology of Bottom Bulb Racing. In part 1 I started to talk about the takeaways I had from a discussion within ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE and those takeaways were being fearless, having a conservative strategy, cocky swing, and to be like water. This week I want to dive even deeper and look out even more takeaways from that discussion.
Aug 26, 2024•13 min•Ep. 157
RIP Scotty
Much like everyone else, I didn't know how to react to hearing about Scotty Richardson passing. I just turned on the microphone and started recording. But what do you say when Superman dies?
Aug 19, 2024•11 min•Ep. 156
The Psychology of Bottom Bulb Racing (Part 1)
This episode is exclusively for you bottom bulb racers and honestly if this sounds similar, it's because my most recent National Dragster column was on this same topic too. But here within the Daily Driver, I want to expand on it more. I want to dive deeper into the psychology of bottom bulb racing, not just the tangible things but the mental side of things.
Aug 12, 2024•10 min•Ep. 155
Limiting Inputs
In a world of so much information; so many things that we could (or society tells us we should!) care about, we simply have to choose what is important to us, and… equally importantly: what is not.
Aug 05, 2024•5 min•Ep. 154
Comfort Zones
There are elements that are crucial to success in our racing. And there are elements that we believe to be crucial to success in our racing. Let's talk about where comfort zones fall.
Jul 29, 2024•4 min•Ep. 153
Do the next right thing
'Do the next right thing' is a mantra for many struggling with addiction or can be words to live by for many who have overcome tremendous setbacks. How can we relate it to drag racing? Racing is a difficult pursuit - that’s what draws so many of us to it (and holds our passion - because sustained perfection is truly unattainable). To move forward in racing we must 'Do the next right thing'.
Jul 22, 2024•5 min•Ep. 152
Staging Games
This seems to come up a couple of times of year, and it's the complaint of staging games. I want to address this, but I’m way past the point of sugar coating it.
Jul 15, 2024•3 min•Ep. 151
Competitive Sociopath
In this week's episode I wanted to look at the correlation between of being hyper focused and success. Is that competitive sociopath mentality the only path to success? Or can we strive to be both focused and have fun?
Jul 08, 2024•7 min•Ep. 150
Tell Me What To Do
“In this way you must understand how laughable it is to say, ‘Tell me what to do!’ What advice could I possibly give? No, a far better request is, ‘Train my mind to adapt to any circumstance.’... In this way, if circumstances take you off script… you won’t be desperate for a new prompting.” - Epictetus The above quote is what I am focusing on for this week's Daily Driver episode and it's centered around our current ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE open enrollment period. Love listening to the Daily Dri...
Jul 02, 2024•3 min•Ep. 149
Physical Health
On this week's Daily Driver, I'm visiting one of the reoccurring questions that comes up in ThisIsBracketRacing in regards to health. Does diet and exercise impact performance?
Jun 24, 2024•6 min•Ep. 148
The Challenge of Growth
This episode comes in right on the heels of the exclusive ThisIsBracketRacing Junior Fest where our members are able to get on the track and implement the things we discuss. Our goal at our live events, be it junior dragsters or even our big car ELITE Fest, is to stretch our attendees. To challenge them. The result is a microcosm of growth in general.
Jun 17, 2024•5 min•Ep. 147
Reputation
As a racer you have a reputation among your competitors. They have identified the way that you race; and they use that reputation to gameplan (and to execute) against you. You could live up to the reputation or you could choose to defy it.
Jun 10, 2024•8 min•Ep. 146
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