On this episode we started out with one show idea and quickly flexed into another when Judge Phil Greden from the 24 Hours of Lemons was able to join us after some scheduling issues. Judge Phil is also an automotive journalist and often uses the pen name of Murilee Martin and writes for a variety of venues including Autoblog, Autoweek, Jalopnik, Truth About Cars, Car and Driver, Roadkill, and the 24 Hours of Lemons. We had been hoping to have Phil on as one of our original bucket list guests and...
Dec 12, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 78
Alan, Zombie Vicki, and Bill go over our recent Friendsgiving Work Weekend with special guest from the Everyone Racers Podcast hosts, Chris and Chrissy who came up to guide, instruct, and assist us with several of our cars that, as always, need repair and improvements. Highlights to the discussion include: 1) Our two and a half Porsche 944’s that are available and soon to be posted for sale for HPDE or racing use. 2) Capri update and our updated plans going forward 3) Winter is here in Northeast...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 77
SPOILER FILLED. We had a chance to finally review the new Disney+ star Wars related series the Mandalorian. After the first three episodes, we are all impressed and looking forward to seeing where we go from here. Our hosts were joined by our friend Jeff from the Everyone Racers podcast, a long time Star Wars fan and pop culture in general. In this episode, we gave a brief synopsis of all three episodes so far. Thoughts, Theories, and Discussions included: 1) Show timeline and summary of what we...
Nov 29, 2019•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 76
On this week’s podcast, we finally “met” with Dillon Brennan also known as EJ2 Track Rat after missing each other multiple times at the last Watkins Glen HPDE event. While he is an accomplished driver and instructor, he started EJ2 Track Rat to help raise awareness to everyone that they can also get out on track and enjoy our great sport with a low budget. You can follow him on his Instagram account and his blog, and soon on his YouTube channel. Highlights include: 1) Dillon’s driving history wi...
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 75
On this week’s episode we have Scott Barton as our guest. Scott is a very accomplished racing driver and very knowledgeable in the area of Sim Racing. We thought we’d learn more about both on this episode, just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Sim racing can be great way to get cheap track time, especially in the off season or during the work week when you aren’t near a track. As with most aspects of racing, you can go as deep as your interest and bank account will allow. We hope...
Nov 24, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 74
Brent Picasso has been racing since 2009 and has since created a company that provides the RaceCapture and Podium real time telemetry and data capture/display systems. We cover the development history and capabilities of the system, as well as his racing history. With what originally began as a self-tweeting race car, they have been able to develop one of the best and most complete systems we have seen to date. Podium is capable of being used with virtually all data collecting systems and conver...
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 73
This week’s guests are once again from Race Bar, repeat offender, James Webb/The Jandy Man is now joined by Patrick McHugh/Richard Freelane, and Ben Dawson/Awesome Dawson, formerly of Winsome Racing and Race Bar pseudonym apparently still under construction, lol. You can blame us for trying to wrangle another episode from the Race Bar team. Instead of a visual guide of VIR, today we get a tour of a boat and the harbor by Richard Freelane. We did manage to get a bit more of their team history and...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 72
We talk with Craig Ledbetter aka Craiggers, one of our favorite judges and team member of the Terminally Confused racing team from the 24 Hours of Lemons team. Initially we review our future race at CMP and some of the recent debacle we had with relocating our El Jeffe/Bad Hombre race truck from a few episodes back. Bill also makes a subtle plea to be a judge at some point. Craiggers has been a car guy for many, many years and has been racing for almost a decade. We try to summarize many things ...
Nov 06, 2019•2 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 71
On this week’s episode, we lose all pretenses of control with our guests from the Race Bar/Baby Shark racing team stage a coup of the podcast. Strap in for one of the most unique episodes that we have ever had with your unofficial hosts for this week James Webb and Jeff Caplan. Jennifer, Alan, Vicki and Bill were just along for the ride on this one. With that, here is the Baby Shark episode, just when you thought it was out of your head from NHMS!!! On this episode, we attempted to cover: 1) Jus...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Our podcast this week focuses on our race weekend at NHMS with the 24 Hours of Lemons teams. We had a bit of a struggle getting ready, but the cars eventually cooperated and raced well, at least for a bit. In the end, we had a great time and caught up with a lot of friends and made several new ones this weekend. On this episode, Alan, Jennifer, Kate, Vicki and Bill are still recuperating from the race weekend hangover, but did manage to discuss: Vicki learns the alphabet, finally. Pre-race prep ...
Oct 25, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 69
Please vote for Vicki A https://www.intechtrailers.com/max-the-tach# NHMS race weekend prep status. One race, two cars, neither working. The rest is good though. On one hand we have the BMW E36 3 series from 1998. Issues, yes. It won’t start. It seems to not be getting power to the computer system and won’t turn over. We found one wiring issue and are tracking down any others, slowly. One good thing is that the prior owners live very close to our race, so as a last resort, we may ask for some as...
Oct 14, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 68
Welcome to our latest podcast episode where we review our weekend HPDE with NASA North East at the world famous Watkins Glen International racetrack. We had a great weekend with 5 of our team showing up and two other friends from the Everyone Racers Podcast and The Three Pedal Mafia racing team, Chris and Chrissy. We summarize the prepping of the many cars we brought and the debacle it became for almost every car we brought. Cars we prepped included: BMW E36 1998 race car Roll bar prep and Passe...
Oct 09, 2019•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Racing is both physically and mentally challenging, even at the beginner and intermediate levels. For this week’s episode, we were very proud to have Trey Shannon as a guest. Trey is located near Charlotte NC and is helping many high level drivers and teams with their off track preparation both physically and mentally. The discussion will go over many areas that you can focus on and improve not only your best lap time, but also improve your consistency over many laps. The degradation due to fati...
Oct 03, 2019•59 min•Season 2Ep. 66
On this week’s (delayed) podcast we go over how to plan and prepare for a race weekend nutritionally. We will usually have a 3-4 day weekend with 12-40 drivers and crew to feed, so we know what works well for us and what doesn’t. It really does affect how well the weekend goes and can seriously Impact your driver’s and team performance in a significant way. Some of our top tips include: Prep before leaving for the track and when to start cooking Meal planning and prep thoughts and techniques Som...
Oct 01, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 65
On this week's podcast episode we go over wheel alignment and measurement techniques that can be used at home and at the track by almost everyone with Gil Winingham from QuickTrick Alignment. Having a minor change to the alignment can lead to very significant effects, increasing speed, decreasing lap times, and easier/safer driving and handling. Please contact Gil at: https://www.quicktrickalignment.com/
Sep 17, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Our team now has a new race car build about to begin. Long Roof for Life: Project Codename: Godzuki!!! It is a “new to us” Honda Civic that we will be converting into an endurance race car after this season. Since we know “Mr Honda” we will have backup knowledge to assist us as we go. Our plan is to build this car as a demonstration project for our listeners. If you have any ideas or thoughts, and suggestions on what we should do, please let us know within a podcast review or on our email at Gar...
Sep 09, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Another new intro bumper starts off our summary of Disney’s D23 expo with most of the highlights. We cover most of the announcements and also give our opinion on most and background in many cases if you are not familiar with the different properties. We also highlighted two additions to the Disney park areas. We cover a wide variety of the recent announcements including: Moon Knight She Hulk Ms. Marvel: Kamala Khan version Black Panther 2: May 6, 2022, title still TBD The Eternals: November 2020...
Aug 30, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Chris Egan is our special guest driver from the Futility Motorsports endurance racing team. We last saw Chris at the 24 Hours of Lemons race at Thompson. We review his lemons racing history as well as the team’s recent over-temp issues at their last race. Chris started racing with a Shelby Daytona and somehow he is still going (with the Futility Motorsport Saab). Chris has also raced in several HPDE’s and tried his hand at autocross. Chris races with his family (father, brother, and sister) and ...
Aug 29, 2019•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 61
We (Finally) cover the recent San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC). We cover the entire event with what we found of interest. Marvel dominated most of the announcements, but we tried to cover everything. Including: Krypton, several times The Witcher and Henry Cavil Top Gun Maverick Trailer Jay and Silent Bob Reboot movie and all of Kevin Smith’s movies Terminator: Dark Fate The Cats Trailer It 2 Picard trailer The Orville The Watchmen TV series Pennyworth Akira (delay) The Boys on Amazon Bill is ba...
Aug 23, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Wendy Charlier has been our primary contact at Porterfield’s since we started our team and has been with the company 20 years. Wendy has a racing background from her family that goes back many years. Also, for those of you that are not familiar with them, Porterfield’s is a private company that services all kinds of performance applications related to the braking your car and heat management, including brake pads, rotors, calipers, fluids, full brake kits etc., as well as other aspects of perfor...
Aug 15, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 59
This episode is dedicated to our friend Aaron Leinemann. He has had some unexpected bad medical news and a GoFundMe page has been started to assist. Please share whatever you can to assist Aaron and his amazing family. Link at the end. On this episode, our team reviews the 2019 24 Hours of Lemons race GP du Lac Chargoggagogg(etcetera) AT Thompson Speedway in Northeastern Connecticut. We entered our Race Truck “El Jeffe” a 2004 Chevy S-10 with many Isuzu Hombre body panels and our new to us 1998 ...
Aug 14, 2019•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 58
We were honored to have internationally renowned racing coach Peter Krause join us for an introductory discussion of data collection and analysis to improve your track driving while minimizing the addition of risk. The conversation was exceptional and covered a wide range of areas and topics. Some of the highlight areas we covered include: Data collection systems, options, and comparison What to use, how to use, and several options for how to analyze the data His virtual track walks with Ross Be...
Aug 06, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 57
On this episode, we were happy to have the lead instructor of the NASA HPDE group that Bill attended a few weeks ago. We tried to cover John's background, NASA Great Lakes teaching philosophy and approach. We think this is one of our best episodes yet and hope it serves to get at least one of you to go out and try performance driving. We would love to see you at the track. Please make sure to say hello
Aug 02, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 56
For our main topics, Alan, Vicki, and Bill go over where we are with the Capri resuscitation progress and Bill's recent NASA HPDE event at Pitt Race. Additionally, we talk about a how Alan's Yankee ingenuity has "helped" in mocking up the Capri build, his "free" source of "new to us" metal, wheel spacers. We also have a detailed explanation in how to alleviate the potential pressure involved with having a racing hobby and any potential friction that may cause with your significant other. And, ye...
Jul 23, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Bill reviews how his first day with NASA Great Lakes went at Pitt Race. It was hot, but the instruction in the car and in the classroom was excellent. Chris was able to be his instructor. The day ended with another few laps on the kart track. An excellent day one. Really looking forward to day 2.
Jul 21, 2019•29 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Bill is going solo this weekend but going to cover what he is expecting at the HPDE event with NASA Great Lakes at Pitt Race. Having raced here earlier this year, it may have helped, but we shall see. Hopefully the brakes will not catch on fire this time. Bill is driving a 2017 Toyota 86 TRD this weekend for the third time ever on a track. And hopefully home after Sunday, lol.
Jul 20, 2019•13 min•Season 2Ep. 53
On this episode, Benny and Bill review the most recent Superhero movie Spiderman Far From Home. We also cover the entire Spiderman movie history including the three Spiderman movies, the two Amazing Spiderman movies, the most recent two Spiderman "Home" movies, as well as Venom and Into the Spiderverse. Our discussion also includes a deep dive into both end credit scenes and their implications moving forward.
Jul 14, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Randy Pobst is a well known professional racing driver for many series, organizations, and manufacturers including the testing driver for Motor Trend on the endlessly entertaining “Head to Head series” for many years. During this interview, we cover a good amount of Randy’s extensive racing history as well as many other topics including our Lucky Dog Honda race car and front wheel drive car setups in general. Unfortunately, we missed a great discussion on the importance of tires due to a microph...
Jul 12, 2019•59 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Alan, Jennifer, Vicki, and Bill with a few drop ins cover our race weekend with the Lucky Dog Series at Portland International Raceway. It starts with a review of practice Saturday morning, then our 7-hour endurance race Saturday and our work to get back out late Sunday. We compare Lucky Dog to our home series the 24 Hours of Lemons. While similar, there are differences, pluses and minuses for each, so we compare the two in the continual pursuit of the perfect low budget amateur endurance car ra...
Jul 09, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Here is how our day and night have gone. Its got a good, bad, and ugly, but what would you expect from us after all. Its live and unedited from the paddock, so sound quality may be less than stellar. Any questions, please let us know on our Instagram. We will try to cover them tomorrow or tomorrow night if we finish fixing the car. Thanks again.
Jul 07, 2019•23 min•Season 2Ep. 49
