Well this episode started out as a quick update and we intended to show you some of the planning that goes into a race weekend when you have to travel a significant distance. What we ended up with was a bit of what we intended plus a whole lot more. We go over a training session using go carts, new ear plugs for racing and a variety of other things. Technical issues in the background abound as well, but they will hopefully be entertaining.
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 48
With the Dark Phoenix movie released, we took this opportunity to review the entire Fox X-Men movie series, in depth and SPOILERS aplenty. We cover each movie, as well as the three animated series and the two current X-Men related television shows (Legion and The Gifted). As usual, we digress and wander around the subject matter and related areas. We hope you enjoy this latest episode of our Woot series where we go way off our usual racing topic.
Jun 20, 2019•2 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Our 2019 NJMP Lightning Race Review with the 24 Hours of Lemons series includes: Quick review of the Lightning track Review Alan’s many visits to the Black flag area this weekend Some flagging issues we saw We had a few self-induced incidents and a few outside influences during the race It was Kate’s first race Podcast Reviews finally, Thank you. Arrival with two not fully working cars set us back for the weekend and we really never caught back up Shout out once or twice to Judge Craigers We had...
Jun 14, 2019•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 46
On this episode, the whole gang reviews the recently ended HBO series Game Of Thrones. We hope you enjoy the episode. Benny, Alex, Vicki, and Bill get into the various characters, highs, and lows of the series and books.
Jun 14, 2019•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 45
On this episode, we were joined by Nick Pon from the 24 Hours of Lemons HQ. Nick is a car enthusiast for the vast majority of his life and worked with the Lemons team since the inception. During this interview, we were able to go over Nick's history, both with Lemons and personally. Highlights included: Thoughts on how you Lemons has gone so far, the Good, The Bad and The Ugly What is planned for NJMP next weekend with Race, Radwood, Hooptiecon and everything else on site Also please check out N...
Jun 01, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Jeff Wakeman from the Three Pedal Mafia racing team and the Everyone Racers Podcast joins us for this week's episode. We had a wide ranging discussion covering many topics including: Jeff’s first car Some of Jeff and the Three Pedal Mafia early history The Wartburg vs the Trabant Past few seasons results, and challenges Building two new cars for this season Team Goals for 2019 Summit point led to no stunting and 'splodin rule Track Discussion of the NJMP Lightning track for our upcoming race Bil...
May 29, 2019•1 hr 57 min•Season 2Ep. 43
For this episode, we wanted to look back on our team's first year racing Lemons and what we did, what we did well, what we did poorly, and begin to refine our plan for the coming year. Alan also covers his recomended tool of the week.
May 24, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 42
We received a ton of questions from you and reconvened to answer all that we could. Thanks for asking! PS We are planning our summer and have some ideas but would love to hear from you on what would be of interest. Please drop us a line at garageheroesintraining@gmail.com or even better give us a review and include your ideas there within the review.
May 15, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 41
If you think you have the driving itch or may have an interest, how can you try racing to find out if its for you? We also cover what is a preferred path towards your personal driving greatness. As always, the biggest key is safety and safely progressing up your individual learning curve. During this episode, we also cover various ways to get out on track, how to progress with many options given including experience type driving events, one day HPDE's, SCCA Track Night America, SCCA and NASA eve...
May 15, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Jennifer, Liam, Vicki, and Bill attended the EVO School for Autocross this weekend in upstate NY near Seneca Falls. It was Bill's second time and the first time for everyone else. We all agree that the instructing staff was awesome and the structure was excellent. We all learned a ton and would recommend it to anyone interested in trying to push their driving limits in a safe environment for the first time to experienced racers and autocrossers. The course is designed to help everyone progress f...
May 13, 2019•39 min•Season 2Ep. 39
On this episode, Vicki, Alan, and Bill discuss race weekend preparation using this week's EVO School race day and our next Lemons race at NJMP as examples. In addition. Alan covers his tool of the week, a Quickjack 5000. No relation to Sunblock 3000.
May 09, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 38
We tried to get everyone together but it ended up being only Benny and Bill. We may have following episodes reviewing the movie but there is our first one that several of you have been requesting. Thank you for your patience. We did manage to keep it under the running time of the movie. Barely.
Apr 30, 2019•2 hr 52 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Avengers Infinity War Spoiler Heavy Episode Alex, Benny, and Bill welcome in the new Avengers Endgame movie that opens tomorrow with a review of the first part Avengers Infinity War with our comments. We also give a few predictions for Endgame. We will return after we all see Endgame this weekend with our review.
Apr 25, 2019•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Another Way Off Our Topic episode featuring Benny, Vicki and Bill Reviewing Shazam. It is a spoiler review, many attempts were made and the episode was somehow lost and not released for unknown reason. Despite rumors to the contrary, I did not mess this one up to avoid releasing it We initially review some basic Shazam history and then we disagree on the quality of the movie. Bill has a lot of issues with it, but Benny and Vicki are both strong defenders (and wrong). Vicki agrees with Bill at le...
Apr 17, 2019•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 34
We reviewed our first race of the year at Pitt Race with the 24 Hours of Lemons series. We had some issues during the weekend that prevented us recording at the track so we went into some detail during this race review. Including: Tech inspection Greasing palms with lots of fake money Virtual Track walk Practice schedule at the race The awesome race track at Pitt Race (We will be back) Brake fires (yes, plural) Car Spins/Trimming the infield grass with our Aero Racing in the rain, again Changing...
Apr 16, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 35
We are midway in prepping for our first race of the season and wanted to review some of the details involved with preparing for a race weekend. We also cover several of the lower cost options that are available to get anyone (meaning YOU) out on the track if you wanted to try it out. These included high performance driving education/events (HPDE), autocross and autocross education events, driving experience opportunities where you take a few laps in a rented car, or race car, or super car of you...
Apr 10, 2019•52 min•Season 1Ep. 33
This week we welcomed Ann Deane to our podcast. We met her at NJMP a few weeks ago when she was participating and also instructing at the Hooked On Driving event. The discussion covered many topics and areas including: Racing and learning to race cars, things we could have done and still could do better Wish list items and plans for the coming season How to approach a new track and what to do to learn a new track, we used Road Atlanta as an example for our preparation for Pitt Race next weekend ...
Apr 08, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Alan and Bill got a last minute invitation to Evo Performance Driving Event at Giants Stadium in NJ. Vicki acts as the interrogator, lol. We ran it live! Highlights include Alan going off road, Bill committing several acts of car-on-cone manslaughter, and things we learned in our driver education progression.
Apr 01, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 31
Greetings from the track. We reported in from NJMP while we are at our High Performance Driving Education (HPDE) event and review our impressions, things we learned, and things we are still working on. We hope you enjoy this episode. Most of it was recorded inside a car at the track with other cars in the area so in some spots the audio quality may vary.
Mar 26, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Vicki and Bill go over what goes on at a high performance driving event, how to prepare for the event, and what to bring etc. Our season kicks off with a weekend of HPDE at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) in Millville New Jersey this weekend. We took a page from our friends at Everyone Racers podcast and "ran it live". We will likely have an update episode from the track this weekend. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello. We would love to hear from you. We hope Alan comes back...
Mar 21, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Spoiler filled and unedited podcast post everyone seeing the Captain Marvel movie at least once this weekend. It turns out that Benny was the closest in his prediction on our preview podcast last week. It turns out we all really liked it, even more than we had hoped and predicted on our show. In this episode we discussed: Our initial rating of the movie Listener feedback from Jason H and El Jeffe and our thoughts of their opinions Bill gets tremendous bonus points for calling out the Right Stuff...
Mar 12, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 28
NON SPOILER FOR THE MOVIE: One this episode, Vicki, Benny, and Bill began with a deep dive into the history of Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers in preparation for the upcoming Movie this week. As usual, we discussed a whole lot more and we hope you enjoy it. We will cover the movie later this weekend. Benny is expecting a 9.5 out of 10, Vicki a 7, and Bill an 8. We all hope Benny is right!
Mar 07, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 27
We are very happy to welcome the Hydrocephalus Racing Team to our podcast this week. They are a great team of friends and family that we first initially met at their first ever Lemons race in Thompson CT. Unfortunately, Vicki and Bill apparently recorded in the Tube of Mockery we borrowed from Mental, so it sounds like we are huddled up in a cave somewhere. If you are interested in supporting research in the area of Hydrocephalus, please go to their website to learn more about it and what we can...
Mar 03, 2019•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 26
On this episode, we interrupted our Autocross month for a quick update on a recent roll cage installation weekend we attended that was hosted by the Three Pedal Mafia and focused on their new to them Nissan 300Z. We also cover other work that was done during the Cage Party. We also reviewed our progress on resuscitating the 1974 Capri and getting it back onto the track this season with a new drive train and how our progress goes towards replacing/repairing/upgrading the entire drive train from s...
Feb 21, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Please excuse a few spots where we lost internet recording. On this episode, Bill has the worst intro of any podcast in history, Vicki stages a coup d’état of the hosting duties, Alan shows up late, and we have recording issues galore so our episode for this week is posting late. Despite this, Jason Hopkins who is the founder of the Citrus Racers Lounge was an awesome guest and we hope you enjoy this week's episode. Things we covered: Last week’s Facebook conference in Menlo Park CA How many Smo...
Feb 17, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 24
This week, we welcomed Chris Kamery to the podcast to continue our discussion on Autocross this month. Chris is an avid and accomplished driver mostly in the upstate New York and neighboring areas. We cover a wide range of topics related to start racing in autocross and what to do and what not to do. We also attempt to drag him into the dark side of endurance racing. We hope to see him out at the track soon. Topics covered included: Car requirements and preferences Track design and review Typica...
Feb 08, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 23
On this episode, Vicki and Bill welcomed Sam Strano to our show to discuss another form of racing called autocross. This involved timed racing laps of a course that is usually artificially defined by a series of cones in a parking lot, air strip or other paved area. Sam is a multiple time national champion in autocross and we are now signed up for at least one race and one training session and knowing us there will be more to follow. Please stop in or visit Sam's company at: http://www.stranopar...
Jan 29, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 22
On our latest episode, we had Chris Abbott of the Three Pedal Mafia and the Everyone Racers podcast as our special guest. Chris is one of the nicest people we have met at lemons and has probably passed us more times than any other driver in the series, sometimes even in our own car. On this episode, we talked about a wide variety of topics including: Our wish you were sponsoring us, Alpine Stars Alan does his Dalek impersonation New car race prep strategy Giraffes and racing Also as a special su...
Jan 25, 2019•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 21
We are very happy to have our first guest from our friends at the Everyone Racers podcast and also a member of the Three Pedal Mafia, Christian "Mental" Ward. While our usual episode is around 45 minutes to a bit over an hour, this one went a bit longer. We actually had some audio issues so it ended up under 3 hours of a great conversation. If you listen to us on the way to work, we may have your whole week covered. So either you have our apologies or you are welcome.
Jan 18, 2019•2 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 20
We first noticed Annika Carter on Instagram where her moniker is Not.My.Boyfriends.Car and that is the best Instagram name that we know of ever. We then noticed she was going to be racing with us at Road Atlanta for our last Lemons race of our 2018 calendar season. She has quickly worked her way up and races as much as she possibly can. She has already earned her racing license through NASA and we know she can drive as she passed us many, many times during our weekend together. Alan, Vicki, and ...
Jan 10, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 19
