The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve. One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with. Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the segments for this year. If you could let us know what your favorite topic was, we would love to know. A...
Feb 03, 2021•46 min•Season 4Ep. 168
We finally broke Aaron down and he agreed to come onto the podcast with the rest of the Saabs of Anarchy team that we race with in many of our endurance races. They started racing in Lemons many years ago and each have had several Saabs for street use and for some reason they all thought it would be a good vehicle to endurance race. Stephen and Ryan recently started a podcast called The Autoholic Podcast. They are a great group of guys who enjoy racing and seeing what they can make a Saab surviv...
Feb 02, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Season 4Ep. 167
The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve. One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with. Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the segments for this year. If you could let us know what your favorite topic was, we would love to know. A...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 166
Loni Unser is our guest racing driver for this episode. She is a fourth generation racing driver and has quickly worked her way up through several racing series in all types of cars and racing. She has recently announced that she will be driving the Swamp Dragon Hot Sauce car in the MX5 Cup. She graciously accepted our invitation to the podcast and is easily one of the nicest and friendliest guests we have ever had. We hope everyone will be following her career and we hope to see her at a track ...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 165
The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve. One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with. Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the segments for this year. If you could let us know what your favorite topic was, we would love to know. A...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 164
Ian Korf was our guest for this podcast. Ian is an amateur racer and driving instructor when at the track, as well as the author of the book “You Suck At Racing” that is aimed at helping newer drivers progress, as well as his similarly titled blog. Ian and Ben have raced together for several years on the west coast and obviously have had more than a few stories to share. In spite of Ian have a well thought out and logical approach, he still enjoys racing as much as anyone we have met. Since Ben ...
Jan 18, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Season 4Ep. 163
The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve. One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with. Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the segments for this year. If you could let us know what your favorite topic was, we would love to know. A...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 162
We have had a few guests requested and here is one of them, Johan Samanta is a driver that started endurance racing over a decade ago. In his real life, he is a Neurologist and at the track, he may need one, lol. Johan travels across US to races from his home in Phoenix. We last raced with him at the Lucky Dog race Charlotte Roval August 2020 and a great time was had by all. Johan also shared many of the things he has learned in his racing career and we discuss many of the reasons to race beyond...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Season 4Ep. 161
The fundamental basis for our podcast has always been to help drivers at all levels improve and while we still have a fun on every episode, we are always trying to improve and help others improve. One of the best received additions to our podcast has been the Dominating with Dawson topics that Ben Dawson was kind enough to help us with. Here is the first annual episode that compiles all of the segments for this year. If you could let us know what your favorite topic was, we would love to know. A...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 160
Andrew Rains joins us for this episode to talk through his racing history and then we went deeply into the Apex Pro telemetry system. We have used our two Apex Pro’s many times this season and everyone has liked the simple interface while on track and the data analysis capability off track is simple and fast, yet powerful. We have only scratched the surface to this point, but we wanted to make sure everyone we know was aware of the Apex Pro system and we all learned a great deal more about the s...
Jan 04, 2021•2 hr 19 min•Season 4Ep. 159
As the year wraps up, we review how our 2020 racing season went and what we would like to do and accomplish in 2021. Obviously, the year did not go as we had hoped or planned with the COVID pandemic impacting all aspects of normal life and routine, but we did make some significant growth and made the best out of a horrible situation. Goal making is one thing that is very easy to do, but also very easy to skip, however, we have found it to be very beneficial to our growth as racers as well as is ...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 59 min•Season 3Ep. 158
John Lavin and Dean Hesser join us to discuss improvements to our car preparation processes. This includes before leaving for the racetrack, as well as at the racetrack and after the race. We learned a ton of things that we should have been doing but weren’t simply because we didn’t know or hadn’t thought of it yet. We hope that this episode will save you at least one headache at the track or eliminate one breakdown or even better prevent an issue on track that causes damage to you or your car. ...
Dec 28, 2020•2 hr 47 min•Season 3Ep. 157
We found several of the original sound files and decided to put this together for a bonus Christmas gift to everyone. This is the podcast recording sessions that started everything. We originally intended this to fill in a week gap that the Everyone Racers podcast took for Chris and Chrissy’s wedding. However, it took almost thirty tries for us to get to this point. In addition, we added an early snippet of our first GHiT podcast introductions. I guess we did get better over time, but honestly, ...
Dec 24, 2020•47 min•Season 3Ep. 156
Trey Shannon returns to discuss several options to get in better shape for racing and life that can be done with or without a gym. We talk through a wide variety of ways to shave pounds off each car you drive by carrying fewer (extra) pounds in the driver seat. Trey usually works with several pro level drivers and many with professional aspirations. Podium Performance not only deals with physical preparation, but mental, visual, and many other related areas that can impact your driving performan...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Season 3Ep. 155
Adam Jabaay is a co-founder of the GridLife series and was kind enough to come onto our program to talk about GridLife and his driving and racing history. We were told by several people at the track that we needed to attend a GridLife event and after doing some homework and talking with Adam, we agree. The series is a mix of high level racing, HPDE, drifting, and a huge social aspect in the paddock. We may need to take a vacation after the event to recuperate, lol. You can find more info on Grid...
Dec 14, 2020•2 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 154
On this Way Off Our Topic (WOOT) episode, we overdo our review of The Mandalorian prior to the season 2 finale and predictions for what we think and/or want to happen in the finale. We then move into the recent announcements of upcoming movies and television series. Since we haven't had a WOOT episode in a long while, we went really long with this one. Our hosts for this episode are Jeff, Josh, Benny, Vicki, and Bill. We hope you enjoy the episode!
Dec 13, 2020•3 hr•Season 3Ep. 153
Craig Watkins joins us for this episode to discuss his driving history, as well as his time spent as an engineer for Flying Lizard Motorsports, among others. Craig concentrates now being an amateur racing driver and feels the pain of being a single person team. We also go into his business that started as a tool he needed to help him as a race car engineer and grew into what we know as Smart Racing Products that offers several solutions that are easy to use to set your car alignment up, even if ...
Dec 07, 2020•2 hr 33 min•Season 3Ep. 152
You may know Chance Hales from his work with the Everyday Driver TV Show, Podcast, and YouTube channel, or from his excellent Instagram follow @phattyhales for a ton of great photos of spectacular cars in amazing locales. With our team finally starting to get things together, we wanted to improve our non-driving related knowledge and skills as well and realized that as much as we like taking pictures and videos at the track and on the road, we have not kept up with recent advances that may impro...
Dec 05, 2020•1 hr 47 min•Season 3Ep. 151
Ross Bentley, world class racing coach and author, was kind enough to join us to help celebrate our 150th episode! Since Ross has literally written THE book on racing and high performance driving, we always look forward to talking with him any chance we get. Our team has improved in the almost year since Ross came on episode 100, but have our questions? You will have to be the judge of that. As always, Ross is able to answer everything we are curious about and even provide some insight into the ...
Nov 30, 2020•2 hr 36 min•Season 3Ep. 150
Joe Marko was our guest from HMS Motorsport joins us to discuss several of the key aspects of safety for your race car, key aspects to take into consideration, as well as installation guidance, basically a one stop shop, but it was so much content and information, we are sure this is only part one of several more. If you are going to be working on your car or especially if you are building a car this winter, this can help you significantly. On this episode’s Dominating with Dawson, we cover what...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 51 min•Season 3Ep. 149
Brian Bohlander is a very accomplished race driver having competed for over 30 years and has won the Mint 400 Class 5500 and is a 3-time Thunder Roadster champion. In his professional life, he is the marketing director for Peak antifreeze and is responsible for all sports and racing partnerships. As if that was not enough, he is also the Comp school director for NASA Great Lakes. During the episode, we try to compare two of the primary paths for training and qualifying to compete in wheel to whe...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 56 min•Season 3Ep. 148
The latest HPDE with NASA Northeast last weekend completes our season of track driving and instruction for 2020. We try to summarize it as well as how the COVID 19 impacted racing season went. And Bill can’t wait to start planning 2021. It was a great weekend on track with fantastic weather, especially for mid-November in NJ. We came with three cars good to go. We left with zero. Seems to be a familiar refrain. The winter to do list gets longer. On Dominating with Dawson, we cover driver communi...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 3Ep. 147
We thought we would get a short podcast out to update how the day has gone and what we have been doing today. Jennifer is in the Soul Red 2019 Mazda MX5 (Miata) ND2 and is in HPDE 1 this weekend. Vicki is in her first HPDE 2 and, as always is driving her 1999 Mazda Miata with the Flyin' Miata turbo. Bill finally found an HPDE car that he can fit into that wasn't stolen (yet) by the girls, a 2004 BMW E46 M3. The day went very well and we all learned from the time on track. We cover highs and lows...
Nov 08, 2020•20 min•Season 3Ep. 146
We have finally gotten to our long postponed skid pad event. Our original event in March was cancelled due to COVID 19 and when John from Safety Third Motorsports was kind enough to offer an invitation to an event at Lime Rock Park using the skid pad and autocross track, we gladly said thank you! Was it everything we had hoped for? Should you go to a skid pad? Did it help us? Would it help you? Why do our cars always break the night before we leave? All this and more will be answered in this epi...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 145
Colton (aka Train) and Steve (aka Woodchuck) are two of the four hosts of the “B Squad Hotrod” Podcast on to discuss how they have learned and continue to learn to work on their hotrod projects, cars and other related projects, like building a huge garage from scratch. We also get into some of the current and upcoming projects and goals for the coming few months. A great podcast hosted by two sets of brothers, in 4 states, and three time zones, they work together towards finishing the project an...
Nov 02, 2020•2 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 144
After a recent HPDE event with NASA Great Lakes at the Autobahn Country Club near Chicago, Bill sent in some video of a representative lap to Racers360 to try their video coaching and see what he could work on to improve. Dion von Moltke, from Racers360 and a podcast guest from episode #92, evaluated one of Bill’s laps and who knew, it wasn't all that bad. We thought it would be a great discussion of the use of video and the added benefit of having a professional driver and coach review the vide...
Oct 26, 2020•2 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 143
GHIT Podcast Episode 0142: Alex Levinson Orchestrates a Coup D’état with Some Friends We never had control to lose, but we somehow lost it anyway. You have been warned It all started innocently enough, Alex Levinson was coming onto the podcast and we had a plan to talk about racing and go karting. Little did we know there was a devious plot afoot. It began to dawn on us as he was signing in and the Zoom window label came through as Amanda. All was good, he was pretending to be Amanda, we would l...
Oct 17, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Season 3Ep. 142
Rachel Baker and Gina Ma from Driving Forward Together joined us for this episode where we discuss the goals and ambitions for Driving Forward Together and where they would like to be in the coming years. We also get to know Rachel and Gina’s driving and racing history as well as getting to know them a bit better. We hope to see them out at a race next year. On Dominating with Dawson, we cover more vision, as in looking through the turn and trying to see as far down the track as possible. Inform...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 48 min•Season 3Ep. 141
We cover Bill’s first HPDE 3 with NASA Great Lakes at the Autobahn Country Club South Course layout that is near Chicago. It was our teams first HPDE 3 and it was fantastic. NASA Great Lakes really shines with their HPDE curriculum. In addition, we had the opportunity to try the teams new Garmin Catalyst on track for the first time and we were very impressed. Several notable driving improvements were during the event and perhaps even a few Ahh Hah Moments. In addition, we discuss the “perfect” r...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 140
This episode of our podcast is a listeners request, Jennifer, Vicki, and Bill go over what we have been up to and begin to look at where we are going for next year. Lots of changes, lots of cars gone, still a few to go, and lots of new cars added, most need some TLC. We think we are on a good path, but you can be the judge of that. Also, on this episode’s Dominating with Dawson, we get into a discussion of driving skill vs driving talent. Lots of opinions, lots of thoughts, probably the first of...
Oct 03, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 139
