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John Lavin joined us from the Safety 3rd Motorsports racing team for a great discussion of his racing and team history, including how his background in racing snowmobiles, motorcycles, and snowboarding has led to and helped with his racing cars.\\xa0 His team started with an initial car that was intended for Lemons but ended up being a second gen Supra that was better fitting into an episode of Better Call Saul and ended up in ChampCar and started with the usual issues and tremendous stories as his team grew.\\xa0 The team is currently running in several ChampCar events each year, as well as several other organizations in multiple divisions.\\xa0

We are hoping to talk John into letting us attend one of their upcoming races to learn more, if they will have us.\\xa0 Please follow them on Instagram at Safety3rdMotorsports.\\xa0

In our Dominating with Dawson segment, we go into racing in the rain and while some complain, it\\u2019s really actually better in many ways for learning and definitely should not be skipped or avoided.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, Jennifer, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast
and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

Highlights from the episode include:

1)\\xa0 Sharing the pain of herding cats as the team manager\\u2019s primary role.
2)\\xa0 It appears John\'s path is similar to Bill\\u2019s, just executed much better.
3)\\xa0 VIR gets another big endorsement, and it wasn\\u2019t from Ben this time.
4)\\xa0 First race stories for the team, a true 24-hour race at VIR.
5)\\xa0 Why they eventually switched from a Supra to a BMW to the annoyance of all the Fast and Furious fans.
6)\\xa0 Racing is really a situation of management by crisis, we agree and couldn\\u2019t have said it any better.
7)\\xa0 Several discussions on the differences and benefits of a racing school, as compared to HPDE\\u2019s and track days.
8)\\xa0 A comparison of ChampCar and the Lemons series, with a bit about AER as well.
9)\\xa0 How the teams racing philosophy has changed as they have become faster and a bit more competitive.
10)\\xa0 A very good discussion on transitioning a team from having run racing a car to racing to compete.\\xa0 A challenge our team is likely approaching.
11)\\xa0 We offer our excellent BBQ rub and BBQ sauce for some of their secret sauce, so far to no avail, lol.
12)\\xa0 Practicing at track days vs learning from an instructor and several other benefits of instruction.
13)\\xa0 A discussion on the various aspects of car control, what it is and several techniques that can be used to improve it.
14)\\xa0 The everlasting rumor of Lime Rock closing has reached Vicki for the first time.
15)\\xa0 John even sneaks in a discussion of the modern style racing line for Lime Rock.
16)\\xa0 Since John\\u2019s team races an E36, we can\'t help but discuss some of his thoughts on the E36 setups and even more importantly how to evaluate and develop them for yourself or when using a shop to assist.
17)\\xa0 We even went into more depth around tire temperature and tire pressure and tire selection.
18)\\xa0 A dual team meetup is preliminarily in the works and sounds like it will be great fun!\\xa0 Still working on the Baja road trip invitation though.\\xa0 Lol.
19)\\xa0 Bill tries to talk John into lowering his standards and joining us for a race or for weekend racing fun.\\xa0 Still TBD to see if John is capable of making a decision that bad.
20)\\xa0\\xa0 John was even gracious in acknowledging our difficulty with the rear hub bearing a few weeks back.\\xa0 We may even be able to replace the control arm Bill broke after our quarantine ends.
21)\\xa0 Towards the end, we even went into team HPDE and team bonding ideology that are helpful to all levels of teams.