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Erik Torgeson and Chris Wilhelm joined us to talk about their racing history and the Lucky Dog racing series.\xa0 Erik is the Director of Operations and runs the Dog Pound penalty area during the races.\xa0 Chris is the head of vehicle safety and technical inspection as well as usually covering radio control and timing and scoring during the Lucky Dog races.\xa0 Erik is also known as Bulldog while Chris is the Junk Yard Dog (JYD).\xa0 In addition, we go into the upcoming race (hopefully) at the Charlotte Roval where Lucky Dog comes to the east coast for the first time.\xa0 We cannot wait to go to another Lucky Dog race and we found a few items we will need to add to our list to pass tech for Lucky Dog, as well as several of the differences between Lucky Dog and the 24 Hours of Lemons series we traditionally race in on the east coast.

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You can find Erik and Chris and the entire racing series at www.racelucky.com and say hello for us please if you see them a the races.

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Apex of Failure on Facebook for the RX-8 project Erik referred to.

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On Dominating with Dawson, Ben covers several of the racing lines and approaches to circumventing a racetrack in the most expeditious manner.

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We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Best regards,

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Bill, Vicki, Jennifer, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast

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and team members in the GHiT

Immature Endurance Racing Team

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Highlights from the episode include:

1)\xa0 Bill apologizes for his pit lane violation at Laguna Seca by not stopping for his egg timer.

2)\xa0 Vicki points out that we did not review the rules prior to the last race.\xa0 This is not best practice.\xa0 Perhaps her interpretation of the goal of the pit lane timer was a bit off, as well as her not attending tech inspection led to a good discussion of the safety practices for the Lucky Dog Series.

3)\xa0 Why Lucky Dog has elected to use pit lane timers and why they chose to use window nets, as well as many of the key inspection points prior to a race, along with several of the key differences between the safety requirements of Lucky Dog and several of the other racing series.

4)\xa0 Alan steals our Lucky Dog branded Hankook RS4 tires for his daily to "test" them, lol.

5)\xa0 We also go into the importance of the attitude of the Lucky Dog series and how it magnifies the fun of the racing weekend.

6)\xa0 A lot of the details related to the upcoming race in Charlotte.

7)\xa0 Our to do list is adding in dash bars into two cars and window nets into one.\xa0 We are planning on bringing three cars and have an undetermined number of drivers since it is difficult to firmly plan with everything going on currently.

8)\xa0 Erik and Chris should get Lucky Dog style trophies to represent their Lucky Dog names.

9)\xa0 Both Erik and Chris have a history of racing that includes autocross as well as their start with working with a series in ChampCar.

10)\xa0 Chris goes into the excellence of a Ford Fairlane in autocross.

11)\xa0 Erik sends out a non-controversial message to auto crossers.\xa0 Please send you comments to GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com>

and we will forward them to Erik for you.

12)\xa0 We discuss the upcoming season and the uncertainty still within the system, especially with the different states and tracks involved.

13)\xa0 How racing is not only tremendously fun but also generates great friendships that can last many lifetimes.

14)\xa0 Car 196 may yet live on in the upcoming Charlotte Roval!\xa0 (But in a new

form)\xa0 We also discuss our mutual history with them in Lucky Dogs.\xa0 It turns out it may not all be our fault after all.\xa0 But it likely was.

15)\xa0 Erik sends out a non-controversial message related to Honda-based race cars.\xa0 Please send you comments to GarageHeroesInTraining@gmail.com>

and we will forward them to Erik for you.

16)\xa0 Vicki sets a new record for the number of edits when going into her Laguna Seca experience.\xa0 This one will be tough to beat.

17)\xa0 Bill reminisces about her services of the car at Laguna for Mental.\xa0 It reminds one of the second autopilot scene from "Airplane".

18)\xa0 Probably two of the worst, and potentially scariest, "Ugly" story we have heard in a while.\xa0 Some people can be very scary when under the red midst.\xa0 Bill couldn't help but make another "entrepreneur" joke from the recent YouTube and Facebook racing kerfuffle with a different, but perhaps related drivers.\xa0 (THESE "DRIVERS" ARE FAR FAR FAR FROM TYPICAL)

19)\xa0 Alan gets offended that Erik has the title of "Black Flag Guy" but it is for a totally different reason than he originally thought.\xa0 Alan's version of the title is still intact.\xa0 Unfortunately.

20)\xa0\xa0 Some of the key differences and details that are needed for the

Charlotte race.

21)\xa0 Race Invaders gets a shout out.\xa0 We are long overdue for having you on.

22)\xa0 Both Erik and Chris agree that ORP (Oregon Raceway Park) is there favorite track.\xa0 We are adding it to our list.\xa0 Now, how do we get a car onto the west coast?\xa0 New project!