GHIT 0114: Time Travel - Our First team race at NJMP

Published: May 22, 2020, 9:26 p.m.

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We used our time machine to before we had a podcast and have a post-race review of the first every Garage Heroes In Training team racing event at NJMP.\\xa0 We had a blast!\\xa0 It was so easy that we doubled our team size and started racing two cars at each race.\\xa0 All you need to do is prep the car, race the car, and then drive home.\\xa0 Why was everyone saying this was hard?\\xa0 We didn\'t understand.\\xa0 Yet.

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On "Dominating with Dawson" we go over dive bombing, what it is, what it means, and how to avoid it, both from the passing and being passed perspective.

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We thought we would have a post-race episode; it has been so very, very long.\\xa0 We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Part 2 with our Thompson race will follow shortly.\\xa0 Hint:\\xa0 It did not go nearly as smoothly.

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Best regards,

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Bill, Vicki, Jennifer, and Alan

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

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Highlights from the episode include:

1)\\xa0 How our team came to be and how our first 2 (well really three, oops) cars started

2)\\xa0 Alan fidgets in the background.\\xa0 Must have been shiny.\\xa0 He later goes for a walk in the bird sanctuary?

3)\\xa0 Liam and Cassian\'s teenage humility, mechanical talent, and dominant driving skills coming into the their first race.\\xa0 The only question was who would get the fastest time of the weekend and who would finish second.\\xa0 The rest of the field was inconsequential relative to their skills.\\xa0 Lol.

4)\\xa0 Chris bashes Liam and Cassian\'s domination dreams for the weekend at the Friday practice.

5)\\xa0 The rules do not preclude you from looking at a track map, nor looking at racing laps on the track before you go there.

6)\\xa0 We proved yet again the age old adage that it is better to look good than to be good and we looked Marvelous!\\xa0 Just ask Billy Crystal.

7)\\xa0 Our plan for 30-45 minute stints was tremendous (to start our weekend) but we probably should have extended them after the first set for everyone.\\xa0 It is still a great idea to start short on your first stint the first time out on track.

8)\\xa0 A podcast first, Vicki said track out correctly for the first time ever.\\xa0 Training is working!!!!!

9)\\xa0 We talk about our first ever track walk and the value of it.

10)\\xa0 All that we learned along the way.

11)\\xa0 "We found our idiots!"

12)\\xa0 What is a post-race weekend hangover and how to get tiger stripes on your left arm.

13)\\xa0 I think Alan started wither sorting nuts and bolts or washing dishes.\\xa0 Still tbd.

14)\\xa0 We learned so much during our first race.\\xa0 We were such newbies.

15)\\xa0 All newbies can go racing too!

16)\\xa0 A very good discussion of driver stints and optimizing for each driver and their experience level and preferences.

17)\\xa0 Alan proclaims his love (and slight stalker tendencies) towards watching the in car video from Futility Motorsports.\\xa0 Alan would appreciate a hand signal at the next race to say hi, if you could.

18)\\xa0 We go over our bad initial training of Jen with driving an manual transmission.

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