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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.\xa0 In his professional life, he is the marketing director for Peak antifreeze and is responsible for all sports and racing partnerships.\xa0 As if that was not enough, he is also the Comp school director for NASA Great Lakes.\xa0 During the episode, we try to compare two of the primary paths for training and qualifying to compete in wheel to wheel racing:\xa0 attending a formal racing school or working your way through the HPDE levels and graduating through Comp school.\xa0\xa0 Please note that this was recorded prior to our skid pad event that we covered in earlier episodes.

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We discuss the different methods of determining your braking point markers and their relative importance in our Dominating with Dawson segment.\xa0 We start with a discussion of the relative importance of the point where you begin braking and the point where you come off the brake.\xa0 Then we digress into a wide variety of discussion points, some related, some very much not.\xa0 We each learned a bit of what we each do when on track.\xa0 Who knew?

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We hope you enjoy this episode!

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Best regards,

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Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and

Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

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Highlights from this episode include:

1)\xa0 We start with a bit about off road racing and quickly go into several strategies for organizing and prepping for a track event.\xa0 It is not only a skill challenge, but a large and complicated logistical challenge.

2)\xa0 Brian has probably the shortest and most direct racing philosophy that we have heard to this point.

3)\xa0 What is Comp school and how it compares to attending a racing school and where HPDE\u2019s fit into the landscape, including a brief history of where we started driving instruction and how we arrived to where we are now.\xa0

4)\xa0 We learn that the NASA CCR (~ rule book) actually has a definition of what a \u201cpass\u201d is on track and how to and how not to pass, but also addresses what each drivers responsibility is during a pass.

5)\xa0 What is Comp school?\xa0 What do you do and learn while in Comp school?\xa0 What are you qualified to do after passing Comp School?\xa0 Hint:\xa0 Safe, Predictable, and FAST are three key points that allow you to advance.

6)\xa0 How the NASA program works to prepare you a driver for better, fast, and safer driving on a track, wheel to wheel racing, time trials, or even to eventually work towards being a competent and certified performance driving instructor.

7)\xa0 What is the best path to learn depending on your personal goals.

8)\xa0 Several tips that we tried to apply at our skid pad event a few weeks ago at Lime Rock Park.

9)\xa0 Brian gives some opinions on the use of data and how it can help you while you are learning and progressing as a driver.

10)\xa0 Track Attack Software comes up again.\xa0 Please let us know if you have used it what you think of it.\xa0 Also, if you would like us to try to get them on a guest, please let us know.

11)\xa0 Brian does a very good and clear description of trail braking and how to use it bet on a track.\xa0 So, if you haven\u2019t ever been 100% clear on what trail braking is or why you would want to use it, this may be a great episode for you.\xa0 Even if you already use trail braking, this may increase your understanding and use of the technique.

12)\xa0 We also have a chance to go into the auxiliary benefits of learning to drive in this manner and how it helps you when driving every day on regular street roads.