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.\xa0 In his real life, he is a Neurologist and at the track, he may need one, lol.\xa0 Johan travels across US to races from his home in Phoenix.\xa0 We last raced with him at the Lucky Dog race Charlotte Roval August 2020 and a great time was had by all.\xa0 Johan also shared many of the things he has learned in his racing career and we discuss many of the reasons to race beyond \u201cwinning\u201d.\xa0 You can save a ton of money by learning from others.\xa0 In addition, we have a special F&F Storytime question guest for this episode:\xa0 The GD Yo Man!
On our Dominating with Dawson, we go into dealing with the marbles around the track (as well as what the marbles are).\xa0 We also provide a tremendous method to learn or teach where the flag stations are at a new to you track.\xa0 Special thanks to Robin Burnett for showing us how.\xa0
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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 How does a Neurologist end up needing one, oops, we mean how did Johan get started in racing and a lot of his racing history to this point and how he has changed his racing over the years.
2)\xa0 We go over Johan\u2019s first ever race with Lucky Dog at the Charlotte Roval where we were literally sharing the garage with their team, and tools, and parts, and shave ice, and\u2026.\xa0 Cathy and the Lucky Dog team get two more thumbs up!
3)\xa0 Bill simply cannot rests making a Ricky Bobby quote.\xa0 Honestly, we are surprised it took this long.
4)\xa0 The places to save money, as well as the places not to, like safety equipment.\xa0 We also provide several cautionary tales regarding poor or counterfeit safety equipment.
5)\xa0 Johan also goes into several other \u201cbad\u201d ideas that are so bad that they are good ideas for a Lemons race.\xa0 Some of them are things like eastern European racing cars, adding turbos, and several others.\xa0 How hard could it be? \xa0Actually, these will likely make endurance racing even a bit harder.
6)\xa0 Pit strategy, tips, best practices, and goals and other \u201cfree\u201d ways to save time on the track.
7)\xa0 We then go into a prioritization of ways to improve your driver and, if you must, your car.
8)\xa0 This is the episode if you ever wanted to learn how to endurance race a Super Beetle.\xa0 Boy, that search string is not going to increase our Google search results for this episode, lol.
9)\xa0 Our second guest comes in at around 59 minutes.\xa0 Vicki and Jen were less than prepared for THE GD Yo Man!!!!!\xa0 That is Mr. Yo Man to you.\xa0 After this, you will know the Yo Man much better, probably better than you ever wanted.\xa0 Lol.
10)\xa0 I think Jennifer is still broken from this interview.