We are all suffering from a serious sleep deprived, post-race weekend hangover, and we are all calling in from across the US with varying internet speed and connections.\xa0 It starts with the somewhat normal Race Bar takeover and then we go into the race.\xa0 For this event, our drivers consisted of Vicki, Alan, and Jennifer and our two adopted teammates Aaron Diamond from the Saabs of Anarchy racing team and Elazar Mann from Race Bar.\xa0 It was a great weekend with many, many highs, and a few notable lows.\xa0 It was almost back to normal, well as normal as a Lemons race can be, and it was great to see everyone again.
In this issue of Dominating with Dawson, we start off with our latest GHIT swag t-shirt that we made for the Dominating with Dawson and how we surprised Ben with it a few weeks back.\xa0 We then try to get back into our topic for this episode where we go into several things that you can practice on the public roads and during your normal driving that will improve your track driving or refine skills that you may want to start to employ on the track.\xa0 It is a great time to practice driving with left foot braking, heel-toe downshifting, as well as other less obvious areas of high performance driving.\xa0 Luckily for Bill, Vicki missed his joke, so he did not have to sleep in the tub after this episode, leaving a bit more room for Bill, lol.
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A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/LemonsNJMP2021\xa0
We hope you enjoy this episode!
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Best regards,
Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill
Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers
Highlights from this episode include:
1)\xa0 The Trophy truck/El Jeffe/Bad Hombre/Loki truck made its way to the track a bit late, but the theming of the truck and our drivers was a big hit in the paddock and with several of the young fans at the track.
2)\xa0 The race weekend started off with some small issues with the El Jeffe that we worked through the entire weekend.\xa0 Then we had a few other issues as the weekend progressed.\xa0 In other words, a normal endurance racing weekend.
3)\xa0 Aaron does his best robot impressions, but the connection improves after a few minutes.
4)\xa0 We had an issue with the engine losing power and having difficulty starting.\xa0 Unfortunately, we were not able to diagnose and fix the issue at the track, but let us know if you have any suggestions.
5)\xa0 Our two guest drivers describe the glory involved with driving the El Jeffe Trophy truck.\xa0 Since Aaron usually races a front wheel drive (Saab) and Elazar is usually in a mid engine car (Toyota MR-2), the truck is a bit different.\xa0 It is not what anyone expects.\xa0 We think Aaron and Elazar are both hooked.\xa0\xa0
6)\xa0 In addition to our power/electrical issue, we also had a continuing issue with our new exhaust design.\xa0 We fixed it Lemons style to keep racing and then we made a plan to fix it permanently, of course this was after sending Jennifer out for her stint.
7)\xa0 Bill makes a terrible American Pie joke.\xa0 He says he was really tired.
8)\xa0 Aaron has raced in Lemons for almost 5+ years and had only two black flags in the entire endurance racing career.\xa0 However, in true GHiT fashion, he managed to get two more in a single stint on Saturday.\xa0 As Mars Blackman said, "Its got to be the shoes."
9)\xa0 Elazar describes how he dealt with a total brake failure going into the high speed turn 1, truly an example of dealing with a brake issue in one of the best ways possible.\xa0 To add a bit to the weekend, Elazar was again subjected to a loss of the mounting bolt on the upper front control arm on the passenger side.
10)\xa0 Alan goes for donuts, well just one donut, on our door.\xa0 He may also have to adjust the HANS device or seek another design.
11)\xa0 So in the end, we missed the checkered flag on Saturday by about twenty minutes and we missed it by again by about the same amount.\xa0 Cue the sad trombone.
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We had a great time, we learned some more, and we were able to spend some time with our old friends, our new friends and our soon to be friends.\xa0
A special shout out to our sister Jennifer who came to her first ever Lemons race and saw how much fun this can be.\xa0 We hope you come back again soon.