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GHiT 0726: The Top 10 Things WE Wish We Knew When WE Started
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About this episode
The Garage Heroes In Training crew shares their top 10 insights they wish they knew when starting out in motorsports. Highlights include prioritizing safety gear, not waiting for the perfect car setup before hitting the track, the value of riding with others to learn, and the importance of good instruction early on. They also emphasize building community with fellow racers, understanding weight transfer, and preparing proper tools and spares. The conversation mixes practical advice with personal stories, making it relatable for newcomers eager to improve their driving skills and track day experiences.
Topics:
safety equipment
track day preparation
learning from others
driver instruction
car maintenance
community building
weight transfer
tire management
cooling and hydration
tools and spares
GHiT 0726: The Top 10 Things WE Wish We Knew When WE Started
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Captain's Log Supplemental.
So, Miss Vicki.
Yes, sir.
Do you remember when we were watching those WRL events
and some of those grid life events where
you used to see the in-car video and it had the cameras
seeing front and back, but it also could see all the telemetry
and everything that was going on?
You know, most of the ones that we liked
were taken by the Sentinel system.
Remember, James came on our podcast earlier?
Right.
You know, we have no excuse since he lent us one
for trial and demonstration purposes.
We should actually probably put that in one of our cars,
maybe two.
I really think we should.
I think we should.
I know.
Because then we'd look like the immature,
endurance racing team that we are.
Oh, wait, I mispronounced that the next time.
Sorry about that.
So does the Sentinel system do?
We could have three cameras with picture in picture.
We could have, if we ever get the AIM system to work,
open invitation to anybody from AIM to come on
and give us a little bit of love, we need some help.
And then we could have all our telemetry on there.
And then we can have it streamed live into the paddock
or around the world to our millions of fans.
We're apparently very popular in Kenya right now.
Don't know why, but that's fine.
And it can integrate all the available race statistics
from like race here and everything.
So we could actually see how we're doing on video.
We wouldn't even have to carry around our phone anymore.
Live.
I love it.
From the great halls of their house,
there are assembled three who hope to one day be
the world's greatest driving heroes.
Created from the cosmic legends of the universe
comes our team captain, the vision, Bill Fisher.
They're soon to be Wonder Woman, Vicki Fisher,
our captain Marvel and head flight trainee,
Jennifer Scribchuk and our Batman,
the master of tools, gadgets and all things mechanical.
Our mild mannered soon to be billionaire, Alan Danvers.
Their mission to fight injustice,
share what is right and wrong,
to get you out of your house
and come out racing with them and serve all mankind.
They are the garage heroes in training team.
Dominating with Dawson.
Dominating with Dawson, Dominating with Dawson.
I needs me some Dominating with Dawson.
Miss Vicki, she hasn't been here in a very long time.
Where is Ben? Where is Ben?
I know, I'm so looking forward to seeing Ben.
Where is that guy?
I got my lamp turned down
so that he can't even see me on the screen when we're talking.
It's just a big, dark blob that's making noise.
It sounds just like Ben.
So while we're getting the the noise coming from that block,
Blake Black, the big, anyway,
I host a podcast, I can't pronounce anything.
Is it Ben Dawson or is it a sentient nodule hard tone?
I don't know.
It might be AI Ben.
Surely not. Surely not. No.
All right. So surely I have.
Four top 10 list requests from listener.
OK, we're only going to do one since it's 10.
And if you can't come up with 10 or if you start to pause,
Miss Vicki's jumping in and she's going to give you a couple.
So all right. OK. You ready?
Yes.
Top 10 things we're like David Letterman right now.
It's top 10 things.
I don't think we're going to have any celebrities
come out from behind the stage and make fun of them.
Top 10 things.
That I know now that I needed to know back then when I started.
Top 10. Not like good.
Number one.
Number one.
Are we starting at number 10 and we're going to wait?
It's most important since I gave you a zero prep time.
I would say you can rank them as you wish,
and the order is optional.
Um, yeah, it's I think number one.
Most important is don't skip on safety stuff.
Whatever you're out there doing,
it's worth skipping a couple of them.
If you feel like, hey, I want to go do these,
you know, a couple of track days
that are going to cost me a thousand bucks total,
but I don't have a helmet yet,
but I want to spend 750 bucks on the helmet.
Set it out and get you a good safety equipment.
If you got a $50 head, get a $50 helmet.
Mm-hmm.
If you want to keep your $50 head, get a $700 helmet.
It's OK. Yeah.
Um, one thing I didn't realize
quickly enough was how big the market is
for whatever you're doing,
whether it's autocross, track days,
endurance racing, sprint racing.
If there's, if you're not exactly happy
with the group you're doing it with,
there's somebody else out there doing something exactly
like it that might be a better fit.
So feel free to shop around.
Don't feel like you're going to get stuck doing
any one thing.
That's down in the mids to low to the 10 range,
but that's not super crucial.
There's just something to keep in mind.
Like, you know, it's easy kind of like,
I can't believe, you know,
so and so track organizer did me like that.
He wouldn't even give me the t-shirt.
I told him my t-shirt, you know what I mean?
Go to the next one. Whatever.
Go to the, somebody else's track day organization.
But also, you know, if you find what is doing you right,
you know, be loyal to them, recommend them,
recommend them to the other people
so that they have, you know,
a good amount of participation
and gives them more and more reason to keep coming back.
So that's another side of that point is stop around,
but also spread some loyalty and spread the word
if you really enjoy what you're doing
so that more people will come do it
and have more reason to keep doing them.
Because I think nobody's ever organized track events or races,
but it seems, it's always seemed to me
like a dodgy, sketchy process
that just could go away in a moment.
Just if I had a whim, if it's like screw this,
this isn't worth it for me anymore or something like that.
So if you like what you do and show some love,
you know what I mean?
It's not easy. I've seen people do this.
I don't even look behind the curtain at all.
I'm like, the deepest it all goes,
I'll be an instructor, but I'm like,
don't tell me where the wristbands are in the trailer.
Don't show me the trailer.
I don't want to know how any of this sauce
is made past the instructor meeting.
You know what I mean?
100% I do.
There's a reason we are not
crushers in training track day.
Yeah, that's true.
Nope, nope, nope.
Let's see, hey, you guys had me with one or two years.
Well, I think it was another one.
So the first one that comes to mind
didn't apply to us, but applies to many people,
especially people who still haven't gone there
the first track day.
Don't wait for your car to be perfect.
Don't get the turbo.
Don't get the super spinning wheels.
Don't get the, you know, as soon as I get my nitrix,
or as soon as I get my, if you're saying,
if the word, as soon as I get my whatever,
stop, go to the track, drive, what you got.
Yeah, totally.
Use, if you got 400 treadwear tires, that's fine.
If you got a standard brake fluid,
that's probably fine too.
I'd rather have you have.
No, that's, that's where you and I differ.
The only caveat I would give you is if you just try for your
first time, it's a big enough,
it's a try drive is a big enough dream for you.
Go ahead and put the, go ahead and put the good juice
in there.
Cause also you might be somebody who's like,
Hey, I'm going to go out there
and hit the brakes hard right away.
I've had students, I've had students hit it hard enough
or they needed a good fluid.
So I would say, and it's not expensive.
I'm not talking about, you don't have to change
any other parts of your system.
Are you talking about as flesh and flesh and flesh
and a bottle of fluid through.
So do that, get a shot to do it for you.
But anyway, yes, you're totally right, Bill.
Don't, don't wait till you got your show.
And so all I need is this mattress kit
or whatever you don't need.
Shit, just get out there and have fun.
You will be shocked by how much fun you can have
in the car that you drive around.
Probably not a high center, high roll center vehicle,
like a mini van or a pickup truck, but you know,
if you're just driving any kind of sedan or coupe.
Yep.
If you roll over, you're good.
And you know, break fluids kind of,
next step to me would be break pads
and then anything else is extra, just wait.
Cause the other thing is you're not going
until you do this certain thing.
And I can almost guarantee you whatever you think
you need on track, isn't it?
Right.
Or isn't the right one?
If you think about it too,
is that the first time you're going out on track anyway,
the only thing you're doing is learning the track.
You are not going to be hitting full speed on your car.
You're really not.
You're going to put yourself.
You're going to think you are, but you're not.
You think you are,
but you're going to be a salt preservation mode.
In a sense, you're going to be very cautious
on the track.
So the whole first time out there
is you just learning how, what your car feels like.
And well, level one in general
is going to be a lot of just learning
more than it is speed and the pressure
that you're going to be putting on your car.
So the first time out.
Unless you're a maniac like me.
Yeah.
So just go ahead and have a good time and just learn.
Yeah.
That's exactly true.
I'll say, I'll say, I got a couple that feed right
on the back of this one is have somebody ride with you
in your car.
Even if they're not your official instructor,
if you're able to have somebody get in the car
with you, get them, you know,
if it's another instructor or somebody,
if you're a track events, it can have a passenger.
Yeah. And if you have a passenger seat in your car,
let somebody route with you and talk to you
about what you're doing is often as possible.
It's going to help to get better at fashion.
Ask me how we know.
One of the fun things I get to do
when I'm going to track weekend,
if I'm helping to instruct this is, you know,
I've had people who are, you know,
former, former students or somebody who's, you know,
way more advanced and they were the first time
hey, can you get back in with me
and kind of help me kind of see what I need to do next?
And it's so much fun to jump in with a more advanced
participant and help them get to the next level
of their game.
But aside, another, another one as right in the side
by side in the top 10 with that is to ride with
as many people as you can.
Don't just have people route with you,
but jump in and see how other people are doing it.
It will be shockingly eye-opening.
I remember one of the first times
when I had my Miata, I had an instructor
who was a spec Miata racer.
Now, I mean, like probably a mid-packed NASA guy.
So, you know, obviously not set in a whirlwind
if I were doing his stuff way better
and more competently than I was.
It's like probably an intermediate NASA participant
at the time.
And he had a passenger seat in his car
and I got to go take laps.
A couple, I did it with a couple different
spec Miata racers and I was like,
whoa, you can do this, this and this here.
And, you know, part of it was slightly better
prep cars and part of it was just knowing
what you can get away with.
One of the biggest things I do in a car
with other people is enabling them and letting them know,
yes, you can go ahead and hit the gas now.
Or, you know, if they get in there and watch me,
like, oh my God, you're taking that flat out there.
It's like, yeah, I don't have time to wait.
You gotta go.
You gotta find the fastest way through everything.
So, it can be very eliminating and enabling
for you as a developing driver to ride
with as many people in as bigger variety
of platform as you can.
I recommend that just as much as having people
ride with you as often as possible.
Yep.
Ms. Vicki, what do you got?
Got any?
What do you wish you knew or would tell yourself?
Besides let go of the shift now?
Yeah.
You know, I think for me is to get people in the car.
I still haven't gotten enough people in the car.
Further you go down the road.
Turn them down.
Well, yeah.
But, only you.
So, because you can, sometimes you have a tendency
to pick up bad habits along the way
and they're kind of a fast way of learning
how to do things properly the first time.
And that way you don't have to break habits
further down the road.
So definitely people in the car.
Definitely.
Yeah.
How about you, Bill?
Well,
I mean, the cheap answer is I wish I
need to know which car Black Betty is
so that I don't try to keep up with it if I mistake.
But that's a longer story.
I think, and I'm surprised your answer didn't go here.
I think I have two, but I'm going to take the one
that's going to annoy you that you didn't say it.
Try to get to a skid pad.
Get to a skid pad.
I had my greatest learning experience on the skid pad.
It sounds dumb.
It does. It really does.
It sounds like why this is, A,
I can't learn anything here and B, it's not going to be fun.
Wrong and wrong.
Yes.
Yeah.
Now what you're going to learn on a skid pad is
you're going to learn what your car feels like.
You're going to, it's very much a sensory experience.
Ideally, with somebody there to kind of help guide you a bit,
but it's a good one.
That's really, it really connects you with your car
and the level of grip that you have in a way
that nothing else can.
Yeah. Indeed.
What do you think, Ben?
You got some more?
We got, we're up to six now.
We got four more.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
I got two.
I got two right out of the gate.
One's really simple, but it is this.
Put in that cool short system.
Especially the Southern boys.
Well, I mean, I drove up until when I came back
after my first time coming back after the pandemic.
It was the first time I was ever like, oh, my God,
I can't be in the car.
Like, yeah, I just, I was in my low 40s.
I mean, I grew up in Alabama and I was
Mr. Sweated Out, Endurance Race and whatever.
I didn't care if it was a cool shirt in the car.
I would take it, but I didn't need it.
But especially after I hit my hit 40, just about.
All of a sudden, I couldn't be in the car
for more than 20, 30 minutes if it was in the middle of summer
without just starting to pant and freak out.
You know, if you're, if you're panting, if you're,
if you're doing panting, breathing with your mouth open,
you're not making smart, safe decisions.
You know what I mean?
You're already, you're in fight or flight mode.
Your body's already trying to reject everything
you're subjecting it to.
So it's not really gonna be like, oh, what's the best way
to negotiate this traffic situation?
Or did I just miss that turn entirely?
So I recommend doing what you can for driver comfort
in the car.
I've never been a big drink bottle guy,
but if that's a, that's the next thing for you.
I've always been a big, like chug,
PD light until you nearly had to pee
and then get in the car kind of guy.
But if you're, if you're somebody who wants to a guy
or girl who wants to be having drinks in the car,
set that up for yourself.
Not, not boozy cocktails in the car.
When I say having drinks,
I mean, having a drink system in the car.
Yes, I drink the drink.
Drinks are for after the track goes cold, everybody.
No glass.
Yeah.
That's one.
Shit.
I had another one come back to me.
I forgot to add to the heat thing.
So after a couple of races,
we got to the point where we were driving pretty decent
stints with the cars we had and the skill we had.
So two, two and a half hours is kind of the standard norm
for us.
One thing I did notice is I didn't bother me driving,
but when it, especially when it was hot,
I would get out of the car
and I wasn't just like tired or,
oh, I did a long stand or anything.
I was pretty much shot for the day.
Like, which means I wasn't cool.
And that's not what you want to be
because I probably wasn't in my top form.
So just because you can do it,
doesn't mean you should do it.
Right.
So Miss Vicki, you're going to go for number eight.
So are we talking about pretty much the important things
or stuff that I've wished that we learned?
Stuff that you wish you knew before you got in the car?
Before you got, before I got in the car.
If you don't have one, I got one.
No, no, no, that's fine.
That's fine.
For, again, for newbies,
because I like to speak to newbies.
You just like saying the word newbie.
I know.
It is a lot cheaper for you to do minor maintenance on the car yourself.
So one of the things that I find very valuable
was to make sure that you get,
what is the book called, Berkeley?
Bentley.
The Bentley book?
If your car has one, yeah.
If your car has one,
highly recommend a Bentley book over all others
because it is pretty much an owner's manual
and a troubleshooting manual for your car.
This was the most mind blowing thing that I think
that I have ever really experienced
because a car is pretty much like a box of mystery.
But when you have that book with you,
it literally, literally breaks the car down in segments.
It shows you part by part.
It shows you all the troubleshooting charts.
It shows you a wiring chart.
All the colors that it tells you what they go to.
And even with that book,
I mean, there's, there's diagnosing problems that,
you know, you're going to have to, you know,
eventually level up to,
but for all your like simple maintenance,
get down and just do your own break job.
Get down and like do your own oil changes.
You can see a ton of money doing that alone
when you're racing.
And, you know, sometimes racing,
but you can, if you can, you know, cut, you know,
some, you know, make things a little cheaper for you.
Definitely do some of that yourself.
Absolutely.
So Ms. Vicki's a fan of the,
that particular Bentley series of books
for several of our cars.
But if you don't have that or it's not made,
the best place I found is E, E like the letter manual as in,
I'm looking for my manual.
And then apparently it's available online.
So it's called E manual online.
And they will have, I would say probably if your car is
10 years old or older,
they'll have the actual tech service manuals on there for
like 20 bucks, 30 bucks.
And you, printing it is going to take a lot of paper,
but it's, it's 700, 800.
I have one that's, I think it was like six volumes
of a couple hundred pages each.
It was just like everything.
So.
Right.
And it tells you everything about your car.
And not so much descriptive as it is a lot of pictures and,
and well, not pictures.
I don't mean like pictures.
Diagrams.
Right.
They're like diagrams and then they're, they're,
they're just simple explanations are not over complicated.
Some of the books that I've seen were just,
they kind of walk you through it and it's very complicated,
almost like a newspaper.
And I find that to be something I don't really die.
I can't digest very well.
But you know, if I have any issue,
that manual just tells me everything.
I think I personally think every,
every car owner and especially every teenager car owner should
have one.
Yep.
All right, Ben,
I'm going to take number nine.
You get number 10.
So you're ready?
Yeah.
Get.
Instruction.
Good instruction.
Ideally coaching as early as possible because to the
surprise of you who has not done this yet,
you are not God's gift to driving.
You are not naturally talented.
You are not airton center reincarnated.
You are.
If you're really good,
you're barely average.
Yeah.
Yeah.
To start.
Yeah.
And if you're, if you're competitive and you want to get an edge
on getting into it as quickly as possible,
if you want to ramp up your learning curve, the best,
that's the best way to do it is have somebody competent
and good in the car with you instructing.
And that's not necessarily for your first two track events.
Whatever structure you get with whatever group,
you may look out,
you may look out and get an exceptional one.
Like whoever gets me is usually pretty fortunate because I'll be,
I'll be handing you handfuls of seconds every session at least to
start with.
But I'm not, I'm not,
I will sit here and blow my horn all day and say that I'm
great.
It's only because I am,
but most people don't do it as well as I do.
Most people are just there to get free track time or just to
tick a box.
So yeah, seek out,
seek out some good competent instruction,
whether that may even be paying somebody who's,
you know,
the local pro or something like that to spend a weekend with
you or something like that.
It's what it's worth doing.
If you can afford to get to the track,
maybe you might want to think about skipping an event or two
and spending the equivalent of a track day money on,
on having somebody hang around with you all week.
And I don't know what it would cost for a few sessions
or a whole weekend,
but it's worth looking into.
Well, just because they're fast doesn't mean they're good.
That's true.
It doesn't mean they're good communicators are able to impart
what they know, but somebody,
somebody,
if you've been to a couple of track events, somebody around,
hopefully that you've met or at least with the organization
might be able to recommend you.
So he might want to email the track,
you know, the track event organizer and say,
Hey, I had a great,
great time doing these last couple of months,
but I'm ready to cut out my games.
You know, anybody who would be a good,
good to ask the coach or you got an instructor,
you could put me with who you think is what helped me
up my game.
And they might, I mean, the track day,
the track day organizers,
I want you to have a reason to come back.
They want you to keep participating.
So they're inclined to help you out.
It's one way to look at that.
And if, and we've got a list of people that we know
and have tested and trusted pretty much across the country.
So if you need help to send it right into garages
and training at gmail.com,
and we'll send Ben out to instruct you.
You can always send this video too.
If you're just like, Hey,
what the hell am I doing?
There's a video and I don't mind taking a look at it.
Not like I'm not like I'm God's gift to drive him,
but I'm pretty good at taking a look at some of my video and saying,
uh,
I think he might be able to try this, this or this and do better
or have more consistent results.
All right, Ben, self-imposed limit of 10 things.
I'm sure people will write in and say,
you forgot you dumbed on.
You know,
I'm only going to,
I'm only going to put like three into this last 10.
You know,
one of the,
one of the big ones that I wish I had gotten to sooner
was, uh, get to the track and hopefully you,
you're not picking like the most obscure car in the world out there,
but you know,
get to a track event or, you know, especially a race,
if you're doing endurance racing,
quickly identify other entrants or teams who are running a car
that's like yours.
Um,
you get to know them, be friendly with them.
Even if your competitors on track,
you want to know them in the patent because you're going to break some shit
and you're not going to have what you need to fix it.
And they might,
or they might know which part store has a thing you need.
So become buddies with everybody at the track who's running the same car you are.
Absolutely.
You're going to find out stuff that you didn't know about that car.
You're going to get to know stuff.
You're going to borrow spares.
They're going to borrow crap from you.
It's, it's,
it's going to be a bigger part of your community is getting to know people
who are running the same thing you are.
Sometimes it goes well.
Sometimes you borrow,
sometimes you're running a first gen MR2
and you borrow a suspension upright from a team who's running the very same car,
but then halfway through that model year,
they put a dog leg in it and you put that one on your car.
And all of a sudden,
your car literally won't turn around Sonoma,
but that's so extreme rarity.
That only happened to me one time for the most part.
Everything is going to be the same thing.
And you want to know people who are running your same thing,
especially,
especially people who've been running that car for longer than you.
They're going to be able to tell you workarounds, tricks.
Oh, well, this thing broke.
We'll hear this. You can do this, this and this.
And you'll still have a great rest of your weekend.
So they can take what seems like a catastrophic failure
that might, do you think might end your weekend and turn them into,
Oh, hey, no problem.
We'll get you back out there.
Kind of situation.
So that's one that dovetails right into one.
Sorry, 10. That's 10.
That dovetails into 10 B,
which is get squared away on what tools and spares you need to bring.
Don't bring a bunch of extra crap.
Don't let your kit of stuff.
You bring to the track and get out of control,
but having enough stuff there so that it's like,
I have an issue like, you know,
you need to change your brakes and don't, don't be,
they'll be down to your last eighth inch of brake pads at the,
at the beginning of a track weekend,
and they go out there and run out of brake pads and be like,
Oh crap, I gotta go home.
You know what I mean?
Have the stuff you're going to need to keep running all weekend
with you and get smart about that.
And that's another good reason to know people who are running
your same platform of car like, Hey, what do you bring?
What do you bring out here?
Are you bringing out three inches in a transmission?
Or, you know, you know,
get a good gauge of what you need for spares and that sort of thing.
10 C and I'll leave it here.
I know we're supposed to only do 10, but figure,
all right, 10 CD figure it figure the,
let's dominate out what is going on with weight transfer.
Don't worry about the little circle.
Everybody's trying to tell you about the traction and all that stuff.
Just try to figure out where is the weight trying to be?
Where am I trying to put the weight come in out of the corner?
When you get a key in on weight transfer,
a lot of the other stuff,
a lot of the other concepts will become pretty, pretty plenty.
But get your head wrapped around weight transfer
and what the hell you're doing out there.
And that will help a lot of things.
Other things come together.
10 D last one.
I promise.
Figure out,
figure out which tire is the most loaded tire at the,
at that track.
If it's a right turn track,
you're what left front is going to be the one that's most loaded up.
I say that right.
Yeah, right turn.
Yeah.
So your left front is going to be the most loaded up,
but figure out,
whichever tire is doing the most work when you're,
when you're turning and rotating on a track,
figure out key off of that tire,
set your car up based on having everything pivot off your most
pivotal corner on the, on the, on the track and sort of work,
work your way around the,
don't be afraid of asymmetrical setup stuff at the track catered
to that one tire.
If you're paying attention to your tire pressures or temperatures,
expect that one tire to do stuff.
The rest of the car is not doing as far as like, you know,
you started with 25 all around,
but if you're driving the shit out of the car,
you may come back in and that, you know,
that left front's up to like 38.
The other ones are, you know, 35, 34, 33 or something like that.
You know what I mean?
So to pay attention to that, to that one tire,
what it's doing.
I'm not saying do anything different,
but pay attention to the tire that you're rotating off of the
most of the track.
That's that and weight transfer.
If I was going to just try to help anybody get quick set up
things in mind,
there's just some things to work on and be thinking about.
I wish somebody had just sort of cotton me and keep me
into that kind of stuff sooner than I realized.
So if you were at the track when Ben first started,
and apparently he was wearing polyester and he wasn't wearing
cotton because it doesn't breathe, but.
Having time machine.
Let's dominate.
Nope.
Nope.
So.
All right.
That's our 10 ish list.
I'm sure we forgot stuff.
I'm sure we just definitely, I definitely, I definitely,
when I said I had two and then I came up with one,
I forgot a good one.
So I've definitely got one more, one more in the chamber
that was worth saying that I forgot.
So I'm sure it'll come back to me.
We didn't even say it's all about the tires as one of
our 10.
So, you know, there's, there's that too.
So what else did we forget?
Let us know.
And maybe we'll have a top 10 list of the top 10 things we
wish we knew at the track that we forgot to mention that we
wished we knew at the track the first time we went because
they weren't in this top 10 ish.
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