GHIT 0085: Amanda and Adrian from the Faster Farms Racing Team

01/16/20 • 71 min

On this week’s podcast, we had the pleasure of interviewing Amanda Baak of the Faster Farms team who we met at last week’s Lucky Dog race at Laguna Seca. Vicki and Amanda had some very exciting racing for a dozen laps or so until things ended poorly on our end. Their team races a Plymouth Belvedere, as everyone should. After repeatedly racing with them Saturday and Sunday, we had to have them on to find out more about the team, Amanda, and Adrian who made an impromptu appearance. We enjoyed our conversation and hope you will too. We can't wait to see them again, hopefully at the track.

Some highlights include:

1) How and why a Plymouth Belvedere came to be a race car for the past twelve years

2) Faster Farms team history and its ties to a real chicken ranch/pick and pull

3) We compare the different racing areas, like California, Colorado and the east coast race crowds

4) How they installed their crystal auto-brake system to make other cars break before passing them

5) Bill has a(nother) bad plan for west coast racing

6) We also begin to make a plan for an upcoming Thompson race

7) Seeking revenge on Willow Springs

8) The upcoming Alameda parade

9) Probably the best “Good” story we have ever had with our Good, Bad, and the Ugly segment. We are pretty sure Adrian isn’t familiar with the word “good”, lol.

10) Shout out to our many Belgium and Australian listeners

11) Differences between the Lucky Dog Series and the Lemons series

Hopefully, we can be a bad influence and get them out to Thompson for a race at some point, maybe even getting our all-female driven car team goal accomplished.

You can find them at FasterFarms.com

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast

and team members in the GHiT

Immature Endurance Racing Team

#PlymouthBelvedere #Thunderhill #FasterFarms #LemonsBelvedere #GarageHeroesInTraining #GarageHeroesInTrainingPodcast

Some highlights include:

1) How and why a Plymouth Belvedere came to be a race car for the past twelve years

2) Faster Farms team history and its ties to a real chicken ranch/pick and pull

3) We compare the different racing areas, like California, Colorado and the east coast race crowds

4) How they installed their crystal auto-brake system to make other cars break before passing them

5) Bill has a(nother) bad plan for west coast racing

6) We also begin to make a plan for an upcoming Thompson race

7) Seeking revenge on Willow Springs

8) The upcoming Alameda parade

9) Probably the best “Good” story we have ever had with our Good, Bad, and the Ugly segment. We are pretty sure Adrian isn’t familiar with the word “good”, lol.

10) Shout out to our many Belgium and Australian listeners

11) Differences between the Lucky Dog Series and the Lemons series

Hopefully, we can be a bad influence and get them out to Thompson for a race at some point, maybe even getting our all-female driven car team goal accomplished.

You can find them at FasterFarms.com

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast

and team members in the GHiT

Immature Endurance Racing Team

#PlymouthBelvedere #Thunderhill #FasterFarms #LemonsBelvedere #GarageHeroesInTraining #GarageHeroesInTrainingPodcast

Previous Episode

GHIT 0084: Our Sunday Race at Laguna Seca with Lucky Dog

We conclude our wrap up of our racing at Laguna Seca with the Lucky Dog racing series by summarizing our Sunday race and our overall thoughts and experiences. We had a great trip out to Laguna Seca and the track is wonderful. Did our Saturday continue into Sunday. Yes. Did our car give it everything it had? Yes. Did we finally break the podcast curse and finish a Lucky Dog race? Well......listen and find out.

Highlights of our review include:

1) Race car status and prep review

2) Mental’s first rolling start in a race and our thoughts on tire warming of street tires

3) Mental’s Stint to start Sunday race day

4) The setup of our race car and how to drive it optimally

5) Many of the differences between the Lucky Dog series and Lemons

6) Vicki’s technique to remove some of the oil leaking into the cabin of the car

7) A discussion on window nets

8) Mental seems to have a “new” Miata attraction developing

9) Performance variability between the series and within some of the car’s by different drivers

10) Our goals for the weekend and goals for our day/stints

11) Our primary issue turns were #6, #9 and #1 (and late Sunday any straightway, lol)

12) Vicki’s thoughts on going through the Andretti Hairpin 3 wide and the aftermath

13) Our repair efforts, several of them

14) Erik won an award from the race, with a bit of our help

15) The joys of a random steering direction on center

16) Our end of day exploits

17) Favorite cars we were able to have several great laps of back and forth racing with

18) Mental completes his full set of competing in all amateur endurance series that use production-based cars

19) Track thoughts about Laguna Seca

20) The upcoming Champ Car race at Watkins Glen

21) Mental takes over hosting and we review our goals going into the race

22) Bill shockingly overthinks things and wanders down a path away from racing

23) Bill befuddles Mental enough that he is left without words

24) We question our training and preparation and Mental

25) Bill points out a gift that Mental received but wasn’t even aware

26) Vicki and Mental bond over Veggie/Vegan and Bill will have none of it

27) Front wheel drive thoughts and the difference between it and the way a car is prepared/set up

28) Best/Favorite cars of the weekend

29) Our usual Good, Bad, and the Ugly

30) Overall trip takeaways

Mental was able to get down to a 1:54 on Sunday

Vicki was able to get to a 2:06 on Sunday

Bill was only able to get to 1:59 on Saturday

Fastest lap of the weekend was 1:41 on Saturday and 1:40 on Sunday by the red #97 Miata

Overall, we loved our time with Lucky Dog and their team. Please try to race with them if they are ever near you.

Also, we really want to thank Erik for allowing us to use his car and experience this great track.

Best regards,

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

#racelucky #raceluckydog #garageheroesintraining #garageheroesintrainingpodcast #fasterfarms #deafstig #deafstigsbodyshop #ThankYouCathy #becauseracecar

Next Episode

WOOT 0086: Our 2019 Year In Movies Review Plus More

Another Way Off Our Topic (WOOT)) episode this time, where we review 1) the past year in movies and select our favorites. 2) We then go into the top movies of the decade. 3) We also go into the movies of 2020 we are most looking forward to and finally, 4) we cover the worst movies of the past year. While initially, it does not seem like we have any car talk, we did manage to get a few related car topics into the show. We hope you enjoy this episode where we cover a bit over 100 movies and shows.

If you agree, disagree, or have any comments, please feel free to let us know on Instagram at GarageHeroesInTraining or on Facebook at GarageHeroesIT or via email at [email protected].

Highlights from Benny, Alex, Vicki, and Bill’s discussion include:

1) Alex does his favorite robot impression early on

2) “Bane” makes several appearances and interviews Alex a bit

3) Benny and Alex give their thoughts on Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker

4) Bill lights up Alex like a lightsaber with a Xerox discussion, lol

5) Benny shares our opinion on Joe Pesci

6) Bill does not seem to understand directions for these lists and also finds various ways to cheat his way to having ties

If you have any show requests, please let us know.

We end with our sincere condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Neil Peart from the band Rush. He will always be our vote for the most air drummed drummer of all time, even when not close to the way he actually performed.

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast

and team members in the GHiT

Immature Endurance Racing Team