April 22, 2025
Racing Life: From Track Dreams to Victory Lane
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From a pandemic hobby to podium finishes at prestigious races, Judd Holt's meteoric rise in the racing world exemplifies what's possible when passion meets persistence.
Judd's story begins just four and a half years ago when, tired of pandemic isolation, he decided to try his hand at motor racing. What started as a curiosity quickly evolved into competitive racing in spec cars, then an M2 for endurance events, and now to professional competition in a factory-built BMW M4 GT4.
The fascinating world of GT4 racing centers on a unique premise - every car must be identical according to strict regulations. With manufacturers like BMW, Mercedes, and Ford all building to the same specifications, there's nowhere to hide behind superior technology. When Judd stood on the podium at Long Beach, it was pure driver skill that put him there. "The car is basically the same," he explains. "They're identical... you can't jack with it."
The physical and mental demands are extraordinary. Imagine hammering the brakes from 150 mph down to 35 mph at nearly every corner, staying on the ABS throughout. While navigating these challenges, drivers simultaneously manage complex car controls, including on-the-fly adjustments to traction control and brake bias. As Judd puts it, "Your vision is very tight... it's everything you can do to accommodate the speed, the cornering, and to put the car where it needs to be."
Preparation is paramount, especially for street circuits like Long Beach where practice on the actual track isn't possible. Judd spends countless hours on racing simulators, working with dedicated engineers to optimize car setup and balance performance. This methodical approach, combined with natural talent, has propelled him to multiple podium finishes in an astonishingly short time.
Ready to experience the thrill of professional racing? Follow Loopy Tortilla Motorsports on Facebook to keep up with Judd's next races at Circuit of the Americas, Sebring, and even Germany's legendary Nürburgring.
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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
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This is your place for all things automotive.
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The award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
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Today coming to you from the Spring Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise Inn at the Loopy Tortilla Tex-Mex in Katy, just ahead, we're going to get you involved in some racing through the wares of Mr Jud Holt, who is fresh back and ready to go out again to ply his trade at road courses across America and be successful, like he was in Long Beach with his BMW 4 Series.
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Yeah, it's a M4 GT4.
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M4 GT4.
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M4 GT4.
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Well, you're going to explain all that to us A lot of acronyms.
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Later.
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Jeff has got the racing calendar, Mars has this week in auto history and I'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines.
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Howdy Along with Mike out of this world, Mars.
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We always need more.
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Jeff Zekin, chief engineer and bottle washer.
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David Ainsley, I'm Don Armstrong, Glad you could join us today.
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Judd Holt, it's good to see you, my friend, Good to see you guys too, and well, congratulations on Long Beach.
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Of all places I'm going, oh my God, he won Long Beach.
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Okay, so let's talk about the car, so we can get this all set up.
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Is it a new model?
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Yeah, it's a fully amalgamated, factory-built race car.
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They built them in Germany.
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Hell, I didn't even know that they did that.
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Yeah, the entire class, the GT4 class, is all factory-built spec race cars.
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So you run cars just like yours in this particular division of an event.
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Exactly yeah, just like yours in this particular division of an event.
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Exactly yeah, and then they're in.
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So they're the bmw has a car um the mustang.
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That ford has a car um mercedes has a car, so there's.
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There are a lot.
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There are a multitude of manufacturers okay um, we, we just run the bmw, yeah, and so they take, and should I?
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say I'm sorry, or no, no, no, no.
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Congratulations, is it?
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a straight six.
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Uh, it's a turbo six.
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It's a turbo six.
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It's a six, it's a turbocharged six.
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Yeah, yep, uh, 550 horsepower um very, very torquey car automatic uh paddle shifters shift, yeah, paddle shifts.
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Yeah, eight speed, we use six and everybody that's in that drives a bmw in that class.
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They're, the car is basically the same.
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They're identical.
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They're identical.
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The spec is identical, you can't jack with it.
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You cannot change.
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I mean, they're down to like there is nothing.
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Like you can't adjust the way the door panels fit on the car, they're that specific Can you adjust?
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you know the tow in the camber.
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Yes, you can adjust suspension setup on the car For the tow in the camber.
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Yes, you can, just suspension setup on the car For driver comfort.
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Yeah, just track to track.
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They're obviously making camber and tow and all the suspension adjustments you can do shock adjustments, so it's a three-way adjustable shock.
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But you've got to use the same shock as all of the other drivers in the BMWs?
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Yes, the shock is specced for each car.
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The shock you have to run, yes, so what it gets down to.
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So when you go someplace like Long Beach and you win it's driver against driver, because all the cars are the same, that's the goal.
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To me, that's a bigger deal, because if you've got a better car, that can make a difference, but if they're all spec, if they're all the same, that's a big deal.
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Yeah, that's definitely the goal of SRO and GT America is to get the cars the same, and you know they have.
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Each car has a BOP that says this is the horsepower setting you have to run the car on, this is the torque setting you have to run the car on and this is the weight that has to be on the car.
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So you have to go through tech and it changes race to race.
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Oh yeah, heavily teched car.
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Yeah, they go through it with a fine-tooth comb before the race and then it parked for May.
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After the race, drivers get out of the car and they keep the car for an hour or two, hook the computers up and verify that everything was exactly how it was supposed to be.
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Fuel too.
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Fuel capacity is another thing that the set has to how much fuel you can run.
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Do you have to use the same fuel as everybody else?
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Yes, everybody uses the same fuel.
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We all run vp um is is the required fuel for the race.
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Yeah, I'm there.
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They're also the race sponsor.
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Everybody has to run a pirelli.
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The same pirelli zero tire.
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Oh boy, um.
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So yeah, we're all, we're all, uh, yeah so where, where did you hone these skills?
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so I I began about four and a half years ago.
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Um, I woke up one morning during covid and said I want, don't want to sit around the house anymore, and so I went out to MSR Houston and drove a spec car.
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A buddy of mine loaned me his you know, allowed me to, you know, sit in his car, and I was like immediately like, oh, I got to do this and so I bought a spec car and we raced those for two and a half, three years.
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I still race it.
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I still have a spec car.
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It's a lot of fun, very, very, very competitive.
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Some of the best drivers I drive around are in the spec class still.
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Anyway, after a couple of three years of doing that, we graduated to an M2 and started running WRL, which is enduro racing in an M2.
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And then about a year ago, a little over a year ago, the new M4 G82 came out and you know I was fortunate enough to be.
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You said I want one of those yeah.
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Well, actually, yeah, it kind of came to find me, I want one of those.
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Yeah, well, actually, yeah, it kind of came to find me and you know, they said, hey, would you be interested in, you know, moving up to the next level?
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And I said, sure, that sounds like a lot of fun.
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Faster is always better.
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Faster is always better and you know just the platform.
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You know nothing against the M2, but I mean it's a legit, real race car based on the street car.
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So really you know awesome Like you know I got in it for the first time.
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I'll be honest, it was a little intimidating.
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When you first sit in the driver's seat of that, you go wow, this is a lot of car, the fast car.
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This is a lot of car.
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We took it out at Eagles Canyon in north of Dallas-Fort Worth beautiful racetrack up there that Livio runs and we practiced and we got ready to go racing and we were fortunate there was an SCCA event shortly after.
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We got the car kind of dialed in and we got to run that and do a little wheel-to-wheel racing in the car itself.
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And then we took it on tour in WRL.
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Last year we ran it at Sebring, we ran it at Watkins Glen and then we ran it at COTA kind of the back half of the season, just to get, you know, experience under the belt yeah, some experience under the belt.
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And then we began this year's WRL season in the car and we started in Sebring, which is where the series starts.
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We put it on the podium one day in second place and then we went to Eagles Canyon and we put it on the podium there and then it was time to start running SRO GT4.
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So what does it feel like to stand on the podium?
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It's an amazing feeling.
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You shake the champagne and spray everybody with it.
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Yeah, it's a really cool feeling Because I'm just envisioning this in my mind, going okay, I got a car and the cars are pretty much equal, but really to win the race, it's on me, yeah, and then to win it, or even podium the car, if you want to call it that, it's got to be a great feeling that you probably have never had before, have you?
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I've been on the podium in the spec car a couple of times.
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But what I'm saying is there's no substitute to having somebody hand you a bottle of champagne and put a Merli hat on your head and go you know, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to envision that you know.
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It's an exhilarating experience and it's why people race cars to get that opportunity, Because today you are the best.
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Yeah, that's literally what it is In that moment, and then it's immediately like, okay, can you back it up?
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Yes, now we know about that.
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And being on the podium two races in a row was my co know, my co-driver, Dave Ogburn, at Sonoma, and there's two formats for GT4.
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I can get into that in a minute, but sometimes I have a co-driver and sometimes I've driven solo.
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But yeah, you know, to be on the podium at Sonoma was like mind-blowing, and then to get on it both days at Long Beach was like wow.
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This is like living the dream and then to get on both days at Long Beach was like, wow, this is like living the dream.
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I can only I'm just envisioning it and, you know, trying to live my life through you at the moment and going, wow, that is just really cool.
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It's hard to imagine.
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You see it on TV and oh yeah, that's cool, but to be there.
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So you've got the whole rig that carries the car around.
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Do you have a backup car?
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So we run with Fast Track Racing, which is their group out of Eagles Canyon that runs BMWs.
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They fully support the car for me.
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We basically contract with them.
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This is pretty common.
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There are several groups out there that run where you can just put your car with them and they handle the maintenance.
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They do the turnkey thing.
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They haul the car.
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I bet it's a hell of a lot cheaper doing it that way than having your own team that you tow it around, and less worry too.
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I I don't.
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I don't know if it's cheaper, but I wouldn't do it any other way because it's it's certainly more time.
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Consuming as a driver.
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There are plenty of groups that do that, though.
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That run.
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They run their, run their own car, or run several cars in different classes with common drivers, so it's not uncommon to run your own car.
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Kind of like drag racing and people running stock and super stock.
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Exactly exactly.
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Yeah, there's a lot of teams that have a GT3 car and a GT4 car.
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Did you ever envision yourself doing road racing?
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Well, I always wanted to do it.
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I mean, it was always something in the back of my mind.
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I'm like man.
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If I ever got the time and the money to make it happen, I would love to do it.
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But I was talking to one of my co-drivers in WRL before we went to Long Beach and I said if somebody had told me four years ago you're going to be going to Long Beach to run GT4, I would have laughed nervously.
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I would have been like yeah, right, whatever.
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But no, it was.
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Yeah, I didn't envision it going as far as it has, as quickly as it has, but it's been a great ride.
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It really has.
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Who would you say was your mentor in this, in the driving aspect of a road race?
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Well, denny Stripling, who is a Spec Racer Ford guy that is very well-known, very accomplished driver in Spec Racer Ford and has done other things, yeah, he was definitely my mentor and definitely kind of the one that pushed me, kept pushing me to like, let's you know, keep going.
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Did you ever do a ride-along with him?
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No, I never did a ride-along with him, but we've done a lot of coaching.
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We've done a lot of lead follow, a lot of track video.
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When you do the lead follow thing, are you on a headset with him?
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Yes, so you can coordinate the radios and you can communicate, and sometimes I'll follow you and give you pointers as to where to put the car and so forth.
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And then a lot of times, it's just sitting in a room reviewing data.
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Um, the data, and that you can get out of a race car these days is incredible.
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Um, you know, depending on the car, the aim system will allow you to take your video and overlay it with the data and you can see every marker that you hit.
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And then in the bmw we get thex system and B-Box, which is tracks you and it shows you you know and you can do.
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If you have two cars, they don't line them up next to each other and show you.
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This is where this the car was positioned and this is where that car was positioned, where the break is like a simulator um no, it's like a replay but, we also do the simulator.
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so, uh yeah, we spend a tremendous amount of time on the simulator, working together, you know, just to fix little problems and it's amazing how far the simulators have come.
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We spent a lot of time on iRacing, you know, practicing and getting ready.
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Line in line out breaking points.
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Yeah, and it was you know, for a track like Long Beach, for example, you know this is not a track you can go drive right.
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Right.
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It's normally a street, yes, and so the only way you can get your mind around like, okay, what's the cadence of this track?
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Yes, and where is the grip and where do you put the car and so forth, is to do it in a simulator, and I'd run other tracks in the simulator, but I don't think I've ever spent as much time in the sim as I did for long beach um getting ready for a race, and it really paid dividends.
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Well, not only that, but I mean you also have to worry about shift points.
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I mean, I mean there's one way that you listen to it, but you know, if you run over 8,000 RPM you're going to blow it up.
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And uh, for me, I know that when I did a corvette event at uh circuit of the americas, they let us out there like fools.
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And uh, I'm going, okay.
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Well, I ran that corvette of mine all the way up there to the red line.
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I'm going.
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I really didn't want to go that high with it, but the corner is right there, but only a few more hundred feet and you're over the red line.
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So where do you shift it in that particular area of the course?
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and I'm thinking, oh my god, I can't even imagine what it would be like not ever having actually been on the track and do long beach yeah, so the the bmw has a does have a rev limiter, so you cannot over rev the car um and you can't downshift with, or what they call a money shift, which is where you inadvertently downshift it, or what they call a money shift, which is where you inadvertently downshift it will not allow you to until it's within the rpm range, that in within the tolerances, um, but there are.
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There are corners on on racetracks and it varies based on cars and from car to car.
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Where you do, you put it on the limiter simply because there's not time to shift it doesn't, it doesn't pay to shift the car and then downshift the car immediately, yes, right.
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And then there's also spots on track where you short shift the car.
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Uh, where you go, it pays to be to drop into the torque band because of the way the corner is shaped and you shift a little early or you're a lot.
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You don't want to upset the platform got all this stuff going on, yeah, and if you don't do the homework, uh, you know, because when you're out there, everything's going by so fast and happening so fast that it's like how do you manage all of these things in your periphery the track, the car, the revs, where you are on the track, all this stuff is going on, lickety split yeah, and so when you first start driving, your vision is very, very tight.
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Um, you know and I'm still close enough to it, and because my career in driving has been so short that you know your vision is very tight, you're not, you're it's everything you can do to accommodate the speed, the cornering and to put the car.
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As you race, more and more your subconscious starts to take care of things Sure yeah.
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You know, and everybody drives down the freeway at 80 miles an hour and if you can remember the first time you went 80 miles an hour down the freeway and there's cars left and right of you.
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As a young driver, you're like of course and it's a bit like that when you first get on a race course you're like, man, this is a lot to accommodate.
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Yeah, you're in your.
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You almost can't be mentally prepared in the very beginning when you first get on it.
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And then you get on a racetrack with cars left and right of you and you, you start and everybody's trying to get around you and the aggression comes in.
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You're like, wow, this is a lot to accommodate you ever scrape any fenders?
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uh, oh yeah, I've definitely had some, had some moments where I've where I've where I've done some touching is what I call it.
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I I'm like I didn't hit anything, I just touched that.
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Well, I've heard that about you.
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You're pretty good at touching.
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Yeah, at Long Beach we were very clean.
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There was one corner where I was the GT3.
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We were on track with the GT3 class at the same time, which is they're about eight seconds faster a lap than we are.
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So if you think about it're running.
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Oh god, we're.
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You've got that to worry about, we're running long beach at about 100, about about a minute minute 26, and so they're running at, you know, about 10 seconds, 8 to 10 seconds quicker than we are, um, so they're going to pass us in a 40 minute race twice, um, and so the gt leaders were coming through and I, as I was coming into the one of the tightest turns, where you go from basically a seven-lane road onto a two-lane road and it's the tightest corner.
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And you've got all these cars coming up behind you.
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And it was clear they were going to catch me right as I came in, and so I had to put the car through the apex and try and get out of their way.
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And when I came out of the corner, I looked over to my left mirror, which you don't need a lot in that track, and I could see me on my left mirror, which you don't need a lot in that track, and I could see me, which is never a good sign, Because the mirror had actually hit the wall.
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It clipped the wall.
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It touched the wall.
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It had clipped the wall and it just knocked the mirror back because it doesn't stock mirrors on it.
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And it knocked the mirror back and I was like, well, the windows don't come down on the car, they're Lexan, solid Lexan windows.
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I'm like that's just the way.
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You know, fortunately you don't use the left mirror and in that track very often.
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But I was like, well, I guess I'll just have to deal with it.
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And this was lap uh, probably 12 out of out of 26.
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And so I was like, man, that's a lot, a lot of racing to go.
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In the next braking zone, when I hammered the brakes on the car, the rear kicked back open.
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There you go.
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So the inertial effect of breaking the car was actually enough to pull the mirror back out to where it goes.
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So it was only one straightaway man sweating bullets.
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Yeah, well, you're always.
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It's a very intense experience, there's no doubt, and most people don't realize, like the real intensity of racing is not the getting the car moving, it's the getting the car stopped.
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Where the real experience?
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You, you know, you go, everybody goes.
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Oh yeah, race car driver, that's about going fast.
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I'm like, yeah, it's about going fast, but it's about getting that fast thing slowed down and around a corner.
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Yeah uh, with consistency and without, without you know, with maintaining the, the grip of the vehicle and keeping the platform connected.
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Maintain the yeah so at long beach turn one know you go from 150 miles an hour to 35 miles an hour at the apex of Turn 1, and you do that in 500 feet.
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So you know anybody that's ever been on the ABS in their car in an emergency situation they go.
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Oh, I know what that feels like.
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I know what the you know, you can feel that it's doing everything it can do to get this thing slowed down and stopped.
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Well, imagine doing that at every corner for 40 minutes every time abs connected on these cars?
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yes, abs is connected, so you are on the abs at a lot, every single corner oh my god, if you're not in the abs, you didn't you.
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You didn't drive hard enough.
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So, yeah, we're using the abs every time.
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It also has traction control, which we run at some tracks, but at Long Beach we did not Getting out of the hairpin, we just found that the car wouldn't.
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The traction control was overly intrusive, and so we found that it was a little quicker to run it with the traction control than just throttle balance the car to get it out of that corner.
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Well, Judd, we're going to turn the traction control off for you.
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You're going to what Was.
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We're going to turn the traction control off for you.
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You're going to what Was it one of those responses?
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No, it was actually.
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You have to do it to yourself.
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So the steering wheel on the car has two knobs.
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One knob allows you to change the brake, the throttle sensitivity, and the other one allows you to adjust the traction control map on the car that's not on it While you're going around the track, while you're going around the track.
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yeah, so this car is set up for this.
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So he's going around the track like this there's two.
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It's a butterfly wheel and there's two knobs where your thumbs can reach up there, and you just click it this way and it'll change you from a wet pedal to a dry pedal, to a linear pedal on the right side, and then the left side will allow you to.
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