Lizard Brains: Driving Drivers
Episode 188: DJ is AMP'd Up About Figure Skating
DJ talks about his weekend at Atlanta Motorsports Park. Tom talks about his weekend commentating for an SCCA Majors race.
Then, both of them talk about Alysa Liu and how her Olympic performance can translate into driving and competition overall.
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Episode 187: Driving With Intentions
Tom and DJ talk about the intentions of driving and getting out of your own head/way
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Episode 186: Sometimes The Clouds Need To Be Yelled At
Tom and DJ yell at clouds and then eventually answer some questions from listeners
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Episode 185: Charleston Peak is a GREAT Track
Tom and DJ discuss DJ's weekend coaching at Charleston Peak and coaching racecraft
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Episode 184: Do You Play In The Snow?
Tom and DJ discuss being professional product reviewers, playing in the snow, some product previews and some email questions
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Episode 183: What Even is Slip Angle?
Tom and DJ discuss the fear of failure and what actually is slip angle?
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Episode 182: Say Something Nice About the Other Host
Tom talks about his move, DJ talks about Roar, then they jump into some good questions provided by some podcast listeners
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Episode 181: Positivity Can Change How You Learn
Tom and DJ discuss how to get out of a destructive negative space.
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Episode 180: Lizards Wrap Up 2025
Tom and DJ review 2025 for themselves and assess their goals and how they are influencing their 2026 objectives. We also did peaks and valleys with 2025
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Episode 179: Lizzy Brainsmas
Tom and DJ talk about heartburn, dumb things that we learned nothing from and how to tell when a car is too loose
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Episode 178: The Sim Lizard 3hr Roundup and Stuff and Questions
Tom and DJ talk about the aftermath of the Sim Lizard 3 Hour and answer some questions from the podcast listeners involving goals and brining in new people into motorsports
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Episode 177: What Track Would You Drive Backwards
Tom and DJ talk about their iRacing event coming up, The Sim Lizard 3 Hour We also talk about multi class racing and how to survive and thrive!
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Episode 176: We're Hooked On Driving
Tom and DJ talk about their weekend at VIR with HOD Mid Atlantic
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Episode 175: Thankful Lizards
Tom and DJ catch up and talk about what they are thankful for. We also talk about why Europeans are better at racing than Americans.
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Episode 174: Heyward Wagner Talks About Balance and Life As A Recovering Lizard
DJ and Tom talk to an organizational Lizard, Heyward Wagner, who is the Vice President of Rally/Solo and Experiential Programs for the SCCA
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Episode 173: How to Balance Aggression
Tom and DJ answer questions that have been stacking up in the podcast discord
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Episode 172: Sim Season is Starting
Tom and DJ gear up for some sim racing this winter
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Episode 171: We're Criminals
Tom has a busy motorsports week after doing a Champcar race with Out Motorsports and working the very last TNIA at Pittrace. DJ built a new computer, walked through canopies with Christine, and went autocrossing.
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Episode 170: SPRINT RACING
DJ and Tom both went sprint racing this weekend. Tom got to party in GLTC and DJ got to party in Spec3. Both of them gave a recap of their weekends.
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Episode 169: A Very Nice Episode
DJ and Tom talk about things DJ can't remember while writing this description
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Episode 168: The Death of Pittrace
Tom and DJ talk about the death of Pittrace, Runoffs, Peters new car and answer some emails
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Episode 167: We Went Endurance Racing!
Tom and DJ have lots of stories after endurance racing with Spicy Cat Racing this weekend. That is a webstore aimed at drivers. Google it.
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Episode 166: TT Nats, and Enjoying The Journey
Tom talks about TT Nats, DJ talks about driving with Ken Houseal and Tires.
We then answer a question about how to find joy while in the valley of despair.
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Episode 165: Driving Styles
We talk about driving styles, is it even a thing though?
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Episode 164: Tom is a Solo National Champion, again!
Tom talks about his Solo Nationals win, DJ talks about being present and focusing on the task
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Episode 163: DJ is a Solo National Champion
DJ and Tom talk about Solo nationals on Wednesday 9/3 just hours after DJ gets his first Solo National Championship
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Episode 162: Solo Nats Meetup On Tuesday Night
Whatever the grid spots are right after you come out of the gate, that's the Lizard Brains meetup starting when the last runs finish on Tuesday in those grid spots.
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Episode 161: Race Fans and Miatas
DJ and Tom talk about the Gridlife Lime Rock weekend and CST Miatas. Then we answer some questions submitted by the audience.
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Episode 160: Winning Off Track vs Winning On Track
Tom and DJ talk about Oldmobiles, Novice Novice Programs, competing on track against your competitors or competing against the people who write the rule book.
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Episode 159: Finger Lakes Tour 2025
Tom and DJ talk about the Finger Lakes National Tour and spirals
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Episode 158: Sleepover
Tom and DJ record from the same room and talk about Gridlife Road America and the Chicago National Tour.
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Episode 157: Feeling The Float
Tom was coaching this weekend and DJ is an autocross addict and probably needs an intervention.
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Episode 156: Tom Was Let Back In
Tom is back from Europe. DJ sold his FRS.
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Episode 155: Tom, The Super Human Hiker
Tom takes a hike after DJ gets married
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Episode 154: Ross Bentley, The Coaches Coach
Tom and DJ have Ross Bentley on the podcast and have a great discussion on the intricacies and challenges involved with self coaching and coaching others.
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Episode 153: Flippy Flop
Tom and DJ talk about floppy cars.
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Episode 152: The Mythical 100 Cone Slalom
Tom and DJ talk about the optimal slalom
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Episode 151: The Actual Art of Racecraft
Tom and DJ go over everything there is to racecraft. EVERYTHING. That is why this is the longest episode of the podcast to date!
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Episode 150: The Autocross Episode
Tom and DJ talk about autocross. Then we decide what are the hardest autocross classes and then the easiest?!
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Episode 149: Shelly Monfort Part 1
DJ and Tom talk to Shelly Monfort who is a future rally car driver. She currently spends her time looking for severed legs and making pumpkins out of glass.
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