Lizard Brains: Driving Drivers
Episode 201: The Journey vs The Results
Tom and DJ discuss thoughts that were had during spring nats.
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Episode 200: How To Identify A Pushy Car
Tom and DJ talk about their weekends at the WDCR Pro Solo and the Thunder Hills Open.
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Episode 199: The Eric Kutil Podcast!
Eric Kutil is a guest on the podcast and talks about fitness, suspension tuning, Hybrid Racing, driving other cars, building other cars
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Episode 198f: OLOA 2026 Tom and Salil Win Again!!
Tom talks about his and Salil's win for the 2026 One Lap of America
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Episode 198e: OLOA 2026 Hastings, Road America, and an Oval
Tom and DJ talk about OLOA 2026 Hastings, Road America, and an Oval, The Salil show!
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Episode 198d: OLOA 2026 High Plains and Cold Rains
Tom and DJ quickly catch up on the happenings at High Plains raceway during One Lap of America 2026
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Episode 198c: OLOA 2026, Nashville Roval, Hallet, and the Tale Of A Nail
Tom and DJ catch up from 2 days of competition during OLOA 2026. Nashville Roval and Hallet were discussed along with some drama during the transit.
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Episode 198b: OLOA 2026 Wet Skid Pad
Tom and DJ discuss OLOA Day 2 and the skid pad
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Episode 198a: Sticker Day OLOA 2026
Tom and DJ go over Day 1 of One Lap of America 2026
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Episode 197: OOPS ALL QUESTIONS!
Tom and DJ dive into user questions like.....
How do y’all continue to find joy, not just speed, in cars after your wealth of experiences?
What are some characteristics skills or commonalities that separate Good from great drivers?
How did you decide it was time for a break last year?
How does one find fast early?
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Episode 196: What if the Solo Nationals Schedule Was Changed Up?
DJ and Tom talk about possible schedule changes for solo nationals. We talk about car setup. We also talk about how a recession would change Motorsports.
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Episode 195: Compared ZR1 Notes, Smash/Keep/Pass?
DJ and Tom catch up after Tom does some recon for One Lap of America. We compare notes on a ZR1, and then play Smash/Keep/Pass
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Episode 194: Dave Ogburn's Tire Pressure SECRETS
Dave Ogburn joins Tom and DJ on an episode where we learn how we could also be racing on the Nurburgring.
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Episode 193: A Commentary of the Commentary
Tom talks about his weekend doing track side commentary at Sonoma this weekend for SRO and DJ talks about the second Las Vegas Pro Solo. DJ also goes on quite a few rants because he was riled up about some silly challenge to sour creams dominance as a condiment.
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Episode 192: DJ's a HOT Las Vegas Lot Lizard
Tom and DJ discuss the Vegas Pro Solo #1, talk about being monsters during competition, answered some questions written into the podcast involving one about driving curriculum
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Episode 191: Is Your Fear Rational?
Tom and DJ discuss when fear on racetracks is rational and irrational. Also, where is the line, and how to determine what type of fear you are experiencing?
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Episode 190: Tom is the Nastruck Hero We Need
Tom and DJ Discuss Tom's eventual future as a Nastruck driver with his meteoric rise on Lime Rock's social media page
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Episode 189: Almost as Many MPHs as Episodes
Tom sets up his new sim rig and DJ gets to drive a C8 ZR1
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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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