Lizard Brains: Driving Drivers
Tom O'Gorman and DJ Alessandrini talk about racing, life and about how racing is life.
Episode 225: Daytime Running Light Heros
DJ talks about NJMP Lighting and getting drivers with Daytime Running Lights to understand their own cars a bit better
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Episode 224: The Proper Mindset for Sim Racing
DJ talks about autocrossing while injured and what the proper approach to take to Sim Racing this winter
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Episode 223: Club Motorsports and Pineview Run
DJ talks about his first weekend for One Lap 2027 recon
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Episode 222: Autocross Shootout at Lime Rock and NEPA Pocono Track Cross
DJ talks about his weekend and his takeaways driving a Supra in some faster environments then that little Supra is used to.
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Episode 221: Watkins Glen, Driving When Feeling Bad, and Kevin Zhu
Kevin forgot to give Brian Lempke a shoutout during the podcast, so it's right here.
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Episode 220: Data Nerds Gonna Nerd
DJ talks to Steve Fehr about RTK data logging and where amateur data acquisition is heading.
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Episode 219: The Podcast Will Be Different
DJ talks about his weekend at NCCAR when he ditched the Noreaster to autocross in the sun
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Episode 218: All of Your Questions Have Been Answered
Tom and DJ answer your questions submitted in our Discord
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Episode 217: 2026 Solo Nationals Recap
Tom and DJ talk about the 2026 Solo Nationals
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Episode 216: Revisiting Episode #2 About The Mental Game
Please enjoy this old episode about the mental game
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Episode 215: Tom Goes Spec MX5 Racing
Tom tells us about his weekend racing a borrowed Spec MX5 racecar at Barber Motorsports and then DJ and Tom talk about the state of motorsports and Solo Nationals
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Episode 214: DJ's Origin Story
DJ tells the podcast about his origin story
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Episode 213: Tom O'Gorman's Origin Story
Tom tells the podcast about his origin story
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Episode 212: DJ Might Be A Supra Fan
DJ talks about the Lincoln Pro
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Episode 211: Finger Glening
Tom and DJ talk about their seperate weekends in the Finger Lakes area.
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Episode 210: JERBS
Tom and DJ discuss their time spent at the same autocross event and then answer a bunch of podcast questions
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A Short Lizzy: Belief
DJ fires up the podcast machine in the wee hours of the morning to talk about the importance of belief.
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Episode 209: Plateaus and What To Do About It
Tom and DJ talk about how to recognize a plateau, and how to avoid one.
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Episode 208: The Full Review of Zenith
Tom talks about his weekend racing a Ginetta in Zenith Endurance series.
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Episode 207: Trying Too Hard
Tom and DJ discuss dealing with pressure and then the talk about examples of people trying to dang hard
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Episode 206: Smaller Bites Helps Motivation?
Tom and DJ talk about the sources of motivation and things we can do to influence it.
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Episode 205: Old Rag and Full Course Cautions
Tom talks about commentating Watkins Glen and DJ talks about hiking in Shenandoah National Park
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Episode 204: Toledo Midwest Festival
Tom and DJ talk about their separate weekends at Gridlife's Midwest Festival and the Toledo Pro Solo
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Episode 203: White Water and Hot Takes
Tom and DJ talk about their weekends. DJ went white water rafting and Tom was commentating Road America SCCA racing.
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Episode 202: The School of Lizards
Tom and DJ talk about the Lizard Brains School
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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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