Auto Neurosis

Join Damon, Dante, Collin, and Tatum driving to Watkins Glen International in late May for their second ChumpCar race. Fresh off of a rainy Porsche Club weekend at The Glen two weeks prior.  The question was proposed, what would you buy for 65k? The conversation transitions into talking about how modern day cars are so good at handling in compared to old cars.  We get into the absurdity of what cars we buy or want to buy, such as Dante wants a 997 cup car to go with his 996 cup car.  Later in the episode we talk strategy for the race.

Bring a Trailer special edition of the podcast with Damon and Collin.  Collin is selling his 996 C4S and they watch the exciting last 20 minutes of the auction.  Post auction Collin talks about buying the car and how it was a good investment.  Collin and Damon pick up later on farther down the road on their way to Watkins Glen for a Porsche Club HPDE to talk about how to sell a car private sale and Collin’s thoughts on driving and owning the car he just sold. Damon tells the story about how easy it was to sell his old 997.  

Post First ChumpCar race. On our way home from Mid Ohio.  We had an early end to our day. Everyone tells their experience of first time being in a race. We compare and contrast HPDE driving to race driving.  Dante dispels the grainy feedback feeling through high speed sweepers as the car pushing. We talk about what it’s like driving a car with no ABS and a sensitive pedal. Nick tells his experience of the race as a non driver.  At the end we go over what we can do to be better prepared for races in the future.

Join Damon, Dante, Collin, Nick and Tatum driving from PittRace to Mid Ohio for their first Chump Car race. This was Tatum's first time on the podcast.  We plan our driver change and fueling strategy for our first race.  We review our first time driving the race car when we were testing it at VIR.  Then some tire talk going over recommendations from our tire engineer friend.  Collin talks about his experience first instructing and the troubles with communicating with someone with broken english while on the race track.  Collin reviews the 2016 Mustang GT 5.0 with Track Package that his student was driving. Dante and Collin review their short test of the BMW at PittRace south course.  Dante describes his "nibble" technique.  Dante talks about what he likes to do when instructing.  

Join Damon, Dante, Collin, Nick on their way to Virginia International Raceway (VIR) from Pittsburgh, PA in early March to test their BMW E36 ChumpCar for the first time at a Chin Track Days event. We start by talking about Chin Track Days and our plans for testing the car.  We get some background from Nick and why he’s along for the ride with us, plus his car history.

Join Damon, Dante, Collin, Nick on their way to Virginia International Raceway (VIR) from Pittsburgh, PA in early March to test their BMW E36 ChumpCar for the first time at a Chin Track Days event.  Nick tells about some really interesting Porsche history, including a Porsche F1 engine in a 904. Teddy Fireball Johnson gets a shoutout. We discuss all the work we’ve done on the race car since purchasing it three months ago.  It was supposed to be a perfect car, but we found metal shaving in the oil filter.  We talk about how confusing digital radios are to get setup with all the programming and special cables and software involved.

Join Damon, Dante, and Collin on their way back from purchasing their E36 Chumpcar.  We give our initial impressions of the car. Overall we are pretty happy with the car.  The body was a bit more rough than we expected but that’s not a big deal to us.

Join Damon, Dante, and Collin on their way to purchase an E36 ChumpCar.  Right off the bat we get a lesson on compression tests form Dante. We discuss the ChumpCar and some history of it.  Collin tells us about his car history, including the early days of having a pair of cobalts in college, on to purchasing and modifying a 987 Cayman and a 996 911.

Join Damon, Dante, and Collin on their way to purchase an E36 ChumpCar.  We start by talking about how we enjoy and don’t enjoy driving on the street.  Dante tells us about his extensive and very interesting car history, filled with an award winning GTO, a 944, and up to current day with the 996 cup car.

Join Damon, Dante, and Collin (no Tatum) driving to purchase our ChumpCar.  It’s a 1992 BMW 325i, fully prepared E36 race car. We discuss why we chose to race ChumpCar with a BMW E36.  We give some background on our high performance driving experience.