Racing Home Podcast

Nick and Jim (special guest) return from Gridlife's Special Stage event at Road Atlanta, a very unique event on the Gridlife calendar. The event left us both wanting more but incredibly grateful. And Fez opens up a new business!Socials! ⁠https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast⁠ Join our Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm⁠

This one covers the gamut; Weddings (again), Alpacas, Birthdays, GR releases, ARA in Washington, Gridlife CMP Stream, F1, and more as we recap the month of April.Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Carol (Nick's wife) steps in to help Fez decide what's next after the Tundra, either as a single nice truck or a 2-car solution.Nick has some fuel tuning updates, the Focus RS's fuel system is not a lost cause (yet).Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm 

Attending SCCA ProSolos at Beeville, TX in Nick's Drama Queen of a Focus RS.Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm 

Nick competes in NASA Texas Region Time Trials for the first time, quite a difference from Gridlife Street Class... And Jim gets hungover in Austin for his birthday.Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Happy New Year! This was a mixed bag of: Rule Update Holidays Recap (The North Wall) Offroad Track Day at ECR Texas Targa 5 day event G2 Motorsports is sketchhhh Fez's blown FRS Build GR86 and Focus RS Updates

Oh Jim, Jim just joined! Mr. Smitholene helps us review Gridlife's 2025 Provisional Rules for Track Battle. We like (unless you are Fez) what we see! Thank you Gridlife Staff

Fez breaks down his first time going to SEMA with Toyota, meet ups with influencers, and gets his P-car cherry popped! Nick does some Focus things here and there. Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Fez buys a seat to codrive at 24 hours of lemons at MSR Houston! But it was one of the worst driving experience he's ever dealt with, felt like just 2 minutes of lemons. Fellow codriver Duc joins halfway through to give his feedback of how NOT to run a race team, even for lemons. Duc's K-Swapped S2000: https://www.instagram.com/ducs2000/ Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

We are so lucky to have Gridlife ClubTR Season Championship Runner-up Peter Granberg and Driving Coach Scott Robertson with Robertson Racing on this episode! We dive into their Student-Teacher relationship where Scott's coaching elevated Peter to his highest winning Gridlife Season yet. Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pete.lete/ Scott's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robertsonracing/ Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Spoiler, we both got 6th in our respective classes. Good for Nick! Meh for Fez.. Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Fez watched his record slip away, Nick watched a second podium opportunity slip away, and we offer some opinions to make competitions in Time Attack and the Olympics more interesting! Plz don't hate us. Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Tire News (Hoosiers, Maxxis, and Falken joined the party) and Your Questions answered!Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Fez attended his last Gridlife event of the 2024 season, Autobahn Country Club. Somehow we ended up in the same season championship position in our respective classes lol.We also she some light on the COBB Tuning vs EPA settlement.Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Catching up with our recent shenanigans of autocrossing in Texas, beating Fez at go-karts, and scumbagging ourselves into another California trip for a Gridlife weekend. Congrats to all the Lime Rock Park Gridlife winners! Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

We're back and cover our race weekend at Gridlife's Summer Apex event at Road America. Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

We are so fortunate to have Evan McLaren and James Houghton join us on this very special episode discussing their podium wins, ClubTR rules, crazy timeattack builds, and a little on what their futures hold! Evan McLaren: https://www.instagram.com/bigmacvtak James Houghton: https://www.instagram.com/time_attack_typer Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Part 1: Congrats Eddy on taking the podium in Gridlife's Street Class! We cover our weekend at Mid-Ohio competing in Club TR (Fez) and Street (Nick and Eddy). Part 2 will be recorded and released on Eddy's podcast with Devin, The Back Seat Drivers, link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0y3HcQbsFOxJvb3nr5oJ5R?si=8c47667de7c54c23 Eddy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ezeagul1_r?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Midwest Fest Recap with Devin and Eddy from the Back Seat Drivers Podcast! Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Nick got P3 out of 20 cars in Gridlife's Street Class at Revup! But it was Fez who stood on the podium.... **UPDATE! Nicks audio has been re-recorded! So that's why some audio sounds very different while other audio sounds the same. Note, do not use airpods for recording ever again. Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

One week until Gridlife Revup at Gingerman Raceway! We talk about the prep work that's left, and we talk about our future plans to bully Karl into letting us take his GT4 to do One Lap of America in 2025. Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Gridlife ClubTR Champion Dana Basinski joins us to talk about his jump from Time Attack to Wheel-to-Wheel racing and what drives all of us to go racing. We also talk about K24 motors vs FA24's which put Nick to sleep but that's okay, this was a fun episode for the 86 racers out there! Follow Dana in Instagram for all of this race adventures! https://www.instagram.com/dbasinski_99 Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

The importance of shakedowns cannot be overstated! Nick discovers several boost issues with his Focus RS but got them all resolved with the help of Brian at JST Performance! Cannot thank him enough. But now, Nick has a new issue.... Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Time-Attack-Podium-Winning competitor Karl Taht joins Fez and I on this episode to discuss things we should all be doing to improve our driving skills! TMI Nick actually dropped tires twice in front of Karl at Gridlife's Laguna Seca in October '23. Thank goodness no rock chips were formed on Karl's Cayman GT4.. Karl's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrconflicted/ Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

After a 2 week hiatus from the pod, we're back! We both worked on our cars but now they're ready (mostly) for 2024! Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Andy Hsaio, 2023 6th place in Street-Mod Competitor of Gridlife, discusses why he's now competing in Track-Mod for 2024, providing insights and thoughts to consider to Autocrosser Richard King. Follow Richard's auto-x adventures: https://www.instagram.com/rich_lsking/ Follow Andy's venture into track-mod here: https://www.instagram.com/c5r_lite/ Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

What's the ideal first tow rig for an amateur racer? Depends, a lot. Fez and Nick do their best to pick out the ideal first tow rig for Autocross Race (sometime winner, but more often than not) Richard King! Follow Richard's race adventures and his 3D printing car parts business on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rich_lsking/ Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Fez and Nick get on track together at Harris Hill Raceway in San Marcos, TX. Our friends graciously invited us to enjoy their company and experience variety of different cars. But now the question is, GR Corolla or Integra Type S? Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Devin and Eddy from The Back Seat Drivers podcast team up against Fez and Sundae Cup competitor Jim Smith in a Trivia competition (beta), hosted by Nick! Honestly this one was a lot of fun to record, hope you all enjoy! Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

We made it to 10 episodes! This week, we cold call Kennay, Fez gets ready for his first track day of 2024, Nick recaps the Gridlife twitch stream. Cold call me if I get any of the details wrong. Gridlife Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2040818008 Socials! https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/U7v3wxJnJm

Special guest Jason Kanakry joins Fez and Nick to talk about his careers professionally and in motorsports, and the 2 tricks to being able to afford poster cars. RIP Ravi didn't get mentioned this time. Socials! DM us - ⁠smily.bio/racing_home_podcast

The dirty things Fez had to do to gain sponsorship... Ravi comes up eventually... Socials! DM us - smily.bio/racing_home_podcast

We join the bandwagon of "2024 goal setting" podcast episodes. And we bring Ravi up at the 36min mark. Nicks: Learning Learn chinese (better than Carol's Mom's english) FE Exam PE Exam Siemens Certification Racing Top 10 Season Finish Personal 5 year anniversary vow Bench 225lbs Muscle Up Fez's: Hope for the best. As always, link-in-bio to the latest episode and our socials!

Merry Christmas! Nick and Fez talk about Ravi's Cybertruck prototype, our Christmas weekend shenanigans with the rest of the Dallas driving gang, Cops, Alpacas, and our 2023 Peaks and Valleys. Rounding it out we answer some questions from listeners. As always, link-in-bio to the latest episode and our socials!

Eddy Segal, driver of the #470 @acuityinstruments Civic Type R, joins Fez and I to talk about our family support (or lack their of) for getting on track. We also answer some listener questions that were submitted on our Racing Home Podcast Instagram. Link to that and more below! Also, we go 90ish minutes before talking about Ravi. Eddy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ezeagul1_r Racing Home Podcast Links: https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Nicks Instagram: https://instagram.com/naegerter_rs Fez's Instagram: https://instagram.com/fez_babar

Nick and Fez talk about released 2024 Gridlife schedule and which events we'll try to attend. Also, the provisional rules got released and there are some interesting rule changes that may potentially get implemented (focused on Club TR and Street Class). And we go basically 15 minutes before talking about Ravi. Links from the show: Top 5 longest tracks in America (2017): https://thenewswheel.com/top-5-biggest-racetracks-in-the-united-states/ Ten Tenths Podcast Shoutout: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xJJqA6uGolfmZdSMfWwEg?si=731e03f0d42f43ad Single Click Link: https://smily.bio/racing_home_podcast Nicks Instagram: https://instagram.com/naegerter_rs Fez's Instagram: https://instagram.com/fez_babar

Fez talks about his track day at ECR in his Supra, Nick double checks his offseason modifications for Gridlife Street Class legality, and we go 50 minutes before Ravi is brought up. Links! Racing Home Podcast - ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/racing_home_podcast⁠⁠ Nick's Instagram - ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/naegerter_rs⁠⁠ Fez's Instagram - ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/fez_babar⁠⁠ Intro and Outro Music Artist - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/raudel101⁠

Is a Hot Lap the same thing as a Track Sprint? Nick attends a Track Sprint with Autocrosser Richard King at Harris Hill Raceway, hosted by Texas Spokes Autocross organization. Fez is somewhere in Hawaii. Second episode so hopefully the audio is better, got some dedicated mic but still struggling with edits in post. Links! Racing Home Podcast - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/racing_home_podcast⁠ Nick's Instagram - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/naegerter_rs⁠ Fez's Instagram - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/fez_babar⁠ Intro and Outro Music Artist - https://www.instagram.com/raudel101 Richard's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rich_lsking

The 2023 season is over, so what better time than to try podcasting our thoughts about the 2023 season and what we look forward to in 2024. First episode so apologies for the poor audio (recorded from Nick's phone).. Links! Racing Home Podcast - https://www.instagram.com/racing_home_podcast Nick's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/naegerter_rs Fez's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fez_babar