Lizard Brains: Driving Drivers

Tom and DJ discuss thoughts that were had during spring nats.Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ talk about their weekends at the WDCR Pro Solo and the Thunder Hills Open.Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Eric Kutil is a guest on the podcast and talks about fitness, suspension tuning, Hybrid Racing, driving other cars, building other carsDiscord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom talks about his and Salil's win for the 2026 One Lap of AmericaDiscord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ talk about OLOA 2026 Hastings, Road America, and an Oval, The Salil show!Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ quickly catch up on the happenings at High Plains raceway during One Lap of America 2026Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ discuss OLOA Day 2 and the skid padDiscord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ go over Day 1 of One Lap of America 2026Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

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?Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

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/PassDiscord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Dave Ogburn joins Tom and DJ on an episode where we learn how we could also be racing on the Nurburgring.Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

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 curriculumDiscord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

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?Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ Discuss Tom's eventual future as a Nastruck driver with his meteoric rise on Lime Rock's social media pageDiscord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom sets up his new sim rig and DJ gets to drive a C8 ZR1Discord LinkYoutube LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ talk about the intentions of driving and getting out of your own head/wayDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ yell at clouds and then eventually answer some questions from listenersDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ discuss DJ's weekend coaching at Charleston Peak and coaching racecraftDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ discuss being professional product reviewers, playing in the snow, some product previews and some email questionsDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ discuss the fear of failure and what actually is slip angle?Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom talks about his move, DJ talks about Roar, then they jump into some good questions provided by some podcast listenersDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ discuss how to get out of a destructive negative space.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

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 2025Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ talk about heartburn, dumb things that we learned nothing from and how to tell when a car is too looseDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

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 motorsportsDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

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!Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ talk about their weekend at VIR with HOD Mid AtlanticDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

DJ and Tom talk to an organizational Lizard, Heyward Wagner, who is the Vice President of Rally/Solo and Experiential Programs for the SCCADiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ answer questions that have been stacking up in the podcast discordDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ gear up for some sim racing this winterDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

DJ and Tom talk about things DJ can't remember while writing this descriptionDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

Tom and DJ talk about the death of Pittrace, Runoffs, Peters new car and answer some emailsDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube LinkSpicy Cat Racing Store

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.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube Link

We talk about driving styles, is it even a thing though?Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube Link

Tom talks about his Solo Nationals win, DJ talks about being present and focusing on the taskDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCH

DJ and Tom talk about Solo nationals on Wednesday 9/3 just hours after DJ gets his first Solo National ChampionshipDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCH

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.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube Link

DJ and Tom talk about the Gridlife Lime Rock weekend and CST Miatas. Then we answer some questions submitted by the audience.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube Link

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.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube Link

Tom and DJ talk about the Finger Lakes National Tour and spiralsDiscord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube Link

Tom and DJ record from the same room and talk about Gridlife Road America and the Chicago National Tour.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube Link

Tom was coaching this weekend and DJ is an autocross addict and probably needs an intervention.Discord LinkShow your lizard brains on the outside with Merch!CLICK HERE FOR THE MERCHYoutube Link