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Matt Dadas

Matt Dadas

Mechanical engineer and professional bracket racer at American Racecars; Win Light Lab instructor at This Is Bracket Racing.

Jul 13, 2026

7:31
Like, obviously we, we would agree that there is some nuance that goes into being successful in, in each specific form of competition, whether that's a change in physical preparation or approach or, mentality or aggressiveness or what have you so we've talked about this on a recent call within this is bracket racing elite like your next month you go from like world footbreak challenge to a ihri national event to a big dollar bracket race where you'll be double entered in a in a slowish door car right how does your approach change from one form of competition to another i
8:07
think um for me I would say I get with the, on the IHRA side, we'll start with that a little bit.
8:16
Um, I get a little more nervous because there's only one shot.
8:19
And I think you and I have talked about this, just like NHRA racing, any sort of class racing, snow buybacks, like you're only going to race one race.
8:27
You have one shot.
8:28
And I think that part, um, the big dollar bracket racing side of me calms me in that stage.
8:38
Like I want to, you know, I think back of like, well, heck I've staged up next to Lupa Gaki, Johnny is L you know, all those guys.
11:54
What can those racers expect? If they sign up for this lab, what's it going to look like? What can they get out of it?

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