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Nicole Stout is a Goodyear Racing Tires engineer who can be found at many SCCA Super Tour weekends working in the Goodyear tire trailer. As the guest on this week’s Inside the SCCA podcast with Brian Bielanski, Nicole runs through her journey from handing her papa spark plugs, to soapbox derby racing, to engineering school at Purdue. Then, of course, there’s her career at Goodyear Racing Tires. This episode concentrates on tire management for those new to racing, although there’s gold in this episode that will benefit even the most experienced SCCA road racers.

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You can also watch the video version of the show below.

Photo by Jon Krolewicz