Chris Harris talks Cars with Jost Capito

The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris

Jonny Bunyan

Leisure, Comedy, Motoring, Classiccars, Chrisharris, Collectingcars, Cars, Automotive

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Chris Harris sits down with Williams F1 CEO and Team Principal, Jost Capito, to learn about his career in developing performance cars and leading motorsport teams. They talk about the finer points of the BMW E30 M3 and E28 M5, the fine tuning of the legendary Porsche 964 Carrera RS and Ford Focus RS, dealing with controversial incidents in Formula One, and why he's never owned a car that he's developed.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the CollectingCars.com podcast with Chris Harris and Edward Lovett.
0:14.2	Hello and welcome to another CollectingCars podcast.
0:17.4	I'm here today at Grove, which can be any one thing in terms of the location of a motorsport
0:23.0	team and that is I'm at the home of Williams F1 with Team Principle or are you CEO?
0:28.4	What's your exact title?
0:30.1	Both. He's got both.
0:31.6	Well, his name is Joss Capito and I think he is the most unsung man with the most interesting
0:38.8	career in motor cars that I've ever met in all the time that I've worked in motoring or
0:44.6	motorsport. So welcome, Joss.
0:47.0	And I want you to talk me through your life and cars, basically.
0:50.4	We're going to do a chronology because it's fascinating.
0:53.0	His CV, let me give you a taste at the top of this show.
0:57.3	If I told you he was involved in the development of everything from the 964 RS to the F-150 Raptor
1:03.5	to the first focus RS, maybe a bit of BMW M3 in the meantime.
1:09.3	I mean, I've never known a CV like it and he sits here modestly with his jumper on as
1:14.2	if he's quite a normal bloke but he really isn't and now he's running a Formula 1 team.
1:18.3	So let's just say he knows a bit about cars, where did it start?
1:22.6	We've all got a moment, I know where mine is, when I realized that the motor car was the
1:26.4	love of my life.
1:27.4	When did it happen for you?
1:29.9	I think for me it was more motoring, not...
1:33.7	Because you two wheels as well?
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