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🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Dan Prosser talks with Steve Nichols, one of the great Formula 1 designers. He won multiple F1 World Championships with McLaren in the 1980s and 1990s, and witnessed first-hand how Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost battled for the 1988 title in the mighty McLaren MP4/4. Nichols also talks about working with Niki Lauda, as well as his new road-going supercar, the Nichols N1A.
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0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you |
0:08.3 | slide by on track to your |
0:15.0 | there, |
0:20.0 | the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there. |
0:21.0 | This is how travels should feel, on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel |
0:32.1 | Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
0:35.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to episode 171 of the Intercooler Podcast with me Dan Prosser no Andrew Frankle this week but I've got a special |
0:46.9 | guest in his place. A very special guest actually. Steve Nichols one of the great |
0:51.9 | Formula One designers won multiple world championships with McLaren, |
0:56.0 | designed some sensational cars. |
0:59.0 | And he's also recently, just last week in fact, revealed his first road car. |
1:03.2 | So we start by talking about his road car, the Nichols N1A. |
1:07.8 | And then we get into Formula One, how he got started in F1, |
1:12.2 | his time at McLaren, including that extraordinary Sena Prost era. |
1:18.8 | And then his experiences at Ferrari and after that and some of the drivers, some of the fantastic, the wonderful |
1:26.6 | drivers, the world champions that he worked with. |
1:30.2 | So hopefully it's a good listen. |
1:32.2 | There's some background noise. The sound quality might not be the best, |
1:35.7 | but you can hear Steve very clearly. So I think you'll enjoy listening. But before we get started, |
1:41.5 | we do have some news to share with you, news of our first ever live podcast recording, really, our first social event. |
1:48.0 | It's at Henry's Car Barn later on in August and it's for now it's a subscriber only thing we've |
1:57.4 | made tickets available only to subscribers to the intercooler and actually ticket sales have gone really well. I should say |
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