Formula-E and its progression with Mark Preston Team Principal, DS TECHEETAH Formula-E Team
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4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Robert interviews Mark Preston the Team Principal at Team DS. They discuss its origins and how Mark got involved early on. They also discuss how some of the technology comes to the consumer market from these vehicles.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Fully Charged Plus Podcast. |
| 0:27.3 | Now it's not often that we have someone from the world of motor racing on the Fully Charged Plus Podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | In fact, I don't think we've ever had one. |
| 0:35.6 | I've really racked my brains. I can't think of anyone. |
| 0:37.2 | And what's going to be annoying is someone's going to tell me, |
| 0:39.1 | well, didn't you remember when you interviewed Lewis Hamilton? |
| 0:44.6 | I'll go, did we? |
| 0:46.4 | And no, we didn't. |
| 0:47.8 | One day, maybe. |
| 0:49.0 | Anyway, this week's guest, Mark Preston, worked for the arrows formula one team for six years. |
| 0:55.0 | And he was then. He then went on to be the principal designer at a little known car company called McLaren. |
| 1:01.8 | He was the principal designer at the McLaren Formula One team. |
| 1:04.2 | And after that, Mark went on to create his own Formula One team, Super Aguri in conjunction with many other companies, including Honda. |
| 1:12.1 | But so then I'm guessing that he knows a thing or two about motorsport and cars with very loud engines that go very fast. |
| 1:19.8 | But this is all proper high-end engineering and development at the very cutting edge of the technology available. |
| 1:26.0 | Fair enough, but Mark isn't doing that now. |
| 1:28.8 | He is now the team principal of the tech cheater Formula E team, |
| 1:35.0 | which is backed by the DS. |
| 1:37.0 | Basically, the Citroën Peugeot, Voxhall, all those people, that company, DS, automotive, |
| 1:43.7 | big French company. |
| 1:44.6 | And he's also the CEO of a company called Streetsdrone, which is developing autonomous last mile delivery systems. |
| 1:52.9 | Really interesting. He's basically a bit clever in the car department. |
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