INTERVIEW: Mike Caulfield F1 Race Strategist
Missed Apex Formula 1 Podcast
Missed Apex Formula1 podcast
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🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Meet the man who has been head of strategy for Haas for the past 5 seasons. Mike talks tactics and data on this bonus episode of Missed Apex
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Mist Apex Podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | We live F-1. |
| 0:17.6 | You're listening to Mist Apex Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a bonus episode to wet your appetite for the Bahrain Grand Prix. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Spanish your host. |
| 0:25.4 | I don't know things, not really. |
| 0:27.3 | But I like to find people who do know things, and that's why I'm joined by a man who has been an F-1 strategist for Mercedes, |
| 0:34.8 | the guy's at the top there, and also for Haar. |
| 0:37.8 | So he has a full spectrum of the F-1 grid, and he's currently lurking in Bahrain for reasons unknown. |
| 0:45.4 | It's Mike Coolfield. Hello, Mike. |
| 0:47.4 | Nice to meet you, and are we allowed to ask why you're there? |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, I'm just providing a bit of support out for a number of teams, a bit of consultancy. |
| 0:56.8 | Oh, nice. |
| 0:57.8 | I'll keep it that way. I'll keep it that way. |
| 1:00.8 | Keep it nice and vague. I like that. |
| 1:02.6 | It is an absolute pleasure and an honor to talk to you, because you have been in the belly of the beast right on that pit wall where the actions happening. |
| 1:11.3 | Can I try and frame where you were in the hierarchy of, say, Haar's F-1? |
| 1:15.7 | There's there's Gene Haar's, Gunter Steiner, the guy that goes box-box box, |
| 1:20.0 | and then the strategist? |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah, I've said that. |
| 1:24.1 | I mean, you kind of, the strategist, it's a weird role, and this is the same for work for any team of it. |
| 1:31.4 | Because you're not associated specifically with a car, you're a floater, you try and work. |
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