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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 1174: The Week In IndyCar, Oct 13, with Olivier Boisson

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's The Week In IndyCar guest show featuring Andretti Autosport race engineer Olivier Boisson, using listener-driven comments and questions covering a variety of topics submitted by fans via Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. We open with insights on Boisson's early mechanical interests in France that led him to working in Champ Car with Conquest Racing, developing a bond with his most recent driver Romain Grosjean, working with former driver Sebastien Bourdais, the engineers who served as influences, how engineers use previous chassis setups to inform their future setups, his specialization with dampers, life on the road with his wife Kate, and more.  Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Marshall Prua podcast.

0:05.6

Your week in IndyCar guest episode, who do we have?

0:08.9

A man with big smile, big talent, someone who's done a lot of great things in the IndyCar

0:14.2

paddock for many years, sending a lot of drivers to Victory Lane now at Andretti Auto Sport

0:19.9

with his driver and countrymen from

0:23.0

Groschon.

0:23.8

We have our pal, Olivier Boisson and Olivier, you're not here by mistake.

0:29.0

I've had many listeners say, hey, get that guy on the show.

0:32.6

Let's talk to him and learn a little bit about him.

0:34.3

So let's start off with how you're doing.

0:37.0

Pretty good, thanks. Just, you know, busy winter for me, just getting up to speed with my new job.

0:44.0

Indeed. Well, let's say thank you, as always, to Cooper Tires, the Justice Brothers, and Toronto motorsports.com.

0:50.4

So while I have been fortunate to know you for a while, get to see you in the Indycarpeta quite frequently, know that some of our listeners just want to learn a little bit more about you before we dive into their questions.

1:02.9

So why don't we start there?

1:05.7

Tell us where in the world you grew up and where motor racing started to intersect with your interests in life.

1:13.8

Yeah, so I grew up in France, not too far from Switzerland, so in fact, I'm leaving my parents live about an hour and a half, two hours from Romance home.

1:25.3

So that was nice to meet last winter.

1:28.2

But, yeah, so I grew up in France and, you know, did all my school in France and started

1:32.4

getting interesting in motorsports and, you know, mechanical and everything is good and engine

1:38.1

in it about, you know, when I was like 14, 15 and was fortunate enough to find my way in

1:43.6

the U.S. in 2004 and been there ever since.

1:48.0

Was driving? Was racing ever part of your interest? Because that's always a, that's a fascinating

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