Race-winning Formula 1 engineer turned podcaster Blake Hinsey #186

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dan Prosser talks to Blake Hinsey from the Brrrake YouTube channel. A former F1 performance engineer turned podcaster and YouTuber, Blake worked alongside Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez during a 10-year career in F1. He explains what a performance engineer does, why Verstappen is so quick and what made him leave F1 behind to create content instead.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:05.0	Hi everybody.
0:07.0	Hi everybody, welcome to episode 186 of the Intercool
0:10.0	podcast with me Dan Prosser and not Andrew Frankel this week. He's on holiday. to call this
0:13.4	this week. He's on holiday, but we've got, I think, an excellent stand in.
0:17.8	Blake Hinsie, hello Blake,
0:19.2	thanks for taking the time to do this podcast.
0:21.0	Hey Dan, how you doing today?
0:23.0	Really good, really good.
0:24.0	So let me explain who Blake is for those who don't know.
0:27.5	You are a former F1 performance engineer and we'll come on to your credentials in that space in a moment.
0:34.0	Turned, podcaster, YouTube, content creator.
0:38.0	That's a really interesting journey that you've had there.
0:40.0	Let me get the plug in for your channels now. What you're looking for is the
0:44.8	the YouTube channel or the Instagram account called Break that's Break with
0:48.9	three R's. You've got 120,000 YouTube subs, 111,000 Instagram followers.
0:54.4	You've only been going 18 months or something.
0:56.8	So looking at those numbers, I mean it seems to be going well this content stuff for you.
1:00.7	Yeah, I mean it's, I guess when you take a step back and look at it on the scale of two years it feels like,
1:06.0	well that looks pretty good, but like I guess the eventual content grind you're looking at two days ago. It's like nothing happened in the last two days. It must be going terribly. But I think that's yeah that's that's getting in the right head space thing. But it's been a really interesting transition because honestly I never really had any intention of
1:25.3	being a motorsport content creator it was something yeah I was I I basically I think let's cut to it real quick I basically did 10 years of
1:36.7	Formula One six years trackside four years in the factory doing development work after that.
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