Susie Wolff (Managing Director of F1 Academy)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 70K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Susie Wolff (Driven, F1 Academy, and Williams Formula One) is a former professional racing driver, and managing director of F1 Academy. Susie joins Armchair Expert to discuss her motorsport-obsessed childhood in Scotland, her grandfather's career as a daredevil motocross rider, and discovering karting as the only girl on the track. Susie and Dax talk about racing against Lewis Hamilton as a kid, the physical toll of driving an F1 car, and building F1 Academy from a financially unworkable idea into a fully-backed series for female drivers. Susie explains why performance is the purest validation, how femininity stopped feeling like weakness, and why writing a letter to her younger self was the most emotional part of writing her memoir.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, Experts on Expert.
0:03.2	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:03.8	I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:04.9	Hello.
0:05.7	We got a fox in today, but her name is Wolf.
0:09.5	Oh, good job.
0:11.2	Yeah, Susie Wolf.
0:14.0	Oh, we love her.
0:15.7	She's so incredible.
0:17.5	We love her.
0:18.3	She's so incredible.
0:20.5	Cool.
0:20.7	Coolest person. On Earth? Yeah. Yeah. We love her. She's so incredible. Coolest person.
0:22.6	On earth? Yeah. I felt really lame. I said it.
0:26.4	Yeah. Well, I did too.
0:28.2	It's hard not to feel lame.
0:29.8	She makes me feel lame.
0:30.7	But she is also so sweet and nice and kind and inclusive.
0:34.7	But her gift is to make you feel lame. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's her gift.
0:55.3	Susie is a former professional racing driver and current managing director of F1 Academy. She's also one of, I think, either the only one or maybe one of two women to ever drive an F1 car on a track on a race weekend. Incredible. And if people remember the Total Wolf interview, that is her husband, and he said,
0:59.8	she's a half-second faster no matter what he does when he cheats. He uses different tires,
1:07.0	puts weight in her car. He can't get anywhere close to her. She has a new memoir out called Driven.
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