Zak Brown: How McLaren Shocked F1 & Norris vs Verstappen Rivalry (E312)

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

After the incredible 2024 Championship Race, Jake and Damian chats with the CEO of McLaren Racing, Zak Brown, to unpack the incredible moments and emotions surrounding the final race. Zak opens up about the behind-the-scenes moments leading up to the race day and how he fostered a winning mentality within his team.

He also talks about working with Andrea Stella, the valuable lessons learned along the way, and the emotional intelligence required to support drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri through the intense highs and challenging lows of Formula 1. From leading a 1,000-strong team to making split-second, high-stakes decisions, he discusses the mindset shifts and strategies that keep McLaren at the forefront of competition.

This episode offers an inspiring deep dive into leadership, teamwork, and the relentless pursuit of excellence in one of the world’s most demanding sports.

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0:00.0	A quick reminder, if you love high performance, you can get episodes before anyone else on the
0:03.6	high performance app right now. Listen to BAFTA winning comedian and TV host, Mo Gilligan.
0:10.3	Sometimes the only way to race another driver that runs your four wheels off is to put them
0:14.7	four wheels off because that's the only way you kind of have to race somehow they race you.
0:19.2	So I thought it was special because you've got a lot
0:22.2	of politics on our sport, but there aren't much between McLaren and Ferrari. It was just a good old
0:28.3	slug fest at the end. There's no team I would have rather raced in that final race for the world
0:34.3	championship than Ferrari. We're going to enjoy this, but one of the ones
0:39.1	all about tomorrow, so we're focused on tomorrow.
0:44.1	That was the voice of McLaren Racing Boss, Zach Brown, who joins us fresh from an historic
0:48.6	weekend in Abu Dhabi. I'm Jay Comfrey, and alongside our expert, Damien Hughes, we bring
0:53.8	you a conversation with the man who's just led McLaren to their first Constructors Championship in 26 years.
1:00.6	Zach enjoyed his own racing career before moving into the world of marketing back in 1995.
1:06.7	He then joined McLaren back in 2016, taking the helm two years later, and helping stabilise
1:12.5	a team in turmoil before making history this season.
1:16.7	And it is history, Damien. I mean, this is truly one of the greatest moments in sport, right?
1:21.5	You know, in 2020, McLaren were in serious financial trouble. In 2022, they finished fifth
1:27.0	in the Constructors' Championship.
1:28.7	They had a terrible start to 2023. Even this season, they started miles off the pace of Red Bull.
1:34.3	After six races, they trailed them by 115 points. So how did they do it? Well, prepared to hear
1:41.6	Zach describe how he acted when poisoned biscuits, as he
1:44.9	called them, were damaging the team, how he lent on sporting legends to build his own self-belief,
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