
Driver61 Podcast
Scott Mansell from Driver61 talks to incredible guests from the world of F1, motorsport, racing engineering and business.
Episodes
8 episodes
How Benetton Cheated in the 1994 F1 Season | Willem Toet, F1 and Aerodynamics Specialist
This podcast is a conversation with Willem Toet, Head of Aerodynamics at the Benetton team in 1994.I wanted to talk with Willem to understand exactly what was going on in the team at the time, whether the allegations of cheating ...
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47:31

When F1 Ran At Le Mans | Dominic Hale, Alpine
This podcast is a conversation with Dominic Hale, project lead at Alpine, where we talk about Fernando Alonso driving a Formula One car at Le Mans in 2021. I wanted to know if Fernando Alonso was really pushing, how they adapted th...
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1:01:22

How They Built a Drone That Beat an F1 Car | Ralph Hogenbirk
This podcast is a conversation with Ralph Hogenbirk, Dutch Drone Gods, where we talk about how Red Bull recently raced a Formula 1 car against a drone - and it wasn’t just in a straight line, it was around the Silverstone circuit - one of the f...
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58:50

When Porsche Built a Car Faster Than F1 | Stephen Mitas
This podcast is a conversation with Stephen Mitas (Technical Project Lead) to understand exactly HOW the Porsche was faster than F1, and smashed a 35-year-old Nurburgring lap record.It’s crazy stuff, they took their already, extremely f...
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1:01:14

The Man Who's Building The 1000mph Car | Rosco McGlashan
This podcast is a conversation with Rosco McGlashan who is trying to break 1,000 miles per hour on land. He has so much passion and grit for motorsport and engineering, that I think he might just do it. I spoke to him to understand...
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57:10

How Would You Design an F1 Car If There Were No Rules? | Willem Toet
This podcast is a conversation with Willem Toet, Ex-F1 Aerodynamicist, about the hypothetical question, what would you do to the aero of an F1 car if there were no rules?F1 or motorsport with no rules, is something that engineers dream ...
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1:04:01

How Students Built a Car That Does 0-100 in 0.9 Sec
This podcast is a conversation with Eloi Roset from team AMZ Racing, who recently broke the 0 - 100 kilometres an hour record, launching from a standing start to 100 kph in 0.956 seconds. We break down how the team designed and ...
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48:42

How We Designed a Formula Car to Drive Upside Down
This podcast is a conversation with Willem Toet, an ex-F1 aerodynamicist who worked at Benetton, Ferrari, and Sauber, and is now working with us on Project Inversion - our project to prove that a formula car can drive upside down on the ceiling...
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1:06:50
