#Sam Michael: Engineering His Rise To The Top

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Sam Michael: Engineering His Rise To The Top | F1 Beyond The Grid Podcast

When Sam Michael arrived in F1, he worried he wouldn’t be able to keep up. But he became an influential and experienced leader at two of the sport’s biggest teams. From a race engineer at Jordan in the late 1990s, to senior director roles at both Williams and McLaren in the 2000s, Sam enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top before leaving F1 in 2014. Speaking to Tom Clarkson, he reflects on more than two decades in the pinnacle of motorsport and reveals the people who influenced his life the most. Sam shares fascinating insight into some of the big names he’s worked with; Lewis Hamilton, Juan Pablo Montoya, and Rubens Barrichello to name a few. He explains the characteristics that separate the greatest racers from the rest, how he made drivers take a test to understand their knowledge of cars, what he misses about F1 and much more. 02:43 – Life in Australia 07:25 – Heinz-Harald Frentzen’s championship potential 15:23 – Where Sam’s passion for racing comes from 19:27 – Leaving Australia for England 25:43 – Working with Rubens Barrichello 35:45 – Hamilton’s attributes 39:00 – Why he joined Williams 42:23 – Tension between Ralf Schumacher and Montoya 46:08 – Double diffuser in 2009 52:33 – People who’ve had greatest impact on Sam’s F1 career 54:42 – Rosberg and Button’s intelligence 01:01:24 – Becoming McLaren Sporting Director 01:05:57 – Why Sam left F1 in 2014 For more F1® videos, visit https://www.Formula1.com Follow F1®: https://www.instagram.com/F1 https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ https://www.twitter.com/F1 https://www.twitch.tv/formula1 https://www.tiktok.com/@f1 #F1 via FORMULA 1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_qr75-ydFVKSF9Dmo6izg

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BEYOND THE GRID: Neil Oatley on designing McLarens world-beating F1 cars Senna and Prosts rivalry and much more

A new week means a new instalment of the Beyond The Grid podcast and this time it’s McLaren stalwart and design guru Neil Oatley who shares his fascinating F1 story with host Tom Clarkson. After initially making a name for himself at Williams, playing a key role in the team’s first F1 victory and the world titles that followed in the early 1980s, Oatley’s career progressed to the next level when he joined McLaren. BEYOND THE GRID: Logan Sargeant on his journey to being the USA’s new F1 star As the Woking team’s Chief Designer, Oatley penned cars that would win a host of world championships through the 1980s and 1990s, with legendary drivers such as Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost and Mika Hakkinen at the wheel. In a wide-ranging conversation with Clarkson, Oatley relives some of the standout moments from his time in the sport, revealing what it was like to work with the famous names above and how that rivalry between Senna and Prost developed. Oatley also explains how the role of engineer and driver has evolved over the years, how he’s still helping the McLaren operation today and much, much more… BEYOND THE GRID: Sam Michael on engineering his rise to the top of F1 and the people who influenced his life the most To hear Oatley’s Beyond The Grid interview, hit go on the player above or head here to catch it on your preferred platform. via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com