Chasing the Apex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I am sitting down with Fabio Segalini. After earning his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Parma, Fabio started his professional career with Dallara. While at Dallara, he held a multitude of different design oriented roles. Fabio then became the Technical Director and Race Engineer at Durango Engineering which competed in both the F3000 and GP2 championships. After almost three years with the team, Fabio then made the jump to F1, spending time with Toro Rosso, Sauber F1, and Haas F1. Since then he has spent time with Oreca and Podium Advanced Technologies and has recently started a new position as the Technical Director at MYGALE, a French racing car manufacturer. 

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I am sitting down with motorsports engineer, Dominic Harlow. After earning a degree from Imperial College London, Dominic started his career working on rally and touring cars with the Motorsports Development firm. Dominic then joined the Williams Touring Car group, working as a Design and Race Engineer before entering F1 with the Jordan team. After a six year stint with Jordan, he then moved to the Force India team where he held roles as the Chief Race & Test Engineer as well as the Director of Circuit Engineering. Dominic then spent a year with the Williams F1 team as a Senior Operations Engineer and now runs his own consulting firm and is the Head of Technical Audit for the FIA. 

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I am sitting down with Red Bull F1 engineer Francesco Laus. Francesco earned both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. He then completed an internship with the Racing Engineering GP2 team in Spain, working on in-house simulation tools before starting his full time career with the Red Bull F1 team. He first joined the team as a Tire Simulation Engineer and in 2021 earned a promotion, now serving as the team’s Senior Tire Simulation Engineer.

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex. Today I am sitting down with Indy NXT driver Josh Green. Originally from New York, Josh started his karting career in 2015, working his way through the ranks until he made his formula car debut in 2019. Since then, Josh has competed in both the USF 2000 and Indy Pro 2000 series before moving up to the Indy NXT series with HMD in 2023. 

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, today we are sitting down with motorsport journalist Sam Smith. Sam started out his career as a press officer for the FIA Sportscar Championship before spending nearly a decade as the Communications Manager with Lola Cars. Sam then transitioned to a role as the Media Officer of the World Endurance Championship, while running a media company and writing the first definitive book on Formula E at the same time. Within the past few years, Sam has also picked up a position as the Formula E Chief Correspondent at The Race. 

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, today we are sitting down Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team Principal Gavin Ward. After attending Oxford Brookes for schooling, Gavin started his career with Red Bull F1, working positions as a Tire and Trackside Control System Engineer before becoming a Trackside Race Engineer, working with drivers Mark Webber and Daniel Ricciardo, and reporting directly to Adrian Newey. Gavin then worked as an aerodynamicist for the team before moving stateside to work as Josef Newgarden’s race engineer with the Penske IndyCar team. In 2022, Gavin joined the Arrow McLaren team and served roles as the Director of Trackside Engineering and Racing Director before recently being promoted to Team Principal. 

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Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I’m sitting down with someone who has a long and exciting list of experiences in motorsport, Justin Taylor. Justin started out his career as a race mechanic before quickly working his way up to becoming a Data Engineer for the Audi Sport LMP1 team. From there he spent almost 10 years race engineering many of Audi’s different LMP1 cars where he racked up accolades like a win and podium at Le Mans, three wins at Sebring, 1st place in the 2012 WEC Championship, and 2nd place in the 2016 WEC Championship. Since then he has held the race engineer position at Oreca, Ed Carpenter Racing, and AJ Foyt Racing. Justin is currently a race engineer for the highly anticipated LMH hypercar project at Ferrari. I hope you enjoy the episode!

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Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, I’m your host Sid Sudhir and today we are sitting down with racing driver Sting Ray Robb. Sting Ray first got in a go-kart at age 5 and it wasn’t long before he was racing competitively, winning a national karting championship in 2015. This helped springboard him into his car racing career, starting with the Pro Mazda series before transitioning to the Indy Pro 2000 series. He spent two years in Indy Pro with Juncos, winning the series in 2020 which earned him a move up to the Indy Lights series. In 2022 Robb had another impressive season with Andretti in the Indy Lights series, finishing 2nd in the standings with two poles and one race win. Sting Ray will be competing as a rookie in IndyCar this year with Dale Coyne Racing.

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Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, today I’m sitting down with IndyCar driver Devlin DeFrancesco. Devlin first got into a go-kart at the age of 6 and quickly became a competitive young driver, racing in several karting series in the United States, Canada, and Italy. After graduating from karts Devlin spent a year in the Italian and British F4 championships before coming 3rd in the 2017 Euroformula Championship and winning the Spanish F3 series. Devlin then spent time in the GP3 and FIA F3 series before coming back to the states and placing 2nd in the 2020 Indy Pro championship. From there, he joined the Andretti family, spending one year in the Indy Lights series before entering his rookie IndyCar season with Andretti Steinbrenner Racing in 2022.

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Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, today we are sitting down with 16-year-old racing driver Josh Pierson. Josh was first introduced to racing at just 2 years of age when his father let him have some fun with a mini-go-kart at a local track, and that interest very quickly blossomed into a promising racing career. Josh started out his professional career with the F1600 series before spending time in the USF 2000 series with both Exclusive Autosport and Pabst Racing. In 2022 Josh got his first taste of endurance racing at the 24 Hours of Daytona and even brought home his first WEC win at the 1000 Miles of Sebring. But it was at the 24 Hours of Le Mans where he made headlines as the youngest driver to ever compete in the famed race. For 2023, Josh has plans of competing in the Indy NXT series and has recently signed for Ed Carpenter Racing as a development driver.

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