Your Data Driven Podcast

Ex-Formula 1 racing driver Perry McCarthy, who is best known as The Original Stig, joins us on the show to talk about the life of a professional racing driver, what it takes to get to the top and what you can learn to help your own race car driving.

What does it take to make it to Formula 1? What can you do to help your own driving?

Perry McCarthy's professional racing career is as inspiring as it is frustrating. Blessed with natural talent we can all only dream of and with the guts and determination to follow his dream, Perry never seemed to be in the right place with the right funding behind him.

In this fascinating show we discuss his life as a professional racing driver rising through the ranks. What it took and what Perry believes is essential for any racing driver to do in order to perform better.

Perry is most famous for being The Original Stig in Top Gear, whilst also driving for Audi at Le Mans. He shares some funny stories about what the Stig was almost called instead. It was an honour to have him on the show. I hope the thoughts and perspectives shared in the show can help improve your own race driving.

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AIM Expert James Colborn joins us on the show to talk all things data. Learn how he went from zero to teaching others, how you can approach data and where data can add value to your own racing.

What value does motorsports data really offer you as a race driver? When should you start using data? What should you look to achieve when using data?

James Colborn is not an engineer. Nor does he have a professional motorsports background. Yet through developing his own data analysis skills (using his AIM Solo) he then chose to share his learning online.

Thousands of views later, James now works with the team at AIM to continue to help others improve the value they can realise from their data logging investments.

Join us to discover more about James journey into motorsports, how he approaches data analysis and what you can do to emulate his success.

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Mentored by Jim Clark, John Kirkpatrick ran the Jim Russell racing school and has spent a lifetime teaching racing drivers to improve. He joins us on the show to share his advice to help you improve your driving together with a little bit of history mixed in along the way.

Emerson Fittipaldi, Jenson Button, Jacques Villeneuve, Derek Bell ... the list of champion racing drivers who passed through the Jim Russell racing school goes on.

A former F3 driver who was mentored by Jim Clark, John Kirkpatrick ran this incredibly successful racing driver school. Still active mentoring and coaching the next generation of future F1 stars, JK joins us to share his thoughts and insights so you can improve your own racing.

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Scott Mansell from Driver 61 joins me for this packed show. You will learn how you can apply some of the driving secrets that sit behind his exclusive racing driver masterclasses. Its not one to miss, believe me!

What is the most effective and efficient way to develop racing drivers?

After a successful Pro driving and coaching career, this is the question Scott Mansell (Driver 61) asked himself.

After a chance encounter in the pit-lane, Scott Mansell has gone on to found the hugely successful Driver 61 business that develops race winning racing drivers.

With millions of daily site visitors and millions of YouTube views, Scott Mansell has developed a unique approach to compliment his exclusive Masterclass programmes for training racing drivers.

Join me on the show as we explore a little about how this all came to pass, how he was never going to make it as a cake baker, and how you too can apply some of the secrets he teach's on his courses in your own racing.

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A World Rally Car is the hardest racacar to setup. Ex-Prodrive rally engineer Damian Harty joins us on the show to make the complex simple. Damian helps us to understand what is really going on, what you can apply yourself and where to focus in order to drive faster.

World Rally Cars are some of the hardest vehicles on the planet to setup well and to drive at the limit.

The lessons learnt in this punishing environment can inform all your forms of racing.

Join us for this fascinating episode where we start to get to grips with what is really going on when your tyre hits the road, and with what your competition car suspension needs to do in response.

We tackle one of the trickiest subjects for any racer, that of understanding the role of the the damper (shock absorber). Through Damians clarity of explanation you will come away with a solid understanding of what is going on and why getting your wheels balanced is more important than you think.

Next time the weather changes to wet will you still be tempted to wind off all your damper clicks?

Grab a pen and paper to find out the answer to this common question, plus how to tackle many (many) other key performance areas in your own racing - oh and learn if Petter Solberg is really a nice guy ...

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Mercedes F1 Engineer and successful single seater hill climb racer James Williams, joins us on the show to talk about what you can learn from his work and apply to your own racing.

What can you apply from how an a Formula 1 team goes about their racing?

What do the very best drivers do that you could also work towards?

Join us to find out exactly what Mercedes F1 engineer James Williams has been able to take from his day job to his own racing hobby. A show packed full of insights, practical recommendations and tips you can apply to your own racing.

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Racecar data acquisition systems are powerful but many racers struggle to get the the most from them. Former Pro racer Andrew Rains joins us to discuss how his company Apex Pro are developing a novel product to making life easier (and faster) for drivers to improve performance. Join us to learn about his approach to data and how you can apply the same approach no matter what data system you use.

Racers spend a fortune on data acquisition systems in the hope of improving their lap-times. Sadly in practise, these high-tech and extremely capable systems do not get used to their full potential. Either because racers don't have the experience with data interpretation or the cumbersome user experience means that practically they do not have the time.

What you want are the data's secrets to be presented to in a way that you can maximise their value - either when you are out on track or frictionlessly as soon as you come off the track.

Andrew and his team at Apex Pro have taken up that challenge in this traditionally conservative industry. Join us to learn how they have gone about this and how you could benefit as a result.

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Links mentioned in the show:

- Learn more about the Apex Pro system at their website here.

- Access the Apex Pro YouTube channel here.

- Thinking of buying a system? Sign up here for an exclusive YDD subscriber discount code.

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Legendary Indy racecar driver, author and driver coach Ross Bentley joins us for a fascinating, fast paced show, packed full of useful, actionable tips you can use to improve your own racecar driving.

Ever wondered what value a driver coach could offer to you?

Join us to find out as legendary driver coach, and former professional IndyCar racecar driver, Ross Bentley talks about all things driver coaching and driver improvement.

This show is packed full of his invaluable tips, recommendations and key takeaways, born from years of coaching racing car drivers (just like you) to improve.

From understanding what makes the differences for those at the very top level (braking) to how to do a better debrief after a session (find 1 thing help you go faster), along with many (many) other insights that you can easily put into practise today.

Relevant for both real racing AND sim racing drivers.

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Most people who race as a hobby do not even consider raising sponsorship money. After all, who is going to pay thousands for a sticker on your car? Well complete racing novice Andrew Cohen-Wray has raised a huge sum. Learn exactly how he has done it, how much and HOW YOU COULD DO THE SAME.

Discussing money in Motorsports is not the done thing. Most people who race as a hobby have no idea where they would even start to raise significant sums to fund their own racing. Many do not even consider trying.

But Motorsports can be horrifically expensive. What if you could do something to lighten that load. Something to offset the costs (or even turn a profit!)

Well that is exactly what novice racing driver Andrew Cohen-Wray has done. Not only has he raised all the money he needs to compete in his first ever race season, he might even make a profit.

Learn precisely how he has gone about this. Learn how much he has raised (it is a lot!) And be inspired by several ideas he comes up with just for you.

There really is no excuse not to try these simple suggestions.

Join Andrew and Samir for another light hearted conversation on another critically under appreciated side of motorsports performance.

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Links mentioned in the show:

- Contact Andrew at 1404 Performance - https://1404performance.com/

- Andrew supports charity Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide

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