Zak Brown
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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We were the first Formula One team in the early 80s to have the first ever carbon fiber chassis.
Now, every road car, we have carbon fiber chassis, and that's a safety, performance, lightweighting.
So a lot of innovation there.
Paddle shifts, that's something that, you know, is now an everyday car.
We're big into hybrid and electrification.
We're now running sustainable fuels.
So we are kind of 10 years ahead of what you might start to see in road cars.
Our materials have been involved in the medical industry around prosthetics because we know shock absorption and materials.
So we actually have...
a piece of our business.
We work with, in Australia, the coral reefs about reproduction.
So we have some knowledge and know-how that we've used to do good around the world, around sustainability.
We've had a product on the Mars Lander.
Wait, what's the product on the Mars Lander?
That was before my time.
Okay.
So like I said, I'm not an expert in everything.
You're not an expert in space.
But that would have been materials.
But I don't recall specifically which material, but that would have been around materials.