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Zak Brown

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942 total appearances

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

It sounds great.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

They are amazing machines.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

No judgment here.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

All right, another quick break here, and we'll be back with our favorite game.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

Zach, we'd like to play a little game that we invented, if you're up for it.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

Of course.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

It's called Control-Alt-Delete.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

Okay.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

So I want to know what piece of technology you would love to control, what piece you would love to alt, so alter or change, and what you would love to delete, so vanquish from the earth.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

This can be F1 related or it can be totally general about what you're experiencing in your life.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

Control, I would love to, you know, we're now paddle shifts from the good old days of kind of an H pattern.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

And then you had sequential gearboxes, which were somewhere in the middle.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

I'd like us to go back to sequential gearboxes.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

It gives the driver a little bit more control of the car.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

Okay.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

What are you altering?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

I would love to alter the battery technology.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

It's a big topic at the moment.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

I think batteries are irrelevant.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
The Tech Behind McLaren Racing’s F1 Dominance

You know, the whole world was going EV five years ago, and now it's put the OEMs in a pretty difficult situation.