McLaren, every mention
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every year anyone David Rosenthal 11Ben Gilbert 9Doug DeMuro 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where McLaren comes up
Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:40:19 Ben Gilbert And the most obvious is McLaren.
- ▶ 3:40:20 Ben Gilbert They're trying to basically do the same thing.
- ▶ 3:42:11 Ben Gilbert McLaren, various changes in ownership and leadership and strategy, so different for different reasons, but no one has over, what is it, 80 years been able to run the Ferrari playbook.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 38:54 David Rosenthal Lotus, Tyrell, McLaren, probably know that.
- ▶ 40:39 David Rosenthal You don't know if Ferrari's gonna show up or if McLaren's gonna show up.
- ▶ 1:18:26 Ben Gilbert In fact, the car was so dominant that Prost's old teammate and rival from McLaren, the great Ayrton Senna, who we have not yet talked about in this episode, the three-time world champion, wanted to jump ship from McLaren to join Williams,…
- ▶ 1:56:50 David Rosenthal Specifically Ferrari and McLaren.
- ▶ 1:57:24 David Rosenthal So Ferrari and McLaren has a lot of the same dynamics.
- ▶ 2:00:42 Ben Gilbert And, you know, it's one of these things where Ferrari is going to say, we're entitled to this and our heritage for the sport and McLaren and Mercedes, they're going to say, oh, we're really good.
- ▶ 2:01:06 Ben Gilbert If you're a fan of F one during this time period, you know about, uh, spy gate and crash gate, uh, both of these, uh, McLaren magically wound up with a giant binder full of the complete specification of Ferrari's car for that year.
- ▶ 2:14:15 David Rosenthal So McLaren goes so far.
- ▶ 2:14:41 David Rosenthal He clandestinely invites McLaren's legendary technical director over to the energy station.
- ▶ 2:27:54 Ben Gilbert And so like Mercedes today makes the engine for the Mercedes car, but McLaren also goes and buys the engine from Mercedes.
- ▶ 2:28:31 David Rosenthal Not in F-one, but they had been supplying engines to McLaren.
- ▶ 2:28:40 David Rosenthal We have our McLaren relationship.
- ▶ 2:28:52 David Rosenthal You know, we're, we're still loyal to McLaren, but like we will give you an engine so that you can compete with your team this season and not shut it down.
- ▶ 2:33:50 David Rosenthal Yeah, they have the strategic partnership with McLaren, but like, hey, what's McLaren compared to
- ▶ 2:33:59 David Rosenthal So they announced in the off season that they're dumping McLaren, Mercedes is, and buying a 75% majority share in Braun for two hundred million dollars and renaming the team to Mercedes.
- ▶ 3:36:25 Ben Gilbert People always say these things come with a big reset, but do I think Mercedes and Red Bull and McLaren are not going to be, you know, three of the top four teams?
- ▶ 3:49:36 Ben Gilbert Uh, six billion dollars for Mercedes, 4.4 billion for McLaren, and 4.35 billion for Red Bull Racing.
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:28:27 Doug DeMuro Its biggest rivals at the time, uh, which were the McLaren P one and the LaFerrari, they didn't combine to make 918 of those.
- ▶ 2:29:53 Doug DeMuro And it was the same with the LaFerrari and the McLaren P-I.