1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with text stuff from how 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hey, they were and welcome to 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: text Stuff. I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren Bock Obama 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: and we're just reason to go over this episode rear 5 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: in to go. I think it's the phrase racing to 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: the finish line. We're talking about a company that has 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 1: pretty played a pretty important role in automotive racing, the 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: McLaren Group. They also play a really interesting role, as 9 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: it turns out, in many other industries. As it turns out, 10 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: you know, in order to have a vibrant company, UM 11 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: one must diversify, and diversify they have. They have. They 12 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: have branched out quite a bit beyond just the the 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: I hesitate to use the word humble beginnings because Formula 14 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: one racing, as it turns out, is an incredibly expensive endeavor. 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: But they they've brenched out from their very focused approach 16 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: on racing in general into lots of different stuff. And 17 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: we have to mention at the very top of this 18 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: show that some of the stuff we're gonna be talking 19 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: about uh is very very specific to cars UM and 20 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: very specific to automotive racing. Two things that while Lauren 21 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: and I are experts on oh yes, well, of course 22 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: there are other people in this office who I hesitate 23 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: to even admit it, but they are even bigger experts, 24 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: specifically Scott Benjamin, who is a walking the automotive encyclopedia. 25 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: He very much is. And he and Ben Ben ben 26 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,639 Speaker 1: Bowen that is do a terrific show called Car Stuff, 27 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: which we have mentioned and uh and Ben has in 28 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: fact been on Tech Stuff a couple of times alongside 29 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: Jonathan and uh. Yeah. So if you are very interested 30 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: in the really down and dirty specifics of Formula one 31 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: racing or other forms of racing, then go check out 32 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: their podcasts and videos at car Stuff show dot com. 33 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: You can find a whole wealth of information there, because yeah, 34 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: those those kids are crazy. It got to a point 35 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: where I was getting a little confused about the different 36 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: designations for vehicles, which we will talk about a bit 37 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: in this show. And I actually Scott sits next to me, 38 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: well peek behind the curtain at how stuff works. He's 39 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,119 Speaker 1: literally on my right side, and I would just turn 40 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,399 Speaker 1: to an us at Scott, I don't understand what makes 41 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: the difference between this kind of car and that kind 42 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: of car, and he says, well, you know, Jonathan, that 43 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,839 Speaker 1: is what they're banking on. So, but they they are 44 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: very good at explaining what all the little intricacies are. 45 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: So McLaren group, what is it? Well, actually, it's it's 46 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,399 Speaker 1: kind of a big company that has a bunch of 47 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: divisions that are all operating like independent companies. Right, So 48 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: it's a conglomerate. Uh, And it's innovative in lots of 49 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: fields of these days. Besides the race cars and even 50 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: road cars, cars that if you private sector, if you 51 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: happen to have a million dollars MILLI chu. They also 52 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: do work in health, energy, entertainment, and transportation. So I 53 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: guess transportation technically would be if you have a million 54 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: bucks and you're ready to drop it on a two 55 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: door uh former what what used to be a race 56 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: car but has been modified to be a road car. Yeah. 57 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: The reason that I was so eager to do an 58 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: episode on this company is that I just find it 59 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: so fascinating that a group of people who do really 60 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: technical Formula one racing stuff also occasionally make cartoons or 61 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: food products. Yeah. Yeah, that that does definitely raise some eyebrows, right, 62 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: So we wanted to see what exactly this company was 63 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: all about. And for those who are wondering what this 64 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: has to do with tech, Formula one racing, really, any 65 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: kind of automotive racing where you have very specific parameters 66 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: set for what your car can and cannot do, tends 67 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: to really focus on very technical aspects, particularly Formula one, uh, certainly. 68 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 1: And also as they have developed all of these technologies, 69 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: they've started getting into other sectors of censor and data 70 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: crunching that are really fascinating. So let's go all the 71 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: way back to the beginning. What is this How did 72 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: McLaren begin? Okay, so it is in fact named after 73 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: a person. If you do not follow racing, you may 74 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: not be familiar with Bruce McLaren, who was a New 75 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: Zealander who became very interested in automotive racing when he 76 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: was just a kid. And uh he became a competitive 77 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: driver and impressed the racing world with a skill. Became 78 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: the youngest driver to win a championship race in nineteen 79 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: fifty nine, which was the US Grand Prix, and he 80 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: won it at the age of twenty two. Not too 81 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: long after that, he decided that he wanted to form 82 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: his own racing group and that team would become the 83 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: tiny kernel, the little oyster pearl at the at the 84 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: center of what the McLaren group is today exactly, and 85 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: so he competed primarily in Formula one racing is a 86 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: type of open wheeled, single seat automotive races. It tends 87 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: to be more popular in Europe than in the United States. 88 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: There are US races as well, but they usually include 89 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: courses that go on public roads which are closed for 90 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: the duration of the races. You don't really want to 91 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: have regular road traffic, no, no, but it means that 92 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: the cars have to be able to take those turns 93 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: and be able to hug the road. There in fact 94 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: designed so that, you know how an airplane wing is designed, 95 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: so it generates lift a Formula one race cars kind 96 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: of the opposite way. It has a downward force applied 97 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: from the from its design, so admits like it makes 98 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: it hug the road better because when you're going two 99 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty miles per hour, you kind of need 100 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: a little bit of Imagine going down peach Tree at 101 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty miles per hour, I mean that's 102 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: sometimes I get up to like forty I feel like 103 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: I'm about to die. Yeah, so it really does require 104 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: a special type of vehicle. He also raised another sporting 105 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: events like the twenty four hour Laments, which is more 106 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: of a that's obviously an endurance race, not not a 107 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: speed race like a like a Formula one. Current rules 108 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: state that you have to have three drivers and swap 109 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,239 Speaker 1: them out yeah the course of the race. A couple 110 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: of people in the history of Lamonts have attempted to 111 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: do the whole thing by themselves, uh as an only 112 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: one driver. But again, listen to car stuff if you 113 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: want to hear more about long car races. Now. In 114 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, Bruce McLaren began to form a new 115 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,679 Speaker 1: racing team originally known as the Bruce McLaren Motor Racing 116 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: and the team entered the history books by being the 117 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: first group to construct a car around a carbon fiber 118 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: monica k that's how Scott pronounces it. I would say 119 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: mona cooke because I think of it as French. But 120 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: this is essentially a type of frame where the skin 121 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: of the frame itself gives support to the overall structure. 122 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: So it's as opposed to having like struts or columns 123 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: that keep the frame in place. The actual skin of 124 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: the frame can do it now. Uh, so that will 125 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: become more important a little bit later. But the racing 126 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: team really focused on any kind of element that would 127 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: give a vehicle more speed and control given the limitations 128 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: and requirements of whatever type of racing was involved. Right, 129 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: Formula one, as we have said, specifically has a lot 130 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: of requirements you have to meet, and in fact, it's 131 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: it's a long standing tradition in all forms of racing 132 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: that engineers will look at the rules that racing, uh 133 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: the racing of board has come up with and find 134 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: ways to skirt around them. Yeah, it's it's kind of 135 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: like Fay logic and certain points, it's it's like, well, 136 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: you said literally this thing, and so we will do 137 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: literally this thing, but kind of the way we want 138 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: to exactly, Yeah, the whole Yeah, exactly the either the 139 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: Fay logic or if you didn't lay out your wish 140 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: exactly right with the Genie and the Dudgeons of Dragons game. 141 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: So yeah, as it turns out, well will specifically call 142 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: out one car where McLaren was able to to, you know, 143 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: take advantage of a little loophole. Now, if we want 144 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: to look at the earliest vehicles, that they were interested in. 145 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: Way back in nineteen sixty five, McLaren and a guy 146 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: named Robin Heard collaborated to design race car called the 147 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: M one B, which would help McLaren take second place 148 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: in the Canadian Grand Prix UH. In nineteen sixty seven, 149 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: McLaren Racing Limited produced a car called the M six 150 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: A that won five of six major races. So, even 151 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: though it was a young company, because of the experience 152 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: of the driver and the experience of the engineers involved, 153 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,719 Speaker 1: they were really competitive early early on. And keep in mind, 154 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: these Formula one racing cars are like crazy expensive. You know, 155 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: we talked about a million for that sports car. That's 156 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: nothing compared to a Formula one car. So the following year, 157 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: that same car, the M six A, would win four 158 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: of the six races. In in in nineteen sixty nine, it 159 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: would win eleven races and was it was painted Papaya 160 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 1: Aren't Yeah. That would later become known as McLaren Orange 161 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: and was adopted as the official call the company. Yeah, 162 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: So if you ever see an orange Formula one car 163 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: pass you by, it's probably from McLaren. Nineteen sixty eight, 164 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: McLaren wins a major race driving a McLaren Ford vehicle 165 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: called the M seven A, which you know, if you've 166 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: ever seen like those designations of one car name and 167 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: then another car name, it usually means one company was 168 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: responsible for building the body of the car and another 169 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: was responsible for the engine. In this case, it was 170 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: a McLaren design on top of a Ford engine, yes, 171 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: the Cosworth DFV. The McLaren team begins to design a 172 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: grand tour vehicle with the I had to compete in 173 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: can am races. Now that's Canadian American races that used 174 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: to be held in North America. They are they've been 175 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: morphed into other types of races since then. Uh. That 176 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: particular vehicle was called the McLaren M six G t 177 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: GT for a Grand Tourer and McLaren himself would tweak 178 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: it so that it could have a road car based 179 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: on its design, because race cars are not strictly speaking legal. Yeah, 180 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: so he wanted to have a street legal vehicle. Essentially, 181 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: he wanted to have a race car he could drive 182 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: on the road. So really it was all about finding 183 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: what he needed to tweak too, so that the car 184 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: he loved to drive on the racetrack would be the 185 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: one to make it safe enough, yes, yes, for not 186 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: only himself but other passers by exactly. Uh so, yeah, 187 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: this was this was an interesting little quirk of his personality. Unfortunately, 188 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy Bruce McLaren died in a car accident 189 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: while testing that new vehicle, that new road car, and 190 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: uh obviously huge tragedy. The McLaren group stuck together and 191 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: continued to uh to to build cars. Um. Bruce McClaren 192 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: was one of, but not the only race driver that 193 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: they worked with, So they continued to work with other 194 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: drivers and in nineteen seventy one they built the M 195 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: six team that was an indie race car yea, indeed, 196 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: being kind of similar to Formula one in that it's 197 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: open wheel, single seater car. But but the indie cars 198 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: race of course around tracks, yes, yeah, so like those 199 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: long oval tracks like the Indianapolis, the most famous race. 200 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: So if you ever wonder what the big differences are 201 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: between an indie car and a Formula one car, and 202 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: you see them and they look kind of similar, just 203 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: know that they're probably there's probably a few hundred thousand 204 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: dollars more worth of technology in a Formula one car 205 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: than an indie car. Just because they have more to 206 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: deal with. Yeah, they have to go on those surface streets. 207 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: And so I think of like the Formula one cars 208 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: as you know, like like Kit from Night Rider. It's 209 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: got this crazy amount of technology. Probably no machine guns 210 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: or smoke, you know, bombs or anything like that, probably 211 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: because they're usually looking out for weight. So I guess, 212 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: and you know, someone really dastardly. Right, You've got some 213 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: sort of snidely whiplash character on there. But now the 214 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: cars don't need that. They need, you know, they obviously 215 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 1: need to worry about weight and speed and power and 216 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, but they don't have to 217 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: have the same kind of levels of crazy technology that 218 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: the Formula one cars do. Now in nine, we're skipping 219 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 1: ahead a whole decade. John Bernard designs the MP four 220 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: Slash one Formula one car. Now this is the car 221 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,599 Speaker 1: that featured the carbon fiber design we talked about a 222 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: little bit earlier in the show. So during the race 223 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: on Italy's Monza racetrack, driver John Watson crashed his MP 224 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: four Slash one while going a hundred forty miles per hour. 225 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: That's two per hour in case you were wondering. So 226 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 1: the car was destroyed, totally destroyed, but that carbon fiber 227 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 1: frame stayed intact and Watson walked away from the crash. Yeah, 228 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 1: Bernard's design would go on to be the basis for 229 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: car models all over the world to this success and 230 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: key being the driver a lot exactly once people saw wow, 231 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: this thing was really effective and and and kept this 232 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: this driver safe. Uh, everyone wanted to adopt it because 233 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: it was carbon fiber. And we did a whole episode 234 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: on carbon fiber, so go back and listen to it 235 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: if you don't remember. But super lightweight and super strong. Now, 236 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 1: in nine, that's when McLaren Group would create a new 237 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: company called McLaren Cars, and this would be their company 238 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: to focus on purely street legal sporting cars. Would be 239 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: a while before they would introduce their first one, but yeah, 240 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: they started saying, well, we've got all this experience and 241 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: developing race cars, but you know, race cars they have 242 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: a very limited use, and we have to build a 243 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: new one essentially every year because and I mean really 244 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: every two weeks. I mean you're you're improving them at 245 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 1: such a rapid pace that you're continually putting new stuff 246 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: in there. And although you can get a lot of 247 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: money from sponsorships and advertisement and stuff like that. It's 248 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: a little bit less of a pure business deal than 249 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: perhaps just selling fancy cars to fancy people. Also that 250 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: year they would create McLaren Electronic Systems, which was a 251 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: branch of the company to develop and implement electronic fuel 252 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: injection systems for their race cars, which would also eventually 253 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: start creating all kinds of sensors and transmitters and computer 254 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: systems for monitoring and analyzing the minutia of their race 255 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: cars inner workings, which would allow for their racing teams 256 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: to do that continual tweaking and improvement even in the 257 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: middle of a racing season, you know, so that you 258 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: can see what's going on in your car live, minute 259 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: by minute and and improve it once it gets back 260 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: to the shop. And see, this kind of technology is 261 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: the stuff that ends up spilling out into the consumer 262 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: market eventually. So you get you you know, you you 263 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: have a very specific need in the racing world because 264 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: you are you are performing at the peak right You're 265 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: going up against other people who are just as as 266 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: well equipped as you are, and you need every advantage 267 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: you can get. So there's this drive to innovate technology. Well, 268 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: that technology fortunately has the added benefit of helping the 269 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: rest of us out once it filters into the consumer market. 270 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: So that's another reason why this is an important company. 271 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: Well in, McLaren Automotive produces the McLaren F one supercar, 272 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: which was the first road car from McLaren apart from 273 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: the two prototype McLaren M six GT vehicles that were 274 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: produced back when Bruce McLaren was still alive. So this 275 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: is the first time they actually had a road car 276 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: that was available for UH affluent people to purchase. It 277 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: was designed by Gordon Murray and Peter Stevens, and it 278 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: would set the record for the world's fastest production car 279 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: in h at the top speed a top advertised speed 280 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: of two d forty miles per hour, which is three 281 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: kilometers per hour. Uh I say advertise speed because there 282 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: were people who got it faster than that. Oh okay. 283 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: The the interior of this car was a little bit strange. 284 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: The driver's seat was kind of in the middle and 285 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: the two passenger seats were to either side but set 286 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: a bit back behind it. Yeah, so you're you know, 287 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: I think of it like imagine you're driving an X 288 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: Wing but you've got two passengers sitting like to your 289 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: left and right just a little bit back. Uh, because 290 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: it does seem like I mean, I'm it's unusual for 291 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: we Americans to look at cars that are driven around 292 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: in England where the driver's side is on the right 293 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: side is just left, but putting it right in the 294 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: middle totally bizarro world. I'm sure it had to do 295 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: with weight specifications and balance or something I try not 296 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: to question. It may have just been the limited space 297 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: inside what used to be Again, like like McLaren was 298 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: known for taking these these designs that were used in 299 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: race cars where usually you had a single seat it 300 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: was just a single seated car, and then to adopt 301 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: that and and change it into a road car meant 302 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: that you had to have at least a two seater. 303 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: You could not do a single seat car. So this 304 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: might have been part of that about, you know, kind 305 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: of shifting things around so it technically is a three 306 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 1: person car. It did feature an engine that was made 307 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: by bmw UM and a specialized version of it, the 308 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: F one GTR would win the Laman's race with the Lamans, 309 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: which we talked about earlier. There were only sixty four 310 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: of the F one built, and only nine of the 311 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: G t R. Yes. So when we say that they 312 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: produced a sports car, we're talking about this. This is 313 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: these are handbuilt cars. Yeah. This isn't like a Detroit 314 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: auto manufacturing line where you've got the huge line of 315 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 1: vehicles where you've got ten thousand and you know we're 316 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: talking these are like boutique cars. That's part of the 317 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: reason why they are what I would call prohibitively expensive, 318 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: because I certainly would be prohibited from affording one. In 319 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: Mercedes would begin to build the engines for McLaren race vehicles, 320 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: which that arrangement continues today. So we've seen a lot 321 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: of different engines so far, talking about Ford and BMW, 322 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: but Mercedes has become the the exclusive provider of engines. 323 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: Actually they for a while they were real buddy buddy, 324 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: he will talk about that in a second McLaren engine 325 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: is purchased by a new management team and renamed McLaren 326 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: Performance Technologies, which would again be acquired by another company 327 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 1: called Lenamar in two thousand three. Its new role is 328 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 1: to design, develop and test prototype operation for original equipment manufacturing. 329 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 1: So this is o e M. You may have heard 330 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 1: that term before. O E M It's used in all 331 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: sorts of industries, not just the automotive industry. We're talking 332 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: about everything. Essentially, what O E M companies do is 333 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: they build the stuff that goes into other companies stuff. 334 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: So if you ever hear of O E M for 335 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: like a smartphone, that might be a company that just 336 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: makes the screen or maybe it just makes the batter 337 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: which components, Yeah, exactly, so that's what that's what now 338 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: McLaren Engine does or McLaren Performance Technologies. It's also really 339 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: confusing if you look up McLaren and you start looking 340 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 1: at all these different companies. Some of them now no 341 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: longer have really any connection to the original McLaren group. Um, 342 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: but they do still bear the McLaren name, and at 343 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: one point they were part of McLaren Group, So that 344 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: gets a little confusing too. Also, most of them have 345 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: the word technology in the name somewhere. Yeah, a little 346 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: sort of like living in Atlanta and all the peach trees, Yes, 347 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh. Also, Adrian Newi and Neil Oatlely 348 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: designed the McLaren MP four thirteen Formula One car, and 349 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: driver Mika Hackenan would win the Driver's World Championship in 350 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: that car and I'm sure I'm mispronounced his name. Scott 351 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: actually was working with with Chrysler at the time. And uh, 352 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: and we'll talk about how that has plays a part 353 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: because he actually heard all about this. He was telling 354 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: me stories. It was fantastic. So McClaren begins building the 355 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: McClaren Technology Center formerly known as the Paragon Technology Center. 356 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: And it's on a huge site. It's got a five 357 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 1: hundred thousand square meters which is about five point four 358 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: million square feet out in the UK countryside. Yeah, and uh, 359 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: it's pretty it's very pretty. Well. We'll talk a little 360 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: bit more about that in a couple of years down 361 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: on the timeline. Um. But first, in the year two thousand, 362 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: Diamler Chrysler would purchase of the McLaren group YEP, and 363 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: the other sixty percent of the company was owned by 364 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: a pair of owners who agreed to vote as a 365 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: unit on any issue the company faced. But that got 366 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: a little more complicated. Those two owners each sold half 367 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: of their share, so think of that as they each 368 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: sold fifteen percent to a holding company which also agreed 369 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: to vote in a block with the two owners, so 370 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: all three of those owners would vote together. They still 371 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,479 Speaker 1: represent six of the overall ownership of the company, and 372 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: then over time all of the owners would buy shares 373 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 1: back from Daimler until there was a complete separation between 374 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: McLaren and Mercedes, which is also owned by daime Ler. 375 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: By that time, by the way, dame Ler and Chrysler 376 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: would have split up. So what we're trying to say 377 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:39,439 Speaker 1: here is that corporate relationships, especially in the automotive world, 378 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: are complicated. Yeah, would get to a point where I 379 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: was trying to have this conversation again with Scott. He 380 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: was just curious because once he heard that we were 381 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: going to do this, he had lots of questions. Uh 382 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 1: and he and I said, you know Diamler Chrysler, So, oh, 383 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: you just mean Dameler now, Oh yeah, I guess I 384 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: do write that in my notes. So what does this 385 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: all mean? Well, it means that McLaren would have to 386 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: start paying for engines from Mercedes rather than having them 387 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 1: provided because they were all part of the same big family. 388 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: So that changed the bottom line for McLaren Group as 389 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:16,239 Speaker 1: far as developing race cars. But otherwise they've kept on 390 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: with this relationship when Mercedes still purchasing their engines from them. 391 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: In two thousand and four, McLaren Group creates McLaren Applied Technologies, 392 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: and according to their website, they are built on decades 393 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: of success in Formula one and they're driven by relentless 394 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: desire to win. Applying our knowledge, expertise and experience, we 395 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: deliver real measurable results across industries from motorsport and automotive 396 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: to energy and healthcare, at which point you might say, huh, 397 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: but yeah, when you think about it again, with Formula one, 398 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 1: it was all about we need to gather data. Yeah, 399 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: it's it's sensory sensory technologies and big data crunching exactly. 400 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: You have to be able to get all the information 401 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: into analyze it and to say, are here's how we performed, 402 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: where are we lagging behind, How can we perform better? 403 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 1: What what is within our control? And it just meant 404 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: that that the whole company got really, really good at 405 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: this whole gather gathering of data and then the analysis 406 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: of data and then making action points where you could actually, 407 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: you know, turn that into something you could do about it. 408 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: Twe can change and improve, right, Yeah, so they decided, hey, 409 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: you know what, we could probably use the same kind 410 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 1: of approach and other industry lots of stuff. Yeah. Some 411 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: of that lots of stuff includes things like data management, virtualization, 412 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 1: uh and simulation. And they've done some work in the 413 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: energy sector, helping companies become more energy efficient, looking at 414 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: how they operate and finding ways that they could do 415 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: that better. And they've also worked with healthcare companies to 416 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: find ways to examine patient data to create more personalized, 417 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: customized care. For example, one of their first projects was 418 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 1: helping to create a cardiac implant sensor that's been used 419 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: in hospitals to monitor recovering in critically ill patients. They've 420 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 1: also paired up with English rugby teams, among lots of 421 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: other teams to help them perfect their their training and 422 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 1: their in game actions. Uh. And London's Heathrow Airport takes 423 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: advice from them on more efficiently taxiing airplanes around the 424 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: twer mac um. I guess that's the idea. Yeah, but 425 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: um yeah, yeah, they they do all of this from 426 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 1: this finished headquarters that that ex paragon. I think Paragon 427 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: was one of those working titles of IT. UM that 428 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: really does look by all reports like Q should be 429 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 1: at the helm of it uh and and and that 430 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: is in fact, yes, called the McLaren Technology Center. Uh. Supposedly, 431 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: the entire glass encased building is kept within one degree 432 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,959 Speaker 1: of twenty two degrees celsius, which is about seventy two 433 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: degrees fahrenheit, and is completely odorless. Um. It's it's largely 434 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: underground um. And they generate enough energy on site to 435 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: keep themselves going when the grid goes down. No wires 436 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: are visible in any of the offices, and it only 437 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 1: costs some three hundred million pounds or like you know, 438 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars in today's exchange rate, just a building, 439 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: so not no big Yeah. If you ever want to 440 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: get a look at what goes on there, just stick 441 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,680 Speaker 1: around because we're gonna tell you about a particular show 442 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: that gives you a real insiders look at what goes on. Yeah. 443 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: We'll also try to remember to a post out to 444 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: social like I think Wired or maybe the Verge or 445 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: maybe both have have done photo essays out there and 446 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: it really is forgeous events space. Yeah. So then in 447 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: two eight um the Engine Control Unit, which is the 448 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: electronic car brain and coordinating software system that McLaren had 449 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: been developing for years, became standard issue for all Formula 450 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: One teams. And engine makers. Uh. This this gadget is 451 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: not quite open source, but individual teams are in fact 452 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: allowed to fine tune the software for their own particular 453 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: breaking and torque systems. UM and yeah, I find it 454 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: extra fascinating that they continually have this technology that they 455 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 1: developed for their own purposes that winds up getting passed 456 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,479 Speaker 1: out to everyone else because it's the best. Um. Like 457 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: I said earlier, it's so good that based on the 458 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: monitoring and analytics that they take there, they're so in 459 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: depth that about every two weeks, five to ten percent 460 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: of their racing cars are brand new based on tweaks 461 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: that they make from from everything from the aerodynamic surfaces 462 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: to the suspension. And that's coming directly from the managing 463 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: director of McClaren Electronic Systems, whose name is Peter van Mennon. 464 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: So uh, pretty legit source that I would say, five 465 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: to the racing cars brand new every two weeks. Wow, 466 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 1: that's a lot of a lot of revision right there. Yeah. Uh. Now, 467 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: moving forward to two thousand nine, McLaren unveils the design 468 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: for the McLaren twelve Sea sports car, originally called the 469 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: McLaren MP four Dash twelve C. So you know, the 470 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,479 Speaker 1: twelve Sea is much more. I guess spoken tripping lee 471 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: on the tongue. It's a two door sports car with 472 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: an acceleration of zero to sixty two miles pur or 473 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: a hundred kilometers an hour in three point one second. 474 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: That's got some pep. Advertised top speed is two hundred 475 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: seven miles per hour or three hundred thirty three kilometers 476 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: per hour. Again, people have driven it faster than that 477 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: because you know, if you really got to get somewhere. Uh. 478 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: In the McLaren group are the McLaren team introduced the 479 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: McLaren MP four Dash to five, which has a few 480 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: interesting features, including event that the driver could cover up 481 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: just by moving his left leg. This is one of 482 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: those face logic rules kind of things right here. Yeah, 483 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: So the lot the rule that Lauren is referring to 484 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: is a rule that says that the cars are not 485 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: allowed to have any kind of moving aerodynamic device, like 486 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: you couldn't have a flap that moves on your Formula 487 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: one racing cards against the rules. But there's nothing against 488 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: the rules stating that you couldn't design something in your 489 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: car where if the driver were to move. So, for example, 490 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: let's say that you're going going on a really long 491 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: straightaway on one of these Formula one uh routes. Remember 492 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: this is on public roads, where the Formula one driver 493 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: can just casually move the left leg to cover up 494 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: the vent, thus changing the airflow direction and giving you 495 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: more stability on those long runs, so you can really 496 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: build up speed, and then when you start turning, you 497 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: can move your leg away when you don't need it 498 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: as much because you're moving at a slower speed. There's 499 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: nothing against the rules about that. If it's just the 500 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: driver who's moving, not the car, then it's fine. Yeah. 501 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: So this is one of those loopholes the engineers were 502 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: able to exploit. Yeah, really cool little story. Uh. As 503 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: I read about this, I could just imagine engineers just 504 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: getting really devious. I like to imagine that they're spending 505 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: the evening, like just chatting in a pub sipping some guinness, 506 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: and then someone's like, hey, you know what, just get 507 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: cobblin face on. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well. In eleven, McLaren 508 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: builds the McLaren Production Center opposite the technology center. This 509 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 1: builds the road cars for McLaren as opposed to the 510 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 1: racing cars. Uh. And keep in mind also this whole 511 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: road car thing still a handmade process. If you've ever 512 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: heard about the luxury cars that come out of England 513 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: like Bentley's, these are things that are literally built by 514 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: hand and if if two parts are not quite working together, 515 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: they will go back and by hand and file one down. Yeah. 516 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: I mean, it is incredibly precise. And it's also why 517 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: they're usually such low production runs, because you can't build 518 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: that many that way. Um, this is where we get 519 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: into one of the more bizarre parts of our story. 520 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: McLaren Animation Media Company partners with Store to produce a 521 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: cartoon series called Tuned, which features Tuned as t O 522 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: O N E D but but but a pun Yes 523 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: obviously on tuning a vehicle which It features two of 524 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 1: their F one drivers, Jensen Button and Lewis Hamilton's, and 525 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: also a comedian named Alexander Armstrong who's playing a character 526 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: known as Professor m and the purpose of the show 527 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,719 Speaker 1: is to leverage the McLaren brand and get more support 528 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: for the company, as well as create new merchandising opportunities. 529 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: Here's here's kind of like a typical episode has the 530 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: two characters Jensen and Lewis sort of competing against each other. 531 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,239 Speaker 1: They had this this camaraderie. It's kind of a kind 532 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: of a one upping sort of relationship. And meanwhile, Professor 533 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: m is basically telling them not to everything happen, not 534 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: to blow everything up. It's essentially que come on, double 535 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: O seven is essentially the role. By the way, if 536 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: you want to watch any of these, they are up online. 537 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: You can watch I think all of season one and 538 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: s's and two and maybe some of season three. Um, 539 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: and it's fairly entertaining stuff. They tend to be pretty short, 540 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: like three or four minutes per episode. Uh so you 541 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: can blast through a couple of them easy. So check 542 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: that out if you have an already just to kind 543 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: of And this is where you can really get a 544 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: look at the fictional world and the technology center, which 545 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: makes it look like it's part James Bond parts Transformers. 546 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Well, I mean maybe other than the Transformers. 547 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how far off that really is. Yeah, 548 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: don't more true to life. If McLaren would like to 549 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: invite us to come and check out who works for McLaren, 550 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: let us know, Yeah, we will. We will happily take 551 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: you up on that. They also in two thousand twelve 552 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: unveiled the McLaren P one car, which is a plug 553 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: in hybrid sports car. So this is a partially electric vehicle. 554 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: It has an electric motor, also has an engine, and 555 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: um calling it a hybrid sports vehicle is probably being 556 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,239 Speaker 1: a little you know, um modest. Yeah. Also, if you 557 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 1: want to buy one, I hope you have one point 558 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: three five million dollars aside, because that's about how much 559 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: it costs. Um. By the way, that's how much the 560 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: base vehicle costs. From what I understand, most people end 561 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: up who actually purchased one of these end up putting 562 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: in so many options that the average price is closer 563 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 1: to one point six to one point eight million dollars. 564 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: I don't even understand that amount of money. That's awesome. 565 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: That's that's more than I figure I'll ever ever see 566 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 1: in your life. Yeah. Around the same time, I suppose, 567 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: leading up to McLaren began to incorporate lots of the 568 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 1: monitoring tech used by their racing teams and partnerships with 569 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 1: the British Olympic teams. Like in rowing, they have wireless 570 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,080 Speaker 1: sensors to measure what's up with the paddles and the boats. 571 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: And the athletes in real time during courses. The same 572 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: thing for cycling. Yeah, this is where Jonathan would normally 573 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: go off on a tangent about how the the advantages 574 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 1: some athletes might have with their equipment is perhaps give 575 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: them an unfair edge beyond just their athletic ability. Oh 576 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: but that's that's I mean, I think the Olympic sports 577 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: at this point are just as finicky as Formula one, 578 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 1: because you know, people are trying to inch that that 579 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 1: that just extra millisecond, that that hundreds of a second 580 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 1: advantage to break that. Yeah. People, the athletes are so 581 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 1: good these days that it really does come down to 582 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: perfecting your technique. I just want to see them all 583 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: in the same rowboat, same style rowboats, so everyone's on 584 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: a level playing field. That's what I want to see. 585 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: But that's a different podcast that doesn't even involve tech stuff. 586 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: Uh In McLaren tested their P one on the Nerva Ring, 587 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 1: which is a kind of performance car yardstick track in Germany. 588 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 1: It spans like thirteen miles a k a kilometers, has 589 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty four turns in it, and is 590 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: used in the industry for kind of privately timed bragging 591 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 1: rights UH, they claim. McLaren claims that the P one 592 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: did a lap in under seven minutes, thirteen miles and 593 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: under seven minutes, which would officially put it in league 594 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 1: with the Porsche nine eighteen Spider, which is one of 595 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,800 Speaker 1: the P one's direct competitors. It's another hybrid sports vehicle, 596 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:22,240 Speaker 1: a million dollar range UH two thousand fourteen. McClaren partners 597 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 1: with Specialized, which is a bicycle brand, and unveils the 598 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:30,280 Speaker 1: S Works McLaren Tarmac bicycle, which wasn't the first bicycle 599 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: that McClaren worked on. Mark Cavendish roade on an S 600 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,920 Speaker 1: Works McLaren Venge bicycle to win the Tour de France 601 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 1: UH and the u c I Road World Championship. It's 602 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: a limited run. Only two fifty of these UH Tarmac 603 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: bicycles are being made and McLaren uses sensors on bicyclists 604 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: to study exactly how the athlete and the bicycle worked together. 605 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: They used that as a guide that information while designing 606 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 1: the new bicycle, and they've built virtual models in run 607 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: them in simulation and then they would go back and 608 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: tweet the design of the bike and see if that 609 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,880 Speaker 1: would improve the performance. They said that they were actually 610 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: the first people to really consider a bicyclist and a 611 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: bicycle as a as a performance unit. Yes, actual unit, 612 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: as opposed to two separate things. And so I said, 613 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 1: when you when you sign a car, you don't have 614 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 1: to factor in the driver's weight or mass because it's 615 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: it's negligible compared to the weight of the vehicle. With 616 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: a bicycle, it's totally the opposite, because the athletes mass 617 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,839 Speaker 1: is likely going to be greater than that of the bike. Yeah, 618 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,360 Speaker 1: it's certainly in the case of this bike. So that 619 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: they were really it was really interesting that they took 620 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 1: the same sort of philosophy of designing a car towards 621 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: how do we make this bike the best bike in 622 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 1: the world. I totally want one of these, by the way, 623 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: but I doubt I own how much would it cost. 624 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: They're they're priced at about twenty thousand dollars each. They 625 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,279 Speaker 1: are custom fit and painted for each buyer. Good. I 626 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: could get that McLaren orange on there, the yeah, yeah, 627 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,240 Speaker 1: and well they they also will include in the package 628 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 1: a bunch of the sporting gear that you would need 629 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,640 Speaker 1: to use. Um and I mean, I mean it's it's 630 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: gorgeous stuff. And and so high tech. Just the materials. 631 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,240 Speaker 1: The design incorporates a carbon fiber to reduce weight, and uh, 632 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: these specialized ceramic coated ball bearings to reduce friction in 633 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 1: the hubs and the crank set. Yeah, it really is 634 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: cool to see exactly how granular they've they've gotten with 635 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,280 Speaker 1: the design. They're looking at the tiniest developments that could 636 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:33,560 Speaker 1: impact performance. Meanwhile, on the racing side, McLaren has developed 637 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: network systems to transmit data about their cars back to 638 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 1: their teams during races. They set up antenna around any 639 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,719 Speaker 1: given track or course and the team can use the 640 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 1: data received to model how the engine is performing, how 641 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,520 Speaker 1: the tires are performing, that the fuel efficiency of the 642 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: car in real time and use that to provide instructions 643 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,279 Speaker 1: to their crews and also of course save all of 644 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,319 Speaker 1: that stuff for further processing and improvements later on. This 645 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 1: is it just blows my mind when I read about this. 646 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,359 Speaker 1: The more I read about the more I think like, Wow, 647 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,240 Speaker 1: this sounds like it would not be out of place 648 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 1: in a discussion about NASA, right, I Mean, that's that's 649 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 1: how how exacting we're getting here. This year, McLaren also 650 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 1: announced the McLaren six fifty s a new sports car 651 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: based on the McLaren twelve see car, but it has 652 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: some new parts to it, so it's depending upon whom 653 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 1: you ask. Some people call it a brand new car 654 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,279 Speaker 1: and some people say it's a modified twelve C. I 655 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,319 Speaker 1: guess it all depends upon your point of view in 656 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,920 Speaker 1: the community. Meanwhile, they recently signed up to be part 657 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,279 Speaker 1: of the UK's Your Life program, which is this uh 658 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,319 Speaker 1: STEM Science Technology Engineering and I always forget the end 659 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,799 Speaker 1: math thank you educational and or economic initiative that's meant 660 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: to get kids interested in jobs in scientific fields, which 661 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: is pretty awesome. It is um I mean also especially 662 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,720 Speaker 1: for them, their engineers have to come from somewhere, that's true, Yeah, 663 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 1: they have. They have a vested interest in promoting STEM. 664 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,360 Speaker 1: They certainly do. And rumor has it from McLaren Applied 665 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: Technologies Vice president Jeff McGrath, nonetheless, who said in a 666 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: May interview with Verge that they will be teaming up 667 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: with and I quote one of the best known consumer 668 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 1: electronics companies in the world on wearable tech that will 669 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,240 Speaker 1: be made available to the public starting I watch anyone. 670 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: I I just wild guess that's gonna be Apple. I mean, 671 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,879 Speaker 1: I mean it might not, yeah, like like it could 672 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,319 Speaker 1: be for a brand that will not have anything to 673 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,120 Speaker 1: do with McLaren, Like McLaren might not be the name 674 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,919 Speaker 1: for this product. But yeah, I mean see it makes 675 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: sense because the more I looked into this company, particularly 676 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,959 Speaker 1: the style that they have, Oh yeah, they have such 677 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,560 Speaker 1: gorgeous design. It really reminded me a lot of Apple. 678 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 1: I mean if you look at the if you look 679 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,279 Speaker 1: at the McLaren headquarters and then you look at the 680 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,799 Speaker 1: Apple headquarters, uh, then you you can see that there's 681 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,680 Speaker 1: a lot of the design philosophies that overlap. Oh yeah, 682 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,920 Speaker 1: they would be very much at home hanging out together. 683 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,600 Speaker 1: I think so. Well, you might say that an iPhone 684 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 1: just looks like it moves fast, and a McLaren car 685 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: just looks like it would produce beautiful music, particularly if 686 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,239 Speaker 1: that music is room broom. I will also try to 687 00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,400 Speaker 1: remember to share that there was a video on that 688 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 1: UM track of of that p one going around it 689 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,960 Speaker 1: and it is it is some sound. Yeah, it is 690 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,640 Speaker 1: some gorgeous sound. Well, we will definitely try and share 691 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,839 Speaker 1: as much of this as we can. It was fun 692 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,760 Speaker 1: to look at a company that that really covered something 693 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: that as much as I joked in the beginning, I 694 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: really didn't know that much about I actually had to 695 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,160 Speaker 1: do a lot of research just to kind of make 696 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,560 Speaker 1: sure I was talking I knew what I was talking about, 697 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,880 Speaker 1: and it gave me a new appreciation for our buddies 698 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 1: over at Car Stuff. Yeah. Again, if you have not 699 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 1: checked out their show, you definitely need to do that 700 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,400 Speaker 1: because it's a a great podcast. And also, I mean, 701 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,839 Speaker 1: they really do talk a lot about technologies during the 702 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,359 Speaker 1: course of their show, so especially if you enjoyed, say 703 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,239 Speaker 1: our Transmission episode a while back or anything like that, 704 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,319 Speaker 1: they go they go deep into that kind of stuff 705 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 1: all the time, exactly. Yeah. And again, if you ever 706 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,240 Speaker 1: have a question about anything related to cars, Scott Benjamin 707 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,080 Speaker 1: is your man, trust me. Yeah, even if you do 708 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,600 Speaker 1: not sit next to him in an office. Yeah. 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