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Car Chat Podcast #70 - Darren Turner | Aston Martin Works Driver

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Darren Turner (@darrenturner007) is a works Aston Martin racing driver. He currently races for Aston Martin in the GTE Pro category in the World Endurance Championships having previously won Le Mans 3 times! We have a chat about what it's like to race at this level along with Darren's work developing the Valkyrie, Vulcan and also his business providing high end simulators for driver development.

Check out the audio podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/lt/podcast/car-chat/id1432553826

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Sam

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Show Notes

00:00 = Intro + Getting Into Racing

03:26 = Jordan Grand Prix Team

09:12 = Jim Russel Racing School

11:04 = Formula First Championship

12:57 = Sponsorship

19:45 = Vauxhall Lotus

20:45 = BRDC Young Driver Award

24:08 = The jump up to an F1 car with McLaren and testing

27:51 = The transition from real world resting to simulator testing

28:49 = Base Performance Simulators

32:05 = Where are your simulators placed vs F1 and consoles

35:07 = How close are Sims to a real car?

38:42 = What software are you using?

45:58 = Adjusting car models

51:08 = eSports + Legends Trophy

54:40 = Crossover between real world driving and eSports driving

1:01:01 = Le Mans eSports Racing

1:02:32 = Real Le Mans

1:04:35 = The Aston Martin journey + the differences between GT1, LMP and GTE

1:11:12 = Scything through traffic

1:20:33 = Winning Le Mans vs Winning The Championship

1:23:18 = Why is Le Mans such a different beast?

1:26:18 = Do you get into a zen like state?

1:32:50 = Development driving on the road cars

1:37:47 = Valkyrie vs Vulcan - who are they pitched at

1:40:12 = Are you sad we aren't seeing a Valkyrie GTR at Le Mans?

1:43:14 = BOP

1:44:27 = 5 Questions

Car Chat Podcast #51: Jens Sverdrup | Czinger Vehicles

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Jens Sverdrup is the CCO of Czinger Vehicles (@czinger_vehicles), he is the man in charge of marketing, sales, product development etc. Jens has worked for a number of interesting companies over the years including director of sales and marketing at Koenigsegg. We have a chat about Czinger as a company, the car and dive under the hood of this new hypercar manufacturer.

Check out the video podcast: https://youtu.be/QDgP9z4FMrs

https://www.czinger.com/

Hope you enjoy,

Sam

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Show Notes: 

0:00 = Your journey
6:39 = Koenigsegg
10:06 = Czinger
23:59 = Are we going to see more cars in the future?
25:30 = What is the Czinger ethos? 
27:48 = Being given a blank canvas at a new company
40:47 = Are you entering the top speed game contest? 
46:25 = Driving a hypercar on small roads
49:14 = Do taxes in different countries affect the amount of cars you sell?
51:00 = Will cars go back to the states for servicing? 
53:05 = Will we see a Nurburgring lap?
54:40 = Seeing the car out and about and containing leaks (media)
59:15 = 5 Questions
1:05:00 = Is crash testing an annoying process to go through?