
Zak Brown CEO of McLaren Racing relates how Seven Tenths of a Second isn't just about winning in sport but in life, leadership, ego vs arrogance, championship chase between Lando Norris & Oscar Piastri as F1 hits the Las Vegas Strip.
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“I think you have to have a big ego in business and in sports but I use mine to want to protect myself from failure. Ego makes me not want to fail, it’s a motivator, my ego doesn’t want me to be laughed at or labeled a failure.” Zak Brown CEO of McLaren Racing
The 2025 F1 season is winding down with three races left to go and McLaren has already won its 2nd Consecutive Constructors’ Championship with the chance for their drivers to finish 1st and 2nd. At the helm of all this success is CEO Zak Brown, a high school dropout from California that pursued his passion for motor sports and turned around McLaren Racing.
On this episode of The Pivot Podcast, hosts Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, and Channing Crowder sit down with Zak Brown for an unfiltered conversation on leadership, risk-taking, and the relentless pursuit of speed—both on and off the track.
Zak pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to transform one of the most iconic organizations in motorsport, from rebuilding McLare...