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McLaren, one of the greatest
teams in FORMULA ONE,
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has allowed
unprecedented access
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throughout their
2017 pre-season.
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It's a race against time
to build a car...
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I've never seen it
as bad as this.
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...for a global launch...
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We will win again.
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...and testing in
Barcelona...
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MARK TEMPLE:
Drive straight out.
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...with their drivers,
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two-time world champion
Fernando Alonso...
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To win three
world championships,
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that's my first
and only priority.
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...and rookie
Stoffel Vandoorne...
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WOMAN: Push,
push, push, push, push!
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STOFFEL: It's been a dream
for me to be in FORMULA ONE
and to race for McLaren.
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...in the most momentous
pre-season
in the team's history.
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McLaren Racing
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has been successful
over 50 years.
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In 1980, Ron Dennis came in
as Chief Executive to
this business.
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Ron's contribution has been
more than outstanding.
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The McLaren Technology Centre
is the house that Ron built.
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Ron has instilled
in every one of us,
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the core values
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and the mythology
of this organisation.
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McLaren is still the second
most successful team
in FORMULA ONE history,
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behind Ferrari.
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In 2012, we won seven races,
2013 we won none,
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and it's been
a lean period since then.
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JONATHAN: In 2015,
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McLaren formed
the partnership with Honda
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to give us that
championship-winning status.
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JOHN: Ron said to me once,
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there is a budget
to compete in FORMULA ONE,
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which typically can be
anywhere around £90 million
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and to be competitive
in FORMULA ONE
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is about another £100 million
on top of that.
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REPORTER: There has been a
poisonous boardroom situation
for some months now.
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Mr Dennis, at the moment,
is on gardening leave.
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Those close to him tell me
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he's taken this
pretty badly, indeed.
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He feels he's been betrayed
by his own family as it were.
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Something potentially of
a power vacuum,
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at the moment, at this team.
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The board does not
renew Ron Dennis's contract
with McLaren.
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After 37 years, he is out.
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David, if you could bring
everything up to my office,
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cos I'm gonna change out
of these clothes.
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In a change from the past,
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the day-to-day running
of McLaren
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will no longer be by one man,
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but by a team of
three executives
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working under
the shareholders.
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We finished at
3:30 last night.
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ZAK BROWN: Really?
-3:30.
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JONATHAN:
Great support from...
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Shaikh Mohammed and Mansour
all through, which is good.
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-Yeah.
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Constantly available,
which is good. Yeah.
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JONATHAN: Zak brings
a wealth of experience,
commercially, in FORMULA ONE.
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He's been the go-to guy
for sponsorship for
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many of the FORMULA ONE teams
for over a decade.
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He's a former race driver,
he's been a fan of McLaren,
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and he complements us
as a team.
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ZAK: There's been something
like 120 race teams
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in the last 30-plus years
that have come and gone,
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so it's an expensive sport.
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If you don't have a lot of
backing, you can go bust.
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Jonathan and I
are attached at the hip.
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He's more technical,
I'm more commercial.
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Eric runs the racing team.
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His primary responsibility is
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to get the most out of
the drivers.
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Ca va bien?
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ALONSO: What I want
to achieve now is a third
World Championship.
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To win three World
Championships will mean that
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you win the same of Ayrton,
first of all,
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and then,
on the personal side,
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after difficult years
and difficult seasons,
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if you...go through
those moments and you win it,
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I think
a third World Championship
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will have more value for me
on the personal side
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than the first
and the second.
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-See you later.
ALONSO: Ciao.
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Every year,
each FORMULA ONE team
builds a new car.
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This year's McLaren MCL32
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will be built with
13,500 brand-new parts,
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each of which is meticulously
designed and fabricated.
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The first two or three days
are always quite difficult,
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because it's when we find out
what shortages we've got,
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what parts we need.
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It just gets very frustrating.
You're trying to build a car
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and there's one bit
that'll be stopping you.
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You need to juggle those parts.
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STOFFEL:
First day at McLaren
as official race driver.
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I know it's one of the nicest
buildings in FORMULA ONE.
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And you know when you walk
along the boulevard
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with all
the historic cars here,
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it's a very special feeling.
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Hopefully, one day
my car will be here as well.
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It's seat fitting,
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getting the first impressions
of next year's car.
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I always like seat-fit day.
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Feels like it's all
starting again.
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-It's good.
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Only three more months
to go before...
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...before getting in the car,
so...
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People always say,
"Oh, you must be on holiday,
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because
the season's finished."
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But for design,
we're flat out
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from September
to February, really.
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MATT BISHOP: Do you remember
how it all started?
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-2010, so you were--
-11.
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No, no, no, 2010.
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-The very first--
-11.
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-No, 2010.
-11.
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No, 2011 is when you first
went to the race.
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-Yes.
-The Nurburgring Grand Prix.
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-Yes.
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-Yes, yes. Oh, yeah, 2010.
-Yes, thank you!
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MATT BISHOP:
I met Stoffel five years ago.
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COMMENTATOR:
So, Stoffel Vandoorne
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takes the race win
with a blinding drive.
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COMMENTATOR 2:
The 20-year-old Belgian
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produced a fantastic start,
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as he overtook ten opponents.
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MATT BISHOP: He has won
in six separate categories
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prior to FORMULA ONE,
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and I was very proud
to be able to introduce him
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to Ron Dennis.
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How well he will do
this year,
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is not down to him,
it's down to us.
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If we give him a car good
enough, he'll do good enough.
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What do we have in terms of
spacer? Nothing now.
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SCOTT BAIN:
There is your, just,
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the same spacer that
you've got on it currently.
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Is it possible to have
a medium spacer?
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Yes.
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I think Fernando's
is too much...
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-Yeah.
-...but like
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-OK.
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There's a 5mm in there
at the moment.
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-Yeah.
-And what...
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-Fernando's is...
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-32.
-32mm.
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-Not great.
-Right, try that there.
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Yeah. It's OK.
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-Yeah.
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-OK.
That's fine.
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SCOTT: If you're driving
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and you can constantly feel
something niggling,
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you're, kind of, "Ooh!"
all the time.
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You're gonna be
pulling off the gas,
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you're gonna be
lifting earlier,
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you're not gonna be
concentrating on
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taking that corner at
exactly the right point.
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You're gonna be
in discomfort.
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So, getting
that environment right
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and getting the driver happy
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so that he's not worried
about anything in that zone,
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he can concentrate on what
he actually needs to do.
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Hungry, eh
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MATT WELLS: The part of
the seat fit we start with is
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making sure you get the head
position in the right place,
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to make sure they can see.
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We spend a lot of time trying
to reduce head position for
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reduction in aerodynamic drag
and reduction of
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the whole centre of gravity
of the driver.
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Once you've got his head
in the right place,
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then, depending on
how tall he is,
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that really sets
his pedal position.
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Normally, as soon as
your heel loses pressure,
you'll lose control
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and then you start
getting oscillations.
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Following that, we go through
and check things like
clearance,
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for elbow clearance
and knuckle clearance.
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Once you have
those key areas,
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you can start looking at
the seat
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and you can mould the seat
around him.
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Scott. Scott.
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How many years have
you been doing seat fits?
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While Stoffel
has his seat fit,
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the car's colour scheme
and design, or livery,
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is currently being worked on
by the marketing department.
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Ron Dennis was known for
his orderly leadership
of McLaren.
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The team's liveries
projected those principles
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with clean
monochromatic lines
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that looked to the future.
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The 2017 season was
clearly a kind of a marker,
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a line in the sand...
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at which we wanted
to message to the world
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that something different
was going on at McLaren.
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One of the key ways
we can do that
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is to show a new livery,
a new look for the team,
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that references
some of our heritage.
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I zeroed in on the colour
orange as being critical
in our history,
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but nonetheless shows a
completely new look and feel,
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and a spirit that we see
in the team for 2017.
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The dramatic unveil
for you now, erm...
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So this is the 2012 car
with the new livery on it.
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MOHAMMED: I think...
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matte to gloss makes
the orange pop out more.
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Yeah, it does and I think
we can put a tiny bit of
metallic flake in there, too.
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OK.
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So, effectively,
this is a giant,
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a giant sort of speedmark
logo wrapped round.
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-That's where we've got to.
-Fantastic
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JOHN: But I think
it's gonna be pretty sexy
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by the time
we're running it for real.
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MOHAMMED: McLaren has
a rich, rich history,
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and this is a new chapter
and we're all...
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well, everyone the whole
team, is working very hard.
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We wanna get on
with writing it.
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Yeah, exactly. It's good.
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-Great. That was fruitful.
-OK, take care.
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-Thank you.
-Thank you, everyone.
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Cheers, Mohammed,
good to see you.
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Thanks.
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The design department will
now mock up last year's car
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to demonstrate the full
impact of the new livery.
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STOFFEL: You actually
work very closely with
your engineers.
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My engineer, Tom,
we started working
very intensely together,
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spent a lot of time
in the factory and started
preparing for next year.
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The race engineer's
the driver's number-one
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technical point of contact
at the company.
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So, every time he wants
to know what upgrades
are coming,
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how we're going to use them,
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what we're going to do
with our strategy,
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then that goes though me
to Stoffel.
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DAREN STANLEY: Click on
"Steering Wheel", it'll tell
you what all the buttons do.
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You can go through and read
in detail what they all do.
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But the main one,
probably, for you is
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to go down to the bottom,
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and click on this one
called "Interactive".
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Then click on the buttons
and it'll tell you what
the button does.
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STOFFEL: Uh-huh. Fast!
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DAREN: Yeah.
And also it's got...
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Where possible it's got
the light display.
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-Ah, yeah.
TOM: It isn't to say this is
what you have to have.
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This is what we have now,
and if you get back to us,
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we can change
pretty much anything.
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But it's yours now, so
this is just the start point.
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That's how you
should think of it.
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DAREN: Right, we'd better
dash or we'll be late.
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Hello, we're just coming.
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TOM STALLARD: The simulator's
used almost entirely for
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car preparation rather
than driver preparation.
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And you're good to go.
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TOM: Basically,
a computer programme that
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models exactly
how the car moves.
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TOM: It's got a full model of
the aerodynamics of the car
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that's developed from
the wind tunnel.
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TOM: You get a feel from
watching the data of
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how he's driving,
how things are going.
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STOFFEL: From
a technical point of view,
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I know everything
about the cars,
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how they're put together,
how you need to set them up.
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TOM: We've had a fairly
reasonable day today,
in the simulator.
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We've mainly been looking at
front and rear stiffness.
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You can see some data
up there.
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That's the fastest lap of
the day,
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which was a 1:19.97,
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so we just dipped under 1:20
which was nice.
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STOFFEL: Since the first run
this morning,
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it felt like the car was much
more on the edge than...
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than the previous time.
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We are lacking a bit of
rear... rear stability.
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STOFFEL: FORMULA ONE
is the big step up.
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You know, you are working
with so many people.
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It's suddenly very different
working with
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a whole factory behind you,
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because you have a massive
influence on car development.
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Yeah, if you turn in a bit
too aggressive sometimes
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with light brake pressure,
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the car sometimes
just comes around.
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TOM: A comment you often hear
a driver say is that
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it feels like the car is
falling over at the rear,
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and when you look
in the data,
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it's rolled by an extra
0.1, 0.2 degrees
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and you think, "Oh, that
can't be what he's feeling",
but, sure enough, it is.
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When you dig into it,
he's feeling incredibly small
movements in the car,
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so a very unusual
level of sensitivity.
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Just as football sponsors
pay big money
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for prominent space
on a team's shirts,
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title sponsors do the same
in FORMULA ONE.
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Advertising space on a car
can be sold to sponsors
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for anything up to
$100 million a year.
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McLaren hasn't had
a title sponsor since 2013,
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reportedly costing
the team $200 million
in potential revenue.
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-Hello.
-Hello, there.
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-That's a big change.
-That's different. Cool.
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It's crucial that
Executive Director Zak Brown
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is happy with the new livery.
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It's his job to sell space on
the new car.
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ERIC: The matte is brilliant.
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Thank you, mate.
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That's why I was asking.
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JONATHAN: So, Zak,
for you, then, the issue is
colour scheme on branding?
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I really don't want any black
on the car here.
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No, it's a perception issue,
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and the right people to do
that are you, John Allert
and you guys.
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You know, you're the...
you're the brand
and the image people.
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ZAK: OK.
All-righty back to work.
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ZAK: Sponsorship probably
accounts for about half
your budget.
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North of 100 million is the
type of sponsorship dollars
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that you need to bring in,
to be at the front of
the field.
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That's an area that
we have fallen behind in,
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so I think that was certainly
right at the top of the list
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of "What can Zak bring
to the table?"
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If you look at
who wins races,
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it's the biggest spenders
in the sport.
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So, if we don't bring in more
sponsorship then, ultimately,
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that will compromise
our on-track success.
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ZAK: Today, we're celebrating
our partnership with
Richard Mille,
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who's just
developed and launched
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a beautiful special edition
McLaren watch.
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A million euros for those of
you that would like to
purchase one.
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It's something that
the drivers will wear
when they're racing,
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so it's gonna be on them
all of the time.
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It's not something that
they're gonna use
on an occasional basis.
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VICTORIA ROWLEY:
So are you quite happy with
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all of the information I sent
in terms, like,
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about the partnership,
about the watch?
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STOFFEL: Yeah.
-Erm...
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-I've seen the price of it.
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-I've seen it.
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JOHN: Stoffel is savvy enough
now to realise that
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there is no such thing
as just driving a car.
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The more really rich
partnerships you can forge
with big brands,
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the more money we've got
to make a fast car
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and someone like Stoffel
just wants a fast car.
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Bonjour, Stoffel.
Tu vas bien?
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-Tutto bene.
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Regarde ta voiture.
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-His car.
-You're a Grand Prix driver,
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you don't even have to dress
fancy anymore.
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Exactly.
No suits.
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RICHARD MILLE:
It's a long-term relationship
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because we signed
a ten-years contract.
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So, it's a relationship that
will be year after year
re-enforced, I'm sure.
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The multi-million dollar
Richard Mille sponsorship deal
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will help drive forward
McLaren's ambitions.
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But Zak still has to find
a title sponsor.
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ZAK: The benefit of getting
someone like Stoffel
early on,
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is you can mould him,
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which gives you
a little bit of a chance
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to try and make him
a McLaren man.
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As part of creating
a brand around Stoffel,
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the marketing team must
present their new McLaren man
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to the world's media.
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CHARLOTTE SEFTON:
We've basically worked out
his schedule
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between now and Australia,
and there are zero days,
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so we've crammed in as
much media as we can.
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Well, come on, then.
Come on, then!
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(STOFFEL SIGHS,
AMANDA CHUCKLES)
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Your official title now is
driver, not reserve driver.
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Who was the first person
you then told?
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Erm...I probably told my mum
first and my dad.
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So, yeah, I think they've
been very supportive of me
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in the past and, yeah,
to inform them first was
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was, kind of, the logical
thing to do, for me.
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Does it add to the pressure
the fact that
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you are not just gonna
have to prove yourself
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in your first season
in FORMULA ONE,
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but the fact that you're
driving against Fernando
in the same car?
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Fernando, Lewis,
these are the kinds of people
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who in essence have the
licence to be more authentic
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and a little bit more edgy in
the way they communicate
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with the rest of the world.
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What's your relationship like
with Fernando?
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I have a very good
relationship with Fernando.
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Yeah, I mean, I get on
very well with Fernando.
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JOHN: I think
younger drivers,
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the likes of Stoffel,
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are quite sensibly staying
reasonably cautious
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in just how flamboyant
they are trying to be
as characters.
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I'm obviously very happy
to join McLaren Honda.
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For me it it's always been
a bit of a dream
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to race for McLaren.
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You know, it's always been
a dream for me to be
in FORMULA ONE.
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CHARLOTTE: Six minutes,
six minutes.
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Fernando Alonso is
a double world champion.
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Fernando is
a double world champion.
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A great benchmark for me.
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A very good benchmark
next to me.
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-Excellent.
-Good. Cheers.
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00:23:07,367 --> 00:23:10,467
-Awesome, thank you so much.
-Cheers. No worries. Thanks.
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AMANDA: Stoffel is an older
young driver, isn't he?
I think 24.
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So Stoffel has been around
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and he's had to answer those
questions in recent years.
"Is it too late?
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Are you too old
to be given your break?"
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And a lot of people would
have given up on their dream.
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I don't know what
his prospects are.
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It's gonna be tough.
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I think the big challenge
for Stoffel is
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he's got to be seen to be
giving Fernando
a run for his money,
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because if Fernando outraces
him, out-qualifies him,
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then it's hard to argue
that he deserves his place.
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PHOTOGRAPHER: Brilliant.
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OK, then we go back.
We have another three.
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So last group for the three,
two, ones.
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You can decide however
you want to use
your 15 minutes, guys.
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PETER: Perfect.
-It's up to you.
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We found in our archives
the very first article
of you.
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-Look at you. My dream!
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STOFFEL: Oh, yes,
I remember it.
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It was your father who came
every week to the newspapers,
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-"Look what my son has done."
STOFFEL: Oh, really?
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00:24:16,133 --> 00:24:18,467
"Publish it, publish it."
So every week he was there.
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00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:19,833
-From your father.
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00:24:19,867 --> 00:24:22,133
My dad. I didn't remember
it was my dad.
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00:24:22,167 --> 00:24:26,200
Yeah. Just look at it, guys.
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A bit younger,
plenty of talent.
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STOFFEL: A bit chubby.
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Beginnings.
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Everything has a beginning.
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:
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STOFFEL: I was about
six years old, I think.
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Back then, I was just
obsessed with everything
that had competition in it.
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I just wanted to compete.
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That's where I found
a way to actually do that
every evening.
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STOFFEL: Deep down, I wanted
to be a FORMULA ONE driver,
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but it seemed
just so far away.
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Maybe something impossible.
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When you start racing,
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you never know if you're
gonna get there, yes or no.
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JONATHAN: I just saw the car
in this blizzard of debris.
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I thought I was going in
to lock everything down.
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00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:44,233
I thought it was at that
moment where we got
a really big one here.
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And we're gonna have
to freeze data for...
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00:28:48,167 --> 00:28:50,033
You know, just horrific.
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