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Sam Michael: engineering his rise to the top of F1

Sam Michael: engineering his rise to the top of F1

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“You just think there’s no way I could be good enough.” When Sam
Michael arrived in F1, he worried he wouldn’t be able to keep up.
But he became an influential and experienced leader at two of the
sport’s biggest teams. From a race engineer at Jordan in the late
1990s, to senior director roles at both Williams and McLaren in
the 2000s, Sam enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top before leaving
F1 in 2014. Speaking to Tom Clarkson, he reflects on more than
two decades in the pinnacle of motorsport and reveals the people
who influenced his life the most. Sam shares fascinating insight
into some of the big names he’s worked with; Lewis Hamilton, Juan
Pablo Montoya, and Rubens Barrichello to name a few. He explains
the characteristics that separate the greatest racers from the
rest, how he made drivers take a test to understand their
knowledge of cars, what he misses about F1 and much more.

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