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McLaren Racing hadn't won a championship in twenty-six years - until Zak Brown joined the team. A professional racer for ten years, Zak Brown is a CEO who knows how to bring the competitive mindset of a life in motorsport to building successful businesses and teams. In Seven Tenths of a Second, Zak shows us how it's done: overcoming early adversity, managing competitive team-mates, fostering the drive for victory and building the best team in the world.

Few names in motorsports carry the same authority as McLaren and, with their remarkable victory in the 2024 constructors championship, they are now returning to form in a spectacular way under the leadership of Zak Brown. Going into 2023, Brown’s team were the second slowest on the grid, only to end it as arguably the second fastest, after a dramatic mid-season turnaround. In 2024, their driver Lando Norris achieved his first ever Grand Prix win in Miami, and McLaren fiercely competed for podiums against Ferrari and Red Bull.

The tools of leadership, growth, and business can be learned by bringing the fuel behind the fastest sport in the world with the leaders of some of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Join Zak Brown – CEO of McLaren Racing, co-founder of United Autosports & star of the Netflix series Drive to Survive—and Brendan P. Keegan—Chairman, CEO & President of Merchants Fleet, and co-owner of United Autosports—as they share their insights on their new limited series, Fast & Fearless: Accelerating Leadership. Zak and Brendan pump the brakes to share their stories of leading at 150 miles ...

Conversations w/ the gurus of RVA's tech scene, including start-up founders, corporate execs, and world-class engineers. Hosted by deep learning diver + armchair movie critic - Zak Brown.