The Wavey Dynamics Podcast

Wavey Dynamics

Welcome to the Wavey Dynamics Podcast. This is a place for engineering professionals, enthusiasts and fans to lock in to conversations with motorsport’s finest engineers. --- Through our work in motorsport engineering we often find ourselves having great, highly technical conversations with engineers working at the forefront of their fields in F1, GT, WEC and more - it occurred to us that you might live for these conversations as much as we do! Expect priceless gems of knowledge, personal anecdotes & practical experiences from our guests’ areas of speciality. #BeInspired

Episodes

  1. Podcast 002 | SAS Operator Melvyn Downes on Leading Elite Teams

    11/14/2023

    Podcast 002 | SAS Operator Melvyn Downes on Leading Elite Teams

    Pay attention. This is one of the most inspirational conversations I've had. Here I sit with Melvyn Downes, retired SAS (Special Air Service) operator to talk about his life and experiences in the military and special forces, where Melvyn developed the unique and highly specialised skill set required to lead himself and teams of people in extremely challenging, high pressured environments where good leadership and organisation measure the difference between mission success and tragedy. This podcast initially started as a focus on lessons appropriate for motorsport, but I quickly realised that while we did touch on a lot of essential lessons and wisdom relevant to our sport, they more importantly apply to any person with a commitment to be the best version of themselves. I have much admiration for these individuals in the special forces who relentlessly dedicate themselves to be the best at what they do in an environment where the motivator is a potential loss of life, sharp tools indeed. Through a career of constant improvement and progress across such a wide range of skillsets which transfer to so many areas of life and business, the special forces community are an untapped source of wisdom and learning. In this 2 hour conversation we barely scratched the surface.. Definitely more coming, but for now.. Be inspired. Melvyn: https://www.instagram.com/melvyndownes/ --- 00:00 - Start 02:55 - Childhood experiences 16:40 - Journey into the military 20:53 - Northern Ireland tour 23:58 - First encounter with the SAS (Special Air Service) 39:16 - Encouraged to join the SAS 41:56 - Gulf War; leading men in combat 59:21 - SAS Selection 01:05:08 - High performance environments 01:22:30 - Qualities of high performing teams 01:35:19 - Qualities of strong leadership 01:45:36 - Bad leadership / thinking outside of the box 01:56:08 - Mindset & resilience 02:09:32 - Fun/Light questions 02:13:11 - What's next for Melvyn

    2h 16m
  2. 06/23/2022

    #001 | Winning Le Mans with Race Engineer Kyle Wilson-Clarke

    In our first episode we have Kyle Wilson-Clarke with us. He is a Le Mans winning Race Engineer who worked with Audi and Porsche on their LMP1 programs between 2013 and 2017 and now works for Porsche Formula E. We covered his early life & journey into motorsport before getting into some great technical conversations of his experience of engineering in the Le Mans 24h race and working with the race winning Audi R18 e-tron and Porsche 919 platforms. This was a really enjoyable and inspiring conversation with one of our sports most accomplished trackside engineers, so we hope you enjoy it just as much as we did. More podcasts are on the way, so stay close! #BeInspired --- Chapters:  (00:00) - Intro  (06:02) - Early Life  (11:42) - Motorsport as a career  (28:47) - Trackside Engineering: Roles & responsibilities  (32:57) - The Audi LMP1 journey  (37:26) - The science of tyres  (44:43) - Le Mans tyre development @ Audi Sport  (01:01:25) - Engineering at the Le Mans 24h (Teamwork & Organisation)  (01:10:23) - Longevity of human performance  (01:24:46) - Developing a winning team  (01:28:34) - Working with hybrid powertrains in motorsport  (01:32:40) - [Technical issues: minus one camera :-(]  (01:39:40) - Race engineering the Porsche 919  (01:44:11) - The 929 Evo  (01:47:10) - Engineering in Formula E  (01:50:14) - Career highlights & life outside of motorsport  (01:56:23) - Community Q&A  (02:01:28) - Lessons and advice --- Follow: Porsche Formula E team on socials @ PorscheFormulaE (Twitter), porsche.formulae (Instagram) Wavey Dynamics on socials @ Wavey Dynamics

    2h 5m

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Welcome to the Wavey Dynamics Podcast. This is a place for engineering professionals, enthusiasts and fans to lock in to conversations with motorsport’s finest engineers. --- Through our work in motorsport engineering we often find ourselves having great, highly technical conversations with engineers working at the forefront of their fields in F1, GT, WEC and more - it occurred to us that you might live for these conversations as much as we do! Expect priceless gems of knowledge, personal anecdotes & practical experiences from our guests’ areas of speciality. #BeInspired