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Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I am speaking with BMW LMDh Program Chief Engineer Loïc Descamps. Loïc began his career as an engineering intern with the W Racing Team, taking part in racing events across France and Belgium. His first full-time role involved working as a Data and Performance Engineer for Hitech GP in the FIA F3 series. From there, Loic moved to the French DAMS team, where his responsibilities included managing the Driver in the Loop simulation architecture as well as working as a race engineer in the GP3 series. Loic has now spent almost the last 8 years with the BMW group, working for their DTM, Formula E, and LMDh programs. He most recently was a race engineer for Jake Dennis and Alexander Sims in the Formula E series and is now in charge of the IMSA LMDh operations for BMW M Motorsport. Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today, we are sitting down with Alex Athanasiadis, the Vehicle Performance Lead Engineer for the Porsche Penske WEC program. Originally from Greece, Alex started his career as a Junior Performance GT3 Engineer with Callaway Competition in Germany. From there, he moved to a role as a Vehicle Dynamics Engineer with McLaren Automotive. In this role, he worked on the 720S-Spider, Elva, Senna GTR, and 765LT. Alex then spent some time as a freelance race engineer before joining Gordon Murray Design. During his time with the company, he led the vehicle dynamics attributes development on the T33, T50, and T50S. Alex then made a move to the United States, where he worked for the Dale Coyne team within the IndyCar Series. He served as a Performance Engineer for Takuma Sato and the Lead Race Engineer for David Malukas. Most recently, Alex has joined the Porsche Penske team and is in charge of Vehicle Performance for the WEC team. Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I am sitting down with Fabio Segalini. After earning his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Parma, Fabio started his professional career with Dallara. While at Dallara, he held a multitude of different design oriented roles. Fabio then became the Technical Director and Race Engineer at Durango Engineering which competed in both the F3000 and GP2 championships. After almost three years with the team, Fabio then made the jump to F1, spending time with Toro Rosso, Sauber F1, and Haas F1. Since then he has spent time with Oreca and Podium Advanced Technologies and has recently started a new position as the Technical Director at MYGALE, a French racing car manufacturer.  Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I am sitting down with motorsports engineer, Dominic Harlow. After earning a degree from Imperial College London, Dominic started his career working on rally and touring cars with the Motorsports Development firm. Dominic then joined the Williams Touring Car group, working as a Design and Race Engineer before entering F1 with the Jordan team. After a six year stint with Jordan, he then moved to the Force India team where he held roles as the Chief Race & Test Engineer as well as the Director of Circuit Engineering. Dominic then spent a year with the Williams F1 team as a Senior Operations Engineer and now runs his own consulting firm and is the Head of Technical Audit for the FIA.  Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex. Today I am sitting down with Indy NXT driver Josh Green. Originally from New York, Josh started his karting career in 2015, working his way through the ranks until he made his formula car debut in 2019. Since then, Josh has competed in both the USF 2000 and Indy Pro 2000 series before moving up to the Indy NXT series with HMD in 2023.  Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, today we are sitting down with motorsport journalist Sam Smith. Sam started out his career as a press officer for the FIA Sportscar Championship before spending nearly a decade as the Communications Manager with Lola Cars. Sam then transitioned to a role as the Media Officer of the World Endurance Championship, while running a media company and writing the first definitive book on Formula E at the same time. Within the past few years, Sam has also picked up a position as the Formula E Chief Correspondent at The Race.  Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, today we are sitting down Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team Principal Gavin Ward. After attending Oxford Brookes for schooling, Gavin started his career with Red Bull F1, working positions as a Tire and Trackside Control System Engineer before becoming a Trackside Race Engineer, working with drivers Mark Webber and Daniel Ricciardo, and reporting directly to Adrian Newey. Gavin then worked as an aerodynamicist for the team before moving stateside to work as Josef Newgarden’s race engineer with the Penske IndyCar team. In 2022, Gavin joined the Arrow McLaren team and served roles as the Director of Trackside Engineering and Racing Director before recently being promoted to Team Principal.  Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I’m sitting down with someone who has a long and exciting list of experiences in motorsport, Justin Taylor. Justin started out his career as a race mechanic before quickly working his way up to becoming a Data Engineer for the Audi Sport LMP1 team. From there he spent almost 10 years race engineering many of Audi’s different LMP1 cars where he racked up accolades like a win and podium at Le Mans, three wins at Sebring, 1st place in the 2012 WEC Championship, and 2nd place in the 2016 WEC Championship. Since then he has held the race engineer position at Oreca, Ed Carpenter Racing, and AJ Foyt Racing. Justin is currently a race engineer for the highly anticipated LMH hypercar project at Ferrari. I hope you enjoy the episode! Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, I’m your host Sid Sudhir and today we are sitting down with racing driver Sting Ray Robb. Sting Ray first got in a go-kart at age 5 and it wasn’t long before he was racing competitively, winning a national karting championship in 2015. This helped springboard him into his car racing career, starting with the Pro Mazda series before transitioning to the Indy Pro 2000 series. He spent two years in Indy Pro with Juncos, winning the series in 2020 which earned him a move up to the Indy Lights series. In 2022 Robb had another impressive season with Andretti in the Indy Lights series, finishing 2nd in the standings with two poles and one race win. Sting Ray will be competing as a rookie in IndyCar this year with Dale Coyne Racing. Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, today I’m sitting down with IndyCar driver Devlin DeFrancesco. Devlin first got into a go-kart at the age of 6 and quickly became a competitive young driver, racing in several karting series in the United States, Canada, and Italy. After graduating from karts Devlin spent a year in the Italian and British F4 championships before coming 3rd in the 2017 Euroformula Championship and winning the Spanish F3 series. Devlin then spent time in the GP3 and FIA F3 series before coming back to the states and placing 2nd in the 2020 Indy Pro championship. From there, he joined the Andretti family, spending one year in the Indy Lights series before entering his rookie IndyCar season with Andretti Steinbrenner Racing in 2022. Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex, today we are sitting down with 16-year-old racing driver Josh Pierson. Josh was first introduced to racing at just 2 years of age when his father let him have some fun with a mini-go-kart at a local track, and that interest very quickly blossomed into a promising racing career. Josh started out his professional career with the F1600 series before spending time in the USF 2000 series with both Exclusive Autosport and Pabst Racing. In 2022 Josh got his first taste of endurance racing at the 24 Hours of Daytona and even brought home his first WEC win at the 1000 Miles of Sebring. But it was at the 24 Hours of Le Mans where he made headlines as the youngest driver to ever compete in the famed race. For 2023, Josh has plans of competing in the Indy NXT series and has recently signed for Ed Carpenter Racing as a development driver. Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex. Today I’m sitting down with Ernie Francis Jr. Ernie started his professional racing career in 2013, racing with the Breathless Racing team run by his father in the Trans Am series. With 7 consecutive series titles under his belt in the Trans Am series, Ernie also competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with MBM Motorsports in 2017 and in the Formula Regional Americas Championship in 2021. However, one of Ernie’s most significant career moments thus far was bringing home a race win at Lucas Oil Raceway in the SRX series. He credits this win as one of the reasons he received his latest opportunity, racing in the Indy Lights series with Force Indy, a team established with the goal of bringing greater diversity and inclusion to motorsports. Hope you enjoy this episode! Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today I'm sitting down with rookie IndyCar driver David Malukas. In this episode we discuss David's rookie season so far, his success in Indy Lights, the story of HMD Racing, how David mentally prepares himself for a race, and so much more! Make sure to give this episode a listen to learn more about David and his journey in racing. Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! Today we are sitting down with Dutch racing driver Bent Viscaal. Bent has plenty of experience in the world of racing, starting off his career by winning multiple karting championships and finishing as vice-champion in multiple F4 championships. He then continued this success in the Euro Formula and FIA F3 series before getting the call up to FIA F2 with the Trident team. After getting a couple of podiums at Monza and Jeddah in the 2021 F2 season, Bent has now turned his attention to endurance racing, competing in both the ELMS and WEC series. Click play to hear more about Bent's motorsports journey! Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Apex! I'm your host Sid Sudhir and today I'm sitting down with Fabrice Roussel, an engineer with a wealth of experience in both the WEC and Formula E series. We start off by discussing Fabrice's time in the WEC and why the strategic nature of the racing garnered his interest. We then move on to discuss the 24 Hours of Le Mans and why it is so important to Fabrice as a Frenchman. Then, of course, we also discuss Fabrice's time on the DS Techeetah and Porsche Formula E teams and how he has been a contributor to their successes. I had many questions for Fabrice regarding Formula E and its pursuit of a more sustainable future, and Fabrice had a lot to share! Least to say, we had a great time making this podcast and I hope you enjoy giving it a listen.  Social Media Links: https://linktr.ee/chasingtheapex