Hi everyone, I'm Kristen Schoeller live outside of the new york Stock exchange.
We've got a packed wall street around us joined by Zac Brown.
The ceo of McLaren racing with a beautiful all electric off road vehicle behind us,
Zach, I want you to tell our viewers about this car.
Well, it's pretty cool. I think it's illegally parked so I hope we don't get a ticket.
This is McLaren's first ever odyssey,
which is an E V.
Looks like an suv. You, but not really
much of an suv
that we raced five times around the world
in various locations where climate has impacted
the world. So we're in Greenland and Sardinia and Saudi Arabia and,
and really the series has come together to highlight
the world challenges that we have around climate change,
a fully sustainable vehicle and then also gender equality.
We have a male driver and a female driver, Tanner, Foust and Emma Gilmour for
new Zealand and we're one race in, We won the crazy race,
which is kind of gets you into the finals and
then unfortunately Tanner ended up on the roof in the
race. So, but it's,
it's been great fun and very proud to be here and partnering with ice.
Absolutely made for extreme conditions. No doubt about that.
And this is a relatively new racing series. Right, correct,
correct. So talk to me more about the racing series.
It is unique because of gender parity.
Every team must have a female and a male driver, sustainability as it is at play.
How does sustainability factor into this electric vehicle
from the tires to the actual charging?
Everything about it is sustainable. It's a battery E V.
A sustainable tires everywhere we race. We have a legacy program where we
pick a topic in the entire series,
drivers and teams and partners get behind. So we,
we kind of
leave behind a better footprint than we arrived with.
And you know, fortunately racing drivers have a big microphone,
so it's a great way to
amplify messages and highlight what's, what's going on and did
10 teams, some of the biggest names in motorsports, Lewis,
Hamilton's seven time world champion has a team, Jenson button, Carlos Sainz.
So it's amazing in a short period of time how
much the industry has gotten behind this new series.
Look, I think people want to know, how long does it take to charge a vehicle?
This big, this powerful,
well something like this takes a few hours and it takes
a few hours because it's so powerful and it gets really
hot. So I think what we're gonna find in battery technology,
just like mobile phones.
We all remember when you used to carry the brick
around and now some people have their phone on their,
on their watch.
And I think that's going to be what motorsports does is
help develop and innovate battery technology so they can run longer,
Put out more power,
charge quicker and it's amazing how much
battery technology has already come along.
I want to ask you about F1 as well that just kicking off its season a few weeks ago,
of course your drivers lando Norris and Daniel Ricardo.
What can we expect from them?
And that car this series, well,
we're just coming off Australia where we finished 5th and 6th and
which was great. We struggled at the start of the year.
We're still in the start of the year
by the first race in bahrain was was terrible for us
Daniel Orlando, we're
driving unbelievably well.
The team is doing a great job of developing the car.
It's the single largest rule change in the history of Formula One.
So you're seeing unbelievable competition, close racing
and I think all three races have been very exciting
and I think we're just getting started and I must say two
of the most likable drivers in F one that's for sure.
Also making your move into indie here in America. Talk to me a bit more about that.
Yeah, I actually just came back from Long Beach, which is the indycar race.
I had a lot of people going,
how'd you get there from Australia so quickly and it was well picking too.
So we finished fifth and 11th. They're qualified fourth and 12th.
So we had a pretty good weekend and in,
indycar for us is all about the north american marketplace.
Formula One's doing great in America now, but we, it's such an important uh,
geography for our fans
for our automotive business for our corporate partners.
So we wanted to double down on the McLaren exposure in north America.
So we're now in four series because we also have e sports,
which is really about that younger audience.
Getting the grassroots racing and simulation is so accurate now that the sports,
you take people out of the sports and they could become our simulator
drivers and we've even seen some come on to become professional racing drivers.
It is incredible.
Zach, I'm going to join you again in front of this car as we wrap up this hour,
an amazing vehicle, all electric, off road cars.
Zac Brown, the Ceo of McLaren racing. Thank you so much.
Thanks for having me on and Hannah, I'll send it back to you.