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The Mark Ainsworth Episode

The Alternative Data Podcast

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McLaren's Data Team

When I joined McLaren in 1999, it was me and another guy. We were literally only people who were thinking about the race strategy dimension to it. And also one of the key legacies I left there were some visualizations. There's a kind of visualization called a race trace which is now Google race F1 race trace. It's recognizably the same thing that I popped into my head to create back in 1999. So Lewis Hamilton was still riding go karts around Surrey at that point, wasn't he? Yeah, that's right. Who was the big driver at that point? Mika Hacken and David Paul's,. I was with my drivers.

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