COLLABORATORS INTERVIEWS

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    The Motorsport MBA Interviews

    • Welcome to The Motorsport MBA

    • INTRO

    • What you should know before you start

    • How do we support you?

    • The Motorsport MBA Networking and community

    • Join our LinkedIn group

    • We want to know you better!

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    ANDREA ADAMO (HYUNDAI MOTORSPORT WRC)

    • Who is Andrea Adamo? Be in right place in the right moment

    • Breaking down Team Principal job role

    • HR company structure, hierarchy - Respect the roles & delegate

    • Help you having an engineering backgorund?

    • Relationship with Korean company, how it works?

    • How you manage whole season planning, R&D contracts, Sponsors, testing…

    • Mistakes, how to deal with and learn from it?

    • Hospitality role inside the team – Networking – Media – Marketing

    • Don’t let the passion over come

    • Life is a matter of choices

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    LUCIO CHECCHINELLO (HONDA LCR - MotoGP)

    • How go from passion to a MotoGP team?

    • Follow your dreams

    • Key points for managing a MotoGP Team

    • How to find sponsors?

    • How important it is to be also a private team?

    • Marketing sponsorships concepts

    • The “WOW” of “Marketing 3.0”

    • Contracts!!

    • Budget managing

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    BEAT ZEHNDER (ALFA ROMEO RACING ORLEN F1)

    • Beat Zehnder BACKGROUND

    • Beyond Team Manager day by day

    • How works FIA F1 rules?

    • Do you think you are busy? Wait to run a F1 team

    • Sporting Director vs Team Manager

    • Dealing with different departments

    • Motivating people? No, I don’t need to do it

    • Business Model F1 team

    • What a sponsor can expect from you?

    • Sponsors contract + Hospitality purpose

    • Driver contracts negotiations

    • This is Why one team is more competitive than other

    • Investor firm on F1 teams

    • How to play with the rules?

    • Team manager mindset

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    ALBERTO PUIG (WSC Group - TCR Series)

    • What is TCR concept business idea?

    • TCR Electric movement

    • How to find project Investments?

    • TCR Business model analysis breakdown step by step

    • Cash flows method

    • TCR Rules, why world cup and not world championship

    • Sales it's easy when you do this...

    • advice to people to enter in motorsport as a manager position

    • Advice for starting in motorsport as a business and in a career

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    MANOLO ORTIZ (FORMULA E)

    • How start in Motorsport?

    • Motorsport Barries to entry – business model

    • Investors FE

    • FE Operations

    • Logistics key points

    • Going Green in Motorsports

    • Rent-buy why? LOCAL

    • Politics in Motorsport

    • FE Sponsorship business model

    • Budged and costs to consider

    • Advice to start in Motorsport

    • Start a project is difficult - FE example

    • Circuit business model Spain vs others

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    JEFF ZALTMAN (AIR RACE E)

    • How Air Race E was born?

    • How you identify the need in the market of Air Race E?

    • Calendar setup

    • Investors & investments process

    • Value for pilots, brands, sponsors

    • Media

    • Teams relationship

    • Marketing attracting new sponsors

    • Federation Rules

    • Budget – logistics - HR profiles

    • Outsourcing interesting option

    • PRE-DURING-POST Event

    • Cruise control as a management point

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    GASTON GARCIA (HOSPITALITY)

    • How HOSPITALITY was created?

    • How to make the brands believe in you

    • Competitive advantage – 360 service

    • What is happening inside an hospitality

    • Why is more convenience to hire, rather than build your own one

    • Contract process

    • Does the budged management influence the cost optimizations?

    • Logistics in different championships and managing different events or teams in the same time. People reliability

    • Relationship with the promoter – sponsors – teams

    • Decision making process

    • Barries to entry in motorsport

    • Advice to start a business

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    PEDRO CEBRIAN (ALFA ROMEO RACING ORLEN F1)

    • What are you taking care as Digital Media Manager in F1 team?

    • How works media in a F1 team - schedule and tips

    • Make sure you are aligned with the sponsors, partners…

    • Tips for engagement

    • How much are you related to marketing side?

    • Different Media Channels

    • Quality vs Quantity

    • Advice for Digital management

    • Advice for enter motorsport- be up to date in your environment – be curios to learn

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    AGUSTIN PAYA (ELECTRIC GT)

    • How Electric GT idea came up?

    • Investors process

    • Awareness media, being the first and blue ocean

    • How to create a championship?

    • Looking for sponsorship

    • Budget management

    • Logistics with...

    • TV broadcast – platform and social media

    • Travel – tender

    • Decisions and championship calendar

    • Event: PRE-DURING-POST

    • Cruise control? What that means?

    • Advice to start in Motorsport and entrepreneurs

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    JAIME PUIG (CUPRA)

    • Seat Sport creation

    • Where Seat/Cupra was involved? Why?

    • Is the choice of the racing car related to marketing sales?

    • Where the budget is coming from, in for racing?

    • Where is CUPRA right now?

    • HOW you chose to WHO sponsor as a brand?

    • Value to the teams, what they are getting?

    • How you approach sponsors, witch ones and why?

    • How are working brand and race team together

    • Build team process – how you do it? Hiring, structure…

    • The Japan case!!! What are the purpose for a brand to race? What are you looking for?

    • Dakar SEAT

    • Organizer relationship process contract

    • Hospitlaity importance

    • Partnership outside the motorsport: FC Barcelona - ExtremeE - ABT relationship

    • Team Staff and driver contracts

    • Logistics, never easy

    • How to win a championship; Management case WTCC

    • Management skills as a manager

    • Don’t be scare to ask for advice

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    HANDAN KILINÇ (FIA)

    • Woman background in motorsport

    • How did you start in motorsport?

    • Talent promotion cup

    • How you build up a cup from scratch

    • Family riders relationships and so on

    • The way of thinking - managing multiple things in the same time

    • Let's go travel

    • Do you have a photographer? No? You should

    • PLANNING – MULTITASKING – STRESS MANAGEMENT

    • How good or bad management can effect the team, project, event… and how identify it

    • Advice for people starting in motorsport management – planning in advance

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    ROGER KOHLER (AUDI FORMULA E - ABT EXTREME E - AUDI DTM)

    • Internship as a way to start in Motorsport

    • Transition from Engineer to Team Manager

    • Management meaning

    • Key point for Team Manager

    • Building a team + budget

    • Different management teams

    • Decisions making

    • Dealing with mistakes

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    JOSE LUIS GARCIA (ALKAMEL SYSTEMS)

    • From where you come from?

    • Identifying that need in the market and how validate it

    • What is Al Kamel systems time keeping services and tv graphics real timing

    • why is best to hire you rather than build up on house?

    • FIA-FIM relationship

    • IT and circuits structure on place

    • HR collaboration with schools for internships in exchange of services

    • different between motorsport true passion and a motorsport fan

    • Skills – business knowledge, negotiation skill

    • Business model canvas Al Kamel

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    RODRIGO FURTADO (WILLIAMS F1 - REDBULL)

    • How to get in to Motorsport without a motorsport background

    • F1 commercial partnerships

    • Sponsorship-team-value

    • Key points to bring new sponsors

    • How to create a bespoke sponsorship proposal

    • How to create a bespoke sponsorship proposal 2

    • Team incomes

    • 1.000.000 NOs for only 1 YES

    • What do you need to be here

    • why sponsors are switching teams – how to keep a sponsor

    • Keep learning

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    DIEGO SILVENTE (RIDER MANAGER)

    • What a Rider Manager is taking care

    • Friends and Family rider surrounding and how a good manager can help

    • Rider/Driver Communications

    • How approach a team or driver/rider

    • Manager fees

    • contract key points

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    FABIO MUNER (FIM)

    • My personal background

    • What FIM is doing or taking care

    • FIM Marketing side

    • TV production and Tv championships rights

    • FIM Licenses + insurances

    • How FIM is making money business model

    • Safety protections, circuits, medical in racing

    • Electric + E-bikecycle

    • (MOTOGP example) Process for teams and riders to enrol FIM + championship rules book

    • Championship rights (EnduroGP example)

    • Race Weekend

    • Dopping!!! WADA ADAMS

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    XEVI PUJOLAR (ALFA ROMEO RACING ORLEN F1)

    • How to go from Engineer to F1 Head of trackside

    • Meaning of Head Trackside engineer in F1 team

    • R&D how you guys decide witch one is the right direction?

    • What performance means and how do you know you are good

    • F1 technical rules - Going to the limit, is only way to get faster!

    • SUPER Important: meetings-briefing, debriefings – engineer, drivers, decisions...

    • Advice - Enjoy what you do

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    CHRIS MULLER (CHCKRD)

    • what is Chrck?

    • Your Business model

    • Founding

    • FOMO strategy

    • Value what are you giving? + Revenue sources

    • Validate your business project

    • Competitive value advantage

    • Advice - business mentor

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    CLAIRE RITCHIE TOMKINS (SQN)

    • What is SQN? Sponsorship agency

    • Business model - finding sponsors -Why I should hire you

    • Bring Value for your clients

    • ROI

    • How find sponsors and types?

    • How to approach sponsors

    • CLAIRE RITCHIE TOMKINS 7

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    TOM PHILLIPS - Head of Communications / Envision Virgin Racing Formula E Team

    • How did you started?

    • Virgin brand group integration partners

    • Race week, planning and preparation

    • Press Release - official communication

    • Differences of communication between races teams promoters and companies

    • Guidelines rules posting

    • Media Quality vs Quantity = quality

    • Advice: work for free!!!!

    • Mistakes

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    PIER CARLO BOTTERO CEO - Founder / SEL Sports & Events Logistics

    • Business model Motorsport logistics

    • Contracts Operations and sponsorship to get the job

    • Logistics in house

    • Value to teams and promoters – flexibility

    • Dedicated services

    • Shipments INFO

    • Pre-During-Post procedure – good to know

    • Ability to get new customers

    • Decision making

    • Skill you need to have to build a business like this

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    ROMAIN GRABOWSKI - Head of Brand / MOTUL

    • How to start?

    • Brand history

    • Data collection to improve products to later on customer

    • Distribution

    • Sponsorship championship selection

    • Sponsorship Team selection

    • Sponsorships visibility business

    • Season marketing budget

    • The 4 ps (MBA)

    • how to get into motorsport? ...nice one!

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    VINCENT VOSSE - Owner/co-CEO / Team WRT

    • Not only racing business

    • Racing Team business model

    • Management daily basis - day by day

    • Contracts deals

    • Testing – new parts – TCR – GT – DTM – fine tunning

    • Brand short contract

    • The most difficult situation = managing people HR

    • Be there at the right time

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    RUBEN CASTELLS Operations Director / Jeff Control Ex Team Coordinator / HRC MotoGP

    • Team coordinator role

    • how you coordinate with Japan & Europe

    • Travel for a MotoGP team how works point by point

    • Equipment you move in MotoGP

    • What you need to think about

    • MotoGP team logistics

    • spare part lists – invoices – ATA carnet – customs

    • Important points, Airfreight, seafreight

    • Schedule trucks - Tickets expenses?

    • Team clothing

    • get ready in the pre season circuits ready and bookings

    • Core skills