Seven Tenths Of A Second

Lessons in Leadership from a World Championship Winning F1 Team Boss

McLaren Racing hadn’t won a championship in twenty-six years – until Zak Brown joined the team.

A professional racer for ten years, Zak Brown is a CEO who knows how to bring the competitive mindset of a life in motorsport to building successful businesses and teams. Under his leadership McLaren Racing has been transformed into a racing powerhouse, zooming onto the global motorsport stage.

In Seven Tenths of A Second, Zak shows us how it’s done- overcoming early adversity, managing competitive team-mates, fostering the drive for victory and building the best team in the world.

Author Biography

Born and raised in California, Zak Brown raced professionally around the world for 10 years before developing his skills in motorsport’s business and commercial worlds. In 1995, he founded JMI, which grew to become the largest and most successful motorsport marketing agency in the world. As Chief Executive Officer of McLaren Racing, Zak Brown has led the transformation of the brand and culture of the McLaren Formula 1 team and put in place the people, resources, infrastructure and mindset that has enabled McLaren to return to racing at the front of the F1 grid. He is married with two sons and several dogs, lives in Surrey in the UK and can be found on the golf course on his rare days off.