Celebrity ExpertsMarc Priestley is a motivational speaker from the world of F1 racing.
AKA ‘Elvis‘, Marc worked as an F1 race mechanic, pit-stop crew member and in team management at one of F1’s most successful organisations, McLaren Racing for a decade.
He’s stood in the pit lane as cars approach at motorway speeds, stopping centimetres away, where he and his team came together in perfect synchronicity to change tyres in 2.5 seconds.
Marc has worked with an impressive list of drivers, including many World Champions such as Mika Hakkinen, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.
Motoring Presenter:
Marc has joined car dealer Mike Brewer to buy, transform and sell cars, vans, motorbikes and even a horsebox on Discovery’s Wheeler Dealers. The series features a selection of deals as they work tirelessly to find and restore a huge range of iconic cars they sell later.
Marc has hosted Discovery Channel’s Driving Wild, co-hosted The F1 Report on Sky Sports F1 HD, is the technical pundit for ITV4’s FIA Formula E coverage and hosts the hugely successful Pitlane Life Lessons Podcast.
F1 Motivational Speaker:
After a decade with the globally renowned McLaren Group as a senior figure in engineering & leadership at one of F1’s most successful teams, Marc now shares his insights and learnings worldwide as an F1 Motivational Speaker.
Using his firsthand experience of the elite pitstop crew, changing wheels in less than two seconds, and winning World Championships with superstars like Lewis Hamilton, Marc teaches the mindset and strategy required to make accurate, pressurised decisions quickly while constantly performing at the highest level.
- How do you build high-performing teams?
- Foster an organisational culture to breed innovation?
- Market yourself differently to the competition?
- Use data to create advantages?
- Get buy-in from your team when going through change?
“Marc Priestley was excellent – so engaging, and everyone was fascinated by him. We could have easily listened for a lot longer! I would not hesitate to recommend him. He was the highlight of the day.”
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In one sense, an F1 team is similar to any other business. However, it’s also different in many ways and can offer particular lessons in areas such as marginal gains, rapid productivity, image portrayal, data analysis, leadership, and teamwork.
Marc was an integral part of these processes for so long and has seen first-hand how they impact a company, making him ideally placed and educated to impart these lessons.
Marc Elvis Priestley The Mechanic:
Marc’s book, ‘The Mechanic’, explores what goes on behind the scenes of an F1 team.
It’s not all tweaking machinery in wind tunnels and crunching data through high-spec computers. These highly skilled technicians also like to let their hair down—the F1 world thrills them on and off the track.
It features stories and eye-opening insight into some of the biggest successes and scandals of the last few years.
