How Did Zak Brown Make His Money?

[@chumleyk]

You've completely omitted one of the main reasons how he managed to fund his early racing... he won Wheel of Fortune game show in 1984.

[@Sean084]

So if he was born in 71 he was 13 on wheel of fortune?

[@joshlinda14]

@@Sean084yes. Exactly that.

[@leprechaun7667]

​@@Sean084 Yes it was Teen week on wheel of fortune. There is youtube videos of him in said show and he states he's 13 on the show!! Also his parents had money!!

[@kelbesylvan7236]

@@leprechaun7667 bro won 3k not 1 million

[@Vondoozy]

@@kelbesylvan7236 Which is almost 10k when adjusted for inflation.

[@buecomet831]

Zak Brown is what the CEO's should be.

[@vyomakeshaconsultancy3406]

Incredible journey by Zak and he has the ammunition for McLaren to win an F1 Title at some point in time however time is of essence in F1 and Zak needs to put in extra efforts to achieve his winning the championship. Good Luck to Zak. Gowra

[@TheRacingPilot]

Absolutely, F1 will be much more of a challenge than the other titles 🙌

[@RyanPerrella]

Thumbs up for the nicely framed Senna image in the background.

[@noelht1]

I was just about to comment on that but you’ve done it for me mate.

[@TheRacingPilot]

🙌🙌

[@RyanPerrella]

@@noelht1 🩵

[@jbevolve2023]

Great video, would love to see them win the Triple Crown.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Thanks for watching!

[@NBLCGBLN]

Next vid´ on Maurizio Arrivabene, pls? I know he´s gone since 2019 but that guy deserve a tribute, wouldn´t you agree? Love your vids btw, thank you for them!

[@TheRacingPilot]

Thanks for watching! Could definitely look into it 🙌

[@longjohnsilver3126]

Wasn't a big fan when he first joined McLaren, but he has grown on me and has started to impress me.

[@neillangridge862]

Interesting and well presented video- thanks. I hope Zack has seen and liked it.

[@markmushypeas313]

Top review and he seems like a genuine good guy. Nice to hear these good people success stories.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Absolutely 🙌

[@The8224sm]

The triple crown of motorsport should not include the Monaco GP. The race follows the standard mantra of all racing drivers. 1 win the pole, 2 win the first corner, 3 open a five-second gap and maintain that gap throughout the race. The only place to pass at Monaco is the exit of the tunnel. There may be aberrations when drivers in front make a mistake, but not a consistent passing place. The tunnel is the only realistic place, as shown year after year. The real triple crown for a team is, winning the F1 championship, winning the Indy 500 and the LeMans 24 hours. The reason that Monaco is still on the calendar is that it's known as the sponsor's race. They can wine and dinner with their clients very lavishly.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Why it's on the calendar is it's extremely tough to win as it is very easy to make a small mistake and be in the wall. I understand it's decided pretty much after the first corner but that doesn't take away from how hard it is to win 👍

[@chumleyk]

You forgot to mention 'don't crash'. F1 drivers constantly say it's the hardest circuit to drive on the F1 calendar.

[@gerardmare4030]

What interesting information well done

[@TheRacingPilot]

🙌🙌

[@HROM1908]

Well done and nicely presented. Good voice and pronunciation. Thank you for that. As for Zak Brown you said it all.

[@FueledUpBrandMedia]

If McLaren can do a whole season at this level of performance relative to the other front runners they could win a title. Piastri and Norris are learning so much and the longer they’re at the front, the better they’ll get!

[@jelof21]

OGs know this is a re-upload 😎

[@TheRacingPilot]

Thanks for sticking with me! Now enjoy the way you were meant to 🙌🙌

[@ISquaky]

@@TheRacingPilot thanks for the quick fix 👍

[@willscruton2631]

Real OGs know this is a re-upload of a re-upload

[@josemariamilian1409]

No need to display Alonso when speaking of McLaren before (boring, bad etc.). He wasnt the person to blame.

[@LuchianM1]

He was't, but sure as hell he made things worse, he did the exact same thing to Alpine last year, while he was in a much better situation.

[@TheRacingPilot]

But he was certainly the one that showed McLarens struggle visually hahaha

[@sebfettel]

Zach won more races than I thought.

[@TheRacingPilot]

He was an alright driver 👍

[@FrayedACCL]

It's pretty obvious how he did. With his band, The Zak Brown Band.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Hahaha wrong Zak!

[@Goodnewsglobal]

You should do one on Eddie Jordan.. close to 500 million now.. 👍🥴

[@TheRacingPilot]

His story is quite something!

[@johnpatricklim4509]

it all started with an episode of a wheel of fortune.....when he was 13....

[@TheRacingPilot]

Indeed!

[@AndresDCK]

McLaren have already the triple crown of Teams: 1974→Indy 500 Win / 1984→Monaco Win / 1995→24 Hours Of Le Mans Win

[@TheRacingPilot]

But with different bosses across all departments, Zak wants to be the first boss to win all three himself 👍

[@philbarker7477]

@@TheRacingPilot oh so it’s about him not the company that pays his salary ….hmmmm Btw your numbers don’t add up.I’m sure he’s wealthy but no where near your made up number. Oh and no as others have pointed out - they are not successful at the moment and if they don’t change this quickly they will lose the one asset they have ( hint a young driver).

[@marktunstall4577]

@philbarker7477 guess your eating your words now 😅😂

[@discomfortzone]

Fast forward to 2024 :)

[@TheRacingPilot]

Oh yes 😍

[@alistairmills7608]

"100,000,000 Million Dollars" said by Dr Evil

[@MrSilviable]

Them being competitive is news to me

[@TheRacingPilot]

Last season not so much but they have been relatively competitive the past three years

[@erikknudsenmork4536]

This aged poorly

[@MrSilviable]

@@erikknudsenmork4536 😂 I’m glad they turned it around

[@doesntmatter6736]

Getting McLaren to supply engines would be a good first trick ...

[@TheRacingPilot]

That would be a serious investment, one they maybe are looking to do 🤷‍♂️

[@grooviefan]

Pretty sure the McLaren block is an Audi unit for the road cars. .

[@yannickvaz694]

​@@grooviefan The Mclaren V8 (which is used in almost every one of their road cars) is actually based on a protoype Nissan racing engine. I think it was either an updated version of the engine that powered their classic Le Mans cars from the 90s (including the R89C, and R390 GT1), or an Indycar engine.

[@roelhellemans2451]

@@yannickvaz694 Your right, McLaren (Ron Dennis) bought the plans for that engine from the TWR (Tom Wilkenshaw Racing) bankruptcy sale the early 2000's. Always surprised why Nissan didn't own that engine.

[@TheDeathMedic]

Is Zak unknowingly turning into Dr. Evil? I mean, "100 million dollars".

[@TheRacingPilot]

Hahahaha absolutely

[@juandiegoarenas6284]

Great comment 😂

[@DaddySundaySchool]

F1 needs to come back to Long Beach

[@TheRacingPilot]

Oh yes 😍

[@srthebox4946]

Crazy how the spygate fine was the cost of 1 Zak Brown

[@Elaba_]

Richard Dean is a Martin Brundle lookalike?

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

There is absolutely no way in the world that those cars are only worth $15m. Maybe20x that.

[@TheRacingPilot]

May be right, but that was what was reported on a few sites 👍

[@axelknutt5065]

I agree but don’t forget Zak only owns half of the ‘Zak Brown Car Collection’ … with Mr Dean holding the other half.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Well, the collection is stored at United Autosports but I don't think that means they own part of the collection 👍

[@psicodom]

Cool vid

[@TheRacingPilot]

Thanks for watching!

[@lisabrown4474]

EXCELLENT

[@gsxr750dude]

1.25x to be bearable to listen to

[@TheRacingPilot]

👍

[@MuhammadNiz007]

Not sure if his net worth is true cause he owns McLaren F1 and F1 GTR. Both valuations are easily 40M .

[@TheRacingPilot]

Where have you seen that he owns both cars?

[@coma3550]

@@TheRacingPilot You say that he has one of the greatest Formula One car collections in the world. How can this only be worth 15M?

[@kevinoneil7532]

McLaren have already won the Indy 500, the Monaco grand prix, and the 24 Heures Du Mans. So what are you reffering to?

[@robertalexanderho5268]

Anything public is usually over stated....

[@whateverrrrrr123]

He is worth more than that

[@blueyhis.zarsoff1147]

Long way to go before McLaren even get back to close to where they were.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Definitely, not an easy job ahead

[@BenjaminFranklin-vx5xc]

To be bluntly honest...McLaren has a snowball's chance in Hell of winning the F1 championship in the foreseeable future.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Yep 😬

[@dannyholder1359]

This hasn't aged too well...

[@JoeFiddle-ls5jh]

Zak is the ultimate f1 fanboy who bought his way in like stroll

[@noelht1]

So Zak Brown is worth $100 million. Or as Toto Wolff would refer to him, the pauper!

[@TheRacingPilot]

😂😂

[@KenSmith-bv4si]

Hot dog eating contest?

[@TheRacingPilot]

😂😂

[@leoarevalo6786]

His money came from wheel of fortune

[@TheRacingPilot]

That was how he got his pocket money in a sense, he then used that to create his wealth

[@robk181]

The Alex Palou situation did his team no good ....

[@stevebuscemi3622]

Bro eats 3 hotdogs for lunch without a shirt on

[@TheRacingPilot]

😂😂😂😂

[@voldemarkolin9441]

To make video better would be nice to not show yourself at the screen.However,the story is good.

[@spectrelfc1152]

By choosing McDonald’s over Chipotle

[@TheRacingPilot]

🤔🤔

[@PeterKKraus]

Those cars are worth more than $15 mil.

[@chinmaysardesai623]

By talking

[@TheRacingPilot]

He's a good talker!

[@peterthomas5792]

> "He's taken McLaren from a laughing stock to a truly competitive outfit in just a few years" Really? Which racing series have you been watching? He was announced as Executive Director of McLaren in November 2016, at the end of a year they finished 4th in the WDC. Since then, they've been 9th, 6th, 4th, 3rd, 4th, 5th. Their average finishing position in the WDC since he was appointed has been 5.1 - not exactly "laughing stock to truly competitive" is it? Is he paying you for this?

[@TheRacingPilot]

Of course this season has been a big step back but I think it's fair to say when you look at podiums since 2016/17/18 it's been a massive improvement. But obviously this season is different, and this video was made before the season started 👍

[@peterthomas5792]

​@@TheRacingPilot I gave finishing positions from 2017-2022. Only one of the 6 years has been an improvement over 2016 when he was appointed (and even that was just one place). How on earth can you claim that it's a 'massive improvement', even ignoring the calamity that is 2023? It just isn't.

[@JoshuaC923]

Well well well

[@peterthomas5792]

@@JoshuaC923 Lol! A year-old comment and you choose to replay now? Clearly you don't watch any racing series at all!

[@JoshuaC923]

@@peterthomas5792 oh somebody sounds butthurt

[@mjkou]

Zak who.........?

[@joseferreol2353]

OMG , speed up your speech man, it feels like a Lecture about Safety pins

[@CosmicSeeker69]

PLAY @ 1.25 then - I did

[@tadroid3858]

I like Zak, but I think he spent too much time making waves wooing drivers while the development of this year's car lagged.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Well I'd say that's not entirely fair, his job isn't to build the car 👍

[@pharaohgamma3931]

@@TheRacingPilot what is his job, to market and promote himself?

[@robertwoodliff5622]

Do you need the junk elevator music ...

[@TheRacingPilot]

Funnily enough it does help views 👍

[@TheRacingPilot]

Funnily enough it does help views 👍

[@robertwoodliff2536]

@@TheRacingPilot ...... well that solves that then ... Have a good day ... Regards from London ...

[@kingzeallot7938]

what happened to your ear?

[@kingzeallot7938]

scury

[@lakeconroehouse]

Eating contests???

[@TheRacingPilot]

🤔

[@Vtwin60]

Zak Brown is one smart jewish guy. He has the right connection while continuously failing to show any progress as head of Mclaren

[@RossoFormula]

Because he's Jewish.

[@jdstan9650]

...the watch story fable continues...what a bunch of BS...these pull yourself up by your bootstraps stories in F1 are laughable.

[@bobbydee2592]

All loud bullshite artists get rich.

[@ryaningham904]

I always assumed he won it on food eating competitions.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Ok 🤔

Lando is the wrong driver for McLaren...he'd rather be Max's teammate @ Redbull.

[@TheRacingPilot]

Surely Lando knows he would never have a hope in getting a title being Max's teammate though...

[@miljenkokajfes2816]

[@TheRacingPilot]

🙌🙌

[@miljenkokajfes2816]

thanks

[@JoeFiddle-ls5jh]

F1 money

[@romyenglish]

McLaren will be back on the 1st spot in a year or two

[@TheRacingPilot]

Would be awesome to see 😍