012 Corvette Chief Podcast – Peter Wright

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The biggest issue facing the Corvette into the future is being able to maintain its extraordinary performance against the threat of fuel economy legislation. In this Podcast, I interview Peter Wright, ex Chief Engineer of the Lotus F-1 program, co-inventor of active suspension and now a consultant to F-1. We’re going to talk about design optimization in the digital world and F-1s mandate for energy recovery systems on board the race cars just one year out.

Peter and I are fellow inductees as Fellows of the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). 20 to 25 Fellow grade memberships are conferred each year from a membership of about 80,000. Peter has written two books on F-1 racing which I highly recommend. Formula 1 Technology and Ferrari F-1, Under the Skin of the Championship Winning F-1 2000.

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009 Corvette Chief Podcast – Interview With John Fitch

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In this episode, Dave interviews John Fitch. During the 50s and 60s, John had a racing career that included driving for Mercedes-Benz and the Briggs Cunningham team. He celebrated major wins in the Argentina Grand Prix, the Mille Miglia, and Sebring. He was the first racing team manager for Corvette in 1956 and 1957.

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005 Corvette Chief Podcast – Interview With Dave Ferguson

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Dave Ferguson is one of the National Corvette Restorers Society (NCRS) judges for his favorite Corvettes the ‘53 through ’57 models. Dave was imprinted with a love for the Corvette in high school. Two careers later he is back. Along the way he enjoyed careers as a fighter pilot, as a test pilot and as head of flight operations for the Lockheed Skunk Works where he flew the U2, A12, F117A and had first flight in the YF22.

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004 Corvette Chief Podcast – New High Performance Corvettes

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In this fourth episode of the Corvette Chief Podcast, Dave shares his thoughts on the most recent High Performance Corvettes. We are very excited about the launch of the Corvette Chief Podcast and the response from each of you in the comments area of the posts. Dave is already working working on the next round of podcast episodes as well as a few video installments as well.

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003 Corvette Chief Podcast – What Is A Corvette?

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In this third episode of the Corvette Chief Podcast, Dave answers the question, “What is a Corvette?” He says, “I think we all think we know what a Corvette is…” In this episode, Dave shares how the Corvette came into being.

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002 Corvette Chief Podcast – Test Drive With Zora Arkus-Duntov

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In this second episode of the Corvette Chief Podcast, Dave shares audio from a 1960 Test Drive given by Zora Arkus-Duntov of the 1961 Corvette.

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001 Corvette Chief Podcast – Mid-Engine Corvette?

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Welcome to the first episode of the Corvette Chief Podcast. In this episode, Dave discusses the rumors surrounding a possible future mid-engine Corvette. He shares that rumors of a mid-engine Corvette have been flying since the 1960’s. Dave sheds some light on the rumor that started some time last Fall of the C7 being a mid-engine Corvette.

Dave shares, in this podcast, the reaction that he has received when he has ran into the current corvette engineering team at various events.

In this episode, there is valuable insight into the history of a mid-engine Corvette as it relates to the various proposals of the research and development of the Corvette program.

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Podcast Coming Soon!

Dave McLellan, retired Corvette Chief Engineer and author of a book on the Corvette, is setting up a web site in order to start a podcast about Corvette. He expects the site and the first podcast episodes to be on line for a February 1st, 2008 launch. With his almost two decade experience as Corvette Chief Engineer and then Engineering Director and his time spent with his predecessor Zora Arkus-Duntov he has a myriad of stories to tell that will be of interest to a Corvette audience. Some of these stories he told in his book, “Corvette From the Inside” but many of them will be new.

Dave will also discuss the newest Corvettes and their performance variants. He also plans to draw on Corvette engineers past and present, letting them tell about their contributions to this legendary brand.