Post by Dr. Thorsten Lambertus

We in the deep tech world love talking about breakthroughs. The big innovation. The technology that changes everything. Reality is often less spectacular! In motorsport, races are rarely won by a single stroke of genius. They are won through hundreds of small improvements. Faster learning. Faster feedback loops. Relentless iteration. That is precisely why motorsport has been a laboratory for innovation for decades. An extreme use case. Years ahead of the mass market. Operating at the highest level. And the FG Series is a prime example of this. What truly impressed me in my conversation with Nick Heidfeld and Dilbagh Gill, however, was the human side of innovation: Nick is relentless in his pursuit of improvement. Every assumption is challenged, every detail analyzed, every opportunity explored. Dilbagh thinks in systems. He sees opportunities where others see existing structures and builds platforms on which talent, teams, and entire ecosystems can grow. As individuals, they could hardly be more different. As a team, they have worked together successfully for more than a decade. Not because they have the same skills. Because they share the same values! Trust. Integrity. Long-term thinking. A desire to create opportunities for the next generation. For me, this reinforces a lesson for deep-tech founding teams that I have been repeating for years: Complementary skills matter. Shared values are non-negotiable. All of this and more in the latest episode of Deep Tech Unlocked, the podcast by 1E9 & Festival der Zukunft, together with my co-host Thomas Lange and produced by Wolfgang Kerler. Important note: We conducted the conversation with Dilbagh and Nick in English, making this episode accessible to our international audience as well. #deeptech #motorsports #founderstories

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