2026 National Networking Event | Melbourne Grand Prix Featuring Guest Speaker, Molly Taylor

24 Mar 2026 · 3 min

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In this excerpt from the 2026 National Networking Event at the Melbourne Grand Prix, host Speaker B interviews rally driver Molly Taylor (Speaker C). The conversation covers three main areas. First, Taylor explains that on loose surfaces a driver can never achieve 100% grip; instead they must feel the progressive loss of traction and stay within a narrow window of grip to maintain control. Second, she emphasizes the importance of meticulous stage preparation and real‑time review, describing how she and her co‑driver record stage times, compare expected versus actual performance, and make on‑the‑fly adjustments, which can add a measurable performance boost. Third, Taylor draws leadership lessons from rallying, highlighting the need for clear communication with a team, matching speed to objectives, and using mindfulness to stay focused and joyful. The tone is conversational and instructional, with an enthusiastic and supportive attitude toward applying rally techniques to broader team leadership.

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Yeah. Don't nobody else make me feel like. Don't nobody else make me feel like. Don't nobody else make me feel like. So don't nobody else make me feel like.
We've got an absolutely wonderful conversation, Molly. Welcome. It's wonderful.
You know, get up to 200 k's an hour. I don't want to lose service.
On a loose surface, you never have 100% grip. So you always, it's very progressive. You always hit some level of grip loss and you just try to stay on that line and not go over it, but also not be too far below it. And to do that, you just, you need to be feeling it. Yeah.
And so how about that as something to take to your teams? Next time you're in that position, just look at them and say, on a loose surface, you never have enough grip.
It's incredibly important and the preparation, not only the writing of that, but the more times you write it and then do it at speed, you learn your own pace, how to— what you need, what is right. And if you need to tweak something, if you got something wrong, a lot of the times we record our stages. So we'll be driving along and I'll say, could be a 5, it was supposed to be a 4. And I'll be going around the corner like this, yelling at the co-driver like, fuck that one. So there's a lot of review and preparation and experience to get that right. Yeah. But yeah, that's where you get that extra 5% of performance.
So a few other just incredible leadership lessons there, right? So again, you're talking to your team. Team, it's all about having the right speed relative to where we're going. Like, reconnect to what ripped you joy and happiness is about the best mindfulness you can practice.
I get totally— I mean, the irony of that is you have to go through— Yeah. You have to go through the worst points to kind of get to the other side. I don't know how you fast-track that, but— We go to these incredible places to highlight, you know, how we can use technology and sport to be able to also educate and mobilize our broader It's because, I mean, sport, we know how powerful that is to engaging people. So I think not only having the opportunity to keep racing and then the challenge of trying to figure out how to drive something completely new and it's so different as fast as possible, but also I guess being part of that journey of not thinking about it so selfishly, like I'm doing it because I love the feeling of driving a car, but also actually we could be useful. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.