Race/for
Design
Leaders.
● HEAT / 000 · PODIUM · F1 DRIVE LONDON
● HEAT 02 · WAITLIST
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Dress code
Whatever you can sweat in.
Helmets & suits provided on site
§ 01 / Manifesto
Two things
we love:
design & speed.
The design community is small. The design world is wide. What moves it forward is connection — the kind that doesn't happen at sponsored breakfasts or pitched roundtables.
We love design. We love racing. Both demand the same things — taste, precision, and the nerve to commit at speed.
So we built a different kind of gathering. You show up. We hand you a helmet. You race wheel-to-wheel with people who run design at companies you respect. Then we all walk to a pub, settle a tab, and actually talk — about the craft, the hires, the things you can't post on LinkedIn.
No badges. No nametags. No agenda. Just the room where relationships start and the design world gets a small nudge forward.
— UNKNW
§ 02 / Heat 01 · How it went
Eleven leaders.
One track.
One long pub talk.
14 May 2026 · F1 Drive London. Eleven design leaders from Wise, Monzo, Granola, SecondMind, Flo, Paysend, Amazon, Metaview, UNKNW and Moss showed up in helmets, raced wheel-to-wheel for two hours, then walked straight to a private back room for pints, pro talks and the kind of conversation you can't have anywhere else. The group chat is still going.
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Heat 02.
We hand-pick the next grid. Design leaders who actually run craft, not headcount. Drop your details and we'll send a date the moment we lock the venue. No spam. No calendar invites. No newsletters. Free to enter, always.
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