David Gorvy behind a Canon C300 cinema camera
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David Gorvy

Director · Writer · Host — What Makes Fast

What Makes Fast works because someone behind the camera knows how to listen. David Gorvy writes, directs and hosts the series, and he built it around a simple idea: hand the microphone to the people actually doing the work, then give them room to explain. The engineers come first. The pacing lets them finish a thought. The audience is trusted to keep up.

That approach turned an in-house corporate series into something rare. The first episode crossed 2.1 million views — well past anything GM had ever posted — and the series went on to win the 2026 Webby Award for Sports Series & Channels. Behind the finished product is a small, deliberate team: Jesse Dueck and Ethan Roche producing, Josh Chin on camera.

His broader reel travels easily across genres — documentary, branded film, commercial, VR — from A Taco Told in Texas (a Vimeo Staff Pick later licensed by The Atlantic) to Making of Beast Games and the Google Pixel 3 launch. What stays consistent is the instinct to find the story inside the subject, whether that subject is a halo, a pit-stop choreography, or a front wing's last fifty millimeters.

GM Original Series

What Makes Fast

General Motors' technical series explaining the engineering behind Formula 1 — aerodynamics, power units, tire management and suspension. Catalogued here with the most recent episodes first.

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