Matt Brown, better known as SuperfastMatt, joins Jim Belosic to share his journey from delivering pizzas to working at Tesla and Apple before becoming one of YouTube’s most popular automotive creators. They talk about engineering, fabrication, NASCAR, Formula SAE, and the hands on experiences that shaped his career.
In this episode of Just Gonna Send It, Jim Belosic sits down with Matt Brown, better known as SuperfastMatt, to talk about engineering, cars, YouTube, and the winding path that took him from delivering pizzas to building one of the most respected automotive channels on the internet. Along the way, Matt shares stories from NASCAR, Tesla, Apple, and the countless projects that have shaped both his career and his approach to creating.
One of the biggest turning points came through Formula SAE. While engineering classes taught theory, Formula SAE provided real world experience designing, building, testing, and racing a car. Matt credits the program with teaching practical engineering skills that ultimately opened doors throughout his career and helped land his first jobs after college.
After graduating, Matt started working at NASCAR as an engineer. While the technical challenges were interesting, he quickly realized professional racing was not exactly what he imagined. The experience taught him how heavily motorsports can be shaped by budgets, regulations, and business decisions rather than pure engineering innovation.
Matt joined Tesla during one of the most transformative periods in the company’s history. He worked on the Model S car as the company evolved from a startup many people doubted into the leader of the electric vehicle movement. From thermal systems to helping engineers turn ambitious design concepts into reality, he had a front row seat to one of the biggest shifts the automotive industry has seen in decades.
Matt’s path to YouTube started long before SuperfastMatt became a full time pursuit. After experimenting with writing, automotive journalism, and side projects, he eventually began creating videos around the things he was already building in his garage. When an electric Jaguar project took off during the pandemic, he realized there might be an audience for his unique combination of engineering, storytelling, and humor.
Unlike many creators, Matt approaches YouTube less as content creation and more as storytelling. Every project becomes a vehicle for explaining engineering concepts, sharing failures, and documenting the creative process. His videos focus less on perfection and more on curiosity, experimentation, and figuring things out along the way.
A recurring theme throughout the conversation is the importance of following interests wherever they lead. Matt never followed a carefully planned roadmap. Instead, he pursued opportunities that sounded interesting, learned new skills as needed, and trusted that experience would compound over time.
Matt Brown, better known as SuperfastMatt, joins Jim Belosic to talk about his unconventional path from delivering pizzas to becoming a mechanical engineer, working at Nascar, Tesla and Apple, to eventually building one of YouTube’s favorite automotive channels.
Along the way, Matt shares stories from NASCAR, Formula SAE, Tesla, and some of the wild projects that have made his channel so popular. They get into engineering, fabrication, YouTube, creative problem solving, and why building real things teaches lessons you can’t learn in a classroom. From his off road Dodge Viper to land speed racing and dreams of building an airplane, Matt explains how following whatever seems interesting has led to some pretty incredible opportunities and a lot of entertaining projects.
