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I am graduating as a Mechanical Engineer this coming May, after working in 3 very active years of Formula SAE. With some luck, hopefully I'll find my way into a Formula car chassis company or team (Atlantic or better).
Grip is a four letter word. All opinions are my own and not those of current or previous employers.
I already got a college dipolma in accounting and doing my Bachelors now in Accounting (1 and half years left) and then afterwards doing my CFA. I got no engineering background whatsoever.
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
I race with a local car club, rally co-driving soon I hope. I'm hoping to become a techmnician in an F1 team, or similar.
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
Well I'm currently doing A-level Physics, Chemistry and Maths, might go down the motorsport route via Aeronautical / Aerospace engineering but might just stay on with Physics, haven't decided yet.
I have worked as an engineer in many fields, and Motorsport is definatly the most rewarding. In many other fields projects can be anything from 2 to 20 years long and getting good mechanical experence which is valuable is time consuming and sometimes fruitless. Not so in motorsport. The demands are such that you learn quickly and gain huge amounts of technical experience. Experiece in Formula SAE or Student is great, or even the UK based F1 in Schools programme. Outside that, get work in a garage or anything which shows your desire and commitment to the desired path - Karting etc. After which a good degree followed by a post-graduate degree are VITIAL.
Senior Engineer at Ford in Diesel Engineering
Have several friends that are working / have worked in F1
Race a Honda Blackbird powered converted Formula Renault in the UK
Own and run my own chassis dyno
Currently designing for manufacture a sports racer
cheers,
rob
All-round anorak, F1 and club motorsport fan, technical journalist. Have done much mechanical work on my own cars (except bodywork, hate that!)
I think a lot of F1 fans should really get out and see some local club motorsport. I get the impression that a lot of them have only seen F1, ever, despite theother great motorsport that exists.
For me karting is one of the most accesible and enthusiastic forms of motorsport. Always someone to lend a hand, mixed with real passion and competition. Although you can't beat the sounds and smells of an F1 circuit. Just a shame it's not a bit closer on the track. If there was more acessabiity like with NASCAR, it really would be great to watch and be a part of....
Anyone who loves motorsport really ought to join a car club, you can grab a banger and just start racing, no MoTs/Tax, minimal cost, for me the car cost £70. Membership £5 and every event £7. Nothing could be cheaper, and you can race from 14 upwards.
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
I've been marshalling on local races for almost 10 years up to 2002. Than I was involved in buliding of an official site for our local motor club as well as photographer and news editor/journalist. I have some experience in tuning but that wasn't motorsport but street car related tuning (not neon lights and such crap but real engine and suspension tuning, pure mechanics).
Currently ranting on F1 technical, here and than comming up with crazy ideas and running "notorious" F1 fakery website
I used to watch F1 when I was little with my dad, but...I only got CRAZY about F1 when I met Tomba and I started to learn as much as I could about F1 and the drivers. On the technical side, I still have a lot to learn, but I'm trying. For the rest I'm just writing the news for F1 technical, making technical articles and so....
