Looking at university...

[superchargednut]

Hi, i'm new here.

I'm 16 and i'm currently in my first year of college taking Maths, Further Maths, Physics and English Language A levels. I want to go to university once i'm done but i'm not sure what I want to take.

I've loved F1 since I can remember and I even tried to start a karting career which came to an end due to lack of funds. Because of this i've always eyed a career somewhere in the technical side of F1.

The two more specific areas which interest me are the designing of the car, and the preperation of it before a race.

Now, I have seen 'motorsport engineering' courses and have previously taken an interest in them. But, only a couple of universities appear to do this course (Oxford Brooks/Coventry) and i'm not sure about this. Obviously the reason behind going to uni is to further my knowledge in that area BUT, at the same time I want to make the most of the experience and would also like to be around a couple of old friends at a more 'public/common/standard' (couldn't think of the right word there) uni... where I can fit in with the other people instead of only ever being surrounded by engineers.

I've got a headache so i'm going to have to stop writing here but if i've not explained anything very well i'll reply soon

I'm basically looking for courses that will interest me and give me good oppertunities to get into the motorsport business.

[NDR008]

Many more universities offer motorsport or automotive, and trust me - look around because god do they differ in content and style. Also considere an old fashioned mech eng. I like my motorsport degree and found it useful in my R&D job, mechanical engineering would have had me slightly less prepaired for the sort of thing I work on. However the opposites counts too - other jobs would be better suited for a pure mech eng student. Yet the difference is minimal and in theory if you graduate with a good result it means you will be able to learn the small differences on the job.

Also it is harder to get some employers to take a Motorsport degree seriously - but that also depends on how you present it.

The best of luck PM me if you want my personal biased advice on uni choice.