Anyone worked in F1?
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I have a friend who is at Mclaren in woking designing wing tunnels models, says they are like robots at the CAD stations, hardly talk and something about set toilet breaks or having to ask, not really much fun at all in my book.
I also know a guy who went to Jordan as a junior aerodynamicist and was regularly doing 70 hour weeks, i certainly think you have to very passionate about it. Sometime wish i had driven more towards F1, i did apply for a aero post at the new HondaRacing wind tunnel facility but have now gone for a career in the Aerospace industry for a more boring work life but i figure more spare time.
Good luck with the interview, F1 is a lot of school boys dreams.
I also know a guy who went to Jordan as a junior aerodynamicist and was regularly doing 70 hour weeks, i certainly think you have to very passionate about it. Sometime wish i had driven more towards F1, i did apply for a aero post at the new HondaRacing wind tunnel facility but have now gone for a career in the Aerospace industry for a more boring work life but i figure more spare time.
Good luck with the interview, F1 is a lot of school boys dreams.
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Thats basically what the job description I was sent states. Engineering in F1 is a lot of hard work!
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Right, I'm off to go to Enstone in a couple of minutes. Will report back to tell you how it all went 
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NicktheNorse said:Right, I'm off to go to Enstone in a couple of minutes. Will report back to tell you how it all went
Good'en luck'en!
NicktheNorse said:Right, I'm off to go to Enstone in a couple of minutes. Will report back to tell you how it all went
Good luck mate, ive always wanted to work in F1 since i was a young kid. Best of luck mate and hope it goes well for you
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cheers for the wishes of good luck
Just got back, was a very interesting day. The factory, although in the middle of absolutely nowhere, is very swish and good looking - the main construction floor was spotless. I think the interview went quite well, about an hours worth of chatting to the head of the department. Was not as technical as I had expected, was mostly focused around asking me about a f1 car's aerodynamics. I managed to answer most the questions pretty well, and some of the harder computational questions which they couldn't have expected me to know I think I answered as well as I could.
Seems like an absolutely awesome career, I'm staying pretty calm at the minute and I dont want to get my hopes up but I would absolutely love to work there. They only interviewed 6 people so it seems my CV impressed them in some way or another They told me they would hear from them within two weeks....
Just got back, was a very interesting day. The factory, although in the middle of absolutely nowhere, is very swish and good looking - the main construction floor was spotless. I think the interview went quite well, about an hours worth of chatting to the head of the department. Was not as technical as I had expected, was mostly focused around asking me about a f1 car's aerodynamics. I managed to answer most the questions pretty well, and some of the harder computational questions which they couldn't have expected me to know I think I answered as well as I could.
Seems like an absolutely awesome career, I'm staying pretty calm at the minute and I dont want to get my hopes up but I would absolutely love to work there. They only interviewed 6 people so it seems my CV impressed them in some way or another
They told me they would hear from them within two weeks....
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Boom, have been invited back for a 2nd interview next week where they want me to hold a presentation of my masters project. I suppose thats good news!
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Nah, they're going to tell you after you've done the presentation something along the lines of "Don't call us, we'll call you"NicktheNorse said:Boom, have been invited back for a 2nd interview next week where they want me to hold a presentation of my masters project. I suppose thats good news!
Seriously though, well done and good luck.
NicktheNorse said:Boom, have been invited back for a 2nd interview next week where they want me to hold a presentation of my masters project. I suppose thats good news!
Well played mate, what was your dissertation on btw, guessing it must have been CFD related?
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no, it wasn't really CFD related at all - which is one of the concerns floating around in my head at the minute (but they know that anyway because we spent a fair bit of time talking about it at the first interview).
I studied acoustic transmission from a cavity in subsonic flow - I've actually ended up with some pretty interesting results. I did play around with some of QinetiQ's in-house CFD code (my project is hosted by qinetiq in farnborough) I have nothing to show for it. o well.
I'm guessing they just want to see how I'm able to present the information, and that they aren't so worried about the content itself.
I studied acoustic transmission from a cavity in subsonic flow - I've actually ended up with some pretty interesting results. I did play around with some of QinetiQ's in-house CFD code (my project is hosted by qinetiq in farnborough) I have nothing to show for it. o well.
I'm guessing they just want to see how I'm able to present the information, and that they aren't so worried about the content itself.
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Yeah, you have all of the relevant background knowledge of CFD and Engineering, they will just want to see how confident you are and if you can prepare presentations etc.
So good luck on your presentation.
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