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Dont do it, crap hours and crap pay.
Define crap hours and pay ... i bet i can beat it
All good jobs in F1 require you start at the bottom - Formula Renault, BMW etc and work your way up and then only if you are the best in your field will you progress into F1.
Good luck
Thanks , any links on where to look etc? LOL meh Renault!! -- id kill myself there (i'm a McLaren fan)
All good jobs in F1 require you start at the bottom - Formula Renault, BMW etc and work your way up and then only if you are the best in your field will you progress into F1.
Good luck
Not really always the case. A friend of mine recently started working for one of the top F1 teams as a vehicle dynamics analyst (or something like that), and he just has a good degree in engineering. Wasn't even really a mad F1 fan.
F1 sounds great but in reality it's not as glamorous as it appears on TV. This is based on my friends who went to uni with me and have worked in the industry. The race crews are a tiny part of the team.
For a F1 designer you will never go to a race, be worked silly hard (Asking to go for toilet breaks) and not be paid that great when you first start.
A lot of posters don't seem to realise that being an F1 driver isn't the only job in F1
For a F1 designer you will never go to a race, be worked silly hard (Asking to go for toilet breaks) and not be paid that great when you first start.
A lot of posters don't seem to realise that being an F1 driver isn't the only job in F1
Read the book The Pits: The Real World of Formula 1 before wanting to work in F1 circus, it opens an insight into the goings on behind the glitz and the glamour.
I know a few folk who have done it, a couple of mechanics loved it, but you need to have nothing in your life as you spend 90% of the year away working 18hour days with poor pay in comparrison and poor respect. However once you come out the circus you have lots of job prospects everyone wants an ex f1 mechanic. I also know a woman who used to be a engine component designer for mclaren, she said it was the hardest job of her life just constant preasure constant stress etc. she now works in public sector housing.
My brother started doing an aerodynamics course at farnborough, he couldnt hack it but it does sound an awesome course, not sure if they still do but they used to do work on the beneton f1 cars in their wind tunnel, could be a very good foot in.
I know a few folk who have done it, a couple of mechanics loved it, but you need to have nothing in your life as you spend 90% of the year away working 18hour days with poor pay in comparrison and poor respect. However once you come out the circus you have lots of job prospects everyone wants an ex f1 mechanic. I also know a woman who used to be a engine component designer for mclaren, she said it was the hardest job of her life just constant preasure constant stress etc. she now works in public sector housing.
My brother started doing an aerodynamics course at farnborough, he couldnt hack it but it does sound an awesome course, not sure if they still do but they used to do work on the beneton f1 cars in their wind tunnel, could be a very good foot in.
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As for how you get them
Simple. Check the adverts like most normal people do.
http://www.autosport.com/directory/appointments.html
Autosport has jobs for all of the F1 teams. Most of them are engineering at the moment though, probably due to the fact that anything easier doesnt hang round in the classifieds for weeks
Simple. Check the adverts like most normal people do.
http://www.autosport.com/directory/appointments.html
Autosport has jobs for all of the F1 teams. Most of them are engineering at the moment though, probably due to the fact that anything easier doesnt hang round in the classifieds for weeks
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Autosport has a lot of the F1 vacancies. It'll give you an idea of what teams are looking for and experience:
http://www.autosport.com/directory/appointments.html
Individual team websites have jobs as well, have a look through those.
Getting a job in F1 is a bit vague, since it spans a large number of discipline. You need to focus on something specific.
http://www.autosport.com/directory/appointments.html
Individual team websites have jobs as well, have a look through those.
Getting a job in F1 is a bit vague, since it spans a large number of discipline. You need to focus on something specific.
and closer to the action than anybody
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I'm one of those freaks that likes marshalling but I guess someone's got to do it
Define crap hours and pay ... i bet i can beat it
As i stated previously,it is not a 9-5 job,most jobs are salaried so you earn the same regardless of working 30 hours or 60 hours.
On the other hand you do get very well paid and the working conditions are awesome. As for pay the lowest paid person in my dept. earns in excess of 50k p/a.
if your not on radio duty wear some ear plugs lol, its stupidly noisy, well on the bike ones ive marshalled anyway.
Who do you work for Jay?