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hi, just wondering what people do for a living and more importantly do any of you work in the motorsport trade and fancy employing me for a year as part of my degree, places seem to be really limited and its driving me crazy , thanks gav

I work in motorsport but i am at college myself studying my HND. Run a few Historic F1 Cars and a few other bits up in Norfolk.
TBH your best bet is to write to everyone who is stupid enough to put their name and address in either the Autosport Directory or the Yellow Pages.

I'm an engineer.

leading fire-fighter in the defence fire and resue service.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

dont know about motorsport, but i work for Rolls-Royce, and the areo space stuf you can get your hands on, and the things you get made here are top quality! drop em a line!!! wage aint bad eather! as well as mini turbos, i work on jet turbos! i think a RTM322 jet prop would fit in a mini engine bay uno!!!

Edited by the daddy take2 on 2nd Dec, 2005.

the paint master! D

I'm a web designer. so no, you can't have a job.

voice and data engineer

qualified engineer but work as a berth operator (steveadore) at a container port.

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

builder at the mo..... got a management degree, but cant face a 'proper' job tbh!!!

And on the 7th day........... God created turbochargers!

man whore.

Wish i was an engineer though...

see here!

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=5244



alex

AlexF

cheers guys, antman i'm having trouble finding the directory do you know where i can find it?

Quite a few people in motorsport.. :cool:

I'm at college doing national diploma in motorsport (bit crap, and actually has naff all to do with motorsport), but I'll be going to uni next year to study motorsport engineering or something :)

I am a voice and data engineer for Wable and Wireless and part time Artic driver

Edited by giallofly on 2nd Dec, 2005.

The autosport directory normally comes with a copy of autosport around the new year! If not i believe there is something on the autosport website about it. If not search on the net, knock on people's doors and generally hassle people. I spent £25 on stamps sending letters out begging for jobs, and once you have your foot in the door somewhere, everyone else offers you a job!!!! :(

Whereabputs are you doing your ND in Motorsport S1275GTt? I am at Brooklands College in Surrey doing my HND and are finding it a bit tedious and irrelevant, but at the end of the day a HND is a respectable qualification so not really bothered.

Shift Engineer at a steelworks, responsible for keeping plant available to production as much as possible, delay times of £16k per hour on certain items of plant focuses the mind somewhat. Mechanical Engineering degree from Loughborough University.

Edited by Tom Fenton on 2nd Dec, 2005.

I play with metal

Its only a bit of metal. If it blows it blows!

http://www.putfile.com/mini300bhp

you went to loughborough too?

I was there 1996-1998 tom....


alex

AlexF

hair salon owner

so far far from anything to do with motorsport.lol

Edited by smurf on 3rd Dec, 2005.

Highstreet retail credit controller for an IT distributor, I now hate Argos and the like with a passion.

Thats right Antman, send enough letters and some one stupid enough will take you on !!!! Well we had to be really !!! lol So if your running the cars what does that leave for Darren to do ?? just mucking , How you doing Ant ?

Currently mainly work In A1 Grand Prix series on the Australian Teams car, basically its F3000. Been working in motosport for 10 years, was partner in team for a few years. Looking more to supply comonents into motorsport industry in future. Got a BSC (Hons).

As Ant said it really is about getting a foot in the door. Offering to help a team for free at weekends is a good place to start. Call up teams and ask if you can come and see them, shows a bit more get up and go than just a letter. Even if they dont have anything you can help with, when they do you will be the face that comes to mind. Ant did well last year when we helped get him some experience at BAR. Motorsport is quite a small community, lots of people know each other, so when you have a foot in the door and proved yourself then many doors can quickly open.

Dont know how to put this, but dont be cocky about what you know. Ive seen students who talked themselves up and when it came to it they knew nothing, a big disapointment.

Edited by Mirage on 3rd Dec, 2005.

I'd agree with that, no matter how much you know, or think you know, there is no substitute for a few years actually "doing" it.

You will get a lot more respect if you are understated about what you know, but are keen to learn and show initiave to do things under your own steam.

I'd also agree with what Mirage said about the motorsport trade being very "cliquey", it is a very tight knit community of people, with most of them knowing each other, and quite rightly once your foot is in the door and you begin to prove yourself, opportunities will occur.