Advice and insight on how to navigate and select the courses, subjects and educational routes which will best prepare you for a career in motorsport
In my previous post we took a look at some of the high profile academies and initiatives that have sprung up in recent years. They offer great opportunity to get involves in motorsport related activity and potentially begin work placement and full time roles in Formula 1. The well financed and hugely promoted glamour of […]
When Susie Wolff hung up her racing helmet at the end of 2015, she immediately set about trying to put something back into the sport in which she had made her career. Her aim was really to maximise opportunities for young women and girls to get involved in motorsport, and potentially achieve more than she […]
Apprenticeships are making something of a comeback in manufacturing and offer fantastic opportunities to learn a trade and skills set whilst earning and completing college studies in your chosen area. Mercedes AMG F1 team are currently advertising for 4 different type of apprenticeships in manufacturing, each offering the chance to learn on the job and […]
Formula Student is a huge success story and becoming more and more popular by the year. The chance for undergraduate students to design, manufacture and then race their own racing machine is an enduring concept which has become justifiably popular worldwide. Formula Student is considered by many as a “must-do” programme for anyone wanting to […]
When it comes to work experience, much of the focus of this blog is concentrated around university students as this is where the majority of work placements in motorsport are targeted. However, as we saw with my recent post about NatSKA cooperating with Force India F1 to provide one of their students with a placement, […]
Much of the focus of this blog has been on school, university and making the early part of your career in motorsport. The majority of you have had a clear passion and desire to get a job in F1 from an early age and so this is the most natural way to try to fulfil […]
A short post today but an important one I think. A great number of you will be either studying at school or at university and will be wondering how to get that first job in Formula 1. There really are very few advertised graduate jobs in F1 unfortunately and so unless you have managed to organise […]
Reblogged from f1elvis.com Jobinf1.com is mainly my own content but now and again I read advice or opinion from someone else which says it better than I ever could. Mark Priestley was a senior mechanic with McLaren for many years and has been there and done it all. Listen to his own story and the […]
Over the past few months I’ve been offering my advice on what the best universities are for getting into F1. It’s a common question but a difficult one to answer. AUTOSPORT magazine and the Williams F1 team have now launched an engineering award where a nominated student is fast tracked through various roles at Williams. […]
When I studied for my degree, the choices were blissfully simple. Looking at the range of courses available to aspiring F1 engineers now, in particular with the advent of Motorsport degrees, things look significantly more confusing. They emergence of these industry specific university and college courses has brought the motorsport industry into the mainstream but […]