Anyone here work for a F1 Team??

[belleair302]

I used to work for a team in Woking, but after 3 years and 42 races decided that my life was more important than a Paddock pass and living out of a suitcase and not being paid. Was fun for a time, but no career.

[Cyder]

Tony 1234 said:

cgt2 said:

rubystone said:

And indeed one involving a team principal...

That would be the same one I'm referring to. Better not say any more..

That's a pity sounds interesting

I'm going to guess, Big Ron, Papa Hammy, Ron's missus and the candlestick in the library.
Do I win?

[f1rob]

my user name might be a clue
been in the game for 34 years now on and off
"modern" f1 has lost its appeal for me,and many other people I know
I have a team picture taken in 84 ish when I had been at team lotus a couple of years, there are 54 people in the picture and its every single member of the team from "Brian the broom" the cleaner to senna the driver.
Fast forward 10 years and a team picture was done in exactly the same spot but by then its 160 people in the picture,2 race truck,support truck an motorhome
was at Williams a few years ago and at 500 people they were one of the smallest
I know people who don't want design jobs in f1 as they know they will be designing the same thing for the next 5 years (if their lucky) they might just be designing the tooling to make the parts
Your just a robot now,in the old days for example you might make or help make a pattern for a bit of bodywork, make the mould, make the part, trim it, in the race shop trial fitting to the car and you really felf you were part of a team an you worked your arse off but you enjoyed (no LOVED) it
now that job involves about 20 people !
on the race team you did it all, now they have bodywork tech, paint tech, sticker teck etc etc
prefer doing le mans cars now !!!

[750turbo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/37403039

Came across this today.

[pozi]

750turbo said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/37403039

Came across this today.

Good article which anyone in F1 can relate to.

Sometimes it is the little things, for example "Every mechanic suffers from sore feet. It doesn't matter how good your trainers are, people are not designed to be on their feet for 22 hours a day. It is pretty brutal."

I remember when McLaren in their infinite wisdom decided to dress the mechanics in silk romper suits (complete with dump flap) teamed with thin soled race shoes, the romper suit would rip every time they kneeled down with tools in the pocket resulting in a hasty black tape repair and the shoes were agony after a few hours.

To make it worse the shoes had the motivational "one step towards victory" wrote on the base and were incredibly slippery on wet surfaces, think slick tyres for your feet. We had a ceremonial shoe burning in Japan at the end of the season!!

[rev-erend]

I have a few older mates who worked with Jack (Brabham) and Ron (Dennis - P4) in the early days and loved
the life. Always great to listen to their old stories over a beer or two in the pub.