How To Get A Job in Formula 1: The ULTIMATE Guide to Jobs and Careers in F1 - Softcover

Sawyer, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910202002 ISBN 13: 9781910202005

Publisher: How2Become Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

How to Get A Job In Formula 1 is a lifetime companion to working in Formula One and describes how to build your career, from the early interest of a young child to the pinnacle of motorsport. Answering the biggest questions of: 1.How Do You Become A F1 Driver? Detailing how to start a race career, which formulas to race that lead to F1, the budget needed, race driver management and how to raise sponsorship. 2.How Do You Become A F1 Engineer, and what qualifications do you need? The courses and grades required, and the preferred higher educational facilities, and the extra curricular activities to set you apart from other candidates. The jobs within the teams, the peripheral industry and suppliers are explained. Whether you have a degree or not, F1 needs you. 3.How do you build your network? Organisations to join and creating a network from nothing explained using traditional and modern methods. A description of the company structures and jobs in an F1 company and the events of a Formula 1 weekend and race strategy explained. Chapters include: Introduction, Preface, Acknowledgement, Research A Career In F1, Education Explained, Sixth Form School & College, University Education, Creating A Great Cv, Apprenticeships In F1, Internships In F1, Using Social Media To Raise Your Profile & Build Your Network, Getting Headhunted, The Interview, What Is The Point Of F1? Jobs In F1, The Jobs In F1 Website, Circuits & Volunteers, How To Become An F1 Driver, Karting, Becoming A Racing Driver, Route to An F1 Seat, A Few Final Words, Abbreviations & Acronyms, Index and Images.

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About the Author

My name is Stephen Sawyer and I have spent in excess of 24 years working in the motorsport and automotive industry. I gained BTEC HNC & HND at college and studied mechanical engineering with the Open University. I have held many positions from apprentice to company director and have designed and built single seat and saloon racecars that won their championships, to the world s greatest supercars working with Gordon Murray at McLaren, and the development of advanced occupant safety systems working with many major brands around the world. I have led government funded research teams for the development of electric and hybrid vehicle design and system technologies that now form part of the modern F1 car. I created www.jobsinf1.com and the How To Get A Job In Formula 1 book to inspire and encourage the next generation of world-class engineers and Formula 1 drivers to build their career plan and prove their pedigree.

Edition details

• Publisher: How2Become Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910202002
• ISBN 13: 9781910202005
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196