Anyone worked in F1?

Bigsy · 9 May 2006 at 23:10

Step dad worked as a fault finder for Jag but got out before ford pulled the plug. Said it was the worst job he ever had, long long hours, immense amount of travel and a lot of stress.

JRS · 9 May 2006 at 23:22

Lagz said:
Sure you dont mean 'lose' instead of 'earn'. I thought all F1 teams ran at a loss?

Not sure about it, but I do remember the old F1 adage:

"How do you make a small fortune from Grand Prix racing? Start with a large one."

Jonnycoupe · 10 May 2006 at 00:20

I have a friend who is at Mclaren in woking designing wing tunnels models, says they are like robots at the CAD stations, hardly talk and something about set toilet breaks or having to ask, not really much fun at all in my book.
I also know a guy who went to Jordan as a junior aerodynamicist and was regularly doing 70 hour weeks, i certainly think you have to very passionate about it. Sometime wish i had driven more towards F1, i did apply for a aero post at the new HondaRacing wind tunnel facility but have now gone for a career in the Aerospace industry for a more boring work life but i figure more spare time.

Good luck with the interview, F1 is a lot of school boys dreams.

NicktheNorse · 10 May 2006 at 00:23

Jonnycoupe said:
I also know a guy who went to Jordan as a junior aerodynamicist and was regularly doing 70 hour weeks, i certainly think you have to very passionate about it.

Thats basically what the job description I was sent states. Engineering in F1 is a lot of hard work!

NicktheNorse · 17 May 2006 at 12:45

Right, I'm off to go to Enstone in a couple of minutes. Will report back to tell you how it all went

leaskovski · 17 May 2006 at 12:46

NicktheNorse said:
Right, I'm off to go to Enstone in a couple of minutes. Will report back to tell you how it all went

Good'en luck'en!

Yas786 · 17 May 2006 at 12:48

NicktheNorse said:
Right, I'm off to go to Enstone in a couple of minutes. Will report back to tell you how it all went

Good luck mate, ive always wanted to work in F1 since i was a young kid. Best of luck mate and hope it goes well for you

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gavsim · 17 May 2006 at 14:54

About Renault pulling out - they have comitted to 2012. Hope your job interview goes well

KaHn · 17 May 2006 at 15:28

Good luck dude.

KaHn

jakeke · 17 May 2006 at 15:31

sounds like an awesome job, best of luck

NicktheNorse · 17 May 2006 at 19:16

cheers for the wishes of good luck

Just got back, was a very interesting day. The factory, although in the middle of absolutely nowhere, is very swish and good looking - the main construction floor was spotless. I think the interview went quite well, about an hours worth of chatting to the head of the department. Was not as technical as I had expected, was mostly focused around asking me about a f1 car's aerodynamics. I managed to answer most the questions pretty well, and some of the harder computational questions which they couldn't have expected me to know I think I answered as well as I could.

Seems like an absolutely awesome career, I'm staying pretty calm at the minute and I dont want to get my hopes up but I would absolutely love to work there. They only interviewed 6 people so it seems my CV impressed them in some way or another

They told me they would hear from them within two weeks....

KaHn · 17 May 2006 at 19:20

NicktheNorse said:
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Glad it all went well, let us know how you get on.

KaHn

Amps · 17 May 2006 at 20:38

That will be a long to weeks for you.

The Very best of luck :cool:

Stellios · 17 May 2006 at 20:41

Id love to work in F1. Very good luck to you, i hope you get it

Cyanide · 17 May 2006 at 20:56

Good aerodynamics

Bad aerodynamics

Sorry I couldn't add more than this bad attempt at humour, 'tis about as far as my knowledge of the subject goes

Nice one on the interview though, hope it goes well!

NicktheNorse · 26 May 2006 at 11:17

Boom, have been invited back for a 2nd interview next week where they want me to hold a presentation of my masters project. I suppose thats good news!

MarcLister · 26 May 2006 at 11:19

NicktheNorse said:
Boom, have been invited back for a 2nd interview next week where they want me to hold a presentation of my masters project. I suppose thats good news!

Nah, they're going to tell you after you've done the presentation something along the lines of "Don't call us, we'll call you"

Seriously though, well done and good luck.

KaHn · 26 May 2006 at 11:29

NicktheNorse said:
Boom, have been invited back for a 2nd interview next week where they want me to hold a presentation of my masters project. I suppose thats good news!

Well played mate, what was your dissertation on btw, guessing it must have been CFD related?

KaHn

NicktheNorse · 26 May 2006 at 11:33

no, it wasn't really CFD related at all - which is one of the concerns floating around in my head at the minute (but they know that anyway because we spent a fair bit of time talking about it at the first interview).

I studied acoustic transmission from a cavity in subsonic flow - I've actually ended up with some pretty interesting results. I did play around with some of QinetiQ's in-house CFD code (my project is hosted by qinetiq in farnborough) I have nothing to show for it. o well.

I'm guessing they just want to see how I'm able to present the information, and that they aren't so worried about the content itself.

KaHn · 26 May 2006 at 11:36

NicktheNorse said:
no, it wasn't really CFD related at all - which is one of the concerns floating around in my head at the minute (but they know that anyway because we spent a fair bit of time talking about it at the first interview).

I studied acoustic transmission from a cavity in subsonic flow - I've actually ended up with some pretty interesting results. I did play around with some of QinetiQ's in-house CFD code (my project is hosted by qinetiq in farnborough) I have nothing to show for it. o well.

I'm guessing they just want to see how I'm able to present the information, and that they aren't so worried about the content itself.

Yeah, you have all of the relevant background knowledge of CFD and Engineering, they will just want to see how confident you are and if you can prepare presentations etc.

So good luck on your presentation.

KaHn