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[jcbc3]

Another one. Danish Red Bull chief mechanic Ole Schack is on the right front wheel at pit stops. He's been with Red Bull for many, many years

https://www.auto123....mechanic/36173/

and

https://www.sportsne...f1-racing-team/

[Peat]

I know several people in/who have been in F1. 

Some absolutely love the constant GO GO GO, some get burnt out by the constant travel and become disillusioned. Certainly, whilst pursuing an education in mechanical engineering, I saw a peer go from motorsport nut to couldn't care less and only checked the results to see what points bonus he was due. I decided to steer clear and keep it as a hobby. 
 

 

It's this part of the season that the casm between the have's and have-nots gets bigger. I know that Merc start to swap out alot of at-the-track personnel around Singapore onwards to relive the stress/fatigue. They have a full factory-based demo/test team to pick from. I assume Ferrari do the same. 

Spare a thought for the IndyCar crews too. They have a stupidly compressed 6 month schedule which sees strings of 3 or 4 races back to back at different sides of the USA. Then, they get let go, in some cases!

Edit: Interesting to see the suggestion of staffing/staff retention issues developing. Most of my 'in's' were at Williams a decade ago, who had a high staff turnover - i fear largely because of the presence of Patrick Head who would make it abundantly clear that the grunts were grunts and were easily replaceable. 

Edited by Peat, 03 October 2018 - 07:58.

[FirstnameLastname]

I know several people in/who have been in F1.

Some absolutely love the constant GO GO GO, some get burnt out by the constant travel and become disillusioned. Certainly, whilst pursuing an education in mechanical engineering, I saw a peer go from motorsport nut to couldn't care less and only checked the results to see what points bonus he was due. I decided to steer clear and keep it as a hobby.


It's this part of the season that the casm between the have's and have-nots gets bigger. I know that Merc start to swap out alot of at-the-track personnel around Singapore onwards to relive the stress/fatigue. They have a full factory-based demo/test team to pick from. I assume Ferrari do the same.

Spare a thought for the IndyCar crews too. They have a stupidly compressed 6 month schedule which sees strings of 3 or 4 races back to back at different sides of the USA. Then, they get let go, in some cases!

Edit: Interesting to see the suggestion of staffing/staff retention issues developing. Most of my 'in's' were at Williams a decade ago, who had a high staff turnover - i fear largely because of the presence of Patrick Head who would make it abundantly clear that the grunts were grunts and were easily replaceable.

Claire Williams has been making a lot of noise recently about changing the ‘culture’ at Williams. She suggests this is one of the reasons for the teams crash to the bottom of F1. They obviously have form and a reputation for not looking after their people, in this day and age HR is a huge thing...

[Sparky68]

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