Racecar Engineering

Taming the beast

When people ask me to tell them about my job, they tend only to want to hear the best parts. So, since you don’t want to hear about the miserable moments, I’ll concentrate on the good bits here.

During my early years in motor racing, I spent most of it as a track engineer, working in Formula 3 and F3000. This job, if taken to heart, must cause some of the most extreme fluctuations in emotions and mood status on earth. Well, in racing, then.

We should

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