F1 career could await engineering students

Engineering graduates could pursue a career a glitzy career working in Formula 1 (F1), it has been suggested.

Senior Design Engineer with Honda Racing F1 Team, Nick Brown, told The Independent that such a career is 'hard work' but praised the idea of the Formula Student scheme.

Organised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Formula Student is a competition that involves the creation of a single-seat racing car by an amateur engineering team.

IMechE works in collaboration with many companies, including the Honda Racing F1 Team, Autodesk, Learning Grid, National Instruments, Shell and Toyota, to run the event.

According to Dean of the School of Technology at Oxford Brookes University, Professor Denise Morrey, some engineering graduates are beginning to break into the world of F1.

'Last season one of our placement students ended up being David Coulthard's race engineer, which was a pretty amazing experience,' she remarked.