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Hello my friends.

I started watching F1 a month ago and I currently use Motorsport, Autosport, and PlanetF1. I’d like more websites that offer technical analysis and are popular among hardcore fans.

Thank you.

Hey everyone,

I’ve recently received an offer from a motorsports company in Banbury for an Electrical Design Engineer role. I have about 2 years of experience in the automotive industry, working in a similar position.

I wanted to get some insight from people currently working in motorsports (especially in the UK), what kind of salary range should I realistically expect for this role, and what would be reasonable to ask for?

Any advice on negotiation or things I should keep in mind would be really helpful as well.

Thanks

In this week's episode, your host, Kevin Krauss talks with young American open wheel driver, Jason Pribyl. He competes in Europe in the GB4 open wheel series in the UK. We talk about his career path from starting out in the midwest to making the jump overseas and how that's all working our for him. A fascinating interview with a great young talent! Don't miss it!

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They knew there was an accident, the white car on the right of this onboard image is them, how can you dance in the pit when you witness such a terrifying crash, espeically yourself is a driver? I understand that at that moment, no one knew a driver had sadly passed away, but at least show some respect to the ongoing medical situation

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Also, one of their driver said he is "happy" with the crash because their garage was nearest to the exit, and they got massive exposure with their sponsor...

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[UPDATE]: The decision has been overturned!

Tor Poznan, the only race track in Poland which hosts international racing events, has been shut down due to exceeding noise restrictions. For context, the track has been around since the 1970's, and residents who are complaining about noise only lived there since the 1990's. The noise restriction in question is 50 decibels, which is lower than most cars generate on public roads. This is an absurd decision, which both the real life and simracing communities need to stand up against this decision.

The track in question is also located right next to an international airport, which is now restricted from flights operating between 1am and 5am, hours in which Tor Poznan never operates in. Flights will continue to land and generate more than 50 decibels, while the race track will likely become a housing development, but only IF WE LET THEM!

#savetorpoznan

Is there a sport out there that doesn't have relatively passionate fans always talling about how "their sport is dying" whether that be in regulations (F1), teams not commiting (Rally), not enough interest from the average public (Rallycross)... it seems like nothing is perfect nor is it good enough.

I know this is a HEAVLY asked question but in my defense here is my story. I’m 20 years old, college student in the region of Algarve in Portugal. I’m a amateur photographer that started shooting in 2022 and already have a “well established” portofolio and style to my photos (Idk if I can share my site here so if anyone wants to see my photos please DM me). I mainly shoot regional rally events and circuit races. Here we only have one circuit and it’s the Autódromo of Portimao (or Autódromo International do Algarve), and all year round they have some nacional races as well as international races. Prior to any event in the circuit I email EVERY and I mean EVERY team that’s going to participate if they want a photographic coverage of the weekend completely by free as I only want to expand my portofolio and roots in motorsport, I do this wether is a nacional/club race or a Internacional race, been doing this for months now and only got a couple of answers, some were not much enthusiastic and only one stand out for me because it was a F4 team that accepted the offer but some days before the race they “sacked” the media manager I was talking with and they didn’t answer back. I’m just wondering what I’m doing wrong, I already did what everyone says “start small then find your way to the top” but even entering in the “small” is hard. In rally some of the drivers ask me for the photos and I send them for free because at this point I do not care about the money I just want connections, but that’s about it, and that’s at a regional level. I simply cannot go any further and I don’t know why. I think i’m more than cable of doing so I’m just “limited” by a lot due to my region but even then, when regional races happen here I can’t get any teams to even respond.

Well, that’s my rant, feel free to ask anything in the comments because I might be forgetting key points in this

EDIT: Not to mention that track days ISN'T a good option since if you want to enter the track here in the Algarve as a spectator in a track day you have to pay the same as the drivers (so around 200euros). Stuppidiest thing ever

EDIT 2: Other problem I'm facing is the lack of diversity. Becasue I shoot in the same track it gets repetitive