Being brought up by a retired rally driver dad (and a very tolerant mother!), this brought a big smile to my face. It took me right back 40+ years. Rally mechanics are as good as you'll get anywhere on the planet! Funnily enough, I had only about an hour ago spoken to my eldest (home on holiday!) about my dad teaching me to drive. He said that when he took his newly-bought car down to show him, despite him being in his eighties, Dad insisted they go out for a drive and he kept telling him where to turn. From the description, they ended up on the nearest part of the Round Britain Rally to his place 😂 Dad and his two co-drivers (they'd swap between them) actually designed our region's stages, some of which, at least in part, were still in use in the 1980s when I learned to drive (they designed it in the '60s). At least my son's car is closer in size to a rally car, I learned in a 2 lt (almost 2 tonne, no power steering) Datsun Laurel in which I couldn't see over the steering wheel! I had to learn early on to trust _my_ co-driver!
I am working in the local championship on rally2 cars aka wrc2 or r5 cars, they are amazing and it just reminds me of what I have to do tomorrow at the next rally and last of my season
Honestly this is my dream job (second to actually driving the cars of course) so the fact they were willing to let even a newcomer in gives me at least some hope!
Not sure i would openly admit never changing my own tire before much less to be a motorsports reporter 😂🤣 thought we had people with some sense and experience behind the mic
Wait, how do you get work for a car mag and haven't ever changed a tire before? You'd think people who work in motorsport magazines would work on their own cars let alone just rotating their own wheels, no?
God film and story but where are the real story ? I’m have been working in professional Motorsport in nearly 35 years now and started as a Mekaniker and worked my way up to engineering. The life as a Mekaniker is a hard job and hard on the body , long hours , now weekends or vacation more then the travel days. When I was most active as a mek in WRC , ERC and LMP i had 200-230 traveling days round the glob plus the event on top of this. After 10-12 years of this I crashed my body was screaming and I had to rest and find a different way forward , so I started with formula cars and tarmac racing and forth that was better 🤣 , I stared with Indy car moved to USA after some years there I moved home and started to work in Europe and moved up the ladder and got to be race engineer , people doesn’t believe how brutal this business is and how mentally burned out you are after a race weekend as a mek or engineer and when you get up in age it’s not better 🤣 I am 51 years old now and I got drafted a week ago to be senior engineer in a TCR team , I told myself for 5 year’s ago that I stop by 50 but it’s a not easy to let go even when you’re body protesting .
feels like not much detail was being shown tho? you say changing a gearbox took 10mins and a damper took 4mins... but there was barely any matching footage, much less a walkthrough of any particular job... guess i was expecting more.
great video. But this guy needs to be fired! Are you telling me that he's never change a tire and he works for a racing car magazine?! that's blasphemy! knowing how to change a tire should be on the resume for the job. At the very least.