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A Career as an Automotive Race Engineer

Carter Pike

Harrison High School

STEM Capstone

Ms. Paulette Allard

April 13, 2021

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Contents

Chapter One: Career Choice............................................................................................................3

Part I: Introduction.......................................................................................................................3

Part II: Job Description................................................................................................................4

Part III: A Day in the Life............................................................................................................5

Part IV: Pros and Cons.................................................................................................................7

Chapter Two: From Here to There..................................................................................................8

Part I: Professional Profile...........................................................................................................8

Part II: Education.........................................................................................................................9

Part III: Budgeting.....................................................................................................................10

Chapter Three: Personal Assessment.............................................................................................11

Part I: My Skills.........................................................................................................................11

Part II: My Personality...............................................................................................................13

Part III: My Motivation..............................................................................................................14

Chapter Four: Productivity............................................................................................................16

Part I: My Project.......................................................................................................................16

Part II: Career Connection.........................................................................................................16

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Chapter One: Career Choice

Part I: Introduction

I have the absolute pleasure of knowing exactly what career I want to pursue and that’s

Automotive Race Engineering for McLaren Racing Limited in Surrey, England. If someone had

asked me what career I wanted to pursue in life four years ago at the start of the STEM program I

would’ve said I wanted to be a neurosurgeon. Soon thereafter though I learned just how much

school they had to go through and how much it would cost. So, I put that down and picked

something up that I was passionate about and would love to do for the rest of my life.

Ever since a young age I’ve been passionate about cars. I interested in cars from a video

game when I was about 7 and I latched on to them, learning more and more every day from

watching car related movies like the Fast and Furious franchise to watching YouTube videos,

and going to car shows and dealerships every chance I got. As a young car enthusiast, my dad

tried to keep up learning from me. He never would have expected that one video game he gave

me for Christmas would change my life forever, yet here we are, and he is still listening to me

and inspiring me to chase my dreams and passions. He always tells me that whatever I put my

mind to I can accomplish through hard work and dedication. If I wanted to do something, I was

passionate about, then I had to do something in an automotive related field (RE#2: My learning

story n.d.).

So, over the past few years I took many career cruising tests and each of them came out

with the same result, engineer (CareerOneStop n.d.). I was set to be an automotive engineer, but

in what setting. The final piece of my puzzle was Formula 1 a mainly European racing series that

also hosts races on four other continents. A few years ago, I began watching Formula 1 Every
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once and a while, gradually watching more and more until I knew I wanted to be on that grid one

day as a race engineer for the team I loved the most: McLaren Racing Limited (McLaren jobs

n.d.). I watched as much of the 2020 season as possible though it was hard because the races

were in Europe and I was in America with at least a six-hour time difference. This meant that

sometimes I would wake up at 5am to watch qualifying, but as time went on, I became more and

more obsessed with the sport as a whole. To me, it was worth getting up at 5am considering that

if I were an engineer, I’d have to get up and go to work on the car in the early morning hours.

Part II: Job Description

Automotive/Race Engineering is exactly what it sounds like. After I complete my four-

year bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, I will then move onto a master’s degree in the

more specialized field of automotive mechanical engineering. At this point, I would be an intern

somewhere, hopefully McLaren Racing Limited, gathering some skills in and around the garage.

As an automotive race engineer, if not given any particular specialty, like reliability or

aerodynamics, I will be an overseer of the entire car from the engine to the wheels. I will be one

of the many engineers working day in and day out on the car as a whole making sure that

everything fits together seamlessly and works together come race day. As a beginner in the

garage I will be payed as such, making somewhere between £35k and £45k a year or $48k to

$62k a year (PayScale - Salary Comparison, Salary Survey, Search Wages, n.d.). The tax codes

and percentages are very different in the UK, though, so if was making £35k a year I would be

bringing home about £28k after taxes. Getting a job should be very easy in this field, since they

are so widely needed across a variety of industries. While I am aiming at becoming an engineer

for McLaren Racing, I may land somewhere short, like McLaren Automotive or Aston Martin

but eventually end up at McLaren Racing. The career is supposed to grow 9% by 2026, which is
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when I would be entering the garages after getting my master’s degree (CareerOneStop n.d.).

The need for automotive engineers has always been high, but as the industry grows the

unemployment rate falls with an unemployment rate of only 3% in 2018 (Www.recruiter.com,

n.d.).

But as the world slowly phases out petrol powered vehicles for greener alternatives the

need for petrol powered racecars will subsequently be phased out too leaving me with no job.

Nonetheless, should I be put down by the industry I will fight back to working for my passion no

matter what stands in my way, because I am persistent. Persistence is one of the many traits

needed to succeed in the industry. I’ve spoken to a few people who have worked in the

automotive field and I’ve watched countless interviews of the people I idolize in the sport of

Formula 1 and they all say that same thing: the highs are very high and the lows are very low.

Cars don’t care about feelings, and it’s the responsibility of the team to make them work

sleepless night after sleepless night. In order to succeed, sacrifices have to be made. Whether its

losing a night of sleep or somehow shaving off ten kilograms of weight, and that’s just how it

goes. Persistence, patience, and passion are the only three things needed to work in this industry,

because with all three everything else will come.

Part III: A Day in the Life

This job is not a typical 9 to 5 office job. A big team of people, mostly engineers and

designers, work together for hours and hours for weeks in a garage and testing facility to make a

beautiful machine capable of doing 300kph on the strait and pulling 5gs in the corners. I would

be working with a massive team of people to develop and build this amazing beast of a car. Like

any other engineer, we would follow the engineering design process: First, drawing up plans for
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the car then building the car and finding what doesn’t work, finally fixing it and repeating the

process.

Multiple times out of the year I will be expected to go off site with the car half way

around the world to Singapore or Houston, TX for a race weekend to oversee that the car is

performing the way it should, this will be my track side duties. If I am at home base working on

the car. I will be in a giant workspace trying to fix whatever new problem we have on the car, or

if I am trackside I will be sitting on pit lane watching the cars performance and getting feedback

from the driver. Trackside is the most stressful, because what if the driver crashes during practice

or qualifying I have to fix that with the team of mechanics and the other engineers and that could

be a very long night. There will be very long nights in which the team has to work tirelessly to

fix the car or even just finish tweaking everything for the next morning for race day. One of the

greatest parts of this is the free travel to these exotic parts of the world with places on the

calendar like Singapore, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, and Melbourne. This coupled with a salary

somewhere between £35k and £45k a year with benefits like health insurance covered by the

state and the ability to get up in the morning and go to work and do what you absolutely love and

enjoy every day is an unbeatable deal in my opinion. The engineer I interviewed who also shares

the same love for cars as I do, even said about the job, “So just being around this environment I

enjoy” (Caldwell, ln. 444). He also said that the stress is the absolute worst part of the job

because there will always be deadlines, but the car will not always cooperate. So, the jobs

definitely got its ups and downs, but in the end, I’ve got the passion to keep going.
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Part IV: Pros and Cons

I, as Jeremy Clarkson would say is a part of a dying breed. Car enthusiasts are the

backbone of the automotive industry. Every single person I have ever talked to that works on

cars, builds cars, or designs car has some sort of passion associated with cars. Forty or fifty years

ago the car scene was overwhelmed with amazing cool gas guzzling sports cars from American

muscle German beasts, and British Monsters, but since then gas prices have risen and alternative

fuel vehicles are becoming more abundant the need for enthusiasts to build and race these

miraculous machines is dwindling as well. There just aren’t as many people that see cars as a

living breathing machine anymore, they all see it as a means to get from point A to point B and

the industry reflects that by making boring small tiny engine commuter cars. The only companies

left making these enthusiast vehicles and race cars are the companies with rich heritage and are

still ran by the visionaries and enthusiasts that started them, like McLaren, Lamborghini, Ferrari,

and Dodge. Other companies like Ford, GM, and Toyota have given up on making really fun

cars, because the market doesn’t want that. Even Honda is pulling out of many different

motorsports like Formula 1 in 2022 to focus on making their tiny little commuter cars (Cooper,

n.d.). These companies have to stop making these cars, because there is no demand left that’s

why the manual transmission is barely offered as an option on any new car now adays whereas,

even thirty years ago it came standard on most vehicles. There are defiantly more cons and

reasons not to enter this industry right now, because there is a good chance that by 2050 there

won’t be any gas-powered cars on the road, let alone the track. Boris Johnson even said that he

wanted the sale of all new gas-powered car to be stopped in the UK by 2030 ("U.K. to ban new

gas cars by 2030 as leader touts "green Industrial Revolution"," 2020). Even though the industry

is being slowly phased into another direction opposite of what car enthusiasts like myself want.
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The day to day pros are unbeatable and the journey through it all will outweigh all of the

negatives being thrown at me and my future colleagues in the years to come. This is very much a

passion driven industry, the people who work in it know that its changing and they’ll have to

change with the times as well. In my interview with Tyler Caldwell he even said, “We're not

going to close the doors to this place just because they're not making gas burning cars anymore.

So, we're going to conform and figure out a way to. Make electric vehicles fast” (Caldwell, lns.

705-710). He like many others can see the coming changes to the industry and is ready to

conform to the new vehicles coming through his doors.

Chapter Two: From Here to There

Part I: Professional Profile

To be successful in this career field, automotive knowledge, patience, and teamwork are

all of the utmost importance. That is why the majority if not everyone involved in this career

field has some interest in cars like I do. This person could have been obsessed with everything

cars from a young age or they may have found their calling for cars elsewhere, maybe through a

video game or a movie when they were a bit older. As long as the person pursuing this career

field is passionate about doing such, then they can do it.

No matter how much love gets put into a car though, the car will not love back its just the

way it works, which is why complex problem solving and multi-tasking are two personality traits

that are absolutely necessary. Patience is also a very important trait someone can have to work in

this industry because things are going to break no matter how hard the team tries. There will be

nights in which no sleep is granted only grease covered knuckles and keyboards. Finally,

teamwork is absolutely vital, there has never been a car built that only one person worked on.
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Cars have thousands of moving parts every one of them playing a part in the performance of the

car. The team building the car has to be the exact same way. Anyone working on or with cars

must be good with their hands as well and be extremely attentive to everything they do; they

must also be a visual/tactile learner to be successful in this industry, because it is impossible to

work with cars without touching one.

Part II: Education

This career field is extremely versatile, in that, there are so many different jobs out there

all under the same roof of automotive engineering. The person I interviewed about this career,

Tyler Caldwell, worked on cars since he was fourteen and went into the military for a few years

before coming back and opening his own shop with no certifications, or college degrees

(Caldwell lns. 55-100). All he had were some high school courses and an internship during his

last couple of years in high school. Even though every site I looked at said a bachelor’s or even a

master’s degree is needed for the field, it can vary depending on where you’d like to work

(CareerOneStop n.d.). Not to mention with every higher-level degree the salary is higher.

McLaren, the company I would like to work for, offers a lot of internship and co-op

opportunities to college students, like myself to help them get their foot in the door (McLaren

jobs n.d.). No certifications or tests are required for this career, although a mechanics

certification would not hurt to have. A mechanics certification comes from a trade school that

can either be used on its own to be a mechanic or can help build to something, like in this case

here (What does it take to be a mechanic?, n.d.). While it is not a requirement, it is seen as a

resume booster when applying for jobs that deal with automotive technology. For an entry level

position as an automotive engineer all that is needed, is a bachelor’s degree, the rest will be

taught on site.
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When getting a bachelor’s degree, it is recommended to go for Mechanical Engineering

and specialize in Automotive Engineering later. A bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering is

recommended because it is more overarching in what is covered in the engineering fields, and

not just the automotive side. By having a broader degree, the knowledge base has a much larger

space for expansion in the future and this can be a very big help later down the road. Automotive

Engineering is used to work on the car as a whole, which is what I want to do. Some of the

people on the team while still helping design and work on the car may have more of a specialty

that a different degree may be required for, like electrical or aerodynamics. These aspects though

require a different specialty than just automotive engineering.

Part III: Budgeting

To go into this career, I am looking at spending right around $90,000 to $100,000 for my

bachelor’s degree alone without any scholarships or aid (Costs of college, n.d.). After graduating

with a bachelor’s degree, I will be able to find an internship or some entry level program while I

get my master’s degree. The master’s degree will be around $40,000 to $50,000, but I will be

expecting to make more in the career field with a more specialized degree. A more specialized

degree will also make me stand out in the hiring process to get the job I truly desire. As

discussed earlier, I will be making an entry level salary of about £35,000 or about $48,000 a year

working at my dream job in Great Britain. This salary should allow me to pay off my student

loan debt in 10 years with a monthly payment of $230 (Professional Profile 4, 2021). When

compiling a budget for the next 8 to 10 years of my life I was able see what I would prioritize

above everything else and put my needs before my wants, and while earning my entry level

salary with a part time bartending job, where I would work a couple of nights a week making
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around $250 a shift, I would be able to live quite comfortably, paying off debts and enjoying

myself at the same time.

Chapter Three: Personal Assessment

Part I: My Skills

Over the past many years, I have developed a rather large skill set, one that is still

growing today. I am a natural born leader and that skill makes me best suited to lead a large team

in the design and construction of a formula 1 car. I have always been the leader of the group

growing up. Through all of the middle and high school projects I have led the team, and over the

past couple of years I have accumulated some new leadership skills from a leadership camp

located in Miniwanka, Michigan. The camp is a four-year program designed to take people that

are already leaders and transform them into even better leaders. I have only gone through the

first two years of the camp, but it has taught me how to be the best version I can be of myself and

in turn the best leader I can be as well.

Leadership is my biggest and most important soft skill I possess, but I also have many

other useful tangible skills I use every day (SWOT analysis, 2021). To be a good engineer you

have to have a good math and science base. Thankfully for me I grew up with a physics teacher

as a father, so from the instant I was born I was being taught in the ways of science and math,

and soon like my father I was infatuated with math and science and wanted to learn more. Since

then I have continued to delve deeper into the realm of physics and calculus specifically, the

math and science most associated with engineering. I began applying this hunger for knowledge

towards cars and I quickly learned how to do basic car maintenance and worked my way up to
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more complicated jobs like installing coil overs on my car to replace my stock suspension and

replacing the entire air intake system.

This foundation I have built working on my own car and the understanding I have of the

internal combustion engine should allow me to develop my skills even further in the near future

while studying engineering at university.

While I have many strengths, I like anyone have many weaknesses as well. I am a

procrastinator always have been, but hopefully will grow out of this childish habit. When

working on a piece of a big project or helping run the project a procrastinator is the last thing you

need. Procrastination is my biggest and most detrimental weakness, because no matter how many

times I make the mistake I continue to do it, but the main reason I continue to make the mistake

is because I get it done. Although the work may not be the best, I have ever produced it gets

done. It however is not my only flaw; time management is another problem I have struggled a

great deal with for a very long time. While it goes hand and hand with procrastination, in that, I

will put off an assignment or project thinking it will take one hour and when it comes due it will

take three I will be back in the same sinking ship I have been in many times before. Then

whenever I am trying to complete a project, yet another flaw rears its ugly head, distractions.

Whenever I am working on something I can become easily distracted by a notification on my

phone or another project, and I will lose all focus.

My weaknesses have held me back, but as I grow into the man I aspire to be I hope they

will begin to fade as my strengths grows stronger and brighter propelling me up the latter inside

of McLaren Racing Limited all the way up to team principal.

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Part II: My Personality

To work in this career, you have to be able to work with a team, there are no ifs ands or

buts about it. When building such an intricate machine everyone has to be able to communicate

what they are doing and how. If just one person is not a team player, the project will not turn out

the way it is supposed to. Extroverted people are best suited for this type of work since teamwork

and social skills are very necessary for making the teamwork. Everyone working together have

to have the same passion to do the best and hold the same values as one another to even better

work in harmony with each other. Without the values or passion for making the best car out

there, the team will not make the best car out there.

The reason I am so passionate about following this career path is because I am a dead

match with it. According to the Myers Briggs personality test I am a campaigner. The

campaigner is a natural leader who has complex problem-solving skills and can read between the

lines to understand a situation better to lead the group along (Introduction | Campaigner (ENFP)

personality | 16Personalities, 2013). Since I am a campaigner, I am best suited for a career

working in a team of people who want to “push boundaries and explore new ideas” (Introduction

| Campaigner (ENFP) personality | 16Personalities, 2013). Working in a racing environment is

the best place to do that, since I am pushed to constantly come up with new and interesting ideas

to make the car faster by applying those new ideas. I also cannot go a day without using my

hands, to get work done I have to use my hands because I am a hands-on person, always have

been always will be. Whether I use my hands for learning or for working on a car I have to use

my hands to stay busy, I even use them to talk. My hands are my greatest weapon in taking on

new projects and that is also why I am best suited for a career in the racing industry. Finally, the
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main reason why I will make a good automotive racing engineer is my passion for the sport and

the drive I possess to do the best in the industry no matter what stands in my way.

Part III: My Motivation

Throughout the course of my extensive research on this career field I have come to love it

even more than I already had. Going into this semester I was pretty sure I wanted to pursue a

career in the automotive racing industry, and I was pretty sure where I wanted to pursue that

career too. McLaren Racing Limited, a formula 1 racing team based in Surrey, England.

Sometime during last semester I stumbled across an upcoming webinar for people like me who

want to be a part of the McLaren Racing family, so I took part in the hour long webinar about

how to get into the industry and what it is like once you are inside. I learned so much from this

short information session that I have taken to heart and have applied to my plan for the future.

My next couple of steps after high school graduation are pretty easy, just move out and

onto campus at Kennesaw State University to study mechanical engineering and be a part of their

motorsports team as well. After graduating from Kennesaw State, I plan on attending Georgia

Tech for my master’s degree in their Automotive Engineering program, as well as participating

in their motorsports team. During my stint at Georgia Tech I will be reaching out to my future

employer McLaren Racing Limited, and some backups like Aston Martin, and Red Bull Racing

both based in the United Kingdom as well. So yes, I will have to move across the pond after

graduation to pursue my dream of working for a Formula 1 team, hopefully McLaren. There will

be some obstacles to overcome with this move, some already very apparent to me and my family

surrounding me, and I don’t know what the next 5 to 7 years will throw my way that I will then

have to leave behind in my move to the United Kingdom. I will be difficult to leave this place
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behind, but I must keep in mind that what I am doing is in pursuit of my passion, and that I will

love what I do for the rest of my life.

To help better ensure my future in the sport of Formula 1 I can start by joining a young

engineers program like the Formula Student program put on every year by Institution of

Mechanical Engineers in the United Kingdom while still in college. This is a competition held

annually in which students from around the globe design and build formula style cars and are

judged by engineers at the Silverstone track in England (Formula student, n.d.). By inserting

myself into programs like this one and participating in other motorsports events in the eye of the

Formula 1 teams I put myself into a better position of being hired in the future by those teams.

While going through school and beginning my journey towards my dream I have put

forth for myself I will have to use a wide variety of skills I have learned to help me stay on top of

things, like budgeting. Recently I have learned how to take my monthly income and subtract all

of my monthly expenses in a spreadsheet to see how I can live while still putting money aside for

the future. I have also recently learned how to interact with adults in a professional environment

and how to act so that they take me seriously and listen to what I have to say while I listen to

what they have to say. Finally, I have learned most crucially that time is a gift and I should use

every second of it wisely, because once a second has passed there is no going back. Timeliness is

the most important skill to have in all industries, college, and high school. It is a skill that once I

have mastered, I will never forget until the day I die.

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Chapter Four: Productivity

Part I: My Project

Over the past semester I have complied a short video series that covers the basics of car

maintenance. This is information that every individual should know if they drive a car. From

how to check tire tread depth to how to buy and change the brake rotors and pads on a car. These

videos are meant to educate the everyday driver on how to perform basic car maintenance for

themselves, thus making them not only more confident and in tune with their car, but at the same

time saving money on the parts and labor by doing the job themselves. These newly acquired

skills can be brought with them for the rest of their life, much like I am bringing them with me

for the rest of my life. Never again shall anyone who watches my videos get scammed at a Jiffy

Lube for getting an oil change.

Over the course of the semester, I filmed five videos on basic car maintenance: Battery

and Basics, Fluids, Tire Maintenance, Oil Change, and Brakes. These videos all ranged from six

minutes all the way up to sixteen minutes long, all of them packed with tons of information. So

far I haven’t gotten tons of views on the videos, but I really enjoyed making the videos and plan

to continue making them over the summer in my free time. It does not really matter to me that I

get a lot of views on my videos, all

that I need is to know that I helped at

least one person with what I made

over these last couple of months.

Figure 1 A snapshot of my YouTube channel where all videos were

uploaded and have been receiving views.
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Figure 2 On set of the oil change video, about to do the oil Figure 3 Shooting the introduction for Basic Tire
change. Maintenance.

Part II: Career Connection

Through the process of researching, filming, and editing these videos I have become

extremely well versed in the basics of how a car works and operates. Now in no means have I

made any contributions to the field I am entering in the next few years, but I have set myself up

with a good knowledge base to absorb much more complex information in the future. This

complex information will allow me in the future to contribute to the automotive world through

the canvas that is the racing world. Because, most technological advances in the automotive

world come through the daring and brilliant minds of those engineers behind the racing car.

I have though, learned a lot about the career field I will be entering over the next many

years of my professional life. Over the past many weeks of this virtual semester I have gone from

simply wanting to pursue a career in automotive race engineering to needing to pursue a career

automotive race engineering. It is my calling and I must answer it at any cost. Through the

research and freedom of this class, I have truly found what I want to do for the rest of my life. At

the beginning of the semester I picked the career I thought I wanted to pursue in life, and through

all of tests, self-assessments, and reflections I have truly realized that I don’t just want to do this,

but that I need to do this. I have been a fan of the automotive world and all of its intricacies ever
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since I played that video game on that one faithful Christmas morning (RE#2: My learning story,

n.d.). And now as I am leaving my childhood behind and going off to college where I will learn

most everything I need to know to be able to be extremely successful in my career as an

automotive race engineer, I am 100% certain that is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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