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oldschoolZ
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I was there ! Race engineer on the Zakspeed Nissan GTR GT3.
When it started SNOWING at one end of the track, it was 18 Celsius and sunny on the pit wall. Insane place, completely crazy. Some teams got caught out with the snow but we were OK, we just stopped on track during the red flag. When I first saw it on the screen I thought it was torrential rain and the sand traps were emptying sand / rocks on the track, turns out it was a full blown hailstorm. They red flagged the race for over 2hours and waited for the snow / hail to melt.
Unfortunately we had a mechanical DNF about 14hrs into the race. The official NISMO car finished the race in P11. Was an insane weekend, I slept 15 hours in 4 days...
Here`s a few shots from Nissan Global :
And a few of my own:
Grid before the start
Zakspeed was also running a Mercedes AMG GT3 as well as the Nissan
Pit stop in the middle of the night
When it started SNOWING at one end of the track, it was 18 Celsius and sunny on the pit wall. Insane place, completely crazy. Some teams got caught out with the snow but we were OK, we just stopped on track during the red flag. When I first saw it on the screen I thought it was torrential rain and the sand traps were emptying sand / rocks on the track, turns out it was a full blown hailstorm. They red flagged the race for over 2hours and waited for the snow / hail to melt.
Unfortunately we had a mechanical DNF about 14hrs into the race. The official NISMO car finished the race in P11. Was an insane weekend, I slept 15 hours in 4 days...
Here`s a few shots from Nissan Global :
And a few of my own:
Grid before the start
Zakspeed was also running a Mercedes AMG GT3 as well as the Nissan
Pit stop in the middle of the night
Jelly_Belly
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You honestly have one of the coolest jobs in the world, It must suck getting less than 4 hours of sleep a day but im sure its worth it in the end!
oldschoolZ
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The sleeping aspect sucks, for the race I was up for 36 hours straight. And slept 5 hours friday night, and 5 hours thursday night. Just calculating fuel consumption is hard, no joke. x liters per lap times y laps is hard to make haha.
It's a good job, wouldn't do anything else. But it takes loads of commitment, you have to be ready to start at the bottom and work your way up. Even for an entry level position we expect candidates to have done some kind of racing...But once you're in you get to know people in litterally every team and that's how you stay in.