Love a Happy Ending Lifestyle Magazine August 2013 | Page 51

team name. A team will support hundreds of employees. (A team also has more secrets than
a rogue politician. Any aspect of one team can be useful to another.)
CARS – each team two race cars. Or, to be precise, they have two cars in each race. They
may have any number of cars throughout a season. They get bashed about, they evolve,
different set ups suit different circuits. The cars are at the cutting edge of motoring
technology and what is innovated in Formula 1 today may be on your road car in a couple of
years. In Formula 1 there are no ‘off the peg’ cars. Each team is responsible for its own cars’
construction. (They are also things of beauty – the more they win, the more beautiful
everybody finds them.)
DRIVERS – the cream of motor car drivers, in possession of super licences and often
earning huge income. They’re fit, focused and talented … everything depends upon their
results. They will have worked their way up through other formulae, perhaps beginning in
carting when they were little.

Oddly, those who aren’t earning huge salaries often have to pay their way into the sport with
the help of massive sponsorship deals.
As well as the race drivers there is usually at least one test driver, who might get some
running in a practice session on race weekends and even step into a car for a race if a race
driver is unwell etc. (And there’s a huge queue of other drivers wanting to get into these
three seats.)