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In my experience, managers in motorsport have all started at or near the bottom of their respective ladders in one of the teams. Ross Brawn was a machinist, Cyril Abiteboul worked in IT, Bob Bell was an aerodynamicist, Toto Wolff was a driver and later bought his way into F1 via investments, Christian Horner was a driver, Monisha Kaltenborn was a lawyer who bought shares in the Sauber team back in the day. There are lower level managers but I can't think of any off the top of my head who haven't been promoted into the position from more junior, technical roles.
When we were Lotus, we had a few hedge fund type managers placed around the company but none of them are in Formula 1 now, to my knowledge.
It's a place where technical people can be made to manage money or other people but the money-minded seldom get their heads round the technical side of things - needed to make the team function.
There are exceptions, of course. Flavio Briatore was hugely successful as a team boss and a great motivator too, despite being from a retail background. Ron Dennis was a money man whose legendary authoritarianism gave decent results for a long period of time and Ferrari often promote workforce managers into their senior roles but, as a rule, the technical side comes first.
As for general employment in F1, a degree may help get your CV on the right pile but they will more often hire the right person rather than the most qualified on paper. ____________________ Greetings from Shitsville! |
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