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The pay difference between people in the race industry is unfair

It’s an outrageous that a race car driver sit’s on there backside for 2 hours. But they get paid these ridiculous sums. But the race engineer probably the most stressed out person at the race meeting.

Ok take, for instance with Michael Schumacher. He got paid $60 million with Ferrari. I bet his race engineer never got paid that much in all the years he worked in F1. We know that Michael won 6-7 world championship to his name but he wouldn’t have been able to do that without his engineer.

In 2009 the lowest paid F1 driver was Jamie Alguersuari and he was $0.5 million and that was the lowest and an engineer around $40,000 and $50,000 that’s probably a driver’s pocket money. Most of the drivers if they get fined the teams pay it for them how wrong is that. Personally I think you do the crime you should deal with the consequences.

Have you seen the sponsorships? And that just the driver there’s even more on the car I watched a NASCAR race the other day and was gobsmacked to see how much there was. By the time hew was finished people had forgotten who had won the race. It will be more money for the drivers back pocket.

Now by now you’re probably stating to think that I hate race car drivers. But that’s not true I have the most respect for them. What they can do in that car is amazing you put an average Joe in there and he would probably crash. Here’s is an example for you Sebastian Vettel they way he made his tyres last for 61 laps when they are only meant to last around 45 laps so that’s about 16 laps more then they should of. It would be like driving on bald tyres for 16 more laps and he still won the race. So I can kind of see why they get paid more but they could find some place in the middle.

Usually a season last about 16 race meetings but a race engineer last from about January to maybe middle of December. The drivers have it so easy with there sponsor events. While the engineer is still the looking over data have a de-brief and organise people for the rebuild of the car the engineer would be the first one there and the last one out of there at night time.

So you have read my argument about the unfairness in the racing industry. I hope you have the same amount of outrage as I do and I hope that this will make a little difference in the pay but even if it doesn’t. It won’t stop me trying to become a race engineer.