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James Allison: "For an engineer, F1 is an unending work of invention and skill"

F1: Beyond The Grid

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How I Got My First Job

First job was what? Polishing shoes? I don't know what does a, what does son of a military person do for a first job? Do you get involved in any way? What you mean like a casual labor type job? Yeah, in the holidays. So the formal one thing, what happened next? How did you get involved? You went to Cambridge University and studied engineering. And he got two replies from McLaren saying, thanks, we've put in our filing system. And then one from Benetton saying, why don’t you come down for an interview? It turned out that my application had arrived on their desk as the first of many people applying for a

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