with New Partnerships
Students from the Tresham Institute led National College for Motorsport are zooming ahead thanks to the help of professional Formula One race team, Astromega as well as other high profile race teams.
Astromega are providing an excellent opportunity to students, complimenting their studies at the National College for Motorsport, based in Silverstone and Corby, providing cars for students to practice their skills on and offering the chance for students to take part, as part of the Astromega Team, in race days such as EuroF3000 Series, A1Grand Prix with Team China and in the Open Belgium Formula Renault 1.6 Championship. Students that have excelled during their studies at the National College for Motorsport will then be offered employment within an Astromega Race Team.
The National College of Motorsport is a partnership of three Further Education Colleges based in the heart of the motorsport valley led by Tresham Institute of Further & Higher Education and includes Oxford & Cherwell Valley College and Milton Keynes College. The colleges formed the first Centre of Vocational Excellence for Motorsport and Performance Engineering to tackle the decline and shortage of craft technician’s skills within the motorsport industry. Tresham Institutes specialise in training race technicians.
Due to the partnerships formed by the college students took part in various high level motorsport events last weekend and returned with excellent feedback from the motorsport industry.-More-Page 2 of 3
Sam Moores and Barney Crumpler, students studying the Motorsport Race Technician course at the college’s Silverstone centre, travelled to Belgium last week to work with the team at the Spa Francochamps circuit. The students travelled to the teams’ base in Brussels with English racing driver Craig Dolby who went on to win the Formula Renault 1600 Open championship.
The students worked as part of the team for the duration of a very busy but rewarding weekend and as a result they have been invited to stay on and help prepare a Formula Renault 2000 car for a test day at Spa this week.
Astromega Team Manager Sam Boyle said:“[National College for Motorsport students] Sam and Barney, were crucial to Craig’s success and proved invaluable to the team.”
Several other National College for Motorsport students were hard at work at Silverstone last weekend at the final round of the British Touring Car Championship. Six students were selected to work alongside the tyre technicians from Dunlop Motorsport supporting the teams racing at Silverstone. Tony Leake of Dunlop was very impressed by the commitment put in by the students suggesting that this alliance could be more permanent.
Formula Renault Team Coles Racing were also racing at Silverstone last weekend in the final round of the UK Formula Renault Championship offering some excellent work experience to two National College for Motorsport students, Russell Turner and Craig Dodd.
Jim Harrod, Motorsport Manager at the National College for Motorsport said:‘These opportunities are an excellent way for our students to get experience of working within the motorsport industry.’’
The National College for Motorsport is currently enrolling for September 2007, if you would like any further information please visit the website www.nc4m.ac.uk or call 0845 658 89 90.
1. Tresham Institute is a college of further and higher education with five main campuses in four towns: Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Oakham,2. Tresham Institute currently runs a number of different out centres including National College for Motorsport facilities in Rockingham and Silverstone Racing Circuit and the recently opened St Marks Skills Centre in Corby. 3. Tresham Institute offers courses to approximately 3000 Full Time Students and 14000 Part Time Students. Courses include A Levels, BTECs, NVQ’s and professional qualifications.4. Tresham Institute is a Centre of Vocational Excellence in Motorsport and Performance Engineering.5. The Institute’s mission is to identify needs, inspire learning and provide excellent education and training for the economic and social improvement of its communities.6. For more information on Tresham Institute and our services, please visit www.tresham.ac.uk7. For more information about the National College for Motorsport, please visit www.nc4m.ac.uk
