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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 1179: So You Want To Work In Formula 1, with Trevor Green-Smith

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

California's Trevor Green-Smith held a dream of working in Formula 1, so he got to work on learning about the cars, gaining a formal motorsports education, took racing internships, developed his skills in IndyCar, and is moving on to an important engineering role with an F1 team. Trevor, aka 'T-MAX,' joins us for a deep dive on his upbringing, specialized training, and path to F1 that might be of use for those who have a similar desire to work in F1, IndyCar, or any other major racing series. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast, brought to you by Cooper Tires, the Justice

0:09.4

Brothers in Toronto Motorsports.com.

0:12.7

I've got a special episode for you here with my friend Trevor Green Smith, who, in his

0:18.2

mid-20s, has just completed a journey that began in his teens,

0:24.7

great, great desire to reach Formula One.

0:28.2

And so having known Trevor for a good long while,

0:31.9

tried to help wherever I could,

0:33.8

but he's one with the talent who has moved along to every step of the way.

0:38.9

I thought it might be interesting to talk about his life and his career path,

0:42.9

his educational choices, and how for a kid who wanted to work in Formula One,

0:49.2

the technical side.

0:50.7

He's headed to a Formula One team, which we don't mention,

0:53.0

because that's up to him and the

0:54.3

team to declare whenever that time might be. But knowing that he has indeed achieved his dream

1:00.6

of going to work for a Formula One team in a very important engineering role, figured this might

1:06.7

be something for those of you. To harbor a dream like Trevor's to reach Formula One.

1:13.4

Could also be IndyCar, NASCAR, Imsa, wherever else, top level of the sport.

1:18.3

It's not so specific to just Formula One, that that's the only thing to learn here, but that is where he's going.

1:25.8

So sat down with Trevor spent a little bit more than an hour, trying to find out how he

1:30.9

made this happen.

1:32.4

Obviously, having worked in motor racing for most of my adult life on the team side, an

1:38.9

IndyCar and other series here in North America, a lot of similar roles he and I have worked in that we can

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