Pat Hasler:
From past experience …
If you are going to work in F1 or any other form of motorsport transport, go to the team and not some cut throat company that will pay you rubbish compared to other team drivers. You will be ridiculed and mocked by teams and other team drivers, ignored by them as you will be seen ‘quite correctly’ as a threat to their security. Being part of the team other than driving the truck is what the life is about. When F1 teams win or get a podium each member gets a share of the bonus for instance. Stobart drivers will be excluded from this.
Contact the team directly and don’t even think about contractors like Stobart.
Whilst I agree that if you want to work in Motorsport it would be better to get into a team, however its unlikely that the Stobart guys or any of the others who drive the trucks to be seen as a threat to those in the race teams, they now rarely if ever drive a truck and its not because of outside contractors doing it, but because of working hours.
How you are treated and thought of by others on the F1 circuit will have far more to do with you as a person than who you are working for, many others on the circuit wear team uniform, but aren’t employed by the teams, a lot of the hospitality is done by other companies such as Procar, as is the fuel supply most of which seemed to be done by DHL even though the guys wore the uniform of the team that they supplied fuel to.
But it’s true the pay, bonuses, and other perks like cheap car deals, or other perks depending on sponsors are there for team members, but the job isn’t for everybody or available to everybody, but if I were working for Stobarts it might make a bit of a change to RDC deliveries and a dam site more secure than working for race teams, which can be pretty precarious even in F1.