OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME

2013 Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award winner Jake Larsson has been immersing himself in the culture of passion and expertise at McLaren

Funny the people you bump into. We’re at McLaren Automotive in Woking to chat with Jake Larsson about the fourth of his five car industry placements, the prize for winning the 2013 Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award. As we stroll one of the flying walkways soaring above a dream display of Formula 1 cars, including Senna’s MP4/4, we run into the award’s 2012 winner, Roberto Pace. After a Pace-designed part was added to the manufacturing process for the McLaren P1 supercar, Roberto was given a full-time job as a design engineer. Things do tend to happen quickly for Next Gen winners. For them, work experience is not about a spot of light photocopying and A-level tea-making. Their experiences are real, working on real-time automotive projects alongside real motoring people. In his previous one-month work…

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Autocar (Digital) - 1 Issue, 23/07/2014

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