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The Reality of Motorsport Contracts
I don't work in F1, but I handle HR for a touring car and a rally team. Whenever big names like Adrian Newey jump ship, the rumour mill goes into overdrive. The 0000s on their pay packets might look different to the ones I deal with, but whether you're navigating rally gravel tracks or the tarmac at Silverstone, the nuts and bolts of the paperwork are exactly the same. Staff or Freelance? In motorsport, drivers and many mechanics are usually brought in as freelancers rather
Andrew
Sep 214 min read
Breaking into Elite Sport
Working in elite sport doesn’t mean that you have to be a professional athlete. Behind every football fixture, rugby test, or athletics cycle there’s a corporate, technical and operational system of some depth. Elite sports organisations are generally multi-million-pound companies with complex stakeholder requirements and it is this ‘off-pitch’ environment that offers a number of diverse career paths across performance, business, and administration. While athletes execute th
Andrew
Sep 135 min read
Football, Pregnancy and Fair Play
Starting a family is one of the most ordinary, life-changing moments any person can experience. Yet for a very long time in elite sport, pregnancy was treated less like a normal stage of life and more like an inconvenience - and even a reason to end an athlete's career. Female athletes were all too often forced to choose between competing at the highest level or stepping away from sport altogether to become mothers. Fortunately, that old mindset is beginning to break down.
Andrew
Sep 43 min read
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