Steve introduced himself as the son of one of our members, Richard G3NII.

He said he was born in 1983 and because his parents were heavily involved in engineering his interests in all things mechanical was from an early age.
He added that dad always had sports cars and that started his fascination with cars.
He moved on to Top Fuel drag racing, the fastest and most dangerous race cars, essentially a bomb on four wheels. The fastest competitors can reach over 340mph and cover the 1000 foot track in 3.6 seconds!
He was not a driver, but worked as part of the trackside support team. The teams travelled around to world to various races.
2008 saw a change to his trackside life.

He moved to FIA F2 racing. After two seasons in Formula 2 he started his job as a data engineer with Team West-Tec, racing formula 3 cars around Europe at some historic and well known race tracks. He then spent time trackside with F3 and GT racing, that was 2010-11.
His formula 1 journey began in 2011 by joining Pirelli who transport over 60 personnel around the world to attend every race and test, including engineers, scientists, technicians, logistics, IT, media and R&D experts- even chefs and hospitality staff!
Steve said that over a weekend of racing, Pirelli technicians fit over 1,680 tyres. They actually start fitting tyres on the Tuesday before the race. With 23 races in a season, that means 38,640 tyres in a year! (that excludes testing and other events)
At the end of the race on Sunday night, all of the tyres are stripped from the wheels and are taken back to the UK to be recycled.
Steve’s trackside events are too numerous to list here, but his talk was very interesting and led to a good number of technical questions and answers.