New module confirmed for 15 February 2025!
Communication is one of the key skills of any race engineer. You must learn how to effectively communicate to others in your team and the racing driver, in order to achieve a successful result. An understanding of the pre, during and post race protocols is essential for anyone looking to excel in motorsport. Develop your skills and knowledge with the guidance from experienced race engineers during this online training module.
Topics - 15 February:
Pre-Event Communication
Discover how race engineers communicate decisions to the race team before a race takes place
How do race engineers communicate pre-race with the driver, including track walks and strategy plans
During the Race – including Radio Communications
Radio communications are vital for many Championships, but this skill is rarely taught. You will be guided through scenarios with a race engineer to help you understand the driver-to-engineer relationship.
You will discover how race engineers manage difficult and unexpected situations, such as dealing with emotional drivers, sudden changes in weather and unexpected mechanical failures.
How to communicate in Championships where radio is not available, including use of pitboards
Post-Event debrief
Discover how to communicate with the team and driver about what worked for the race, and what can be improved on.
Find out how teams put a plan into place to include how to take these learnings and communicate this to the wider team for the next race/year.
Racing Drivers’ Perspective
Listen to the Racing Drivers’ perspective, while Callum shares his experience and thoughts on racing and how drivers’ digest all this information throughout a race weekend
Find out more about the tutors:
Geoff Dymott - Race Engineer
Geoff has worked for Williams Racing for over 20 years in a variety of roles including Vehicle Dynamics, Race / Test Data Engineer and Senior Performance Engineer. Starting his own consultancy in 2019, Geoff has also been a Race Engineer in British F4, Porsche Carrera Cup GB for Richardson Racing and more recently Century Motorsport in British GT.
Craig Porley - BTCC Race Engineer
Craig’s motorsport experience stretches to nearly 20 years. Starting off as a composite technician back in 2004, Craig moved to Xtrac as an R&D Engineer and then Red Bull Racing as a Test Engineer where he ran programs on chassis, suspension and aerodynamic components. Alongside his full time work, Craig has also been a Senior Data Engineer, winning the 2011 FIA GT1 drivers championship, and a Race Engineer for several BTCC teams where he won the independent drivers and team title in 2019. Now, he race engineers for Laser Tools Racing with WSR in BTCC and has set up his own engineering consultancy.
Callum Cripps - Racing Driver
Callum has been involved in motorsport since he was ten years old, racing in numerous karting championships before he moved to car racing in 2015. Since then, he has been behind the wheel of a variety of racecars including a Ginetta GT5, Clio Cup, Formula Renault, GT and even NASCAR. In 2019 he finished 5th in the EuroNASCAR championship with 50% podium finishes throughout the season. He is also an official simulator driver for Radicals Online.
On successful completion of the Online Module, graduates are awarded an industry recognised certificate of completion from the MIA. The online modules will take place on 15 February, via Zoom and the MIA Campus platform. The cost for this industry recognised learning opportunity is just £295*. This price includes exclusive technical material, the opportunity to put forward questions to the tutors, access to the webinar recording and a certificate of attendance.
*Bundle packages are available if you enrol on multiple modules and there is a special loyalty offer for MIA Members and past participants. Contact elinor.morris@the-mia.com for more information.
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