Infiniti offers UAE engineering students the Formula One™ career opportunity of a lifetime

• Applications open until June 30th, 2016
• Open to all engineering students in the UAE

Dubai, UAE, May 16, 2016:  Infiniti’s global search for the best up-and-coming engineering undergraduate talent begins its third successive year with the launch today of the 2016 Infiniti Engineering Academy. Engineering students from all disciplines will have the chance to earn the career opportunity of a lifetime in Formula One™ and automotive engineering, with a factory F1® team and the premium Japanese vehicle manufacturer. 

Infiniti believe that the most daring, forward-looking technology is driven by the freshest, most creative human talents, and their new Technical Partnership with the Renault Sport Formula One™ Team includes, as a crucial component, this unique automotive-to-Formula One™ training program for brilliant young engineers.

“Year on year, we continue to strive to improve the Academy, and now, with our new and deep-reaching Technical Partnership with the Renault Sport Formula One™ Team, we can offer six engineers a truly technically rich, multi-discipline engineering placement,” said Tommaso Volpe, Global Director, Infiniti Motorsport. 

“Not only will they spend six months at the Infiniti Technical Center for Europe (Cranfield, UK), they will also experience the facilities at the Renault Sport Formula One™ Team base in Enstone, Oxfordshire.

Combining opportunities to work at both companies means our 2016 Infiniti Engineering Academy winners are set to craft their careers from the outset with an incredible 12 months at the cutting-edge of big business automotive and motorsport engineering,” added Volpe. 

“We are looking for excellent students offering a mix of academic and professional experience across such disciplines as Electronics, Aerodynamics, Mechanical Design and Composite Design,” explained Bob Bell, Renault Sport F1® Chief Technical Officer. “The academy offers a compelling opportunity for up-and-coming engineers to experience the fundamentals of automotive and motorsport engineering”. 

With the added depth of knowledge transfer and enhanced scope for collaboration that Infiniti’s Technical Partnership with the newly formed Renault Sport Formula One™ Team brings to the Academy, 2016 will open up a wide range of experiences and opportunities to the six winners.