Dear Landracing Community,
I want to use page 255 for introducing myself. My name is Tobias Mederer, living in Salem located in the very south of Germany. I am 43 years young, married with a, let me say very understanding, wife.
As a teenager, I had a dream: participating in three Races before the final touch down at the funeral: Paris-Dakar, Pikes Peak Hill Climb and the Bonneville speed week. My goal is design and build a car in the lakester class, (small) jet engine powered. Not for setting any record - just for fun.
That is why I register here at landracing.com: finding some advice from your experience in a field where I need for sure assistance.
To show you that I am not a fantasist, here roughly my background in Motorsport. My career in professional Motorsport starting 2000 as a design engineer for Ferrari in the FIA GT1 project (F550/575). During that time, I moved track-side to the real life as race engineer. Participating in FIA GT1, Porsche Cups, Formula 3, German Touring masters (DTM), LeMans and temporal in Formula 1 - But 2008 I was bored seeing only Airport-Racetrack-Hotel...
So I moved the Class from circuit to Off-road racing, in special Cross-country with the VW Race Touareg and later (VW stop CC Competition in 2012) the MINI team where I got the opportunity working as technical director.
2015 I raced first time in USA and set the diesel record on the Pikes Peak hill climb race (Driver Uwe Nittel) with my designed AMG Mercedes.
Unfortunately, in all the time I only race with only three American drivers: Mark Miller, Bryce Menzies and Robby Gordon.
In the year 2018 I decided to settle down for family reason and hit hard the brake. No motorsport at all. However, the spark is still there....
Coming back to my project. It must be a jet engine (I like the sound and smell). Therefore, this was the most difficult task for me. There is no market for this type of engine in Germany or EU (Except the Russian heavy metal things). Without engine, there will be no car. As usual I want to design the car around that engine. It takes a few years to get the opportunity to buy one in Great Britain. It was a lot of paperwork with the GB Government for the export licensees and the pandemic was not helpful either. Finally, the tiny 1.0 KN engine from William Research is in my private premises....
I am sure to come back to you with some questions regarding regulation, design and organisation. I hope to participate on that great knowledge here.
Best regards, Tobias