In a rating of the world’s greatest jobs, Bernd Maylander’s distinctive position will probably be proper on the sharp finish. The 54-year-old is Components 1’s Security Automobile driver, the person charged with shepherding the world’s 20 greatest drivers on the earth’s greatest single-seaters with a street automotive that you just or I may buy from an Aston Martin showroom.
Fairly cool, eh? Nicely, what’s even cooler (for me, no less than) is that not solely would I get the possibility to drive his Aston Martin Vantage Security Automobile on a racetrack, however I am going to additionally vacate his workplace and swap seats for some Sizzling Laps so he can present me his day job…
It is an overcast day at Silverstone, the house of British motorsport, and I’ve simply pulled up into the automotive park adjoining to the venue’s infield Stowe Circuit. At 0.796 miles (1.73km) it might solely be a fifth of the size of the Grand Prix circuit that engulfs it and which hosts Components 1 annually in July – nevertheless it has all of the nook sorts and straights you have to push a automotive to the restrict.
