In 2011, he therefore pursued his master’s degree in aerospace at Imperial College London in the UK. That, he tried to getting noticed by racing businesses.
” I knew I had to go to the United Kingdom, because predominantly ( most ) teams are based there. A lot of people working in F1 are European specialists. Once they see a resume from ( British universities ), even if it’s from a Singaporean, they’ll at least give a chance to interview”, he said.
” So, I started emailing every F1 staff, any professional producer. Amazingly, a lot of people responded”.
He graduated and began working with the now-defunct Marussia group as a young aerodynamicist after four months of his essay task with the Williams Racing group.
Since therefore, he has worked as an engineer across four different F1 groups, including Lotus– then known as Alpine – and Toro Rosso.
In 2017, he moved up to Singapore for his home. Before Williams knocked, he believed he had permanently abandoned the sporting industry.
” There was an opportunity at Williams, but I did n’t want to move to the UK. I asked if there’s any chance of distant job. I thought they’d say no, because things do n’t happen like that in F1″, he said. ” Unexpectedly, they said well”.