Rob Garofall is a racing driver, coach and a heritage Formula One Test Driver for the McLaren F1 Team. He is also the founder of Silverstone RV Motorhomes (SilverstoneRV.com) who supply luxury motorhomes to motorsport drivers and teams and for film events throughout UK and Europe.
Rob explains how he began his life as a car dealer and progressed from humble beginnings Pro-Karting at local races and then on to work at Silverstone as an instructor and becoming a multiple European Sports Prototype Champion and testing some of the world’s most desired Formula One cars.
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Chapters
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:08 - "Well it all looks the part...."
00:11:22 - Formula Ford 2000
00:18:53 - "Fully qualified" at Silverstone
00:19:14 - Accelerating the learning curve
00:22:25 - Early days of performing Passenger Rides
00:26:39 - Getting sacked...
00:31:35 - The Minibus Race
00:35:09 - The Grimesy story...
00:38:52 - Fast forwarding to Caterham racing
00:41:58 - Nurburgring Nordschleife 24 hours...in a Caterham!
00:49:33 - Radicals and V de V / SPEED Series in Europe and the UK
00:57:30 - The competition in V de V and Bryce Wilson
00:59:54 - Learning to make no mistakes
01:03:33 - Introducing Stumpy
01:04:14 - LMP2 with Barry Gates and RLR Msport
01:13:57 - LMP3
01:18:47 - Losing the excitement
01:22:34 - Silverstone RV Luxury Motorhome business
01:28:33 - Charles Leclerc's choice...
01:31:07 - Shooting big guns!
01:34:13 - McLaren 600 LT launch video
01:42:57 - Formula One testing with McLaren Heritage
01:51:50 - The role expands
02:00:12 - Sharing duties with Lando Norris
02:02:39 - A very special McLaren MP4/5B
02:04:35 - Incredibly privileged
02:05:43 - British Grand Prix demonstration laps MP4/26
02:08:39 - Making the front cover of Autosport magazine
02:09:25 - The V10 period
02:11:44 - Running under the lights
02:12:34 - A life challenge gets thrown in the way
02:20:09 - Testing the latest F1 hybrid car
02:24:26 - Next project - testing the car which Ayrton Senna took his last victory - the McLaren MP4-8
02:28:08 - Finishing up
