Imagine a cluster of disciplined and skilled people with expertise in high-tech vehicles, aerospace systems, high-voltage electrics, logistics and management. Now understand that 14,500 highly trained experts like that are available to the UK workforce every year, having left the armed forces. That’s why the car industry gathered at Silverstone last week for the Mission Motorsport National Transition Day.
Regular Autocar readers will probably know Mission Motorsport, founded 10 years ago by former Royal Tank Regiment major James Cameron, as the Forces charity behind the brilliant Race of Remembrance (RoR).