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Shirley Zhao

Two lucky students will get a taste of life in the fast lane under a one-year internship programme run by Formula One team Infiniti Red Bull Racing.
The intern search would cover 12 locations - four in Asia, four in Europe and four in the Americas - Red Bull said yesterday.
In Hong Kong, the team will partner with the University of Science and Technology to find candidates. Mainland China and Singapore were also on the list for Asia, with a fourth location yet to be decided, the team said.
The two interns will work full-time with the team in Britain in different departments - from engineering to computing - depending on their backgrounds.
They would be paid a salary of £18,000 (HK$222,500) to £25,000, and the team would also provide them with a house and a car, it said.
Applications for the internships begin next month, and a single Hong Kong candidate will go to Britain to compete against 11 others for the two places, said Andreas Sigl, the global director of Infiniti Red Bull Racing.
The two winners would be announced by July, he said.
"It's the internship of a lifetime," Sigl said.
"Formula One engineering is a combination of rocket science and open-heart surgery. We need to go deeper in sourcing young talents who have new ideas to create new technologies."
Sigl said HKUST was already working with the team in various areas, and it believed the university could be a source of new talent for the team in the future.
Former racing car driver David Coulthard was at a banquet in Hong Kong yesterday to announce the scheme. He told the story of a Canadian engineer who landed an internship with Red Bull in his 20s and was taken on as a full-time employee.
"I'm excited when I imagine the opportunities one can get from working with the team" Coulthard said.
HKUST vice-president for institutional advancement Eden Woon Yi-teng said he hoped science and technology would be given greater importance in the city. "We always think about Hong Kong as a place for finance only," he said. "This is a chance for students to think about their careers in engineering and science. This city can do it."
 


Race is on for Red Bull F1 interns

From left to right: Eden Woon Yi-teng, vice-president for Institutional Advancement of HKUST; David Coulthard, British former Formula One racing driver and Infiniti Red Bull Racing Formula One team ambassador; Andreas Sigl, Infiniti Red Bull Racing global director.

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