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“I’ve never said no to
anything, even if I thought
I was going to be terrible at
it. Everything is a learning
experience.”
“I performed well enough at Clipsal, and Matt
asked me ‘to come racing with him,’ which was
when I really began to develop as a race
engineer,” said Kirby.
Since then, he has been a data and race
engineer at many big events, including the
Australian GT Series, the Bathurst 12 hour
and the Dunlop Super2 Series. This was on top
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of working full-time, running an engineering
department as a senior design engineer for
Pace Innovations and working on a wide variety
of projects.
Along the way, Kirby has also recruited other
SAE Motorsport team members, including
Jordan Yeomans.
“The reason why we hire juniors from Formula
SAE, is they have a level of practical skills that
generally don’t exist elsewhere, so they can hit
the ground running more than any other
graduate,” he said.
Having achieved so much in a short space of
time, Kirby has just started his own engineering
business and is working on a number of projects
inside and outside of motorsport.
