Weekend Race Event Staff Positions 2025-26

Smedley Group; Bicester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading company in motorsport is looking for enthusiastic weekend staff for various roles including Event Manager, Customer Experience Lead, and Mechanics for 2025. Ideal candidates should possess passion for motorsport, strong customer service skills, and a willingness to learn. Various levels of experience are preferred, with opportunities to work at different circuits across the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in event management for motorsport.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Mechanical experience with race cars, motorbikes, or karts.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle emergencies.

Responsibilities

• Manage and assist with various karting events across the UK.
• Provide excellent customer service and manage customer interactions.
• Prepare and maintain karts with skilled mechanical support.
• Coordinate and supervise track safety measures and race regulations.

Skills

Event organisation

Customer service

Mechanical skills

Communication

Empathy

Leadership

Teamwork

Passion for motorsport

Education

Relevant Motorsport UK licence

Job description

We believe the world’s fastest driver hasn’t raced…yet.

FAT Karting League’s mission is to achieve mass participation in motorsport by radically reducing the barriers to entry.

We run karting events across the country throughout the year to cater for drivers with different levels of experience, creating a pathway from age 6-17.

We are looking for enthusiastic and hard-working people — with a passion for motorsport — to join our weekend staff crew for 2025 and beyond. If you don't feel you have the skills listed for the advertised roles, and want to develop a career in motorsport, we would still like to hear from you.

The roles we need to fill will involve working Friday to Sunday and potentially travelling to different karting circuits around the UK.

Event Manager

We are looking for somebody with event organisation and management skills with experience at motorsport events, to assist at our events.

Customer Experience Lead

We are looking for someone with lots of energy, enthusiasm, who is friendly, charming, and has great customer service skills. Ideally, they will have a real love of motorsport. They will need to be good listeners, empathetic, and work calmly under pressure. They will need to be great communicators with both the customers as well as the other members of the race team.

Mechanics (skilled and unskilled)

We are looking for a number of skilled and unskilled mechanics roles with various levels of experience to join our team to assist in the preparation and maintenance of karts. Skilled mechanics should have experience in either race cars, motorbikes, or karts. For these positions, we have full and part-time roles.

Pit lane Manager

We are looking for skilled mechanics who have experience with either race cars, motorbikes, or karts and who have the confidence to be a team leader. They will need to be good with people, have excellent organisation skills, and work well under pressure. Experience in motorsport is desirable but not essential. This role might suit someone who has previous experience working with children.

Race Director / Clerk

We are looking for experienced individuals with a relevant Motorsport UK licence to be responsible for our judicial processing and implementation of sporting regulations.

Marshals

We are looking for Motorsport UK registered marshals to assist with on-track incidents, recovering karts, and warning drivers via flags or marshal lights. An understanding of motorsport rules is important for this role. Recovery marshals will need to have the physical ability to quickly reach and move a kart that has left the track.

Timekeeper

We are looking for an experienced motorsport timekeeper, preferably with experience of Alpha Timing.

Driver Coaches

We are looking for people with a passion and understanding of motorsport who feel they could work as driver coaches to pass that knowledge on. These people will need to have good communication skills and be comfortable communicating with and working with children.