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. #dontliftoff #lmp3 #prototype #racing #champion #formula1 #f1 #mclaren #senna #hamilton #button #coulthard #fittipaldi #marlborough #drivetosurvive #lauda #MP4-6 #automobile #MP4-23 #MP4-8 #MCL-36 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