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“I was given the opportunity to go to Laguna Seca for the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series with my team on graduation day. When all my classmates were walking, I was on pit lane with my car watching it roll out for race one.”
Trevor Griffin
Trevor Griffin has started his career in the fast lane. The Alfred State motorsports graduate works for TPC racing as one of their fly-in mechanics for a Super Trofeo program, a Porsche Sprint Challenge, and a newly established SRO program with McLaren.
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Trevor is still connected to the program and wants to help future students get opportunities. “There is so much love for this program. I would not be where I am at today without this program.”
Learning hands-on and getting real life experience were key to Trevor. “Here you can put hands-on and learn things that you would not learn unless you actually physically do it. The professors here have a great connection with American Endurance Racing. It allows students to go pit marshal.”
An opportunity to pit marshal accelerated Trevor’s career path. “I volunteered at an endurance race, and I absolutely fell in love. A month later via our connections I worked for my first ever race at New Jersey Motorsports Park.”
It snowballed from there and he worked races across the Northeast traveling to tracks in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, and closer to home at Watkins Glen. During his senior year at school, he worked at eighty percent of tracks in North America.
“During that time, I was being paid on the weekends by these teams. My experience and the trust with these teams grew. I am fortunate and lucky that I have the opportunities that I have gotten.”
Opportunities continued to cross his path and forced him to make a difficult decision. “I was given the opportunity to go to Laguna Seca for the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series with my team on graduation day. When all my classmates were walking, I was on pit lane with my car watching it roll out for race one.”
“Being able to come of this program and work right away is honestly a great feeling.”
Trevor enjoys seeing his Alfred State classmates out on the circuit. “Racing is a small world. Everyone knows everybody and the fact that I get to see people that I graduated with doing great things is awesome.”
Trevor is excited for his future and the future of the motorsports program at Alfred State.