IMI announces 2016 Skill Auto finalists

The six apprentices will go head to head at the Skills Show in November at Birmingham’s NEC

IMI announces 2016 Skill Auto finalists
IMI's Skill Auto finalists go head to head at Skills Show in November at Birmingham’s NEC. Image: Bigstock.

This year’s contestants are battling for a Gold Medal and coveted places in the UK team which will compete at the WorldSkills event in Russia 2019: the Olympic Games for skills.

The 24 finalists emerged from the gruelling qualifying heats that pitted the very best 300 students in the motor industry from across the UK in direct competition with each other.

Big name dealers and independent service business are equally represented in all the final groups.

The winners will get the chance to show what they’ve got over the three day competition, working with trucks, cars and the latest equipment supplied by the likes of Volvo, DAF, Iveco and MAN, VW, BMW, Kia, Toyota, 3M, Car-O-Liner, MATCO, Morelli, Pro Align, SATA and Glasurit.

Future technology

One of the highlights of this year’s competition will be the first appearance of a plug-in hybrid vehicle, the BMW i3.

The trainees will demonstrate the special skills required to work on this future technology.

There are currently only around 1,000 technicians in the UK qualified and accredited to work on the high voltage systems found in electric and hybrid cars.

IMI believe this part of the competition is sure to catch the eye of many young visitors to the Skills Show for whom electric vehicles will be the norm in their adult lives.

IMI’s David Massie, skills competition manager, said: “The standard of this year’s finalists is astonishing, they’re all world class in my opinion.

“The addition of the heavy vehicle section and the use of a plug-in hybrid to test the finalists will really give this year’s competition an edge.

“Anyone interested in future skills in the motor industry would be mad to miss it.”

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