{"id":530,"date":"2025-01-08T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gt40mkiv.de\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:33:06","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gt40mkiv.de\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>About me<\/h1>\n<div>Who I am\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/hans_joerg_bayer_xl.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>My name is Hans J\u00f6rg Bayer, and my career has been as varied as my life. I started an apprenticeship as a car mechanic at the age of 14, but my curiosity and desire to try out new things led me in many different directions. I worked as an assembly line worker at Audi, was a surf instructor, truck driver and warehouse worker. 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To help others, I founded the TurboCAD forum on the CAD.de platform in 2000. When my model making ideas were copied again and again, I decided to make a virtue out of necessity in 2005. I founded the TurboCAD Training Center turbocadkurse.de to teach my customers CAD drawing. Over the years, I have written several textbooks and training DVDs and have also repeatedly designed for other customers.    <\/p>\n<p>I have been working closely with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) since 2014. Among other things, I have developed the MANTrAS measuring missile and the CAMOS and PAMOS measuring systems and built prototypes for them. This work also led to several patents.  <\/p>\n<p>From 2019, another exciting job came up: I work for various racing teams, mainly in chassis and engine development. 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