Abstract—In today’s business environment, talent has
become the potentially powerful source of competitive
advantage. It is the fundamental building block to creating an
organization which is capable of learning, innovating and
changing, as well as executing new processes. It has been said
that, talent management include the additional management
processes and opportunities put in place for people in the
organization that are considered to be talented. This paper
intends to present a guide for racers to drive their companies
by extending their success on the race tracks into business.
This piece of work is based on the information gathered
through in-depth interviews with three business owners that
are also active racers. In the course of the interview, feedbacks
regarding benchmarking through talent in motorsports and
businesses were sought. The importance of talent management
as seen through the prism of how top performers in
motorsports have succeeded in driving their business while still
producing impressive results on the race tracks was established
in this study.
Index Terms—Benchmarking, business, motorsports, talents.
Syarizal Abdul Rahim is with the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan,
Malaysia (e-mail: syarizal.ar@umk.edu.my).
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Cite: Syarizal Abdul Rahim, Norailis Ab. Wahab, and Razli Che Razak, "Developing Motorsports Talents towards Achieving a Successful and Sustainable Business Ventures Framework upon the Completion of an Active Motorsports Career," International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance vol.5, no.4, pp. 369-373, 2014.