[Siri]

Is your team captain guaranteed a drive team position each year?
Nope, no one is (though returning drivers rarely face much opposition). That said, for the past five years every main captain and all but one of the co-captains has been on the drive team, and all but one on the main crew. And in all but one of those cases, they were on the drive team first.

What are the responsibilities and roles of your team's team captain?
In my day this wasn't particularly thoroughly documented, but it came down to essentially anything that needed to be done that a student was allowed to do. My years a lot of it was administration (we'd just lost our founding mentor), coordination, meeting managing, being the "face" of the team, etc.

How do you form your drive team each year?
Historically, this has been mostly about dedication. (Earlier in the literal, "you're still here at 1AM on crate day, take 10 minutes of driving practice and I'll see you at the first regional" way.) We had a rather small team for a while in there, and drivers tended to self-select.

Drivers can be anyone for us: captains, mechanical, programmers, pit crew. We've had a few on the second team who were primarily scouts. I was a 3 year driver, 2 year captain, 3 year pit crew, 1 year pit captain, and a good chunk of our scouting/strategy, all of which overlapped. It could be hard to get everything done--most of our drive team tends to be pit crew--but there were some benefits. Really knowing the scouting info was good, and I know a few cases at least where last minute jerry-rigs literally won us the match. This was largely a product of our team size, though. As we grow, we're trying make it more structured and dedicate more person-hours to different tasks (hopefully not all from the same person).