Donating a couple of million would get you on the project. Failing that some experience in the land speed record attempt world would be good. They won't want hangers-on in the team.
I read, on F1-Live, that the engine has two get engines, one from a Eurofighter. And the engines are fed by using a V12 out of the Superleague formula cars as the fuel pump!!!!! That might be rubbish for all I know, but it sounds impressive - a V12 fuel pump