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Bernie Collins: ‘I don’t just represent women in F1 – but engineers too’

Source: Sky Sports F1

From university in Belfast and the circus of the Formula 1 paddock to the television screen and the world of the media, Bernie Collins’s path to her current role has been unorthodox to say the least. And in some respects, groundbreaking. Regularly the sole woman in a man’s world, the Northern Irish F1 expert has consistently broken the mould, first as an engineer for McLaren and a strategist for Aston Martin to now: a key cog in Sky Sports’ coverage of F1.

This weekend, Collins will be in the as part of Sky’s coverage of the . As she acknowledges, she is a rare breed of pundit: that is, someone

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