Bernadette Collins is a strategy engineer from Northern Ireland, who most recently worked for the Aston Martin Formula One team.
15 Facts About Bernadette Collins
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Bernadette Collins began her career as a trainee with McLaren after graduating from Queen's University Belfast in 2009.
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Three years later, Collins became a performance engineer and became its leader in that role full-time in 2014, working for 2009 World Champion Jenson Button.
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Bernadette Collins joined Force India in 2015 and helped the team finish fourth in the following year's Constructors' Championship.
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Bernadette Collins is from the village of Maguiresbridge in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
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Bernadette Collins described herself as a partial "tom-boy" because she built and dismantled farmyard machinery with her father.
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Bernadette Collins was one of three female students in a class of 30.
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Bernadette Collins was initially skeptical over securing the traineeship but she took advantage of an opportunity to visit the McLaren Technology Centre.
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Bernadette Collins's position entailed her rotating departments every three months to gain knowledge on each role and inter-team requirements.
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Bernadette Collins volunteered as an engineer at GP3 Series race weekends in order to broaden her experience.
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Bernadette Collins worked as a race engineer for the United Autosports GT team in 2013.
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When McLaren's primary performance engineer was absent on paternity leave in late 2013, Bernadette Collins was temporary assigned to the position for the Indian and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix and was later handed the job full-time for the 2014 season.
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Bernadette Collins worked with 2009 World Champion Jenson Button and the two had a good working relationship.
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In May 2015, Bernadette Collins left McLaren to join Force India as a performance and senior strategy engineer to driver Nico Hulkenberg as part of her objective of becoming an operations engineer.
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In 2023, Bernadette Collins joined Sky Sports for their F1 coverage.